With a slightly nervous and curious mood, Jibri came to the lord's mansion in the center of the southern city of Cecil.
This former "witch" with a healthy dark complexion, a good face, a little understanding of magic skills, and the ability to make a living between adventurers and hooligans with her eloquent tongue and the ability to trick and deceive sat anxiously at the audience. In the room, guessing what the task assigned by the lord would be, she had met Grand Duke Gawain Cecil before, but it was at the graduation ceremony of the first-term officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and she stood with a large group of students of the same period. On the square, she swore allegiance to the Grand Duke on the stage. At that time, she never thought that she would sit here one day and receive orders from the lord one-on-one.
Will it be a very dangerous task? A very difficult task? Or is it a very special task that must be completed by a specific person
No matter how she thinks about it, Jibri can't imagine that there is any decisive gap between herself and the ordinary officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau. However, the newcomers who were trained later, especially after being sent abroad for so long, are seriously out of touch with the local people, and urgently need to make up lessons...
There was no one else in the room, only the lord's chief maid was here to accompany her, and as a maid, the maid obviously wouldn't casually talk to the guests. In such a slightly uncomfortable atmosphere of silence and embarrassment, Jibri unknowingly Then she drank another cup of tea, and the second she put down the teacup, the sound of pouring water came from the side.
The chief maid was holding a big teapot, filled the empty teacup in one go, and then gave Jibri a dull smile: "Please use it."
"Ah, thank you..." Jibri said subconsciously, and then realized that she drank several cups of tea without noticing, and now she can't drink it at all, but for some reason, she just watched Glancing at the little maid named Betty, she felt a sense of "thought power" for no reason. It was obvious that the other party was just staring at her blankly, but Jibri had a feeling that "it is a crime not to drink the tea poured by the other party". Feel.
Weird psychological pressure... really worthy of being the person next to the lord.
Jibri blinked, and subconsciously reached for the teacup next to her, but before she picked it up, the door of the interview room suddenly opened.
The lord appears there.
The witch Jibri, who was about to become another victim of Betty's teapot, hurriedly put down her teacup, stood up and saluted respectfully and neatly: "I salute you, Your Excellency the Duke."
Gao Wenhun waved his hand indifferently: "No need to be polite, sorry for keeping you waiting, I'm preparing some things. Is the trip to the capital going well?"
Jibril suddenly became a little nervous. She folded her hands on her lower abdomen awkwardly, and lowered her shoulders slightly. This is one of the few "upper-class conversation postures" she learned when she was studying in the Military Intelligence Bureau: "Everything Good luck, my lord, the stronghold of the royal capital has been handed over to the later personnel, and the relevant reports have also been sent up."
Gawain sat down on his own seat, and he saw that the "senior operator" who seemed to be about the same age as Hetty was a little nervous, so he couldn't help laughing: "Very well, don't be restrained, just sit down and talk." .”
Jibri sat down in front of Gao Wen, and the latter looked the "witch" up and down with scrutiny, and said unhurriedly: "Jibri, who has no surname, was born in the Peipo area, and understands Magic, I used to be a magic apprentice for a short time, but after the mentor died in a vendetta, I fled to Leslie, and I used to make a living by divination and selling amulets, code-named 'witch', right?"
Jibri was still a little nervous, but she had calmed down a little. She nodded: "Yes, that was my previous experience."
"Amber once recommended you specifically, and she said that you have great talent," Gao Wen said, "It is said that you are eloquent, very good at deception, and have a good ability to adapt to the wind..."
The expression on Jibri's face suddenly became weird and awkward. She didn't think about what good words her former boss and of course the current boss would use to recommend herself. After all, that boss didn't have many good words in his head. , has always been a mouthful of gods and ghosts, and has relied on excellent escape skills for many years to avoid being beaten to death by enemies on the road, but these words used by his boss to describe his subordinates came from the mouth of Cecil's ruler …that would be a little exciting.
Fortunately, Gao Wen quickly relieved the "witch" lady: "Don't be nervous, I know Amber's word habits, and I can filter it myself to know what you are really good at. You are a talent in speech skills, and You should know how to arouse people's resonance and recognition in words, right?"
Jibri was a little embarrassed: "It's just some... unremarkable things."
"It's a talent that comes in handy, and I happen to have a mission for you that requires your talents. Mind you, this mission will have a very profound impact on your career as an MIB operator, but it It's really important," Gao Wen said while taking a stack of papers from the side, "You have to take a look at these things."
Jibri curiously took the papers, and was surprised to see that there were vivid pictures on them. She immediately thought of oil paintings, but soon she found that the completely realistic black-and-white pictures were very different from the painter's works. Moreover, the contents of those pictures are not artistic scenes and portraits, on the contrary, they are hardly artistic and not pleasant.
She saw grim-faced priests and discipline monks beating the people, saw people dressed as soldiers dragging residents from civilian houses to the street, saw people in priest robes directing soldiers to set fire to houses, and saw knights of the Holy See taking property from The civilians took it away, and the blood-stained people fell to the ground and begged...
Many pictures are not very clear, and the angles are not suitable. It feels as if they were secretly recorded by the side, and this kind of angle just gives people who look at these pictures a strong sense of substitution, as if All this is happening right in front of your eyes, at this very moment...
And more importantly: even in the least clear picture, the hideous expressions of those priests, priests, and Holy See knights are the clearest and most complete.
A strong disgust and resistance rose in Jibri's heart, because she had seen the above scene in reality, and even experienced it before.
It is normal for a witch who fled from another place and is not a real transcendent, but has one or two hands of magic skills and uses "witchcraft" such as divination to "confuse the people" to be rejected by the local church Once encountering a crime related to extraordinary power, he is the first to be suspected. It is commonplace to be expelled and beaten at every turn. Even if nothing happens on weekdays, he will be blackmailed by the church or the lord. …
There are many people who believe in the Holy Light, but in this world full of religions, there are also many people who reject the Holy Light, and among those who live at the bottom of society, there are even people who have no faith everywhere, and they are more or less "Mage Apprentices" The Jibri is even more so.
Gao Wen watched Jibri's expression change, and calmly took a magic device from the side. The structure of the magic device is like a simplified magic net communicator, and the number of magic lines on the triangular base is very small. But its top is inlaid with a high-quality projection crystal.
Gawain put the device on the table and activated it under Jibri's curious gaze: "Look at these pictures again."
The magic device was activated, and the image stored in the crystal was projected immediately. This time, Jibri saw the dynamic scene directly, and saw the church people beating civilians in the street.
The picture is short and shakes violently, obviously it was recorded under panic and covert circumstances.
As an apprentice sorcerer, Jibri is not surprised by the magic device that can project images, she is just curious about the content of the screen: "My lord, these are..."
"What has happened and is happening in Luan City," Gao Wen said seriously, looking into Jibril's eyes, "I ask you, after seeing these portraits and images, if you tell me what you see and think What would you say if you told more people and made those people realize the dark side of the Church of the Holy Light?"
Jibri seems to know what her mission is, she said while thinking: "Too direct criticism and cursing may be very effective for those who are against the Church of the Holy Light, but it is not good for neutral people and the Holy Light." It may be counter-productive for the church's advocates. State the facts in the most neutral way possible, and say 'the church has always been so dark' as plainly stated as a fact, will get the most resonance. Also Associating the victims in these images with those who received the propaganda makes people who hear about these things realize that they themselves are the people who can be beaten, looted, and burned at any time. If you don't mind making up some extra information, I can also make up a series of backgrounds outside of these frames... ”
"We don't need to make up anything, we just state the facts," Gao Wen said lightly, "We only need to state the facts, and that's enough."
"Just stating the facts is enough to achieve the effect you want," Jibril said immediately, but then frowned, "It's just that there are too many people in the southern border, those who believe in the Holy Light, those who believe in other gods, and those who don't...then It’s a huge number…”
As a smart person, Jibri has fully guessed the Lord's intentions, and as a person who does not believe in the Holy Light, she has no resistance to this matter. The only thing she is curious about now is that her card can only be used normally. To convince the mouths of three or two people, how to do what the lord asked
The lord specially summoned himself and collected the materials before him. The plan must be to attack the Church of the Holy Light throughout the southern border. This kind of thing cannot be done by just one or two sharp-tongued people.
Gawain looked at Jibri's face and smiled slowly: "What if your voice can be heard by people in the entire southern border?"
Jibri raised her head in surprise, looked into Gao Wen's eyes, and then she thought of the incredible things that had happened in this incredible land, and all the surprise in her heart turned into "The old ancestor's coquettish operation will definitely be successful, so don't ask "Just do it" mentality: "... If this kind of thing can really be done... then I have to prepare well."
"Then get ready, Miss Jibril." Gawain stood up and said each word with a pause. "A new war has already begun."