When Gregory woke up, the sky was just getting dark. His right arm was still in great pain. Grigory gritted his teeth and used magic to twist his arm back to its original shape. But that didn't heal his right hand. His right hand hung limply to the side of his body, unable to even move.
He miscalculated the state of faith in Hamburg.
Gregory is the apostle who controls the "location" of all things. Wherever the divine fire illuminates, he can almost unlimitedly shift the location of things; but in the dark areas where the divine fire cannot reach, his power is will inevitably decay; if he uses magic to force his way into such an area, his own existence will be distorted. The injured right arm was a warning to Gregory.
Fortunately, he stopped in the countryside outside Hamburg. If he had forced his way into Hamburg, his entire body would have been twisted into a ball like his right arm.
Since his right hand could no longer move, Gregory no longer paid attention to his right hand. He closed his eyes and carefully experienced the flow of his own magic power.
"It has been reduced to the 'priest' level... no, it is slightly weaker than the 'priest', equivalent to the 'elf' level of the Qiqiu Empire's magic system?"
This is just the current situation. If Gregory continues to use magic, his power will be further depleted. When Gregory was sent as an envoy to the Qiqiu Empire, he was still able to obtain some power from the Tianfang Empire not far away. But the Alemannic Federation is too far away from the Tianfang Empire. Once the local believers of the Alemannic Federation lose their faith, Gregory's magic power will be almost impossible to restore.
"Even so, the remaining power is still enough. Just be careful not to make long-distance transfers."
Amid the pain in his right arm, he walked step by step towards Hamburg.
Since it was still early, there were not many people on the streets of Hamburg. After walking a few steps into the city, a high platform appeared in front of us. Two wooden frames were erected on the high platform, and the priests and nuns of Hamburg were tied there. Their skin had been burned by the sun and was red; and their faces were pale and colorless.
The priest just woke up from his swoon when Gregory approached. A faint voice came out of his mouth:
"God, have you abandoned us?"
Gregory looked at the priest and said, "Simon, memorize Chapter 5, Verse 36 of the Gospel of Mark."
The priest's body trembled and he muttered subconsciously: "When Christ heard what was said, he said to the leader of the synagogue: 'Do not be afraid! Just believe!'"
"understand?"
The priest opened his eyes slightly. Gregory first had five double images in his eyes, and it took a while before one of them appeared. He recognized Gregory and was overjoyed. But when he noticed the condition of Gregory's right hand, the joy suddenly disappeared.
"Lord Gregory...you shouldn't be here."
"Simon, you have forgotten the teaching of Christ again. 'Do not be afraid! Just believe!' This is especially true in pagan lands. Do you understand this time?"
"……Understood."
So, Gregory asked seriously: "Simon, was it you who did the rumor? Did you really kill three women and bury them in the backyard of the church?"
Simon shook his head with difficulty: "Master Gregory, I have never done this."
"Then do you know who these three women are?"
"do not know either."
"Are you willing to swear an oath to the judge in heaven?"
"Heavenly Father testifies that there is no falsehood in my words."
“Do you know the consequences of swearing falsely by calling on the name of your Heavenly Father?”
"I know, that's a first-rate felony."
Gregory wanted to say something else, but suddenly there was a shout from behind: "That priest just called the man in rags 'Sir'!!! Quickly arrest the man in rags and interrogate him!"
Gregory turned around hurriedly and saw dozens of civilians gathered there. He never imagined that this sparse street would attract so many people just because he said a few words to the priest.
"Simon, I will let the truth come out."
After saying this to the priest, Gregory walked towards the Hamburg Church.
"He wants to run! Stop him!"
The group of people shouted and shouted, some chased him from behind, and some blocked him in front.
Gregory walked forward step by step as if nothing had happened. As he advanced, the crowd blocking him automatically separated, leaving a path in the middle. People on both sides of the road looked at each other in horror, because they had not actually taken a step - a force had moved their positions before they were aware of it, vacating the road.
After a period of confusion, people came to their senses and rushed towards Gregory from all directions.
——They all threw themselves on the ground.
Someone grabbed something nearby and threw it towards Gregory.
——They all fell to the ground.
Gregory calmly left everyone behind and walked away.
The church was locked up with iron chains. There are many wooden plaques hung on the iron ropes, engraved with incantations used by pagans to ward off evil spirits. Seeing anger, Gregory raised his remaining left hand far away, intending to twist the iron rope through the air.
But this time, he failed. Separating the crowd just now consumed too much of his strength, further weakening his ability.
Gregory looked at the palm of his hand with complicated emotions. He didn't expect that his strength would fade so quickly.
"Is it already equivalent to the 'natural' level?"
He sighed, stepped forward and put his hand on the iron rope, and finally broke the iron rope.
He knew that the group of people just now would soon gather and surround the church. Before that, he had to find useful clues.
The church had been turned into a mess. Gregory walked through the hallway and all the way to the backyard. There were three pits the size of a person left there, and the three corpses were obviously dug out from these three places.
Gregory walked around the backyard. There are only three pits. There were no signs of digging anywhere else. And those three pits are just big enough for one person.
So Gregory was sure that Simon had been framed. This is the most obvious truth: if these three corpses were really found by soldiers who knew nothing about them, there would definitely not be only three holes in the yard. There were only three, which just showed that the soldiers knew in advance that there were corpses buried in these locations.
The question is, how did Duke Otto bury these three corpses in the church without anyone noticing? How should the truth of the matter be made public?
While Gregory was deep in thought, people's shouts and curses came from the door of the church.
