(88106 .) At that time, Matthew came to the Shenghui Church in Ensada City, and was discussing with the church about the purchase of holy water-

Following the "Holy Mountain Council" of the past year, the Holy Radiance Church has rarely intervened in secular affairs, but the holy water they produce is still an effective and reliable healing medicine, and the church has received a lot of money to develop itself.

And this is an exclusive monopoly profiteering business -

No one has ever complained that the church is over-earning, because a bottle of holy water of good quality is sometimes enough to save a dying life.

In the brutal war, the belongings of civilians, ordinary soldiers, and low-level mercenaries in the nature of cannon fodder are often not worth the price of a bottle of holy water, but for the real elite power, the nobles who control the wealth will never be stingy with these things outside of them, because money is no longer important compared to the lives of the loyal knights under their command.

Strength is the foundation of victory in the war!

But what happened in the church that day took the otherwise simple transaction to a different trajectory - after reaching a verbal agreement with one of the clergy in charge of the bulk sale, Matthew was waiting for the holy water in the church instead of the holy water in the white porcelain bottle, but the presiding officer of the local church, the local bishop, the priest of Esquea.

The priest's lady, dressed in a holy white robe, led Matthew down a quiet hallway.

And so there was that conversation.

"Locke Lambert is no longer the Earl, his soul has been tainted by the Unclean, and he has become a true undead."

"Oh, Miss Askia, are you kidding me? I had seen the Earl in the City Lord's Mansion a few days ago, and I didn't find anything wrong. Although you are a respectable clergyman, Madam, it is an unforgivable thing to slander a nobleman for no reason......

Matthew had known Priest Askia for a long time, and was shocked to hear the priest say this, and then thought it was a joke that was not funny, but when he followed Lady Askia into a room inside the church, the fact that he saw with his own eyes finally shook him—

The loyal knight was reluctant to believe his eyes at first.

It was the body of a young girl, who lay peacefully in a wooden coffin, as if she were asleep. However, when Lady Askia stepped forward and gently stroked the girl's face, Matthew saw wisps of black gas bursting out of the air, like a viscous mist, and the silk threads in the mist quickly spread out, and in just a few seconds, the whole room was filled with a special aura—

The knights of the first order of awakening had a considerable degree of sensitivity to different power attributes, and the silence and decay contained in these black qi made him tremble almost instantly.

Pure, rich death power!

"Ms. Askia, what is this?"

Matthew asked subconsciously—he soon felt that his inquiry was a little redundant, for he saw the maid's dress, a red maid's dress embroidered with white lace, which was exactly what the maid of the City Lord's Mansion was.

"Yesterday, the body of this poor girl was recovered in the moat, and the priests who had returned from a trip happened to pass by, and they noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with this one, so you see this scene in front of you now."

The priest lowered her eyelids when she spoke of this, her tone was calm with a hint of sadness, and after the slender and white fingers swept over the girl's face, a white light suddenly enveloped the whole body of the dead girl, this is the holy power that belongs to the priest-

The girl's face faded in the light, and when Matthew's gaze was removed, the priest Askya had closed the coffin.

"Matthew, the peace of the dead should not have been disturbed too much."

But does that mean anything? Lady. ”

The unexpected death of a maid in the City Lord's Mansion is not a big deal in the eyes of those high-ranking nobles-

In fact, in most of the aristocratic families of the Elantt Kingdom, one or several subordinates die inexplicably every year - all kinds of secrets are naturally not known to outsiders, but Matthew, as the most powerful knight under Count Lambert, is no stranger to these.

He believed that Ms. Esquea knew something about it as well.

The ruling class of this country, distributed throughout the kingdom, large and small nobles, is not completely positive and clean, just like the shadow and the sun are always inseparable, and in some unaware corners, there will always be ugliness and sin hidden-

Matthew had a guess, and he had to admit that the girl did have a good chance of dying at the hands of the Count.

But what does this mean?

Because, she is just an ordinary civilian girl from a humble background and has no background. Except for the girl's parents, who may weep bitterly over her death, the others will only soon forget her—

In the end, all she left behind was perhaps the best picture of a young boy's memory, the girl's smile and her lively and pretty back.

Matthew had long been numb to this—the priestess could not help but be startled at his rebuttal, but soon she could see that her expression was becoming serious, and she accentuated her otherwise soft tone.

"Matthew! I don't think you have forgotten the first of the knightly virtues, if you still think you belong to a knight! The little girl's body had been contaminated by the Unclean, and without the help of the Church, she would soon become a new undead. ”

"So, is that why you doubt Lord Earl?"

Matthew believed that Count Lambert had a good chance of accidentally killing an insignificant lady-in-waiting, because he knew that Lord Count had that special and strange hobby at some point, but to say that Lord Count was willing to degenerate into an undead spirit, then he couldn't believe it anyway—

The evil undead are not only the mortal enemies of the Church, but also the enemies of the living, and there have been a very small number of delusional nobles who have chosen to spiritualize themselves in pursuit of eternal life, but without exception, when they were discovered, they were removed from the nobility and ushered in a joint crusade between the church, the nobility and even the Edwin royal family.

Until complete extinction.

Matthew never believed that the lord he was loyal to could become so stupid.

The Earl, with whom he was acquainted, would never have done such a thing.

However, Lady Asquea cruelly shattered all of her impressions of the Count, as she pulled out an image stone from the Priest's robes - the Lady's fingers rubbed against the smooth surface of the stone, and when Matthew looked up again, he saw the Count fighting a Templar.

An image in the air.

The Lord's Mansion was in ruins, the right arm of the Templar holding the sword was dripping with blood, and the Count he saw was ragged all over his body, except for the facial features on his face that were still familiar, and his entire naked body had turned a blue-gray full of withering and withering.

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