It was dusk, and the atmosphere in Hollier was very solemn.

Today's events were so bloody that the city was under martial law almost from the afternoon onwards - the external call was "hunting for infidels", and the reassuring words were "the situation has been effectively controlled", as for whether it was true or not, it was difficult for the common gentry and even the nobles to know, after all, this kind of thing only involved religion and did not have much impact on the interests of the nobles, so they naturally did not bother to care.

However, some people watch from the sidelines, and some people are anxious.

Akasha, who was running desperately, only felt that her legs were almost numb at this time.

It's hard to describe her mood at this time, I don't know whether to say it's anger or grievance, or self-blame or regret, in short, when it's mixed together, I just feel that the blood in my body is cold.

Finally making up her mind to get out of the "Pit Viper Cross", but suddenly encountering something like this, it was really an unacceptable outcome for Akasha - because when everything went wrong, she didn't understand why

Akasha felt innocent: she provided Rubens with Gallup's information, and she did not cooperate with Gallup to attack at a critical moment, but Rubens, who finally agreed to join the "Rosicrucifix" and clear his name, directly attacked him with magic on the spot, and even ordered the soldiers to hunt down all his men

When she saw those temple guards rushing towards her and her men, she was really heartbroken, and all she had left in her mind was the instinctive sense of escape—because of her identity as a "Restoration Department" advanced "Light Priest", she finally managed to escape under the cover of her subordinates, and made her way to the relatively remote Cambay district of Hollier City

After the sun went down, there were no street lights in the dark Cambay district, and she was in a state that could be called "dark" at this time, but Akasha walked here because she clearly remembered a secret passage that the "Pit Viper Cross" had spent half a year digging here - and finding the entrance to the secret passage would allow her to escape from Hollier City directly

As for where she would go after leaving the city, she didn't even think about it at this time, the only thought in her mind was not to be caught by the temple guards...

Walking briskly, Akasha squinted at the blurred landscape, barely the tavern lights reflecting the outlines of the surrounding walls, and she could confirm that she was a few hundred meters away from the entrance—and at that moment, a shout suddenly came from not far away, "Who?" ”

Akasha is not an old fox like Gallup, she has always been just a priest who abides by her duties, whether it is the city government or the scheming is not comparable to the group of guys who have studied in the political struggle, so when she heard such a question at this time, she immediately ran into the distance in a panic, and she couldn't think of any other way to deal with it-

"There was a man there who caught him"

The words that followed proved that Akasha's judgment was not wrong, the two temple guards had already planned to search the Cambay area and leave, but they really found a suspicious target with a random bluff, and they immediately strode after it - and in terms of physical strength, the three Akasha were not as good as this kind of professional soldiers, but she had an excellent memory, and she was very familiar with the Cambay area where she had lived for more than ten days, and those hidden places with horns and corners had been studied very early, So she immediately turned left and right into the narrow alley, found a low crack in the wall, and got in...

Because she was wearing cloth shoes, Akasha's footsteps were not loud, and the temple guards in armor kept "clanging" as soon as she ran, so the guards didn't catch her stopping and hiding, and soon ran past Akasha's eyes—

"Where did you go?"

"It should be over there"

"It's a fork in the road, look for it separately"

The two footsteps gradually left, but Akasha did not dare to act rashly, she held her breath and waited for a while, and after confirming that it was safe, she quietly climbed out, and then felt the wall towards the entrance of the tunnel, which was already only two hundred meters away.

Be calm.

Akasha said to herself in her heart, the slightest movement in her ears tugged at her nerves, but just when she thought she could safely complete the rest of the journey, a sudden sharp pain in her back suddenly stopped her tracks—

"Shhhhh

Her cheeks, which had been flushed from the continuous running, turned pale, and she immediately understood that the pain was a curse from Bishop Gazad

The "punishment of whipping" directly opened her back and opened a gap

"If you don't come soon, you don't come late... Damn"

She cursed, but she also knew that she couldn't cast any magic now, because casting even the simplest "primary recovery technique" in this dark environment would shine brightly, and for the temple guards who were searching for her, it was definitely an act of death.

So Akasha immediately decided to endure the pain and keep running—the wounds that appeared in her back almost hurt her lip. She usually sat in a chair and waited for the curse to end, so the pain was still bearable, but now she was running desperately, and the pain when she pulled the wound was countless times greater than before, almost making her cry out.

However, with strong willpower, Akasha was forced to run almost two hundred meters, and when she came to the entrance not far from the secret passage, she already felt that her eyes were black, and her legs were too heavy to take a step.

The strenuous exercise caused the blood to surge faster, and the wound on her back, which was not fatal in the first place, faced an unavoidable problem: if she didn't stop bleeding, she might really die of excessive blood loss. "It's coming, it's coming..."

She tried her best to support the last ten meters of the run, but in the end, she lost control and fell to the ground with a "plop"...

But she didn't give up, she immediately gritted her teeth and stretched out her hand to support her body again - the back of the robe was already soaked with flowing blood, but she didn't care about stopping the bleeding, but she closed her eyes and touched a wooden door with her memory, and then pressed the weight of her body to push it open.

The passage built by the "Viper Cross" is located in this abandoned dwelling not far from the city wall, and due to the total failure of the operation, this passage has not been used until now, so when Akasha enters, everything is still the same as when it was completed.

Akasha, who had almost crawled in, barely closed the door, but she didn't even have the strength to fasten it, she gritted her teeth and moved to the fireplace in the bedroom of the house, and reached out and pulled a loose stone slab—a large black hole immediately appeared in the fireplace...

This is the entrance to the secret passage.

And Akasha had almost exhausted all her strength to do this, she just wanted to raise her hand to cast a "recovery technique", but because of excessive blood loss, her arm supporting the wall was weak, and the whole person lost control and fell directly into the secret passage

The steep slope of the entrance was more than ten meters long, and Akasha rolled down several times in pain, trying to reach out to stop the rolling, but in the darkness she heard the sound of "click" and the sharp pain that followed

Fractured.

Akasha's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and panic spread - the magic could not be released without the cooperation of both hands and gestures, and now there were more than a dozen wounds on her back that continued to bleed, and the continuous blood loss had made her almost speechless...

She tried to move her fingers, but found that her palms did not respond at all under the severe pain.

Damn how this is?

Is this going to be the end of my life in this unknown place?

Before falling unconscious, Akasha thought unwillingly in her heart.

Time goes back to half an hour ago.

The atmosphere in the "Rosicrucian" monastery is serious.

Although the infidels were punished, such an attack was not good news for the sect after all—the madness of the enemy caused a great deal of casualties within the sect, and even affected many civilians, resulting in nearly sixty deaths and injuries.

I am afraid that it will take a long time for this negative impact to be resolved.

Although the term "crisis public relations" did not exist at this time, it is clear that the top leaders of the "Rosicrucifer" sect still have similar experience and ability to deal with it. Although it was already evening, the streets were already plastered with announcements about the battle of the day, presumably with words such as "The crimes of the infidels are unforgivable, and they have been duly punished", of course, because the rate of illiteracy was not small, and the silver coins allocated to the speakers were already in place, and early tomorrow morning there would be oral explanations of the events in the squares and in all parts of the city, so that Rubens could directly "characterize" the matter, minimize the damage, and render the whole event as a "rosicru" A positive event that thwarted the "Pit Viper Cross" conspiracy.

In the "spiritual home" room of the abbey, Rubens sat at the wooden table where he wrote letters one after another, to Cardinal Cardinal, to the Temple, to the intertwined subordinates of the sect's authority, and from the afternoon to the present he had scarcely rested – and Bishop Benjamin seemed somewhat "idle" compared to his busyness.

He was in a daze with the arrow that belonged to the "Rosicrucifix" arsenal.

When the news of Sally's disappearance reached his ears, Benjamin immediately sensed that something was wrong and immediately sent someone to look for her, but because she was running so fast, the Templars who sent her later did not know where to find her, and even went around the city until now, completely unaware that she had already left the city.

Benjamin was a little anxious because he had also learned the news that Francis had also disappeared.

He is clear about the struggle between the two brothers and sisters, and it is precisely because he knows that he did not participate in it at will, which naturally has some considerations and trade-offs that belong to politicians - but he never imagined that the contradictions between the two brothers and sisters would cause such a chaotic situation now...

Thinking back to today's battle, although he tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, the feeling of facing death still made Benjamin feel that he seemed to have made a "very wrong" decision before: when he thought that he had deliberately let Roddy misunderstand Sally, a little "regret" gradually rose from the bottom of his heart.

But what good can regret be? Who would have thought that this little-known character could reverse the entire situation with just one arrow, and even save the foundation of the "Rosicrucifix" in Holier City from being destroyed

Speaking of which, Benjamin wasn't even qualified to judge Roddy - because if Roddy hadn't killed Gallup, he would have been dead, and where could he sit here and think about anything?