Chapter 12: The Day of the Beginning (Happy Chinese New Year's Eve)
A few days later.
Church of Saint-Cecil.
It doesn't take you a few hours to get to the largest church in the province and the second largest in the country in Knossos.
Its appearance, a reddish masonry structure, without much decoration, some only round vaulted roofs, and mainly simple, with a long sense of history, just a simple look can make Xavier dream back hundreds of years ago.
Inside, it's a stark contrast to the simplicity of the outside, with ornate carvings, colorful glazed windows, and magnificent frescoes.
By looking at it, Xavier could tell that it was the Mother Earth goddess, who brought knowledge, food, and water with her knowledge and water to feed the first humans, teaching them to use fire and weapons, and even magic and magic - of course, the magicians did not agree.
In the eyes of the 'arrogant' magicians, there should be no gods in their quest for the truth, and some magicians have even declared that if there is a god in this world, he should be killed by thunder and lightning on the spot.
As a result, of course, he will not be bombed, but this cannot be an argument at all, after all, you can change the word 'have' in the above sentence to none, and then shout at the sky, and no one will chop you to death.
As for Xavier, in his previous life, he was definitely a staunch atheist, at best an agnostic, but now, after witnessing various supernatural beings, he also began to wonder if his old worldview was suitable.
So much so that he felt that as long as the priest preached to him casually, most of the time he would have to kneel directly under the skirt of Mother Earth God.
However, Father Paul seems to have no interest in developing more Christians, and seems to have a 'love of faith, not believe' attitude, but only takes Xavier on a casual tour and shows Caroline where she will live in the future.
As the second largest church in the country, it is of course absolutely spacious, and the hygiene is very good, even if it is very old, and there is no smell of decay.
And Caroline, who was also very satisfied with her future new home, even quickly changed into the uniform of the goddess officer and danced in front of Xavier.
Looking at this beautiful dance, as well as Caroline's youthful body and heart-touching smile, Xavier's mind was full of these four words:
Uniform seduction.
That's a robe and white socks! The temptation of Xavier is estimated to be second only to the absolute realm.
Of course, the so-called uniform is just a piece of clothing, the focus is on the person wearing it inside, you don't see how ugly the school uniform in the previous life was, but there are still many people who are in early love?
After staying in the church room for a few days anyway, Xavier saw that the girl had gradually adapted to life here, and then embarked on his own journey in a reluctant mood.
It was a tearful goodbye, and Xavier looked at the girl, in his gaze, farther and farther away.
From now on, he is a real person.
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After saying goodbye to Caroline at the door of the church, Xavier took his belongings and set off from the neighborhood, by horse-drawn carriages, walking, etc., to the vicinity of the capital of the empire, Zomintos.
As the capital, its walls are useless at all, and the so-called 'mostly defenseless', because after years of development, the scale of private houses has extended from the city walls, so people now call the places inside the city walls 'inner city', and the places outside the city walls 'outer city'.
Specifically, if you compare it to 'one ring plus two rings', compared to the 'three rings plus four rings' outside.
In addition, although there is no distinction between the 'inner city' and the 'outer city' in terms of name, in reality, the inhabitants of the capital are proud to live in the inner city, which is full of residences of dignitaries and nobles, and has the center of imperial administration, as well as the residence of their king, the Cosette Palace in the center.
It was so named because Cosette was the empress of the current king, Borgia III, and for her the king built the most splendid palace in the world, hung the most beautiful illuminations, and carved the most elaborate reliefs, so that she was the happiest woman in the empire.
Incidentally, the queen was the king's cousin, which in the eyes of many was a sign of undecency, which is why the barbarians used this to attack their king when they conquered the village of Reston.
However, in Xavier's opinion, he didn't care about what kind of wife a king married, none of this was his focus, he just wanted to enter the city and find the swordsman guild in the capital of the empire.
And the first level is this security check.
It is true that the outer city has no walls, but this does not mean that there is no security, and at the moment there are many soldiers patrolling everywhere to stop the passers-by, and it is said that because of some recent attack, people who enter the capital must go through a series of checks.
Generally speaking, ordinary people will not have anything to do, take out the resident card, check the backpack for fire magic focusing stones, or something dangerous, and just go over.
The problem is that Xavier is not an ordinary person.
His figure, which was much taller than the average height now, combined with his muscular figure, the two blades at his waist, and the long crossbow on his back, made it easy to think that he was a dangerous person.
As a result, he had not been in the outer city for long before he was stopped by a group of soldiers.
"Sir, what is your name?" said the captain of the soldiers, looking at Xavier warily, for fear that the black-haired swordsman, who was half a head taller than him, would suddenly draw his steel sword and cut them down.
"Xavier. ”
"Where's the last name?" he asked again.
"There is no surname. ”
“......”
Hearing this answer, the captain of the soldier suddenly showed a contemptuous expression, who the hell is this person, how can he not have a surname!
In his cognition, there are only two kinds of people in this world who do not have surnames, one is a slave, and the other is a villager in a remote mountainous area, no matter what kind of it is, it makes his eyes instantly turn into dog eyes, and there is no respect for the swordsman in front of him.
After all, he has seen a lot of such untouchables, and he has caught a lot of them, most of them rely on their own brute strength to come to the capital to look for work, but because of their lack of knowledge, they can usually only become gangsters, affecting the security of the entire capital.
He didn't understand why these people couldn't hide in their hometowns and die poorly, why they had come to the capital to plague them!
It's disgusting!
Thinking of this, he didn't need to be sure, he felt that the swordsman in front of him was also a raccoon dog, and he would definitely interfere with the security of the capital, so he immediately called the soldiers behind him, pretending to be very powerful and shouted: "Xavier, we suspect that you are a dangerous person now, please hand over the weapons on your body." ”
At the same time, several steel swords behind him also had the intention of pulling out, ready to subdue the dangerous person in front of him.