320. Flame Priestess
All the way out of the magic fairy market, Rand was thinking about how to draw enough gold coins to cover all the existing magic goblin stores, and a dozen magic goblins needed at least 20,000 gold coins, which was a disaster for Rand's existing capital flow.
"It seems that tomorrow I have to ask how the interest of the Galloping Horse Fund is withdrawn, and the money of the ancestors must be used to support the development of the homeland, and it can't be taken away by Fiat," Rand thought silently.
After shopping at the market, Dugan was going home for dinner, and Rand was also hurrying to get back to the Chamber of Commerce, when he was about to get home, a figure suddenly ran out, but fortunately, Rand was good enough to ride and not have an accident.
"Girl, you have to walk to see the road!" As a car accident crosser, Rand has a different perspective on traffic safety.
"Ah, I'm sorry," the mage wore a huge cloak, and in fright, she raised the brim of her hat up,
"It's you!" The female mage became excited at once, and wanted to be loud but didn't dare, so she asked tentatively,
"Do you remember me? Last winter, I was with Gen Gandalf, and we met! ”
"Huh?" Rand didn't quite understand it at first, until the mage mentioned Gandalf, and he slowly remembered that it was December 24 last year, when Rand was out to visit a neighbor, he saw Gandalf and a girl running away, and he covered up with the two.
"This is not a place to stay for a long time, you come with me" Rand led the female mage through the back door to his own chamber of commerce, and in Wendy's magic workshop, he also specially gave the female mage some supplies.
"Thank you, knight" The mage introduced herself as Drocy White Flame, a small sect: the flame priest of the Church of the Holy Fire,
"Our sect believes in sacred flames, the doctrine is pure, fiery, and devotional, and every priest in the sect is a flame mage and priest!" A similar introduction, which Rand had heard when another of their priests was arrested,
"But how did you separate from Master Gandalf?"
"My companions have all been captured by the Templars' lackeys, and I need to save them, but Gandalf thinks there is no chance unless the Templars set a trap. I didn't believe it and wanted to try my luck, but I didn't expect to be really waiting for my chance! Looking at Drocy's pleading eyes, Rand sighed,
"How many of your companions are there?"
"Fifteen, including our bishop," Truss said,
"They were originally imprisoned in the underground cells of the cathedral, but for some reason, since yesterday, they have been sent to the black market outside the city."
"Which black market?" Rand heard the word black market and suddenly became a little alarmed.
"There is only a relatively large black market outside the city, and the people of the Temple Alliance want to sell them as slaves!" The more the female mage talked, the more anxious she became,
"Knight, can you lend me a sum of money, I want to rescue them."
"No, even if you rescue them, this is Dragon's Tooth City, where do you think you can escape?" Rand was laughed and cried by Drossie's persistence.
"Galloping Horse Plains!" But Zosie was so sure that
"The only way to get out of the Templars is to go there."
"Huh? Why? ”
"The Temple Alliance pursued us according to the Divine Emperor's Imperial Decree on the Reform of the Divine Emperor and the Pope in 720," Rand didn't expect that the so-called Flame Priest in front of him actually discussed the reform of the Church with himself,
"That edict stipulated that all the gods in the entire territory of the Human Empire at that time were to be worshipped only by the Temple Alliance, and that the priests and the Holy See of the Temple Alliance were qualified to hunt down and prohibit paganism."
"So what? Isn't the Galloping Horse Plains? ”
"Of course not, at that time, the Galloping Horse Kingdom had already been destroyed! Anyway, you're also a knight of the royal capital, why haven't you learned the history of the empire and the history of the Temple Alliance? Zhuo Qian was a little anxious,
"According to the content of the edict, the land where the Galloping Horse Kingdom is located is not included in the scope of the edict, that is, the jurisdiction of the Temple Alliance."
"Wait, there's something wrong with the Temple Alliance, now that the Galloping Horse Plain has been recovered, how can they guard such a large plain and not be under their control?"
"They're definitely going to include it, but they're definitely not going to put the Galloping Plain in the scope of the edict," Zosy laughed.
"For the edict not only included the status of the Templar League, but also laid down the requirements and standards for the priests in all spheres, according to which the priests were required to recite the doctrine, worship God in the morning and evening, be pure-hearted, and refrain from harassing women and collecting money without permission."
"Isn't that good?" Rand wondered.
"It's good, they just can't do it!" Zorcie was already laughing,
"Don't you know that before the edict was issued, the priests of various sects were far more depraved than the knight lords, and many priests relied on the gods behind their backs, and did a lot of ridiculous things."
"Does the god care?"
"The goddess of wealth, why should she take a few wives from her priests? Why did the god of war care whose money his priests used to buy weapons? Each god has his own priesthood, and the requirements for his own priesthood are also based on the priesthood, and the others are very few, only when the sect is unified into the temple alliance, the rules are strict. ”
"Ah, this." Rand didn't expect that the priests of this world were even more depraved than the nobles, and for a while they regretted participating in the dispute between the Temple Alliance and the Holy Fire Church.
The priestess found that she had talked too much, so she pulled back to business,
"Anyway, if we go to the Galloping Horse Plains, we can be safer, and it's a big deal to defect to the local lord and become a fire mage."
"You've heard of the lord over there?" This is the first time Rand has heard about himself from someone who doesn't know him, and he is really curious about his reputation outside.
"Of course, many people in the royal capital are saying that he is the most brutal barbarian in the past 20 years, but he is not bad to the human race," Zhuo Qian nodded,
"I also heard that the female magicians under his command kept those girls from going to school, and they painted magic patterns in the magic workshop day and night."
"Yes, hehehe, there are so many female mages, let them draw magic patterns," Rand added
"When I hear it, I'm a real brute!"
"I guess so." At this moment, Trucy and Rand came to an agreement.
"But I'll tell you, it's impossible to save your companion if you want to buy it," Rand said,
"Think about it, they caught the infidels, why didn't they send them to the higher parishes, but stayed here and sold them?" Zhuo Qian never thought about this question, she looked at Rand with wide eyes, always wanting to speak and refute, but in the continuous thinking, she found that I am afraid that someone is really setting a trap, but she thought about it and whispered,
"If they want to come and arrest me, why don't they just let someone go on the black market? Why put so many people? ”