It was dusk, and the atmosphere in Houlier City seemed very solemn.
What happened today was so bloody that the city has been in a state of martial law almost since the afternoon—the external name is "hunting heretics", and the words of comfort are "the situation has been effectively controlled", as to whether it is true , It is difficult for commoners, gentlemen and even nobles to know. After all, this kind of matter only involves religion and does not have much impact on the interests of the nobles, so they naturally don't bother to care about it.
But some people watch from the sidelines, while others are devastated.
Akasha, who was running desperately, only felt that her legs were almost numb.
It's hard to describe her mood at this time. I don't know whether to say it is anger or grievance, or self-blame or regret. In short, when they are mixed together, I just feel that the blood in my body is cold.
After finally making up her mind to leave "Viper's Cross", she suddenly encountered such a thing, which is really an unacceptable result for Akasha—because when everything went wrong, she still didn't understand the reason
Akasha felt innocent: she provided Rubens with Gallup's information, and she did not cooperate with Gallup to attack at the critical moment, but in the end she agreed to join the "Rose Cross" and cleared her charges. Ben Si actually directly attacked himself with divine magic on the spot, and even ordered the soldiers to hunt down and kill all his subordinates
When she saw those temple guards rushing towards her and her subordinates, she was really ashamed, and only the instinct to escape was left in her mind—because she had the status of an advanced "Priest of Light" in the "Restoration Department", so she finally He managed to escape under the cover of his subordinates and made his way to the relatively remote Cambay area of Houllier City
After the sun went down, there were no streetlights in the gloomy Cambay area. Her state at this time could be called "darkness". It took half a year to dig a secret passage here—and if she found the entrance of the secret passage, she would be able to escape directly from Houlier City from here
As for where to go after leaving the city, she didn't think about it at all at this moment. The only thought in her mind was not to be caught by those temple guards...
Akasha, who was walking quickly, squinted her eyes to identify the blurry scenery around her. The lights of the tavern could barely reflect the outline of the walls around her. She could confirm that she was roughly a few hundred meters away from the entrance— And at this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from not far away: "Who is it?"
Akasha is not an old fox like Gallup. She has always been just a priest who abides by her duties. Whether it is the city or her scheming, she is no match for the group of guys who study political struggles, so hearing such questions at this time, She immediately ran away in a panic, and couldn't think of any other way to deal with it—
"There's a guy out there who catches him"
The subsequent voices proved that Akasha's judgment was correct. The two temple guards had originally planned to search the Cambay area before leaving, but after a random bluff, they actually found a suspicious target. They immediately stepped forward. In terms of physical strength, the three Akashas are no match for this kind of professional soldier, but her memory is extremely outstanding, and she is very familiar with the Cambay area where she has lived here for more than ten days. Those horns The hiding place of the corner has been researched a long time ago, so she immediately turned left and right into the narrow alley, found a low wall crack and slipped in...
Because she was wearing cloth shoes, Akasha's footsteps were not loud at all, and the armored temple guards made a lot of noise when they ran, so the guards didn't catch her stopping to hide. The movement, quickly ran past Akasha's eyes—
"Where did you go?"
"It should be over there"
"It's a fork in the road, look for it separately"
The two footsteps gradually left, but Akasha did not dare to act rashly. She held her breath and waited for a while. After confirming that she was safe, she quietly climbed out, and then touched the wall towards the entrance of the tunnel, which was only two hundred meters away. .
Be calm.
Akasha said to herself in her heart, the slightest movement in her ear affected her nerves, but just when she thought that she could walk all the rest of the journey safely, the sharp pain from her back suddenly made her stopped -
"hiss…"
The cheeks that were originally flushed due to continuous running suddenly turned pale, and she immediately understood that the pain came from the curse of Bishop Jakkad
The "Whipping Punishment" directly opened her back and opened a hole
"Don't come sooner or later...Damn it"
She cursed, but she also knew that she couldn't cast any divine spells at all, because casting even the simplest "primary recovery spell" in this dark environment would shine brightly, and for the temple guards who were hunting her As far as he is concerned, this is definitely courting death.
So Akasha immediately decided to endure the pain and continue running—when the wounds appeared on her back, Akasha almost bit her lip in pain. Normally, she would sit in a chair and wait for the curse to end, so the pain was still tolerable, but now she was running desperately, and the pain when touching the wound was countless times greater than before, almost making her want to cry out.
However, with her strong willpower, Akasha ran almost 200 meters by force. When she came to the entrance not far from the secret passage, her eyes were already darkened, and her legs were too heavy to move. up.
Vigorous exercise caused the blood to flow faster, and the originally non-fatal wound on her back made her face an unavoidable problem: if she didn't stop bleeding, she might really die from bleeding. "It's almost there, it's almost there..."
She tried her best to run for the last ten meters, but in the end she lost control and fell to the ground with a "plop"...
But she didn't give up, she immediately gritted her teeth and stretched out her hands to support her body—the back of the robe was already soaked in blood, but she didn't care about stopping the bleeding, so she closed her eyes and touched a wooden door from memory, and then Use your body weight to push it away.
The secret passage built by "Viper Cross" is located in this abandoned residence not far from the city wall. Due to the complete failure of the operation, no one has used this passage until now, so when Akasha entered here, everything It remains as it was when it was built.
Akasha, who almost crawled in, barely closed the door, but she didn't even have the strength to buckle the bolt. She gritted her teeth and moved to the fireplace in the bedroom of this house, and stretched out her hand to pull a loose stone slab—the fireplace Immediately, a big black hole appeared inside...
This is the entrance to the secret passage.
And Akasha has almost used up all her strength to do this step. She just wanted to raise her hand to cast a "recovery technique", but she didn't know that due to excessive blood loss, her arm supporting the wall went limp. The whole person lost control and fell directly into the secret passage
The steep slope at the entrance was more than ten meters long, and Akasha groaned several times in pain as she rolled all the way down. She tried to reach out her hand to stop the rolling trend, but in the darkness, she heard the bone cracking sound of "cracking" and the subsequent the ensuing pain
broken bones.
Akasha's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and the panic spread - the magic spell cannot be released without the cooperation of both hands and gestures. Now there are more than ten wounds on her back that continue to leave blood, and the continuous blood loss has made her She can barely speak...
She tried her best to move her fingers, but found that her palm did not respond at all under the severe pain.
How the hell did this happen
Is he going to die like this in this unknown place
Before she fell into a coma, Akasha thought unwillingly.
Time back to half an hour ago.
The atmosphere in the monastery of the "Rose Cross" is solemn.
Although the heretics have all been punished, such an attack is not good news for the sect after all—the madness of the enemy has caused great casualties within the sect, and it has also affected many civilians, causing nearly sixty human casualties.
It may take a long time for this negative impact to disappear.
Although the term "crisis public relations" does not exist at this time, it is clear that the top leaders of the "Rose Cross" sect still have similar handling experience and capabilities. Although it was late at night, notices about today's battle had already been posted in the streets and alleys—probably writing something like "the crimes of the heretics are unforgivable, and they have received the punishment they deserved", of course, because the proportion of illiteracy is not high. Small, the silver coins allocated to those speakers are already in place. Tomorrow morning, verbal explanations about this event will appear in the square and in various areas of the city. With this, Rubens can directly "qualify" this matter, and Minimize the loss, and render the whole incident as a positive event for the "Rose Cross" to defeat the "Viper Cross" conspiracy.
In the "spiritual home" room of the monastery, Rubens was sitting at the wooden table, writing letters one after another, to Cardinal Cardinal, to the Temple, to the intertwined top and bottom of this sect authority From the afternoon to now, he has hardly had a moment of rest—compared to his busyness, Bishop Benjamin seems a little "leisure" at this time.
He was holding the arrow that belonged to the "Rose Cross" armory in a daze.
When the news of Sally's disappearance reached his ears, Benjamin immediately sensed something was wrong and sent someone to search for her immediately. However, because she ran so fast, the Templars who were sent later did not know where to find her. Since then, and even up to now, she is still going around in circles in the city, completely unaware that she has already left the city.
Benjamin was a little anxious, because he also learned the news: Francis was also missing.
He is very clear about the struggle between the siblings, and because he is so clear, he did not participate in it at will. Naturally, there are some considerations and trade-offs that belong to politicians—but he never imagined that the conflict between the siblings, It has created such a mess...
Recalling today's battle, although he tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, the feeling of facing death still made Benjamin feel that he seemed to have made a "very wrong" decision before: when he thought that he had deliberately misunderstood Roddy Sally, some "regret" emotions gradually rose from the bottom of her heart.
But what good is regret? Who would have thought that this little-known little character could reverse the entire situation with just one arrow, and even prevent the foundation of the "Rose Cross" in Houllier City from being destroyed
Speaking of it now, Benjamin doesn't even have the qualifications to judge Roddy—because if Roddy hadn't killed Gallup, he would have died already, so how could he sit here and think