As the bishop of the Church of Fortune, Bill's diplomatic skills proved to be excellent, and with his mediation, the non-existent enmity between Tom and Talos was quickly resolved.

Naturally, Bill received the heartfelt gratitude of the eldest son of the Helmer family, and Talos was a little suspicious that perhaps this was the root cause of Bill's sudden willingness to help.

Before Tom was about to leave, Talos stopped him and asked in the surprised gaze of the human bishop, "Jerry, your brother, do you know dragon language?"

In a split second, Talos suddenly had a very bold guess, which was now in urgent need of verification.

"He wouldn't have been. ”

"So he will now?" Talos' eyes lit up.

"Yes. ”

Tom looked very sad when it came to his brother who had just died tragically, the relationship between their brothers was obviously very good, and there was no need for Talos to ask, the other party had fallen into memory.

"Jerry very much wants to be the herald of His Highness Bruce and compete with the DeSec of the Zimmers. Because His Royal Highness the Second Prince is a mage, he has been secretly learning dragon language for a while now, preparing to give His Royal Highness a surprise. It's a pity ......"

That's right, Talos is in good spirits!

Dragons are legendary creatures and are also very powerful races, but given their scarcity in numbers, it is clear that dragon language does not qualify as a lingua franca.

In fact, in the entire main material plane, only spellcasters will systematically learn the dragon language, because before the ancient arcane empire, all documents and spells related to magic were recorded through the dragon language.

If a mage wants to make a difference in the field of magic, dragon language is a compulsory subject that cannot be avoided no matter what.

Previously, Talos had not suspected that Jerry's death was related to the Seven Days Bible, but because the other party had not read it, he could only choose to put it on hold for the time being.

But since Jerry can speak dragon language and has the approval of his own brother, it is not necessarily impossible for Talos to assume that it is ridiculous -

Yesterday's dinner, after failing to "invite" Talos to meet Bruce on the third-floor balcony, Jerry received a second order to hand Talos a piece of parchment.

In the process, for some reason that Talos couldn't justify himself for the time being, Jerry spied at the contents of the parchment.

Then, that night, Jerry met with an accident that confirmed the advice of Urban I.

"No, if the results of reading the 7-day Bible were really so evil, I should have suffered the same accident right now. If this problem cannot be solved, all the speculations just now cannot be true. Unless—" a crazy thought was born in Talos's brain, stirring up a storm, "I can prove that there really is a causal connection between reading the Bible for seven days and encountering the unexpected." ”

For a former mage, the best way to verify the truth of a fact or a conclusion that is temporarily unclear is to experiment!

When Talos was hesitating whether to ask Bill to come forward and fish out a few death row prisoners from the prison of Fortune or immediately return to the Black Sea to search for experimental materials in the dungeon of Evelyn Palace, Tom interrupted him with an exclamation.

"What happened?" asked Talos.

The face of the Haimer family is not very good-looking: "We have learned the identity of the black mage!"

"Who?"

"Hans Heaton. ”

"Who is Hans Heaton?"

"I'm sorry, I can't afford to delay here, I need to contact my clan and the Templars to capture Hans immediately. With that, Tom stepped onto a scaly horse that clearly possessed the blood of an earthly dragon, and hurried away.

Talos looked at Bill with a puzzled look, who explained, "A past that was the subject of much discussion in the Golden Empire. ”

"Apparently he can have one more discussant today, let's get started. ”

"No problem, but before we begin, would you be interested in witnessing the arrest of an Imperial wanted criminal?"

"Your pleasure, let's go. ”

A magical flying carpet flew up from the manor and headed out of the City of Fortune.

The story is not complicated, many years ago Hans's father was the mayor of a remote town in the south of the Golden Empire and lived a peaceful life.

One day a black mage came to the town, and all kinds of misfortunes befell the town one after another, and people died one after another.

Bewitched, instigated, and slandered by the Black Mage, the townspeople see the mayor as a source of calamity.

Eventually, one night, the angry and ignorant residents turned into thugs and stormed the mayor's house, burned him alive on the instructions of the black mage, and then burned the mayor's wife and two sons at the stake.

Only the last son, Hans, was rescued by the Templars of Order and Knights who arrived in time.

"Personally, I am very sympathetic to what happened to him, but what happened later?"

Later, the Black Mage was killed on the spot by the Templars, and the thirteen thugs who had been bewitched by the Black Mage and played a leading role in the rebellion were directly executed. Other rioters involved in the burning of the mayor's family at the stake faced prison terms ranging from 20 to 30 years – though Hans, who was only eight years old at the time, was not satisfied with the outcome of the trial. ”

"He wants the same mob that killed his parents and brothers?"

"You're only half right, and he said something that surprised even the presiding judge. ”

Bill paused for a moment and repeated the sentence: "The only difference between the thugs who have forgotten all about their kindness, who do not have the ability to recognize and judge independently, who are easily irrational when fanned by strangers, and pigs is that they still insist on walking on two feet." Pigs do not have the right to the protection of imperial law, so they (the entire town) should all be put to death. ”

"I didn't expect it. Even though this is a world of gods and powers, it was the first time Talos had seen such an extreme thought, "But what does this have to do with the Hemer family?"

"Jerry's grandfather, the former patriarch of the Hemmer family, was the presiding judge who rejected Hans's opinion seventy-three years ago. ”

"So this is just a simple act of revenge?"

Talos was unspeakably disappointed, and for some reason that he could not speak to others, between the Seven-Day Bible and Hans, he preferred the former.

"Yes, revenge, Hans, although he accepted the results of the trial, did not abandon his initial ideas and insistence. At the age of thirty-six, he returned to town and did something shocking. ”

The ensuing development is obvious, and Talos speculates: "Hans used black magic to kill all those who were not judged in the first place?"

Far more crazy than that, he, like the black mage back then, used dark magic to incite the people of the town to kill each other. When the sun rose again, the entire town, a total of 1,359 people, all died. ”

Hans was wanted by the Reich for this, but his whereabouts were unknown for many years, but he did not expect to reappear after more than forty years, and take the second heir of the Hemer family with him as soon as he made a move. ”