The room was spacious, gorgeous and even more magnificent. The heavy black tables, chairs and furnishings all exude a majestic and serious atmosphere, which seems to be the condensation of the whole St. Peter's Basilica, and the cardinal sitting firmly in the center of the front is like a god in the center of the church. He may have deliberately arranged his room like this, but the majesty he exuded was indeed worthy of his identity.

"Knight Talis, that's why you made me wait here in the middle of the night?" the cardinal frowned at the delirious girl in front of him. His majestic and solemn eyes just swept it back and was a little disapproving, "She's just a closed mind caused by excessive fright." Although this situation is indeed serious, Celeste should also have three or four people who can treat her, is it necessary to use magic rumors to specifically ask me to come here and wait?"

As the cardinal of Erathia, his status can even be compared to that of Queen Catherine, but he is here like a doctor on this stormy night waiting to be treated, if it were not for Talis, not the only apprentice of this Lancelot, Esquill would never have the patience and good temper to sit here and talk to her.

Talis hurriedly bowed down and said, "I beg your pardon, Lord Esquire. But there is actually a very complicated inside story behind this matter, I dare not bring this girl to Celeste without authorization, and Teacher Lancelot is recuperating from my injuries, so I can't bother. So bring her to you first, you will treat her first, and by the way, I will report this to you first. ”

The cardinal frowned and nodded, since the person had already brought it to take a look. Many times he unintentionally slowed down his movements and looked a little solemn, and even such impatient expressions seemed to imply the majesty of the gods. He looked at the demented-looking girl again, and suddenly saw that she had been muttering the same sentence all along.

May the merciful Lord send down your mercy with the life of a believer and shelter the fragile soul and life......

The girl's voice was low. The pronunciation was also vague, and it seemed to be an undoubted whisper under her demented expression. But there is a mournful majesty in the words. All the girl's spirit, all her thoughts, all her thoughts were concentrated in this whisper, which had been repeated countless times, and every word was not uttered by her mouth, but by her soul.

If the majesty of the cardinal is the man-made cathedral, it is tall and majestic and makes the viewer look up to it. The girl's words have been deposited for hundreds of millions of years and then lie on a stone by the river, ordinary and even ugly, but those who know the true meaning of it will definitely be moved, it is the shock of coexistence with heaven and earth.

This is a prayer for God's protection. The cardinal couldn't help but be moved. This spell was naturally not profound and subtle in his eyes. But no one can turn a deaf ear to a spell that only the most determined High Priest can cast with all his life and magic. Convergence is a magic that Bishop Esquill has only seen a limited number of times in his decades of magical career. His eyes suddenly all focused on the girl, and after slowly glancing, his whole body suddenly shook slightly, and he lost his voice and said, "She's ......"

"Do you see what's coming?" asked Talis cautiously.

A gleam flashed in Bishop Esquire's eyes. Nodding slowly: "This girl was once rescued by someone using the magic of God's protection, and the situation at that time must have been extremely terrifying and bloody, and it was her excessive fright that caused her to go insane. ”

"How do you know?" said Talis, stunned.

The cardinal smiled slightly, as majestic and compassionate as a statue on a high platform: "It's simple, it's clear at a glance. The words repeated by the person who is overly conscious must have a great and direct connection, if not the stimulus itself, to the stimulus that caused her to be disordered. And you know very well what kind of magic God's protection is, the person who sacrificed his life to protect her must be her very close relatives, and the person who uses this magic will not be within the scope of magic, it must be killed in front of her eyes. ”

"You deserve the name of the continent's No. 1 Mind Magician. "Talis was completely convinced. Although she knew that Bishop Esquire had a high level of mental magic, she could not imagine that she could understand all the causes and effects at a glance, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.

There was not the slightest hint of joy or pride on Esquire's face, perhaps Talis's words were not a compliment in his opinion, but a statement of fact. His gaze wandered over the girl's body a few times, and then unconsciously and thoughtfully moved to the upper right.

The pair of very neat and powerful white eyebrows slowly wrinkled together. Talis didn't speak again. She could only see that the bishop's expression seemed to be thinking or remembering, and she didn't dare to bother.

I don't know when only the girl's whisper was left in the room, and the wind and rain and thunder outside the window were still violent, but this was spacious. A strange heavy smell began to fill the air in the imposing room. Talis felt a little uneasy, but she didn't know where the uneasiness came from, or if it was just an illusion of silence inside the house and the wind and rain outside.

A very close thunderclap exploded not far away, causing the candle flame in the room to shake a few times, and in the flickering lights, Bishop Eschel finally looked at the girl again, looked at it carefully for a while, and then said: "If I'm not mistaken, this girl should be a very talented magician, and her cultivation of elemental magic can reach the level of an intermediate magician...... The point is, how did I feel the fluctuations of white magic in her body? From the point where you are going to take her quietly, she is not a believer, and she is not a legitimate user of white magic...... Also, who used God's Shelter on her? I don't think I've received any reports lately that any priest has used this kind of spell. ”

Talis nodded and replied, "Yes." That's one of the things I'm going to report to you. This girl...... and her brother were actually raised by the original Pastor Relas of the Diocese of Pinsburg, who taught them white magic, and this time it was Pastor Relas who saved their brother and sister with the protection of God at a critical moment. ”

Pinsburg...... It seems to be one of the priests who was removed from the priesthood when His Majesty ascended the throne. Bishop Esquill snorted, and for a while, his thick nasal voice even drowned out the sound of wind and rain outside the window, "Even if you are expelled from the priesthood, it is a serious violation of Celeste's rules to teach sacred white magic to others without permission. White magic is the magic that the Lord has given to believers to guard the light. It is blasphemy that is not the use of white magic by believers of the Lord. ”

"Your Excellency, although the old priest was disfellowshipped from the priesthood, his faith did not waver in the slightest. His ability to use the protection of the gods is a testament to his devotion to the Lord. And this girl and her brother, whom I can guarantee with the honor of the Templar Knights the purity of heart and conduct. Talis hurriedly explained, "And behind what I am about to report is a real blasphemy. Allow me to finish the desecration of sacred white magic. ”

Bishop Esquire nodded expressionlessly.

"Here's the thing...... The young girl joined her brother in the caravan from the Erathia Chamber of Commerce to Oufu...... On the night back ......"

The knightess recounted in great detail, and everything seemed to be seen by herself. Bishop Esquire was also listening, but perhaps because he listened too carefully and too attentively, the cardinal's face and eyes did not change in the slightest, and he only looked at the female knight lightly.

"Able to use paralyzing immobilization, and even with Heavenly Blessing, that person is at least a bishop who casts spells. I couldn't believe it, but just in case, I didn't dare to take this girl to Celeste easily. I'll report to you first......"

"Knight Talis, do you think this story is true?" Bishop Esquil said lightly, interrupting the female knight abruptly.

"This ......," the female knight snapped.

"A believer who serves the Lord, or a bishop who has been given by the Lord to teach the light, deliberately goes to that kind of savage and desolate land, and uses the holy white magic on a few beasts just to let them kill a group of merchants who are full of copper stench......" The cardinal sighed and asked again lightly: "Do you think this story is very reasonable? If these words come out of other people's mouths, I will send him directly to the stake." ”

The female knight's face rose red, and although she paused, her tone did not waver in the slightest: "He won't lie to me, and this girl can't be caused by other circumstances." ”

"He?" the cardinal looked a little surprised by the wording, "who? the girl's brother, the young man who helped you?"

"Yes. ”

Bishop Esquill sat up straight and looked at the female knight with a blank face like a god idol, the majesty and momentum in his eyes were irresistible: "I see in your eyes the feelings that should not be lost. It was a fall for a Templar who gave his life to the great justice and the light of the Lord. ”

"No, I didn't ......" Talis's body shook, her face full of astonishment.

"Even if this girl was indeed saved by God's protection, it definitely does not mean that he is telling you the truth. Is there less blood at the hands of the beasts of the wild highlands? There are countless souls that have fallen in their mouths for hundreds of years, and now you believe that someone would deliberately use sacred white magic to frame them?"

"No, Lord Bishop, it's because ......" Talis opened her mouth but couldn't say any more.

"What a person believes is not necessarily because it is credible, but what matters is that the person is willing to believe it. If you believe such a bad lie, it means that your heart has been moved and you are willing to believe the story. Because this story can turn these few people who are good at white magic into victims, so that their crimes are not so serious in this fictional plot. It was just a trick by the young man to distract himself from curing his sister and at the same time trying to clear his name. ”

Talis looked at Bishop Esquire, confused, agitated, restless, and other emotions constantly changing and mixing on her face.

"I see weakness, confusion, and insecurity in your eyes. and the temptation of the wickedness of the earth. The cardinal looked at the female knight and the majesty and light in his eyes became heavier and heavier, almost seeing through the female knight in front of him, and his voice became more and more stern, "Do you feel your own heart, is this the heart of a Templar who has a firm belief in piety?"

The light in Talis's eyes shattered silently like a glass under the cardinal's substantial gaze, and finally nodded in a low voice: "Yes, I know I was wrong. ”

Bishop Esquire's voice and eyes softened, and he said, "As the youngest Templar Knight in Celeste, and a disciple of Lancelot, your talent and mind are absolutely impeccable, and what you lack is your experience in the human world, your understanding and insight into people's hearts. The cardinal sighed and said earnestly, "You know, many things in this world are not as simple and simple as they seem. ”

"Yes. Talis's head bowed, but suddenly she raised it again, and the misty light in her phoenix eyes once again condensed with determination, "But I still ask you to cure this girl, and as for whether those things are true, I will check later." ”

A look of surprise flashed in the cardinal's eyes. Bishop Esquire nodded, smiled rarely, and said, "Of course, I will heal her." By the way, her brother, is the young man you were talking about? You told him to come here. ”

Talis looked at the cardinal's face, which was beginning to take on a benevolent color, and nodded happily.

The kind smile on the cardinal's face did not diminish until the knightess turned to leave, and the cardinal was left alone in the room. Although the world of wind, rain, thunder and lightning is still outside the window, there seems to be a warm atmosphere in this originally serious and solemn room.

The wind outside the window was still fierce, and the rain was still rapid. I don't know if it was the first thunder that lit up the dark world for a moment, and in the thunder that the whole cathedral seemed to be shaken, you could see two black shadows sticking to the window, but unfortunately they couldn't be seen from the perspective of the house anyway.

The two black figures were soaked in rain, and the lines and outlines of their bodies and muscles were clearly visible, but they did not move, as if there was no trace of their heartbeat or breathing, and they were clinging to the outer wall like two stone sculptures that merged with the stone wall and the wind and rain.

One of the smaller black shadows moved slowly, the curves of this black shadow were soft, slender and full of a wild allure, in the darkness there was like a statue of a devil casting a maiden. Her movements were slow and careful, and she did not dare to make the slightest noise even in the midst of the thunderstorm. She looked at another dark figure, and slowly pointed her hand at the cardinal's shadow in the window and made a downward motion.

The other shadow shook his head slowly, opened his mouth, and didn't make a sound, just spit out a word.

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