He handed over the outer city and shattered the last cohesion of the Holy Light Church.
After that, three days passed.
The out-of-control and farce-like heresy trial three days ago ended with the complete blockade of the church district, and then the whole city was surrounded by a strange atmosphere.
At that time, the civilians gathered around the burning platform gathered for a long time after watching the gate of the church area close, but in the end, no one made any reckless actions such as storming the church or knocking down the priest. They retreated sparsely, but Hu Po knew very well that only the crowd dispersed, but the flame in people's hearts had already been ignited.
The next three days are the three days that make the flames burn hotter and hotter.
For three consecutive days, the "leaf bombardment" of the Cecilians has not been interrupted. In the morning, noon, and night of each day, a round of bombardment will arrive on time. The leaflets will come to the sky over Luan City accompanied by special cartridges, and then It was blown away by the magic power and scattered into the whole city.
These leaflets will not only fall in the outer city, but also in the church area of the inner city, and this time, the priests in the church area finally completely gave up cleaning up these leaflets.
They let these leaflets float everywhere in the city, even covered the roofs and courtyards of churches, they let the outer city completely lose control, and seemed to have completely given up the idea of restoring order.
People in the outer city began to openly collect the leaflets that fell into the city, and began to openly discuss the priests in the church. They gathered in the streets and alleys, and communicated with each other. During the day, waves of people came to the church area In the open square, staring at the closed gate, at night, there are countless dots of candles moving between the streets, and in the shadows of the candles, there are speeches that openly attack the church.
The curfew system has completely failed, and the outer city is falling into a strange situation where calmness and excitement are mixed, indifference and madness coexist. It seems that the sweet smell of blood has spread in Luan City, but in the church district in the center of the city, Everything was uncharacteristically quiet.
Since Flambérand entered the cathedral, no priest or knight of the Holy See has seen the bishop come out of it...
Night fell on the fourth day. In the secret stronghold near the square, the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau were gathering in the room. The flickering candles lit up the small room. The operator nicknamed "Skinny" stood at the table Next to him, he reported the information he had just collected:
"The gate of the church district is still sealed, and the situation of the chapel district can be seen from the heights of the outer city, but the movement of the cathedral is completely unclear. Flambérand seems to have locked the cathedral inside..."
Another officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau also stood up: "There is no sign of escape from the priests in the church area..."
"Civilians spontaneously blocked all intersections. We spread the news that the priests of the cathedral were about to flee. Now it seems that the news has worked."
"Some church soldiers who were stranded in the outer city disarmed on their own initiative. They came out of several garrisons in the outer city, tied each other, and came to the streets to ask for food from civilians. We tried to guide the residents to share some food with them. Those church soldiers, now those soldiers are our own."
Amber was quietly fiddling with the dagger in her hand while listening to the reports from her subordinates. She seemed to be waiting for something, her long elf ears trembled slightly in the air, and she turned sharply to a certain direction from time to time, The face is absent-minded.
A subordinate finally noticed the situation of his boss, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Boss... are you listening?"
"I'm listening," Amber waved her hand casually, and then her ears trembled again, "But let's stop for a while, we have guests tonight."
The officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau looked at each other in astonishment, while Amber shook her wrist, and she quietly put away the poisoned dagger that she was playing with just a second ago, and then almost at the same time, there was a sudden knock on the door sounded.
"Go open the door and don't use force."
The officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau standing near the door was instructed by Amber, and immediately stepped forward to open the door, but even though Amber said not to use force, the operator still put his hand on his waist, where there was a dagger for protection.
The door opened, and a tall, thin, brown-haired middle-aged man with short curly brown hair was standing at the door, and there were two people standing behind him, also dressed in coarse cloth, dressed as civilians.
The tall and thin man glanced at the room, with a hint of alertness and nervousness on his face, and the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau in the room also looked at the "guests" at the door with the same alertness, and almost at the same time, each of them They all subconsciously tightened the muscles of the whole body:
Although the three people standing at the door were all wearing rough linen clothes, they could never be civilians. These three people had plump and shiny skin, although their expressions were tense, their eyes were bright. They obviously hadn't been hungry recently, and they possessed such A person with this characteristic... could only come out of the church district!
Just when the atmosphere suddenly became tense, Amber's voice came from the deepest part of the room: "Let them in, I know they are coming."
The operator at the door stared at the three people in front of him, and took a step back to give way to the house. After the three people entered the house, he immediately poked his head out and took a quick look at the situation outside, after confirming that no one was ambushing or following them He quickly stepped back and closed the door.
The three people who entered the room came to Amber under several pairs of gazes, and the latter looked up and down at the tall and thin man who was obviously the leader, and broke the silence after a while: "I thought you wouldn't show up, so I will There is only a backup plan.”
The tall and thin man showed a wry smile: "... We have been looking for you for a long time, but we didn't expect you to be hidden so close to the church area, right under our noses."
"The more dangerous the place, the safer it is, just like the more pious the place, the less religious it is," Amber casually said, making the face of the tall and thin man in front of her tremble, and then she followed up without giving him a chance to refute, "Introduction Take a look at yourself, my subordinates are curious."
"... Seventree," the tall and thin man was silent for a moment, and then he said with a little trouble, "the low-ranking pastor, the manager of the small church in the west. These two are my friends Amael Crete and Cole Manroney."
Amber nodded, and casually explained to the subordinates beside her: "This man named Severntree was summoned by me, and I secretly slipped a small note on him, agreeing to let him come."
The officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau in the room were a little startled, but the people here were all trained by Amber, and they realized almost instantly what the three priests who ran out of the church area in front of them meant, and no one Instead of questioning, he quietly watched the development of things.
"To be honest, I thought you would be the only one here," Amber looked at the priest named Severntree, with a slightly playful tone, "When I heard three footsteps, I almost gave You are sentenced to death."
Severntree ignored Amber's vague threats, but asked curiously, "Why did you contact me?"
This tall and thin middle-aged priest was one of the priests who were punished wearing a sackcloth, walking barefoot, and guarded by discipline monks in the Heresy Judgment Square. However, he was not the only priest who was punished at that time. It made him feel extra curious.
Amber replied casually: "There was once a pastor who was preaching in the southern border passing by Luan City. His name was Wright."
"Wright... that big man?" Severntree was stunned for a moment, and then realized, "Ah, then I understand... It seems that he is really with you. I remember him. Rarely see a classical priest like him again. How is he doing?"
"It's okay, the God of Holy Light dumped him, and then he dumped the God of Holy Light, and now he rubs his own Holy Light, and is leading a team to teach others how to rub Holy Light," Amber shrugged, "About His situation will not be clear for a while, and I will only tell you one thing: Wright said that if there are still the last few people in the city of Luan who hold a conscience, then Severntree must be one of them. You are so Chosen."
"Holding conscience has become a rare quality for priests?" Severntree's tone was full of sarcasm, but his expression quickly returned to normal after the sarcasm, and he looked at the short half-elf in front of him. , and the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau in the room, the expressions on their faces were extremely complicated, "You...or the Duke behind you, what exactly do you want?"
Amber smiled slightly, and said politely and politely, "I want the Church of Holy Light to get out."
The skin on Seventree's face trembled again: "Aren't you afraid that I will report you to the cathedral immediately?"
"Don't say such a stupid thing, it will make me doubt Wright's vision. By now, you shouldn't be unable to see the situation clearly, right? Are we worried about your denunciation? In addition... do you think the Church of the Holy Light can still Do you have a firm foothold in the southern border?"
Seventree's face was cloudy and uncertain, and he seemed to want to refute something, but before he could speak, Amber suddenly picked up a piece of paper from the table beside him and handed it to the priest: "Let's take a look."
Seventree took the paper curiously. At first, he thought it was another leaflet printed by Cecil, but after seeing the content on it, his expression froze.
It was a newspaper, dated yesterday, and on the first page of the newspaper was written a line of headlines in huge letters:
"Evil is growing in Lu'an City, and millions of people in the southern border are looking forward to the lord's restoration of the order of the Holy Light"
Beneath this horrifying headline, Priest Cervetli saw a scene that made him dizzy: on the vivid black-and-white portrait, it was the Holy See knights and church soldiers of Luan City dragging the dying civilians who were beaten The scene where they go to the stake.
This scene of a heresy trial, which has become very common in recent years, is particularly gruesome and terrifying due to the angle of the photographer and the atmosphere of the background of the square.
"This is the newspaper. I don't know if you guys have heard of this when you're locked down, but I can tell you that this stuff goes all over the south and is published twice a week. You think the leaflets that are thrown into the city these days How much? In fact... those leaflets are just leftovers from printing these newspapers."
Severntree let go of the newspaper in his hand dejectedly, all his persistence and luck were gone.
It turns out that... the terrible and overwhelming leaflets in Luan City are just the tip of the iceberg of all the actions of the Cecils.
Thinking of how long these people had been lurking in Luan City, and how much these people had spread the situation in Luan City through some kind of magical power, the priest felt shuddering.
And all of this... was planned by that terrible founding hero, Gawain Cecil, right
"Exile the Holy Light... what can you get?"
The devout Holy Light priest finally spoke, his hoarse voice startled himself.
"You made a mistake. We didn't intend to exile the Holy Light from the very beginning," Amber immediately corrected the other party's statement. "What we want to exile is only the church. Only by exiling the church can the people get the Holy Light."
"Exile the church?" Severntree's heart, which was about to sink to the bottom, suddenly jumped, and he seemed to grasp the point, "What do you mean..."
"The new order of the Holy Light... Ha, I really didn't expect that I would discuss this kind of thing with a priest of the Holy Light, but who told me that this is my job? We will establish a new Order of the Holy Light, and all this, just need you A little cooperation."