Chapter 506: Problems faced by the Church of Storms
"Wait, say it again."
Inside No. 13 Ronal Street, Dunn Smith put down the pipe in his hand with a look of astonishment on his face. He wondered whether the influence of the underworld on him continued to spread, causing mental problems.
Why did Leonard and Daley suddenly dig up Klein's grave?
After the divination result, Klein also had the same feeling, but he did not repeat it. Instead, he suspected that there was a problem with Sherlock Moriarty's identity, which led Leonard and Ms. Daly to discover the doubt, thus
Digging his own grave.
"... Mr. Azik saved me when I was attacked by Ince Zangwill's meteorite. And Mr. Azik appeared during the battle in Tingen. They should have discovered something was wrong with me through this.
."
Although Klein already knew from Magic Mirror Arrods about the cover-up the other party had made, this did not completely eliminate the suspicion. It was only because he saved Backlund that the suspicion was ignored. Leonard
Both Mr. Azik and Ms. Daly knew that Mr. Azik had a grudge against Ince, and they probably wanted to continue investigating along this line, but they found him.
"While checking on Mr. Azik..." Dunn's frown relaxed and he revealed a wry smile, "There may be something wrong with me."
"Huh?" Klein was a little confused.
"If Mr. Chaazik is involved in you, then I must be within the scope of the investigation, and I may expose more clues..."
Then, Dunn briefly described the incident in which he wrote a letter to remind Klein to stay away from Edsac and fight a "Chaos Mentor".
"...You know, after the Battle of Tingen, my body also disappeared. At that time, the church had sent an archbishop to sit in Tingen. In that case, the biggest suspect who took away my body must have been
It’s Mr. Azik.”
Perhaps because of becoming a "gatekeeper", Dunn felt nothing when talking about his own body, as if he was talking about someone else.
So that's it... Dunn's answer relieved many of Klein's doubts, but he still asked doubtfully:
"Then why did my divination have no results? I only saw deathly darkness, and the divination about the letters did not get any results."
"This is the special characteristic of the underworld. Although it is in the spiritual world, it is isolated from the spiritual world. What happens in it will not be recorded by the spiritual world..." Dunn explained casually and then changed the topic, "The current problem
Yes, Dai Li may suspect that you and Mr. Azik refined me into an undead creature."
"What? Why are you so suspicious?" Klein's mouth opened wide.
"As for the 'Death' pathway, especially 'gatekeepers' like me, they actually have the ability to refine undead creatures, but they cannot control them accurately. However, high-sequence beings like Mr. Azik can carefully refine undead creatures.
Creatures can even have ways of thinking that are no less than those of normal humans.”
"Like Mr. Azik's messenger?"
Klein immediately remembered the courier who blocked an attack for him. According to Mr. Azik, he had another unexplained identical courier.
"No, those are not carefully refined."
"Oh, that's right. Ah, no, doesn't that mean I..."
Klein just nodded when he suddenly heard that if Ms. Daly thought like this, wouldn't he have directly changed from the hero who saved Tingen to the cultist who stole the body of the hero Tingen? This also means that Sherlock
·Moriarty is likely to be directly on the wanted list?
He doesn't care much about this, after all, this identity is rarely used anymore, but the problem is that under his identity, he also has 10% of the shares of the bicycle company? What if the church directly confiscates it, then what about Dawn Dantès?
He can no longer disguise his identity, not to mention he still owes Miss Messenger 5,987 pounds! This is a loss of 20,000 pounds!
Seeing Klein's expression change instantly, Dunn said doubtfully:
"What's wrong?"
Klein roughly described his problem, but concealed Miss Messenger's debt.
"If you are just short of money, Mr. Azik should be able to help you. But the church is wanted..." Dunn was also a little helpless.
Ah, yes, I almost forgot Mr. Azik's identity... Klein's eyes lit up, but then he dimmed. That's a lot of money! What's more important is that it can be regarded as his.
The first investment was wasted.
"team leader……"
Looking at the smile on Klein's lips, Dunn Smith had a bad feeling.
"If you go and meet..."
"Now is not the time, and we were just speculating before, so we have to wait and see."
"Oh well."
Seeing that the captain was unwilling, Klein had no choice but to give up and return to his home.
After he left, Dunn Smith picked up his pipe, lit the mint and tobacco with a match, and stood in front of the window in the blue smoke. His deep gray eyes looked through the smoke and through the dark night at St. Samuel's Cathedral.
The direction is like a stone statue.
…
West District, 45 Gatton Street.
In the study room, Rawls looked at Alicia who was reading a letter across the desk:
"What are your thoughts?"
This letter came from the sea, from Gerald Tamara, the first mate of the "Twilight". The letter stated that the "Immortal King" Agaritu was suspected of cooperating with a certain force and carried out substantial expansion.
Five pirate ships belonging to each other were discovered east of the Sea of Whales, and each of them was equipped with a large number of artillery. Their firepower was no less than that of Loen and Fusac warships.
As for the letter saying that the "Iron Anchor", which had more than 300 pirates, could barely suppress one ship, and that two ships could only run away, Rawls was not surprised.
"Demon Hunter Admiral" Andreevich is definitely the most powerful among pirate generals. He can defeat the Tamara demigod who has been hiding on the "Twilight".
"Hell Admiral" Ludwell.
However, due to the fact that the crew members on the "Twilight" must be Sequence 8 and above Beyonders, the expansion of the power was too short, Gerald and Andreevich were both Sequence 5 on the same ship, and other factors, "
The "Iron Anchor" can suppress a pirate ship whose firepower is comparable to that of the Fusac warship. It is already very good.
The only thing he doubted was who would cooperate with Agaritu. In addition to his title of "Immortal King", this pirate king also had another title: "The Faithless" who liked to find excuses to break their promises. More importantly,
It was never him who made the decision, but the ship named "Song of Death".
There are not many forces that can take out five pirate ships comparable to warships in one go, and there are probably even fewer who can cooperate with Agaritu. Among them, the most suspected ones are the Blood Worship Cult, the Rose School of Thought, and the Psychological Alchemy Society.
As a secret organization that controls the way to "demon", the relationship between the Blood Worship Cult and the Abyss goes without saying. Even with the declining Andrerad, the Belia family may be in Agaritu in order to get rid of becoming North's vassal.
After proposing cooperation, he decisively agreed.
After the death of Senior, the "Blood Admiral", the Rose School is unlikely to give up its maritime interests. When cooperating with Agaritu, there is no need to worry about the other party breaking its promise, otherwise it will send a Sequence 3 or even an angel.
can solve each other.
What's more, both organizations point to the "Mother Tree of Desire", which corresponds to the two paths of the "Abyss" and the "Bound God", so the possibility of choosing Agaritu is very high.
As for the Psychological Alchemy Society, it is naturally because of its president Pauli Dellaw. This "Dream Weaver" has another identity at sea, that is, the "King of the Black Seat" Barros Hopkins. In
Under Nast's intimidation, he may not cooperate with Agaritu, and the support provided by the pirate ship is also in line with the character of an "audience".
"Even if Joshua is here, once he is attacked by Agaritu, he may not be able to support it."
Joshua Tamara is the demigod hidden on the "Twilight", the "Law Mage" of Sequence 4.
As Alicia said, facing the "Immortal King" whose power is expanding and its strength is increasing, the current "Twilight" has no chance of winning. Even if Joshua uses the "mystery weakens, reality strengthens" law, facing the firepower
A fleet far above your own will only reduce your own strength.
Rawls even suspected that if Pauli Dellaw was behind the scenes, then maybe this was specifically aimed at Joshua.
"Then let Andreevich leave the Sea of Beluga and go to the Central Sonia Sea first."
No matter what Agaritu is thinking, whether to expand his deterrence or to attack Nast's influence by targeting pirate generals, the Zhongsunya Sea is a hurdle he must face. There are not only the world's
The busiest sea lanes, such as "Star Admiral", "Vice Admiral Disease", and "Vice Admiral Iceberg" are all active there.
"Also, write to Nast and ask for the Black Emperor to show up once, if possible."
Rawls wanted to use Andreevich to lure the "Immortal King" there, and then use Nast's pressure to force him to act quickly.
For Agaritu and "Whispering Hao" who have "malicious perception", setting traps in advance is useless, but now faced with the oppression brought by Nast, they have no choice. They can either take a risk now or sit back.
Waiting for death, and judging from now, they obviously chose the former.
Alicia nodded in agreement, and then she and Rawls looked out the door at the same time. As the knock on the door rang, they disappeared into the room.
"Sir, Bishop Garvey has come to visit you, and with him is His Excellency Raydal Valentine."
This is the voice of August the butler.
After stretching out his hand and twisting it casually to remove the isolation between the inside and outside, Rawls responded:
"I see."
After taking another look at his clothes, he frowned slightly:
"Morris, help me prepare my clothes."
Because he was at home, he was only wearing his dressing gown, which was not suitable for meeting with the bishops and archbishops of the Church of Storms. After all, every believer of the Storm Lord tends to be conservative.
Although Bishop Garvey's visit was not planned, it had happened many times before. After all, the two had communicated many times during campaign meetings at Philip's home, and their friendship was pretty good. But this was the first time for Radar Valentine to come.
I visited him at home and had very few conversations before.
But Rawls only had one thought in his mind, and that was that he had finally waited for this day.
When he made future plans for himself, one of them was to establish a good relationship with the Church of Storms, but there was a big problem with this, that is, he was a believer of the Goddess of the Night. Even with the relationship with the Negan family, for him
It's also very difficult to do this.
Three minutes later, Rawls, who had changed into morning clothes, appeared in the living room and apologized for not showing up immediately.
"It's us who should apologize for not notifying us in advance."
Bishop Garvey is in his early thirties. Among the irascible and irritable clergy of the Church of the Storm, he is definitely the harmless kind. This is one of the reasons why he participated in the Conservative Party campaign meeting at such a young age.
one.
Another reason is also here. His Excellency Cardinal Valentine of the Backlund Diocese of the Church of Storms has always been busy with work and cannot spare time to participate in meetings organized by a group of politicians, statesmen, and nobles.
Of course, Rawls always suspected that he didn't want to participate because he was afraid that he would kill everyone participating in the meeting with a flash of lightning.
The two of them exchanged a few words of humility with each other, and when there seemed to be thunder and lightning leaping in Leidar's eyes, they stopped being polite and took their seats.
"Your Excellency Valentine, Bishop Garvey, I don't know what your visit this time is..." Rawls knew that he could not say a few more polite words, so he had to get down to the point without being polite.
But this happened to fit the idea of Raydar Valentine. He touched his earlobes, which were larger than ordinary people, and his voice boomed:
"It's about some issues with the navy, and we need your help."
"My help?" Rawls opened his mouth slightly and pointed at himself, "Did I hear you correctly? Your Excellency, I am not..."
"But you can help us..."
"That's right." Bishop Garvey spoke hurriedly, stopping Redal from continuing. "At the end of last year, His Majesty allowed the three major churches to send personnel to the military, but we now have some problems and need your help."
"Then you should find Philip? The old Duke is an admiral, and he has served in the Navy for ten years. Last week, he established a relationship with the daughter of Admiral Robert Davis..."
Facing the two clergy of the Church of Storms, Rawls went over and over again about the influence of the Negan family on the Navy. This was naturally not because he thought the two in front of him did not understand this, but because he did not want to go there.
In this muddy water, he was willing even if his relationship with the Church of Storms temporarily became tense.
As the Church of Storms that has the greatest influence on the military, there are unsolvable problems in the navy, and they come to him as a little viscount. So who do these problems come from?
There is only one answer, and that is Negan, Levitt, Wolfe, Connors and other great nobles who started their careers in the navy. They do not want to see the Church of Storms abandon them and directly join the navy.
Let’s not talk about whether Rawls has a way. Even if he does, he will not be able to provide it to the Church of Storms. It will only worsen his relationship with the Negan family.