The room is very spacious, very gorgeous, and even more impressive. The heavy black tables, chairs, and furnishings all exude a grand and serious atmosphere. This place seems to be a condensed version of the entire St. Peter's Basilica, and the red man sitting firmly in the front and center The Cardinal is like the god in the center of the church. He may have deliberately arranged his room this way unintentionally, but the majesty he exudes is indeed consistent with his status.
"Knight Talis, is this why you asked me to wait here in the middle of the night?" The cardinal frowned and looked at the insane girl in front of him. His majestic and solemn eyes just glanced and then withdrew, feeling quite disapproving. "She is just mentally closed due to excessive fright. Although this situation is indeed serious, Celeste should have three or four people who can treat her. It is necessary to use the magic rumor to specially call me here to wait. ?"
As a cardinal of Erathia, his status is even comparable to that of Queen Catherine, but on this stormy night, he is waiting here like a doctor to treat someone. If it wasn't Talis, it wouldn't be this Lancelot. Her only apprentice, Eschar would never have the patience and good temper to sit here and talk to her.
Talis quickly bowed and said: "Please forgive me, Lord Eschar. But there is actually a very complicated inner story behind this matter. I dare not bring this girl to Celeste without authorization. Teacher Lancelot She is recovering from her injuries and I cannot disturb her. So I brought her to you first and you will treat her first. I will also report this matter to you first."
The cardinal frowned and nodded. Since the person had already been brought there, it didn't matter. He often slowed down his movements unintentionally and looked more solemn. Even with such an impatient expression, he seemed to be hiding. With the majesty of a divine message. He looked at the girl with a demented expression, and suddenly found that she had been murmuring the same sentence.
May the merciful Lord use the lives of believers to send down your mercy and protect those fragile souls and lives...
The girl's voice was very low, and her pronunciation was very vague. Under her demented expression, it seemed like she was gibbering. But the words naturally carried a sad majesty. All the girl's spirit, thoughts, and determination were concentrated. In this raving that was repeated countless times, every word was not spoken by her mouth, but was shaken by her soul.
If we say that the majesty of the cardinal is this artificially built cathedral, it is so tall and majestic that all viewers can admire it. The words of the girl are like a stone lying by the river after hundreds of millions of years of sedimentation. They are ordinary and even It is ugly, but those who know its true meaning will definitely be moved by it. It is a shock that coexists with heaven and earth.
"This is a prayer for God's protection." The cardinal couldn't help but feel moved. This spell was naturally not profound and subtle in his eyes. But no one could possibly spell it out for this senior priest with the most steadfast faith. The spell that he could use all his life and magic to cast fell on deaf ears. Convergence was a magic that Bishop Eschar had only seen a limited number of times in his decades of magic career. His eyes suddenly focused on the girl, and slowly After a quick glance, Xu's whole body suddenly trembled, and he lost his voice and said: "She..."
"Did you see anything?" Talis asked cautiously.
Bishop Escher's eyes flashed. He nodded slowly: "This girl was once saved by someone using the magic of God's protection. The situation at that time must have been extremely terrifying and bloody, and she was overly frightened.
She was the cause of her insanity."
"How do you know?" Talis looked stunned.
The cardinal smiled slightly, as majestic and compassionate as the statue on the high platform: "This is very simple, it is clear at a glance. If a person who is over-stimulated and insane is repeated repeatedly, even if it is not the stimulation itself, it will certainly cause her to become insane.
It has a great and direct correlation with the stimulation. And you also know very well what kind of magic God's Protection is. The person who sacrifices his life to protect her must be a very close relative of her. The person who uses this magic will not be within the protection range of the magic.
, he must have been killed in front of her eyes."
"You are well-deserved to be the number one mental magician in the mainland." Talis was completely convinced. Although she knew that Bishop Eskel was very accomplished in mental magic, she never imagined that she could understand all the cause and effect with just one glance.
In my heart, it's like seeing it with my own eyes.
There was no trace of happiness or pride on Escher's face. Perhaps Talis's words were not a compliment at all to him, but just a statement of facts. His eyes wandered over the girl's body.
After walking a few times, I slowly and thoughtfully moved to the upper right direction without realizing it.
Those neat and powerful white eyebrows slowly knitted together. Talis didn't speak again. She could only tell that the bishop's expression seemed to be thinking or reminiscing, and she didn't dare to disturb him.
I don't know when the girl's low murmur was the only thing left in the room. The wind, rain and thunder and lightning outside the window were still fierce, but the air in this spacious and elegant room began to have a strange and heavy smell. Talis vaguely felt something
Uneasy, but she didn't know where this uneasiness came from, or whether it was just an illusion caused by the silence in the house and the storm outside.
A very close thunder exploded not far away, causing the candlelight in the room to shake a few times. As the lights flickered, Bishop Escher finally looked at the girl again, looked at the girl carefully for a while, and then said: "
If I read correctly, this girl should be a very talented magician, and her practice of elemental magic can reach the level of an intermediate magician... The key thing is, how can I feel the fluctuation of white magic in her body? From you
You have to take her to see her quietly. She is not a believer or a legal user of white magic... Also, who used God's protection on her? I don't remember receiving such a report recently.
A priest has used this spell."
Talis nodded and replied: "Yes. This is also one of the things I want to report to you. This girl... and her brother were actually raised by Pastor Relas of the original Pinsburg diocese.
Pastor Ras taught them white magic, and this time it was Pastor Ras who used God's protection to save their brothers and sisters at the critical moment."
"Pinsburg... seems to be one of the priests who was removed from the priesthood when His Majesty ascended the throne." Bishop Eschar snorted, and his thick nasal voice for a moment actually covered up the sound of wind and rain outside the window, "
Even if he is expelled from the priesthood, teaching sacred white magic to others without permission is a serious violation of Celeste's rules. White magic is a magic given by the Lord to believers to protect the light. White magic is used by non-believers of the Lord.
It’s blasphemy.”
"My Lord Bishop, it is clear to you that although this old priest has been expelled from the priesthood, his faith has not wavered in the slightest. His ability to use the protection of trance is proof of his piety to the Lord. There is also this girl and her brother, I can use
The honor of the Temple Knights guarantees their purity of heart and character." Talis hurriedly defended, "And behind the incident I am about to report is a real blasphemy. The blasphemy against the sacred white magic, please
Please allow me to finish."
Bishop Escher nodded expressionlessly.
"The thing is like this...this girl and her brother participated in the Erathia Chamber of Commerce's caravan to Eufu...one night when they came back..."
The female knight described it in great detail, and everything seemed to have been witnessed by her own eyes. Bishop Eschar was also listening, but perhaps because he was listening too carefully and too absorbedly, the cardinal's face and eyes
There was no change at all, they just looked at the female knight lightly.
"Being able to use paralysis and immobilization, and even with the blessing of God, the caster of that spell is at least a bishop. Although I can't believe it, but just in case, so I don't dare to take this girl to Seles easily.
I would like to report to you first..."
"Knight Talis, do you think this story is true?" Bishop Eschar suddenly interrupted the female knight and said calmly.
"This..." The female knight was stunned.
"A believer who serves the Lord, or is a bishop given by the Lord to impart radiance, deliberately went to that barbaric and desolate place, and used sacred white magic on a few wild beasts just to let them kill a group of businessmen full of copper odor...
"The cardinal sighed and asked again calmly: "Do you think this story is reasonable? If these words come from other people's mouth, I will send him to the stake directly."
A blush rose on the female knight's face. Although she paused, her tone did not waver at all: "He will not lie to me, and this girl cannot be caused by other circumstances."
"He?" The cardinal looked a little surprised at the wording. "Who? This girl's brother? The young man who helped you?"
"yes."
Bishop Eschar sat upright and looked at the female knight expressionlessly like a god. The majesty and momentum in his eyes were irresistible: "I saw in your eyes a lost emotion that shouldn't be there."
This is depravity for a Temple Knight who dedicated his life to the great justice and glory of the Lord."
"No, I didn't..." Talis' body was shaken, and her face was full of astonishment.
"Even if this girl was indeed saved by God's protection, it definitely does not mean that what he told you is the truth. Is there still less blood in the hands of the wild beasts in the wild highlands? The innocent souls that have been buried in their mouths over the past hundreds of years.
Countless, but now you believe that someone will deliberately use holy white magic to frame them?"
"No, Lord Bishop, this is because..." Talis just opened her mouth but couldn't continue.
"What a person believes is not necessarily because it is credible, but what is important is that the person is willing to believe it. If you believe such a clumsy lie, it means that your heart has been moved and you are willing to believe this story.
Because this story can turn those people who are good at using white magic into victims, making their crimes appear less serious in this fictional plot. This is just the young man trying to cure his sister while also trying to
It’s just a trick to divert attention to clear the name.”
Talis looked at Bishop Eskel, confusion, anxiety, uneasiness and other emotions constantly changing and mixing together on her face.
"I see weakness, confusion, uneasiness, and evil temptation in your eyes." The cardinal looked at the female knight and the majesty and light in his eyes became more and more intense, almost seeing through the female knight in front of him.
Seeing this, his voice became more and more severe, "Feel your own heart, is this the kind of heart a temple knight with a firm and devout faith should have?"
The light in Talis's eyes shattered silently like a piece of glass under the cardinal's ruthless gaze. She finally nodded in a low voice: "Yes, I know I was wrong."
Bishop Eschar's voice and eyes softened, and he said: "As the youngest temple knight of Celeste and a disciple of Lancelot, your talent and brains are absolutely impeccable, which is what people lack.
Experience in the world, understanding and insight into the human heart." The cardinal sighed and said with great sincerity: "You must know that many things in this world are not as simple and innocent as they appear on the surface."
"Yes." Talis lowered her head, but suddenly raised it again, and the blurred light in her eyes once again condensed a firm color, "But I still ask you to cure this girl. As for those things
Whether it is true or not will be checked later.”
A look of surprise flashed through the cardinal's eyes. Bishop Eschar nodded, showing a rare smile and said: "Of course, I will cure her naturally. By the way, she
Brother, is the young man you mentioned here? You asked him to come here."
Talis was stunned, looked at the cardinal's face that was beginning to look kind, and nodded happily.
Until the female knight turned around and left, and the cardinal was left alone in the room, the kind smile on his face did not weaken at all. Although the world of wind, rain, thunder and lightning was still outside the window, the originally serious and solemn room seemed
A warm atmosphere also began to pervade.
The wind outside the window was still strong and the rain was still heavy. I don’t know which thunder struck the dark sky and the earth for a moment. The whole cathedral seemed to be shaken by the thunder. Two black figures could be seen outside the window.
It's a pity that it can't be seen from the angle inside the house.
The two black figures have been soaked by the rain. The outlines of their bodies and muscles are clearly visible, but they are motionless. There seems to be no trace of heartbeat or breathing. They are as tight as two stone sculptures that are integrated with the stone wall and wind and rain.
Sticking tightly to the exterior wall.
One of the smaller black shadows moved slowly. The body curve of this black shadow was very soft, slender and full of wild temptation. In the darkness, it looked like a statue of a girl cast by the devil. Her movements were very slow.
, very carefully, not daring to make the slightest sound even amidst the storm and thunder. She looked at another black figure, and slowly pointed at the shadow of the cardinal in the window and made a pull-down motion.
.
The other dark figure slowly shook his head, opened his mouth, and made no sound. He just made an action of spitting out a word.