Basra City, Camillo Province, is a coastal city located about 200 kilometers northeast of Yorktown, nearly 100 kilometers away from the border of the forest country in the north, and the city is not large, with a population of more than 200,000.

The Catholic church in the city is about to hold a grand Catholic meeting, presided over by the cardinal leader Cathtro, in addition to propagating the doctrine, and more importantly, calling on the faithful to exterminate the infidels in the province of Camillo.

It took more than a month for this assembly to go from propaganda preparations to the actual gathering of believers to preach the doctrine. This rally, nearly 10,000 devout believers gathered one after another, and the church and the surrounding houses rented by the church were packed.

Castillo is the only cardinal in the province of Camillo and the most respected bishop of the Catholic Church in Camillo, and fanatical congregants have gathered from all parts of the province to make the port city of Basra lively and the security of Basra unprecedentedly tense.

The recent pope-sent crusaders in Camillo have blatantly purged the infidels in the province of Camillo, leaving many fanatical Catholics with blood and seeming to see hope for the pagans' demise. The religious and sectarian struggle in Camillo Province has lasted for hundreds of years, and the struggle between the two armies is not inferior to that of Catherine and Arad in the past ten years.

Catholics have been particularly active in Camillo Province for more than a year, not only because Catholics are the largest religious force here, but also because the crusaders excluded by the Pope have blatantly expanded their territory and played the slogan "Give God back a pure land", which almost suppressed all small and medium-sized religious forces to the point that they could not raise their heads.

There are generally several ways to suppress infidels, one of which is to reform, so that these heretics can change their religious beliefs and join Catholicism. second, to destroy the meeting places of the infidels, to smash their temples, and to deny them a place of shelter; Third, it is to assassinate nakedly, or even blatantly kill people in the street.

After every Catholic meeting, it was not uncommon for fanatical believers to take advantage of the crowd to smash the premises of various denominations and beat the infidels. The original Marshal of the Fifth Theater turned a blind eye, and now, the newly appointed Marshal Simeone was also powerless and unwilling to interfere with these crazy sectarians.

However, the power of faith is powerful! Somewhere in Basra, thousands of adherents from a dozen or less small and medium-sized religions gathered to discuss a common response to the repression of Catholics. These small religious denominations have been oppressed by Catholics for many years, and this time the Catholic assembly spread the news early, and it happened that they were gathered here, so they were unprepared and pulled back a game, but they underestimated the appeal of Cardinal Cathtro this time, and the number of people in the assembly reached tens of thousands.

On the day of the Catholic assembly, tens of thousands of people stood in the street in front of the church, listening to the teachings of Cardinal Cathelo, and five or six thousand pagans gradually blended into the crowd of Catholics, armed with iron rods, wooden sticks, and even swords.

The fanatical and devout Catholics were listening to the teachings with all their attention, completely unaware that the heretics had taken control of the place.

"Hit-" I don't know who shouted, and the pagans at the entire rally site moved almost at the same time, desperately smashing the people around them with the weapons in their hands, and the scene suddenly wailed, and the entire quiet street became a battlefield for the rioters.

The untouchable Catholics, who were at first beaten by the infidels, were nearly twice as numerous as the infidels, and although they had no weapons in their hands, they could not be used even with sticks in the crowded streets, and the two sides gradually began to be evenly matched, and began to fight each other throughout the street.

Standing on a small two-story building not far away, looking through the window at the fight of more than 10,000 people, Shante could not understand the power of this faith to make people give up anything, including life, just as Higg could not understand his devotion to Catherine. Persistence, piety, fanaticism, bloodshed, and brutality have become the main themes of this farce.

"Captain, aren't we going to act?" One of the guards next to him asked.

"Action? Why do we act and who do we help? Shante asked rhetorically.

"Didn't Your Majesty tell us to exterminate the infidels in the name of the Pope? Helping Catholics, of course! The guard asked.

"What is a heretic? It's not that Catholics are called infidels, that's how you understand it, right? Shante said coldly, "Do your own thing, don't meddle in your own affairs!" ”

"Yes, Captain!"

The city defense battalion seemed to be late, and the captain of the city defense battalion, who came to the scene with more than 300 soldiers, just led the team to guard the surroundings, without the slightest intention of controlling the situation. They have seen a lot of scenes of mutual fights between the two sides, but they are not as big as the current scene, and they have always turned a blind eye in the past, and they are even more powerless to intervene in mediation.

However, this time the sectarian conflict has become more and more out of control. The shops on both sides of the street were on fire, and the scope of the conflict between the two sides began to spread from this street to the whole city, and the residents of the shops closed their doors one after another.

The two sides of the fight also began to change from a chaotic scene to an organized street and street fighting mode, the whole city was full of smoke and fire, countless houses and shops were burned, and no one dared to risk their lives to extinguish the fire, causing the fire to spread rapidly along the block, for a while, the wails of the residents who had lost their houses and the merchants who had lost their shops and goods resounded throughout the city, and the whole city seemed to be set ablaze, and thick smoke billowed everywhere.

"Lord Castello, I order you to stop this conflict immediately, otherwise, I will have to send an army to intervene, and then the sword will not have eyes!" Bishop Kestro and the three priests were invited to the council hall by the city lord Mubara, who was unceremonious and spoke directly.

"Lord of the Castle!" Cathelo said unhurriedly, "This conflict was not caused by our Catholics, is the city lord holding the city lord accountable to the wrong person?" The scene of my meeting was inexplicably attacked by infidels, but the city lord wanted to ask me for accountability, which seems a little unreasonable! ”

"What time is it, my Bishop!" Mubara said angrily, "Now is not to blame you, but to stop this conflict immediately, I will punish the infidels who provoked the incident, and I will have to talk about it after the matter has calmed down." Now only the Bishop has calmed down by his prestige, and I promise that I will not make it difficult for you and your followers afterwards, and that the infidels who make trouble will be severely punished, and they will not be allowed to operate in my Basra from now on! ”

Cathtro smiled, "My lord, now that the conflict has spread to the whole city, it is impossible to rely on my ability to stop a conflict of this scale!" Besides, the conflict is between the two sides, and I unilaterally stopped the actions of the Catholics, so that the conflict can be calmed down? Lord of the city, don't be embarrassed! ”

Mubara sneered: "The city lord has said all his good words, but the bishop is still indifferent, since this is the case, don't blame the city lord for saluting first and then soldiering!" ”

Castero smiled: "Your Excellency, please take it, this is the power of your lord!" We also hope that the conflict will be calmed down as soon as possible, so as not to cause more casualties on both sides! ”

Mubara continued, "Then please ask the bishop and the three priests to stay here first, and then come back to discuss how to deal with the aftermath of the matter when the lord of the city is done with the matter!" ”

Kestro hurriedly asked, "The lord of the city wants to put us under house arrest?" ”

Mubara said with a smile: "In order not to let the conflict expand further, and for the city lord to prevent any special circumstances in the process of quelling the conflict, it is better for a few people to cooperate, and the city lord will come to apologize in person afterwards!" ”

After Mubara finished speaking, he turned around and shouted: "Come, prepare horses, go to the barracks!" ”

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After Mubara left, only Bishop Kestro and three priests remained in the hall.

Kastro sneered: "I didn't expect that these heretics would dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, we didn't go to them to trouble, they found us first!" ”

One of the priests said, "My lord, I have long said that you must not be merciful to these heretics!" We should take advantage of the fact that the province of Camillo is empty and unable to take care of this conflict, and take advantage of the situation to eliminate these infidels! Now the opportunity has come, since they have concentrated a few thousand infidels, it is better to destroy all these people and make them suffer greatly, we just use this world as an excuse to defeat each sect! They have only two choices, one is to give up their religion and convert to our Catholic Church, or they will attach themselves to Catholicism and become a branch of Catholicism, and we will send people to slowly brainwash and reform, and eventually become true Catholics. The other way is that they can only be wiped out! ”

"Tolstoy, the doctrine of Catholicism is mercy and tolerance, and the indoctrination of those infidels needs to be carried out slowly, how can violence be used, and in doing so, it will not only plunge the province of Camillo into chaos, but also make our followers bleed!" Castero glared at Tolstoy fiercely and said, "Relying on violence, it is never possible to destroy a religion, it will only make this religion and other sects more resistant to our Catholicism, and the consequences of such a never-ending sectarian struggle are unimaginable!" ”

"Your Excellency, you are not wrong in upholding doctrine, but you must not be merciful to the infidels! His Majesty the Pope sent the Crusaders to help us exterminate the infidels, originally to fight the infidels with violence, but I didn't expect the adults to insist on their own opinions, thinking that they were against it! Tolstoy said, "Sectarian struggles are always fierce, hmph, but the adults blindly want to use their teachings to influence those heretics whose brains are in water, which is simply wishful thinking!" ”

"Tolstoy, do you want to rebel?" Cathelo said angrily, "I'm still the only cardinal in Camillo Province, and I don't need you to remind me what to do!" Have you ever felt guilty for misinterpreting His Majesty's will and causing a great deal of bloodshed and sacrifice in the past two years, resulting in the deaths and wounds of the faithful, and the propagation of the doctrine greatly affected or even stagnated? ”

"Your Excellency, I am also thinking about the adults and the spread of Catholic doctrine......

"Say no more!" Cathelo said angrily, "Now let's think about how to calm the situation!" Mubara's army intervened, and it is not known how many people will be killed or wounded! Whew-"

I saw that the two priests who were originally standing on both sides of Cathelo, taking advantage of Cathro's emotion, each of them took advantage of Cathro's emotion, and inserted a dagger into Cathtello's two ribs, Castero screamed, and then a lightning bolt struck the two priests who had not had time to pull out the daggers with both hands!

Two lightning flashes clicked, and the two priests were struck by lightning, but the lightning skill that Kestello hastily sent out was limited in damage, just to get rid of the entanglement of these two people.

The two priests, struck by the lightning, took two steps back, drew their daggers, and pounced on Kestro again. The dagger was drawn, and blood immediately gushed from Kestello's two ribs, and the pain was unbearable, and he knew that it would be difficult to resist the simultaneous attack of two people at the same time, so he had to choose to risk being injured again and unleash a lightning magic skill with all his strength towards a priest on the left.

There was a loud lightning flash, and with a click, the priest on the left turned into black charcoal in an instant, and the dagger in his hand staggered and fell.

With a thud, the dagger plunged into Castello's back again, and Castello, who was already powerless, exerted all his strength and shook the other priest away, while the three wounds on his body were even more bloody because of the excessive force.

"Your Excellency, Bishop!" Tolstoy screamed and pounced on the priest who had just been shaken out, the dagger in his hand was inserted into the heart of the priest who had not had time to get up, the priest screamed, blood came out of his mouth and nose, and his eyes stared at Tolstoy tightly, full of anger and incomprehension, and then his head tilted, but his eyes were still waiting for Tolstoy.

Kestello, covered in blood, saw that the two priests had been killed, and then slowly collapsed, and Tolstoy hurriedly stepped forward and held him up.

"Your Excellency, Bishop!" Tolstoy wiped the bloody dagger on his clothes, hurriedly walked up to Tolstoy and knelt down, weeping and saying: "Your Excellency, it is not good to be an apologetic, how are you?" ”

Kestello breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to speak, but he noticed a sudden sharp pain in his chest, and Tolstoy suddenly got up, and the dagger in his hand had been inserted into his chest and heart......

"Why?" Kestello asked in a dying struggle.

The corners of Tolstoy's mouth raised slightly, and he smiled gloomily: "Hehe, only the death of the bishop, and it is at the hands of Mubara, can arouse the indignation of tens of millions of believers and seize the power of Camillo Province with the same hatred!" And I will become the sect's most powerful cultist in Camillo Province, and I will take over from you, inherit your legacy, and continue to carry out the operation to exterminate the infidels, hahaha! ”

"You...... with the blood of the faithful...... In exchange for your ...... Power? Kestello, like the priest, tilted his head, and his eyes remained fixed on Tolstoy.

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