Chapter XXVI: The Archbishop's Secret
There were a few soldiers outside the bell tower, but it seemed that they didn't care what was going on inside, as long as they watched the slaves not make trouble.
Patch led Zhang Lin to the top of the bell tower, which was also connected to the outer corridor of the top floor of the church, Zhang Lin also saw some slaves hanging on the outer edge of the corridor with daggers in their mouths, repeatedly practicing the action of climbing up and down, practicing this action is obviously not to improve physical agility, but to launch a sneak attack more skillfully, and sure enough, these slaves are basically not the masters who can be separated.
Patch's braised egg head looked a little bright in the moonlight, and it looked smoother than the bald priest before, but Zhang Lin had been staring at him a little since he was asked just now, "If you don't say what you mean, believe it or not, I'll call a bunch of people every minute." ”
I can really believe this, except for a few soldiers who are on duty at night on the wall, many of the eaves have the guy who practiced sneak attack movements just now, plus those in the bell tower, there are definitely not a few.
"Okay, okay, Greillard said you can help solve some troubles," Zhang Lin was no longer silent, "Seeing that you can disguise yourself as a knight of the church without being discovered, it seems that you still have some ability." ”
Now Patch looked a little proud, "Of course, I'm very professional, so what trouble do you need Uncle Ben to help you solve?" ”
"It's not that I want you to solve any trouble, I just want to ask you about something, I believe you should have enough information here, right?"
"It seems that I don't have a chance to show my talents," Patch looked a little regretful, and also a restless master, "but since it was introduced by Grerath, then I won't take any money from you, what do you want to know?" ”
"Have the two archbishops, who are doing some kind of ritual in the depths of the church, have they been showing up recently, and do they seem to be out of the ordinary? And what did the Archbishop of Climt do? ”
"You care about these things? Isn't it just a ritual that happens every once in a while, isn't that weird? Patch looked at Zhang Lin with some curiosity, and then continued, "But when it comes to anomalies, it is that Archbishop MacDonald seems to be getting fatter and fatter, and I remember that when I saw him last year, he was still very standard in size, and these powerful people eat better than us. ”
Zhang Lin shook his head, getting fat is not necessarily due to eating better food, it may also be caused by eating people, it seems that the archbishop has been affected, which is not a good sign.
"And what about Klimt?"
"Klimt." Patch thought for a moment, "This guy seems to have been ostracized by the other two archbishops, and it is rumored that he has changed his faith and served a new god, but not many people know which god he serves, but I heard that he goes to Los Ric a lot more...... Oh, you see, the next one should be them back. ”
Zhang Lin looked in the direction pointed by Patch, and in the moonlight, he saw that on a road next to the cemetery below, some knights were carrying a huge box covered with red cloth and carefully walking on the somewhat potholed road, led by an old man in a wide blue robe, the old man was holding a long staff, and looked back behind him from time to time. In the shadows farther back, some black shadows, also with staffs, slowly wriggled behind, yes, like bugs, dragging their long bodies back and forth.
"Oh, what's that?" Patch let out a burst of exclamation.
Soon, a group led by Archbishop Klimt entered the second floor of the church through a hidden road.
At this time, Archbishop Klimt looked very nervous and excited, he couldn't wipe the sweat on his head, and his eyes couldn't take away from the looming figure under the red cloth.
"Be careful, don't let the goddess bump into it." As she spoke, Klimt opened the secret door to her room through the mechanism, and the knights carrying the things followed closely into the room, and then placed the box on a specially arranged large bed in the depths of the room, as the archbishop had instructed.
The robes on Climte's body were more ornate than those of ordinary cultists, with gold lace trim at the collar and intricate colorful patterns embroidered on the shawl, which did not look like a priest of the Qing Dynasty at all. He walked quickly to the large box, and the slightly fluttering red yarn was finally able to see that it was actually a wide platform inside, and the reason why it looked like a box was that the curtain made of the red yarn happened to be square and shrouded in the outside.
A woman in a black robe was lying reclining with her eyes closed, and although she had not spoken, she could see a noble temperament.
As Archbishop Klimt in front of the bed and whispered, the wriggling figures in the secret passage finally entered, and the candlelight revealed their images to a few men with barely human shapes on their upper bodies and maggots on their lower bodies.
"The goddess needs to recuperate now, let's go out first."
Although the woman in the red veil, whom the archbishop called the goddess, did not make a sound, Klimt, as if receiving an answer, walked out with the knight, and the maggots dragged their heavy lower bodies to the goddess's tent and returned to the secret passage.
After exiting the room, Archbishop Kremte met Hezel, who was wandering around.
"Oh~ dear Hezel, why are you here, is your father okay?" Klimt was enthusiastic when she saw Hezel, "I haven't seen him in a long time. ”
"Father is still studying magic in the forest," Hazel bowed slightly to the archbishop, "I heard from the priest that you went out?" ”
"Nothing, just going out for something," the archbishop smiled kindly, "so what is the matter with you coming here?" ”
"My father wanted to send me somewhere else to study, and he didn't want me to stay with him any longer," Hezel pouted, looking helpless, "and he even wanted to send me to Piheim." ”
"Oh my God, why did he arrange it like this, the mages of Pihaim are all eager for his crystallized magic, and there are still a lot of magical legacies left by Urashiru in the Forest of Punishment, wouldn't it be better for him to teach you personally?"
"He thinks my body is not suitable for studying crystallization magic," Hazel's tone was very unwilling, and her father's words directly set a judgment on her magical career, as an authority on crystallization magic, she couldn't argue, "so he wanted me to go somewhere else to study." ”
"Is it because of your constitution?" Klimta looked at Hazel's eyes narrowed, and a smile appeared on his lips, "Maybe I'll have a way." ”
"Is it true?" Hezel took the archbishop's somewhat thin hand with some excitement, and the news made her particularly excited.
"Don't worry," Klimta said with a look like a big bad wolf who had lured Little Red Riding Hood, "if you come here again tomorrow morning, I'll show you the goddess." ”
"Oh, goddess? Can you tell me who it is? ”
"You'll know when you come tomorrow."