"Nolan is a really nice city."
In a tavern called "Black Rock and Roast Meat", a female knight in silver-white armor put down the wooden cup in her hand.
Her name is Messiah, which is a name with the same name as the kingdom of the Holy Religion. This does not mean how extraordinary her identity is, but the nun who adopted her hopes that this "Monicare, the God of Light and Justice" The given name can shield her from the pain of illness and weakness.
Messiah believed that the prayers of the nun who raised her were answered by the gods, and she was reborn after being abandoned in the wilderness as a frail and sickly child.
"So, why do you have to bring me to this kind of bar?"
Misa shook the ale in the wooden cup. She didn't like drinking. This kind of thing would make her delirious. She needed to keep her consciousness clear at all times to remember what her beliefs were.
"Lord Messiah, we are now missionaries instead of Crusaders. The spellcasters in the upper Nolan area are too stubborn, and it is difficult for us to let them listen to our teachings."
The speaker was Messi's adjutant. He was wearing a white robe and looked very young. He glanced at the scene behind him and said that it was a compliment to describe it as noisy, it should be said to be chaos.
More than 80% of the customers in this tavern are dwarves. They come to the tavern every night as if they are carnival.
"And I've always thought that, Lord Misai, you prefer the older ones."
The adjutant's gaze turned to the Crusaders beside him. He had not been a Messiah's adjutant for a long time, but he heard rumors that the nearly twenty-five-year-old unmarried female knight was more interested in older men, although he did not. Know where this strange rumor comes from.
"Adjutant, if you make such silly jokes again, I think I can make you return to the Lord as soon as possible to repent." Messiah said.
"It's me who offended me, Lord Misai."
The adjutant realized that the character of the master he followed this time was not as approachable as her appearance.
"Should you tell me what happened in this city recently? Tell me with my attendant that there is a recent stage play promoting demons that is very popular in this city?"
Although Messi doesn't have a good impression of this adjutant, as a missionary of the Holy Cult, he has been in Nolan for a long time, and he may be the best in the Holy Cult with his knowledge of Nolan, the Magic City. clearly.
And this tavern is the joint that the adjutant decided to use. In the past, Messi would never come to such a chaotic place.
"I can't make a conclusion on this for the time being, because I haven't had a chance to watch that stage play yet, and the content of this stage play is also from the oral and rumors of people around me."
The adjutant's tone seemed a little ashamed. He was a missionary in name, but he was actually an intelligence collector in Nolan for the Holy Land. This was his job, but he had obviously neglected his duty recently.
"No chance to see it?"
Misa didn't understand that there were theaters in the kingdom of the Holy Cult. There were also stage plays that were too much related to the demons, but they were all about the process of the Crusaders' crusade against the demons.
Tickets for the stage play in the Kingdom of the Holy Church don't cost much, and if you want to buy it, you can buy it at any time. Except for her adjutant being lazy, Messi can't think of why he didn't have a chance to get a stage play ticket.
"Actually it's true... Tickets for "Beauty and the Devil" are really hard to come by. I've queued up several times at six o'clock in the morning when a theater hasn't opened yet, and the end result is still sold out, but these few days Things should be much better."
The adjutant himself felt that this situation was very strange. If it was the legendary Black Swan Theatre, he could still accept it. The reputation of the Flower of Pharos was really terrible.
But he'd heard that Beauty and the Devil's cast consisted of little-known characters.
Before Messi could continue this topic, the door of the tavern was pushed open again roughly.
This almost smashing posture made Messi and the adjutant look back at the door of the tavern at the same time.
"You bastards are indeed here!"
An old dwarf walked in and used his voice to shock all the dwarves in the tavern.
When the young dwarves who were shouting with their wine glasses and wrestling each other's arms to prove they were the strongest fell silent.
The old dwarf walked into the pile of dwarves and grabbed a dwarf by the collar like a chicken.
"Follow me bastards! Stop wasting your energy here! It's time to use your brains!"
Under these words, most of the dwarves in the tavern did not dare to speak. They could only put down their wine glasses and walked out of the tavern collectively.
There are more than a dozen humans and a group of dwarves from other clans left here, and the entire tavern is deserted a lot at this moment.
Which old dwarf did the adjutant know, the name was Frost Axe, he was the only great elder in the Nolan dwarf clan, and his voice and status in Nolan was only slightly lower than that of Nolan's Council of Seven.
"What happened to these dwarves?"
Messiah, who has lived in the Holy Land for many years, has little contact with these dwarves. She has only heard that the dwarves can grow their beards to their chests when they are ten years old.
"I don't know. Maybe something happened within their clan. In short, we can't interfere. Nolan's spellcasters can't get involved in the dwarf clan."
The adjutant shook his head and said that he had no way of knowing that the dwarves had formed their own faction in Nolan, and the entire foundation of Nolan was built by them.
Even if Nolan's archmages are highly respected in the human world, they must put down his identity in front of the dwarf elders to talk to them.
More than half of the dwarf left, and there was no more noise in the tavern, and the atmosphere of drinking in the tavern naturally disappeared.
But Missy didn't like the smell of alcohol in the tavern, and she didn't want to stay here any longer.
"Adjutant, try to get two tickets for "Beauty and the Devil" as soon as possible. I suspect that there is a shadow of the devil behind this stage play, no... There will definitely be."
Missy recalled the poster of Beauty and the Devil. She didn't care how romantic the poster looked. The most important thing was the devil on the poster.
Demon of sin, Messi almost put his hand on the sword the moment he saw the demon.
This powerful demon can only be fought by the eldest Crusader Commander, and a veteran Crusader knight like her cannot face it alone.
To be able to openly publicize the portrait of the evil karma, no matter what Messi thinks, there is a conspiracy behind it, a conspiracy planned by those demons.
"The Archbishop Desires will visit Nolan in a few days. Before that, we must investigate where the demons are hiding and what kind of conspiracy they have," Messi said.
"Desireless... lord?"
The adjutant was shocked when he heard the name of Messiah. Any citizen of Messiah, the kingdom of the holy religion, knew the existence of the Desireless One.
It is rumored that this archbishop was one of the first people chosen by the gods. He was given immortality and has survived from the birth of the Holy Kingdom to the present.
This archbishop has experienced everything in the world, whether it is the ugliest desires of human society or the most beautiful things in the world, he has experienced so much that he is tired of it.
This is why the Archbishop is called the Desireless, because he has tasted all human desires.
In the hearts of the citizens of any holy country, this archbishop is a legendary saint.
"The Archbishop has always been concerned about magic machinery, and I hope there will be some magic machinery that interests him at this World Exposition."
Messi took out a silver coin and put it on the table, then stood up from the bar.
"The demons have always been cunning. They have infiltrated the city. Adjutant, you have to be vigilant."
"I'll be careful, Lord Misa," said the adjutant.