"Nightingale?" Roma took a few steps back and turned her head. "Does the Archbishop want him to control the situation in Silverdome City?"
"This is what I saw. He must have reported the news of our arrival to the High Septon," Uriel said, "through Pansy."
Iaconi let go of the priest and let him struggle on the floor. "That letter is worth a fortune. What does it say?"
"The archbishop hoped that Father Andren would find someone for him, and said that he would send another nightingale to help him make arrangements."
"No matter what the arrangement is, it's not easy to deceive the Cross Knight." The knight picked up the knife on the table and cut off the mouth of a new potion bottle. Father Andren cowered in fear until his eyes rolled back, and finally he fainted. Iaconi's methods of dealing with traitors can be described as cold-blooded.
Uriel quickly grabbed him: "I think he needs to rest for a while." Father Andren is also a priest of the ring level, but his will to resist is too strong, and he may not be able to withstand the continuous torture.
"We are pressed for time." Although he said this, the knight still put down his hands.
Father Andren was more useful alive than dead. Uriel suspected that the knight had deliberately ignored this key, and it goes without saying why. "You are much better than my last partner, Uriel. He wanted to do everything immediately and couldn't wait for a moment."
A resolute cross knight, this kind of person is not uncommon in the church, or in other words, it is the most common. When Uriel was in the convent, Father Hilde criticized him for not being decisive enough and asked Sister Mary to teach him how to read. He's right. The Cross Knights of the surface world don't know much about divine magic, and they need more superhuman qualities to guard Gaia's creed. He felt that it was enough to get a "much better" evaluation from Iaconi. "Efficiency can please Lucia, but Gaia values patience more. Of course, I don't think the priests would agree with this."
"Your views are very similar to those of the wizards of the school." Iaconi said softly.
"I don't know them." Uriel said honestly. There is no Silent School in the table world, and Knox's wizards rarely come to Eastman, but now a large number of ascetics and school wizards have poured into the kingdom, and Joey, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has not shown up at all. Could it be that he was injured in San Carlos? It is difficult for an apprentice to imagine that there are enemies of this level in the Mist City.
At this time, Roma reminded: "There are footsteps."
Father Andren was still convulsing with pain. Iconi drew a line in front of him, and he hit the barrier of air unconsciously. Roma retreated to Uriel, faced the wooden door and drew the bowstring. Fortunately, the footsteps didn't stop at all and gradually disappeared into the distance.
There seemed to be very few people in the church, Uriel realized. "Is today a working day? No one comes to church for worship." He lowered his voice.
"Andren sealed the church." Iaconi said with his back to them. "The excuse he made was to see the branch bishop. Of course he would not let the believers come to confession today. This is an advantage for us, but if If there is no priest to preside over the church before evening, everything we have done will be discovered.”
"Then you can't..."
"I don't care what Andren thinks, because he lied about the Charity House. Uriel, you have to remember our purpose: to find the hidden criminal before then. I suggest you go to the warehouse and give advice to those who may be involved. The priests have a chance to prove themselves." Iaconi's eyes moved to the potion, "Now that we have two people, there is no need to guard Andren's confession. Miss Roma, please follow Uriel, Don’t fall behind.”
Uriel agreed. As long as Iakoni Fairwin is separated, the Tome of Oath can be used without having to put everyone through Andren's experience. Insomnia makes me stupid.
But before he could stand up, Father Andren suddenly woke up. He grabbed his throat and his face turned from red to white: "No! Don't leave..." His voice was mixed with a terrible rustling sound, and footsteps sounded again outside the door. Iaconi immediately went to break his hand, but the priest rolled aside as hard as he could and bumped into a chair. "Nightingale!" He looked at Iaconi with hatred in his eyes. "night……"
The knight killed him with a sword.
His actions were so decisive that Uriel was startled and could not digest the shock for a while. The footsteps outside the door hesitated for a moment, and the little lion Roma set up his bow, his arms tense like pulling a string. But the footsteps eventually turned around and became smaller and smaller. She breathed a sigh of relief, but her mouth was covered by the apprentice who came back to her senses. Now that the people outside the door have noticed something strange in the house, they can't be dismissed so easily.
Sure enough, a knock on the door sounded in the empty room. "Father Andren, are you awake?" a woman asked.
Uriel was ready to engage in a confrontation and end the battle quickly, but he saw Iaconi take a deep breath, and then calmly responded: "I'm resting." The voice coming out of his mouth was Father Andren's.
The apprentice saw a strange magic text on his throat. This was not a magical spell. Roma blinked in surprise.
"Sorry to bother you." Now the woman really left.
After Uriel confirmed at the window that the nun's back had disappeared, the air suddenly relaxed. "You are so awesome!" The little lion almost admired Iaconi. She whispered, "Can you teach me?"
"This is a magical skill, you can't learn it. I can teach Uriel." Iaconi said perfunctorily. The kid couldn't find the point at all. "I'm sorry, but at the time..."
"...The situation is urgent." Uriel had no reason to blame him, "Now we can call it time-critical." Andren deserved it, but he didn't deserve to die so happily.
Neither Uriel nor Iaconi have the ability to resurrect the dead, so they can only try to find the criminal before the priest's body is discovered. Now I am behaving like a criminal, Uriel thought as he and Iaconi worked together to hide the body in the cabinet, and Roma showed it to them.
"I'm staying," the knight said. "If anyone wants to come in, I'll tell them to get out."
"But if they insist, just evacuate the church." Uriel ordered.
"Then let's keep Miss Roma as well, it's safer here."
Uriel did not want to compromise his mission in the slightest, but with Sauron here, he was not worried that the little lion was in danger: "Thank you, but I don't think you can control her."
They used magic to cover their tracks and climbed out of the windows. This time Uriel's target is no longer the backyard, but every priest he meets. The Scroll of Oath showed its due efficiency, and he was a little grateful that the Black Knight did not take it away last night.
"How did you see the letter?" Roma couldn't help but ask after he neatly verified the innocence of a cross knight with the help of the parchment.
"The magic of the astrologer" Sauron answered for him, it was holding back a lot of words. "Ask something meaningful, Roma. For example, what happened last night? Don’t you always sleep well?」
"Well, it was too hot last night, and I couldn't help but use the White Envoy's magic to cool down." Uriel stepped on the snow that had not yet been swept away. "Okay, don't be distracted, Iaconi is still stalling for us."
"What are you hiding"
"Ask your master, I don't want to talk about these things now." What he is eager to find at the moment is the devil in the church, not the nameless people and the secret society. As for how Joey would respond, he couldn't care less. Uriel was still thinking about Father Andren's death. He shouldn't have died so early. In fact, the apprentice prepared many questions, but now the answers have become a mystery with his death. All he could do was run to the next person and repeat another narrative, one made up of lies, probings and threats, just to get at the truth.
Roma touched the ring through her gloves, "What happened last night? I'm so curious that I'm almost crazy."
Sauron ignored her. "Ask Bai Zhizhi?" What's going on with him...Follow him, you idiot! It's better to leave you with that cross knight." It quickly reminded that the apprentice could no longer see the shadow.
There are three churches in Silverdome City, and Father Andren manages the one farthest from the city center. His death would make the rest of the trip difficult. Uriel kept telling himself that Iaconi was the best choice, but his sword was frighteningly fast, almost... impatient. He hoped that he would not blame his companions, but if they acted together, accidents would not suddenly occur. But does he want to blame Roma?
The cross knights in the church are not all mysterious creatures, most of them are ordinary people who have been trained. Iaconi said that his friend once voluntarily went to the Ice Territory because he was not sure about lighting the fire. Now it seems that the Ice Territory is not the only way out for mortal knights. When clerics grant magical blessings, they look little different from the Iaconi. In his heart, Uriel hated the jailer Germo even more than Iaconi, because he was not qualified to be one of them.
I can also be decisive. A nun tries to hide the deal, and after interrogation he kills her with a sword. The blood slid down the spine of the sword into the half-yellow and half-green bushes, and Uriel turned towards the next target. Whether in a dream or in reality, he repeated it countless times on the way to Knight's Bay. After encountering Iaconi's "spiritual vision", he suddenly found that he had found a way to quickly escape from the dream: if he behaved uncharacteristically in the dream, or even went on a killing spree, I'm afraid he would never be in the dream again. Lost.
Maybe this is the real way to use "spiritual vision", but my weakness prevents me from practicing it. Later, Uriel walked with Iconi and completely forgot about the dream. It was a strange feeling to communicate and travel with someone he had killed in a dream, and it was best for him to forget about it. But the power of the Nameless One has its advantages and disadvantages, and he finally used it to see the content of the letter.
"I will send my loyal bird to assist you in your work. He is well-trained and the most careful and alert assassin... Calculating the time, he should arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Until then, keep an eye out if a blonde leonine girl named Roma Penelope shows up in town. She is looking for a baby, or it may be appropriate to lure her with news about charity homes..."
"(Cross Seal)"
