Lillian was running in the castle with several trial knights of the Knights Templar with a blank expression.
When they arrived at a room, several people finally stopped.
Orian's fingers circled a strand of pale blond hair hanging from her hat, her big blue eyes full of doubts, "Robert, why are we running away? Isn't it what we should do to punish the devil?"
"Goddess above." The brown-haired knight knelt down on one knee, revealing the silver leg armor under the hem of his monk's robe. "Your Highness, I am doing this to protect you."
Orian was puzzled, "Protect me? But this mission of exterminating demons was applied for by myself."
"Your Highness, please forgive me."
Robert lowered his head, "There are many things I have hidden from Your Highness.
"I have sworn allegiance to His Highness, but there are some things... that I didn't know until I came here."
He looked at Sister Orian's shoes and whispered: "My uncle is one of the nine cardinals in the church. He warned me that this mission was personally assigned by His Majesty the Pope.
"The Pope hopes that you can sacrifice yourself here, at least for a short period of time."
Orian opened her mouth, "Why..."
"This is politics." Robert lowered his head, "Because it's time for the Pope to change soon. You are a very important propaganda force to voters, but you don't seem to agree with the Pope's ideas, so he plans to change him again.
Saint.
"I am your knight, and I only follow your advice, so my uncle told me all this. He does not want me to accompany you to death."
The Purity Church where they belong has nine cardinals, one of whom is a cardinal archbishop.
These nine bishops are tenured for life.
But not the Pope.
The Purity Church is one of the five major Orthodox churches and is currently the largest Orthodox church with jurisdiction over fifty dioceses.
The pope is elected every four years and serves a maximum of two terms.
The specific rules are that when it comes time to choose a pope, each diocese selects several priests, and finally these hundreds of priests select the final pope.
The Pure Church is divided into three sects, one is the monastic sect, the other is the angelic sect, and the third is the neutral sect, which is divided into many smaller sects.
The current Pope belongs to the Angelic Sect and advocates the use of war to eliminate all other sects so that the glory of the goddess can spread throughout the world.
Many people opposed him, including within the monastic faction.
So he needs the saint to "disappear" and then choose a new saint to promote.
After all, who doesn’t like a pure saint who is pure, kind, gentle and has no purpose?
Orian was silent for a while and then said: "But I still believe in the guidance of the goddess. It is God who wants to come to me to purify the demons. I think everyone should not escape. Demons are mankind's eternal nightmare."
"Maybe that's right. This subordinate doesn't want to escape, but..." Robert smiled bitterly, "I can feel that the devil... is too strong..."
Orian opened her blue eyes as calm as a lake, "But so many of us can't purify him? Seeing that he is torturing other people's souls, I...can't sit idly by and ignore him."
"Your Highness the Saint, you are wrong." Robert smiled bitterly, "The one who was stepped on and beaten is the devil we are looking for."
Orian: "Huh?"
Her surprised look is so cute.
But no one cared, and several other knights were also shocked by Robert's words.
"Robert, what do you mean?"
These few are not the exclusive knights of the Saint.
There are four people in total, two are knights of the Inquisition and two are knights of the Knights Templar.
They had been silent just now.
Because if what Robert said is true, then the four of them are basically equivalent to abandoned sons.
"You, the Inquisition, don't know that?" Robert asked back, and then suddenly realized, "Indeed, your Inquisition is responsible internally and externally to the monks of the Combat Intelligence Institute."
After a pause, he explained: "I also know from my uncle that this demon is the son of the ordinary god...I am referring to the one lying on the ground being beaten. He is our target.
, is also a first-level demon.”
As soon as he said these words, the knights except the saint all looked ugly.
A first-level demon...that is basically equivalent to the strongest level under the gods.
They are all fourth-level Fire Feather Knights, Robert is a third-level Frostwing Knight, and Her Royal Highness the Saint is a third-level supplicant.
For them to come here is really to die.
According to the intelligence they originally received, the one they wanted to purify this time was clearly a third-level demon...
But the bigger question is, why was the first-order demon pinned to the ground and beaten violently?
Even if it has just been unsealed and has not recovered to its full form, its strength is still at the peak of the third level, or even the second level at its worst.
But from the looks of it, he was almost powerless to fight back!
"Those... people, who are they? Is that the chosen one of which god?"
"This is not a normal world, how could he be the chosen one?" Robert sighed, "You saw it on the way here, right? We just teleported here, and there are deformed monsters everywhere.
"And those rectangular buildings are covered with disgusting flesh and blood, and the flesh and blood are all alive."
Robert sighed bitterly and said the answer that none of them wanted to know, "This...is hell...
"If that god is a top-level demon, then even in hell, the one in it must be a great demon standing at one of the apexes of hell."
This answer is too unfriendly to a few people.
Everyone was speechless for a moment.
After a while, someone suddenly said, "No wonder my power has been weakened so much here, and I can't feel the goddess's divine power..."
No one answered.
But morale is visible to the naked eye.
Boom——!
The sudden sound of thunder broke the silence.
It seems to be raining outside.
The dome-shaped colorful glass high up in the sky crackled as raindrops hit it.
Orian crossed her hands and prayed, and then said calmly: "This is just a test from the goddess. We will definitely be able to successfully seal the demon."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the room suddenly exploded!
From outside, a monster over five meters tall walked in.
This monster was covered in deformed pustules and had more than a dozen human arms waving around its body.
It has no head, and its abdomen is connected by a spine covered with broken flesh and blood.
The upper part is the upper body, and the lower part is the lower body.
It also carried a huge hatchet in its hand.
Orian's body bloomed with a soft light, "Knights, the time to fight has come."
............
"It's raining?"
In the corridor in the middle of the castle, Wang Quan stretched his hand out of the ceiling of the corridor.
Along with the sound of "Zila", the skin on his hands was slowly corroded.
Withdrawing his hand, Wang Quan glanced at the recovering skin, frowned and said: "The corrosive rain of blood, is this the change you are talking about?"
Ji Xingyu sighed, "This is just the preamble, the 'Midnight Echo' that I replaced that was supposed to appear is coming again."
"This is the world you were originally going to experience."