The big search in Luan City started.
The destruction of the outer city by MI operations teams has finally brought the chaos and division of the city to its peak, and the priests of the cathedral have adopted their usual effective countermeasures in the face of the spiraling out of control
The Discipline monks and the Knights finally stopped holding back. They began to break into every house, interrogate every citizen, took away everything suspected of being infected with heresy, and took away all people who were shaken by doubts and beliefs. From "Iron Cross Street" to "White Pine Street" in the south of the city, the clergymen in black robes and knights in armor swept across the entire outer city like a wave of fear.
When the tide rolled in, the unarmed civilians were all panicked and fearful. For a while, the knights' scolding, whipping, and people's cries filled every street. After the tide rolled over, there was only a piece of land between the streets. Dead silence and low cries hidden in the corners, on the surface, it seems that this wave has flattened everything, but if a person with a little wisdom wanders around the city of Luan at this moment, he will find a fascinating Disturbing facts:
In the streets and alleys, among the trembling citizens of Luan, among the most devout people who believed in the God of Light in the entire southern region, there was no longer a single prayer heard.
However, it is a pity that at this moment, the Holy Light Cathedral can no longer hear or see the real situation in the outer city. The person in charge of the church has only one goal in mind at this moment: to carry out the heresy trial as soon as possible, even though the chaos that has gone out of control …
At the same time, outside Luan City, on the streets of the city in the central area of the southern border, a large holographic image is being projected over the public magic net terminal set up in the square. The witch Jeep who has gradually become a "famous person" recently Li was sitting in the video, and behind her was another dynamic picture: that was the chaotic streets of Luan City.
"... the city of Luan is in great chaos, and the priests of the cathedral are arresting innocent citizens throughout the city... All those who disobey the orders of the cathedral will be branded as heretics, and the priests and knights are beating unarmed civilians...
"Our lord is still trying to find a way to communicate with the priests of Luan City, but the open letter sent into the city was confiscated by the cathedral and burned in public...
"The Church of the Holy Light in the city seems to have completely rejected our peace wishes. The army led by the two generals Philip and Byron voluntarily withdrew to a place several kilometers away from the city wall under the condition that they could destroy the Luan Cathedral at any time. The soldiers After waiting for eighty-six days in the wilderness outside the city, we only got unilateral resistance and hostility from the Luan Cathedral... We can't help but wonder, what do the priests in the cathedral want? Send out one soldier and one soldier, why do you start killing your own innocent people instead?"
Accompanied by Jibril's heartbroken words, the images in the holographic projection flashed continuously, showing a large number of leaflets and booklets that were publicly burned, cruel burning at the stake, and images of church soldiers searching houses and intimidating the people. The scene, and the last picture is a scene of an angry and ferocious church soldier trampling a civilian under his feet. The roar of the church soldier came from the picture: "...how dare you hide the Cecilian's...who Give you the guts to disobey the bishop's order?!"
All the pictures were clearly shot under very tense and secret circumstances, and many pictures were accompanied by serious disturbing noises and color spots. The voice of Miss Witch continued to sound: "... This is the information sent by the couriers trapped in the city of Luan with desperate spells. I hope these brave couriers can survive this disaster safely..."
"Now, we have invited the editor-in-chief of the Cecil Weekly, a respectable scholar, Mr. Godwin Orlando, and several representatives of citizens from Cecil City and Kant City. We will discuss on the spot what the current chaos in Luan City is. Why did it come here? It will also discuss a question that a large number of viewers have been paying attention to recently: whether we should continue to wait for a rational response from the priests in the Luan Cathedral, and whether we should continue to look forward to the current Church of the Holy Light. We can't wait for a rational and peaceful answer, whether it is necessary for us to use our own hands to establish a new order of the Holy Light, so as to prevent someone from continuing to defile the Holy Light... "
The people gathered in the square looked emotionally at the picture on the holographic projection, and watched the status quo of the city of Luan, which had already started to play in a loop behind Jibril as the background image. In fact, we are no strangers. In our daily life, everyone will deal with the pastors of the church more or less, and we will also see the scene of pastors or church soldiers whipping civilians who made mistakes. The experience here is not the same thing at all, so many atrocities appeared together, stirring the nerves of everyone present.
And as for the matter that Miss Witch mentioned: the issue of whether a new Holy Light order is to be established that a large number of viewers are concerned about, people have almost no doubts.
Although the vast majority of people have never thought about this level at all, but Miss Witch has said so, so it should be the case.
Although I didn't pay attention to this matter, maybe others did.
People in this city didn't pay attention to this matter, maybe other cities did.
Some representatives of the citizens have already gone to the "show" to discuss this issue with the most famous scholars in the southern border. It seems that this issue has really become a hot topic and has become something that everyone is discussing.
"What are you waiting for! Those priests are already crazy!"
I don't know who was the first to shout out in the square, and soon someone began to respond.
"The priests in Luan City will not open the door obediently. They are dogs of the Northern Church! The civilians in Luan City are also Cecilians. We cannot let them suffer! Those priests are insulting the Holy Light! Let our The 'White Knight' is going to take over Luan City!"
Before the order-maintaining security team came to control the situation and reminded everyone to calm down and watch the show, similar calls sounded in almost every city and town covered by magic network terminals...
However, the cries outside Luan could not reach the cathedral. In this "City of Churches", the preparations for the heresy trial had come to an end.
The terrified people were once again driven to the square, gathered together under the coercion of magic and swords. In this world of extraordinary force, the endurance of the common people at the bottom showed a pathetic strength at this moment, even In the current situation, they did not show any signs of rebelling against the knights or priests. They gathered around the square like a silent flock, looking submissive and fearful.
However, Amber, who was in the crowd, could feel that there was an uneasy atmosphere in this silent flock, which was invisible and substanceless, but filled with the coldness and oppression of the approaching storm.
This is an unusual silence. Under normal circumstances, civilians gather together quietly. No matter how obedient and respectful they are, they will uncontrollably produce commotion and buzzing discussions, but at this moment...
It was too quiet, too silent, so quiet and silent that it seemed to be dead.
The wooden platform in the center of the square has been set up, and the ashes from the last fire have been cleaned up, but there still seems to be a lingering scorching smell in the square. Since the establishment of Luan City, how many people have been burned here? What about people? How many people were burned here for disobeying the church, talking about the bishop, or hiding scriptures
Those who were burnt to death, the pungent smell produced by their gradually charred corpses seems to have infiltrated the cracks of every stone brick, but today, these smells seem to seep out bit by bit...
The side door of the church area was opened, and the first to come out was a group of fully armed church soldiers, and behind the church soldiers, came out a group of gray linen robes, bare feet, and no crowns on their heads. priest.
This is the mark of "disciplined".
These people who are being punished are the clergy who have secretly hidden the leaflets or talked about the bishop in private. They walked behind the church soldiers, and there were discipline monks in black robes on both sides to maintain the team. They walked into the square with their heads down. Yuan stopped at the closest position to the civilians.
Some civilians quickly glanced at the priests who seemed to be being punished, and the latter also glanced curiously at the civilians in the square.
They all showed curiosity and surprise.
Afterwards, the gate of the church area was also opened, and the bishop of Luan Cathedral, Flambérand, appeared on the square with his group of priests.
Their bodies were filled with brilliant holy light, their white robes were still clean and bright, their steps were steady, and they were full of energy. Even at the moment when food rations were being cut repeatedly, and the rations of civilians in the outer city had been reduced to half-starved, their faces were still ruddy , the skin is plump and healthy.
Surrounded by the priests, Flambérand came to the high platform, and then frowned slightly.
The atmosphere here made him very uncomfortable.
The too dead square... was full of numb and stupid untouchables, but those who used to just lower their heads and tremble, now all looked at themselves with strange eyes.
Those eyes were neither awed nor offensive. Flambérand couldn't tell what they were, he just felt that those eyes seemed to be the eyes of a group of dead people, but they seemed to be looking at dead people.
Probably because of hunger...
Flambérand suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and forgave the offense in those people's eyes with great tolerance. He knew that today's heresy trial was a very crucial ceremony, and he had to endure it before it was completed.
A sound of armor rubbing came from the side of the square, and another group of church soldiers escorted a dozen ragged people to the wooden platform, and tied them to the pillars that had been prepared.
Frank Berenger calmed down, and then faced the square. He encouraged the Holy Light so that his voice could spread here: "People of the God of Holy Light, I know the suffering you have suffered these days. In fact, I'm heartbroken about this too...
"...it is the devil who has seduced and corrupted your relatives and friends, and planted doubt and division in people's minds..."
There was no sound in the square, there was neither applause nor objection, not even a little commotion.
Such an indifferent and deadly reaction was something Flambérand had never encountered before. He seemed a little embarrassed for a while, and then a little annoyed.
Yet his preaching had begun, and he had to go on.
So he forcibly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and encouraged the holy light even more, allowing the magnificent holy light around him to create a huge momentum, and these created momentum finally caused some commotion in the square. Let him continue his preaching: "... Today, I am here to expose the devil's tricks and expose their shadows lurking in people's hearts!
"Those who have been bewitched by the devil will undoubtedly be exposed and then purified, while those who have not been bewitched will naturally be justly identified and released. I will promise everyone that this trial is just and effective. of!
"I swear to the God of Holy Light, the Lord's glory and justice will be done!"
Flambérand raised his scepter high. Normally, he would have to wait for a moment after he finished shouting the exciting slogan, waiting for the people around him to cheer like a tsunami. However, at this moment, he has already realized that this It was difficult for him to cheer, so he simply and neatly omitted unnecessary details in the ceremony, directly arousing the magic power in his whole body, and while communicating with the voice of the God of Holy Light in his heart, he released a wide range of divine arts.
Accompanied by a faint sound of a holy voice, a hazy halo of whiteness spread out with Flambérand as the center.
Seeing such extraordinary power, the civilians in the square finally became a little commotion again, while on the wooden platform in front of the crowd, those who were tied to the pillars widened their eyes, watching with fear and tension. As the halo sweeps over them with seemingly unstoppable momentum
Where the halo swept across, a faint light curtain appeared on the bodies of those who were tied up, and then the light curtain shook violently, distorting countless shadow-like cracks, and those hazy cracks floated beside them And the top of the head, it looks very eye-catching.
Flambérand looked at this scene with satisfaction: as he expected, it was impossible for those who were in fear and self-doubt to pass the heresy trial.
The halo continued to spread out of the platform, and gradually appeared to dissipate.
Seeing the approach of the halo, the crowd at the inner edge of the square all showed nervous expressions. Some of them quietly took half a step back, but they didn't dare to make too obvious movements for fear of being spotted by the priests on the stage. Standing too far forward, they fell into the halo envelope.
Flambérand was surprised to see that in the aura of the Great Divine Word Art that was about to dissipate, several bright and constant rays of light lit up.
There are still such a degree of piety among the common people
Originally, he just wanted to use the aftermath of the magic spell to frighten those civilians, but he didn't expect to see the response of the Holy Light.
The temporary bishop was extremely surprised to see the directions where the lights appeared, but in the next second, he couldn't care less about what "those pious believers" looked like.
He found that the great divine words that should have diffused to the limit and dissipated naturally seemed to be strengthened out of thin air, and the halo that was already extremely dim in front of the crowd suddenly became extremely bright! !
It is reasonable to say that the magic that would be confined around the "judgment table" seemed to resonate with some sacred magic weapon. It was reinfused with energy, and then began to spread towards the entire square with an extremely rapid momentum.
Flambérand watched all this in astonishment, and suddenly realized in his heart, oh shit, it's over.