Early the next morning, the maid Nicole put Victor in the carriage with a blank face.

In the carriage, Victor remembered Nicole's resentful eyes, and he felt a sense of weakness.

Victor shook his head, dispelling the strange thought from his mind.

Now, the most important thing is to set off for the new territory before the Wimbledons react.

After all, Victor cost the entire family hundreds of thousands of gold to the layout of the Centaur Hills.

And the next counterattack of the princely party, Victor must not be able to parry.

But as long as Victor arrives in a new territory, it will not be easy for the family to pursue it.

First of all, even if Marquis Sophia sent an envoy to summon Victor back to the king's capital to ask for guilt, as long as Victor hid in the territory and avoided it, they couldn't help Victor.

Secondly, the forces of the Williams faction had long regarded the Centaur Hills as their own possession, and it was impossible to sit idly by and watch the princes send troops or powerful knights into the heart of the Centaur Hills to ask Victor for his guilt.

Therefore, Victor decided to recruit guards and lords as soon as possible, buy supplies and equipment, and in three days at most, he must set off.

After entering the Black Castle, Victor walked straight to his room, and before he could sit down, he heard a knock on the door.

"Lord Baron, Bishop Pero will hold a purification ceremony in the Black Castle Square before noon, and the Church has the custom of inviting all the nobles of the Black Castle to observe the ceremony. Please be sure to be present. After opening the door, a waiter from the Black Fort bowed respectfully to Victor.

Victor's heart moved, and he asked the waiter, "Did you catch a wizard?"

The so-called purification ritual is the Church of Radiance, which actually means that the Church of Radiance will smelt the body and soul of a person with sorcerer blood into ashes in the square with a holy fire. For each purification ceremony, the Radiant Church asked the local nobles and commoners to observe it in order to demonstrate the impartiality and authority of the church.

In Victor's memory, the Church of Radiance is more than 9,000 years old, older than any empire in human history. It can be said that the Church of Radiance is the most powerful force in the human world.

Wizards are people who are born with extraordinary powers, they are the same as ordinary people before they awaken, but once awakened, they have a variety of abilities, such as elemental control, body mutation, activation of dead things, manipulation of the undead, and so on. Wizards have a variety of abilities, some large and some small, some can fight the stars, turn rivers and seas, some can spread plagues, slaughter cities and exterminate people, and some can only play small tricks, such as lighting a stone. But wizards of any ability are mortal enemies of the church.

According to the Radiant Church, 9,000 years ago, the human world was ruled by wizards with extraordinary powers, who either occupied a city or ruled a country, claiming to be the Chosen One, exercising cruel rule over ordinary people, and from time to time using the people under their rule to perform cruel blood sacrifices in exchange for power from the devil.

The wails and prayers of the people awakened the sleeping Lord of Radiance, who saw through the true face of the Chosen One, sent twelve Radiant Archangels to send oracles to select saints among the people to form the Glorious Church, the Church led the people through a hundred years of bloody battles, and finally overthrew the rule of the Chosen One, and declared the Chosen One to be a sorcerer, the spokesman of the devil, and the evil one.

For thousands of years, from the rise to the fall of one human kingdom after another, only the Church of Radiance has always been standing, treating the sick, mediating wars, raising orphans, and punishing cruel lords to protect the people, which makes the Church of Radiance extremely influential among the common people. But the Church of Radiance has always spared no effort to eradicate wizards, even at the cost of sacrifice.

Wizards are not willing to sit back and fight against the Church for thousands of years, the most famous of which is the Pantheon.

Until 1500 years ago, the church fought a decisive battle with the two archwizards of the Pantheon, the Blair sisters and brothers, the church sacrificed seven archbishops, a pope, a pope, more than 2,300 clergy killed in the war, and finally six glorious archangels descended to purify the Blair sisters and brothers. Since then, the wizarding organization has gone underground and can no longer compete with the church.

Although the Church of Radiance destroyed the Pantheon, its own strength was greatly damaged, and its control over the human world began to weaken. The human aristocracy took the opportunity to rise up and began to make more voices heard in the human world. The hardliners in the church were unwilling to be weakened, and the contradictions between the church and the aristocracy became increasingly acute.

300 years ago, there was a drastic change within the church, and the human nobles took the opportunity to send troops to the city of Light, the royal capital of the El Sect. In the end, it ended with a compromise between the Holy See and the representatives of the human aristocracy signed the famous New Covenant of Light.

Since then, the Radiant Church has declared that the governing power belongs to the nobility and the divine right belongs to the church. The El Cult was officially renamed the El Kingdom and incorporated into the Rand Empire.

The Holy See lost its dominion over the Church and the secular world, the hereditary popes became fictitious, the day-to-day work of the Church was carried over by the Pope and the bishops, the monasteries were run by the Presbyterian Body, and the Inquisition was run by the chief and deputy inquisitions.

Although the power of the Radiant Church has been restricted like never before, the Church's crackdown on wizards has never stopped. This time, a sorcerer was captured near the Black Castle, and the Church sent a priest to preside over the ceremony according to the New Covenant of Light, and asked the Lord of the Black Fort to sign a death order to show the Radiant Church's respect for the lord's secular rights. Eventually, the Church will perform a purification ritual in the presence of the nobility to prove that the Church has not abused its divine authority.

"My lord, just ten days ago, three corpses were found in the basement of the Lamb Inn in Blackcastle Town, and after the sheriff identified them as an evil demon ceremony. After the sheriff reported to the resident priest, Pastor Ivan, the priest held a prayer for the demon inspection. Discover that Will, the gardener of the town, is an evil wizard. The priest then asked Bishop Pero to preside over the purification ceremony. The squire replied to Victor.

Victor's pupils shrank, ten days ago was when he crossed over.

He thought of the demon god who shattered the soul of the little baron in his memory, could there be any connection between this?

"You just said that Bishop Pero himself was presiding over the ceremony?" asked Victor, after a pause.

"Yes, Your Excellency. ”

Bishop Pero is the bishop of the province of Aldrich in the western part of the kingdom of Gambis, and his status is so high that he is generally not required to preside over ordinary purification ceremonies.

Unless the wizard caught this time is extraordinary!

However, despite the large size of the Centaur Hill, the influence of the Glorious Church in this newly expanded land is still very small, and only a few priests preach in a limited number of places. And this time, if a wizard is caught, it makes sense for the church to send a bishop to preside over the ceremony to increase the church's influence over the new territory.

"Did the captured wizard just come to Blackcastle?" asked Victor again, trying to find out if the captured wizard had something to do with the death of the little baron.

"Your Excellency, Will the Gardener has been living in the town of Blackfort for three years, and he is a lord who has been withdrawn from the Eastern Province. It's just that no one knows that he is actually a lurking wizard. ”

After sending away the messenger, Victor fell into deep thought.

Judging from the time, the wizard Will, who has lived here for three years, should not be the murderer of the little baron, and the presence of Bishop Perro does not show any clues.

Since he couldn't think of any results, Victor put his mind down and decided to go and see for himself.