The day of God's judgment is set after the ten days, during which the two senior clergy have ample opportunity to repent for themselves or for others.

"Why would he accept the Divine Judgment of Fire?" The former bishop of Tournest, the current abbot of St. Martin, pondered this question repeatedly during these ten days, during which he thought about the butcher's son more than he had in many years to think about God.

In fact, he did not necessarily force the young bishop to accept the god of fire, this request was too much, and he also knew it, but political negotiation is an art of false words and intimidation, and the two sides each put forward their own asking price, and after many quarrels and curses, the bottom line was pulled to a range that both sides could barely tolerate - it was not the first time that Joseph, the two noble bishops, had quarreled.

But he couldn't figure out why the boy had accepted his inflated asking price like this.

Is it certain that you will pass the God of Fire?

Did he really receive divine grace? No, it can't be, only this thing, it's impossible! Joke, it's not a great secret that he buys a bishop, and does a charismatic person still use a jingle thing to get a bishop on earth? It's impossible! Joseph Sr. had connections at the royal court, and if he needed to, he could even get the list of young bishops through a few intermediaries and the Duke of Ulrich.

Well, it's he who has a way to cheat.

Old Joseph closed his eyes, and the young man who said that day was the law of the day came to his mind: "I accept the god of fire." That handsome and awe-inspiring face.

Rub, the acting is really fucking good, a virtue of sacrificing one's life for righteousness, I don't see a way to cheat at all, live out of a little saint, I didn't find out before!

But there must be a way for him to cheat!

Otherwise...... I have to say that his brain burned out, and he chose to die in this way.

It's really a death, doesn't he have to accept the god of fire, eat a piece of bread and deal with things, and fight for his life?

But how sure was he going to cheat?

How can his cheating be exposed on the spot, so that he can be expelled from the religious world of Tournest forever and locked up in the walls of a monastery?

During these ten days, the abbot of St. Martin's Abbey Joseph was definitely not the only one who could not sleep at night for this divine judgment.

The Bishop's knights have been busy these days, and since the news spread that two high-ranking priests were going to be judged by the gods, and one of them was still subject to the judgment of the gods of fire, a steady stream of people from all directions poured into Tournest, a scene that is not seen every year!

The citizens of Tournest today are as familiar as their fellow villagers when they see visitors from the diocese of Sugeny or the diocese of Romutto on the streets of Tournest - the two dioceses are said to be the Diocese of Ruhrhof, and even the farthest parish of Black Terôme can be seen everywhere, and the inhabitants have long been accustomed to the fact that groups of blonde northern nobles and their retinues walk through the streets. These newly converted northerners are not very religious, but like all barbarians, they love bloody rituals or trials, and they will never miss this eye-opening opportunity.

There are also many people who do not come to see the excitement, but to take advantage of it, to sell imaginable and unimaginable gadgets to the crowds that gather here, from bird feathers to ward off evil spirits to real northern pearls and amber.

It was supposed to be a good opportunity for the citizens of Tournest to do business, but who else had the heart to do business now?

These days, in Tournest, "Our bishop will be fine, right?" It has replaced "Saint Anne of all trades", and the answer has changed from "eternal life and eternity" to "It will be fine!" He was wronged, we all know the way, can God not know the way? ”

Greetings and answers like this are repeated several times a day by every citizen of Turnest, and even between family members, they comfort each other in this way.

Then they offered ten times more abundant offerings and sacraments to the Cathedral of Tournest, to St. Aubrey, the patron saint of Tournest, to the saints and the Savior, and to the gods, and prayed for the safety of their bishop.

Even the pagan community sent representatives to the cathedral, and it was not convenient for them to participate in the sacraments or to make offerings, but this time the delegates suggested that if there was anything inconvenient, please do not hesitate to ask, and they and their fraternal communities would do their best to provide for them.

However, the bishop did not send any messenger to the royal court, nor did he send a repentant messenger, nor did he send any other messenger.

In a state of tension and anxiety, the citizens of Tournest ushered in the day of the verdict.

The King's Circuit Court came to Turnest a day earlier, in addition to the King, the Queen Mother and other members of the royal family, the twelve bishops of all Newsteria gathered in Tournest today, and the four hundred nobles of Newsteria also arrived at least three hundred, which was really an unprecedented event!

On that day, there was no one in the whole of Tournest who cooked on the fire, because even the chimney was crowded with spectators.

In order to welcome the occasion, the citizens of Tournest invariably put on mourning clothes.

In the Neustrian tradition, in addition to mourning, this dress has a meaning, which is to pray for God's mercy.

For whom are they praying for mercy?

The answer is obvious.

for him who has received in their place.

Among the crowd dressed in mourning clothes, there was a woman who stood out, surrounded by heavy guards, but dressed in a simple silver cross like ordinary female citizens, and whispered in the crowd that she was the original female patron of the bishop, Baroness Brad.

The Baroness's already petite figure was even more delicate because she was dressed in black, and her eyes were staring into the distance, and no one knew whether she was looking at the cathedral in the distance, or at the more distant heaven.

Her gaze was so focused that she didn't distract herself from the sight of her own father, Count Faisal, and his family as they walked past her.

After the king, the queen mother, the nobles, the abbot and the eleven bishops took their seats one after another, the props used for the divine judgment were also delivered to the scene.

A blacksmith's stove was moved to the clearing, which was already filled with charcoal, and several blacksmiths pulled up bellows to make a fire, and seven iron plowshares were to be burned in the furnace until they were red.

These seven iron plowshares, which symbolize the seven sins of pride, jealousy, anger, sorrow, greed, gluttony, and lust, are to be burned red in the flames of hell and then used to judge sinners.

The suspect had to be blindfolded and walk over the seven red-hot iron plowshares.

This is the god of fire.