Before the king could react, the devil leaned over and kissed his crowned forehead, then let go and backed away with a smile. Black fog rolled up from the ground, and the devil opened his hands and fell into the darkness, but his eyes were still on the king.
"Remember, Your Majesty."
Said the devil in a voice far away with the breath of the wind.
"Warning the Pope."
He disappeared into the darkness, as mysterious as when he came.
The bleak world that had turned black and white was quickly plated with color, and everyone regained their senses. The chief of internal affairs, who was standing still, saw the rose flower in the king's hand, and was stunned: "Has it bloomed so early this year?"
Then his voice stopped abruptly, and he looked in front of him in astonishment.
The king followed his gaze and saw roses blooming outside the railing in an instant, as bright as fire. The Chief of Internal Affairs looked at the roses, then at the king, and carefully asked him what to do with the roses.
He was silent for a long time, and said to the Housemaster that he was going to summon the witches from Blaise.
That's what it means not to be dealt with, the House Chief understands.
Before he withdrew, he couldn't help but glance at the king standing in front of Rose. The young majesty held the rose flower, and the sun fell on his crown, which clasped his forehead.
…
The witches are having a good time at Legrand these days.
In the beginning, for the witches of Blaise, Legrand was the only place they could choose now. But now they are genuinely in love with it.
The witch hunt was thrown aside by the king here. There was a hapless man who held such a trial against witches before. As a result, he turned around because "following the decrees of the Holy Court without the permission of the king, provoked the king's power" and finally ended up with The crime of "violation of kingship" was thrown at the stake he prepared for the witch.
This witch case even sparked a "Legrand Jurisprudence Controversy".
The Royal Court has re-opened a legal code issued in the era of William III, the Book of Obedience to the Occupational Law.
During the reign of William III, the House of Commons, at the behest of William III, presented a petition to the king, which was actually an attack on the legislative power of the Faculty Council. The members of the House of Commons believed that the clerical councils of Beauré and Tepocer violated Legrand's custom in formulating laws: any code that binds both the clergy and the lay people should receive both. mutual consent.
In that petition in 1412, someone proposed a concept that was endorsed by William III:
"Canon law without the participation of the secular world in its legislation should not be binding on the secular world."[1]
In the accusation of the Commons during the period of William III, the secular aristocracy and the rich urban class rarely stood on a united front - although the aristocrats believed in the Holy Lord, it did not mean that they were willing to take on the increasing demands from the Holy See at that time. Church tithes. Hell, the church tithe is still used to turn over the Holy Spirit Bay, so that the Holy Spirit Bay can turn around to support the Holy Lord's filial son Blasey in his expedition against Legrand.
Faith is faith, and the jingling of gold coins is the jingling of gold coins.
Of course, the most important thing is a hint from William III: if they are really willing to hand over a lot of gold coins to the Holy Court to support Blasey in attacking Legrand, then whoever pays the Holy Court will roll him to the front. go.
In the end, due to the pressure of the expedition, the parliament was exceptionally harmonious. Finally, the Legrand Faculty Council had to submit the "Book of Obedience to the Faculty Law" to William III, dividing the legislative power of the Faculty Council and submitting it to the will of the king. In this code there is a provision that "without the permission of the king, no new law or decree shall be enacted, promulgated, or enforced by the Council of Faculty".
Sadly, this code is short-lived.
Shortly after William III and the parliament passed the code, several Legrand states "coincidentally" rebelled, followed by the birth of Crown Prince Purlin, the death of William III, and the coronation of the Pope himself. The Duke of Buckingham "forgotten" this code and shelved it, and the subsequent faculty council promulgated the law again provocatively, and the Duke just pretended not to see it.
Over time, the Legrand Church has forgotten that there is such a code.
But in that "Legrand Jurisprudence", the royal court, at the behest of the king, turned it out of the thick pile of old paper.
The reason the royal judges attacked the archbishop of the witch trials was that "the witch-hunt decree was a decree of the Holy See against the clergy, not a secular decree passed by the secular members, and he tried by a clerical decree. The king's worldly subjects not only violated the Book of Obedience to the Law of the Occupation, but also challenged the dignity of the kingship."
In the end, the guy who originally wanted to burn a widow to make a profit was ordered by the king to be thrown on the gallows he prepared on the spot.
Now that there are many gallows in the Holy Empire, this is the only one that has been set on fire in Legrand.
With the intensification of the witch hunt and the "trial heresy" movement, more and more "heresy" gathered from all directions towards Legrand. This is the only place of freedom under the divine brilliance.
"Land of the Free", Legrand.
Unlike astrologers with different moods, the witches set foot on Legrand's land almost like a pilgrimage.
They are different from astrologers. For so long, the astrologers are not always in pursuit. As long as they are willing to abandon their arrogance and become the lackeys of the Holy Court, the Holy Court does not mind using some brocade clothes and jade food. To make life better for these captive slaves.
But between the witches and the Holy Court, there is only immortality.
Women have always played the role of sin and depravity in theology. In the witch's belief, the worship of the "snake" naturally stood on a position that was absolutely irreconcilable with the Holy See from the perspective of doctrine. Since the centuries of migration, the Holy Court has been committed to the pursuit of witches.
They are displaced and have nowhere to live.
With the permission of the King's Blessing, they landed in the mood to serve Legrand. In the witches' expectations, the king should ask them to carry out assassinations, poison curses, etc. After all, in Blasey, there were occasional nobles who wanted to do this with them.
The result was unexpected.
On their first day at Legrand, they were taken to a place—
Department of Pathological Research of the First Academy of Sciences Legrand.
Standing in front of the gate of the "Pathology Research Department of the First Academy of Sciences", the witches looked at a row of stakes standing at the door, and raised their wands reflexively to protect themselves.
Just as they were staring at the stake nervously, a handsome pharmacist in a white coat with his hair neatly combed back turned over a thick book and spoke at an astonishing speed as he walked. sarcasm:
"God! I can't believe people can be so stupid! Are they going to throw all the old and poor guys at the stake? These ignorant guys, if these poor people are really demons, It really has such great power and destructive power, why do they die like ordinary people and can't even protect themselves... Damn! How can an old woman who is so old that she loses her teeth and can't hold her hands like the accusation? Evacuate to another place to do evil?![2]"
"They are literally raping my logic and my medicine!"
The witches listened blankly to the pharmacist flipping through the book, and then greeted the author's brain and IQ with the kindest words.
Finally, he closed "Witch's Hammer" with a "snap", and when he looked up, he saw the witches standing in front of him looking at him with complicated expressions.
"Welcome to the No. 1 Pathological Research Department of Legrand, I'm Minister Duna. Now that the time is running out, let's talk while walking." The pharmacist hurriedly shook hands with the witch leader, and then led the person towards the research laboratory. Going, "His Majesty threw this nonsense book at me... Hell, I'd rather do another 30 bacterial studies than see this thing again!"
"What are bacteria?"
The witches walked through the white-painted passages, passing laboratories filled with all kinds of strange instruments, and found that there were many glass bottles of various shapes placed on the shelves, filled with different Color potions.
"Idiot!! Say it! You can't touch it directly!" The pharmacist rushed into a laboratory and scolded a young doctor. He put on his gloves and picked up tweezers and carefully picked it up A piece of minced meat from an experimental subject. After putting it down, he came out again, "Oh, I have confirmed that there is indeed something in nature that the human eye cannot see - yes, your witch's lenses are very useful in this regard, thank you Grid. With the help of Miss Layla, we imitated the witch's glasses to create an instrument that can magnify objects hundreds of times. You should be very good at this, right? During this time, you will help those stupid little apprentices to make a batch of magnifying glasses. "
"Okay, okay."
The witches were dazed by the torrential speed of his speech and the amount of information in his words, but the aura of the pharmacist in the white coat was so strong that they dared not say a word.
"Those stakes outside are..."
The witch leader, who was given high hopes, asked carefully.
"Oh, that's our medal, only the smartest guys can get it, and you'll know later. By the way, since you're here, you must stand firmly on the side of the stake party, and the stake is higher than the guillotine. , we must not let that group of designers in hell succeed!"
Witches: ? ?
What the witch leader wanted to say, the pharmacist had already rushed into a laboratory again.
"Testbed No. 2! Damn ass!! Copy the laboratory rules for me three times!" The pharmacist roared like a lion again, "When will these guys remember that they must be rigorous! Rigorous! Rigorous! Science is not mud. Playing the house, a single mistake will lead to the failure of the experiment.”
The witches had a hard time getting to know the pharmacist's style. At this moment, a black plague doctor with a beak exoskeleton came out of a room half-floating.
"it??"
The witch pointed her wand at the dark plague doctor in dismay.
"Oh, the plague doctor, our best assistant! They are very good-tempered, but they are a little bit greedy occasionally. If anyone's bacterial culture bottle can't be sealed tightly, they will be eaten as a snack..." The pharmacist said, the plague The doctor floated in front of him and touched him affectionately with his beak, "Don't do this, it's not allowed! Touch my experimental body, it's not allowed!"
In the witch's perception, it was terrifying, and the plague doctor, who was parallel with death, dawdled in front of a row of shelves.
Weirdly… actually, uh, feeling kind of cute
A younger witch couldn't help but handed it a potion she had boiled.
The plague doctor bowed politely to the little witch and left happily.
"Okay, this is your temporary residence."
The apothecary opened a door, and in front of the witches was a
"I need you to boil all the potions you know... For the sake of science, please don't use your crucibles that haven't been washed for hundreds of years! Please carefully indicate the amount of each experimental material, And follow the experimental rules. If there is no accident, you will be temporarily responsible for the research department of Legrand's first reagent. Finally... "
The fierce pharmacist gave them a rare smile:
"Welcome to Legrand."
Applause thundered from behind.
The witches turned their heads and saw that the doctors and researchers in white coats had all left the test bed at some point, crowding behind them, looking at them with smiles and applauding.
"Welcome to the First Academy of Sciences!"
Since the first century AD, the witches who have been roaming and living in no fixed place have been expelled from the world with red eyes.
Welcome to Legrand, the land of freedom.
The flower of truth blooms on her soil.
The author has something to say: [1] Quoted in The History of the Reformation by Thomas Martin Lindsay
[2] Quoted from "Exploring Martial Arts" Regina Scott