It is indeed a good idea to board a boat from the mouth of the Rhine on the edge of the Blood Wasteland and travel by water to the imperial capital.

In just a few days, the fleet escorting Princess Helen sailed more than three thousand miles, much faster than by horse-drawn carriage.

At this rate, in another seven or eight days, the imperial capital will be in sight.

……

Early this morning, Zhou Chen was still reading a book in the luxurious bedroom of the cabin, deeply understanding the secrets of the gods, when he heard footsteps from far and near, and soon heard a knock on the door.

"Come in, little John." Zhou Chen put down the book and said lightly.

"Squeak......

The door was cautiously pushed open, and it was none other than Helen's cousin, the deputy head of the Knights of the Thorn Flower, the Little Duke John.

Today's John did not wear armor, but wore a regular dress worn by the nobles of the Dawn Empire, and a knight's sword studded with gems was tied around his waist, looking magnificent.

"Tatsu-sama, good morning." Little John leaned over and said respectfully.

"Tell me, what do you want to learn today?"

As he spoke, Zhou Chen slowly walked out of the study, with a little helplessness in his tone.

This little John was an extremely clever boy.

Ever since he learned from Helen and Anakin's mouths about Zhou Chen's extremely strong strength that can defy the heavens and kill gods, he has kept visiting his door, humbly asking for advice, hoping to learn some secrets of cultivation from Zhou Chen.

If it weren't for Zhou Chen's refusal, John, the kid, would probably be able to kneel at the door and stage a scene of apprenticeship.

Originally, for this kind of annoying guy, Zhou Chen didn't slap him to death, so he was lucky. But he couldn't resist Helen's pleas, and reluctantly agreed to guide John, the boy.

Therefore, these days, John has respectfully come to the door almost every day to accept Zhou Chen's guidance in cultivation, and Zhou Chen's attitude towards him has also changed a little.

This John is young, he is a great knight powerhouse, and he is not far from the so-called holy rank, according to the division of the Dou Qi Continent, this kid should be regarded as a high-level Dou Huang.

And in these days' guidance, Zhou Chen only took out some superficial knowledge to remind him a few words, and John's strength has improved a lot, which shows that his talent is very high.

Moreover, this kid is obviously a supporter of Helen's department, as long as Zhou Chen cultivates and cultivates, it is not a problem to break through the realm of the Holy Order, and in the future, Helen will have someone available.

After all, he can't do everything himself, Emperor Zhou can't do it himself, that's too much.

At this time, hearing Zhou Chen's question, Little John hurriedly lowered his head and said respectfully: "Lord Chen, today, I want to hear your understanding of the Holy Order, especially the most important 'rules' about the promotion of the Holy Order. ”

"It's okay, anyway, you're already very close to the Holy Order."

Zhou Chen's eyes flashed, he nodded, and then took the lead and walked out of the door, walking towards the wide deck.

To guide cultivation, you often have to learn from each other, and you can't always be in the bedroom, and if you don't do it well, you will make a mess.

Soon, the two came to a secluded and uninhabited deck and began one-on-one tutoring......

"Hey, how many times have I said it, the most important step of the Holy Rank is to comprehend the rules of space, use the rules of space to resist the enemy, you must use your fighting spirit and spirit to communicate with heaven and earth......"

Looking at Xiao John, who had been guided for several hours in front of him and still failed to fully comprehend the rules of space, Zhou Chen sighed, and suddenly felt the despair of his high school teacher back then, and his whole person's breath was a little depressed.

However, in the eyes of others, Zhou Chen is still a fairy with a plump spirit like jade and fluttering clothes at the moment.

For example, Helen, who was standing behind him at the moment, looked at Zhou Chen with star-starry adoring eyes.

"Okay, okay, little John, let's practice here today, if you want to be fast, you can't reach it, if you want to reach the sky in one step, the probability is smaller than a meteorite falling from the sky."

Zhou Chen waved his hand at John, who was comprehending the laws of space, and motioned for him to stop.

John, on the other hand, stopped with some regret, walked up to Zhou Chen and Helen, who had just arrived, and bowed respectfully.

At this moment, suddenly, a commotion came from the escort warship in front, and then, as the ship slowly stopped, Zhou Chen knew that the ship had landed.

It seems that the fleet has sailed into a small port again, ready to replenish food and fresh water. Every few days, the fleet had to come ashore.

Fighting on the deck, Zhou Chen overlooked the scenery in the distance. At this time, the banks of the river were planted with rows of green trees, and a port of considerable scale and full of ships was stuck in the middle of those trees.

People above this port. The stream is dense, the harbor is crowded with boatmen, stevedores and small traders and hawkers, and the boats and boats are all over the river, which looks very bustling.

Moreover, it was sunny at the moment, and Zhou Chen, Helen, and John walked to the bow of the boat, looking at such a scenery, coupled with the oncoming breeze, they couldn't help but feel relaxed.

However, the good times did not last long, and soon the news of the arrival of the princess's fleet reached the local city lord's mansion, and the city lord here immediately led a large number of nobles and officials, as well as a group of city guards to maintain order and protect the princess, to the port.

After all, in the interior of the empire, where the majesty of the royal family has not declined too much, Princess Helen is coming, and these magistrates naturally dare not slack off, and they must come to the port to pay a visit.

Of course, it would be better if Princess Helen could be invited to disembark from the ship and go to the city lord's mansion or a nobleman's estate for a banquet. At the very least, when they go out in the future, they can also blow to the nobles in other places, they had talked to the princess back then. Laugh. Wind. The living.

However, Helen did not bother to pay attention to the flattery of these local officials and nobles, so she did not see these people at all, but only asked Lady Alice to go and talk to them, and then planned to stay in the boat without leaving the house, and leave as soon as she had replenished her food and fresh water.

However, as the saying goes, the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes. When Lady Alice came back with a strange face and reported to Helen that the lord of the city here had something important to ask to see her princess, Helen could only agree to let the lord come on board.

After all, she is not one of those unkind gentlemen in the imperial capital.

When the city lord saw Helen and Zhou Chen, he immediately saluted everyone respectfully, and then carefully said something to get Helen's consent.

"What do you say? Someone wants to take my fleet to the imperial capital? Helen exclaimed.

"Yes." The lord shrank his head, for fear of annoying Helen.

"Who is it?" Helen asked, with a straight face.

"Your Highness Princess, the one who wants to take the boat is the cardinal inquisitor of the Temple of Dawn, Lord Constantine, and some of his retinue. And, of course, a few of his friends. The city lord replied cautiously.

"What friend?"

Helen was keenly aware that there might be some problems with this so-called friend, after all, she was still the holy daughter of the temple, if she was also a colleague of the temple, she would have directly asked her to take a boat, so why bother beating around the bush?

Hearing Helen's question, the city lord smiled bitterly and had to tell the truth: "Lord Constantine's friend is a very tricky person, and one of them is yours...... Uncle. ”

"What do you mean...... It won't be Oberon. Hearing this, Helen frowned and said coldly.

"Her Royal Highness the princess is indeed wise, it is none other than Prince Oberon." The city lord lowered his head and said cautiously.

As soon as these words came out, Helen's heart chuckled, if it was that guy, it would be troublesome.

Like Helen, when he heard the name "Oberon", John on the side was even more obviously hostile, looked coldly at the city lord in front of him, and asked: "Although this port is not big, there are many ships, why do they want to go with Princess Helen?" ”

"This ...... That's right, Lord John. Magistrate Konstantin had received an edict from His Majesty, the Son of God, from the headquarters of the Temple of Dawn on Mount Hailar, and was going to the imperial capital to investigate a matter, and Prince Oberon was originally a close friend of the magistrate, and he happened to come from the imperial capital these days to visit the magistrate. ”

The magistrate, who had received the decree, planned to return to the imperial capital with Prince Oberon. But...... Prince Oberon came by land all the way; The original ship of the magistrate suddenly broke down, and the other ships in the harbor were too small and simple to be worthy of the dignity of the magistrate and His Royal Highness the Prince, so they were stalled here......"

"Oh, the other ships are too small and shabby to be worthy of them, so you chose my ship?" Helen looked at the fat-headed and big-eared city lord with a smile, and her tone was obviously very dissatisfied.

Hearing this, the city lord was immediately frightened and sweating profusely, almost wanting to cry without tears, and said with chattering teeth: "Your Royal Highness, the only ship in this port that meets the requirements is your fleet...... I was also desperate, and they gave me a death order, saying that if they could not find a boat in three days, they would hang me, and today is the third day...... You know how scary those guys at the Temple Inquisition are. Horror ......"

Speaking of this, the city lord said with a handful of snot and tears: "Your Royal Highness Princess, the people of the temple have been oppressing us, and many nobles who had a slight conflict with them were accused of blasphemy by them and burned to death on the stake. Not to mention civilians...... Please have mercy on me, I still want to remain useful and loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, and I don't want to die in those gods. The hand of the stick ......"

As soon as the city lord cried like this, Helen's face suddenly turned ugly, and John and Mrs. Alice turned even more pale.

Helen is called the Holy Maiden of the Temple, but in fact she is a hostage left by the royal family in the Temple. As a result, she spent most of her time at the temple headquarters in Mount Hyrule over the years, and as such, for the temple in the Empire as well as in the Great . Although I have heard of what Lu is doing everywhere, I am not very clear.

But Helen couldn't have imagined that the temple was so rampant in the empire, not only daring to threaten an imperial city lord, but also daring to frame and kill the commoners and nobles of the empire at will, which is simply a complete contempt for the royal family and all nobles!

Could it be that the power of the imperial family has weakened to this point?

Fighting back her anger, Helen fell silent. After listening to the city lord's words, she did have a sense of the temple at this time, but she also knew that once she refused to let Konstantin get on the ship, she would immediately offend the magistrate.

Although the royal family will have to confront the temple sooner or later, she is not willing to offend the temple so openly.

A cardinal in cardinal, in the Temple of Dawn, is already a powerful man at the top of the pyramid!

Since the "Year of Calamity" more than sixty years ago, the Lord of the Dawn has defeated several gods and seized the Great of Ikadiva. After the faith of most of the land, the Temple of Dawn will be the entire large. The land was divided into more than forty districts, and many cardinal consuls and magistrates were sent to administer the faith in these regions.

Of course, these cardinal consuls and magistrates also had the task of collecting taxes, recruiting believers, preaching doctrines, maintaining the military presence of the Temple, and so on.

Of course, most of these tasks are handled by the cardinal archons, and the cardinal magistrates from the Temple Inquisition have only one mission, and that is to capture, kill, and judge all heretics!!

Of course, such a violent position naturally needs to be filled by a powerful priest, otherwise it is possible that the heresy will be judged before the heresy is judged.

Therefore, all the red-clothed magistrates have at least the strength of fifth-order great knights and great magicians, even if they are saint-ranked, there are not a few.

And this Constantine magistrate, Helen has also heard of it, this person is resolute, ruthless, and his strength has broken through the holy rank decades ago, and among the many judges in the temple, he is also able to rank among the top five!

In the future, with the age, strength and merits of this Constantine magistrate, it is even very likely that he will take over the position of presiding judge of the Inquisition, one of the three giants of the temple, and it is very unwise to offend such a ruthless character.

So, after thinking about it, Helen still felt that if she couldn't bear it, she would make a big plan, and she would take a boat......

However, before making a decision, Helen still looked at Zhou Chen and gestured with her eyes, asking for the opinion of "Lord Chen".

And Zhou Chen nodded, not disagreeing with Helen's meaning. In fact, Zhou Chen also wanted to see with his own eyes how capable the people of the Dawn Temple were.

Seeing that Zhou Chen agreed, Helen smiled reluctantly, looked at the poor city lord in front of him and said, "Okay, anyway, my ship is very big, and the other ships of the fleet can also put down their retinue." I just don't know, when Magistrate Constantine and my beloved Uncle O'Brion will arrive at the port? ”

"Half a day at most, no, half a day won't be used."

Hearing Helen's promise, the city lord who survived the catastrophe immediately breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly replied: "Your Excellency the Inquisitor and his entourage have been waiting for a long time, and they will definitely come as soon as possible." ”

"Okay, that's half a day. You go back and tell Magistrate Konstantin that we will wait for him for a long time, and if he does not come, we will anchor and leave. Helen said lightly.

"Yes, yes, I'll go."

The lord of the city kept nodding his head like a chicken pecking rice, and then he climbed off the boat and ran towards the port......

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