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Chapter 197 The Confessor
A three-day continuous autumn rain caused the temperature to drop a lot. The dignitaries in Cologne City put on new clothes, ordinary citizens added a sweater, and the poor could only wrap more rags.

In the autumn wind, a rather robust old man was wearing only a pair of underwear and a ring made of thorns on his head. He was leaning on a long stick in his hand. He stepped on the ground with his bare feet and walked slowly out of the south gate of Cologne City. Go south.

Everyone in the city knew Archbishop Victor and gave way one after another.

This time the angel descending incident brought great prestige to the Church of Light, and also strengthened the faith of the priests.

It's just that Archbishop Victor believes that in his diocese, there are so many priests who have been rejected by the God of Light under his nose, and he bears a great responsibility for this.

So he took off his soft and warm robe without hesitation, put on the crown of thorns, and embarked on a journey of repentance to the holy city with only a cane.

When he set off, he didn't bring any money, and he mainly lived on the alms of believers along the way. He could do part-time jobs to make ends meet, and he could also accept some gifts that he could afford.

It is autumn now, and winter is coming. Along the way, it is necessary to cross the white mountains with difficult roads and harsh weather. Many people think that this is a journey of martyrdom.

Victor walked slowly on the road, holding a string of rosary beads in his left hand, which was given by an officer stationed at the city gate when he first left the city.

This string of rosary beads is made of silver, and the design is quite exquisite. When necessary, you can take off a bead to exchange for something to eat.

The sun is rising gradually, the north wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the temperature is getting lower. The rolled up dead leaves are flying with the wind, and some of them fall on the crown of thorns.

Victor didn't care about the surrounding environment, he just recited scriptures, plucked the rosary, and kept walking, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

Three days later, at dusk, he met a forester in the forest, and was invited by the enthusiastic forester to return to his small house for the night.

Victor wanted to refuse at first, just asking for a pot of water and two slices of bread, but the forester said, "I'm afraid you'll start a fire in the woods. Now the woods are dry and windy, and if you're not careful, the woods will catch fire." If you don’t come to live with me, I will watch by your side tonight.”

When he said this, Victor could only follow him to the cabin by the pool in the forest.

The wooden house is very simple. There is only a firepit inside, with straw for sleeping next to it, a few pots and jars, and a few wooden boxes. Bows and arrows are hung on the wall.

There is no bread here for the forest guards, only beans and grains ground into powder, but bacon made from rabbits caught in traps.

Mixed grains with a little salt and a few pieces of bacon, this is dinner for two.

After eating, the forest guard took out something from the box and said to Victor: "Yesterday, a master rode a unicorn with wings and said it was for you."

Victor was taken aback. Frederick was busy with a lot of things before departure, and he only talked to him for about ten minutes, but he didn't expect him to give him a cotton coat.

This cotton coat looks like the standard coat of the Wesson Army, with a large cotton hood sewn on. The most exaggerated thing is that there are four rows of lead buttons. There are two pairs of gloves and two pairs of large socks in the outer pockets. All the buttons are buttoned up to form a sleeping bag, and a backpack is sewn on the back, and a large piece of folded tarpaulin is placed inside.

There are many pockets inside the coat, which contain a lighter, a magic lamp, a large thermos cup that can hold 1kg of water, a sewing kit, a dagger, a water filter, a multifunctional knife, a bag of salt, a few bags of white sugar, a book Palm-sized "Selected Quotations from the Holy Book", several bottles of medicine for diarrhea and cold, two revolvers, a bag of bullets, etc. There is also a note saying "the button is full of gold".

A smile appeared on Victor's face, and he accepted the clothes that Frederick donated, wondering what this little guy was doing now.

At this time, there was a line of housekeepers delivering invitations in front of Frederick's house, and their masters said that if they couldn't invite the new Chancellor of the Exchequer back home, then don't come back.

Duke Hegel has returned to his hometown, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has also resigned. William rolled his eyes, and Frederick took this position.

Anyway, this position has been half-empty. It was originally used to make money for Duke Hegel. It is no different for the king to change it to get money for Frederick, and it can better play a role in killing him.

Frederick was too lazy to jump into this big quagmire. After confirming the contract for the purchase of arms with the Minister of Military Affairs, Earl Pisto, he sent a letter of appointment to His Royal Highness the Prince: Rudolf was appointed as the full-fledged assistant to the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Finance was not in Cologne. All matters will be handled by the full-time assistant.

Let the people in the quagmire do things like wrestling in the quagmire.

After finishing his work, Frederick slipped away by boat with Psyche in his arms. After running away, his housekeeper in Cologne came forward and said that the master had run away.

That night, Psyche finally opened his eyes.

"Huh..." Frederick, who was sitting by the bed, finally breathed a sigh of relief, "You finally woke up, you scared me to death."

Psyche looked at the cabin and asked, "How long have I been lying down?"

"It's been almost seven days." Frederick said with some fear, "If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't let you come out as an angel."

After speaking, he opened a bottle of happy water and handed it over.

Psyche sat down by the head of the bed, drank most of the bottle of happy water in one breath, then shook his head and said: "It's okay, I just went out of my body to look at the subspace full of light elements, and found a relic. I studied it for a few more days."

Frederick breathed a sigh of relief, before he could ask any more, Psyche looked at him with strange eyes, and asked a little nervously, "Did you do anything strange to my body these days?"

"I've done a lot." Frederick rolled his eyes at her angrily, "I've done everything I can."

Psyche reached out and pinched his face, and said with a smile: "You can learn the summoning technique with Altaxia, and then raise a few light element creatures in the light element subspace, dressed in the shape of angels, and release them to scare people." .”

Frederick hurriedly shook his head and refused: "Forget it, I will be in trouble when the Holy See asks me to go to war with the heretics."

"It's enough to do this kind of thing once, and it will be exposed if it is too much. Altaxia is already a little suspicious."

Altaxia will summon fire element creatures to fight for herself, and she doesn't believe in the God of Light, so she suspected that the angel was a ghost from the beginning.

It's just that Psyche added some special healing effects, which ordinary elemental creatures don't have, which made her just a little suspicious.

At this moment, Altaxia came in with a pot of hot water. Hearing the latter sentence, he asked in surprise, "You really did it? Do you want me to avoid it now? Give you a warning?"

Frederick and Psyche had black hair, and they almost used her as the figurehead of the ship.

Fortunately, Psyche is proficient in soul magic and can erase a little of a person's recent memory, otherwise he would be in big trouble.

Altaxia put the basin of hot water beside the bed in a daze, looked at Frederick together with Psyche, Frederick blinked, and was thrown out of the cabin.

Artaxia came here to wipe Psyche's body. She did this every day after Frederick arranged to take care of Psyche, but Frederick didn't know it.

Frederick didn't bring Tarot with him when he came out this time, because he was afraid that he would be hindered in case of chaos. Artaxia was just right, and his force value was not low, and he also taught himself the summoning technique by the way.

As for Psyche, the condition for making an angel is that Frederick must research the roast duck.

(End of this chapter)