On the way out of the Magic Goblin Market, Rand was thinking about how to get enough gold coins to cover all the existing ones in the Magic Goblin Store. A dozen magic goblins would need at least 20,000 gold coins, which would not be enough for Rand's existing stock. Fund flow is a disaster.
"It seems that I have to ask how the interest from the Galloping Horse Fund will be withdrawn tomorrow. The ancestors' money must help the development of the homeland, and it cannot be swindled by Fiat," Lant thought silently.
After visiting the market, Dugan was going home for dinner, and Lant was also hurrying to get ready to return to the Chamber of Commerce. Just when he was about to get home, a figure suddenly ran out. Fortunately, Lant's riding skills were good enough, so there was no accident.
"Girl, you have to watch the road when you walk!" As someone who has experienced a car accident, Lant has a different understanding of traffic safety.
"Ah, I'm sorry." The female mage was wearing a huge cloak. She was frightened and raised the brim of her hat.
"It's you!" The female mage suddenly became excited. She wanted to shout but didn't dare, so she asked tentatively,
"Do you remember me? Last winter, I was with the wizard Gandalf. We met!"
"Ah?" Rant didn't quite understand it at first. It wasn't until the female mage mentioned Gandalf that he slowly remembered that it was December 24 last year. When Rant went out to visit his neighbors, he saw Gandalf and A girl ran away and he covered the two of them.
"This is not a place to stay for a long time. You come with me." Lant led the female mage to his own chamber of commerce through the back door. In Wendy's magic workshop, he even gave the female mage some supplies.
"Thank you, Knight." The female mage introduced herself as Zhuo Qian White Flame, a flame priest of a small sect: the Church of the Holy Fire.
"Our sect believes in sacred flames, and its teachings are purity, blazing, and devotion. Every priest in the sect is a fire mage and a priest!" With a similar introduction, Lant once said when another of their priests was arrested. heard it,
"But why are you separated from the wizard Gandalf?"
"My companions were captured by the lackeys of the Temple Alliance. I need to rescue them, but Gandalf thinks that unless the Temple Alliance sets a trap, there is no chance. I don't believe it and want to try my luck. I didn't expect it to happen. I've been waiting for a chance!" Looking at Zhuo Qian's pleading eyes, Lant sighed,
"How many companions do you have?"
"15, including our bishop," Zhuo Qian introduced,
"They were originally imprisoned in the underground prison of the cathedral, but for some reason, starting yesterday, they were sent to the black market outside the city."
"Which black market?" Lant heard the word black market and suddenly became a little alert.
"There is only a relatively large black market outside the city, and the people from the Temple Alliance want to sell them as slaves!" The female mage became more and more anxious as she spoke.
"Knight, can you lend me some money? I want to rescue them."
"No, even if you rescued them, this is Dragon Tooth City. Where do you think you can escape to?" Lant was dumbfounded by Zhuo Qian's persistence.
"Galloping Horse Plains!" But Zhuo Qian was very sure,
"Only by going there can we escape the pursuit of the Temple Alliance."
"Ah? Why?"
"The Temple Alliance is pursuing us based on the Temple Alliance reform edict issued by the God Emperor and the Pope in the year 720." Lant did not expect that the so-called Flame Priest in front of him would actually discuss the reform of the church with him.
"That edict stipulated that all gods in the entire human empire at that time were worshiped by the Temple Alliance, and the priests and the Holy See of the Temple Alliance were qualified to hunt down and ban heretics."
"So? Doesn't Galloping Horse Plains count?"
"Of course not. At that time, the Galloping Horse Kingdom had already been destroyed! After all, you were also a knight of the capital. Why didn't you learn the history of the empire and the history of the Temple Alliance?" Zhuo Qian was a little anxious.
"According to the content of the edict, the land where the Galloping Horse Kingdom is located is not included in the scope of the edict, which is within the jurisdiction of the Temple Alliance."
"Wait a minute, there is something wrong with the Temple Alliance. Now that the Galloping Horse Plains have been restored, how can they guard such a large plain and not bring it under their control?"
"They will definitely include it, but they will definitely not include Galloping Horse Plains within the scope of the edict," Zhuo Qian laughed.
"Because the edict not only includes the status of the Temple Alliance, but also stipulates the requirements and standards for priests in all areas. According to the edict, priests must recite doctrines, worship gods morning and evening, be devoid of sexual desire, and cannot harass women or collect property privately."
"Isn't this bad?" Lant was a little confused.
"It's good, but they can't do it!" Zhuo Qian was already laughing out loud.
"You don't know that before the edict was issued, the priests of various sects were far more depraved than the knight lords. Many priests did a lot of ridiculous things relying on the gods behind them."
"Then the gods don't care?"
"Why does the Goddess of Wealth care about how many wives his priests have? Why does the God of War care about whose money his priests use to buy weapons? Every god has his own priesthood, and the requirements for his priests are also based on Those who come from the priesthood have very little control over other things. Only when the sects unified into the Temple Alliance did the rules become stricter."
"Ah this." Lant didn't expect that the priests in this world were even more depraved than the nobles, and for a moment he regretted participating in the dispute between the Temple Alliance and the Holy Fire Church.
The priestess realized that she had talked too much, so she returned to business.
"Anyway, we can be safer if we go to the Galloping Horse Plains. The worst we can do is join the local lord and become a fire mage."
"Have you heard of the lord over there?" This was the first time that Lant heard an evaluation of himself from someone who didn't know him, and he was really curious about his reputation outside.
"Of course, many people in the royal capital are saying that he is the most brutal barbarian in the past 20 years, but he is not bad at dealing with humans," Zhuo Qian nodded.
"I also heard that he has a skilled female magician who prevents the girls from going to school and spends all day and night painting magic patterns in the magic workshop."
"Really, hehehe, there are so many female mages, let them draw magic patterns," Lant added.
"You sound like a real barbarian!"
"I guess so." At this moment, Zhuo Qian and Lant reached an agreement.
"But I want to tell you, you can't save your companions by buying them," Lant changed the subject.
"Think about it, if they caught the heretics, why didn't they send them to a higher parish instead of keeping them here and selling them?" Zhuo Qian had never thought about this problem. She looked at Lant with wide eyes. She always wanted to speak to refute, but in her constant thinking, she realized that someone might really be setting a trap, but then she thought about it and whispered again,
"If they want to catch me, wouldn't they just release one person on the black market? Why do they have to release so many people?"
