A middle-aged man about forty years old greeted William with a laugh, he saluted William and said with a smile, "Welcome, Your Excellency William!" He looked a little similar to Knight Hunter, it should be Viscount Neville. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info William also smiled: "Thank you for your enthusiasm, Lord Viscount Neville!"

The two of them courteously sat down with each other, and Viscount Neville laughed a few times and said: "Last month, the stargazer of the principality came to my castle and said that I would have a noble person coming this month, but I didn't expect you to be my nobleman!"

William waved his hand and replied, "I shouldn't be your nobleman, I'm just a guest who was invited." William bit the word "invited" emphatically.

Viscount Neville hurriedly stood up and said, "If my behavior has caused you an offense, please forgive me!" William waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, if you don't invite me today, I will come to you too!"

Neville looked at William with a serious face and smiled: "It's time for lunch, why don't we talk while eating?" After he finished speaking, he saw that William did not refuse, so he took William to the restaurant next door with a smile on his face.

There is only one table in the spacious dining room, and in the center of the table is a bouquet of blooming flowers, which is rare in Bavaria in this season.

When the two of them sat down, the servant began to serve the food with sterling silver utensils! The dishes were rich and rare, the main course was a kind of Monster liver, the meat was fresh and tender, and it looked delicious, and the red wine was from Ball's century-old collection, but William only ate a little and stopped, and he didn't drink a sip of wine.

Viscount Neville smiled and said, "Isn't it not to your liking, it's too hasty today, it's really a little shabby!" William shook his head and said, "No, it's already good, it's just that I'm an ascetic and don't drink." Neville laughed and said, "You're really different from ordinary clergy! I thought what those people said was false, but I didn't expect them to tell me that everything about you was true!"

William looked at Neville with a little surprise, Neville took a sip of red wine and said: "My family made a fortune from the slave uprising in the north, to tell you the truth, my ancestors were slaves of the former orc empire, and they were the lowest people who ate in the arena, and the things they eat every day may not be as good as the demonic beasts raised at home now, my ancestors definitely couldn't imagine that his descendants could live such a life!"

William nodded and continued to listen to Neville's narration: "If it weren't for the outbreak of the holy war, my ancestors would not have had a chance to get ahead, and the Duchy of Bavaria could not be established, how could that lowly gladiator Maxim become the Grand Duke?"

If Viscount Neville heard this, he would definitely be hanged for treason, because Maxim was the founding Grand Duke of Bavaria, and the present Archduke of Bavaria is a descendant of his lineage. Viscount Neville gritted his teeth and said this, and even William couldn't help but be moved.

Viscount Neville took it away and continued: "A lot of that history has been lost over the centuries, but I still have a detailed record of that history in my family. My ancestors were also one of the founders of the Northern Legion, but later my ancestors were mercilessly executed by Grand Duke Maxim. If it weren't for the fact that Maxim had just founded the country, he was afraid of angering the army, so he had to canonize my ancestor's son a hereditary title, and it was only a small viscount. Not only that, two hundred years have passed, no matter how much our family has contributed to the principality, we are still staying in this viscount, and I don't even dare to leave the viscount easily, because I am surrounded by spies sent by the Grand Duke!"

Viscount Neville drained the wine in the glass in one gulp, glanced at William, who was listening silently, and continued: "Do you know why Maxim executed my ancestors? It's not that my ancestors really sinned, but that my ancestors wanted to join the Church of Light at that time!"

After he finished speaking, he glanced at William, William's eyebrows raised, and he continued: "When Maxim found out about this, he executed my ancestor under the pretext of something else, and also killed many brothers who followed my ancestor at that time, and my ancestor was only thirty-five years old when he died. He must have died blindly, and he must not have believed that this order was given by Maxim, because from the uprising to the establishment of the Northern Army to the final establishment of the state, Maxim has always been his good brother, a good big brother!"

Viscount Neville burst into tears and poured himself another glass of wine and said: "Later, the son of our ancestor was a wise man, he was Neville II, who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Duchy, and he never left the capital for the rest of his life, so that Maxim believed in him! From then on, our family was able to reproduce and survive! But I was not reconciled!"

Neville drank another sip of the wine in his glass and shouted excitedly, "Why, why should my ancestors be executed if they wanted to join the Divine Cult, why have our family been treated so unfairly all these years!" If it weren't for the Holy War launched by the Church to drive out those damned orcs, and we people, including the Archduke Maxim, were still working as cattle and horses under the obscenity of the orcs, and fighting to the death in the gladiatorial arena every day to survive, why can't we in the Duchy of Bavaria be grateful to the Church, why can't our Duchy be a part of the Church, why can't we mortals enjoy the glory of the Lord?"

William silently looked at the luxurious carpet on the ground, he sighed and said: "Your country has always hated the Church, of course, this is related to the Kingdom of Relman on your border, as you know, the successive kings of Relman are not staunch supporters of the Church, they even participated in two wars of religion, and until now, His Majesty the Pope has never crowned King Relman!"

Viscount Neville nodded and continued, "I know that both the Kingdom of Ralman and the Duchy of Bavaria are hostile to the Church, so I want to change this state through my efforts!"

William asked, "What are you going to do?" Neville replied firmly: "My plan is to change the attitude of the Duchy of Bavaria towards the church first, so that the people of the whole Duchy will become believers in God." The Maxim family has no respect for the Cult of God, not only can they not occupy the position of Grand Duke, but even the entire family should be wiped out!

William smiled and said, "So your plan is to replace Maxim as the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Bavaria, right?

Viscount Neville heard William's ridicule, but he still smiled and said, "Why can't it? You know, I have been a member of the church for a long time, I was baptized when I was born, and the old priest who baptized me has died, and he is buried in my family cemetery, but there is nothing written on his tombstone, and I don't even dare to engrave the name of this my life mentor, because his name is forbidden in Bavaria, and his name is Paul!"

William immediately put away his mocking face, and he asked solemnly, "Is it that Paul!" Viscount Neville nodded solemnly.

William solemnly drew a six-pointed star on his chest and said: "May the Lord bless the soul of His Excellency St. Paul! His Majesty the Pope pronounced the death of St. Paul fifteen years ago and posthumously canonized him, but today I know that he is buried here!"

Viscount Neville nodded and replied, "Yes, my teacher was a missionary in Bavaria all his life, but he suffered so much that I was the only one who attended his funeral when he died!"

William smiled sincerely at Neville for the first time, and drew a six-pointed star on his head and said, "The Lord is watching everything from heaven, and your deeds will be rewarded in the future!"

After thanking William, Viscount Neville continued: "Five years ago, I met by chance a great figure in the Holy See, who, like you, recognized my piety, and I have been silently helping him do something all these years!"

William smiled and said, "Do you also arrange for demons to live in your territory?" I don't think this is like a devout believer!" Neville looked at William, shook his head, and said, "If you can help the church to subdue the Duchy of Bavaria, what do you think of it?"

William smiled and said, "Is the big man you mentioned also here today, can you let me meet him?" Neville shook his head and said, "I don't dare to make a decision on this!" William stood up with a slight smile and shouted against the wall: "Which parishioner is here, please meet me!"

His voice was not loud, but after a while, a man walked through the door, this person was dressed in a full black robe, and when he took off his hat, William couldn't help but show a surprised expression!

He was extremely tall and strong, with a scar on his face from the corner of his eye to the corner of his mouth, which made people feel a little scary, and he smiled when he saw William, and he drew a six-pointed star on his chest and said, "Your Excellency William, we haven't seen each other for five years, have we?"

William bowed to the visitor and said, "Your Excellency, we haven't seen each other for five years. I didn't expect the person behind Viscount Neville to be you!"

Starr is one of the twelve knights of the Knights Templar, responsible for the logistics of the entire Holy Light Fortress, he and William are the same batch of advanced cardinals, the two have performed many tasks together before, and the personal relationship is not bad, until the Holy Light Fortress is established, Starr went out with the Templar Order, and was later appointed as the chief of logistics of the fortress, and the two met a lot less.

Starter smiled and said, "It doesn't matter who is behind him, the important thing is that we are all servants of God, and Viscount Neville has made great contributions to the Divine Cult!"

William asked, "Can you let me know about the other contributions that Viscount Neville has made to the Church, in addition to taking care of us Pauline saints!"