174. Good morning, new day
"Run away after pretending, it's so exciting!"
Carl walked three streets away, until the other could no longer see the sight, the silver-white light on his body faded like a tide, and the feeling of emptiness, weakness, exhaustion, headache, and dizziness hit him together, and he almost stumbled.
Pretending to be forced is not without a price.
Carl is not a real knight after all, and all the power of his fighting spirit comes from the magic power of transformation, and in just three minutes, all the magic power he has just awakened has been squeezed out.
Don't look at him when he fights, he is full of arrogance, but in fact, he is only three minutes of Ultraman, and his combat power can only last for three minutes, and as soon as the three minutes pass, he will be beaten back to his original form.
Moreover, because of the excessive concentration of the will during the battle and the consumption of too much mental power, he is now having a splitting headache, how uncomfortable it is. If the battle drags on for another ten seconds, I'm afraid he will be completely exposed, and he will be grass instead of pretending to be forced!
"Go to the Siren Mansion!"
With a severe headache, Carl walked briskly down the street, stopped a public carriage, and headed straight for Lady Loris's mansion.
Horse-drawn carriages drove through the wide, flat bluestone streets, and there were not many customers in the commercial district in the morning—for well-dressed gentlemen and ladies, the evenings were the stage for their activities, and the mornings were the time for them to sleep, and only servants, cooks, maids, and artisans, farmers, and dock workers who had to work hard to support their families had to get up early in the morning to get busy.
However, even without these most flamboyant embellishments, the huge shopping street is full of life. Cleaners in uniforms are busy sweeping the streets, and horse-drawn carts with huge wooden barrels are loading buckets of garbage out of town. Beneath the gilded gold-lacquered shops with beautiful peacock tails, the clerks were opening their doors and busily carrying barrels of fine wine, rolls of fine silk and blankets, large chunks of clear glass, and fine porcelain of more expensive value, wrapped in linen and stuffed with straw and wheat straw, and carefully carried to the shops. The younger apprentices are tasked with wiping down the windows, putting the goods in place, and getting ready for the day ahead.
This is a kind of liveliness that is different from the civilian area, full of a kind of orderly order and high-spirited energy.
However, Karl did not have time to enjoy the scenery, he had a headache now, not only after his mental strength was exhausted, but also because of the current situation.
He still doesn't understand how he inexplicably provoked the church, in this era, there are many people among the nobility who like the ancient Lota culture, and even the church buildings and church frescoes have a lot of ancient Lota elements. It is not uncommon for poets and artists to create works using various folklore myths.
It is understandable that some people report it because they are jealous of his talent and resentful that he can easily get ahead. But it would be an exaggeration for the Church to use two Church Knights and two Night's Watch men to arrest people because of this.
Could it be that the Wave Trident family is making trouble?
After thinking about it, Carl found that he had been in the Silver Tide City for such a short time, and it seemed that among the people who had offended, the only one who had the motivation and ability to move the church to take action was the Wave Trident family!
Thinking that both Franco and Georgie had reminded him of the Wave Queen's shortcomings, and thinking of the inexplicable rumor that he had ruthlessly rejected the Wave Queen's gossip, Carleton determined that this innocuous house was most likely done by Josephine, the Queen of the Waves.
Damn, a careful-eyed woman really can't be provoked!
Carl rubbed his head with a faint ache, a headache, and secretly ruthless, whether you are the Queen of the Waves or the big of the waves, don't let me be sure that you did it. Otherwise, one day, Lao Tzu must let you know what is called night duty ward and what is ***.
However, if you are ruthless, you will be ruthless, and you still have to find a way to solve the troubles now. Writing hymns praising the old gods is not a big problem, but being targeted by the church is a big problem. Although the current church is not as single-handedly covered as the dark age, it is still a behemoth, with nearly thirty Holy Spirit priests, tens of thousands of church knights, night watchmen, churches and monasteries in various towns and cities in all human countries, and countless devout believers and supporters, making it still the number one force on the continent, and no organization or country can compete alone.
Although since the Dark Millennium, the rise of the knightly class has gradually overwhelmed the church. But this kind of overpowering refers to the balance of power of the whole class, and when it comes to the individual knightly families and countries, it is still impossible to oppose the church alone.
Only in the era when the three emperors rose and established a great empire that almost unified the countries of the continent, because they ruled almost all the knights of the entire continent, the knights and nobles had the absolute strength to overwhelm the church head-on, and the three emperors of glory, the holy emperor, and the iron-blooded emperor, had the personal authority beyond the pope.
However, the short-lived appearance of the three empires made the situation of the nobility and knights completely overpowering the church, and the relationship between the church and the nobility is now a balanced situation after countless struggles and compromises.
The nobility respected the authority of the Church in the spiritual world, and the Church respected the authority of the nobility in secular power. According to the unspoken rule between the nobility and the church, the church could not judge or arrest the nobles at will, but it still had arbitrary law enforcement power over the commoners who were not protected by the nobles.
Although Carl can fight, and can easily take out the Guardian Knights and Night Watch, he certainly can't fight the entire church. After beating the small ones and the old ones, and overturning a few black iron knights and night watchmen, then the next time I am afraid it will be the silver knights and night watchmen. Even if he can defeat the Silver Knight again, there will be the Golden Knight, the Holy Spirit Priest, and even the Holy Maiden and the Radiant Pope who have mastered the three major divine arts!
So, unless he wants to be sneaky and live incognito for the rest of his life in the future. Otherwise, you still have to find a protective umbrella to solve this matter completely.
Fortunately, although Carl is a commoner, he is of noble birth after all, with the noble blood of the paladin Roland in his body, and a noble protector like Madame Loris, to a certain extent, he has gotten rid of the class of people who are eaten at will. As long as Mrs. Loris is willing to continue to shelter him, the church's accusations and trials will not matter.
Soon, the carriage stopped in front of the "Siren Mansion", where the statue of a mermaid stands, and the ivory-white mansion is bathed in the early morning sun, revealing a ladylike elegance and vitality.
In the morning the mansion was quiet and serene, and a few gardeners and servants were repairing the lawn and flower beds, and Karl waited a little at the door, and then a waiter in black uniform came politely.
"I want to see Lady Loris!"
Without waiting for the attendant to ask, Karl explained his intentions bluntly.