As the woman lifted her cloak, a burned and disfigured face appeared in front of everyone.
"Hiss~" Everyone whispered and took a deep breath of cold air.
Disfigurement is an extremely cruel thing to do to a person, let alone a woman, or a young woman.
Although the woman was disfigured, even the hair on her forehead was burned bald.
But judging from the rest of the skin that is still intact, the woman should be in her twenties, which is the age when she is young and graceful.
You can imagine how many stares and bullying this woman suffered to survive until now.
If not for the fact that everyone was of high status, they might have exclaimed "ugly!"
"Who are you?"
Nok tried hard to identify the other party, but finally gave up and chose to ask the other party directly.
Hearing Nok's question, the woman's eyes widened with excitement. She pointed at her hideously burned face and asked loudly: "Who are you asking me? You actually asked me who I am? Do you recognize who I am?" Out?
Also, you only have Lillian and the twins in your heart, and those of us in between are all superfluous! It’s natural that you don’t remember! "
Hearing the woman's resentful complaints, Nok's body shook violently and he remembered a name.
He looked at the woman in disbelief and tentatively pronounced the name.
"Ashley?"
The woman's complaint paused for a moment, and a look of nostalgia flashed across her face, but it was quickly overwhelmed by hatred.
"Oh, I haven't heard this name for many years, but our Lord Bishop still remembers it.
Unfortunately, Ashley was already dead, and I am now the Nature Priest Nova, a believer in the Goddess of Nature! "
Ashley shouted this sentence almost in a roaring manner.
Nok apologized shamefully: "I'm sorry, I tried my best to find you when you disappeared, but when the church caught fire, I was in a coma.
When I woke up, the dormitory area was burned down, and I was wanted for some things, and was finally forced to leave the Lionheart Kingdom.
Later, I met your murderer Hawkes, and I learned from him that he killed you and set fire to the church. He became a pirate and had adventures. I was no match for him at sea and he escaped.
I’m sorry you’ve suffered all these years. I swear, I will help you catch Hawkes and leave him to you! "
In the eyes of Ashley Drake, Nock's sincere apology is Nock's charity and ridicule to herself.
She yelled at the top of her lungs: "That's enough! Put away your hypocrisy! Your face is as disgusting as Lilian's! I, the great natural priest, don't need your worthless pity! Didn't this bitch Lilian tell you? Why did she arrest me?"
Before the confused Nok could ask Lillian a question, Lillian, who was sitting on the chair, came to Nok's side at some point, raised her hand and slapped Aisley on the face.
Snapped!
Ashley, who was slapped, did not scream, but stared at Vivian with hatred. The magic condensed in his hand was about to hit Lilian.
Lillian put her hand on her sword with a frosty expression and warned her coldly: "You'd better be calm. If you want to take action, I guarantee that I will not be the one who dies first."
Thinking of the suffering she suffered at Lillian's hands, Ashley didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore.
Lilian is not Nook Lane. This woman's heart is made of stone. Her cruelty and coldness have long been spread throughout the Lionheart Kingdom.
Ashley has personally experienced this woman's hard-heartedness and ruthlessness.
Nok looked at the two sisters who were quarreling and saw each other's undisguised murderous intent, and his head suddenly got big.
He didn't understand why brothers and sisters who grew up together in a monastery ended up fighting each other with swords when they grew up.
But he did not blame Vivian. He would not blame a sister who hated him for the sake of a sister who ran to support him regardless of danger.
He, Nock Lane, is so selfish.
He had feelings for the children in the monastery, but that didn't mean he would allow these children to turn against him.
After all, he has seen Hawks' attitude towards him, and Nook doesn't care about having one more Ashley against him.
"Tell me, what happened to her?"
Nok returned to his seat on the stage and sat down. As soon as he spoke again, his whole demeanor changed.
Become aloof, cold and ruthless.
Lilian looked at Nok's change, her face was not filled with fear, but with surprise.
She signaled to the guards around her to regain control of Ashley, then returned to her position and explained to everyone and Nok.
It turns out that in recent years, the Natural Church has successfully secured its position as the state church by helping Queen Elizabeth suppress domestic opposition to her start of a maritime struggle for hegemony.
I don’t know what terms of cooperation they reached with the Queen, and they even agreed to allow people from the Natural Church to participate in the country’s internal affairs.
Healing corps composed of natural church monks were even formed in the army.
For a time, the Natural Church intervened in the military and political power, causing panic in the aristocratic circle of the Lionheart Kingdom.
However, the Natural Church has won over a group of nobles, and no matter how much the remaining nobles object, they cannot shake the fact that the Natural Church has entered the military and political system.
However, the aristocratic circle did not give up because of this, but secretly investigated the secret dealings between the Queen and the Natural Church.
As a countess who was supported by the queen after returning to her country, Lillian was naturally labeled as the queen's person.
At the Queen's suggestion, she also allowed people from the Natural Church to enter her territory for missionary development.
Privately, Lilian was more willing to move closer to the aristocratic circle.
She understands that her interests as a noble are consistent with the aristocratic circle.
She secretly sent people to keep an eye on the Church of Nature personnel in her territory, but she unexpectedly found out a shocking secret.
The Queen is almost 70 years old this year. She is just an ordinary person, not a professional, so she is considered an advanced age.
With her health deteriorating, the Queen made an agreement with the Church of Nature.
The Queen allowed the Natural Church to develop and preach, and the Natural Church helped the Queen maintain her youth and good health.
However, in the process of preaching, the Natural Church relies entirely on stimulating the growth of crops to attract people to join.
However, Lilian's men have investigated that the land that was promoted by the Church of Nature will lose its fertility inexplicably, and even the nearby weeds will die inexplicably after the people of the Church of Nature leave.
You must know that those are weeds that cannot be burned by wildfire. Even if they are covered with heavy snow, they can still be full of vitality the next spring, but they died inexplicably.
Lillian sensed that something was wrong and sent a large number of people to investigate the places where the deist believers showed "miracles" and found that the same situation occurred.
Lillian made a prompt decision and secretly arrested a missionary of the Natural Church. After torture and extorting a confession, she finally found out the truth.
The so-called miracles of the Natural Church are nothing more than natural believers extracting the vitality of the nearby land and pouring it into the growing crops, causing them to grow.
The price paid is that the land will lose its vitality within a few years.
Of course, it doesn’t take that much vitality to stimulate crops.
The intercepted vitality was stored by natural believers using means within the church and handed over to the higher authorities.
Lillian checked the life force she got from the missionary. That energy not only made her stronger, but also made her body more energetic.
If used on those who are aging, it will simply bring new life to dead trees.
Lilian also understood how the Church of Nature controlled the Queen.
She originally wanted to inform the kingdom's aristocratic circle about this, but unexpectedly she received news that Nok had disappeared and returned.
She was anxious to see Nok, so she sent someone to deliver the news to the royal city.
However, the Natural Church noticed that a missionary was missing and robbed and killed the messenger on the way. After learning that Lillian knew their secret, they sent Ashley to hunt down Lillian.
On the way from the Kingdom of Lionheart to the Kingdom of Fran, Aisilidu secretly directed people from the Church of Nature to assassinate Lilian, but Lillian cracked the code.
Seeing that Lilian was about to board the ship and leave the Lionheart Kingdom, Ashley decided to take the risk herself, approached Lilian as an old friend, and secretly poisoned everyone on the ship.
But she didn't expect that Lilian was no longer the ignorant little girl she was before.
As a qualified noble, she didn't believe in so-called coincidences.
A sister who had been missing for ten years suddenly appeared and recognized her, so she was naturally on guard.
The gap in status and interests has caused Lilian to encounter too many calculations.
Sure enough, under Mingsong's secret surveillance, Lillian caught Ashley's trap.
After knowing that she had poisoned him, he ordered his men to pretend to be poisoned, coaxed Ashley to take action, and captured Ashley on the spot.
After being tortured to extract a confession, Ashley finally revealed her purpose.
Only then did Lilian realize that this little sister, who had been missing for many years, had been by their side watching them in danger.
Even in these years, he has been secretly causing trouble to the children from the monastery.
Nok and Lillian were far across the coast, so she couldn't target them.
But the twin brothers and sisters in the neighboring country to the north of the Lionheart Kingdom, as well as Colowell who is now joining the resistance in the Lionheart Kingdom, have all been persecuted by her.
Especially Crowell, who was wanted after being betrayed by her.
Ashley told Lillian all this in a show-off manner, just to anger Lillian.
Lillian was indeed irritated by her. If she hadn't wanted to bring her to see Nok and relieve Nok's heart over the loss of his younger brother and sister, Lillian would have thrown the twisted Ashley into the sea to feed the fishes.
After listening to Lilian's explanation, Nok's eyes looked at Ashley without any tenderness or guilt anymore.
"Since you think it was someone from the monastery who harmed you, then as the person in charge of the monastery, I really should give you an explanation. Hawks murdered you and caused you to be disfigured by the fire. I will definitely kill him with my own hands to avenge you.
However, your misfortune was not caused by other people in the monastery, but you secretly harmed other people, resented them, and wanted to take revenge on other people. This is something I will not allow.
Since you have chosen to be our enemy, I will give you the treatment that an enemy deserves.
Drag her down and hang her directly. The corpse was hung at the city gate to be exposed to the sun for three days, indicating her origin. This is the fate of the heretics of the Natural Church who dare to sneak into the territory of the Holy Church.
It just so happens that there was still an unfulfilled holy war between the Natural Church and this bishop. I want to see if they have the courage to go to war with this bishop! "
Nock's decision surprised everyone present, but they were surprised and satisfied at the same time.
After all, Enoch's current situation does not allow him to be indecisive and emotional.
"No! Nok Lane, you can't kill me! It's you who caused me to do this, and you feel guilty for me! You have to make it up to me! You can't do this to me!"
Ashley did not expect that Nok would be even more ruthless than Lilian.
Where is the Nook Lane who risked his life for the monastery?
This is different from what she planned!
Otherwise, she would be stupid to provoke him!
Isn’t it just to make the other person feel guilty and then let him go?
Why did he end up being executed!
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