The matter of the bizarre function building is very noisy, not to mention the more than 2,000 crusaders who escaped death in the end, even the sphere of influence under the direct control of the church is difficult to cover up this kind of thing, this is the death of five or six thousand people, and the believers are not really idiots......

The current church forces also have their own territories, and there are also a large number of believers working for them, so they can gather a huge number of troops, but the church forces also have their own hills, and their armies are also patchwork.

In this world, only true believers enter the territory of the church to work, and most people either live on the land of their own lord or join the protection of the most powerful lord in the area, because the lord is much more reliable than the church.

Believers need to abide by all kinds of dogmas and all kinds of taboos, and in the eyes of non-believers, their lives are quite restrained, but believers are far more resilient and united than ordinary people, and they are also improvised training troops, and believers' armies are often stronger.

The original intention of the birth of religion is to give people in distress a goal that they can work hard to live in, in those times of famine, plague, and war, faith has made countless people who have collapsed and despair strong to live, but in this world with functional buildings, as long as there is no war, people's lives are easy to become rich, and religion itself is also included in the functional buildings.

It's hard to produce the kind of fanatical jihadists in the real world in the context of this world, and the church here ...... It's cheesy.

Rumors of undead monsters, walking corpses, strange and magical functional buildings, etc., began to spread gradually in the mainland.

The scandal of the secret crusading army and the sudden betrayal of the church army was also leaked out by the escaped mercenaries and knights.

These warriors who have faith and are willing to draw their swords are very, very angry about this, they are stabbed in the back, they do not consciously protect this ugly secret, they are all adding fuel to the fire when they talk about it, and the church is even helpless against these people, mercenaries are extremely mobile and difficult to catch, and knights are often loyal to a certain lord, so they are even more difficult to mess with.

The incident also had some effects on Bologna, such as the conversation taking place in the office of the Lord of Hearn Manor.

"Dear Lord Theodoric, please let me meet that young lady named Dongdong! This is my solemn request. ”

The blonde young man wearing a knight's half-body armor held his chest with his left hand and saluted Dio with a wry smile very seriously, Dio knew this person, he was the leader of the well-known Lion Knights, although this knight order did not have the amazing scale of the three knights, but it was famous in Eurobasi, and this commander himself was a powerful warrior, but he had little to do with him.

"The Lion Knights survive only because of the rescue of His Excellency Ice Hunt, and I will never forget the heroic manner in which His Excellency fought in front of him, and after being rescued, we all swore allegiance to this Lord, he is simply a role model for knights!"

The knights and mercenaries who can be summoned by the church with vague notices, but they are all relatively pure-minded people, they dare to sacrifice their lives for a certain belief, and in the midst of evil betrayal, the ice hunt has become a symbol of the knight's creed, and the mercenaries can still maintain some sanity, but the knights have almost become brainless fans.

"His Excellency Ice Hunter is wearing a pitch-black armor and holding a great sword wrapped in green glow, in front of him, even the burly and wall-like stitched monsters will be completely split, nothing can stop him from advancing, just like the God of War!"

Ice Hunter showed inhuman bravery in the battle that night, and if it were seen by uninformed civilians, he would have feared the red fur like a monster, but in the eyes of the warriors who were also in trouble, this bravery was a dazzling fire of life.

Under the unremitting efforts of the red hair, more than 300 soldiers were directly rescued by him, and nearly 1,000 soldiers were indirectly rescued because of the gap in the ice hunt, and there were more than 500 people who witnessed how capable this red hair was.

Dio was able to make up the situation of the battle according to the words of these people, and then he was solidly deduced by himself, this guy who was not riding a horse and wore heavy armor and fought all night in the monster pile... Who the hell is the monster?

"Captain Salion, it's not that I won't let you see Dongdong, it's that I'm afraid that Dongdong will be targeted by the people of the church because of the matter of Ice Hunting."

Dio sighed and began to persuade the somewhat brainless head of the knight in front of him to persuade him to leave.

"Dongdong is different from Ice Hunting, she is still a child, she has no ability to protect herself at all, it is better to hide her existence now, I hope that the head of the Salion regiment can also keep this matter secret, this is also for the sake of Dongdong's safety."

"Yes...... Is that so? All right! I know! However, if Miss Knock is in trouble, please let us know. ”

After thinking about it for a while, the head of the knights accepted Dio's statement, and then cautiously proposed an agreement.

"Please rest assured, the origins of Ice Hunt and Dongdong are relatively secret, and it is difficult for others to find out the relationship between them, and I, Bologna City, didn't take those hypocrites seriously in the first place, and now that they have been hit hard, we won't care about these guys!"

After the blonde youth left satisfied, Dio finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There are quite a few mercenaries and knights visiting these days, and Dio has roughly counted that Dongdong has been sheltered by seventeen military groups of various sizes, including many fiefdom knights with strong combat effectiveness, even if only one-fifth of the final contract, it is more than two hundred people.

'You're perfectly capable of killing yourself, but why do you turn back halfway?' You... What's the point of throwing a knock at me? ’

And ...... In order to prevent me from keeping my promises, at the end of the battle, the leaders of these warrior groups revealed Dongdong's existence, even if I was unwilling to take care of Dongdong, I could push her away. ’

'Although I know that this kind of cautious double insurance is nothing, but I still feel bad to be distrusted by you! ’

'I'm really curious...... What does this child mean to you? If you worked so hard to protect her, why did you fight so stupidly? Every time my head is hot and I want to fight hard, I calm down because I think of Melly. ’

'What the hell is she?' Close relatives? Friends? Or is it the lord? It's not like anything! ’

"Could it be that Ice Hunt is actually a pervert, and Dongdong's true identity is yours...... Lover? That's too frustrating, isn't it? ’

Dio pressed his head with a wry smile, his head hurting a little now.

You've left a considerable amount of connections to Dongdong with the final touch, which adds to her value, but I don't think this little guy will be happy about this, she will cry and cry badly...... Ice Hunt, you're such a bastard. ’

At this time, an officer came to the office.

"Your Lord! We've just caught a smuggler in the port area, and he's got a good job of shaking off our soldiers and blending into the crowd, hoping that your lord will send someone to increase your troops! ”

"Smugglers? What is smuggling? ”

Dio asked, frowning.

"He smuggled firearms, all good Ottoman muskets, but there were not many of them, only five or six."

The clerk's face was a little ugly and he replied.

"When we asked where the firearms came from, the smuggler immediately rebelled, hitting eight of us and running away. This guy didn't hurt anyone......"

"This smuggler is such an amateur. Presumably a deserter who stole the weapons of the army? ”

Dio thought for a moment, then said to the two guards at the door.

"You two will each bring five people to help arrest people, and everything will be done according to the rules."