Colin smiled and said:
"Is your news too late?"
"You already know?" Adjani looked at Colin in surprise.
Colin immediately realized that the two were not talking about the same thing, so he smiled and said:
"I said that Mr. Ji is going to kill me, who are you talking about?"
"Mr. Xi wants to kill you?" The astonishment on Adjani's face did not seem to be fake.
Colin looked at Adjani quietly with examining eyes, as if trying to tell if she was lying.
Ajani thought about some information from Bailu City, as if she understood something, she said:
"The fire in Bailu City should be a sacrificial ceremony prepared by Mr. Ji, right? Could it be that you destroyed it?"
Ke Lin saw that Adjani really didn't seem to know Mr. Ji's plan in Bailu City, so he shook his head and said:
"No, before that, Mr. Ji will kill me. Is this how you treat your allies?"
Adjani frowned slightly, then shook her head and said, "Count Angelet, I am me, Mr. Yu is Mr. Mr. Our relationship is not as close as you imagined.
As for why Mr. Xi wanted to kill you... I guess it was because he felt threatened.
The Northern Territory, the Eastern Territory, and the Half-Elf Kingdom, these are all the territories that Mister Zi regards as his possessions, but they are all under your control now. Maybe that’s why Mr. Li has murderous intentions towards you. .
However, you don't need to worry about me, I'm not interested in secular power, and my identity doesn't allow me to control secular power.
My goal is to clean up this corrupt church, so that the glory of our Lord will not be dusted, and you want to suppress the power of the church in the field of belief. On this point, we have a basis for cooperation. "
Colin folded his arms and leaned against the doorframe, with a sarcastic smile on his face, and said:
"Okay, Archbishop Adjani, we don't need to pretend to trust each other anymore. The truth is, I never trusted you, and you won't really regard me as an ally.
That's all for this game, as for your grand desire to clean up the church, it's up to you to do it yourself. "
Adjani shook her head and said, "Master Earl, if you really don't trust me at all, why would you come to meet me in Blackthorn Village?"
Colin was silent for a moment.
Of course he wouldn't tell Adjani that he thought it was a trap set by her and Mr. Xi, and he was going to use himself as bait to try to surround and kill a paladin.
"I'm just dropping by." Colin said lightly, "Archbishop Adjani, do you know why I can't really trust you?"
"Why?"
"Because of the position.
You said that you wanted to clean up this corrupt church, but the reason you gave was that you didn't want to tarnish the reputation of the Lord of Radiance
I'm sorry, it's not that I don't believe that there are saints who sacrifice their lives for righteousness in this world, but that there are very few such people.
In my eyes, most people are profit-driven creatures.
As the Archbishop of the North and deeply trusted by the Pope, your future is boundless. Therefore, I don't think you will do anything that harms the interests of the church, because you yourself are a beneficiary of the church system. "
After hearing what Ke Lin said, Ajani stopped what she was doing, and then walked slowly towards Colin.
At this time, she had just taken off the rustic cotton coat outside, and only a thin underwear was left on her body, and her perfect body curve was faintly visible while walking.
"Trusted by the Pope? The future is limitless?" Adjani came to Colin with a sneer on her face, turned around, took off the last piece of underwear, and showed her naked back.
When Ke Lin was surprised, he saw Adjani's back—
That is a horrible back!
A series of ferocious welts crawled all over the originally smooth and white back, and these welts were old and new, criss-crossing, obviously not caused by a single brutality, but accumulated over many years of abuse.
"I'm just a tool for him to vent." Adjani put on her underwear again, with hatred in her eyes, as if she wanted to burn everything in the world.
Colin couldn't hide his shock, and asked, "Is this done by Pope Gregory?"
Adjani nodded, gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, since I was brought back to church by him when I was five years old, my nightmare has never ended!
Now you believe that I really want to destroy this damn church? "
Colin was silent.
The scars on Adjani's back could not be faked, but he did not expect that this superficially beautiful archbishop of the North would be so abused by the Pope in secret.
At this time, Colin also noticed that the secret hiding place that Ajani built specially for herself, although the decoration was luxurious, revealed a gloomy and dark style everywhere.
The floor is covered with a white wool carpet, but it is embroidered with a large pattern of blue enchantress roses. The flowers are so bright that they seem to drip purple juice, which is very strange to look at.
On the surrounding stone walls, ferocious beasts are drawn, with their teeth and claws open, vicious and ugly.
On the long table in the center of the room, there is a ram's skull—this is a symbol of the devil in the culture of the Glorious Empire!
However, Adjani remained calm in such an environment, and was wearing a purple tunic dress on her body. After hiding all the hideous and terrifying welt marks, she became the revered archbishop of the North again.
The whole body exudes a holy atmosphere, but reveals a natural charm everywhere.
In an almost evil environment, coupled with such a bewitching woman, intertwined into a very dangerous charm.
The more Colin watched, the more he felt that the archbishop of the North who had been abused since he was a child might be mentally abnormal...
"Count Angelet, don't you really want to know who is going to kill you?"
Only then did Ke Lin come to his senses, and said, "Tell me, what are you trying to tell me when you come to see me so painstakingly?"
Ajani recounted the visit of Cardinal Tournans and the "miracle" that happened in Bailu City.
After she finished speaking, she found that the man in front of her was gradually exuding a horrifying aura.
"What did Tournance do to Vera?" Colin's cold words seemed to come from hell.
Ajani was not surprised but delighted, she walked forward slowly, and said in her mouth:
"I don't know, but I'm sure that this has something to do with the Pope's secret manipulations when he baptized the Duke. Moreover, I suspect that your wife is planning to kill you now!"
"Impossible!" Colin said coldly.
"Of course not if the Duke is sane, but her will can't resist the Pope's magic. In the history of the Glorious Empire, there have been many people who have committed incomprehensible behaviors. In fact, the Pope is behind the scenes."
Hearing this, Colin suddenly remembered the story Mrs. Grace told him about the downfall of the St. Chapman family.
Could it be that the Saint Chapman who betrayed his family also fell under the Pope's spell
Adjani looked at the furious Colin, with an almost maniacal smile on his face.
She took another step closer, put her hand on Colin's chest, felt his strong and powerful heartbeat, leaned close to his ear, and bewitched:
"I can feel your pain, your anger, and I share your pain and anger.
Let us join hands and burn this evil world to ashes together! "
(end of this chapter)