Chapter 376: Return to the Holy City and Dissolution of the Priesthood

On the way back, Lake had already reminded the bald saint from the side, asking him not to have too high expectations for the treatment after returning to the Holy City this time.

Although they have slain the four major lairs of vampire creatures, they are the heroes of humanity.

However, when the Holy City was attacked by the third lair group of vampires and asked them to come to their rescue, the right clergy led by the second Venerable went directly to attack the third lair and did not return to help.

The bald saint happened to be in a state of anxious battle with the creatures of the first and second nests of the vampires, and he couldn't evacuate the clergy led by him, otherwise he would suffer heavy casualties.

The only one who went back to help back then was the female priest, the commander of the left-lane clergy regiment who is now dead.

Over the years, they contacted the Holy City, and the supplies were almost completely cut off.

And when Venerable No. 2 and the bald saint took the clergy to other human cities to 'borrow' heavy weapons and soldiers, the holy city also sent an urgent notice to them to stop this practice.

But the Bald Saint and Lake ignored it.

The bald saints also know this, but for the sake of the desire of the more than 1,000 priests who have fought with them for thirty years to return home, the Holy City must return this time.

A day later, the Legion came to the Holy City, the gates of which were closed, and there was no contingent to greet them.

The people in the clergy, who had thought of returning triumphantly, were sent into the city without appearing.

Soon, the small gate next to the city gate opened, and a large number of soldiers with weapons appeared, "Hand over your weapons and enter the city." An old archbishop said.

He looked at the bald saint, and Lake also felt that the archbishop was familiar, and after thinking about it, he realized that it was the bald saint who took him to meet him back then, and reminded him to consider the middle-aged archbishop when joining the clergy.

Thirty years have passed, and the archbishop has grown old and become an old man. The archbishop seems to have a good relationship with the bald saints.

"Lay down your weapons and rest assured, we are the heroes who defeated the vampires, and the Holy City will not attack the heroes!" The bald saint directly ordered his priest to speak, and he took the lead in throwing down his weapon and throwing it on the sand at his feet.

Many of the clergy did so.

"Saint, very well, come in with us, all the priests go to take a hot shower and change their clothes first, this battle is too long, hard work for you." The old archbishop spoke up as he watched the priests lay down their weapons.

When the archbishop heard this, the hearts of the clergy were somewhat warmed.

Although he was followed by soldiers with weapons, he was a little uncomfortable.

The Clergy entered the Holy City, entered through the small gate, and did not open the gate to welcome the Clergy who had survived the thirty years of fighting vampires for the survival of humanity.

When these priests entered the city, they looked at the familiar and unfamiliar buildings, and the holy city today has changed greatly from thirty years ago. The buildings have become much taller, the streets have widened, and the people inside are mostly dressed in black robes and hoods.

Many of the priests, when they returned to this strange home, could not help but leave tears in their eyes.

After thirty years of war, after returning, no relatives came to greet the triumphant division, and after thirty years, they finally returned to this city that belonged to them alive, and the priests had all kinds of feelings in their hearts, as if they had overturned the five-flavor bottle.

Fortunately, the soldiers in the Holy City first dispersed with the clergy, took a hot bath, provided a new set of clothes, and arranged shelter and food. The food with vegetables and hot soup, although the food was simple, also made the priests try to accept this holy city in their hearts.

Lake and the bald saints, after taking a hot shower and changing into brand new black clothes with pullover hats, were taken to a room in the heart of the Holy City to be questioned by the four archbishops.

The room made Lake feel unfriendly, with the four archbishops sitting high above him, standing between him and the bald saints.

The old archbishop, who had been at the gate before, had the bald saint briefly recount the battle with the vampires and the final destruction of the fourth lair.

The bald saint's bland tone recounted the passage of the past thirty years.

Then he also asked His Holiness No. 2, the right-hand leader of the clergy, to make his report.

Lake said it again, and Lake sighed, fortunately, the lights in this room were dim, and he had a new black dress and a hat that was pulled from the back.

After wearing it himself, he had a light cross tattoo on the top of his head, so he was not discovered by the four bishops.

"In this world, the remaining vampires have surrendered, and after the destruction of the fourth lair, the few remaining vampires in the world have surrendered to our holy city and humanity. The battle against the vampires has ended, and the Holy City has divided several empty cities into exclusion zones to imprison these vampires. An archbishop said.

Lake also knew that the elite clergy of the squad he and the bald saints sent out before could only kill most of the vampire creatures that had captured the city, and there must have been fish that slipped through the net, but these scattered vampires were not to be feared.

However, the vampire queen is still outside, and the vampire queen should not have been discovered by the humans of this world, which is the real big hidden danger, but unfortunately Lake does not have any evidence to provide the existence of the vampire queen.

Lake reckoned that he couldn't even convince the bald saints of the existence of vampires, let alone the four archbishops.

"Yes!" The bald saint didn't refute, and he didn't care about the scattered vampires.

"The Clergy have made great contributions and sacrifices in this vampire war. Now that the war is over, the clergy should return to their normal lives. All clergy are not allowed to fight without orders from the Church. An archbishop said.

"Yes!" The bald saint said that he was more accepting of this assignment and let his subordinates live an ordinary life, and the bald priest felt good.

Lake smiled bitterly beside him, the priests who had been killed for thirty years, let them return to the ordinary life as soon as they returned, for many priests, it was not all a good way out.

"Members of the Clergy, if they join the Clergy as refugees, will be assigned to the nearest city if they return to the previous city, and if the previous city did not exist. Those who did not join the Clergy as refugees remained in Al-Quds. An archbishop said.

"Yes!" The bald saint accepted this assignment again, and under this assignment, it could be regarded as an explanation to the more than 1,000 priests under him, although he and the second Venerable were estimated to be forced to stay in the Holy City.

Lake listened to this assignment of the clergy, thinking that the church should be scattering the strength of the clergy to avoid rebellion.

Ryker's fiery eye skill probed and found that there were no other priests in the Holy City, except for the more than a thousand priests who had returned with them, there were no more priests.

It stands to reason that when he and the bald saints went out on this holy city, there were still a small number of clergy who stayed in the holy city to defend it. These priests have been injected with holy liquid, and they are immortal, so why they all disappeared makes Lake a little puzzled.

Ryker tried his fiery eye skills to see what was going on with the half-soaked angel in the underground of the Holy City.

After looking at it, Lake found that the half-male angel still only had wings that were about to lose his upper body and half of his hair, and he seemed to have become thinner, and there were no other changes.

The disappearance of the original priests in the Holy City in the past thirty years, Lake couldn't figure out what caused it, so he could only slowly investigate it later.

His Holiness No. 2 and the bald saints were asked to go to the church where the church was located once a day to pray.

Four archbishops, the questioning of Lake and the bald saints ends.

The two were taken away by the soldiers and taken back to their original clergy building.

Lake's Keen Eye Skill checked and found that many of the low clergy buildings in this holy city had been demolished and rebuilt into high-rise buildings, and had been moved in by civilians.

Fortunately, the priesthood building for him and the bald saints was quite tall and had not been demolished.

The rooms of Lake and the bald saints were kept, and it should be that the church also knew that the two were not killed in battle, so their rooms were confiscated, and the bedding, beds, tables and other facilities in the room, as well as some simple daily necessities, were all new, and there were many water heaters for bathing.

Lake lay back on the bed, sleep first, other things, Lake is going to investigate slowly, just back to the Holy City for a while, it is estimated that the church will pay close attention to him and the bald saints for a while.

In the early days, Lake wasn't prepared to do anything out of the ordinary, just live like a normal person.

Food and water can be brought to the church at will, and the bald saints and themselves, the commanders of the clergy legions, do not need to work, and the other clergy are assigned to do some manual work.

After all, other work, let the clergy who only know how to fight do, can not be done well.

A month later, Lake tried to investigate the cause of the disappearance of the priests left behind in the Holy City, but found no clues.

The ordinary citizens of this holy city, after knowing that Lake is a priest, are not as popular as Lake when he first entered the holy city thirty years ago.

Now the citizens of the holy city are afraid to hide from the priests.

The reason for the disappearance of the former left-behind priest could not be found in the city, so Lake released the clone and stayed in the city in his place.

Dressed in black, wearing a hat and a mask, Ryker teleported away while it was dark.

Lake went to the town established near the Holy City, using the red magic levitation cloak to hurry, although not as fast as a powered motorcycle, but with his own jogging, he could reach it in two days.

The townsfolk of the town, Lake finds himself more hostile to the priesthood than the townsfolk of the Holy City.

Lake tried to understand the reason, only to find out that it was him and the bald saint who had provoked the anger of the people by borrowing soldiers and heavy weapons over the years.

Coupled with the fact that the Holy City did not accept all the refugees at the beginning, and let the priests drive away the refugees outside the city, the clergy was overwhelmed. Most of the towns near the Holy City are descendants of refugees.

Was this a ploy that the church had planned thirty years ago, or was it just a coincidence? I guess the chance of a coincidence is better, after all, thirty years ago, the church didn't know that the priest would defeat the vampires and survive, Lake thought.

Nothing has come out of the town, so Lake decides to go back to the Holy City.

After rushing back to the Holy City at night, Lake returned to his room at night and changed back into a clone.