The aura of danger flashed away, and it seemed to be Lucian's hallucination, but the "Ring of Congus" in his left hand reminded him that there was indeed a strong man approaching just now.

"Lucian......" Seeing Lucien staying, Afrith was about to speak, but was stopped by the gesture of pressing down with his right hand, so he stared at translucent eyes for unknown reasons.

In such a sensitive situation, there are still people who come to this small church in the civilian area in the east of the city, what is his purpose?

After a while, Lucien could no longer sense the dangerous aura, so he said to Afrith with a secret communication technique with very little fluctuation: "Someone approached just now, at least high-level, and now it looks like he has infiltrated the Church of Redemption, let's wait, we can't let Richard have problems." ”

Affreston was excited, is there an enemy? An enemy means victory, and victory means spoils!

Raising his paws, Afrith wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth.

............

Richard stood quietly in front of the cross, thinking about the conversation just now, the buds that had been hidden in his heart for more than 20 years seemed to gradually sprout under the sun, and the chaotic and contradictory ideas of the past were sorted out little by little, reshaping his own heart of faith.

At this moment, he prayed calmly and gropingly: "If such an interpretation of the Holy Book is contrary to your teachings and will, then let the Holy Light consume me, which means that my faith is shaken by the Fallen Morning Star, and I will surely go to hell." ”

Tick-tock, time is like water, minute by minute, Richard is slowly covered with a layer of divine and solemn light, like a saint who has received the grace of the gods. He raised his head, opened his eyes, drew a cross on his chest, his eyes were gentle but firm, and whispered: "You are one, and you are all thousand, the beginning and the end, and I think I understand your teaching, God loves the world." Redeem the world. Religion exists to defend the faith, not to block it, and everyone has the right to receive inspiration from the Holy Scriptures, as long as the heart is pious. Be able to receive your spiritual light. ”

Richard was happy physically and mentally. The dirt that had confused me for twenty or thirty years seemed to be evaporated one by one under the light of the Holy Light. The belief became more and more firm and pious, and the strength that had been bottlenecked for decades seemed to have touched the door of the ninth level.

"These are your gifts, but the truth endures. "Richard painted a cross on the emblem on his chest.

Actually, from Lucian's point of view. With the devotion of Richard's faith and his study of theology, if he hadn't been in confusion and wandering for a long time, he would have been promoted to the ninth level long ago, and perhaps he would have become a priest of the Holy Spirit and stepped into the realm of legends.

Richard got up from his seat and motioned for the pastors and bishops in the church to finish their prayers and leave, while he went to the nearby garden, breathing in the fresh evening air mixed with the scent of flowers, feeling the beauty of life, and contemplating the Reformation program he wanted to propose, all of which had been given by the God of truth.

"No matter how dangerous the road ahead is, no matter how oppressive it is by the Pope and the members of the Cardinals, I will complete the program, submit it to the Cardinals, and disseminate it to the other clergy. Richard did not have the idea of independence, and pinned his hopes on the reform within the church, when suddenly, he looked back with emotion, and saw a cardinal in a bright red robe and a square hat smiling as he walked up.

"Octave?" Richard recognized as a man he had cultivated when he was at the helm of the Ranthat Abbey, the cardinal who had previously been in charge of the Inquisition in the diocese of Holm.

Octave, a very dignified middle-aged man with thick black eyebrows and a pair of sharp pale blue eyes, smiled, "You should have heard about the recent incident, and I was a little wandering in my heart, so I thought of asking you for an explanation." ”

"There is resentment in the heart, so you are going to be blinded?" asked Richard in the text of the Holy Scriptures, with a kind expression that was very soothing.

Octave drew a cross on his chest: "Yes, I fear that I have been blinded by resentment, that I have forgotten my original purpose of serving the Lord, and that I have been forsaken by the Lord, but, Mr. Richard, is it not a betrayal of the Lord's teachings that we allow evil to wander before us, and then tolerate it for various reasons?"

“...... Because of his faith, he feared the devil, ignored the flames, and threw himself into the midst of the most dangerous enemies, without retreating......"

He also recited the scriptures of the Holy Scriptures, with a slightly questioning look on his face, questioning himself and the church.

Richard shook his head: "What is evil?

"He listens to the 'voice of mysteries', and he works with magicians to make money. Octave's voice grew higher.

Richard pointed to the Holy Book in his hand: "The Lord only tells us, do not be greedy, do not lie, do not indulge, do not disregard life, do not fill your heart with pain and hatred, what did that nobleman not do?"

"He lies! weave lies and cooperate with magicians. Octave replied subconsciously.

Richard smiled: "Whoever lies will not be able to ascend to the Heavenly Mountain, wandering the earth, being hurt by the thunder and lightning flames...... This is the Lord's punishment for them, and he does not say that he can ignore their lives. ”

"He's working with magicians and listening to the mysteries!" Octave didn't understand Richard's thoughts.

Richard said calmly: "The Holy Book does not say that you cannot cooperate with a magician, as long as the magician is not an evil person who violates the teachings of the Holy Codex. ”

"How can it not be the evildoer, the canon ......" Octave recited the contents of the canon.

Richard looked at him with a smile, and saw that he stopped talking before saying, "Since you are following the canon, then you have to consider the wishes and thoughts of the church, why should you be resentful?"

Octave said with a beaming face: "Yes, it is not the Church that complains, not the Codex, but His Majesty and Your Excellency who have violated the original intention of the faith and repeatedly revised the Codex, who have turned away from the Lord and can no longer effectively spread the faith of the Lord, Mr. Richard, have you not always disliked the Pope's revision of the Codex? I hope you will stand up and appeal to the other clergy of the Diocese of Holm. Awaken their numb souls and jointly propose to His Holiness the Pope that the original Canon be restored. ”

"What if His Holiness the Pope doesn't want to?" said Richard, who had just been through a lobbying session, was keenly aware of the oddity of Octave's words.

"If he doesn't want to, we'll elect a crown that is genuine, representative of the Lord's will, and I think many members of the College of Cardinals have a similar opinion!" Octave said with a little excitement and fanaticism, "In my heart, you are such a candidate!"

"Don't be taken advantage of, the right thing to do is to give back the right to interpret the Holy Scriptures to every devout believer. Justified by faith!" Richard shook his head and declined Octave's invitation.

I didn't expect Richard's ideas to be more radical than his own. Octave was stunned for a moment, then began to persuade again.

However, Richard, who had just strengthened his faith, was like a stone that could not be put into oil and salt, and he did not accept any opinions that did not conform to his own reform program.

At the end, Octave hung his head in frustration and said, "Then I'll take my leave." Hopefully, you'll be able to figure it out in the future. We always welcome you to join us. ”

We?, Richard frowned. Seeing that Octave had turned to leave, he didn't say anything more.

Watching Octave step into the cloister, Richard with his hands behind his back. We will continue to improve our reform program.

At the end of the corridor, Octave suddenly stopped, his face showing a hideous smile, and at some point there was a brown scroll in his hand that contained terrifying power.

"The dead are often more easily exploited by the living, because he can't speak!"

"Richard, who died at the hands of a magician, is more likely to provoke conflict than Richard who is alive!"

The scroll was torn open by him, and the power of the eternal flow suddenly exploded, and Richard and the area around him were immediately dyed with a gray of nothingness and dead silence, and under the magic of the Nine Rings "Time Stopped", it seemed as if everything was still.

Octave took out a black scroll and tore it open again, and the surging and inexplicable amount of mana rushed towards Richard, which would remove all the supernatural power effects below the legendary level on Richard's body, and even the legendary-level "artifact" had a certain chance of being destroyed.

Nine-Ring Magic "Great Split"!

Just as Octave took out the last magic scroll, the "Ultimate Destruction Orb", he suddenly saw a figure appear in front of him, pointing at him.

Bang bang, all the magic items on Octave's body were shattered, the cardinal's robe turned into different colored points of light, and even the flesh "evaporated" a layer of "mist" composed of various elements.

Caught off guard, he was immediately injured, and his body and soul seemed to fall into stiffness.

Lucian's "Elemental Order" is more perfect after the new alchemy preliminarily explains the outer electron exchange, and the power is increased again, and it has the effect of almost nine rings when used with the strength of the seven rings.

Although the magic array of the "Church of Redemption" covered most of the magic fluctuations, Lucian, who was close at hand, still recognized the magic of the nine rings, so he came to the rescue, but because he would definitely break through the barrier of the magic array with legendary magic, the legendary powerhouses of Rentatt sensed it, so he did not use it.

And Octave's wasteful use of two nine-ring scrolls made Lucien hate, high-level scrolls are much rarer than alchemy items, because there are not many materials that can carry high-level magic, and even fewer are suitable for writing scrolls, and one-time scrolls are not as good as alchemy items that can be used repeatedly, unless they can only be made into scrolls, magicians would rather find more materials to refine items, even "Monopoly" like Lucien There are no high-level or above scrolls on his body now, and Octave is simply smashing people with money!

Lucien pointed his hand again, and was about to use the spell to reduce Octave's magic resistance, and then use petrification to make a statue of him, and bring him back to torture slowly.

At this moment, a figure suddenly burst out of the shadows, and the long sword in his hand slashed at Lucien, who was caught off guard, with the smell of eliminating the power of transcendent power.

Octave even has a companion, a Heavenly Knight with the bloodline of "Elimination"!

Moreover, he is also an "acquaintance" of Lucian, the former captain of the night watch at the Aalto Inquisition, Lund!

For some reason, Lund, who had been promoted to the rank 6 Heavenly Knight, recognized Lucian's identity, and with his will, he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, was he finally going to kill this hateful enemy?

The long sword slashed at Lucian, but it was like a bubble, and Lucian's handsome face slowly dissipated with a strange smile.

"Oops, illusion!" Lund's heart tightened, and he hurriedly returned to his sword to defend, and a behemoth suddenly appeared behind him, translucent amber eyes looked at him intently and seriously, and his mouth opened, and a cold and paralyzing dragon breath spewed out.

The coercion from the top creatures made Lund lose his mind slightly.

Beside Octave, Lucien's figure appeared, rushing towards the eighth-level cardinal who had just come to his senses.

Octave recognized that Lucien had used "Bale's Transformation Technique", and subconsciously sneered in his heart, a magician transformed into a knight of the sky, isn't this a short and a strong point?

So, he laid a magic defense in front of him, ready to block this attack, and then launched a counterattack, as long as he could escape, he slandered Richard and the "fallen angels" colluded!

His left hand clenched into a fist and swung it out fiercely, and the faint silver moonlight mixed with black, white and gray flickered, and Octave's eyes widened, and he was stunned to see that his defense was shattered like paper under the bombardment of Lucian's left fist.

"What is this?"

"Am I dreaming?"

In shock, Octave was hit in the side by Lucien's left fist, and immediately his teeth flew and blood spurted wildly, and he fainted directly.

If it weren't for Lucien's timely stop, this punch would have made his brain and blood fly together, milky white and dark red. (To be continued......)

PS: Change first and then change...... It's almost the same as writing close to 4,000 words every time, Khan.