"Hehehe...... Hehehe...... Hehehaha! ”

Dio stared at the visitors in front of him and let out a weird laugh, because he thought it was so funny.

"You ...... How dare you come now? After sending people to attack my city, how dare you come? ”

The young lord's last question was to roar out, which meant that he was now furious.

The surprise visitors were dressed in black clerical robes and wore a very strange sign on their left chest, a pile of noodles with two meatballs piled on top of them, if I had to describe it—ridiculous and eerie.

These guys are the messengers of the mysterious sect that has a vendetta with Bologna, and when Ning Yi, who has been in charge of investigating the details of these guys, suddenly tells him that these people want to talk to her, Ning Yi's expression is very exciting, and he feels that he has been despised by him.

"Alright! Tell me what kind of tricks you're going to do? When my father was still alive, you also expressed that you wanted to talk to him, and then you mixed in a dozen champion swordsmen in the messenger, come! Let them come out! Let me see! ”

The personal strength of the old man and the former lord is extraordinary, and the champion swordsman of the church was completely annihilated by the two of them despite the superiority in numbers, Dio has no confidence to compete with his father in personal strength, but he is full of confidence in the few special guards around him.

Morgan was a pirate leader with a bad resume, but during this time, he won the initial trust of Dio with his talent and quiet attention to Dongdong, the former pirate's knife skills were very powerful, and Dio saw clearly in several battles.

Ning Yi was hiding in a corner of this reception room, his musket was monitoring the other party's every move, if he found any small movements of the other party, Ning Yi's bullet would definitely attack one step ahead of the other party, he was one in a thousand marksmen.

In fact, if Ice Hunter was still here, Dio wouldn't need these two people as guards at all, and Ice Hunt alone would be enough.

But after this bastard quietly threw his 'wife and daughter' to himself, he didn't know where to run.

Although Miss Acelia's personal force is also inhuman, Dio did not ask her to participate in the reception, although the girl was working for the territory, it was almost a day job, and Dio did not make any agreement with her

This is tantamount to owing the other party a favor in vain, and these black guys are very troublesome existences, and it is good not to contact them.

"It seems that the Venerable Lord has a certain degree of misunderstanding of our sect, but it doesn't matter...... We are open to communication. ”

Before Dio's visibly hostile expression, the leader of the emissaries replied calmly.

"I've always had a deep prejudice against guys who shout long live the gods and then attack ordinary citizens! What do you want to say? ”

The other party's calmness and honorifics were exchanged for an even more disgusting attitude towards Dior, because of their previous hypocrisy and viciousness.

"I see, my lordship...... I need to correct you that we at the F.S.M. deny that there are gods in this world, and if you're talking about fanatics who chant the names of gods, you're mistaken. ”

After hearing the other party's words, Dio didn't react for a while, he thought about the other party's meaning, and then asked word by word.

"You say...... Do you deny the gods? I find it hard to believe that this is the words of an emissary of a religious community. ”

"That's because you don't know about our Order, huh...... Except for some large papal forces in this world, there are not many people who really know about us, only some ancient kingdoms and families know some things about us. ”

The priest cleared his throat and began to tell Dio about the origin of the mysterious order.

It was in an era long before the Romans had built their unprecedented empire, and although there were functional buildings that were conducive to comfortable living, the people at that time were still very ignorant and their numb use of functional buildings proliferated.

At that time, religious forces were supreme, and the various sects spread across the continent like separate kingdoms, because the worship and belief in the gods was the only thing that people could think freely in their heads.

The clergy, who were members of the high ranks of the religion, were the few intelligent people of that era, and they thought more and doubted more than the ordinary people who lived simple and happy lives, and a group of people gradually discovered that there were many things that even the gods could not explain.

At that time, the mainstream thinking was that all human beings were God's people, and that functional buildings were God's gifts to his people, and that if they lost their functional buildings, human beings would have no way to get food and water, no houses to live in, and would die quickly.

This right to think freely led to a rebellion of thought, and a group of ideologically united and radical clergy united to speak out against the common doctrine of all denominations at the time, which stated that 'human beings, functional buildings, and everything in the world were created by the gods'.

They collected a large number of magical objects outside of functional buildings, and then obtained knowledge from these objects, and published this knowledge - these things that are independent of functional buildings and are not created by gods are forbidden and evil in the propaganda of the church forces, and belong to existences that must be destroyed once discovered.

They try to reject the convenient and easy-to-use functional buildings, and use their own hands and minds to reclaim the world instead of living within the framework of functional buildings.

Opposition to divine will, propagation of taboos, rejection of divine charism...... This group of people did all the death they could have done at that time.

Only the protagonist can die repeatedly, and these pioneers are not the protagonists...... So they all died.

Although many of the pioneers were members of the Knights of the Church who wielded military power, and even judges who were qualified to wage holy wars, they faced an enemy from the entire Old World, who had been shattered by their faith in change after a desperate and heroic resistance.

The 'non-divine creations' they had accumulated over a long period of time were completely destroyed, and the technology they had developed to escape the 'gifts of the gods' was also burned, and almost all the people involved were slaughtered.

The rulers of the old times felt that they could continue to rule without worry, but they miscalculated the changes brought about by this thinking, and people who did not think about anything other than gods and life suddenly found that they could think about things other than both, and this time the awakened people were the best of the common people - the managers and lords of functional buildings.

The decline of divine power and the rise of monarchy...... The time of empire has come.

The pioneers who survived the massacre quietly regrouped in the midst of the changes of the times, forming a sect that satirized traditional religions, declaring that the gods were nothing more than aliens with two meatballs on top of a pile of pasta, which is how the F.S.M. order came from.

"What you're talking about is wonderful, and it doesn't feel much better than the of a god, and...... How do you explain how my territory has been attacked repeatedly by thugs with the same symbols as yours? ”

After listening patiently to the story of the messenger, Dio immediately asked a very sharp question.

"Those people are not our ......"

When the messenger said this, he was immediately met with the knife-like stares of Dior and Morgan, but the guy accepted it calmly.

"We are the common enemy of all religious forces, and this hatred has not disappeared until now, there is a secret order called the Supreme Inquisition, which has been trying to exterminate us for centuries, this order is made up of hundreds of members sent by the Church, and in your Bologna there happen to be many members of the Supreme Inquisition."

"What you said is a good explanation of my doubts about why the church in the city would ask questions or refuse to cooperate with the investigation altogether, if what you say is true."

Dior asked again with a sneer.

"But why did they attack Bologna wearing your mark...... And twice? ”

With two generations of lords of Bologna attacked, and the Gothic nation stabbed in the last war, such rampant provocations will not be reversed by a frivolous explanation or two - someone must pay for it!

"That's because of a coincidence...... When the Gothic kingdom was still alive, your royal family had been strong supporters of the F.S.M. Order, but they didn't know the details of the Order, and they always thought it was an ordinary group of scholars. ”

The messenger sighed and replied in a low tone.

"The Order's research in the Gothic kingdom is the study of mystical long poems, which used to be called 'oracles' as proof of the gods' dominating their fate...... But no one could have imagined that the Supreme Inquisition's reaction would be so frenzied, that they handed over the map to Europa to the terrible nomads of another continent, and that they would not hesitate to destroy the Gothic kingdom and terminate the research. ”

At that moment, the door to the reception room was kicked open, and Bru Hearn burst in with murderous violence, grabbed the messenger by the collar and lifted him high.

"It is you who have brought calamity to the kingdom! You abominable scourges! You're going to pay for it! ”

The actions of the Bologna Trade and Shipping Governor suddenly intensified the atmosphere in the room, and Morgan drew his sailor directly, and the entourage of the F.S.M. made various vigilant gestures - their weapons were taken away as they entered.

"Uncle Blue! Calm down! We need to get him to make things clear! ”

Dio calmly stopped, although his calm appearance seemed very reluctant, but as a leader he had to.

Bru Hearn slowly lowered the messenger down, then pressed his hand to the hilt of his sword and stepped aside.

"Alright! Let this sneaky guy with his head over his hat explain what he says! ”

The middle-aged man said coldly.

"Thank you for your forgiving ......"

The messenger spoke, waving his hand to stop his companions behind him.

"The plan of the Supreme Court was successful...... They brought disaster to the entire continent and stopped the Order's research, but what they didn't expect was that the Order had joined a member of the royal family of the Gothic Kingdom and survived their pursuit, and was saved by a guard captain under the Gothic Frontier Uncle. ”

The two insiders present immediately changed their faces, they knew what was going on, but this kind of Gothic internal secret is not easy to publicize, so the envoy also knows this, so he skimmed a lot of details.

"Because the Supreme Inquisition was afraid that this sister was carrying the Order's research materials on the long poem of fate, so they wore our Order's costume to start that ridiculous farce, those guys who were above the top did not expect that a small Gothic border nobleman would be so strong, that the royal family member had never revealed his identity in the Order, and that the Goths would be so tough...... So that provocation failed. ”

As the Huns' calamity had spread more than the Supreme Court had anticipated, they had shot themselves in the foot, and after a fire had destroyed the place where the princess lived, they hastily forced the princess and the captain of the guard to live in seclusion, believing that whatever the princess had brought out should be reduced to ashes in the fire.

"As for the second attack...... That's the main reason why I'm here to meet you today. ”

The messenger's tone grew from a calm voice to a serious one.

"Those undead monsters...... Buildings that do not belong to the normal system can only be special functions...... You should be well aware, right? We in the F.S.M. Order have been studying these things since before the Age of Empires, and some people or forces have succeeded in turning these dangerous things on...... Believe me! It's going to be a terrible disaster! ”

The messenger's tone became heavy.

"Some guys in the Supreme Inquisition think that they can use the power of these special 'divine graces' to return to the pre-imperial era again, and as a result, a group of madmen called the 'Cult of the Cursed' have been created, and you are well aware of that disaster, Your Excellency, right?"

"Hmm...... I have some understanding. ”

Dio's expression became serious, he saw the threat of those strange functional buildings at the beginning, but his preparation proved to be a drop in the bucket in the end.

"The Supreme Inquisition, which has been corrupted by the Cult of the Damned, has no power to stop those monsters before they can grow stronger, and the only way to do that now is a miracle that befell Bologna......"

"So you want us to deal with those monsters? Want to make the Goths bleed again? Just like back then? ”

Blue Hearn interrupted the other menacingly.

"I don't mean to offend...... However, Bologna could not stay out of the situation, and our brothers of the Order desperately obtained a part of the undead verse from the Cult of the Damned...... You can take a look. ”

The messenger took out a parchment scroll with the following words written on it.

'Chapter 5, The Silver Moon Falls, the Well of the Sun loses its luster of life, and the toddler undead rejoices at the birth of a new companion! ’

The addition below this sentence suddenly made the viewers' faces change.

'The silver moon may refer to a city or a race that has a presence called the Well of the Sun, and currently the only city on the mainland that meets this requirement is Bologna, which has the Fountain of Life...... Destroy it! ’

“…… All right! You convinced me! Miss Emissary! ”

Dio clutched the parchment tightly in his hand and replied through gritted teeth.

"Now that those monsters have targeted us, we must plan for ......"

"Let those madmen come! See who destroys whom? ”

After receiving the answer he wanted, the messenger lifted his hood, revealing a peculiar short strawberry red hair and a long braid.

"I am the current leader of the F.S.M. Order, Yumemi Okazaki, and I promise that the Order will do its best to help Bologna survive another disaster."