There was an inexplicable silence in the castle study.
The housekeeper glanced at the master's suddenly pale as paper expression, and then thought of some things that happened in the past two days, and his expression changed slightly.
"master?"
He called softly, and then Baron Carter came back to his senses, he said in a hurry, stretched out a slightly trembling hand to take the official document, and disguised, "I'm a little tired, you go down first."
"yes."
When the butler walked out of the study and went downstairs to leave, the baron was the only one left in the dark brown house.
This middle-aged man with a slightly fat body suddenly seemed to be holding his breath, his whole face flushed, and he felt the official document in his hand was hot for a while, and he had the urge to throw it away.
But he finally managed to control it, and after a few seconds of silence, he walked to the desk by the window with heavy steps, and pushed open the window fiercely.
Although it was already spring, the chill of winter hadn't dissipated, especially in this early morning, when the sharp cold wind was blowing in the face, which finally made Baron Carter's confused thoughts clearer.
Dragging the heavy wooden chair, he sat down slowly and unfolded the official document from the church. Because of his nervousness, he didn't notice any damage to the seal.
The official document is short and official.
The general meaning is to ask the local lord, that is, Baron Carter, to cooperate with the church knights to further hunt down the heretical wizard suspected of hiding in Oak Town on the wanted warrant.
"Sure enough..." Putting down the thin, cool paper with trembling hands, Carter leaned back and closed his eyes in pain.
Everything was as he had guessed, and the church really came to him.
Not surprisingly. In fact, Baron Carter had already vaguely foreseen this day since the Church Headquarters issued the "Ordinance on the Trial of Heresy".
When the change happened, he didn't know.
In his memory, the entire kingdom was peaceful until a year ago, when the church suddenly announced that it had received an oracle from the creation god.
The specific content of the oracle is not clear, but the general meaning is that the devil is recovering from the darkness, and the group of wizards all over the mainland has already secretly become the servants of the devil.
In order to save human beings from being corrupted by demons, the church joined hands with the king to sign and issue the "Ordinance on the Trial of Heresy".
Therefore, with the permission of the king, the templars of the church who possessed extraordinary powers began to hunt and kill wizards throughout the territory.
All this happened very suddenly, without any warning in advance.
The scattered wizards were even more caught off guard, completely unable to resist the menacing templar knights. The manhunt started from the king's capital, and soon spread to the entire kingdom.
Due to the poor exchange of information, the news from various places is seriously lagging behind.
The wizards in many places did not finally learn of the news until the church chased them down. During the whole year, an unknown number of wizards were captured and killed.
In addition, the relatives and families of the wizards suffered all kinds of unimaginable injuries.
In addition, during the search and arrest operation, some nobles colluded with the church and used the name of the oracle to eradicate dissidents, which made all the people panic.
The whole kingdom is caught in some kind of "white terror".
The wizards who reacted had no choice but to leave their homes and hide everywhere to escape the pursuit of the church. Gradually, this prairie fire burned from the prosperous place of the king's capital to every corner of the kingdom.
As soon as he got the news, Carter hurriedly wrote through a letter, implying that the family of the brothers who were wizards was hiding far away. However, not long after the letter was sent, he suddenly heard the bad news.
In the process of being hunted down by the church, the younger brother unfortunately died together with his wife in order to protect a pair of children who were also wizards, and the pair of siblings and heirs were also missing.
After all, his news was too late.
The only luck is that not long ago, his missing nephew and niece quietly fled to Oak Town and fled to this castle, suffering from hunger, cold and scars.
Surprised and delighted, Carter hurriedly arranged for the brother and sister to hide in the back house of the castle.
In order to avoid being seen by outsiders, he hid in a secret room all day long, and Carter personally delivered food every day.
Originally, in his plan, he just needed to hide patiently for a while, wait for the gust of wind to pass, and then try to find a way to send his nephew and nephew to leave the Kingdom of De Lai and go to the safe southern continent.
However, what Carter did not expect was that just yesterday, the Knights Templar came to the town with the heretics captured along the way, and claimed to be hunting a pair of wizards.
This made Carter sleepless at night. He didn't know how much information the church had, and he was even more worried. He was rushed into the castle by the horrible knights in his sleep and hanged for hiding.
But he never thought that he did not wait for the knights to break in, but in this early morning, he got a letter from the church.
It seems that the other party should not be aware of the connection between the wizard he is chasing and killing... This is the only thing that gives Baron Carter a little comfort.
However, facing the terrifying knights, this little lord could not control the fear in his heart after all.
Once the crime of hiding wizards is discovered...then...
Thinking of this, Baron Carter, who was sitting in front of the window, shivered fiercely, his heart was pounding, and cold sweat was streaming down his forehead unstoppably.
He stood up and began to pace the house with an uncertain expression on his face.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and made a decision.
He turned his head and pushed the door, and headed towards the back house.
He dare not take the risk of being hanged!
Of course, as an uncle, it is impossible for him to hand over his brother's child with his own hands.
Before the church found out, he planned to send the two children away and hide in the nearby Pale Mountains, waiting for the church to leave before picking them up again.
"Just do it...it has to be fast and stealthy...otherwise, once detected..."
Muttering these words vaguely and unconsciously, the middle-aged Baron Carter went downstairs in a little panic, walked through the garden again, and entered the back house.
The servants in the back house had been arranged elsewhere by him. After looking around vigilantly for a while, Carter quickly walked through the corridor, took out a key from his pocket, and came to the door of the storage room in the back house.
However, the moment he came outside the door, his whole body was suddenly struck by lightning, and his body became stiff!
I saw that the heavy wooden door in front of me was slightly opened, and the metal lock on it had been broken, as if it had been forcibly twisted by some tyrannical external force!
"Ah... Morey! Karina!"
In the next second, the middle-aged lord suddenly pulled out the short blade at his waist, and opened the door.
Then, they saw only a pair of young brother and sister lying on the floor, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
And in the other corner of the room, a strange man in strange clothes was sitting leisurely at the table, flipping through a book.
"You...you belong to the church..." At this moment, Baron Carter was trembling all over, feeling the world spinning, and the knife in his hand seemed to fall to the ground.
In his opinion, only the church's search team could break into the castle silently and control the two wizards!
Although the clothes and appearance of the person in front of him are a bit strange.
"Shh, don't shout loudly, or I won't be responsible for attracting others."
Lin Tuo, who was sitting at the table, slowly closed the book in his hands, looked at the middle-aged man who was about to collapse at the door, and said with a smile in the local language he had just mastered.
After a pause, he tapped his forehead with his fingers again, as if thinking and curious:
"Church? You mean the guys in armor in that church-like church in the center of the town? Unfortunately, I don't know them."
Don't... know
At the door, Baron Carter looked dazed, and was stunned for a while.
Seeing this scene, Lin Tuo sighed helplessly, put the knight novel in his hand aside, pointed to a chair next to him, and said lightly:
"I think, you can sit down first, don't be so nervous, I don't mean any harm."
Baron Carter looked at the young brothers and sisters lying on the ground as if weeping, and said in his heart that there was no malice
"Cough, it was just an accident." Lin Tuo coughed in embarrassment, "I just wanted to ask them about something, but it's a pity that they are young people who overreacted and had to be knocked out.
But now, it's the same to ask you, well, you should cooperate with me, right? "
While speaking in a gentle tone, Lin Tuo slowly broke off the corner of the solid wood table beside him, making Carter's eyelids twitch.
"Clang." After two seconds of silence, Baron Carter threw down his weapon and said with a wry smile, "What do you want to ask?"
Then, he got an odd answer:
"everything."
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Half an hour later, Lin Tuo finally got the information he wanted and established a preliminary understanding of this era.
Similarly, they finally knew that the comatose young siblings on the ground were the so-called wizards.
Hmm... He originally only came here when he saw two relatively obvious "Ether Lines" floating above the castle.
It's a pity that the opponent's reaction was more intense, and he launched an attack the moment he saw him. Lin Tuo had no choice but to stun him.
A different little lord asked, and the process was smooth and much more enjoyable.
According to the little lord named Carter, this era is indeed similar to the Middle Ages, with nobles, commoners, and slaves. Of course, there are also extraordinary people.
Wizards, knights, and priests of the church all have powers far beyond ordinary people, but there are differences.
The most notable difference is that most of the power of knights and priests comes from cultivation, absorbing "magic power" from nature, and then achieving extraordinary effects by learning specific "combat skills" and "magic techniques".
As for wizards, they can also cultivate, but the difference is that these people are often born with some unique and strange abilities.
Learning the "cultivation method" the day after tomorrow is often only the effect of improving physical fitness and strengthening the natural ability, and will not rely on the spells learned the day after tomorrow.
Of course, the three are not so clear-cut.
This is in line with Lin Tuo's guess.
"It seems that wizards are the blood descendants of those genetically mutated people who evolved with special abilities... while knights and priests are mainly ordinary people with cultivation talents.
As for 'combat skills', 'divine spells', and 'spells', the names are different, but the essence is that generations of human beings have researched and summed it up, tinkering out, a kind of ability that can be learned... "
As for the so-called "magic power", it is obviously the name of "ether" in this era.
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(end of this chapter)