Murder somewhere, even a mass massacre, did not shock Bishop Bellman too much.

Over the past sixty years, he has seen many such tragic events, some in war and some in so-called peacetime.

For the poor, death is more generous to him than to the rich.

Originally, in a land ruled by demons, death was a normal thing.

However, after the arrival of Vincent von Steyakard, it seemed that everything was uncertain again.

It's true that this lord is a demon, but he doesn't seem to like killing, this kind of thing that seems normal in the eyes of other nobles, he actually disdains to do it.

As for the reason he gave for not getting pleasure from killing, the bishop was skeptical.

However, it is said that when he tortured Luke again, he was still quite happy.

But the pleasure of torturing people is nothing compared to doing those funny gadgets.

The bishop knew very well that Lord Vincent liked to send what he had made to the people, so that more people could use it, and then make his so-called "happy camp" even stronger.

As long as he does not oppose the faith of light, whether he curries favor with his subjects or tortures them, the bishop does not care, nor is he responsible.

But if the believer is mass-killed, it has something to do with him.

At the beginning of the counterinsurgency, Vincent did have the army kill hundreds of people, but these people were all cultists who deserved to die, stupid villagers who were obsessed with ghosts, and mercenaries who saw money.

The vast majority of those who were willing to repent, he opened his net, and this was confirmed in all the villages.

If he slaughtered the village for no reason, Bishop Bellman didn't believe it, unless the village was full of unrepentant cultists.

Burned?

If the Demon Prince's punishment for the betrayer was limited to this extent, then he would be a shame for the Demon Clan, and even Bellman would be disappointed in it.

So, when he saw the handwritten letter that Vincent had invited him to verify, the bishop did not think about it for too long, but decided to leave.

Picking up bargains behind other people's butts is safe and secure, but it's a bit inefficient.

If it is going so well, it is better to go with it yourself in order to prove your piety and courage at the synod.

When the time comes, walking with the demon lord will be said to be "guidance", presumably Vincent will not object, right?

The Bishop's steadfastness in his quest for a great future is as unwavering as his belief in the Goddess.

Once a promise is made, even if it is unsupervised, he will fully fulfill it.

So, it didn't take much effort for Schiff to accomplish his mission, and the horse that originally belonged to Ninia was considered his.

However, there was no shortage of good horses in the bishop's Knights of the Cathars, and the kind Bishop, who could not see the suffering of his friend's men, asked the knights to give him a better one.

As Bishop Bellman said before the conference of paper birds, when he was young, he was also a prodigal son who was proficient in all kinds of aristocratic entertainment, and riding a horse was not difficult for him.

As long as the horse is not too fast, the old body of the bishop can still hold out for a while with the blessing of his career. ….

Then, the bishop did what he had said, and his men began to hurry the next day, along the main road towards the village to the north. The horse team went first, and a large number of servants and volunteers slowly moved behind.

The fluttering of flags, the hunting of horses' hooves, and the tireless and tireless image of the Bishop made the people who met along the way all revered and felt the greatness and mercy of the God of light and order.

The next night, the group arrived at the village of Songlin, where the fire had been extinguished.

The night was as deep as ink, the sky was clear, and the broken clouds were intermittent.

The bright moonlight illuminates the village with only the name of the place.

All the houses were reduced to ashes, no living creatures could be heard, and the ashes flowed through the air, falling silently on each side

Above the body of the comer.

The wind in the field gently caresses the faces of the living and the dead.

However, Bishop Bellman was more concerned about the movements of the undead than in the village, which no longer had any investigative value.

"What are the skeleton soldiers doing?" The bishop asked Schiff, "What are they digging?"

"The lord said he was going to dig graves for his people." The Skava said, "I remember that the demons like to say in war, 'We've got a grave for you.'"

"I thought it was just talk," the bishop lamented, "I didn't expect that the son of the demon king would go and bury the peasants."

Taking advantage of the daytime waiting, Vincent did a job that was not decent for the demons, which was to take his subordinates to find the corpse from the village.

It was supposed to be an easy job for the demons, but it became a lot of trouble because of the fire.

If it's just the dead, then the necromancer can make them stand up obediently with a wave of his scepter, and dig a grave for themselves to lie in.

Unfortunately, now only a charred and hardened corpse remains, and all of them have been purified of their souls.

There was no way, Vincent could only let the skeleton take the demon dog to drag the corpse from house to house, and insisted on a search and rescue in the village.

In the open space outside the village, worms called for the ground to act as heavy engineering equipment on the ground, digging several long and deep ditches.

It's not that he wants to simply build a mass grave and throw away the found body, but because he wants to do something more ritualistic.

The demons don't hate corpses, or sometimes they like them, so Vincent also pushes the makeshift hand-rubbed cart and pulls the charred corpse out of the village.

The subordinates of the same demon clan would not and did not dare to have any objections to the lord's actions, but this made Ninia and Prani, especially La Nina, who had just become a slave, have mixed feelings.

"Why did your master do this himself?" La Niña whispered to Ninia, "The royal family is going to bury a group of peasants they don't know?"

"If it weren't for the fact that you have a skill, you would have to go."

Ninia didn't think it was strange, she thought La Niña was using earth magic to build a tomb, too rare and weird.

The lord is originally a normal nobleman, what's so strange about pulling a corpse.

To the peasants, this was strange, but no one thought it was worth laughing at.

If the nobles could do this, their lives would certainly be much better. ….

At the neatly lined up tombs, Vincent met Bishop Bellman.

"God bless you, your compassion is the treasure of the realm. The greatest blessing will come soon."

The bishop looked at the corpses that had been placed in the simple coffins one after another, and prayed silently for a while before looking up to bless Vincent.

"My lord, I can't be blessed with this harrowing thing." Vincent used magic to disperse the dirt from his body, bowed to the bishop, and said, "This is my dereliction of duty, and the sin of the cultists."

"It's the evil deeds of cultists again......

Although the bishop did not see any evidence, it was only empirically speculated that this kind of act, which was neither robbery nor war, could have been carried out only by the lunatics of the Liberal Cult.

Knowing that his strength could not resist Vincent's army, he burned it down, and then it was probably to blame, right?

"There is a village that is going to return to the faith." Vincent said sadly, "I have lost two hundred people, and the gods have lost two hundred believers."

"yes, it's infuriating, there's no one left......," Bellman's chest rose and fell slightly, and he asked in a calm tone, "What can I do for this sad land?"

"Let's have a funeral for the faithful." Vincent said, "Burial is a ceremony, sacrifice is a ceremony, and the people's morality is restored."

"Excuse me, what were you talking about?"

"Nothing, they should not be allowed to leave as unrepentant sinners, I cannot forgive them the punishment they deserved while they lived, but I beg you to spare them the punishment after death."

Looking at the horrific corpses, the bishop nodded sympathetically.

Since it was the lord's request, he had no reason to refuse.

The lord has already collected the corpse and prepared the coffin, so in the future, the people can't think that the demons are more merciful than the church, right?

Once the skeletons had placed all the coffins and closed the lids, Sadaka began to nail the coffin with special wooden nails.

You don't need tools, you just shoot with your hands, and it's really no one.

The coffin is very thin and light, all of which are rubbed by Vincent with pine wood with his bare hands, and a coffin is 20 points of care, and the quality can only be said to be better than nothing.

But just this has made everyone from the bishop to the knight of the cathar feel ashamed of themselves.

The bishop then began the mourning verse, which was extremely solemn and yet extremely lengthy.

Although Ninia and La Niña are both serious and pray together, Vincent and Prani feel idle.

After all, none of them believed in the gods of light and order, and they had no respect for such sacred scriptures, and they even felt a little bored.

"Pray first." Vincent said to Plani, "It's time for me to innovate funeral rituals when church is over."

"Is it fun?"

"Probably...... It should be good, after all, I trained a professional team, and today I have the first trial operation."

"A team of professionals? It's the skeletons in black and boat-shaped hats?"

"Yes, it took a lot of work to re-engrave the magic pattern and open the portal."

Sure enough, after the recitation of the scriptures, Vincent gave an order, and a group of skeletons dressed in strange black uniforms and boat-shaped black hats came from a distance, replacing the skeletons they had carried earlier, and stood next to the coffin. ….

The lord pulled out his instrument, and in his slightly cheerful funeral song, everyone watched in amazement as the skeletons carried the coffin and began the dance with all kinds of puzzling movements.

"Dancing with the coffin?" The bishop couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, and asked Ninia in surprise, "This is the funeral custom of the demon clan?"

"It's magical, isn't it?" The female knight calmly replied, "The sense of rhythm is still very strong."

As long as she doesn't let herself dance such a shameful and strenuous thing, Ninia doesn't care, and of course she doesn't mind showing understanding.

"I didn't mean that, I mean, doesn't it disturb the dead?" The bishop was struck by the ritual he had never seen before, but could not find any suitable reason to oppose it, "Wouldn't it be better to leave quietly?"

"My lord, in our homeland, the people of the buried tribe will also dance and sing." Schiff interjected, "It's better to be valued than to be ignored, this song is quite exciting after a long time."

Seeing the skeleton carrying the coffin, sometimes stomping their feet together to make a sound, sometimes lifting it up and putting it down, sometimes forward, sometimes facing each other, and even sitting on the ground and holding the coffin high, it is dazzling to watch, and there is an inexplicable meticulousness in the wilderness.

Bishop Bellman has seen all kinds of funeral ceremonies, and it was really an eye-opener to live to see the funeral rites of the demon clan at this age.

"Inexplicable." La Niña commented, "But it's a blessing to the poor."

"Yes, the poor may not get a coffin until they die, and there will be no one to play for the funeral." Ninia lamented, "You're almost like them."

By this time, she had almost forgotten that the situation she was facing was even more dangerous than La Niña.

Bishop Bellman patiently watched "The Skeleton Lifts the Coffin" and listened to Vincent's "Aronoa", and he could still maintain a reluctant and kind smile, which was really embarrassing for him.

"My lord, I think the dead should walk peacefully and easily, after all, they have been carried so much, they should be able to walk a lot less. Next, can we be buried?"

"Yes, my lord, please recite the Requiem Sutra, and I will prepare a sacrifice to the messenger."

Oh? And offerings?

Hearing the word sacrifice, the bishop's eyebrows moved slightly.

It seems that the lord has not become poor because of the war

, on the contrary, there is so much money that it can be thrown around.

Soon, after the skeletons and knights had begun to shovel the earth, he saw what Vincent had called the sacrifice.

It is a paper money that is printed on paper and drawn in the shape of a gold coin, and is called "paper gold".

It has to be said that when the sorceress also lit the paper gold in the pit in front of the tomb and made the paper gold fly all over the sky, Bishop Bellman was also shocked by the spectacular scene

Vincent prepared a hundred sheets for each deceased, and the flying paper money with the burning green smoke refreshed the bishop's concept of funeral.

The traditional folk belief is that the poor are harassed after death, and that having money can alleviate their guilt.

It is worthy of being the demon who deals with death the most, and he is thoughtful in this regard.

"Your Excellency, are you interested in this?" Vincent winced his eyes at the bishop who was fascinated by the burning paper, "This sacrifice has many benefits, and it will definitely be very popular......

Next, after a head-to-head analysis, Bellman felt that a door to the golden world was opening to him.

"A thick burial is better than burning, the cost is cheap, the scene is lively, and the deceased will only be happy."

"I've heard that if the deceased has money, he can bribe the guards who guard the prison of sin."

"If you burn enough, your heart will be sincere, and you will receive God's favor."

"If he was poor when he was alive, why don't you bring him more after he dies?"

"Every year, a little is given on the day of death, and the living can receive the blessing and protection of the dead."

"There are no burial goods, and the tomb robbers have dug up a lonely one in vain."

How do you feel that everything can be said to your heart?

The more the bishop listened, the more he rejoiced, wasn't this a treasure tailor-made for the church that engaged in the funeral rites?

Fortunately, I am here today, otherwise I would definitely miss this opportunity!

"It's a great idea, but it's just a piece of paper, and you can make it yourself, right?"

"Oh, is it really just a piece of paper?" Vincent pulled one out of the lich's hand and handed it to the bishop, "Look."

The priest next to him hurriedly illuminated it with holy light so that the bishop's old eyes could see more clearly.

At this moment, the yellow paper actually shone with a dazzling light, like a starlight rising in the palm of his hand.

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