Chapter 242: Taking Control of the Town [Part II]
In the end, Rose did live up to his expectations, seizing the flaw in the heat of the encounter, slashing the cardinal's arm with a single sword, and then taking advantage of the opportunity to steal him down amid the screams of the opponent.
And the rest of the guards were also completely defeated by the cadres who had attacked one after another during this time, and almost in an instant, the entire surrounding area of the church was controlled by the Wind Pirates.
"Captain, what's next?"
Daniel ran over excitedly and asked, he had just wanted to use swordsmanship to meet the bishop, but he was preempted by Rose, and he had to go to those guards in anger to trouble, but he accidentally took over most of the enemy, and immediately the whole person felt a lot more comfortable, "Those residents of the town are so frightened that they ran away, do you want to capture the few who took the lead just now?" ”
"Leave them alone." Xia Nuo shook his head slightly, and his eyes fell on the cardinal on the ground who was viciously held down by Rose, "Bring these guys into the church, especially those in white robes, take care of them, and I'll have to ask them later." ”
"Yes, Captain!"
Daniel nodded and hurriedly went, while Xia Nuo retracted Lake Toya and came to the black-robed little girls who had been coerced before, Ivy was in charge of comforting them at the moment, and when she saw Xia Nuo coming, she quickly got up, leaned over and whispered:
"I've asked, captain, these girls are the children of ordinary people in the town, and because they are so good-looking, they were chosen by the church to serve the god of fire."
"Do they want to?" Xia Nuo glanced at these little girls with tears on their faces, and suddenly felt that there was no need to ask, and sighed and said, "Let's take them to the church first, it's quite chaotic outside, and I'll talk about it when their family finds them." ”
"Uh-huh." Ivy nodded slightly, and then squatted down and whispered to a few girls - this kind of thing is indeed only done by her, after all, the entire Wind Pirates can't find a second woman besides her, all of them are rough men......
It's tears when I think about it.
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Ten minutes later, in the church.
"Tell me, what the hell is going on?"
Surrounded by everyone, Xia Nuo sat on the main seat, staring coldly at the cardinal kneeling on the ground, "What is the origin of your Vulcan Sect?" Why build up popular hostility towards outsiders? What is the purpose of asking for a priestess? ”
Although the cardinal was in disarray, after hearing this series of questions, he still looked disdainful, snorted and turned his head.
"Kidd." Seeing this, Xia Nuo was too lazy to say good things, waved his hand, and directly closed the door and let the dog go, "Find a way to make him open his mouth, and be careful not to go too far." ”
"Okay." Kidd's expression immediately became excited, rubbing his hands together and smiling, while the rest of the people looked strange and cast sympathetic glances at the cardinal.
In a few minutes, the terrible screams resounded throughout the church, mixed with the voice of a middle-aged man crying for help-
After all, this cardinal couldn't resist Kidd's various small tricks, and after Xia Nuo ordered him to stop, before he asked a second time, he took the initiative to explain everything he knew like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.
And with his narration, Xia Nuo and the others slowly figured out what the situation was here.
It turned out that this small island, which was not marked on the chart, was called Sambia Island, and there was a small country with a population of just over one million people on the island - the Principality of Sambia.
Although the land area is not large, it is better because of the favorable climatic conditions, the abundant cultivation and harvest, and the relatively moderate rule of the successive Grand Dukes of Sambia, so the whole country has always been thriving, and the life of ordinary people is quite rich.
However, just six years ago, due to the sudden arrival of a marine storm, the peaceful life of the entire Principality of Sambia was shattered, not only a large number of buildings and houses were seriously damaged, but most of the farmland was not harvested, causing a severe famine, whether in the countryside or in the city, people abound to starve to death, a tragic situation of hell on earth.
The Grand Duke of Sambia was helpless about this, so he could only open the treasury as much as possible to provide disaster relief while contacting the world government for help, but the former was only a drop in the bucket, and the latter did not get a response for a long time.
In desperation, a mysterious sect suddenly appeared quietly among the people, this sect called itself Vulcan, the Vulcan God is the only god they believe in, according to their teachings, all the good and upward things in the world, including but not limited to warmth, light, kindness, etc., are given by the God of Fire.
Their missionaries walked the streets of the country, and when they came across the victims, they first gave food and took the opportunity to preach their own teachings.
In this way, through the gratitude of the victims, the speed of the development of the Vulcan Cult was extremely amazing, and in less than half a year, the residents of the entire Principality of Sambia basically became believers in the Vulcan Cult, and even the capital of the country built a luxurious Holy See, and the status of the Pope also faintly jumped to the head of the Grand Duke of Sambia and became the spiritual leader of the country.
This didn't seem like a bad thing, but soon, the Vulcan Cult began to meddle in political affairs, first beginning to expand the size of the church in various places, with the cardinal as the supreme head of a region, and the state-appointed public officials had to obey orders, and then began to gather a large number of Templars, and the garrison in various places far exceeded the royal army itself, and finally even opened the priestess selection system, so that the fanatics everywhere desperately sent the beautiful virgins of their homeland to the inside of the Holy See.
In the eyes of the cultists, this is to serve the god of fire, but from the look of the cardinal when he said this, Xia Nuo and the others almost didn't have to think about it to know what kind of fate those girls would suffer after they were sent to the Holy See.
As for the most critical point, that is, the origin of this Vulcan Sect, this unlucky guy said that he didn't know it, he was a native of the Principality of Sambia, and he was originally a swordsman from a big aristocratic family in the national capital, and then he took refuge in the Vulcan Sect for several years before he gradually gained attention, and at the end of last year, he sat on the cardinal seat, and for the first batch of Vulcan members, except for knowing that they were foreigners, the rest of the details were not told half a point at all.
After hearing his words, the people in the church fell into a long silence.
"It's a lot boring." After a while, Dramp was the first to speak to break the silence, he touched his beard and said, "But I really didn't expect that this Vulcan Sect, which advocates conservative and closed and preaches a hostile attitude towards outsiders, is not from this Duchy of Sambia at all. ”
"There must be some other scheme." Ross also said, "Although it is true that I, the Vulcan Sect, have made a lot of efforts in the drought, I still feel that these people did not have any good intentions in the first place. ”
That's of course.
Xia Nuo didn't speak, just stood there and groaned slightly, he could see from the beginning that this Vulcan Sect was not a good bird, after all, he was a visitor from another world, and in the history he had seen back then, there were too many cults that started as rebels.
The Vulcan Cult's routines are basically the same as theirs, the only difference is that those evil cults have not become a climate and have disappeared, but the former has really succeeded in seeking the country, and can hide all the darkness and filth of the past, showing only the hypocritical light in the world.