Chapter 34: The Pure Church
Fr. Alexander Anderson, chief interrogator of the Pure Church, adjudicating priest, surrogate of the Goddess. These are the names that this man once had.
Until that's what happened.
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Twelve years ago, the headquarters of the Pure Church.
"Anderson! You can't just walk away! Facing Father Anderson, who turned to leave, the bishop's gray beard trembled with anger, and he slapped the table and roared angrily. Even so, it was only exchanged for a shallow sneer.
The Pure Church, which has always regarded the Goddess of the Lake as a faith, has a big scandal - the Priest "Purity" Jedrik is confirmed to be the embodiment of the Demon, and is a Maharaja-level Chaos Demon [Demon Lord of Ten Thousand Changes] who escaped after seriously injuring the spokesperson of the Goddess of the Lake, the Fairy Witch.
As soon as this incident came out, the entire Pure Sect was in an uproar, and Archbishop Benedictas called on the sect not to publicize this bad thing, so as not to affect the strength of the faith that is still surging.
But the one who reacted the most to this incident was the top combat power of the sect - Paladin Anderson.
As a faithful believer and the most terrible pagan inquisitor, he was especially concerned with the priest of one of the supreme leaders to whom he had sworn allegiance.
"I refuse!" At that meeting, when the archbishop offered to hide it, Anderson kicked the table over and got up.
"You may have accepted the corruption of the demons, how could you hide such a thing so easily!"
The priest's body shone with a strong light of faith power, and his whole person shone like the sun, shining on the entire auditorium. Father Anderson silently slammed off the chair behind him and slowly walked out the door.
In both hands, two short shotguns with blessed swords were loaded with high-density mercury bullets, which also shimmered with gorgeous silver light.
"Anderson! You can't just walk away! The archbishop, who was close to 100 years old at the time, roared angrily, but he still couldn't keep the priest of the largest martial arts sect in the Holy See.
The moment the door closed, everyone heard the sound full of madness.
"I'll deal with that demon first, you demon believers, let's line up first."
As the sound of the priest's characteristic steel boots faded away, the archbishop suddenly fell to the ground, barely holding on to his high ceremonial hat, and muttered to himself.
"Wrong, wrong, it's all wrong."
"Archbishop, what now?"
"Yes, Archbishop, will this madman spread the word that our priest is a demon?"
"I'd better slip away, I'm not you, I can't beat this horrible guy."
The whole room was full of discussions, accusations, doubts, fears, ignited by the unexpected action of the priest. The entire church hierarchy was thrown into chaos.
"Ahemββ!" Deliberately clearing his throat loudly, the archbishop's face was extremely ugly, and he stared at the people in the audience with a dark face.
"It's all quiet! This is the Pure Church Elders' House, not a circus! β
Slowly, the crowd was forced to quiet down by the archbishop's prestige, which made Benedictas's face look a little better, but he still blushed and issued the order.
"Inform Anderson's blacksmiths and the Priest of Judgment that the paladin Alexander Anderson is rebelling, and no one is allowed to follow, I don't believe it, what kind of waves can he make alone!"
The cardinals and cardinals in the audience, as well as several other paladins, did not expect that the archbishop, who had always been kind, could be so ruthless as to do such a despicable thing of crossing the river and tearing down the bridge. For a while, everyone looked at each other, and no one stood up to carry out the order.
"What's the matter, what are you still hesitating about?!"
"But, Lord Bishop, those are Anderson's cronies, aren't we just watching him go to the devil to die?" As the youngest paladin, the "Living Saint" Celestine bravely put forward his ideas.
"Nonsense! He's already going to slaughter the church, you're still thinking about what you have, the goddess of the lake is above, how can I really have you useless subordinates! β
As if drained of his mind, Benedictas sat down on his ornate throne tiredly, closed his eyes, and covered his face with his hands to stop talking.
Seeing the bishop like this, the crowd had no choice but to say anything, so they bowed and went out to carry out the bishop's order.
Of course, when he found out that Anderson had fled the church with all his men and belongings, the archbishop was completely speechless, not even angry, and more of a kind of confusion.
"Alexander Anderson, the former paladin of the Pure Church, betrayed the Goddess of the Lake and betrayed his faith. From now on, the Pure Church will issue a wanted notice in the Kingdom of Alfaris, the Kingdom of Rhodok, the Sigmar Empire, and the Imperial Kingdom of Miletis, and all the same party and themselves, and those who provide information will be rewarded with 10,000, and each party will be 1 million, regardless of life or death! β
Such a wanted notice was sent all over the continent three days later, and the former glorious sword priest, the great paladin became a street rat, and even his pure and resolute subordinate priests became the target of people's hunting.
Desperate, he didn't even find any trace of the demon, and he was detained again with a black cauldron of killing the priest. Under the pain of the continuous attrition of his people, Anderson had no choice but to flee to the "ruins" of the four kingdoms of the secular world with the remaining cronies who were willing to follow him
Everything is very different from before, and "Immortal Old Joe" has long been eyeing this piece of "fat". As soon as Anderson arrived in the Immortal City, he and Old Joe's War Boy started a fierce battle for three months, and the battle finally reached a delicate balance, Old Joe couldn't help this powerful paladin, and Anderson was also relieved that there was no way to let go of the many cronies.
So, almost by default, Anderson, the priests, and the blacksmiths found a village that had been abandoned because of Old Joe's bullet farm plan and turned it into their temporary shelter, and his "son" met at that time.
Kaba, a hilarious name, was an orphan who was only a teenager at the time and was snatched from a house that had been destroyed by fire by his priest.
Because his arm has been making a chaotic sound of "click, click" since he was a child, people simply call him Kaba.
Of course, he always protested, because although he had forgotten his last name, he kept insisting that his mother had given him the beautiful name "Ruth".
Kind people did not tell this innocent child, it was definitely a girl's name..
When Father Anderson, who was bored and in great pain, met this boy with big eyes, everything seemed to change a little.