Ster Castle occupies a very large area, and the back garden occupies a small half of the hillside. In order to distinguish some functional areas, several rows of flowers and trees more than two meters high are used as dividing lines in the middle of the huge flower ponds.
The gardeners who manage these flower ponds live in small stone houses shaded by these flowers and trees.
What Ted led people into was a hut that seemed to have been abandoned for a while... It was in the rubber forest between golden cloud orchid and peace lily.
"Ted?" Count Steer, who was directing another group of heavily armed knights with holy water sprayed on their bodies to knock on the metal wall outside the huge pit, couldn't help but follow him, "Be careful! Protection...
You can’t even expose your nostrils!”
"Your Majesty," Ted's helpless voice came out, "We all wear full-body metal armor sprinkled with holy water.
Besides, this place has been abandoned for many years, so at most it has some smell."
"Huh?" Earl Steer asked doubtfully, "Who originally lived here?"
"Your mother, the Countess's favorite gardener, followed her as a dowry from her mother's family and married Ivo Kuttner, her trusted maid."
The count suddenly stood up straight: "Kuttner?"
"Yes, Mrs. Kuttner was in charge of the cleaning of the castle back then, including the cleaning of curtains and bedspreads."
Ted's voice suddenly stopped, and then after a few seconds, he couldn't help but cursed in his ears, "Damn! I... it's really him!
I just said...how could Madam's family have a devout believer in the Holy Light, and go to the temple every day to pray for the salvation of holy water!"
"This is... a very good gardener!
Your mother's family is really well-educated...all of them are plants that can purify odors!
Look, there are spider plants and pothos planted in the corner!
Ah, but then again, there are actually followers of the Sun God in your family?" Branch President Finch, who was following Count Steer, could not control his smile, "Ah, I thought all the military nobles in Damboro were
They are followers of the Rune Lord!"
"The Ster family is indeed my Lord's loyal people." Lennon Berg, the high priest of the Basia Rune Temple who also walked slowly over, said very sincerely, "But my Lord will never ask for anything.
A lord, forcing his subordinates and servants to maintain the same beliefs as the lord.
Faith needs to come from the heart, how can it be forced?
Besides... these days, verbal faith is useless!
You think so? Turgai."
The priest of the Temple of the Sun, wearing a golden linen robe, had a serious look on his face: "The Temple of the Sun only requires miserable mortals to believe in the majesty of our Lord."
In other words, they never need believers.
Count Dester couldn't help but glance at him after saying this... The Temple of the Sun has always called their holy water the 'Mercy of Holy Light', but this mercy comes at a very high price.
It is true that the majesty of the Sun God can be seen... After all, the holy water can be divided into more than twenty levels for sale, and only the Sun Temple has the capital to do so... That thing is indeed harmful to the power of evil, but
How big you want it to be depends on how much money you have in your bag.
Finch glanced at Count Ster disapprovingly... Why are you surprised?
Since Oasis has become more and more arid and deserts have become more numerous, mortals have become more and more reverent towards the sun...especially when the hot sun continues to shine, spontaneous combustion without fire will always occur.
The multiple attacks even allowed the Sun God to silently put his little hand into the Flame Goddess's bedroom, giving him more divine powers such as burning.
But I don’t know if it was because his priesthood was a bit too broad and the beliefs he received were too complicated. The sun god suddenly turned himself into a supplier of holy water.
The mages understand him quite well. After all, instead of humans suddenly placing him on various altars, it is better to find an easy step down... What if the divine power is too strong?
Even if Oasis' world will doesn't deceive his own gods, it doesn't mean that he will let a certain god's ability exceed the limit of his tolerance... especially when there is Triton, the god of the sea, who has been eyeing him.
Down.
Although his own father is quite kind and would not easily kill his own children...the Sun God doesn't want to be thrown in front of Triton either!
That is a powerful god that would be difficult for all the gods to fight together!
Although it is true that you can lose excess divine power, no one likes to be beaten half to death.
"Are you able to do business?" The only female high priest, Yuffie Austin of the Silver Moon Temple, glared at the few men in front of her who didn't know what they were doing with a dissatisfied look on her face, "I'm tired of it! I just want it to end quickly.
all of these."
No woman likes to see so many insects! Even if she is a powerful priest.
Hamza Toth, the great priest of the Earth Temple who was the last, comforted him: "Don't be so nervous, I think there won't be any more spiders.
After all, this thing is not that easy to raise.
So, Count Ster, can we tear down that cabin first?
It’s too short, I don’t think I can get in.”
Count Steer was stunned by the tall priest in a brown linen robe's rapidly changing words for a few seconds before replying: "Of course.
Ted! Bring your people out. Even if there is anything you find wrong, put it where it belongs."
Earl Ster still felt why these priests were talking nonsense... They didn't want Earl Ster and Finch to secretly move away the things they found.
Although Finch and Count Stehr can be considered political enemies, it can be seen from the fact that when Count Stehr encounters trouble, he will first approach the Alchemy Association instead of the Rune Lord he claims to follow. Between God and man, the Count chooses
It's people.
This is also the usual style of great nobles like Oasis... gods are never on their trust list.
But there was nothing that could be done about it. In the battle with Triton, the God of the Ocean, the gods actually fought very hard and were unable to answer the prayers of mortals.
It's just that no matter how difficult it is for them, it's still better than ordinary people almost being annihilated by the flood.
Especially for Damboro, in the end it was all the help of the higher-ranking noble knights holding up their huge shields and standing arm in arm on the rune-covered city wall to block the terrifying flood peak.
Behind them were hundreds of thousands of mortals crying and praying to the gods for help.
The Rune God still helped that time... The Rune Wall, on which he devoted all his blessings, is still the strongest defense in the capital of Danboro.
But apart from that, it all relied on the contributions of the nobles... That time, the Damboro royal family sacrificed six princes, and even the king at that time.
The sacrifices of the great nobles were also heavy, and some families even regained their family glory hundreds of years later.
Therefore, the status of the Danboro royal family is very high, but the status of other nobles is not low either.
It is also because of these past events that these great priests are very accustomed to the indifference of the nobles towards them... as long as they can maintain their respect on the surface.
But now that they have intervened, the dignity of the gods still needs to be maintained.
The gods are just far away from the mortal world, but they are not dead.
Ted quickly walked out with the others, holding nothing in his hands.
He wears a thin alloy helmet over his light armor, and wears a very strange helmet on his head... Hill will definitely think it looks familiar if he sees it.
A bit like a biohazard suit.
This kind of full-body armor seems to have only a thin layer, but there are no gaps at all. It relies entirely on a small device inside the armor to provide human breathing air.
It's also very difficult to put on and take off, which usually takes more than half an hour.
And it hasn't been half an hour since Ted realized something was wrong.
This kind of isolation armor was specially developed by the Great Sage Ismail to test crystal energy weapons in order to isolate some toxic gases caused by explosions.
It's quite suitable for dealing with things related to silk spiders.
When Ted came out, he deliberately led his men and passed between the priests with their hands half raised to show that he didn't take anything.
The Earth Priest didn't say any more polite words. He squatted down and put his hand on the ground.
The small stone house quickly turned into soil, then slowly collapsed, and finally turned into a hard round rock floor of 200 square meters that was pressed into the ground.
Even if there were spiders and the like hiding nearby, it would be difficult to attack them standing on the rocky floor from underground.
Finch frowned... He could do this kind of thing, but it would take more than ten minutes.
There is really no logic to this divine power thing.
His eyes were looking straight in the direction of the hut, with an expression on his face that showed no interest in watching their performance... Finch, who knew the Earl's family better, knew very well that Ted must have taken something that had an impact on the Earl.
Otherwise, the earl would not let his butler take risks, and Ted, who had always been a rigid personality, would not suddenly curse.
He originally came over to try to catch the leak, but in the end, those priests also followed him!
I didn’t get any benefits, but I still had to help Earl Ster divert other people’s attention!
This made Finch very unhappy.
The priests quickly checked the contents of the hut.
The Sun Priest stood in the middle with his eyes closed and felt for a while: "I have indeed used our holy water many times.
This is the smell of No. 18...huh?
The function of holy water No. 18 is to expel evil spirits. It is used to deal with ghosts!
Shouldn’t he be using the one No. 6 to repel mosquitoes and flies?”
“What good is a dead spider?
Count Steer, when did no one start living here?" The Archbishop of Rune Temple turned around and asked.
"Ten years... After my mother passed away, although my wife did not do anything, some old servants naturally quit the castle.
Mr. and Mrs. Kuttner..." The Earl turned to look at his butler, "I remember they moved to the city, right?"
"Took their daughter and opened a hotel near the port." Ted replied softly.
This chapter has been completed!