A voice sounded from behind Anthony. This name made him a little happy, but also made him a little uneasy. Every time he heard it, it always reminded him of those cunning poisonous snakes.
"Actually, I have always been curious about where you found this... strange lunatic."
Samuel walked over with a limp on crutches. He looked extremely embarrassed at the moment, with bandages wrapped around his body and his face was pale.
He was hit head-on by a lacquered antimony flying knife and a bullet mixed with cantrera. Fortunately, Samuel had activated Power Yanar to the extreme at that time, and the whole thing was already approaching demonization. In addition, the bullet missed
Heart, Samuel was able to survive this violent explosion and poison.
But this was just barely surviving. When the demon hunter dug him out of the collapsed ruins, his body was extremely strange. Life and death appeared on this body at the same time. While he was being healed, his flesh and blood were poisoned by toxins.
Necrosis.
That short period of time was as difficult as hell for Samuel.
Fortunately, with this powerful power, Samuel survived in the end. Although he was a little embarrassed, with the physique of a demon hunter, his injuries were healing quickly, and he might be able to fight again in a few days.
"I have reminded you that Lorenzo Holmes is dangerous, very dangerous. We still don't know what the effect of the pseudo-Holy Grail on him is. A rash attack will only cost us."
Anthony turned around and looked at his embarrassed deputy. He always gave people a calm and calm feeling, but now his voice was slightly angry.
"Three demon hunters were lost in this operation. Fortunately, it was a secret move we arranged in advance, and the elimination agency was unaware of their existence."
After losing "Apocalypse", every active demon hunter becomes very precious, and their secret blood is the most precious wealth.
"This has nothing to do with us, we don't know why Lorenzo is there, this is a damn encounter." Samuel said.
He had just woken up from a coma and came here to report to Anthony on matters related to the operation.
"Encounter?"
"Yes, we successfully invaded Shermans' camp, but when I found Shermans, he was with Lorenzo..."
"How did he find Shermans?" Anthony asked.
"I don't know, but I think it has something to do with that letter." Samuel analyzed. Although he had only just woken up, he felt more and more that this encounter was full of chance.
"Didn't we also rely on the letter with the secret blood to find Shermans? Maybe the letter was given to more than one of us." Samuel said, "But what's so important about Shermans?"
How come a cardinal who has been in exile for a long time, and who was on the edge of power even in the Seven Hills, suddenly pays attention to him?"
Anthony did not answer Samuel's question, but felt a little awkward. This came directly from the new pope's order. He needed Shermans to confirm something, although his question had been confirmed by the old pope.
But Lorenzo's sudden contact with Shermans made Anthony suspicious.
Who sent this letter?
The New Order is not yet aware that the Purification Agency has already established contact with Shermans. Now Lorenzo's sudden behavior has made him a little panicked. According to the new Pope's instructions, Lorenzo is most likely to be Lorenzo.
Zoro Medici, that mysterious and terrifying old man, finally found a way to become immortal.
Perhaps everything he had encountered with Lorenzo before, everything he showed was just a disguise. Anthony felt even more pressure on this guy who had led the golden age.
Just like this hazy rain curtain, the unknown fog shrouded the old Dunling. Hunters and monsters walked together on the streets of the city, preparing to kill each other at the moment of encounter.
"Our plan has already begun. After you adjust it, new instructions will be conveyed to you."
Anthony said to Samuel.
"Moriarty's plan?"
Samuel mentioned this disturbing name again.
"You actually agree with what that lunatic did..."
Samuel knew that his words could not change anything. They were just words. He felt that he was a sick guy, but compared to Moriarty, Samuel's illness was curable.
That kind of.
But that guy is different.
"Although Moriarty is sometimes uncontrollable, at least he can indeed bring miraculous effects." Anthony said slowly.
"So where did he come from? I had never seen him when I was in the Knights Templar, and his swordsmanship was really bad." Samuel was a little curious. Basically, the demon hunters of the new order were all
He comes from the Knights Templar, but Moriarty is different.
"He was selected by Your Majesty, a person who can make Your Majesty feel interesting," Anthony said.
He didn't understand this at first, and he didn't understand what qualifications such a person had to become a demon hunter, until Moriarty showed him his weird talent.
The gift of deceit.
Father Anthony was a confidant of the new pope. In the eyes of the exiles, it was his sudden defection that caused the Knights Templar, who were originally loyal to the cardinals, to rebel. This allowed the new pope to usurp all power overnight and wear the crown.
That magnificent crown.
But in fact Anthony knows very well that all these are just the words of the exiles to comfort themselves. He is not the key to all this. Even if he does not rebel, there will be another Anthony who betrays the cardinals. The truth of all this is new
The formidable power of the Pope, as the demon hunter named Raphael, is the controller of illusions, and everyone is played in his hands like puppets.
Moriarty was given the same power as the new pope. This was not just a so-called trust, but the new pope felt that this power could be perfectly used by him. To a certain extent, they were the same liar, a
To defraud the sacred crown, to defraud other people's reason.
"You don't seem to like Moriarty. Don't you often say that you are very similar?" Anthony asked.
"Similar does not mean identical, Father."
Samuel was a little unwilling to recall the madman and said in a calm voice.
"The more similar we are, the better we understand each other, right? Just like two people with the same preferences, we know very well how to please each other, but what if we are two similar monsters?"
Samuel looked at Anthony's gradually changing expression and slowly explained why he was afraid of Moriarty.
"Two monsters meet in a narrow road. If it were you, what would you think? This is my kind, hugging it ecstatically? Or maybe it is because of the similarity that you also know what kind of terrifying monster the other person is, so you feel
Wary and fearful?”
Samuel walked aside with a cane and sat down on a chair.
"Actually, the above thoughts are normal, but Moriarty is different. I admit that I am not very normal either. I am obsessed with that damn sense of victory and accomplishment, but I am just a little paranoid, but I am not crazy.
There's a difference between a paranoid and a lunatic, Father."
"You seem to know him better than I do," Anthony said.
"This is nature. We are similar but different. I can understand his part, but I can't peek into the crazy place."
Anthony was silent for a while. There were only two of them in the huge study room, which seemed a bit empty. Countless documents were piled on his desk.
"So you found Moriarty in a mental hospital?"
Samuel's voice sounded again. He seemed to be very curious about Moriarty's origins and kept asking questions.
"I don't know," Anthony said.
"You don't know?"
Samuel's voice sounded a little excited.
"He was brought here by Your Majesty. What authority do you think I have to interfere with more matters?"
Anthony's eyes were also a little helpless. Looking at the bandaged Samuel, he continued.
"However, he is indeed very disturbing. Sometimes I don't know what he will do. However, Your Majesty speaks highly of him and says that he is a person who can give people 'unexpected surprises'."
"The so-called unexpected surprises are uncontrollable, right? I was with him during training. He cut off the hand tendons of a demon hunter. He just thought it was funny. Someone wanted to teach him a lesson, but he used
Quan Neng sent that guy to the mental ward. You should also know about this, right?
When the demon hunter activates the secret blood, the demon hunter's will is always undergoing the test of erosion. Power Raphael can stabilize the will by implanting beautiful illusions into a person, and it can also bring about extreme madness... That
In the chaotic chaos, the demon hunter was eroded by the secret blood and fell into madness."
Samuel recalled the time during training. At that time, the new pope was in urgent need of a group of demon hunters to fight for him. He extracted the secret blood from the dead demon hunters and injected it into the bodies of the selected ones. He went through hellish training.
, so the new cult was born from the bodies of those dead people.
"And that's the strange thing about Moriarty, Father."
"What?"
Samuel recalled carefully that those were the only times he dealt with Moriarty, and it was those times that he couldn't understand this man at all.
"I thought he was some kind of pervert who liked to watch other people go crazy and suffer, and he liked to take pleasure in these sufferings. Then it would be easy to please this monster. I found a few death row inmates for him to have fun with. I just hope he won't do it again.
It affected other witchers, but he refused."
"Refused?"
"Yes, I refused. I thought it would be a very interesting 'toy' for him, but he refused. He thought it was boring to torture a group of death row prisoners..."
Samuel's voice was trembling, not because of fear, but because of confusion.
"For him, he does like the suffering of others, but there is a prerequisite for this, the prerequisite is that he finds the suffering of people who are interesting.
But he is a psychopath and madman with perverted hobbies, so how can we infer the preferences of such a person?"
Everyone has their own purpose and their own direction of travel, but Moriarty alone feels like a poisonous snake moving forward at will. Even the golden beauty cannot seduce him, but he is full of motivation because of some strange things.
.
"At least, Moriarty can still distinguish between 'hobby' and work. The plan he proposed is very good, and it was only implemented after His Majesty's approval."
Anthony picked up the water glass and took a sip. After knowing the stories that happened before, he was still so calm.
"So what's the plan?"
"Lorenzo Holmes, he is suspected to be Lorenzo Medici, and it is certain that he is carrying the False Holy Grail. He is an extremely dangerous guy. If you start a fight with him forcefully, you will be purged by the agency.
Opposition, and he himself is very aggressive."
"Driving a wedge between the two? Instructing the purge agency to find a way to abandon Lorenzo?"
This is not a difficult puzzle to solve, Samuel figured it out easily.
"Is that so?"
Anthony nodded, and it seemed that the plan had been carried out in an orderly manner.
"But this is not enough," Samuel recalled the figure wielding the sword in the wine cellar. "Although the contact time is not long, I don't think these are enough to defeat him, let alone he is suspected of being Lorenzo Mei.
Diqi."
As a native of Florence, Samuel was very familiar with Lorenzo Medici's deeds. The old man's life was lost only to time, and after so many years, he seemed to be alive again in a young body.
, in the final comeback of the chess game.
No, he has not completely won over time. The new religious order and the new pope will not let him go so easily, even if they are suspected.
"So there are plans that only a sick person like Moriarty can come up with."
Anthony said at this time, his expression was very interesting, he seemed to have been looking at all this from the perspective of a bystander, but he was clearly the leader of the new order and the representative of Feileng Cui.
"Lorenzo Holmes is a solid piece of iron, but sometimes it's not necessary to destroy it with great force, just let cracks appear inside."
"Can he do it?"
Samuel was very worried about the uncontrollable Moriarty. He was like a restless lamb, always ready to knock the shepherd to the ground.
"I don't know, but I'm here, right?"
Anthony smiled, and with his smile, the ferocious scar began to swim, like a centipede clinging to the skin.
"We are all chess pieces of His Majesty, located on this chessboard called Old Dunling. Different classes see different things, Samuel."
It can be said that this operation was all done according to Moriarty's ideas. Anthony's existence has no meaning at all. In fact, Samuel is also aware of this, but Anthony is also the dean after all, and Samuel does not dare to act rashly.
questioned him.
"You are only aware of the enemies in front of you, but what about the potential ones?"
Anthony said as he picked up the letter, the letter that triggered the previous series of events. Only Anthony had read this letter, and it was only after reading this letter that the pursuit of Shermans was launched.
But it was a little different from the letter Lorenzo got. There was an extra paragraph in this letter.
"Lorenzo Holmes is suspected of being Lorenzo Medici."
Anthony can be sure that this letter definitely did not come from the purge agency. On this chessboard called Old Dunling, there is another player who has never shown up, a player that everyone ignores.
He had secret blood and knew Lorenzo Medici's "immortality". After thinking hard, Anthony could only come to one conclusion.
This letter comes from Lawrence's remnants.
"What do you want to do again?"
Anthony is the person presiding over all this, the chess player entrusted by the new Pope to the old Dunling. What he wants to hunt is not Lorenzo Holmes, but the greatest benefits that the new order can get in the old Dunling.
This interest could be Lorenzo Holmes and the false Holy Grail in his possession, or it could be Lawrence's remnants and the lost Book of Revelation.
…
"So the psycho has started?"
Looking at Lawrence who had just woken up from his seat, the epidemic doctor asked.
Lawrence had just escaped from the [Gap] shuttle, and his face showed some pain from the separation of consciousness. After feeling relieved for a while, he nodded, with a hint of approval in his words.
"I didn't expect the new pope to find such a talent, no, madman."
"It seems like their plan is perfect, so perfect that you think it's good," the epidemic doctor said.
"Yes, it's a pity that they never realized that I was targeting them."
As he spoke, Lawrence recalled the child's face. It was a little cowardly, a little inner, but also a little crazy. The encounter in Whitechapel at that time was Lawrence's deliberate decision. He wanted to start with Sigur to check Lorenzo.
, it’s a pity that this chess piece could not be used.
But I am also grateful for these, so that this chess piece burned with fire today, and Lawrence intervened so easily.