Chapter 256: Holy City Assassination

Suddenly seeing Leona in front of her covering her face with her hands, Niss and Huigang were a little surprised and didn't know what was going on, and then they heard a low sobbing voice, and the calm and dignified and beautiful girl in front of her seemed to collapse at this moment, and said over and over again:

"Who the hell are you, you must not be Fleet, you must not be a paladin candidate in this city, you are an apprentice in the pharmacy of Muni City, you are ......."

The monk froze there, not knowing how to deal with it now, but he felt as if he had all the flavors in his heart, because there were indeed too many encounters between the two of them, and it seemed that it was a bridge that could only appear in legends

The southern part of the continent is close to the sea, so the climate is warm and rainy. Farming, shipping, and commerce are among the most prosperous places on the continent.

In terms of political territory, there is no particularly large polity here to lead all parties, they are all principalities and kingdoms, federations and autonomous cities, etc., or independent, or secretly dependent on a certain force on the continent, so there are the most developed mercenary guilds, thieves' guilds, chambers of commerce, and temples on this continent.

However, in terms of religion, there is only one existence in the south, and that is the Holy City in the Kingdom of Julian, the center of the entire Church of Light, the City of Light.

The size and population of Julian's kingdom are at most medium among the southern kingdoms, and compared to the large countries of Audan, Drew, it is a small country even compared to Lan.

But the center of Julian's kingdom is the City of Light, the supreme ruler of the Church of Light, the city where the Pope resides on behalf of the God of Light in the world, the Pope's Hall, the Holy Knights of Light, the Inquisition, and the Cathedral of the God of Light are all in this place, and Julian's king can only be promoted to the throne when he receives the canonization of the Pope.

It is often one of the twelve bishops of light who comes to serve as the king, the so-called hereditary archbishop, and then gets all kinds of support from the Church of Light, and the Kingdom of Julian is the suzerain of the surrounding thirty-five small countries, this is the Holy Thirty-Six Nations Alliance, and such a force is very considerable in the south.

The City of Light is the capital of Julian's Kingdom, but the king is of little significance, because the city or the center of the country is the Cathedral of the God of Light, the cathedral is in the center of the city, and the three tallest buildings are the Pope's Prayer Tower, the Church Bell Tower, and the Center Tower of the Bright Mage Academy.

Among them, the bell tower of the church is a huge dome, which radiates white holy light day and night, and is the second sun in the world by devout believers.

In the City of Light, all fighting and any criminal activity is forbidden, and most of the magic is greatly weakened by the illumination of the Holy Light on the dome.

Of course, this is also the holy place of believers of the Church of Light on the mainland, and even on the islands and dependent countries of the sea, a large number of believers come here every moment to make pilgrimages to pray for the blessing of the God of Light.

In the inner city it was a purely ecclesiastical building, and the road from the south gate to the cathedral was paved with stone slabs, so that pilgrims could not walk on it, except for the chariots and horses of the church and the great nobles, and all of them traveled on the sidewalks on both sides of the road.

On this day, there was still a large but not chaotic crowd on the side of the road, and in the middle of the road, there was a procession of a dozen knights and a carriage. Know that in the Holy City the speed at which horses can travel is limited, for the sake of order and respect for God.

In the carriage sat the privy priest of the Pope Hall, Mestre, who was less than forty years old this year, the illegitimate son of a certain great nobleman of the Drew Empire, because it was impossible to inherit the family business or enter the official career, so under the movement of the family, he came to the Holy City to take up this priesthood.

The status of the privy priest is only equivalent to that of the bishop, but because he is equivalent to the secretary of the pope, he has considerable power, and if it were not for the close relationship between the family and the Church of Light, Mestre may not be able to get to where he is today.

But I was already smiling in my heart, this time I went to inspect the Drew Empire according to the Pope's order, and the original presiding officer of the Drew Diocese, Archbishop Bocuse, had a high status and didn't need to pay attention to his inspection at all, but because of his family, he actually caught the handle of Archbishop Bocuse.

After all, Mester is from a noble family, and he knows that if some people's handles are caught, they may not be beneficial but disaster, but by chance, this handle is caught, and it is true, the other party does not even dare to make any threats or excessive moves, 300,000 gold coins of the union of the city-states of Maidan, and the bishop of a wealthy area, and he will be promoted to a cardinal at the right time.

This time, Mester has indeed reaped a lot of benefits, much stronger than the false name by the Pope's side, Mester thought of this, and finally couldn't control his expression, and the corners of his mouth were provocative.

The stunning beauties arranged for him by the Archbishop of Mönny City are still very nostalgic when he thinks about them now, and it doesn't matter, the other party has already promised to give him these beauties

In charge of the team from Mestre is a thirteenth-level Knight of Light with a wealth of experience. The knight was told by Mester to be on guard, as there might be a surprise attack. And when you are in the territory of the Drew Empire and the territory of the Drew vassal forces, you can see the quiet protection of those warriors of the Mestre family.

So this knight has always been cautious, after all, if the person he protects is harmed, this responsibility is not a trivial matter. But now that he has entered the Holy City, he is also relieved that there has never been any case here, so it is safe.

At this time, the flow of pilgrims who had been marching neatly on the side of the road suddenly became chaotic, and several people rushed up the central road in a panic, waving their hands at these knights, asking for help, and the knights led by them immediately got off their horses and walked over, and at this time the priest who was responsible for maintaining order on the side of the road also went to help.

The neat flow of people gradually began to lose order, and some people were squeezed into the streets, and all the quiet and peaceful believers began to fight each other for some reason, and the kind of holy light that kept emanating from the dome seemed to have lost its effect.

The march of the convoy had stopped due to the chaos of the flow of people, and the thirteenth-level Light Knight led by him finally sensed that something was wrong, and his hand had already grasped the top of the hilt of the sword, ready to draw it at any moment.

Mestre was imagining the wealth and bright future he had made in the carriage when the carriage suddenly stopped, and he was stunned for a moment, then impatiently opened the side door of the carriage, stretched out his body, and shouted to the driver in front of him:

"Why don't you move, get rid of these people in front of you, the Pope doesn't like this kind of ......"

All the words were stuffed back, and in this instant, several short crossbow arrows had been shot from all directions, and all the guards did not expect that in the safe city of light, which seemed to be the domain of the gods, someone would actually attack the Pope's close ministers in the most broad daylight.

The thirteenth-level knight had already heard the sound of the crossbow machine pulling, and was just about to head in that direction, when the horse under him suddenly neighed, as if he was crazy, this knight, a jumper, had already flipped off the horse, and at this time, many places in the already chaotic crowd were shouting:

"Killed, killed. ”

The believers, who were originally in a stable and peaceful mood and just wanted to worship the God of Light here and be blessed by the light, were not prepared for this matter at all, and when they heard this shout, they saw the horses standing up in the street, and they immediately had a nervous breakdown and became chaotic.

The road between the south gate and the cathedral was now full of believers who didn't know where to go, and a dozen knights were crowded in the crowd and couldn't move at all.

The three knights who approached the carriage saw that the privy priest of Mestre had been shot by a crossbow arrow, and they immediately became anxious, and they didn't care about the civilians around them, and they all used their fighting spirit, ready to rush over, some magic skills of the knight of light can remove toxins and heal wounds, as long as it is delayed for a while, it can even bring the dead back to life in the holy city.

But in the dark, the silent dagger had already stabbed over, and the light fighting qi that healed the poison and healed the wounds did not play a role at this time, and the three knights did not even have time to turn back, they felt that the energy and vitality of their bodies were corroded, and they fell into darkness in an instant.

Fifteen minutes later, a large group of Church of Light knights and the guards of the Kingdom of Julian arrived and quickly calmed the situation, and when several high-ranking light mages arrived in front of Mestre's carriage, all they could do was to disperse the evil, because Father Mestre, who had been hit by a crossbow arrow, was covered in the smell of decay.

This aura was no stranger to the priests and mages of light, and a priest said in a trembling voice:

"Dark Magic ......"