Immediately following the two knights, a young priest with a hooked nose and a gloomy face walked in, looked around the tavern, and asked in a casual tone, "Who is Carl Rowland?"

The tavern suddenly fell silent, even the drunkards, the blood-licking mercenaries, and the priests who represented the prestige and majesty accumulated by the church for thousands of years, couldn't help but subconsciously shrink their heads and close their mouths.

Church?

Carl couldn't help but stare at him, his heart tightened, and his spirit subconsciously tensed.

"You're Carl Rolland?"

The young black-robed priest looked at Karl, swept his eyes up and down, couldn't help but raise his chin slightly, and said arrogantly: "Someone accuses you of betraying the glory of the Lord, preaching evil god beliefs, and being suspected of heresy, come with us!"

What do you mean?

It was as if a basin of cold water was poured from head to toe, and a bone-chilling chill rose from the bottom of Carl's heart. What's going on? He's been exposed? No, he's never cast a spell in front of people, and he's never made any moves to attract the church's attention, and now he's just learned the magic of the "knight's mark", why did the church suddenly come to the door? Could it be that the church has some large-scale probing magic that found out his identity as a magician?

Wait, no!

This priest is talking about someone who accused him of preaching evil god beliefs, didn't he discover his identity as a magician?

Before Carl could speak, Uncle John had already noticed that something was wrong, so he couldn't help frowning, and preemptively said, "This pastor, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding here!"

"Mr. Roland is a member of the Mountain Rock family, a descendant of the great paladin Roland, and the family has been a devout follower of the Lord for generations, how can it be a heresy who believes in evil gods?"

Uncle John whispered a look at Karl as he said this. With Uncle John's rich life experience, it is clear at a glance that the pastors and knights of this group of churches are not good.

In addition to deliberately naming Carl's origin, he also reminded him that the best way at this time is to quickly reveal his identity, and move out quickly if there is any backstage, no matter what trouble the church people want to make him, pull out a bunch of umbrellas to resist first.

After all, the Roland family is the descendants of the famous paladin Roland, the perfect knight Roland holds the "Eternal Sword" to cut off the "Bahamut Stone", and rescues the dragon warriors who have been plagued by curses for generations from tragic fate, and the grace benefits the various dragon vein families, because of this relationship, the Roland family has always had a decisive influence in the knight world.

Carl understood Uncle John's hint and was grateful for it. However, the inheritance of the magician on his body made him very wary of the church, he looked at the priest who walked in, his face was calm, and he said without humility or arrogance: "I am Carl Rowland." ”

"However, I have only left the family residence in Mountain Rock City half a month ago, and I have only arrived in Silver Tide City for half a month, and I have spent most of this time copying scriptures in the Abbey of Saint-Sulamel, and Uncle John, the Abbey Grandmother, Franco of the Francis family, and the Reverend Brad of the Constantine family can testify to me. I don't know where the slander that says I'm spreading the belief in evil gods comes from?"

The young priest couldn't help but feel a little jealous when he looked at Carl's handsome face and calm expression. It is this kind of handsome and thin young man with an elegant temperament who is most liked by those noble ladies. Look at how long he has been in Silver Tide City, he has met so many people, I heard that he is quite talented, and he has just written a well-received work of poetry, if there is no accident, this will be a rising star in the social circle.

However, such a talented, good-looking, and popular genius will only make him more and more jealous and disgusted, and seeing Carl with a shocked face, the young pastor is like seeing his colleague Rhett, who makes him jealous, full of desire to destroy him.

"Mr. Roland, did you write a work called the Iliad last night, and did it contain any praise for the old gods......

If Carl was just a commoner and didn't have the illustrious surname Roland, most of the young priests wouldn't talk nonsense with him, but would just order the attendants to take him away. But now, for the sake of Roland's noble surname, he patiently explained.

Hearing that it was not his identity as a magician that was exposed, but that the "Iliad" written by himself was too popular, and he was jealous, he went to the church to report it, and he was charged with praising the old gods. Carl breathed a sigh of relief, it was not good that the identity of the mage was exposed, the old gods involved in the work were never called a matter, and they really had to be seriously investigated according to the meaning of the church, and more than half of the poets and artists had to go into the small dark room.

Seeing Carl's relaxed expression, the young priest couldn't help but sneer secretly: If it was a normal situation, with your identity and background, it would probably be over. But who let you offend the Queen of the Waves of the Waves Trident Family, who was not lucky enough to crash into the big man of the Inquisition and came to the City of Silver Tides, and it was precisely the need for an excuse to completely clean up the order of the City of Silver Tides. A small person like you, who is prominent enough in your surname but has no real weight, and has no real involvement with various forces, is a suitable sacrifice for the nobles of the Silver Tide City to sacrifice their flags.

He sneered in his heart, but the young pastor maintained a businesslike attitude on his face, and said: "Although the reason for the report may be nonsense, since someone has reported it, then our church cannot be regarded as not seeing it, for the sake of the glory of the Lord and the majesty of the church, and for the innocence of Mr. Roland, please cooperate, come with me to the church, and cooperate with us to do an investigation!"

Although the young priest's tone was gentle, Carl instantly sensed the aura of danger, this scene was all too familiar. In countless movies, the government and villain organizations use this tone to invite people to assist in the investigation, and once someone believes it, there is almost no chance to come out after they go.

Carl is not stupid, what kind of place is the church? It's the biggest violent institution in the world, and it's impossible to get out of it after you go in. In particular, he still has the mage mark of the Ancient Magic Empire on his body, although it is covered by the knight's mark, but who knows if the church has a more powerful detection method, if it is checked, it will not be dead.

Therefore, Karl decisively turned his face and said without hesitation: "I'm sorry, as far as I know, in the sacred covenant signed between the Glory Emperor and the church, all the investigation actions of the church involving nobles and nobles' children need the permission of the local lord. Although I am not a nobleman, I am a descendant of the Roland family, and Lady Loriss of the mermaid family is my protector, if you want me to assist in the investigation, then please get the consent of my protector first!"

The relationship between the protector and the protected in the aristocratic world is actually a simplification of the feudal vassal relationship between the lord and the knight, which is used for the contract between the nobles and the freedmen, and the nobles act as the protectors of the freedmen, protecting them from other privileged people, and the degree of this protective relationship is relatively free, depending on the freedom of the protector, and it is subject to the general of society. Normally, if the Church wanted to arrest and censor a freeman, it had to first seek the advice of his patron saints of nobility. Although this is not a regulation in the sacred covenant, it is a convention custom endorsed by the power of the aristocratic class as a whole.