"Priest McCass, I really can't expect much from you." With a faint sneer and banter on his face and words, the suspicious Count slowly turned around with a soft sigh from his mouth, and the sight in his two eyes was like a sharp arrow stabbing straight towards Finn, "But, what a surprise, my opponent is much younger than I thought. ”

As he spoke, he shook his wrist and flicked the blood from his fingers, pulled out the dagger he had used to slaughter cultists from the leather sheath pinned to his waist, and took a step closer in the direction where Finn was.

Finn gripped the hilt of the Whirling Blade tightly, his mind ready for battle, but the gaze in his pupils glanced a little to the side from the first moment Count Drew turned, leaving only half of his eyes on the Count's cheeks, neck, and shoulders, as if he were deliberately avoiding something.

"What's the matter, young man?" Noticing Finn's slightly deflected gaze, Count Drew immediately laughed and taunted him, "You came here, but you didn't even have the courage to look at me?" ”

As he spoke, he continued to take the second, third, and fourth steps in front of the young paladin. The Count didn't move too quickly, as if he was deliberately waiting for Finn's answer, and the dagger in his hand was playfully twisted three times between his five fingers.

Finn stood still when he heard Count Drew's taunt. He kept his eyes on the Count, and when the young Count, who was covered in blood, was about to take the fifth step towards him, he suddenly asked, "Take off your mask." ”

Earl Drew was stunned.

"Masks?" He stopped, frowning, as if he didn't understand what Finn meant.

The young paladin didn't pay much attention to the confused look on the count's face, but continued to urge in his confident and calm voice, "Don't pretend. Take your mask off, Ms. Clown. ”

As the words fell, he moved the greatsword he held in both hands to his side, and made a gesture of preparation for battle to the Count, whom he called "Lady Clown", in an awkward position facing forward.

Earl Drew—or the woman known as the "Joker"—had a look of surprise and surprise on his (or "she") face as he heard Finn's words end of his or her words, and the knife-like sneer that had slipped back into his or her face like a hibernating snake.

The atmosphere of the scene suddenly became silent and eerie.

Half a day-

"Can you tell me where you saw that?" After standing in place and re-examining the young paladin in front of the main entrance of the hall with a cold gaze, his or her expression changed to a wild smile that was obviously different from that of normal people, "I'm curious about where I showed my feet. ”

After speaking, the false earl, who had already disguised his identity in his words, raised the short sword in his right hand to the young paladin who was staring at her, and then stabbed the tip of the short sword into his right cheek in front of Finn, and then drew a hideous gap down the edge of the outline of the right half of his cheek.

The fake earl's every move was completely beyond the perception of any ordinary person, but her self-mutilation did not seem to cause her a trace of pain, and no blood flowed from the gap on the edge of her face.

When she felt that the gap on the edge of her cheek was almost wide, she put down the short sword in her right hand and raised her left hand instead, stretched out five fingers of her left hand to clasp the edge of the opening in her face, and then pulled it hard to the left.

The hypocritical human skin mask was torn off the fake earl's face with a "swish".

Count Drew's fake face was stripped of its disguise, and the woman named "Joker" grabbed the Count's human skin mask with her left hand, and the secret she concealed under the mask was revealed in the halls of the castle. Underneath the mask was another hard-shell mask with a white background, the new mask sewn to her true face with needles and threads, and a cracked woman-like figure that curved into a creepy smile.

The truth of the incident came to the surface again at this moment.

Finn looked sideways at the woman who had torn off the mask of human skin, and was already sure that the patriarch of the Demon Pastor named the Joker had somehow replaced the real Earl Drew, and then secretly arranged in the city of Hurengel as a fake earl, and teamed up with the messenger of the Calamity Wizards Society to plan tonight's Calamity Night.

The memories and experiences in his mind quickly squeezed the information he had into a plausible inference, and through the inferences in his mind, the young paladin could almost see behind the scenes of the entire conspiracy.

The temporary resignation of the priest of the cathedral of Tiamagos, the pretending of the patriarch of the Cult of the Demons to replace the real count, the temporary replacement of the parish of Hurengue by a fallen priest who betrayed the Church, and the sudden outbreak of purple spot disease in the city...... These non-negligible pieces of evidence are interlocking, all pointing to a possibility that Finn had secretly guessed in his mind at first, and finally unraveling all the mysteries through a clue left by the Joker himself.

The clue that helped Finn uncover it all was none other than Bogro, the orc Mithril Knight who had died in the cathedral auditorium.

"Knight Bergero has a talent you didn't expect, and he told me something before he died." Maintaining a sword-wielding stance ready to fight, Finn took a few steps around the edge of the hall centered on the Joker's position, while unhurriedly answering the Joker's curious question, "Also, when examining the wounds of the Knights of the Bergeros, I identified the poison in the stained blood of the Knights of the Bergeros. I happen to have a certain level of understanding of you and your organization, the top of your organization's power is made up of you, , and he, and is the best alchemist among you, who has been tempered to isolate the healing effects of magic and drugs with the help of toxin-infected blood, but she is not a great combatant, so her existence only proves that the person who killed the knight of Bogro was a high-ranking member of the Shepherd. Above, these are the places where you show your feet. ”

"I see...... Hee-hee, wonderful, wonderful. After listening to Finn's detailed explanation, with a terrifying smile on the mask, the clown raised his two palms to give Finn two applause, and his voice, which had turned back into a woman, happily admired his reasoning to reveal his identity, "Since your head is so bright, then I have another question - why don't you dare to look me in the eyes?" ”

"As I said, I happen to have a certain level of understanding about you and your organization." The voice of the young paladin continued to respond calmly to her provocation, "In other words—I know what your natural abilities are. ”

……

Just like the future Lord Red, the academic name of the vampire baron Kill's innate abilities should be, indicating that his talents belong to the series, manifesting themselves in the form of.

In the same sense, Priest McCas's talent is widely abbreviated, and its original name represents the category of his talent attributes, and it is manifested in a form that allows him to move freely in a small area of space where time pauses and flows, and its flaw is that the current effect of the talent does not affect the real world for a long time, almost only about a second, and the cooldown time before using it again is not short.

Priest McCas's talent was awakened only a few days before he took over as the Marshall Celebrant and came to Hurengel, and his own natural ability, he is not very proficient now.

But that's enough.

After all, not long ago, Arya, Raymond, and Arroyo made the last mistake they should have made, and that was to give Priest McCass enough opportunities to strengthen himself with various priest skills and magic spells, also known as buffs, when they confronted him.

There's a saying in Ferdia's adventurer circles that has been widely circulated in later generations that you should never leave seemingly inconsequential time for your priest enemies to strengthen yourself.

It's no secret that the Priest class has a lot of buff skills, and many of the magic skills they master also have a buff effect.

Priest McCasse took advantage of the carelessness of Arya, Raymond, and Arroyo to brush most of the priest skills and blessing magic he had mastered on himself, and by the time the young people noticed the abnormality of his body, the evil priest was far beyond the limits of their strength.

Therefore, with the original high-quality natural ability, when the buff-covered Priest McCass once again attacked the young people with the flail and the emblem bracelet, the numerical advantage of Arya, Raymond and Arroyo could no longer be revealed. When the sheer power of the second-order professionals overpowered their ability to cooperate, they finally began to retreat, whether it was Raymond's powerful frontal attack, Arya's agile and dexterous long-range support, or Arroyo's well-timed insidious sneak attack turned into a useless struggle in front of Priest McCas.

"Accept your fate, you bastards." Priest McCas flicked the flail and repelled Raymond's sword attack again, and at the same time raised his hand and threw a spear from the resulting spear to force Arya and Arroyo, who were accidentally standing together, to put down the idea of sneak attack and hurriedly dodge, "Don't think about breaking through my defenses and entering the castle again, I'm afraid that damn paladin boy who broke into the castle won't even want to come out of it, my lord will crush him like I did with you!" ”

He roared, smirking and proudly, shaking the flail in his right hand like a windmill, and lifted the emblem bracelet in his left hand to continue praying for the new divine spell. The inflated self-confidence expanded infinitely in his inner world, squeezing the fear of wavering faith in his heart to the edge of the world, making his face take on a grim smile that soared to the brink of collapse.

Raymond, who had failed again and again in his attempts to attack, gritted his teeth and glared at the priest's face, and Arya, who was more rational than the young swordsman, anxiously thought about her next tactics while paying attention to keeping a distance from the priest.

Arroyo's wound in the right shoulder severely slowed down his performance in battle, and the wounded thief youth gasped and looked at the enemy who had failed to succeed in several sneak attacks, and finally couldn't help but admit with a wry smile: "Huh...... No wonder the adults told the three of us to deal with him. ”

At the end of the sentence, he added casually with anger: "He is worthy of being a priest of the church...... Oh no, it's supposed to be a priestly traitor to the church, hehe. ”

The next moment, just as his casual muttering words fell, Priest McCas's ears tipped at him, and a word in Arroyo's words stung him like a thorn in his heart, and the evil priest suddenly stopped in place, and the chain hammer on the flail spun twice in the direction of inertia before falling down with his right fist.

"Traitor......" Priest McCas's eyes flickered for a moment's dull look.

With the sudden stop of the priest, the young people were also stunned, Raymond and Arya, who had already suffered many losses at the hands of the enemy, did not dare to act rashly for a short time, and Arroyo, who noticed that he seemed to have accidentally provoked the other party, suddenly felt bad.

He didn't have the intention of deliberately provoking Priest McCas, and the assertion just now was purely a sneer at Priest McCass from Qu, who had repeatedly attempted sneak attacks.

Who knows-

Priest McCas's eyes suddenly lost a dull look, like a lit spark spewing unforgivable anger.

It seems that the other party is really irritated by him at this moment.

"Traitor... Haha, that's right, I'm a believer in the Cult of the Shepherd, I serve destruction, I fight for the end of the world, I ...... There is no turning back. With a grim and twisted grin on his face, Priest McCas finally shuddered and roared, "Come on, then...... Doomsday is upon me! For the sake of the Demon Cult! For the Dragon of Destruction! ”

So, having eliminated the last scruples in his heart, the priest, who was already in an abnormal mental state, shook the shackles and rushed towards Raymond, who was closest to him, with a skillful prayer.

The earth will eventually disappear, the ocean will dry up, the sky will fall, and only destruction will last forever.

He prayed with divine prayers on his lips, and at the same time kept reciting the canonical teachings of the Shepherd's Cult in his heart, as if this was the only way to keep his consciousness from being controlled by his own reason, and not to descend into complete madness.

The future Juggernaut nervously clenched the curved sword in his hand.

Priest McCasse looked at him like a beast that suddenly went berserk, and his eyes widened and he was ready to block the priest's unsolicited attack on him.

However, in an instant, just as the future Sword Saint had already realized that he was seriously injured, and the elven girl and the thief youth on the side were ready to go up to support, the fierce evil priest suddenly seemed to have found something in his field of vision that he was most afraid to see, and the hideous and smug smile on his face suddenly turned into another look of fear.

"Horses... Marshallese Celebrity... My lord? He suddenly stopped all the action at hand, and the two pupils in his eye sockets stared in horror at the blazing light behind Raymond, Arya, and Arroyo, "Why... Why are you back... At this time? ”