"I'm not the Pope, His Majesty is already." Isabella just wanted to deny, but was stopped by Agatha's pat on the shoulder.
"The task is important, Your Majesty will not mind."
The seemingly unrelated words, but Isabella instantly understood the meaning of the other party. She also knew that this method was more convenient, but for the king who valued power, this was a dangerous signal.
Recalling what she had seen and heard in Neverwinter, she took back her denial after hesitating for a moment, "What do you mean by saving you? Where are the trial warriors and priests?"
"They ran away!"
"No, some people were called away by the Holy City!"
"We committed crimes and killed priests..."
"It's not her fault!"
"Without food, without clothes... two full months without supplies, have we been abandoned?"
"What nonsense, isn't your majesty here!"
There was a burst of chattering answers at the scene.
"Be quiet!" Isabella said impatiently. "Just say it alone." She swept through the crowd and pointed at the nun who took the lead. "Come first, stand up and speak."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The nun first respectfully touched her head to the ground before struggling to get up from the ground. "The last time I received news from Hermes was more than a month ago..."
After half an hour, Isabella finally had a general understanding of what happened here.
Since the Battle of Cold Wind Ridge, the supply of the monastery has gone from bad to worse. At first, the amount of food has shrunk, and then the number of times has been halved. Since the three courtyards are all under closed management, the news is all imported from the outside world, and the order is fairly stable. The clergy and judgement warriors stationed there encouraged prayers and a strong attitude to get through this difficult time, saying things would get better soon.
But this is not the case.
The so-called final news of the other party was that the church had dispatched all the judges and priests a month and a half ago.
The nuns didn't know what orders they received, only that those believers who had not been transferred came out of the hall with ashen faces, as if they had lost their souls.
After that, the monastery became a place of calamity.
According to the principle of automatic replacement, they proclaimed themselves the new priests, but they no longer led the people to pray, and they were unwilling to follow the system of shrinking and dieting set by their predecessors. Not only did they enjoy the few grains in the warehouse without restraint, but they also further deducted the food of the orphans.
When the nun went to negotiate, she learned a piece of news, which was the collapse of Hermes Cathedral.
The church has come to life and death.
In order to fight the enemy to the death, the high-level decided to abandon the old holy city and transfer all the official staff back to the plateau. The final order left to the monastery is to resist the invading enemy and dedicate your life to the gods until the last moment.
As unbelievable as these tragedies may sound, the closure of the passageway to the Church of Reflection seems to confirm their claims.
Faced with this bad news, the nuns also split into two factions. Some people were completely disappointed and joined the "New Priest Faction", while others were hesitant, not knowing what to do. According to the leading nun, the church used to be like this. Powerful, so powerful that they hardly need to think, and never think about their own destiny... Because of this, the news almost completely threw them into chaos, as if the world they knew in the past had suddenly collapsed.
What broke this situation was the intensification of the new priests.
They were originally only low-level believers, and their status in the monastery was only a little higher than that of the nuns. They were usually responsible for assisting the managers to manage the affairs of the monastery. There were almost no promotions who might be truly capable, and they would not be assigned here at all. Now that I have finally tasted the sweetness of power and lost the supervision above, it is naturally out of control.
Such as the "blessing" of the choir and the liturgy.
In fact, this kind of thing itself is prohibited, but the Holy City does not strictly manage the monastery, so big people with special hobbies often come here to have fun, which is not a secret in the compound. It was not until the incident of the escape of the supernatural beings that the church strengthened its supervision in this regard.
But now they have no worries.
"Blessing" changed from pulling people alone to the forced obedience of the entire class, and even finally evolved into a body-for-food deal. Not only was this a complete violation of the decree of the Church, but it also pushed the hesitant nuns to the side of the orphans.
Although these girls of different ages were plundered from the Four Kingdoms, it was not without emotion that they had been taught to read and write, and to practice carols. Coupled with the order given by the church, the nuns began to resist the new priest's orders, and secretly took out the food in the warehouse and distributed it to the starving children.
It's just that no matter how much they shrink their clothes and diet, they can't conjure food out of thin air. The food in the warehouse was getting scarce, and the priests also noticed the nun's "betrayal". The conflict then broke out during a food smuggling. They caught and executed two nuns on the spot. The nun's unease. After some planning and concatenation, the leader launched a counterattack one night. The priests, who were addicted to pleasure, were caught off guard, and the orphan coalition, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, cooperated with each other and caught them all at once.
Not only that, the leader also contacted the other two monasteries through the tunnel, and used the same method to deal with the ugly believers.
Just when everyone tried to select a representative, try to get over the high wall of the compound, and report the plight of the place to Hermes, the army of the Kingdom of Dawn appeared on the border of the old holy city.
Now that it has been abandoned, there is no other way but to resist. Everyone knows that once the enemy takes the monastery, even if they don't resist, it won't be much better, hence the scene that Isabella first saw.
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After listening to the nun's statement, Isabella had a huge doubt in her heart.
She has also heard of the bad habits in the monastery, and it is not unusual for those incompetent to quickly corrupt after gaining power. What surprised her was the order announced by the church.
To fight the enemy to the death? If this is the case, it is impossible for them to ignore the monitoring of the mountain trails while abandoning the outer city wall. What is the difference between doing so and surrendering the first line of defense
Even if he took 10,000 steps back, the Holy City was so short of manpower that even Yunzhong Lai couldn't take care of it, and it was impossible to say something like "giving up the old Holy City".
Because most people don't know the secrets of the church, but she knows clearly that neither the new holy city on the plateau nor the old city at the foot of the mountain is the core of the church. There is only one true core of the church, and that is the privy organ hidden deep underground. Whether it is the mining of divine stones, the study of magic stone talismans, or the transformation ceremony of the God's Punishment Army, all of them are built in this four-hundred-year-old building. carried out in a former secret institution.
In the old holy city, there is a secret passage leading to the Privy Temple, and even the main exit. How could such an important position be given up so easily
This command is full of loopholes and a complete lie!