01.
When Teresa came in, it brought a gust of cold wind, Hill shivered, wrapped the fluffy cloak around his body tightly, and asked Erwin to heat up the fire in the brazier.
In fact, it is not cold physically, but it feels cold psychologically.
There are still a lot of chestnuts in the brazier, which emit a pleasant fragrance at this moment.
Theresa was wearing a dark gray wool coat with silver buttons, a casual outfit that made him look younger, and Hill realized how young Theresa was. Aha, young and promising.
After the two of them exchanged greetings in a few words, the maid brought out the tea and pastries.
"After taking over as Bishop of Winter City and clearing up the affairs of Winter City, I discovered that there are cults everywhere in Mülheim," Teresa said.
"Does this include you?" Hill asked with a smile.
"Of course, our Church of Light is the biggest cult." Teresa replied.
Hill laughed even harder, "You are so complacent when you talk about this."
"Yes, if the Church of Light is really as fair and brilliant as it is rumored to be, I don't have many chances to be in charge." Teresa replied very truthfully: "I'm not as powerful as Captain Monroe, but now This kind of messy situation just provides an opportunity for a young person like me."
"Hahaha you don't have to be too self-effacing," Hill said.
"I have always positioned myself accurately." Teresa shook her head slightly, and then said: "About cults, I just dealt with one a while ago. Their leader has two pupils, and then he said that he is actually the reincarnation of the Holy Son, He is the son of the God of Light."
"I even created a subspecies for your church." Hill commented.
"That double pupil is really scary. After all, those commoners have never been exposed to magic." Teresa said, "So they were quickly confused and gathered together. The 'leader' liked women, but later he missed his feet We found it."
"Oh, double pupils, it should be an early phenomenon of cataract." Hill said casually.
The term confused Theresa: "Cataract?"
This is not easy to explain, so Hill had no choice but to say: "It is a disease." He first saw double pupils as an early phenomenon of cataracts from Baidu Encyclopedia, and his first reaction was "After all, the world is wrongly paid." , is it agreed that double pupils are saints? Cang Jie, Chong Er, Xiang Yu... Well, there is an illusion that my childhood dream has been ruined. Oh, by the way, the first time his childhood dream was shattered was when he saw "Pigman" plagiarize "Tom and Jerry", and the second time his childhood dream was ruined was when he saw Ultraman av.
"So that's it." Teresa nodded, and then he said: "As for the issue of the degeneration of the Illuminati Church in the town you told me before, I found it difficult for me to solve it directly. The other party and Needham Joy There is a deep connection with Adams, and I suspect it is his illegitimate child."
"This man's name sounds familiar," Hill said.
"It's the bishop of the Holy City," Teresa said. "He used to be Captain Monroe's boss. He took a lot of credit from Captain Monroe."
"Oh," Hill said, "I'm more interested when I hear about the relationship."
"Er. En." Teresa hesitated a bit, "It would be fine if I go straight up with the character I have shown in the past, but recently I am being more tactful to the outside world, so it is not easy to deal with it directly at this juncture."
"It looks like this." Hill nodded, "Then what do you think?"
"If you can't deal with it directly, kill it behind your back." Teresa said.
"Cough. Okay." Hill was actually quite interested, "Then I'll go there myself."
"It's okay, but you really have leisure time."
"Teach the kids by the way," Hill said.
"Kid..." Teresa was taken aback for a moment, "You can't be talking about..."
"I think you guessed right," Hill said.
Teresa felt a little flustered in her heart, "Are you planning to..."
"Train him." Hill replied.
Teresa hesitated for a moment, "Am I asking too much?"
"It's okay, depending on my mood," Hill said.
Theresa smiled, and he didn't continue to ask, "Then I won't ask, no matter what you do, I will follow."
Teresa said it with sincerity.
It is rare that there is no snow today. In fact, the sky is very clear today, as if by magic. The stars outside are very bright, as if soaked in cold water, releasing a misty cold light.
The temperature in the house is very high, very comfortable. The chestnuts had already been roasted, and Erwin skillfully burned off the skins, and after a simple treatment, he served the chestnut flesh.
Hill picked up one and ate it. It was soft, sweet and delicious, "I know you will follow, but what I care about is that you have your own thoughts now. Don't deny it, I see everything." The last sentence It was purely pretentious, he felt that it was more handsome to say it this way.
"I do have my own ideas," Teresa admitted frankly, "but you and Captain Monroe are the most important."
"You can follow your own ideas. I know a little bit about your ideas. In fact, I am paving the way for you now." Hill said, and he revealed this when he talked with Jackson Sr. before.
Theresa, Bishop of Winter.
What will be higher
-it goes without saying.
Teresa was silent for a long time, his eyes lowered.
"You show such a bitter expression in front of you with such delicious chestnuts, it's a waste of food." Hill was upset when he saw the paladin's expression, "Ervin, break his mouth open for me, I'm going to force-feed him."
Teresa let out a series of coughs, "I'll do it myself, Lord Demon King... I want to ask, do you trust me?"
"Actually, to put it bluntly, I have not known each other for a long time, and the time we have spent together has not been very long." Hill said bluntly and coldly: "At the beginning, I intentionally approached the paladins and abducted you, but now you have jumped out of the original circle , can you see it?"
Teresa hesitated for a moment, then replied: "I have a feeling about this, but I'm not sure, so I don't want to think about it. Now that you've told me so directly, I definitely take it for granted."
"Well. I'm a very honest person. Actually, I don't like any lies. They are basically misleading people." Hill said casually, "Honesty and good reputation, killing his whole family is definitely the kind of killing his whole family."
Teresa almost choked on the chestnut: "Hey, your example is very vivid."
"I also think it's very vivid." Hill smiled slightly. "There is such a premise. I know you are talented, and with my support, you have a chance to reach a higher position. As for trust, "Hill said very simply: "I know you can't betray Monroe, I am one with Monroe, he trusts you, and I trust you." He made a joke here, "I miss you You don’t have to make demands on me personally, do you?”
"Of course not. I'm afraid the captain will kill me." Teresa said, and then he smiled, "No matter how many times I hear it, I feel that your way of thinking and expression is really cool."
"ah… "
In fact, I feel a little embarrassed to be praised so bluntly.
As Teresa left the house, she saw stars twinkling like mercury lamps in the dark night sky.
His Majesty the Demon King said that he would support me in doing what I want to do.
I am a paladin. I will do anything. But I'm a paladin.
I want to do something, something good, and if someone doesn't want to accept it, I just knuckle my head and let him accept my offer.
But first, in order to achieve my goal, I have to stand taller, taller.
Thank you trash and scum for giving me a chance.
My knight sword hungers for more blood and glory.
Theresa suddenly smiled after walking a few steps. He turned around and placed his hands on both sides of his mouth like a megaphone, and shouted towards the window: "Your Highness!"
Soon, the figure of His Royal Highness Greenwald appeared in front of the window: "What's the matter?" Obviously there was a distance, but the voice seemed to ring close to his ears.
"Winter is coming soon, you can eat Dongxue sweet peaches, and I will send them to you when the time comes!"
Teresa yelled.
Hill suddenly laughed at the window.
Teresa, you really have a cute side.
To actually call him through the window without any image for such a thing.
At this moment, Teresa seems to have become the teenager who just became Monroe's adjutant-at that time, he was so excited because he was close to the person he admired and thought he could make great achievements.
Youthful. passionate. future.
An unprecedented feeling - living so meaningful. So much to look forward to.
02.
Autumn in Mülheim, the Ice Empire, is frighteningly cold. The sky changes color early in the morning, covered with black clouds, gloomy and terrifying, as if with a straight face, the strong wind blowing makes the temperature drop suddenly, everyone They all wrapped up their clothes and hurried across the street, not wanting to stay outside. The rain didn't start ticking until noon, without the poetic charm of summer, only reminiscent of cold and even death. For the poor, it is true.
After Hill's carriage left the city gate, the guards spun the winch, and with the creaking sound of their teeth, they slowly lowered the gate of Cold Winter City.
Alice sat in the carriage. She didn't have a good rest last night, so she was still a little sleepy. In order to dispel her sleepiness, she asked, "Sir, where are we going?"
"Take you to kill." Hill said.
"Is it killing bad people?" Alice said.
Hill was amused. "Traditionally, I'm the bad guy."
"No, for me, anyone who is against Hill is a bad person." Alice said.
"Well... this idea is okay, I like it very much." Hill said, "But one more thing, the people who are against you, Alice, are also bad people."
"Okay." Alice showed a big smile.
Ah, my heart melted.
Then Hill briefly explained the degenerate church in that town, saying that the person in charge of that church was the illegitimate son of the Bishop of Holy City, so it was inconvenient for the Church of Winter City to do anything to them.
"The illegitimate child... I thought all the illegitimate children of the church would be killed." Alice raised her face and said.
She already knew that she had many brothers and sisters, but they were all dead.
"It depends on personal habits." Hill said.
"What about you? Will you kill your illegitimate child in the future?" Alice asked.
"Eh, I won't have an illegitimate child. Anyway, since the church can't do anything, I'll go and deal with it."
His 'handling' was an understatement, but the meaning contained in it was quite terrifying.
"There is a backstage... so the lives of civilians have no weight." Alice concluded.
"People are soft-spoken, so they have to become stronger." Hill also made a conclusion. Instill in Alice the idea of becoming stronger every day.
When they went to the town again, they saw that the town was in chaos. Many civilians were running around in tattered clothes, and many people were crying.
When Hill got out of the carriage, many villagers recognized him. Some cursed softly, cursed loudly, and even threw stones at him.
"It's because of you that the church collects more taxes from us!"
"We won't survive!"
"We'll starve to death this winter!"
"It's all your fault!"
A few days ago they were treating him as a hero.
Hill thought about it briefly, and it probably happened like this. After Hill and the others left, these depraved priests in the church survived because of their backers. They were very angry after being humiliated, and vented their anger on the civilians. Come and blame Hill.
This kind of thing is actually quite common, oh, it's human nature, it's human nature.
Generally speaking, "good people who can do good things" like Hill are relatively kind in theory, and can be bullied, and will not do anything to these unarmed civilians. So everyone is more willing to scold good people than provoke bad people who can kill people. The so-called venting emotions, that's what happened.
Hill casually explained these things to the startled Alice, and then waved his hand. The stones shattered automatically when they approached him. The villagers were a little scared after seeing it, so they didn't dare to speak directly.
The whispers are still there.
Hill ignored them, he went straight to the church, and the magic dragon followed Alice's wheelchair. When the guard at the gate saw Hill, he let him in, and then a group of paladins poured out of the courtyard, surrounding Hill. It seems that they are ready, the paladin should have been transferred from elsewhere.
The battle is about to begin.
03.
Meanwhile, Theresa Shelley was writing to the Pope of the Illuminati.
To the effect that recently he discovered that the church in a town has fallen, but the head of the church there has a close relationship with Lord Needham Joyce. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts and to avoid affecting the unity of the church, he did not directly kill people as before, but chose to have his subordinates pretend to be demons to kill people.
Then Teresa also took credit and said that I have improved a lot, and I have become a lot more tactful~
The corner of the pope's mouth twitched after receiving this letter, what the hell is this smooth... Well, you are indeed a little "smooth" compared to before, but really only a little bit! Your growth rate in this area is too slow!
However, the Pope feels reassured that growing up is a good thing. After all, as a bishop, going too extreme is not good for church governance, but growing too fast is not good... To be honest, Teresa can sit until today Half of the credit for his position is that he seems to be in control. If he really grows rapidly, the pope will feel a little bit of a sense of crisis. Although he is over a hundred years old, his body is still strong, and he wants to sit on the position of pope for another hundred years. So Teresa is growing up now, but so slowly, which is very much in line with the Pope's ideas.
The one pretending to be a demon to kill... Okay. Very Bishop Shelley.
It's really no longer cheating the demons all the time.
But he still needs to help clean up the mess left behind... It's just right, let's take this opportunity to beat Bishop Joyce.
the other side.
The magic dragon breathed out, and almost all the paladins lost their fighting power. Hill walked up to the priest and just stared at him indifferently: "You said that the God of Light predicted all this, and you said that there will be a drought next year, so all these lands will be handed over to the church. Your God's prophecy is really powerful .”
"You, what are you..." The priest trembled, already terrified by the dragon's fighting power.
"It doesn't matter whether I am a demon or a human, but I would like to ask you a question, Father." Hill asked kindly: "Did your god predict your death?"
The priest again showed the weeping expression he had shown a few days ago: "Please let me go, Your Excellency, please let me go."
"Oh, it looks like your god didn't make a prediction." Hill's expression became cold: "Then I will reluctantly act on behalf of God to make a prediction for you. You will die today. Beat him to death." He The voice at this time sounded very cold.
The priest wailed: "Your Excellency Joyce will not let you go! I, I am his son!"
"Congratulations on bringing disaster to your Lord Joyce." Hill raised the corners of his lips, and then waved his hands.
The magic dragon behind Alice stretched out his fist and directly beat the other party into small pancakes.
Alice stared at the terrible corpse for a while, and then asked: "Sir, those villagers still beat you, why do you help them?"
"If I were an ordinary person, and I left after I taught the priests a lesson, the people in the church would transfer their anger to the villagers. The villagers could barely survive, but they couldn't survive because of my meddling. Are you saying they should hate me?" Hill asked.
Alice thought hard for a while, "But they should hate the Church even more."
"I've killed all the people in the church now, and the other people in the church will pursue it. It is very likely that they will give the villagers evidence of collusion with the demons, so that the villagers will all be killed. Do you think they should hate me?" Hill keep asking.
"But... the Church should be resented more." Alice said with some uncertainty.
"You don't need to be unsure, let me answer for you, yes, it is the church that should be resented more." Hill said, "Helping others, if you have no brains, it will only be a disservice, from the perspective of the helper. Yes. They don't resent the church because they're used to it, because they're numb. Would you resent a flood and an earthquake? You wouldn't, you'd only resent the man who took your piece of bread at that time."
Alice nodded slowly, as if she understood something.
For these people, the church is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster.
"It's an ingrained mindset and hierarchy, and that's what I want to break. It's not entirely their fault that they did this to me—although they're pretty stupid. But I also understand that I don't act chivalrously because I want to. Their gratitude, of course, is better if they are grateful, but it’s okay not to be grateful, I just want to do it more.” Hill said.
Alice thought hard about these things, which were too advanced for her.
After doing all this, Hill looked at the sky with an indifferent expression, "A blizzard is coming." He said, "Let's grab a house for the night."
"Okay." Alice nodded obediently, "Sir, I want the biggest one."
"Okay," Hill said.
#All villains#
#But we are villains with style#
04.
Not long after, Needham Joyce, Bishop of the Holy City, received the news that his illegitimate son had been killed by the demons. He went to the Pope very angrily, and the Pope told him: "There is something else wrong with this matter, you still don't have to pursue it." gone."
Joyce was indignant: "I have made so many contributions to the church, so I can't protect or even revenge?"
The Pope glanced at him, "I still know about the fact that you excluded Monroe. I also know where the credit for you comes from. Your Excellency Joyce, should you examine yourself? God is merciful, but God is merciful. It is also just." When he said this, he still spoke in his usual unhurried tone, with solemnity and judgment.
God is merciful when you are useful, and God is just when you are useless. There is nothing wrong with that.
Needham Joyce choked and left with a frown.
The Pope looked at his back for a while, then snorted, raised his hand and drew a symbol on his chest, "May the God of Light bless you, my child." His words seemed to be fished out of ice water Same.
05.
Returning to Cold Winter City again, Ice Emperor Claude confirmed all aspects of the empire's promotional film. Claude finally chose the version that compares to the second grade. Hill rolled out an outline that night, and Claude made some proposals. The final outline was finalized. for 8 minutes. Claude's original twenty minutes are gone.
There are a lot of big scenes in the promotional video, and the whole country started preparations after the Ice Emperor gave an order. The main shooting locations were outside of Winter City, the Palace of Winter City, and the fleet of Winter Harbor.
Black the black and White the white, they are the two most loyal dogs of the imperial family. In addition to their own fiefs, White has been in charge of the bustling city of Winterhaven for the Ice Emperor in the past, while Black has controlled an army. The White family head is usually in Limburg, or in Winter City. Of course, Black and White are the only two families whose heads are often in Winter City. People from other families used to think that they were too unlucky to enjoy the happiness in their own territory, and were forced to enjoy the "grand grace of the emperor" in Winter City all day long. But now, of course everyone is so envious that their eyes are turning green.
Winter Harbor is far away and cold to the people in the south of the Yulan Continent, and pirates don't want to come there. Mülheim's navy is very powerful. As a result, the merchant ships in Winterport were full of goods and freely traveled between various ports, and then handed over half of the income to the empire.
Hill plans to use "1492 Conquest of Heaven" as the soundtrack for the promotional film. This is not light music, but all fallen angels are good at rhythm, so they quickly pulled up a huge symphony orchestra. They also had experience playing symphony before, such as the theme song of "The Godfather".
"1492 Conquest of Heaven" is a very shocking piece of music, it has an epic style, and it is the kind of classic that has been included in textbooks, brilliant and magnificent. It's perfect for a soundtrack of this kind of empire. In the middle, Hill also specially arranged such a scene. Ice Emperor Claude shook hands with Emperor Yulan, took a group photo, and shook hands and took a photo with the Demon King himself. At that time, Ice Emperor Claude stared at these lines, but finally said nothing.
What this means can be imagined.
Emperor Yulan naturally had no objections, and now he was like the heroine who was thrown on the bed in the domineering president Wenli, like a "broken doll at the mercy of others".
It took a week to shoot this film, and Hill made a trip back to Demon World halfway. He brought a lot of guinea pigs with him when he returned to the Demon Realm last time. One of the food sources for the natives of the Plague Islands is to raise guinea pigs, which is similar to South America on Earth. In addition to being edible, the fur of guinea pigs is also a good material for making clothes. It is soft and light, so Hill plans to carry out large-scale Yangzhi.
I don't know how the tauren raised it.
Before that, Hill found some ways to raise guinea pigs on the Internet, but most people on earth raise them as pets, so Hill can only provide very little information, and the tauren has to figure out other things by themselves... Speaking of which, I hope I remember an incident that happened on a certain farm in England before. A male guinea pig sneaked out of the cage and got into the cage of the female guinea pig. He mated with 24 female guinea pigs in turn and gave birth to more than 40 young guinea pigs. When the farmer found him later, he was so exhausted that he was sent back to his cage, where he was unconscious for two days before waking up. Then this thing doesn't seem to need the help of the succubus. Hill's mouth twitched in thought.
I went back to the Demon Realm, handled some chores, and sent Alice back by the way. Hill quickly cut the promotional video and handed it to Ice Emperor Claude.
On this day, Hill and Olivia were also invited to the palace, and Ice Empress Claude released the promotional video in public.
The music sounded, and the first thing that appeared was the large golden characters of Mullheim Ice Empire, which shone dazzlingly and turned into the sun in the sky as a transition. Then came Mülheim's fleet, majestic and magnificent, but the tone of the whole picture is relatively gloomy, and the music is also moving forward slowly, appearing thick and imposing. When the camera turned, it was a parchment map of the entire Magnolia Continent, and Mülheim's markings radiated light on the parchment.
The sound of the music gradually increased, and then appeared the Ice Emperor Claude sitting on the throne, his eyes slightly lowered, and the king's sword was in his hand. This picture is equally gloomy. Then there are quick silhouettes, war and blood, dead people—these shots are gray and white. After the silhouette, it was Claude on the throne again. He got up, and his silver eyes became firm. In the next second, the camera quickly pulled out from the palace, crossed the steps, and crossed the flying Mülheim flag. The magnificent blue sky, the mountains, the splendid Ice Emperor Palace, and the flying flags. —The music has completely reached its climax.
The previous depression was swept away, and the entire empire looked radiant.
The next step is a naked display of national power, and Hill tried his best to make it more artistic.
War, flames, the sea, the soldier's sharp sword, the light reflected on the armor, and the resolute expression. The mage group united to stop the avalanche, and the city of Winter stood tall in the blizzard.
Interspersed in the middle are the appearance of Emperor Yulan shaking hands with the prototyped Hill and Ice Emperor Claude.
This is actually quite a symbolic picture.
In the last shot, the Ice Emperor stands on the wall of the city of Winter, and the people below kneel down at the same time:
"Long live Milheim.
Long live the Ice King. "
Behind him, the flag of Mülheim fluttered.
Then the Ice Emperor drew out the sword of the king and held it high:
"For the glory of the empire!"
Everyone said in unison: "For the glory of the empire!"
The sound lingered over the city of Winter, dispelling the snow clouds from the sky.
Finish!
At the end of the promotional video, the imperial meeting was completely silent.
The Grand Scholar originally planned to object to the scene where the Ice Emperor shakes hands with the Demon King and Emperor Yulan, but he forgot all about it at the moment.
Everyone was infected by the magnificent atmosphere.
And Hill officially tied the Ice Empire to the Demon Race ship.
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