Chapter Twenty-Four: Eric's Defection

In the underground cage of the Inquisition of the Cathedral of Light, Eric sat silently on the floor and looked at the ground.

"Are you willing to sink like this?" a voice suddenly sounded outside the cage.

"I'm not sinking," Eric didn't seem surprised when he heard the voice.

"An F-class professional who appeared out of nowhere can climb on top of you and hurt you so much that you're willing," the voice continued, as if to bewitch Eric.

"It looks like you're being in trouble with him, but it's surprising that you have people lurking in the Inquisition," Eric looked up at the outside of the cage, where a man with a black hood was standing with an indistinct face.

"The light has rotted, Eric, what do you think, as long as you promise to join us, you can get out of here immediately" The cloaked man did not answer Eric's rhetorical question.

"I'm all like this, is there anything else I can do for you to use," Eric said, curious.

"Don't underestimate yourself Eric, we probably know better than you do"

"I don't lack any ability, you shouldn't lack combat power, my use is nothing more than more than ten years of experience in the cathedral and knowing some inconsequential secrets" Eric laughed self-deprecatingly.

"We need your ruling ability Eric, we understand that you have been helping Christina with the Legion for all these years, and have been doing very well, the cathedral secrets you know are only incidental, we need you, and can give you very much power" The cloaked man seems to know Eric well.

Hearing the cloak man's words, Eric's eyes lit up, and he remembered what Zhou Liang said to him, he chose the wrong unit, since there was no loyalty to speak of, was it possible for him to change places. Eric looked up around the prison and smiled self-deprecatingly, as if he had a better alternative.

"I hope your far-reaching sect doesn't disappoint people too much," Eric slowly stood up and patted the dust off his body.

"Welcome, Lord Archon," the cloaked man naturally opened the door and bowed slightly to Eric who came out of it.

Zhou Liang walked on the main road outside the city of Broken Wings, because he couldn't find Silbella on the phone, he had to lead the team out of the city to do the task first, and he couldn't wait, knowing that the power of death was not that he didn't get, but that he was spent, he could still reluctantly accept it, this was the third day they went out of the city, and the task was to exterminate the orc bandit group, it is said that there are high-level professionals in a bandit group, and ordinary people can't do it, so they have to turn to the cathedral for help, which is a B-level task.

Zhou Liang, who was still trying to connect with Silbella, suddenly heard the sound of a hurried horse behind him, and a knight was galloping towards him from the direction of Broken Wings City.

"What's the matter, so anxious," Zhou Liang asked curiously as he looked at the knight who rushed in front of him.

"My lord, there was an explosion in the Inquisition, Eric, the former leader of the Knight of Light, and Eric, the former head of the Knight of Light, is missing, His Majesty the Pope is very angry and asks the Inquisition to investigate this matter thoroughly," the knight gasped and said to Zhou Liang.

"Then what," Zhou Liang continued to ask with a blank face.

"Then, no, ah, by the way, His Majesty the Pope also said that all people outside should report to the cathedral as soon as they find any clues" The knight followed the same very blindly, and he didn't find Zhou Liang's brain circuit at all.

"You worked so hard to run so far just to tell me this" Zhou Liang looked at the knight in front of him speechlessly, "What does this have to do with me, didn't you just blow up a courtesy, seeing that you were so anxious, I thought that the cathedral was blown up or the pope died, which made me happy for a long time, and that's the result?"

"That lord is cautious," the knight felt that Zhou Liang's words were more terrifying than the inquisition prison bombing.

"I don't have anything to do every day, if I don't bomb three or five houses in the city one day, why can't he blow up the courtroom" Zhou Liang couldn't wait to blow up the entire city of Broken Wings.

"Most of the houses in the city were blown up by you," Zhou Liang's adjutant Zeny said emotionlessly as he followed behind Zhou Liang.

"I didn't blow up the inquisition, I've been out for a few days, I don't carry this pot," Zhou Liang hurriedly said to the knight who was looking at him.

"That lord, when I came out, Captain Christina said to let you go back, she said that you are more familiar with the criminals in the city, and let you be in charge of checking in the city," the knight looked at Zhou Liang cautiously.

"No, you tell Christina that I am fighting fiercely with the bandit group, the battle situation is very stalemate, I can't be distracted at all, and I will definitely lose a lot of money if I forcibly retreat" Zhou Liang lied without blushing at all.

"But"

"Say so, unless Lord Christina comes in person, my family will not be able to go back," Zeny said helplessly to the herald knight.

"Okay, then the subordinate will retire"

Zeny watched the herald knight go away and turned to Zhou Liang, "Is it really okay, adult?"

"No problem, then your heart is too big, how can it be no problem, you have seen a few church trials that can be blown up to the sky" Zhou Liang looked at his adjutant with disdain.

Zeni wasn't angry, he had already adapted to the way he got along with Zhou Liang, "Then is it really okay if we don't go back?" The Broken Wings Legion is stationed in the southern part of the border, I heard that the Moro Empire over there is also about to move, and we have one-third of the strength of the Knights here, I'm afraid that now the City of Broken Wings is the weakest defense."

"What does it have to do with me, you must be prepared if you dare to be so arrogant, now if you don't get it back, you will fall headlong into the well, my life is much more expensive than their gold, besides, how long has the Guangming Cathedral existed, and it is okay to let outsiders kill it casually, how can the lion take a nap that is also a lion, we can still be a strange soldier outside, I don't understand you" Zhou Liang said a bunch of things in fact, he just didn't want to go back, this was obviously done by the abyss sect, people have been lurking for so long, and suddenly they are erect, how can they still play with you, and now they can't be sent to death when they go back.

"Adult Gao Jian" Cai Ni didn't know Zhou Liang's thoughts, and when he heard what Zhou Liang said, he thought about it quite right, and instantly felt that Zhou Liang was a lot taller, and it turned out that his chief was not such an unreliable person.

Zhou Liang saw Zeny looking at himself with admiration and thought to himself, this kid is really easy to deceive, and he doesn't know who chose him to be his adjutant, "That, everyone is hurrying up, complete the task early, and lurk outside the city early to see what the situation is"

"Yes, my lord"