"Your Excellency, Ariana, you are an insult to the Duke, a contempt for our millions of Lucernes, and a slander against a pure, devout believer of the Light. ”

The Duchess of Lucerne, dressed in a long red dress, stood up, her already fair and beautiful face turned pale and distorted with anger.

The good memories of last night are still flooding in her mind, and the forbearance of years has finally seen the light, where can others be allowed to take away her "happiness" at this time?

Lupat, the envoy of the Church of Light, said solemnly: "Ariana, the situation of the Duke of Lucerne is a bit complicated, his illness has caused him to have an aura similar to darkness, and the lamp of darkness will react to him in some errors, which Bishop Coulson knows. ”

Ariana took out a clean handkerchief unmoved, slowly wiped the dust that did not exist on the dimming lamp, and said coldly.

"Why are you so nervous?"

"I know that Lord Duke is not a leper, but was cursed by darkness when he was fighting the darkness on the northern front, and Archbishop Coulson covered this for you, but the curse is not the same as the breath of the Night Cultist after all, I just need to ......."

"But Lord Duke's body is already very weak, and every verification of the light is a great damage to his body, we sincerely believe in the light, how can you ........ So cruel?"

The Duchess began to weep profusely, and the pear blossoms and rain looked so pitiful, just like last night when she faced the crazy Duke.

"Ariana, the Light is majestic and merciful, Duke Harland has been forgiven by the Church of Light, please renounce your deeds. ”

"Huh!"

"If a civilian falls under the curse of darkness, will you still show the mercy of the light?"

Lupat: ".........."

Ariana's ridicule still embarrassed Lupat, and civilians who had a birthmark on their body would be accused of being a Night Cultist, a Dark Witch, and tortured and burned at the stake. And a person who has been cursed by darkness can live unharmed for more than ten years just because he is a nobleman, just because he continues to pay a high "protection fee" to the church.

It's an irony, a scar on the body of the church that shouldn't be uncovered by a clergyman like Ariana.

Ariana chuckled, and finally did not urge the dimming lamp in her hand, because she secretly sensed and confirmed the Duke of Lucerne, who was sitting thirty meters away, and felt that the aura on his body was not the same as the one last night.

But Ariana ignored one point, today's Duke of Lucerne is covered with silver metal all over his body, and the black aura in his body is suppressed by pure silver and does not escape, so naturally he will not be perceived by the paladin's talent like last night.

Ariana's perception method is like a passive radar, which requires the dark aura to come into contact with the light to create sparks, unlike Charr's spiritual vision, which can actively discover the dark traces hidden in the human body.

"Your Excellency, your devotion to the Light has earned you forgiveness, but it is a fact that there are Night Cultists in Lucerne City, and I tracked down a Night Cultist for a long time last night, and finally he disappeared near the Duke's Palace, and as a Light Warrior, I need an explanation from the Duke. ”

With Lupat in the way today, it would be difficult for Ariana to conduct a large-scale direct search at her own expense, but she didn't plan to leave it at that.

"You've found traces of the Night Cultists? Lord Ariana, are you sure?"

Before Duke Lusen could say anything, Lupat of the Church of Light had already asked solemnly.

"I'm sure, and this Night Cultist is at least a seventh-order instigator or even a sixth-order Night Hermit, and is very familiar with Luxon City, and he used the sewers to get rid of my tracking. ”

"I'm sorry Lord Ariana!"

The Duchess, dressed in a long red dress, stood up and said with some indignation, "How do you think we should explain it to you, or do you think the Duke is going to drill into the filthy sewers?"

"Dear Duchess, I don't accuse the Duke of anything, I just hope that you can shoulder the responsibility of a lord and cooperate with the Church in a comprehensive search in Luxon City to find out those filthy and evil Night Cultists. ”

"Find the Night Cultists?"

"A few months ago, the citizens of Nasser held a week-long celebration of the Light, and everyone spontaneously stood up to praise the Light, while the evil believers who had an affair with the darkness would just stay at home and ........"

Ariana recounted the experience of the struggle of the "People's War" in short words, and the city of Nasser fell into a frenzy after the New Year because of the miracle of the divine servant "Grava Chaina", while many dark believers hidden in the city were discovered by neighbors and people because they could not recite "Praise the Light", and finally the dark latent power in Nasser City suffered dramatic losses.

"Mobilize the whole city to praise the light?"

Lupat frowned, thinking about this very serious issue, he knew something about Nasser City, the two major churches used the excuse of "praise miracles", both consumed a lot of wealth and resources to compete for believers, and finally the Dawn Church became the final winner with the "Chinese New Year's Eve miracle" and "Daisy incident".

"I'm sorry Your Excellency Ariana, we are now engaged in a difficult war with the people of Lorraine, the citizens of Luxon City are about to mobilize to participate in the war, I am afraid that there is no time and energy to find that hateful Night Cultist, if you want to conduct a city-wide search, it is better to let the Marquis of Lorraine stop the war first and exit the Blue Mountain Pass!"

The Duke of Lucsen finally opened his mouth and vetoed Ariane's proposal meaningfully.

Not many people know about Ariana's true relationship with Charles Chevalier, Marquis de Lorraine, but the church of Saint-Lemont was built beneath the castle of Sunset, and Ariana is now the deacon bishop of the church, and the two are ostensibly connected.

"The church, it is not allowed to participate in the war between the world, the war between the Duke and the Marquis of Lorraine has nothing to do with our two major churches, we will not directly send soldiers to help either side, nor will we support any form of assistance such as money, food, weapons, etc., to any party!"

"Am I right?

Ariana ignored Duke Lucerne, but just looked at Lupat coldly, and there was a faint threat in her beautiful eyes.

Lupat raised his eyebrows, and there was also a flash of evil in his eyes, and then he looked down at his feet and said indifferently: "Your Excellency Ariana, the Church of Light does things without anyone's judgment and accusation. ”

Ariana's eyes narrowed, and the cold aura made the temperature of the surrounding space seem to drop a lot.

She was an experienced Castle Greensen, and knew the cause of the war best, and was absolutely on the side of Lorraine and Charles psychologically.

So she rushed to Luxon City to verify after hearing that the Church of Light might secretly send a batch of aid to Lucerne, but she was not a professional detective intelligence officer, so she only found some clues to the aid, but she couldn't be sure that it was the aid of the Church of Light.

Seeing that Ariana was still entangled with him, Lupat hurriedly changed the topic with a headache: "Your Excellency Ariana, I remember that you went to Lorraine to find His Excellency Grava, the Divine Favorite, do you have any clues now? A few days ago, His Majesty the Pope personally summoned and urged him to inquire about this matter. ”

"Nope!"

Ariana replied without hesitation, "We didn't find any clues to the surname 'Chaina' in Lorraine, and I think Brother Barrenster must have misheard the accent! ”

“.........”

Not everyone dares to expose the scars of the Church of Light again and again, Lupat's teeth itch to Ariana, but there is nothing to be done, who makes her the daughter of the Pope of the Dawn Church?

"Your Excellency Ariana, we have invited Lupat here to heal my husband's body, please enjoy the view in the garden first, and then we will have lunch, shall we?"

Ariana looked at the false smile on the Duchess's face, stood up coldly and turned to leave.

"I'll be back!"

After Ariana left, Lupat, Duke Lucerne, and Duke's wife all breathed a sigh of relief, and Ariana, who was stunned, was really too faceless.

"She's a perfect match for that idiot second dumbfounded marquis!"

The Duchess said through gritted teeth, and the other two nodded in unison.

Lupat did not provide any treatment to the Duke of Lucerne, but gave him a list of supplies.

"I have brought you enough aid, the mercenaries and volunteers of the church organization are already on their way to Luxon, this war must end with the destruction of the Lorraine Legion, and quickly!"

"So........ What about after the war?" asked the Duke of Lusen, through his silver mask.

"After the war ended, the Archbishop of Coulson begged His Holiness the Pope to personally heal you and remove the curse from you. ”

“..........”

After Lupat left, the Duchess excitedly said to the Duke of Lusen: "Haaland, if you want to see the Pope's crown, your body will definitely recover........"

"Recovery?hehehe!"

Haaland Greenfaces, Duke of Luxon, sneered in his heart: "I'm afraid you want to burn me to death, and then swallow up the whole of Luxon under the name of the church!"

Duke Lucerne knew that if the curse of darkness on his body was gone, would the Church of Light still be able to collect a lot of wool from him?

He is no longer the child of more than ten years ago, after more than ten years of disappointment and anger, he feels that he has seen through the greedy face of light.

"I need a child!"

Duchess: "........."

"Haaland, maybe we should wait a little longer........"

"When you have a child, I will give up the title of duke and let you and the child rule the Duchy of Luxon!"

“..........”

"Honey, so what are we waiting for?"

The Duchess's eyes were so silky that even her breath became hot.

...........

...........

In the middle of the night, in the most luxurious master room of the Duke's Palace, Haaland on the big bed pushed away the soft and beautiful woman beside him, and got up silently and walked in front of a large mirror.

In the entire Duke's Palace, only the Duchess's room had this mirror, and no mirror was allowed anywhere else, because the Duke of Lucerne dared to face himself in the mirror for more than ten years.

But today, he looked at himself in the mirror and smiled weirdly.

"Hehehe! What an irony! I persevered for so many years, dedicating almost everything to the light, and in the end I had to rely on the darkness to save myself. ”

The skin of Haaland Greenface in the mirror was still covered with rotten scars, but it no longer smelled disgusting, nor did it ooze disgusting pus, and it would not be so disgusting if the eyes were closed like the Duchess just now.

"Love is so fragile and ridiculous in the face of power!"

The reason why Haaland Greenface put this mirror at the head of the bed is to see the beautiful woman on the bed clearly, under the conquest of power, she has easily entered the state of confusion of setting off fireworks, and at that time she really showed hidden pain and desire for power.

She may love her husband, but she loves power even more.

"What's the matter, Haaland, are you still reluctant to give up your terrible body?"

Haaland was stunned, and turned his head to look at the corner of the room, where the "Divine Messenger" Belluen Augustine had appeared at some point.

"God has said that if you want something, you will lose something. ”

"Béruen, you have gained strength and regained your appearance, then....... What have you lost?"

Berun Augustine smiled unnaturally, "What I have paid is just a small wish, now are you ready, have you decided to undo the curse on your body?"

"You're not going to tell me that you, the oracle, can undo the curse on me, do you?"

Duke of Lucerne, Haaland Greenfirth, looked at Belluen Augustine with some contempt, he had asked the former "genius pianist" Herdorf of the Night God, and Herdorf made it clear that he could not unravel this dark curse, and the current Berluen Augustine was definitely inferior to a genius pianist in terms of the horror of the breath, the purity of the dark blood, and so on.

"Huh!"

Berun Augustine smiled softly, turned to the darkness outside the window, and bowed 180 degrees, as if to welcome a great emperor.

A figure appeared in front of the windowsill through the closed window.

"Poof!"

Haaland Greenface didn't have any sense of resistance in his heart, so he knelt down.

He felt the irresistible dark power, he felt the silence of death, and he had no doubt about the other party's ability to crush him with a single finger.

But he also felt it....... The hope of deliverance from the curse.