After participating in this inexplicable consecration ceremony, Todd returned to the monastery, ignoring the strange looks of the monks around him, and walked straight to the monastery library.
He has a lot of questions that he needs answers to immediately.
If Master Miles was still around, he would be the best answerer. But the old man's long absence left Todd with no choice but to rely on himself.
Walking to the second floor of the library, the monk looked at the mark on the bookshelf.
Dogmatic theology, pastoral theology, catechumenal works, biographies, religious histories, cartography...
Found it!
With a happy mood, Todd pulled out the books from under the bookshelf. Without any psychological preparation, he saw a "ghost face" behind the bookshelf.
The monk trembled with fright, and the books in his hands fell to the ground.
"Karin! What are you doing! You almost scared me to death!"
Todd stroked his chest with one hand (his own, of course), and pulled out the girl wearing a monk's robe from behind the bookshelf with the other hand. The girl looked pitiful, and he really didn't know how to reprimand her.
"I was hiding in the front hall and saw everything the church did to you. I was a little worried about you."
Hearing her words, Todd looked at her in surprise.
"What should we do now?" Looking around, there was no one around. Karin combed her long black hair, which had been bound for a long time, out of her robe, and it fell like a waterfall.
Todd looked at this woman's charming movements, heard her thought-provoking words, and stayed where he was.
In the past few days, although he had been in the same room with this girl with picturesque features, he had been busy with experiments and was so distracted that he was completely unaware that there was such a woman beside him.
Karin lowered her head, seeming to be thinking about something: "Maybe we should meet at night..."
Todd raised his eyebrows, smiled, nodded slightly and said: "Yes, I also think it is a bit inconvenient to do this in broad daylight."
The girl looked out the window: "Today is the new moon, the moonlight is dim, no one will pay attention to us."
Todd nodded like a pile driver: "Yes, yes, yes! No one will disturb you at night like this. We can wander under the moonlight and talk about life..."
"I have scouted the church's camp, and the guards have as many holes as the sieves in a bakery."
"Oh, so you like to go to the camp for walks... hmm? Church camp?"
Hearing this, Todd felt something was wrong.
Karin took out a silvery dagger from her robe and made a few gestures in the air. Her face was still sweet, but her smile made people shudder: "In the middle of the night, when everyone is asleep, I can sneak into the room from the chimney.
, slit the throats of those vicious dogs, and then smeared blood all over the wall to give the church a warning and tell them to stay away!"
Girl, your style of painting has changed so fast, I really can’t keep up!
Todd was really frightened this time. His mouth was slightly open, his eyes were straight, and a vein on his head was beating constantly.
Karin, what kind of world did you live in in the past? Things like blood painted on the walls, not to mention seeing it, even thinking about it will make people feel numb all over.
Covering his forehead with one hand and pinching the bridge of his nose quickly with the other, Todd shook his head and immediately rejected this bloody proposal.
Putting the book on the table, he pulled Karin to his side and asked her to sit down. Todd patiently explained to him that assassination was not a good option no matter from the perspective of faction opposition, power confrontation, or strength comparison.
After some hard talk, the other party finally gave up his idea. After Todd calmed down, he realized that he still knew too little about this girl named Karin. He didn't know anything about her character, her past, or her preferences.
It is really ridiculous for me to think that the other person is interested in her.
Putting aside the matter in his mind for the time being, Todd turned his attention to the documentary records in the books. After some searching, he finally found information about the "Guardian and Exorcist Group" and "Muxi Harbor".
Let’s talk about the protective and exorcist group first.
The Defense and Exorcism Group is a civilian armed force directly managed by the Church under the Inquisition. It is different from formal military organizations such as the Church Knights. First of all, it is an unofficial organization and has not been recorded in the Holy Documents of the Church. Secondly, the Knights
The recognition and establishment of the college must first be reviewed by the College of Cardinals of the Papal State and then conferred by the Pope.
The protection and exorcism group is much simpler, as it only requires the archbishop or even the bishop of the diocese to issue a holy letter; thirdly, the number of the protection and exorcism group is limited, generally no more than a hundred people; finally, in terms of functions, the protection and exorcism group
The Exorcist Group is mainly responsible for assisting the Inquisition, conducting civilian reconnaissance and arrest operations, and does not participate in large-scale military wars.
After reading this introduction, Todd couldn't laugh or cry on his face.
At first, I thought it was some great religious organization, but in the end, it turned out to be a group of enthusiastic people who relied on reporting and reporting to help the church find heretics.
However, if you think about it more carefully, you will find that such authorization does no harm to you, but has many conveniences.
As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
No one would have thought that the enthusiastic people who helped the church search for heretics were actually composed of a bunch of aliens.
Let’s take a look at Muxi Harbor again.
The record of this place name in holy history originated from the missionary event in 375 AD.
Twelve ascetic monks set out from the coast here, traveling with only Heavenly Father's scriptures and simple luggage. They sailed on a single sail, experienced seventy-five days and nights, and passed through hundreds of islands in the wild north.
The glory and grace of the Lord spread to the primitive barbarians. During the return voyage, due to storms and scurvy, only one person finally returned to the Yuexi Plain alive.
In AD 379, in order to commemorate the great deeds of this group of believers, the Silver Ring Kingdom donated this harbor to the church.
That’s it for history, let’s talk about the geographical environment.
Muxi Harbor is a natural ice-free port. Although the salinity of the seawater is not high, the depth of the seabed and the volume of seawater are sufficient, which form the basic conditions for the seawater to remain ice-free. It also has geographical advantages
With a unique advantage, the Luoxing Mountains are on the north side, blocking the view from the maze.
The wind and rain of the Sea of Mist; the south side is hills, where lighthouses, observation towers and fortifications can be built; the east side is a flat plain, which is conducive to the entry and exit of unloading and loading carriages; the west side is out to sea, bypassing Waiheke Island and heading north
You can go to the northern islands, and to the south you can go to the southern countries.
As the saying goes, the transportation is convenient and the environment is superior.
However, today's Muxi Harbor is not as bustling and prosperous as imagined.
It has been abandoned there for hundreds of years, still a jumble of rocks and gravel.
There is only one reason - pirates from the northern islands went south to plunder and attack.
Muxi Seaport is too close to the Northern Islands, and too far from the church and the military center of the secular state; in addition, the several-kilometer-long coastline is difficult to defend; and the Silver Ring Kingdom already has a stable source of income in silver, so for
The port didn't pay too much attention to it. Naturally, pirates were rampant, the port was deserted, and no one paid attention to it.