It was dusk, and the atmosphere in Hollier City seemed very solemn.

The events that happened today were so bloody that the city almost fell into a state of martial law from the afternoon. The external name was "search for pagans" and the words of comforting were "the situation has been effectively controlled". As for whether it was true, it was difficult for civilian gentry and even nobles to know. After all, such matters only involve religion and do not have much impact on the interests of the nobles, so they naturally were too lazy to care about it.

However, some people are watching from the wall, while others are in a state of anxiety.

Akasha, who was running desperately, felt that her legs were almost numb.

It is hard to describe her mood at this time. I don’t know whether it should be anger or grievance, or self-blame or regret. In short, when it is mixed together, I just feel that the blood in my body is cold.

After finally making up her mind to get rid of the "Viridian Cross", she suddenly encountered such a thing, which was really unacceptable for Akasha - because when everything was screwed up, she still didn't understand the reason!

Akasha felt innocent: she provided Gallup's intelligence to Rubens, and she did not cooperate with Gallup to attack at critical moments, but Rubens, who finally agreed to join the "Rose Cross" and clear the charges, actually directly attacked herself with divine magic on the spot, and even ordered the soldiers to chase and kill all their subordinates...

When she saw the temple guards pounced towards her and her subordinates, she felt so sad that she had only the instinctive sense of escape left in her mind. Because she had the identity of "recovery" and advanced to "Pastor of Light", she finally successfully escaped under the cover of her subordinates and went all the way to the relatively remote Campbell district of Hollier City.

After the sun sets, there are no street lights in the dark Campbell area. Her condition can be called "dark" moving forward. However, the reason why Akasha walked here was because she clearly remembered a secret passage that "Virida Cross" had spent half a year digging here - and if she found the entrance to the secret passage, she could escape from Hollier City directly!

As for where she went after leaving the city, she didn't think about it at this time. The only thought in her mind was not to be caught by the temple guards...

Akasha, who was walking quickly, narrowed her eyes and identified the blurry scenery around her. She barely had the lights in the tavern that could reflect the outline of the surrounding walls. She could confirm that she should be several hundred meters away from the entrance - and at this moment, a loud shout came from a short distance: "Who is it?!"

Akasha is not an old fox like Gallup. She has never been a pastor who adheres to her duties. She is not as cunning or scheming as the group of guys who are studying in **********. So when she heard such a question, she immediately ran away in a panic and could not think of any other way of dealing with it.

"There's someone there! Catch him!"

The sound of words then proved that Akasha's judgment was correct. The two temple guards had already planned to search the Campbell area and left, but they could not find the suspicious target at random. They immediately took big steps to chase after them. In terms of physical strength, the three Akashas were not as good as such professional soldiers, but she had an excellent memory. She was very familiar with the Campbell area where she had lived here for more than ten days. The hidden places in the corners had been studied very early, so she immediately turned left and right and got into the narrow alley, found a low crack in the wall and crawled into the low body...

Because she was wearing cloth shoes, Akasha's footsteps were not loud, and the armored temple guard ran away and kept ringing, so the guard did not catch the movement of her stopping and hiding, and soon ran over in front of Akasha's eyes-

“Where have you gone?”

"It should be there!"

"It's a fork, look for it separately!"

The two footsteps gradually left, but Akasha didn't dare to act rashly. She held her breath and waited for a while, confirmed her safety, and then climbed out quietly, then touched the wall and headed towards the entrance of the tunnel, which was only two hundred meters away.

Be calm.

Akasha said to herself in her heart, and the slightest movement in her ears touched her nerves, but just when she thought she could walk all the rest of the journey safely, the sudden severe pain from her back suddenly made her stop—

"hiss…"

Her cheeks, which were originally flushed because of the continuous running, suddenly became pale. She immediately understood that the pain was a curse from Bishop Garkad!

The "Flashing Punishment" directly opened her back and broke a hole!

"If you don't come early or late, don't come late... Damn it!"

She cursed, but knew that she could not cast any magic tricks at all, because even the simplest "primary recovery trick" would flash with dazzling light in this dark environment, and for the temple guards who were searching for her, this was definitely a death-seeking act.

So Akasha immediately decided to endure the pain and continue running. When the wounds appeared on her back, Akasha almost bit her lips in pain. She usually sat in a chair and waited for the curse to end, so the pain was still endured, but now she was running desperately. The pain when she pulled the wound was countless times greater than before, almost making her scream.

However, under the strong willpower, Akasha actually forced herself to run for nearly two hundred meters. When she arrived at the entrance not far from the secret passage, she felt her eyes turned black and her legs were so heavy that she could not move.

Strong exercise caused the speed of blood surging, and the wound on her back, which was not fatal, faced an inevitable problem: if the blood was not stopped, she might really die due to excessive blood loss.

"It's almost here..."

She tried hard to support her running out the last ten meters, but she finally lost control and fell to the ground with a "thump"...

But she did not give up. She immediately gritted her teeth and stretched out her hand to support her body. The back of the robe was soaked with blood flowing, but she didn't bother to stop the bleeding, but she closed her eyes and touched a wooden door with her memory, and then pressed on the weight of her body and pushed it away.

The secret passage built by "Virgium Cross" is in this abandoned house not far from the city wall. Due to the complete failure of the operation, no one has used this passage until now. So when Akasha entered here, everything remained the same as when the construction was completed.

Almost as Akasha climbed in, she barely closed the door, but she didn't even have the strength to buckle the door bolt. She gritted her teeth and moved to the fireplace in the bedroom of the house little by little, and reached out to pull a loose stone slab - a big dark hole immediately appeared inside the fireplace...

This is the entrance to the secret passage.

Akasha had almost exhausted all her strength to do this. She was about to raise her hand and cast a "recovery technique", but she didn't know that because of excessive blood loss, her arm that supported the wall suddenly became weak, and she lost control and fell into the secret passage!

The steep slope at the entrance was more than ten meters long. Akasha rolled down and groaned several times in pain. She tried to reach out to stop the rolling trend, but in the dark she heard the "click" sound of bone cracks and the subsequent severe pain...

Fractured.

Akasha's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and panic spread out - the magic technique could not be released without the coordination of gestures between the two hands. Now there are more than ten wounds that continue to leave blood behind her, and the continuous blood loss has made her almost unable to speak...

She tried her best to move her fingers, but found that her palm had no response at all due to the severe pain.

Damn it! How could this happen!?

Do you want to die in this unknown place like this?

Before he fell into a coma, Akasha thought unwillingly.

*******

Time went back half an hour ago.

The atmosphere in the "Rose Cross" monastery was serious.

Although all the pagans were punished, such an attack was not good news for the sect after all. The enemy's madness caused great casualties within the sect, and affected many civilians, causing nearly 60 casualties.

This negative impact may take a long time to eliminate.

Although the term "crisis public relations" does not exist at this time, it is obvious that the top leaders of the "Rose Cross" sect still have similar experience and ability to deal with it. Although it is already evening, the streets and alleys have posted public notices about today's battle - basically writing some words such as "The crimes of pagans are unforgivable, and they have received the punishment they deserve". Of course, because the proportion of illiteracy is not small, the silver coins allocated to the speakers have already been in place. Tomorrow morning, verbal explanations about this incident will appear in the square and various areas of the city. In this way, Rubens can directly "characterize" the matter and minimize the losses, rendering the entire incident into a positive event that "Rose Cross" defeats the "Virder Cross" conspiracy.

In the "spiritual home" room of the monastery, Rubens was sitting at the wooden table with letters written one after another, to Cardinal Cardinal, to the temple, to the sect's power organization, to almost no rest from the afternoon to now - and compared to his busyness, Bishop Benjamin seemed a little "free" at this time.

He was staring blankly with the arrow that belonged to the "Rose Cross" armament warehouse.

When the news of Sally's disappearance reached his ears, Benjamin immediately noticed something was wrong and immediately sent someone to search for it. However, because she ran too fast, the Templars sent later did not know where to find them, and even now they are still wandering around the city, not knowing that she had already left the city.

Benjamin was a little anxious because he also learned a news: Francis was also missing.

He knew the struggle between the brother and sister clearly, and it was precisely because of his clarity that he did not participate casually. Naturally, there were some considerations and trade-offs that belonged to politicians - but he could not have imagined that the conflict between the brother and sister actually caused such a chaotic situation now...

Looking back on today's war, although he tried hard to suppress his fear, the feeling of facing death still made Benjamin feel that he had made a "very wrong" decision before: when he thought of Roddy deliberately misunderstood Sally, some "regret" feelings gradually rose from the bottom of his heart.

But what's the use of regret? Who could have thought that this unknown little character could reverse the whole situation with just one arrow, and even prevent the destruction of the foundation of "Rose Cross" in Hollier City?
Chapter completed!