In the camp in Payne Village, Roland has returned to the lord's side.

“…… That is, you got the seal of the Knights of the Dawn...... I think it's time for you to form the Knights of the New Dawn, Sir Roland, and I'll be happy to help you with your finances. ”

Leon suggested to Roland.

"No, I've come to understand that it doesn't take money to rebuild the New Dawn. Of course, I do need to borrow a place to house these guys. ”

Roland turned the 'Bright Choice' onto the hilt of his sword.

Leon nodded: "Then in Lion Lake City, when we recover Lion Lake City, this will be your station." But before we can do that, we'll have to take out the Devourer...... You should know about these heresies, right? ”

The two knights of dawn and dusk knew nothing more about heresies, and Leon felt that Roland probably knew some information.

"Lord Leon, the 'Devourer' is recorded in the Temple of Justice, and its name is Agrim, which means 'Spooky Eye'. We think it's a demon from the abyss, not a species from this world. ”

Roland does know a lot of information.

Years ago, Agraim had appeared on the continent of Buckley, and the Knights of the Dawn had fought against it.

That was actually when the kingdom of Pander had just fallen.

At that time, the Buckley Empire and the Bacchus Empire had just fought a war that lasted for several years in order to share the Pande's cake, and they were in the stage of recovery after the war.

Although the official belief in the Buckley Empire was Astalia, there were more people who believed in the goddess of darkness and other evil gods than in the goddess of justice.

Because the goddess of justice has not descended into the world for hundreds of years, but some evil gods can really bring power to believers......

At that time, there were many people who claimed to be followers of the Goddess of Darkness, searching for life, and they would strip the skin of people and offer the flesh-stripped flesh to their god with a portable mobile altar.

However, the believers at the time sacrificed flesh and blood, not to gain power, but to summon a powerful warrior - the heretics of the time called themselves 'summoners'.

In fact, these 'summoners' themselves are not sure if those sacrifices are really offered to the Goddess of Darkness......

But what is certain is that they can indeed summon a terrifying creature from the altar - a demon.

They were real demons, red-skinned, with sharp horns on their heads and bat-winged wings on their backs—they had nothing to do with humans, they weren't degenerates, and their red skin wasn't because they were skinned, but because they were themselves.

Such demons are recorded everywhere and of varying qualities.

This kind of summoned demon is large and small, the small one is less than a meter high, although it is vicious, but its combat power may not be as good as Anson when he first entered the battlefield.

But the big one is more than two meters tall, and the strength is infinite, and the ferocity is abnormal, and it is not a problem to defeat one enemy and ten.

On top of that, this demon can be controlled by the person who summoned it - it is said that this is probably some kind of soul contract.

As a result, the number of summoners has gradually increased, and there are more and more people who believe in the goddess of darkness, and everyone wants to summon this kind of powerful thug who only listens to his own words.

The bones and demons that continued to appear in various places soon plunged the entire Buckley Continent into a panic, which seriously affected the post-war recovery process of the Buckley Empire, and naturally could no longer sit idly by.

As a result, the Knights of the Dawn poured out, and the various legions began to hunt down the followers of the Dark Goddess and identify them as heretics.

In fact, this is the main reason why Buckley was completely uninvolved when the Bacchus Empire tore up the agreement and suddenly sent General Osa to invade the Pander continent; It was also the reason why Barkley did not take the opportunity to send troops when the Bacchus empire collapsed - it was not that he didn't want to get a piece of the pie, but it was that Buckley himself was in chaos at that time.

Buckley's official cleansing of heretics lasted for several years.

In the intervening years, some heretics began to intensify their evil rituals in order to resist the army, eventually summoning an extremely terrifying warrior - the Demon Giant Warrior.

This is the official name of the Buckley Empire, and it is said that they are demons with strange powers, extremely tenacious and inhumane.

Some scholars within the Order of the Dawn at the time believed that this was the source of evil summoned from the abyss, and perhaps it was.

This summon is so powerful that ten Dawn Knights may not be able to deal with a single demonic warrior.

Since then, heretics have gathered an army of heretics and demonic warriors to confront the Buckley Empire.

However, during a summoning ritual of a demonic warrior, a heretic priest makes a fatal mistake.

The summoning didn't fail, but something went wrong with the summoned creatures.

The demon that finally came out of the altar did not have the hard skin of an ordinary demonic undead warrior, nor did it have the huge batwing that marked its identity, but it was like a sacrifice, naked flesh and blood—or rather, it was the sacrifice itself.

However, the skinned corpse reawakened.

But everyone knew that it was never that sacrifice.

Because its big gray eyes were extremely terrifying, making people palpitate, and they had been exuding silent coercion, and they were surrounded by an eerie black mist.

It was also from that day that it had a name that spread across the continent: Aegreme, which means "Spooky Eye".

As soon as Agraem awoke, he brutally killed the High Priest who summoned him.

The hapless heretic seeker had his skull pierced through the claws, his brain was sucked up, and his soul was presumably sucked away.

Maybe he wouldn't have become a degenerate without brains, but this high priest didn't become a degenerate anyway, and he left behind only a brainless corpse.

At the same time, most of the heretics who were relatively close to each other were attracted by the black mist and incantations emanating from Agrim's body, and in a very short period of time, they automatically tore off their own flesh and turned into a bright red flesh and blood almost identical to Agrim.

It was also the earliest group of degenerates recorded in historical records.

Only a few believers who were far away at the time managed to escape.

The terrible thing about Agraim is its ability to assimilate.

The black mist and spells on its body will make people lose their minds like drugs, and they will even make people spontaneously gather around it.

Soon, it was surrounded by bandits, slave traders, and scoundrels who were willing to indulge in Agraem's spells and gradually degenerate into skinless creatures that were completely inhuman.

Then a large number of degenerates began to run rampant with Barkley.

Some of the heretics who survived the disaster and still had good thoughts in their hearts came to their senses, and they took the initiative to tell the nearby villagers about it, so that they could go to the Knights of the Dawn to fight against this powerful demon that was completely uncontrollable.

At the same time, a miracle appeared in the temple of the Goddess of Justice - Astaria sent a decree to the Knights of the Dawn to cleanse them of the evil of the earth, otherwise the Lady of Justice would not be able to set foot on the earth.

As a result, the Buckley Empire intensified its efforts to clean up heretics, and the Knights of the Dawn began to use force to purify them at all costs, and began to implement cremation, and found heretics would also be burned to ashes to avoid creating new degenerates.

The struggle against heretics and Aegrem lasted for several years, and the Buckley Empire sacrificed a large number of warriors for it, and also lost its best chance to conquer Pande and Bacchus.

After numerous battles, heretics were finally completely driven away from Buckley and fled to the continent of Pande.

The Knights of the Dawn also claimed that they had killed Agrim, and said that he died in a dark fog and screams of all kinds.

This made the Knights of the Dawn suddenly become the messengers of justice, the embodiment of the goddess, and their status and prestige rose to the top.

But after the disappearance of Agrim, the Knights of the Dawn became both arrogant and cruel - they did not want the purification operation to end, as it would give them a lot of privileges......

As a result, the Knights of the Dawn's purification of heresy gradually turned into rejection and persecution of other faiths.

In the end, it became even more so that they could just find a blasphemous excuse to act recklessly, until they themselves were banished.

In other words, this is a demon from another world, and it was the one who created the Fallen in the first place...... But the Three Prophets can also create the Fallen, and what is their relationship with Aegreme? I remember...... The three prophets know you. ”

Leon thought of the Three Prophets again, and remembered that when Roland dealt with the Three Prophets, one of the female prophets recognized Roland.

"The Three Prophets do know me."

Roland nodded: "They were originally priests of the Temple of the Goddess of Justice. Thirty years ago, when I first became the Knights of the Dawn, I was tasked with capturing them, and I had led a team to hunt them down, but they suddenly disappeared. What do they have to do with Agraeme...... They stole a copy of the Codex kept in the Temple of Justice, which was supposedly found from the corpse of the priest who had inadvertently summoned Agraem, which we call the Codex of Heresy. ”

This was a very important piece of information, and Leon cheered up: "Heresy Code? What is written in that codex? ”

"I don't know...... It was a forbidden thing, and it was the basis for the crime of heresy, and only the Inquisitor of the Heretic, the Grand Master of the Knights of the Dawn, could read it. ”

Roland shook his head: "But ......"

His expression became a little strange, as if he didn't want to say something.

"But what?"

Leon looked at Roland's tangled expression.

"However, I know that there are many people who have peeked at the heretical codex."

Roland sighed and said to Leon.

"Whew...... Well, I now understand how the Knights of Dusk came to be......"

Leon also sighed.

"Why didn't you destroy that heresy in the first place?"

Risa Dilan asked suddenly.

Roland didn't answer, he obviously didn't know.

Leon gave an answer: "If you think on the bright side, it is that in order to fight heresy, we need to deepen our understanding of heresy. But if you think about it on the bad side...... With the Code of Heresy, there is a basis for judging heresy, and everything that the Knights of the Dawn do is 'just' - anyway, any excuse for 'blaspheming the goddess' can be written in the Code of Heresy. This is the basis for the Knights of the Dawn to obtain privileges, and they can counteract the decrees they want with the code of heresy, and this good thing certainly cannot be destroyed. ”

Risa Dilan suddenly realized.

Roland also sighed again silently.

Indeed, if you want to define not washing your hands before or after eating and using the toilet as heresy, you can simply write a message in the heretical codex: 'Edict of the Dark Goddess Ereda: Do not wash your hands before eating and after using the toilet'.

Reverse operation is actually equivalent to a custom decree.

If someone is not convinced and turns over the code of heresy - you see, everything you do every day matches the teachings of heresy, you are not a heretic, who is a heretic?

"Let's talk about Agrim...... How did the Knights of the Dawn kill it in the first place? ”

Seeing that Roland was a little uncomfortable, Leon changed the subject, he wanted to find Agrim's weakness.

"There's no record of this, and we don't know ......"

Roland shook his head.

"It's not recorded? How so? …… So, did Agrim make any special moves? ”

Leon frowned.

He felt that the Knights of Dawn's killing of Agrim was probably a lie, or else he would not have recorded the killing of Agrim.

At least the heroes who slay demons should be recorded, right?

If this kind of deed is not recorded, it only proves that the Knights of the Dawn did not know how Agrim disappeared - otherwise the editor would have made up a biography of the demon slayer.

"There is something special about Agraim. From what I know, Agraim actively seeks out those who are greedy or have evil intentions, and those who have evil thoughts will be assimilated by him whenever they come near him. The more sinful a person is, the more likely he is to be attracted to Aglame. At the same time, Agraem likes to devour the souls of those who are highly skilled in martial arts, turning them into powerful 'Fallen Ghosts', so Agraem is also known as 'Devourer'. ”

Roland replied firmly: "This is recorded in many documents, but I don't know what method it uses to attract those people." ”

This statement is more credible, the three prophets actually attract greedy people, after all, flies do not bite seamless eggs.

It's just that most people should have seams......

"When the Knights of the Dawn fought it head-on, did anyone suddenly become a Fallen?"

Leon began to wonder if the warriors would suddenly turn against Agraem if they were to fight. In other words, whether a brother who dies in battle will suddenly become a degenerate and turn his head against his own people is the most troublesome thing.

"This one is not recorded either...... I'm not sure. But maybe there was, or it wouldn't have taken years for the whole country to take out Agraim, and it is said that the entire Buckley Empire was devastated at that time. ”

Roland thought for a moment and gave a guess.

Leon and Risadillan shook their heads together, and it was clear that they both felt that the original Agraim had not been dealt with.

"If anyone with evil thoughts comes close to it, he will be assimilated by it...... I'm afraid no one will be able to kill him......"

Risa Dilan sighed: "Who doesn't have evil thoughts? ”

yes, who doesn't have evil thoughts.

Several people were silent.

"Well, since the Knights of the Dawn claim to have defeated Agrim, let's let the Knights of the Dawn take the lead, after all, they have always called themselves the messengers of justice, and they must have no evil intentions......"

Leon touched his chin and began to look at the map.

"Dawn Knight? You're not talking about us, are you? ”

Renard swallowed: "Your Excellency Leon, although we are not afraid of death, I think we are definitely not the opponent of that thing......"

"No, I mean the Knights of the Dawn who have been hunting down Sir Roland...... Of course, if nothing else, they're after you. ”

Leon smiled at Renard, "You are traitors in their eyes. ”

"You mean, the Knights of the Dawn are here? They took the initiative to deal with 'Devourer' Agraeme to save the people? I don't think they're that great right now......"

Renard shook his head incredulously.

"They should have arrived in the next two days, and they really came here on their own initiative - I had already told Xiaoxiao Bay when I first got the information that the Devourer had appeared, and I sent someone to inform them that the traitor Roland they had been chasing was in Lion Lake City......"

Li Ang told Roland about his 'whistleblower' in a bright light: "And now that you have the seal of their Grand Master in your hand, then I estimate that they will come over soon......"

(End of chapter)