Chapter 1: The Witch at the Stake
"Mel, good news or bad news, which do you want to hear first?"
Maier flipped to the next page of the manuscript and pressed down again to prevent the pages that had been turned over from bouncing up again, before he raised his head, lifted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and looked across the table. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
A young man of about fifteen or sixteen years of age, with a chubby build, covered by a gray robe, and two small eyes that seemed to be widening under his short curly hair.
Wren Gabri, who works as a reviewer at the Pisa Library as Meier, is a marginal teenager in the Gabriel family who is barely a nobleman.
"Let's start with the bad news. ā
Wren pulled out a small stack of papers from behind him.
"The bad news is that your manuscript has been rejected by Master Loren again, but I think you're pretty good, at least better than more than half of the ones that were published. ā
"I really don't know what Master Loren thinks, he is so strict with his own people......"
Mayer took over the manuscript from Wren, and the content of the manuscript was a small story he wrote some time ago, and there were many additions, deletions and revisions, and naturally a lot of energy was spent.
The manuscript was rejected, and Maier said that it was false that he was not disappointed, but he was not unacceptable to this fact.
As one of the foremost connoisseurs of the Principality, Master Loren has reached an extremely precise level of evaluation of his manuscripts, but none of the manuscripts he has appreciated have been lost.
The Library of Pisa is located in the small town of Xilin, a city called a small town, but only below the royal city, and the reason why it can rank as the first library in the principality is largely due to the existence of Master Loren.
Since Master Loren felt that his writing was not good enough, it must be really not good enough.
At this point, Mel suddenly sighed in his heart, a plan that had been prepared a long time ago, but had been postponed due to some kind of psychology, seemed to be about to catch up with the schedule as soon as possible.
Recently, the demand for gold coins has been increasing.
Maier looked up and smiled: "Wren, Master Loren must know that you are talking ill of him behind his back, and he will definitely send you to clean up the basement again, and after a month, there must be a lot of dust there." ā
"Master Loren won't know, it's just the two of us here, you don't say it, I don't say it, who knows?" Wren pursed his lips disdainfully, and said, "Meier, do you want to know what the good news is?"
"You've lost a pound?"
"I'll be serious, Myer, don't make fun of me!" Wren's eyes widened.
Maier apologized.
Wren nodded with satisfaction, and then pretended to be mysterious: "Do you remember the six-day curfew that was suddenly imposed in our Xilin Town some time ago?"
"Yes. Maier nodded: "I heard that a felony from a neighboring country has infiltrated Xilin Town, but I remember that the city guards have already caught the fugitive?"
"It's not a fugitive at all, and the city defense army didn't catch the other party at all, but the other party hid, and the city defense army searched for no results, so the fake news was announced. ā
Maier duly asked, "What is the real situation?"
"Heresy, heresy!"
Mel's brows furrowed slightly, and then dispersed without a trace, and even Wren, who was standing in front of Myer, did not notice this change in Myer's expression.
"Myer, do you know what heresy is?"
"Magician?"
"Well, it's the magician, the evil magician, who has stolen the power that belongs to the gods, but uses this method to threaten us and other God's people, and do all kinds of evil deeds. ā
Mel's expression was a little subtle.
Wren continued: "This time it was such a witch who infiltrated Xilin Town, this group of city defense troops is really a waste, and they let the other party sneak in silently, and they can't catch each other, waste!"
"Fortunately, the priest of the temple is here, and it only took less than ten days for Pastor Ridley to report to the royal city to catch this evil witch after he returned!"
Wren was a little emotional.
"Aha, Mel, that means we'll never have to have a curfew again, and I'm suffocating to death for six days in my hut with those wasted city guards. ā
"By the way, Mel, you haven't seen a witch yet, I heard that the witch who was captured this time will be burned at the stake in the temple square this afternoon, Mel, let's go and see it. ā
"What is burning at the stake?"
"I don't know, whoever cares about him is probably setting fire, these blasphemers are damned!"
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Located in the southeast of the town, the temple serves as the residence of the god's spokesman, and the most important feature is that it is luxurious and eye-catching compared to ordinary buildings.
The huge stone pillars, carved with the glorious deeds and majestic images of God, and the continuous stele walls, on which are painted, are all God's teachings and compassion for the world.
In the center of the temple is the classical domed church, where a large number of residents enter in an orderly manner in the morning to listen to the prayers of the priests, sing about the fear of God, and repent of their sins.
Then, a book of indulgence is indispensable.
When Maier and Wren arrived at the temple square, it was already crowded with people, and the inhabitants of the town of Xilin seemed to be curious about the witch, and possibly about the witch's imminent burning at the stake.
It took a lot of effort for Meier and Wren to squeeze into the inner circle and see the situation in the middle of the field.
In the middle is a high platform with a huge cross tied to the cross, and opposite the woman is a bishop of the church dressed in red.
"Blasphemer, confess your sins to God!"
The bishop was old, and his back was slightly rickety, but no one dared to underestimate this old man, because he was the closest part of God's people to God, and he had the radiance of God in him.
The woman on the cross was a special case, spitting at the bishop with a mouthful of spit, but when a meter in front of the bishop was blocked by some kind of force, unable to advance any further.
"God, it's just a man who has gone a little farther on the road, and in order not to be threatened, he wants to stop others from taking this path, not so much a god as a devil!"
"All you revere is a selfish devil!"
Of course, the bishop was not affected by the witch's words, in fact, he had seen this kind of magician a lot, so he did not have much expression, but his eyes were slightly closed, his hands were on his chest, and he began to say something silently.
It was a light that suddenly fell from the sky and shone straight on the witch's body, and then the witch's body was like a page on fire, and the white flames burned on the witch's body.
"Ah......h
The witch's voice of pain almost toppled the entire temple.
"I curse, I curse you, I curse you that you will not die well, I curse you to see the true face of the God you believe in, I curse God, fall!"
Suddenly, Mel noticed that the witch was glancing at her, and then Mel felt a blank in her mind, her body was out of her control, and she could only faintly hear some sounds.
"What's wrong with you, Myer? Don't you scare me?"