Hao Ren led his group of friends out of the reception room in Gerton, and two monks led them to the resting place, while the four of them stayed behind, and it seemed that the next thing to be discussed between the rector and the marshal should involve church secrets. It wasn't until she arrived at the guest room where she was temporarily staying that Betsy suddenly remembered something: "Eh! That's right! I haven't asked about the reward yet...... Anyway, they won't forget it, right? ”

Hao Ren squinted at Betsy: "You can't be a little promising?" How can a great nation swallow up your reward? ”

Betsy puffed out her cheeks: "Isn't my time precious, I can stay for fifteen days at most, in case someone comes to tell me that I need to report to the royal capital at this time, and I am not stupid to reply after a month?" ”

Hao Ren covered his face: "You are really a problem...... But take it one step at a time. Anyway, why do we see Gerton and Ophra arguing every time we see them? Is there a contradiction between the Kingdom Army and the Church Army? ”

Betsy waved her hand vigorously: "There's no contradiction, you think too much." After so many years of mutual study of church and state, there has been no confrontation. It's just that it's true that the two of them often have a slight friction because of their standards, the church is generally conservative, the kingdom army is practical, and Lord Ofrah is a figure who has been in charge of the army for hundreds of years, so he may be a little more stubborn. But let's not get involved in this kind of thing, it's not good to get involved. ”

Hao Ren sighed, of course he was not interested in mixing with this kind of trouble that would make people head up at the first hearing, he was just concerned about the secrets hidden under this land. Lily seemed interested: "Eh, what do you think they are going to do with those Golems?" It had fallen from the Dragon's Back Mountains, the size of an entire mountain range. I can't finish killing it. Are they going to keep it like this? The royal family of Holletta also did not make a statement? ”

"I just noticed some signs on the road," Becky said, packing up her gear. He replied casually, "The royal capital has already dispatched two groups of troops to help. The Knights of the nearby diocese had arrived here a few days earlier, and the strength of the Diocese of Beinz had increased nearly three times since the last time we came. But you're right, even the royal family doesn't seem to have a good idea: you can't move the whole mountain range, can you? As long as you can't figure out how Golem came about, you have to keep it deadlocked. Becky said this, and there was a worried look on her face: "I hope the situation doesn't get worse......

After all, this is her hometown, and in the face of this situation where strange monsters keep popping up, Betsy can't help but be worried, but this is obviously not something that a small person like her can solve.

And at the same time, in Gerton's reception room. The atmosphere is turning more and more depressing.

"You say there's a heretical sect here?" The bearded man pressed his hands on Gerton's desk with a solemn expression, "What's going on?" ”

"I don't know the ins and outs of this sect yet," Gerton waved his hand at the bearded man to calm him down, "They didn't surface until half a month ago, and they haven't caught anyone yet, we just found some traces of evil rituals." Something strange has happened in this area recently, and it should be related to this evil sect. ”

"Strange things? What's weird? The bearded man frowned. The only thing that can make the unsmiling ascetic look nervous is this kind of news related to heresy.

Offrah snorted, her voice cold: "The bodies of many of our fallen soldiers are missing - according to reports from the front, those missing bodies are temporarily laid on the ground for some reason. Disappeared after the guard looked away for a while, and has not been seen since. ”

"And it's not just the fallen soldiers," Gerton said in a low voice. "This also includes civilians, as long as they have died in the recent past. The corpses may have mysteriously disappeared, leaving only a small trace of blood at the scene. Sometimes there is not even a trace of blood. A typical example of this is an outpost on the edge of the Holy Lake, which was lost by a Golem raid, and the soldiers who escaped from the outpost returned the next day with reinforcements to investigate the situation, only to find that the bodies of the dead who had been left on the battlefield the previous night were gone. ”

The bearded four immediately looked at each other, and they instantly remembered what the outpost they were talking about was: that's where they came from, and they had discovered a mysterious tunnel underneath the outpost! It's just that nothing was found in the tunnel either, which made the bearded man a little unsure if the tunnel had anything to do with it. He decided to wait until he would bring up the situation, and instead asked another question: "What do the missing bodies have in common?" ”

Ofrah thought for a moment: "Recently died, the place of disappearance is within the western side of the Dragon's Back Mountains - the dividing line is based on the central axis of the mountain range, and the soldiers who died on the eastern side did not encounter such strange things. Another point is that there are no sightings, the body is unattended and disappeared, I have sent someone to keep an eye on this matter, and there is no situation for three days and three nights while someone is watching, but the body is gone after a moment of distraction. ”

Ophra clenched her fists at the end, apparently confident in her attempt to find out the truth, but was met with a near-mocking defeat that infuriated the heroine, who had rarely been defeated.

The young monk among the ascetics was silent for a moment and then remembered something: "Have you ever inspected the cemetery?" ”

Gerton nodded, "I thought about it too, it was after inspecting the cemetery that we confirmed that only those who had recently died were missing. The old graves in the cemetery are fine, but the recently buried remains are also missing. ”

"Need a 'fresh' corpse?" The young nun among the ascetics spoke hoarsely, with some surprise in her voice, "Could it be the necromancer?" ”

"I don't think it's likely," Ophra clasped her hands to her chest, and there seemed to be some contempt in her voice, "although necromancers are not welcomed, they are legal anyway, as long as they follow the normal formalities and comply with the rules of the Mage Guild, they can do what they want - no stupid mage will risk a lot of disapproval to come to the Holy Land to do such a thing." And the first disappearance of the corpse was about half a month ago, almost in the same order as the time of the sudden proliferation of the stone giant, I would rather believe that this is a group of cultists who pursue ancient powers to make trouble. Don't let me catch them......"

"Actually, we may have some clues," the bearded man felt that it was time to mention the information he had, and he stood up, "We happened to pass by the outpost you just mentioned when we came, I wonder if you have checked the situation underground......

At that moment, the bearded man told the strange tunnel and the suspicious bloody atmosphere in the tunnel, Ofrah and Gerton looked at each other after hearing this, and Ofra looked at Gerton: "The Church Knight is in charge of that area, have you found anything underground?" ”

"There's really not been a check at the outpost," Gerton shook his head, "but you also know that none of the other places where bodies have disappeared have ever been tunneled like that. ”

The bearded man was a little surprised: "Somewhere else? So you've already checked the underground? No tunnels have been found in other places where bodies have disappeared? ”

Ophora shook her head, "No." After the first corpses disappeared, we put a lot of effort into finding them, including underground, of course, but we never found any tunnels, and then when there were corpses missing, we stopped looking for clues from underground. It seems that this issue must be re-emphasized...... Maybe there's really something underground. Your Excellency, what do you think? ”

Gerton seemed to suddenly fall into a problem and began to ponder, and Ophra called out a few times before he reacted, "Oh, of course, I'll send someone to the outpost to check the facts." But something else came to my mind......"

"Another thing?" Opra frowned.

Gerton spread out his hands: "The cultists' energy seems to be beyond imagination, and it is obviously related to the vision of the Dragon's Back Mountains, I even suspect that a group of evil descendants of the ancient magic empire have infiltrated this holy land, and we may be in the hands of those evil people by focusing all our energy on those stone monsters." Your Excellency, I cannot leave the diocese, so I would like you to make a personal trip to the royal capital to inform His Holiness the Pope and His Majesty the King, for this is not only a regional crisis, but we need support from the Supreme Curia. ”

Ofrah laughed when she heard this: "Ho, you finally have a sense of urgency. (To be continued......)