Chapter 57: A Visitor from the Other World
Lillian ran around the castle with several Templar Knights of Judgment with a blank expression.
Arriving at a room, several people finally stopped.
Orianne ran her fingers around the strands of pale blonde hair that hung from her hat, and her big blue eyes were full of confusion, "Robert, why are we running away?" Isn't it something we should do to sanction demons? ”
"The goddess is above." The brown-haired knight knelt down on one knee, revealing the silver leg armor beneath the hem of his monk's robe, "Your Highness, I'm protecting you by doing this. ”
Orion was puzzled, "Protect me? But this mission to exterminate the demons was applied for by myself. ”
"I beg your pardon."
Robert lowered his head, "There are many things I have hidden from Your Highness.
"I have sworn allegiance to Your Highness, but there are some things...... I didn't know that until I came. ”
He looked at Sister Orien's shoes and whispered, "My uncle is one of the nine cardinals of the Church, and he told me that this mission was personally assigned by His Holiness the Pope.
"The Pope wants you to die here, at least for a short time."
Orianne opened her mouth, "Why ......"
"It's politics." Robert lowered his head, "because it's almost time for the pope to change." You are a very important propaganda force for the electorate, but you don't seem to agree with the Pope's ideas, so he plans to change the saint again.
"I am your knight, and I only follow your advice, so my uncle told me all this, and he did not want me to accompany you to death."
The pure church in which they are located has nine cardinals, one of whom is a cardinal archbishop.
All nine bishops are tenured.
But the Pope is not.
The Pure Church is one of the five major Orthodox Churches, and it is also the Orthodox Church with the largest sphere of influence, with 50 dioceses.
The Pope is elected every four years and serves a maximum of two terms.
The specific rule is that when it comes time to choose a pope, each diocese elects several priests, and finally these hundreds of priests choose the last pope.
The Pure Church is divided into three factions, one is the monastic sect, the other is the angelic sect, and the third sect is the neutral sect, which is divided into many smaller sects.
At present, the Pope belongs to the Angelic Sect, advocating the use of war to destroy all other sects, so that the glory of the goddess can spread throughout the world.
Many people were opposed to him, including within the monastery faction.
So he needs the saint to "disappear" and then elect a new saint to do the propaganda.
After all, who doesn't like a simple saint who is pure, kind, gentle and has no purposeful inclination?
Orian was silent for a long time before she said: "But I still believe in the guidance of the goddess, it is the gods who come to me to purify the demons, I don't think everyone should run away, the devil is the eternal nightmare of mankind." ”
"Maybe that's right, the subordinates are not trying to run away, but they ......," Robert smiled wryly, "I can feel it, that demon...... It's so strong......"
Orien's eyes widened blue as calm as a lake, "But can't so many of us purify him?" Seeing that he was torturing other people's souls, I ...... You can't sit idly by. ”
"Your Highness, you are mistaken." Robert smiled wryly, "The one who was trampled under his feet and beaten is the demon we are looking for." ”
Orion: "Huh? ”
Her surprised appearance is particularly cute.
But no one cared, and several other knights were also shocked by Robert's words.
"Robert, what do you mean by that!"
A few of them are not knights exclusive to saints.
There were four of them, two were knights of the Inquisition and two were knights of the Templar Order.
They had been silent all along.
Because if it is really according to Robert, then the four of them are basically equivalent to outcasts.
"You Inquisition don't know either?" Robert asked rhetorically, and then suddenly said, "Indeed, your Inquisition is responsible internally and externally to the monks of the Combat Intelligence Institute. ”
After a pause, he explained, "I also know from my uncle that this demon is the son of a god of the Ordinary God...... I'm talking about the one lying on the ground and being beaten. He is our target, and he is also a first-order demon. ”
As soon as he said this, the faces of several knights except the Holy Maiden were ugly.
First Order Demon ...... That's basically the strongest level under the gods.
They were all fourth-order Firefeather Knights, Robert was a third-order Frostwing Knight, and Her Highness the Holy Maiden was a third-order invoker.
Asking them to come here is indeed sending them to death.
The information they originally received, and the one they wanted to purify this time was obviously only a third-order demon......
But the bigger question is, why are first-order demons pressed to the ground and beaten violently?
Even if it has just been unsealed and has not recovered to a full body, its worst strength has a third-order peak, or even a second-order strength.
But look like that, there is almost no way to fight back!
"Those ...... people, who are they? Could it be that the Chosen One of which gods? ”
"This is not a normal world, how can he be God's chosen one." Robert sighed, "You saw it on the way here, we just teleported, and there are deformed monsters everywhere.
"And those rectangular buildings are covered in disgusting flesh, and all that flesh is alive."
Robert sighed bitterly and uttered the answer they didn't want to know, "Here...... It's hell......
"If that god is a top-level demon, then even in hell, the one on it is also a great demon standing at one of the apex of hell."
This answer is too unfriendly for a few people.
The crowd was silent for a moment.
After a while, someone suddenly said, "No wonder my strength has been weakened so much here, and I can't feel the divine power of the goddess......"
No one answered.
But the morale that is visible to the naked eye is falling.
Boom——!
The silence was broken by the sudden sound of thunder.
It seems to be raining outside.
The round arched multicolored glass crackled high in the raindrops.
Orian crossed her hands in prayer, and then calmly said, "This is just a test for the goddess, we will definitely succeed in sealing that demon." ”
As soon as the words fell, the door of the room suddenly exploded!
From the outside, a monster more than five meters tall walked in.
The monster was covered in misshapen pus, with more than a dozen human arms waving around it.
It had no head, and its abdomen was supposed to be connected by a vertebrae hung with shredded blood.
The upper body is the upper body, and the lower body is below.
It also carried a huge wood knife in its hand.
A soft glow bloomed on Orion's body, "Knights, the time has come to fight. ”
............
"It's raining?"
In the corridor in the middle of the castle, Wang Quan stretched his hand out of the roof of the corridor.
With the sound of "zila", the skin on his hands was slowly corroding.
Retracting his hand, Wang Quan glanced at the skin that was recovering, and frowned: "Corrosive blood rain, this is the change you are talking about?" ”
Ji Xingyu sighed, "This is just a front, the 'Midnight Echo' that I replaced that was supposed to appear is coming back." ”
"This is the world you were meant to experience."