It was dusk, and the atmosphere in Hollier was very solemn.

Today's events were so bloody that the city was under martial law almost from the afternoon onwards -- the external call was "hunting down infidels," and the reassuring words were that "the situation has been effectively controlled," and as to whether it was true, it was difficult for the common gentry and even the nobles to know, after all, such a thing only involved religion and did not have much impact on the interests of the nobles, so they naturally did not bother to bother to care.

However, some people watch from the sidelines, and some people are anxious.

Akasha, who was running desperately, only felt that her legs were almost numb at this time.

It's hard to describe her mood at this time, I don't know whether to say it's anger or grievance, or self-blame or regret, in short, when mixed together, I just feel that the blood in my body is cold.

Finally making up her mind to get out of the "Pit Viper Cross", but suddenly encountering something like this is a really difficult outcome for Akasha - because when everything is messed up, she still doesn't understand why!

Akasha felt innocent: she provided Rubens with Gallup's information, and she didn't cooperate with Gallup to attack at a critical moment, but Rubens, who finally agreed to join the "Rosicrucius" and clear his name, directly attacked him on the spot, and even ordered the soldiers to hunt down all his men...

When she saw those Templar guards rushing towards her and her men, she was really heartbroken, and all she had left in her mind was an instinctive sense of escape—because she was a "restorer" advanced "Light Priest", she finally managed to escape under the cover of her men, and made her way to the relatively remote Cambay district of Houllier City.

After the sun went down, there were no street lights in the gloomy Cambay area, and she was in a state that could be called "dark" at this time, but the reason why Akasha was heading here was because she clearly remembered a secret passage that the "Pit Viper Cross" had spent half a year digging here - and by finding the entrance to the secret passage, she could escape from Hollier City directly!

As for where she would go after leaving the city, she didn't even think about it at this time, the only thought in her mind was not to be caught by the temple guards...

Akasha, who walked briskly, squinted at the blurred sight around her, barely with the tavern lights reflecting the outlines of the surrounding walls, and she could confirm that she was still a few hundred meters away from the entrance—and at that moment, a shout suddenly came from not far away, "Who?!"

Akasha is not an old fox like Gallup, she has always been just a priest who abides by her duties, neither the city government nor the scheming can compare to the group of guys who have studied in the political struggle, so when she heard such a question at this time, she immediately ran into the distance in a panic, and she couldn't think of any other way to deal with it.

"There's a guy there!

The words that followed proved that Akasha's judgment was correct, and the two temple guards had already planned to search the Cambay district and leave, but they really found a suspicious target with a random bluff, and they immediately strode after it. In terms of physical strength, the three Akasha are not as good as this kind of professional soldier, but her memory is extremely outstanding, and she is very familiar with the Cambay area where she has lived for more than ten days, and those hidden places with horns and corners have been studied for a long time, so she immediately turned left and right and burrowed into the narrow alley, found a low crack in the wall and drilled in...

Because she was wearing cloth shoes, Akasha's footsteps were not loud, and the temple guards in armor kept "clanging" as soon as she ran, so the guards didn't catch her stopping and hiding, and quickly ran past Akasha's eyes.

"Where did you go?"

"It should be over there!"

"It's a fork in the road, look for it separately!"

The two footsteps gradually left, but Akasha did not dare to act rashly, she held her breath and waited for a while, and after confirming that it was safe, she quietly climbed out, and then felt the wall towards the entrance of the tunnel, which was already only two hundred meters away.

Be calm.

Akasha said to herself in her heart, the slightest movement in her ears tugged at her nerves, but just when she thought she could safely complete the rest of the journey, a sharp pain in her back suddenly stopped her in her tracks-

"Shhhhh

Her cheeks, which had been flushed from the continuous running, suddenly turned pale, and she immediately understood that the pain was a curse from Bishop Gazad!

The "Punishment of Whipping" directly opened her back and opened a hole!

"If you don't come soon, you don't come late... Damn it!"

She cursed, but she also knew that she couldn't cast any magic now, because casting even the simplest "primary recovery technique" in this dark environment would shine brightly, and for the temple guards who were searching for her, it would definitely be death-seeking.

So Akasha immediately decided to endure the pain and continue running - the wounds appeared in her back, and Akasha almost bit her lip in pain. She usually sat in a chair and waited for the curse to end, so the pain was still bearable, but now she was running desperately, and the pain when she pulled the wound was countless times greater than before, almost making her cry out.

However, with strong willpower, Akasha was forced to run almost two hundred meters, and when she came to the entrance not far from the secret passage, she already felt that her eyes were black, and her legs were too heavy to take a step.

The strenuous exercise caused the blood to surge faster, and the wound on her back, which was not fatal in the first place, faced an unavoidable problem: if she didn't stop bleeding, she might really die of excessive blood loss. "It's coming, it's coming..."

She tried hard to support the last ten meters of running, but finally lost control and fell to the ground with a "plop"...

But she didn't give up, and immediately gritted her teeth and stretched out her hand to support her body again - the back of the robe was already soaked with flowing blood, but she didn't care about stopping the bleeding, but she just closed her eyes and touched a wooden door with her memory, and then pressed the weight of her body to push it open.

The passage built by the "Viper Cross" is located in this abandoned dwelling not far from the city wall, and due to the total failure of the operation, this passage has not been used until now, so when Akasha enters, everything is still the same as when it was completed.

Akasha, who had almost crawled in, barely closed the door, but she didn't even have the strength to fasten it, she gritted her teeth and moved to the fireplace in the bedroom of the house, and reached out and tugged at a loose stone slab—a large black hole immediately appeared in the fireplace...

This is the entrance to the secret passage.

And Akasha has almost exhausted all her strength to achieve this step, she just wanted to raise her hand to cast a "recovery technique", but she didn't know that because of excessive blood loss, her arm supporting the wall was weak, and the whole person lost control and fell directly into the secret passage!

The steep slope of the entrance is more than ten meters long, and Akasha rolled down all the way down and snorted in pain several times, she tried to stretch out her hand to stop the rolling, but in the darkness she heard the sound of "click" bone cracking and the ensuing sharp pain...

Fractured.

Akasha's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and panic spread - the magic could not be released without the cooperation of both hands and gestures, and now there were more than a dozen wounds on her back that continued to bleed, and the continuous blood loss had made her almost speechless...

She tried to move her fingers, but found that her palms did not respond at all under the severe pain.

Damn!How could this be!?

Is this going to be the end of my life in this unknown place?

Before falling unconscious, Akasha thought unwillingly in her heart.

Time goes back to half an hour ago.

The atmosphere in the "Rosicrucian" monastery is serious.

Although the infidels were punished, such an attack was not good news for the sect after all, as the madness of the enemy caused great casualties within the sect, and even affected many civilians, resulting in nearly sixty deaths and injuries.

I am afraid that it will take a long time for this negative impact to be resolved.

Although the term "crisis public relations" did not exist at this time, it is clear that the top leaders of the "Rosicrucifer" sect still have similar experience and ability to deal with it. Although it was already evening, the streets were already plastered with announcements about the battle of the day, presumably with words such as "The crimes of the infidels are unforgivable, and they have been duly punished", and of course, because the rate of illiteracy was not small, and the silver coins allocated to the speakers were already in place, and early tomorrow morning there would be oral explanations of the events in the squares and in all parts of the city, so that Rubens could directly "characterize" the matter, and minimize the damage, rendering the whole event as a "rosicru" A positive event that thwarted the "Pit Viper Cross" conspiracy.

In the "spiritual home" room of the abbey, Rubens sat at the wooden table where he wrote letter after letter, to Cardinal Cardinal, to the Temple, to the intertwined men of the sect's authority, and from the afternoon to the present he had scarcely rested - and Bishop Benjamin seemed somewhat "idle" compared to his busyness.

He was in a daze with the arrow that belonged to the "Rosicrucifix" arsenal.

When the news of Sally's disappearance reached his ears, Benjamin immediately sensed that something was wrong and immediately sent someone to look for her, but because she was running so fast, the Templars who were sent out later did not know where to start, and even went around the city until now, completely unaware that she had already left the city.

Benjamin was a little anxious because he had also learned the news that Francis had also disappeared.

He was clear about the struggle between the two siblings, and it was precisely because he knew that he did not participate in it at will, and naturally there were some considerations and trade-offs that belonged to politicians - but he could not have imagined that the contradictions between the two siblings would cause such a chaotic situation today...

Thinking back to today's battle, although he tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, the feeling of facing death still made Benjamin feel that he seemed to have made a "very wrong" decision before: when he thought that he had deliberately let Roddy misunderstand Sally, a little "regret" gradually rose from the bottom of his heart.

But what's the use of regretting? Who would have thought that this little-known character could turn the whole situation around with just one arrow, and even save the foundation of the "Rosicrucifix" in Holier City from being destroyed?

Speaking of which, Benjamin wasn't even qualified to judge Roddy - because if Roddy hadn't killed Gallup, he would have been dead, and where could he sit here and think about anything?