Chapter 170: Moonlight
The Snakeface couple is dead, Bearhead is dead, and the Masked Four are the only ones left alone, and Craneface feels bad luck soon befall him as he witnesses Bearhead's easy defeat by the church.
Sitting in a chair in the back kitchen of the tavern, the crane-faced man took off his mask for the first time in front of everyone, revealing his decadent and haggard countenance. He had been a member of the Church, so he knew what the Church was all about, not to mention the Knights of the Round Table, and even if the candidates were to come out and make up their minds to arrest him, he would be doomed.
They also did not fight for the common people, and the reason why they say this is only to confuse the eyes of the church and the kingdom army, and once the church is ...... Or rather, Gawain understood their intentions, and it was all over. In the end, they still miscalculated their own strength, and it was just an empty and vain fantasy to rely on the power of distortion to fight the entire church, but when the illusion was about to be shattered, he felt that he had to find at least someone to witness their struggle.
"I know it's hard for you to believe what I'm going to say after all the events...... But it's not just the four of us that are involved!"
Each of the four of them was once the Inquisitor of the Church, and they were supposed to have a great future, but they were thrown into Spiral City for apostasy, and before they were deemed to be apostasy, the four of them received a mission from the Church to go to the border to contact a Chaos informant, and the person who issued the mission was Gawain Don Quixote.
When they disguised themselves at the junction site, they found that the informant had been assassinated, and the church was convinced that someone had leaked the news, causing the identity of the informant to be exposed, and in the subsequent investigation, all the evidence pointed to one of the four of them. At this time, Gawain, who was already the first knight at the time, appeared.
He privately found each of the four individually, and claimed that he could clear his suspicions by pointing out his companions, and that he had already prepared sufficient "evidence".
But everything is a trap set by Gawain, and finding them in private is just a means for Gawain to tease them.
"Why did Gawain frame you, to him you are just ......"
Lin Qiu paused and took back the "little role" that he almost blurted out.
Gawain Don Quixote was the knight who had ascended to the top after Maranferin, and in the light of the chief Knight of the Round Table, the ordinary Inquisition was nothing to mention. In the case that the status of the two sides is completely unequal, why did Gawain go to great lengths to design and frame these four people.
The story seems to stand up to scrutiny.
"Small roles. ”
Unexpectedly, the crane-faced man said in a self-deprecating tone, "Yes, the four of us are indeed minor characters of no importance to the church, but ...... Grahide is not. ”
Graheid again?
Lin Qiu felt that this name had appeared slightly more frequently recently.
The classified archives of the church describe Graheid in just two short sentences.
Excellent knight, shameless traitor.
The good knight is supposed to refer to the first half of his life, but unfortunately Grahide did not continue his glory, and at the height of his prosperity, he was accused of treason and hunted down by the Hundred Winds.
"We only had vague contact with the events of that year, and Gawain attacked us. The crane-faced man said.
It wasn't until Gawain framed them and threw them into the prison of Spiral City that he confirmed the rumors he had heard in the Kingdom of Glenn at the time. Grahide and Baifeng did engage in a fierce battle for days and nights, and the duel between the two changed the color of the heavens and the earth, and at the height of the battle, a huge shadow appeared in the sky.
The suddenly awakened monster turned the heavens and the earth around, and the shattered earth was lifted into the air.
The version they heard was that Graheide's battle with Hyafze ended in vain, and the two worked together to suppress the suddenly awakened monster, and Grahide used the Engraving to move the unbalanced land back to its original position, after which he and Hyafeng were missing. The Inquisitors had access to the Church's confidential archives, and after hearing rumors that were far from the archives, they returned to the Church to investigate the matter in many ways.
And in the process of research, they made an amazing discovery.
The person who recorded the file was Gawain.
The person who issued the secret mission to Grahide was Gawain.
The man who decided that Grahide was treasonous, it was Gawain.
It was Gawain who confirmed Grahede's death.
When the four of them informed Gawain of their doubts, they received a reply that "this is not something you should be concerned about."
They stopped investigating, but shortly after that, they were still given the assignment issued by Gawain.
"I don't expect you to trust me completely, but even if I die, I can't fulfill Gawain's wish and take this matter to the grave! I see that you have some contact with the aberration, but do you know how Gawain became the chief knight back then?"
"Heroes who suppress distortions and eradicate the source of the plague. ”
A cold female voice sounded behind several people.
At some point, Judith and a group of Inquisitors arrived at the door of the back kitchen, and the bartender, who was familiar with the Crane-Faced Man, was pressed to the bar by the Church Knight, and he apologized for the Crane-Faced Man with his eyes.
"Either way, Knight Gawain is the hero who ended that dark age. ”
"Is it finally here?...... Captain Judith. The crane-faced man slowly stood up from his position and put the crane-faced mask back in front of him: "I never thought that one day I would also have the honor of being a great sinner who shocked the church. ”
"When you come back here, you should have expected the end of the day. Judith said coldly, she stared at Lin Qiu, the crane-faced man was not enough, Lin Qiu's attitude made her unpredictable, and there was a high-level monster beside Lin Qiu that was more powerful than in the past...... If the two sides are at odds, the Inquisitors she brought with her may not be enough for Phoenix to keep his teeth in the cracks.
"Tyr, please pay attention to your position, even if it is Alyssa who is standing here today, she will make the same decision as me!"
Without waiting for Lin Qiu to reply, the crane-faced man suddenly laughed: "Please rest assured, Captain Judith, I have not formed an alliance with him, and what is standing in front of you now is just a villain who has been cornered by the Inquisitor Army because of the continuous assassination of the nobles of the imperial capital...... Is it your sword or his sword that will sanction me?"
With that, the crane-faced man was short and rushed towards Judith with his bare hands.
The story of the Mask Four is over.
But the story about you is just beginning...... Gawain Don Quixote!
The crane-faced man muttered silently.
The moonlight flame pierced through his heart, and a white mist poured into the tavern, and the arrow-like moonfire burst rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the man was reduced to ashes, and the moonfire was burned out, and the man, along with his clothes and masks, was reduced to ashes.
"Well, in doing so, another plague seed has been eliminated. ”
Gawain clapped his hands in satisfaction and explained to the stunned Judith and the others: "Only in this way can the imprint that the distortion has placed on his body be completely eliminated...... You're doing a good job, you can report back to church. ”10