The capital of the Jun'en Empire, the court of the Church.

Bobilis staggered his feet and walked step by step down the confessional corridor of the church court.

Bobilis looked at the expressionless crowd around him, and his heart was neither sad nor joyful, he had been to the court of the church many times when he was a fourth-order crusader, and had seen many such scenes, a large group of people, dragging heavy steps, staggering round and round the penitential corridor.

Bobilis had never imagined that one day he would be one of them, and as he dragged his footsteps, he looked down at the black, thick chains on his wrists and ankles, and at the large iron balls behind the chains. The Court of Church is an iron chain and an iron ball, there are many different specifications, from ordinary people to sixth-order powerhouses, the higher the level, the heavier the material and weight of the iron chain, and the same is true for the iron ball that stumbles.

After Bobilis was put on this pair of confessional shackles, he realized the heaviness and restriction of this confessional shackles, two huge iron balls under his feet, heavy chains hindered the movement of his feet, and the chains on his wrists were directly connected to the ankles. For the first time, Bobilis felt that it was so difficult to raise his hand.

Today was the second day of Bobilis' confession in the penitential corridor, and when the morning bell rang for the dawn of the church court, he was taken out of the small stone house by the monks, and then taken directly to the penitential corridor for a walking penance, and the trek would continue until the sun was shining, so that the penitent sinners could receive the only meal of the day, a solid ball of wheat the size of a fist, and water.

The confessional corridor is on the south side of the church court, and when you enter from the east gate of the church court, you can easily see and find it, the first time Maria, who is dressed in brown robes, walks into the church court, she sees the confession corridor, she glances at the maid Julis, who is also dressed in a long robe, and signals her not to follow.

Maria searched in the crowd for a long time, but never saw Bobilis, the confessional corridor is a very narrow L-shaped corridor, with a stone wall in the middle to block it, and the perimeter is a row of heavy stone walls, the stone walls are carved from complete stones, there is a palm-sized gap between the stones, and when you look at the confessional corridor from the outside, you can only see the figures inside from the rows of gaps between these stones, but it is not so easy to find a person from the gaps.

The penitent sinners were dressed in khaki linen clothes, and on the first day of entering the church court, each sinner had his hair cut off from his head, making it even more difficult for all the sinners to distinguish.

Outside the stone walls of the penitential gallery is a clearing guarded by many monks, behind whom is a long stone fence. Outside the stone fence there were many civilians, mainly middle-aged and elderly women, and there would be a smaller number of young women, most of whom were guilty wives or mothers, many of whom were relieved to leave the church court after seeing their husbands or sons.

The laws of the Jun'en Empire are very strict, whether it is a king or a commoner, if a crime is committed, the church and the royal family will judge it, and punish the sinner according to his social status and the severity of the crime committed, and if he does not harm his life but the crime is serious, he will usually be sentenced to confession in the court of the church according to the sentence, the higher the social status, the longer the confession time will be sentenced, and the deeper the crime, the longer the confession time will be sentenced.

The monarch was monogamous, and after the men who had committed crimes were sentenced to confession in the court of the church, the wives and mothers of many sinners would often come to visit, and these would often visit the waiting women.

Sinners who are sentenced to come to the court of church to confess usually do not take a long time to repent, usually a month or a few months.

Higher-ranking criminals, such as high-ranking officials or knights like Bobilis, had to be punished by the king and the pope before leaving.

Such a sentence usually takes longer to repent than the commoners, because it is usually mentioned in the monthly report to the king and the pope after the sinners have repented for a certain period of time. And in the period before the first report to the king and the pope, it was also arranged according to the magnitude of the crime committed.

Behind the fence in front of the penitential corridor in the court of the church, the women left one by one, and soon the crowd thinned out, and Maria still did not find Bobilis's face, she was already a little anxious, and in the morning she had secretly left the palace after asking the queen for peace, and now it was almost noon, and she had to rush back to the palace if she did not find Bobilis.

While Mary was praying anxiously, a familiar face flashed through the cracks in the stone wall, and it was Bobilis Maria who was surprised. She began to move along the fence outside the gallery of the Inquisition, following Bobilis' slow pace, and as she moved in sync, Maria saw Bobilis' emaciated face through the cracks in the stone wall again and again.

I don't know why, Maria felt that she wanted to cry, she felt that her vision was already a little blurred, and quickly wiped her eyes with her hand, but found that her tears had flowed out of her eyes for some time.

Along the fence, Maria slowly followed in the footsteps of Bobilis, slowly walking to the end of the stone fence. The fence did not follow the penitential corridor, only a short part of it, but it was this part of the road that Mary was so satisfied that she wiped the tears from her face and slowly left the court of the church.

Bobilis in the confession corridor, a figure in a brown robe flashed in his heart, it was this woman who followed him all the way, wearing a rough brown robe, but with a beautiful appearance, Bobilis was very sure that the person this woman followed was himself, this was the intuition of a sixth-order powerhouse, because when this woman followed all the way, her eyes were always fixed on her face, and she did not look at others.

Bobilis thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember when he had met such a plainly dressed young woman with an unusually beautiful face. What a beautiful woman!, Bobilis sighed with some fluctuating admiration. Those charming eyes, fair face, and slightly wrinkled curved eyebrows, and a tearful face made people remember her just by looking at her.

I wonder if I will ever see her again, Bobilis thought, and continued to move slowly, leaving some anticipation in his heart that he would see the beautiful woman again when he had completed the repentant hike.

Circled around again, but Bobilis did not see the beautiful figure again.