Soon after, another smaller group also arrived outside the city gate.
After Jim Watts recognized each other, he immediately welcomed them in.
After a cordial greeting, Jim pointed to Charles beside him and said with a smile: "Bishop Safi, let me introduce you to my friend, Charles!
He is specifically responsible for combating cults in our Principality of Marton. However, his actions have always been relatively secretive, so he is not well known. However, his skills are definitely a genuine expert. His understanding of cultists is definitely top-notch! It is almost like understanding.
I know the cultists as well as I do!
This time I specifically brought him here to let him combine previous information to identify the most likely places where the cult is hiding in the city."
"oh?"
After listening to Jem Watts' introduction, Safi, who didn't pay much attention at first, couldn't help but feel some curiosity in her heart and looked at Ciel.
Facing his gaze, Charles stood up, stretched out his hand to shake Safi's hand, and said with a very excited expression: "Hello, Bishop Safi, I have admired your name for a long time, and I never thought of you.
It really caught me off guard that I could have this day and be able to meet you!!"
I was as excited as if I had met an idol, and even spoke a little fluently.
Seeing his excited look, Safi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then she smiled and said: "No, no, that's too polite. I didn't expect that the Principality of Marton also has experts like you in dealing with cultists. What a blessing to Marton!"
"
Charles immediately showed a look of shame on his face: "I don't dare to take it, I don't take it. When it comes to dealing with heretics, you who are in charge of the Heretic Hunting Station are the greatest authority. I can be appreciated by His Highness Jem. It is truly your honor.
The honor, where..."
Listening to their business bragging and the idea of continuing, Jem Watts, who knew the background of the two, immediately felt extremely painful. A cult leader and the executioner responsible for cleaning out heretics were bragging about each other. Is it interesting?
I couldn't help but interrupted: "You two, let's stop talking about the trivial matters first. Let's deal with the important things first, and it's not too late to talk again!"
After the two of them looked at each other, they nodded with satisfaction: "That's fine." x2
They both admired each other and wanted to have a long talk after the matter was accomplished, which made Jim Watts feel chills.
So he quickly waved his hand to Charles and instructed: "Charle, give a share of the map to Bishop Safi."
"good."
After taking the map that Charles handed to her, Safi didn't do anything to cover it up. She immediately opened it and looked at it carefully with a very serious expression.
The first thing that catches the eye are circles of various colors and sizes, the most conspicuous of which is the location of the royal palace outlined in a big red circle in the middle of the map!
Safi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Judging from the colors of the circles, they should represent the difficulty. The three colors represent the three difficulties. This is not difficult to understand.
But looking at the big red circle on the location of the palace, Safi still couldn't believe it. He really didn't expect that James Watts would even search the palace, knowing that he hadn't been crowned yet.
Although his father is dead, his mother is still alive, and she is now the manager of the palace!
According to the rules, she will only give up this part of her rights after the crown prince completes his coronation. However, Jim Watts's action of searching the palace overnight is undoubtedly an overstep, which makes people feel that he is forcing the palace!
So after doing something like this, it will undoubtedly greatly affect his evaluation among the people!
It is not conducive to future development.
Giving his brothers and sisters an excuse.
After hesitating for a while, Safi finally asked: "Well... there are so many places, but why is there even a palace?"
"There is no way.
My mother is not very good at managing affairs, so in the palace where people are somewhat scattered now, there is a certain possibility that cultists can successfully sneak into it, so it is necessary to search it as well!
I will personally explain it to my mother afterwards, so you don’t have to worry about anything.”
The implication is that not even his own mother knew that he wanted to search the palace.
I think it was because I was somewhat suspicious of the other party.
After hearing what it meant, Safi could only say that Jim Watts was a ruthless person who would not even trust his own mother when necessary. Moreover, judging from the mapped locations, there were quite a few suspected powerful people among them.
He looks like a person who is not afraid of offending anyone as long as he can achieve his goal. He is sure of suppressing it. He is both capable and decisive. No wonder he is able to completely suppress his brothers and sisters and secure the throne of the crown prince.
However, this kind of person does not seem to be the ideal cooperation target that the church needs. He may turn against others and kick the church out at any time.
In Safi's mind, the ideal cooperation target should be someone with average or low abilities who can stabilize the situation but has little potential.
Safi rolled her eyes thinking about this, and after realizing that there was no good solution in a short period of time, she finally decided to put this issue aside for the time being and make a decision later.
After all, only after the matter is settled today can the power of the church officially enter the Principality of Marton. If this fails, then everything will be meaningless.
So he asked with a puzzled look on his face: "In that case, how to allocate targets?"
Jim Watts didn't know that the plastic teammate in front of him was trying to trick him just now, so he still said with a smile on his face: "The red ones will be dealt with together last. For other places, split them in half left and right. Do you choose the left half, or the left half?"
The right half?"
When Bishop Safi heard that he was going to take over half of the tasks, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said with a somewhat unhappy look: "Oh? But this is your highness's territory. We are just here to help. Isn't this not good?
After all, our church's manpower is only about one-tenth of yours, but we have to be responsible for as much territory as you."
Jim Watts explained with a frank face: "That's not what you are saying. Your Heretic Hunting Station was established specifically to deal with cultists. You have extremely rich experience in this area. You are not familiar with the methods of those cultists.
, I’m afraid you know better than they themselves, and although the soldiers under my command are brave, but without that experience, the casualties are bound to be far greater than yours."
In response, Safi just shook her head and firmly refused: "But even so, our church should not take such a big risk. After all, I can't play with the lives of my priests!"
Faced with his decisive refusal, James Watts was not surprised at all. He just smiled calmly and wrote lightly: "The scope of the parish will be expanded by one-third, and the construction cost will be funded by the Principality of Marton with 600,000 gold coins."
"make a deal."
Safi's expression was shocked, she stretched out her hands and put them on Jem Watts' shoulders, and said with a solemn face: "In terms of fighting against cults, we and other members of the church are still very responsible. We have never done anything in the past years.
Relax, because that is the bounden duty given to us by the Lord, so Your Highness, you are too unreasonable, and the shirk I just said was just talk, why should you be so unreasonable!"
'Old man, don't want Bilian!'
As if feeling the determination shown by the other party, Jim Watts' eyes turned red, and he hugged Safi very touched: "These words moved me very much. Our Principality of Marton has always been on good terms with the church, dear.
Brothers, this is just a little thought, please accept it!"
Safi refused with a serious face: "How can this be done? Such a behavior does not comply with the rules of our church!"
"No, you must accept it!"
"No, our church..."
"No, you must..."
Seeing the righteous expressions on their faces, Charles silently spit on the ground while no one was paying attention.
The affectionate performance of these two people really disgusted him.
In the battle between the royal power and theocratic power back then, the two forces, the Marton Principality and the Church, fought with each other several times, and many people died.
If other forces hadn't stopped him, he would have fought to the death hundreds of years ago and had the friendship of Hammer.
'As expected of a political person, each face is indeed thicker than the last. Even a magician like me can't say such disgusting things.'
After some more pushing and pushing, Bishop Safi finally accepted Jim Watts' proposal with a face of shame, and chose the location responsible for cleaning up the left half of the city. Jim Watts also thoughtfully asked a team to clean up the city.
Soldiers followed them, ready to help and incidentally prevent them from taking advantage of the situation.
Before leaving, Jim Watts held Safi's hand seriously and asked them to take good care of themselves. The mission is valuable and the price of life is even higher!
Watching the church's team walking away, the smile on Jim Watts' face immediately disappeared, he wiped his hands with a disgusted look on his face, and then spat on the ground.
He immediately took a bottle of wine from the subordinate behind him, washed his hands, and rinsed his mouth.
What he just said made him feel sick.
If he did it again, he would vomit.
'Teammate on the surface! I'll find an opportunity to kill you old thing someday!'
He thought angrily.
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Looking at Bishop Safi, whose face was full of pain and wriggling around as if he had lice, the priest behind him immediately asked with concern: "What's wrong with you, Bishop? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Nothing, I just want to change my clothes."
Obviously, just like Jem Watts, he was disgusted.
But in the end he endured it, just took off his coat, shook it out and put it back on again.
After everything returned to normal, he asked the priest next to him with a normal expression: "Have any of you heard of Charles?"
"No."
"Never heard of it."
"without……"
Looking at the priests looking at each other in confusion, Safi touched her chin.
He clearly remembered that among the locations marked on the map in his hand, there were several targets that the church had investigated in advance.
It was originally intended to be a deal with the Kingdom of Marton, but it was immediately marked out without any thought, so it had no choice but to give up.
'This is unreasonable. If the target on the map was really guessed by that guy based on some intelligence, then he should be extremely professional and extremely experienced in dealing with cultists. Otherwise, he would definitely
It's impossible to know them so well.
No matter how much people like this cover up the news, there will always be some rumors. After all, unless you can kill all the cultists every time, otherwise the news will inevitably leak out...'
After thinking for a while, he first glanced at the soldiers not far behind him who had been following him and others, and then he ordered: "After today, I want to know all the information about the man named Charles. I think he has nothing to do with us.
Crown Prince Jem Watts has big problems. What on earth are they hiding from us..."