When the Lord of Slaughter was still a mortal, the Silver Shield family maintained a good relationship with the good gods. Even Aelita, the Lord of Killing, is a mortal favored by the god of protection, Haim, the Lord of Justice, Tyr, and the Lord of Dawn, Loshanda. The Silver Shield family was able to become the royal family of the Kingdom of West Hartland in the first place, also because of the support and acquiescence of many good gods and the harpist alliance behind it.

However, these good relationships soon changed dramatically after Aelita became the new Lord of Killing. Even though Her Royal Highness Eleta, the newly-born Lord of Killing, is herself absolutely neutral, the very existence of killing will produce countless blood and resentment, and along with the killing, countless deaths, sins, and conspiracies will be born.

So, no matter what the Lord of Slaughter himself thinks, most of her mortal churches and followers are destined to belong to the evil and dark world.

Baldur's Gate, in the days of the previous generation of the Lord of Killing, was the stronghold of the Church of the Lord of Killing. Underneath Baldur's Gate, there has always been a vast temple of the Lord of Slaughter.

After the birth of the new Lord of Killing, Aelita, the temple located under Baldur's Gate was reactivated and became the main shrine of the Church of the Lord of Killing.

Although the Lord of Killing, Aelita, did not form a unified Holy See, but because Baldur's Gate is where she was born and raised, almost all organizations and churches on the mainland that believe in the Lord of Killing have set up some of their own organizations here.

These organizations do not have a strict relationship between superiors and subordinates, nor do they have a unified central papal see, but with the acquiescence and guidance of the gods, they have formed a "Killing Council" in the form of a council to unify all the churches and organizations that believe in the Lord of Slaughter, and reconcile the contradictions between the various organizations!

At the same time, this "Killing Council" also shoulders the function of the largest underground trading platform on the mainland, and the trading network of the Dark Council is full of dark transactions such as "assassination of political dignitaries", "massacre and purge", "war hiring", "spreading conspiracy" and "inciting fighting".

Relying on the belief of the Lord of Slaughter, who are all over the continent, this "Dark Council" has flourished since its birth, and now there is a tendency to replace the "Sattarim Society" as the number one evil organization in the pan-continent.

This naturally gave rise to the doctrine of the Harpist League, the old enemy of the Sattarin, who has been committed to maintaining the balance of the world and fighting against the forces of evil.

It's just a pity that the current Church of the Lord of Slaughter has undergone the baptism of religious war with the Shirek Church, and has completely abandoned the traces of the former Baal Church, and the organization has become more rigorous and mysterious.

Aelita, the Lord of Killing, doesn't care whether believers are evil or good, order or chaos, she just treats all believers fairly and guides believers to a purer way of killing. Therefore, the core of the Church of the Lord of Killing today is all righteous believers who recognize and practice the way of killing from the bottom of their hearts, idealists with ideals, thoughts, and beliefs, and practitioners who unite the path and behavior, strength and thought.

Under this subtle influence, the Church of the Lord of Killing is no longer indulging in superficial murder and massacre, but is more thoughtful and organized, and it is difficult for outsiders to penetrate the core of this church and find out the inside story of the Church of the Lord of Killing.

The Harpist League has not given up infiltrating and infiltrating the nascent Church and the forces of the Lord of Slaughter, but as time goes on, their gains have become smaller and smaller, and the harpists lurking in the church have become farther and farther away from the core of the church. And after the Lord of Killing, Aelita, completely defeated the Prince of Lies, Shirek, and took over all the priesthoods of the Prince of Lies, the harpist's pawns lurking in the Temple of the Lord of Baldur's Gate Killing were completely uprooted.

The vast space under Baldur's Gate has completely turned into an information black hole for the Harpist Alliance, and the Harpists have sent several groups of people to investigate in a row, but they are all like mud cows into the sea, and there is no news again.

Obviously, the current hooded woman is another elite harpist sent by the Harpists League!

After connecting with the bartender Oscar, the hidden harpist, he didn't say anything superfluous, just quietly drank the whole cocktail, then put down five silver coins and four copper plates, got up and walked out.

Like a normal traveler, she walked back to the inn and sat down in an ordinary room, and after a while, a faint shadow appeared outside her door, and after a little covert observation around her, she saw nothing unusual before entering the room.

"The Killing Council has become a mystery now. There isn't a lot of news about the inner core, and most of it is sensational. ”

It was Oscar, the bartender of the tavern, who came in, and contrary to his very sunny attitude in the tavern, his face was a little gloomy, and he didn't talk nonsense, and directly explained the information to the harpist.

"Obviously, the Killing Church is becoming more and more tightly organized now, although it has not become a tight war machine from top to bottom like the Church of the War Master, but at least it is not as chaotic as before, and there is no internal fighting that we can exploit......"

The Harpist is a loose alliance, not tightly organized (as is his old rival Zatarim), and most of the Harpists are spies, usually hiding behind various forces, secretly treating and supporting those who are righteous or adventurous.

Bartender Oscar is such a standard harpist. Harpists like him appear as normal civilians, believing that the weaker and less aware they are of "unarmed harpists", the less danger they are exposed to (in order to prevent being killed due to discovery, and to protect members when they are tortured by magical interrogations).

"Do only what is necessary, not more. Don't let the results exceed expectations. This became the harpist's motto, and these aphorisms defined the harpist's code.

But this loose structure makes them extremely dependent on the quality of the harpist who carries out the mission when fighting, like the plot of countless 007-style secret agent movies full of personal heroism, sending a man to infiltrate the enemy, and through various adventures, sabotage or dismantle the plot of the evil forces.

So, the Harpists are more like a loose alliance united by the same faith than a tight-knit intelligence organization. This leaves them without a strong means of intervening, and it is not much of a problem to confront some of the less powerful local powers, or some loosely organized groups that are also less tight. But once it encounters a huge force that is extremely systematized and organized, it will not be able to do so.

In the past, the harpist was often at a disadvantage in the battle with the evil forces of the pan-continent, and now, in the face of the reorganized Church of the Lord of Slaughter, he has suffered even more setbacks!

"We already know that!"

The hooded woman lowered her voice and said calmly, "What we need to know is, what kind of changes have happened after the reorganization of the Killing Church? What is their organizational structure? Who are the core of the high-level people? Their character, profession, strengths, hobbies...... and much more. ”

"You know, when the Prince of Lies was still around, the Killing Church was a bunch of crazy people who spread conspiracy and killing! However, at that time, they were not good at brains! But now, although they are still crazy, they are already a bunch of sane madmen! ”

The hooded woman calmly said the information collected by the Harpists Alliance from all over the continent: "Although Her Highness claims to be absolutely neutral, her followers are not absolutely neutral. The new doctrine of killing makes those evil people who are already immersed in killing even more crazy, they follow the teachings of the Lord of Killing, and regard killing as a means to solve all contradictions, and the evil take pride in slaughtering, take pleasure in killing, and even regard killing as the meaning and art of life. The point is that there are still some good people who have begun to accept the idea of this Lord of Killing, believing that killing is a sin, a necessary evil, and as a true warrior, we should take the initiative to bear this sin and stop killing with ......"

Speaking of this, the hooded woman was even a little annoyed and sad, killing has always been regarded as a means of sin, even if you have to raise your sword to defend yourself, among good people, no one will approve of the means of killing. But I didn't expect that after the birth of the new Lord of Killing, the killing doctrine spread with an absolutely neutral attitude could actually confuse some good people, which really makes people feel frightened and uneasy.

"Killing is like a weapon, there is no good or evil in itself, its thoughts, beliefs, and meanings are all given by the killer who performs the killing.

You can advocate kindness, think that killing is a sin, but take the initiative to bear this sin, uphold the concept of killing to stop killing, attribute all the strife and sins in the world to yourself, and bear the sin of killing for the world.

You can also worship evil, think that killing one is a sin, slaughtering is a hero, killing is fun, killing is the key to death, and killing is a means to gain power, power, and wealth.

You can also remain neutral and think that killing is killing, just a means of resolving conflicts between people to the point of irreconcilability. You are cautious about killing, and you do not resort to killing unless you have to, but you are not afraid to use killing, and if necessary, you can slaughter hundreds of millions of people at any time without the slightest hesitation.

Swordsmanship and martial arts are tools for killing, and the art of swordsmanship and martial arts is the art of killing. ”

The bartender Oscar silently mentally looked towards the teachings of the Lord of Killing, Aelita, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. In this land of Feren, which is full of strife and carnage, the new doctrine of the Lord of Slaughter is truly to the taste of most combatants. Unlike the previous Baal teachings, which blindly emphasized that killing is the key to death, Aelita, the Lord of Slaughter, has sublimated the meaning of killing to a level beyond the camp of good and evil, and is no longer limited to the evil side as before.

At least the bartender Oscar knew that there was an organization called the "League of Assassins" in Baldur's Gate, which pursued the concept of "kill one and save all people", and was composed entirely of a group of good people, who used assassination methods to fight against cultists, perpetrators, tyrants, dark forces, and anyone else who believed that its existence would harm the interests of the majority.