"I hope it's not too late." The young man replied coldly.
But after this frank and peaceful exchange, it seemed extremely difficult to be in the same room with the messenger. Uriel was flipping through the book, eager to plunge his head into the densely packed sacred texts. Every second of waiting was so painful. He couldn't help but think wildly, and his fingers continued to repeat movements mechanically. What made him particularly incredible was not the attitude of the messenger, but that he himself could say such a thing. Maybe the goddess chose me to become a knight for a reason.
The silence gradually cooled his thoughts, and the apprentice's movements slowed down. The sound of rushing was replaced by breathing, and distant and regular footsteps came from above. Sometimes Gunther would let out short moans in his stupor, but for Lady Bertha's sake Uriel tended his wounds as best he could. Joey didn't stop him, and Sauron didn't dare to say anything. The dead are silent. Uriel began to think of Whittaker and Agatha, and the Black Knight's meaningful words. The waves of his thoughts were rising so slowly that he didn't notice when the messenger stood at the edge of the tomb.
"Is this the Crusader's cemetery?" Joey asked.
"No, it's just for nuns and priests." Uriel was happy to answer. "Some believers serve Gaia all their lives and even abandon their identity in the mortal world. Therefore, there is no name of the tomb owner on it."
"Lucia has no such request."
"what do you mean?"
"Requiring believers to dedicate everything to Him." When Bai Zhishi expressed his seemingly sympathetic remarks, his expression was still unconvincing. "Devotion is a human virtue, so the goddess requires the most devout lambs to sacrifice themselves to declare their loyalty to their faith. Is this the truth?"
"You are mistaken. This is the wish of the deceased, not a doctrinal requirement."
"Wish," the young man repeated. "That's right. All the wishes of those who want to die are allowed to come true. Gaia is particularly tolerant in this regard. Do you still remember the relevant canons? 'Those who are guilty of death also have the right to choose the sharpest axe'."
"Everyone must pay for his faults." Uriel said, "This is the greatest kindness Gaia has given him. There is no difference between the living and the dead in the eyes of the goddess. While he punishes evil, he will also give the same kindness to all things. "
The apprentice didn't quite understand why he said this.
"Kindness to the dead is unnecessary."
"It's very unsympathetic."
"Your sympathy will not alleviate his sin, nor will it teach the law to spare his life. It can be seen that people's sympathy is just self-comfort and does not help the dead person at all." Joey said. "When you're dying, the whole world starts to love you."
Uriel felt his heart was hit by these words and was speechless. "...the goddess behaves differently from us."
"The servants of the goddess understand this truth. I don't know what kind of rules the Gaia Church in your world has, but in Knox, at least in Peniaio, only the tombstones of sinners are not worthy of engraving. You said inside A devout believer lying there? Then no matter whose idea it was to have the blank space on the monument, the owner must have been unaware of it."
This is ridiculous. "There are many unknown corpses buried by the Public Security Bureau on the streets of Shuangyue. Who would know the names of these people?" he retorted.
"Most of the homeless people who freeze to death are cremated, and they pray that they will enter the Kingdom of Sirte after death." Joey pointed out, "The unknown dead who are buried will still have words on the monuments. Either general eulogies, or sporadic ones. Description. The wordless tablet is considered a curse on the deceased and will only be given to those who have committed the most heinous crimes."
The crime is extremely heinous. Uriel wanted to step back, away from the clean stone tablet. Only then did he realize that even the tombstones in the secret room were not exposed on the surface. If he hadn't been someone familiar with the church, the Crusaders probably wouldn't have noticed the existence of such a place. "I see." He felt like he was speaking from another person's throat. "I see." Uriel seemed to have been poured cold water on his head, and his vague excitement disappeared in an instant. "Maybe... this is the difference between the inner and outer worlds."
However, since the apprentice is familiar with the Gaia Church in Knox, there is no reason to believe that the canons of the two worlds are significantly different. This was an exception, he decided, and maybe the reason had something to do with the mystery. After all, these are two similar but different worlds...
"This is a holy place, and even ordinary believers are prohibited from setting foot on it." The messenger seemed not to notice anything unusual about him. "It seems that the church has buried some secrets here. The Black Knight of the Starless Night also came here. He must have some secrets." A clear goal." Bai Zhizhi walked back to his original position, pointed at the apprentice's feet, and motioned for him to lower his head.
"...Thank you." Uriel picked up the fallen notes as prompted, flattened them one by one absentmindedly, and neatly stacked them together. "What does the Undead Lord want from the Church?"
"Not evidence of the murder of some priest anyway. Why do you care?"
The apprentice had no choice but to keep his mouth shut. It’s not the Nameless One I have to worry about now, or Agatha or Hobson. He found that it was easy to manage his thoughts this time. It was the goddess who made it impossible for me to distract him...
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Roma picked up the notes on the ground, one after another, filled with words she couldn't understand. She was about to throw it out of the window, but suddenly remembered that these things were originally tucked in the book. The book is a thick scripture with gold foil on the cover and the pages are filled with the mixed fragrance of candles and vegetable ink. In the pamphlet sent by the dean to Manai and the others, Roma did not see any of these things. She flattened them one by one and put them back into place.
At this time, there was a creaking sound from the floor.
After staying in this strange church for two weeks, Roma began to get used to the dilapidated buildings of the village. Even when a spider walks across the ground, the stairs make a fuss. It seems that the mortal kingdom is too poor, and even in a clean place blessed by God, the conditions are not necessarily much better. She misses Sabine, and their mentor Larsen. The life here is dull and boring. She has endured it for Aiken for a long time, and now she is thinking about how to leave with this interesting little toy.
There were many children in the monastery, ranging from toddlers as old as five or six to newborn babies. In two weeks Roma witnessed the birth of four children, three girls and one boy. One of the girls’ mother suffered from severe bleeding after giving birth, and even glass grass tea could not save her life. Roma was not surprised because the mother on the bed was still a girl. She had only been in the world for more than ten years and still lacked experience in dealing with suffering and sin.
In Roma's heart, little Aiken's status far exceeds that of other children, even if he is not the smartest one. This human cub didn't look like a lion, and she wasn't trying to find a shadow of her own life experience in him. The source of her special affection for this child was Manet. She believed that her mother and Manet had some kind of spiritual overlap... In this way, maybe she did find her own shadow in Aiken. High above, the Tower of the Sky is an exquisite monastery and the crib of Roma Penelope. The thought stopped her.
She had almost forgotten her purpose.
When escaping from the tower, Roma wanted to go to the Ember Prairie to find her tribe. Later, she realized that Ronald Zachary was there and would be caught as soon as she got there, so she boarded the Eastman instead. rectangular ladder. There are many fun places to visit in Binyaio...but Roma, the little lion, only knows these two places. She made up her mind to become a messenger and would never stay in one place. Only in this way could it add some difficulty to the astrologers who were looking for her. Now that Roma has been in this small village for a long time, it's time to leave.
"This is not your concern, Sister Theresa." Mother Superior Barnza said, opening the door. "I have other things to do in the morning, and they have nothing to do with a child who can only scream. We took in her shameless mother, but she couldn't even bear the painful punishment! A few days ago There is also a child who was born mentally retarded, what a pitiful baby... The mother of this child seems to have no moral sense." She didn't realize that her words were harsh at all, "I assigned her to that girl who can't do anything well. Remember she’s about to give birth, so it’s a good thing to give her some experience in advance. What’s her name?”
"Sitta." Sister Delia's voice was muffled, and she seemed a little depressed.
Abbess Parnassus has a face as round as a plate, with a broad and protruding forehead and thick, long eyebrows. The nun's hat on her head often appears to be too small. Her lips and nose, which she had been reciting all year round, were too far apart, and her eyes were sharp and cold, but they seemed unable to detect anything unusual about Delea's expression.
"Sea Tower," she repeated. "If this girl forgets to change the baby's sheets, tell me. She won't have breakfast next week. The receipt for the Archbishop is already written. You are responsible for sorting it out, Delea, and hand it over to me before tomorrow morning. "
Sister Delia took the scripture, looking a little hesitant. "Uh, are these all, Dean?"
"There are many more than before, because there are a group of new mothers who have just given birth to children coming from Wynneworth. Those outsiders got the news from nowhere, and they specially chose the same time to stuff me with application letters." The dean opened the cabinet. , took out a stack of paper.
"But the kids are too young, and it's going to be cold weather soon."
"Yes, it's a problem, but it's not ours. Many babies tend to die during the Frost Moon, so adopting a child at this time involves most of the risk. But since they are willing to accept it, what can I say?"
Sister Delia wanted to say something else, but the Mother Superior wasn't listening. She is like a leader who distributes heavy work to her subordinates, exuding an aura of relaxation and comfort from the inside out. Apparently she doesn't care about anything anymore.
However, when Dean Barnza was sitting on the chair, she suddenly remembered something, so she stood up immediately.
