Game of Thrones: Knight of Glory.

Chapter 181 The Sisters of Redemption and Justice
"Are you sure you can give up everything? Are you willing to stick to the path of salvation for life, follow behind the Chosen Seven Gods, and face the legendary cold doomsday?" Sister Melissa has already put on her bishop's robe at this moment. , stood in front of the altar of the Notre Dame chapel, the sunlight shone through the round window behind her, and the right shadow of the seven-star holy emblem on the window was imprinted on her body, making her look extremely sacred.

In front of her, kneeling were seven nuns wearing novitiate robes, and around them were the Redemption Sisters who came to watch the ceremony.

Although they are all nuns of redemption, they belong to different nuns' sanctuaries. The nuns from the Father's Sanctuary wear pure white nuns' robes, the Our Lady's Sanctuary wears blue nuns' robes, the Warriors' Sanctuary wears red nuns' robes, and the girls The sanctuary wears a green nun's robe, the blacksmith's sanctuary wears a red nun's robe with black edges, the old woman's sanctuary wears a gray nun's robe with white edges, and the stranger's sanctuary wears a black nun's robe with white edges. Each sanctuary sent a Members were watching the ceremony here, and so many people filled the Notre Dame Chapel, which was not particularly large, to the brim.

Unlike the nuns in other churches, the nuns in the Seven Saints Sanctuary of the Redemption Cathedral all hold a thick metal book of the Seven Saints in their hands.

Just as the name suggests, this Book of the Seven Gods is made of metal from the inside out. Its pages are not made of ordinary parchment, but copper pages made after being beaten repeatedly. , with the contents of the Holy Scripture engraved on it, and the outer shell is also a tin plate wrapped with copper.

Normally, this holy book can be used to recite and preach. Once fighting is needed, the nuns can use the special structure of the cover to turn the holy book into a hammer head, and then insert the cane into a fixed socket of the holy book, and The tome was fastened with clasps and turned into a war hammer.

Although each of these nuns has wrapped their bodies tightly, you can still see through the gaps in the nuns' robes that each of them is wearing a close-fitting chainmail, and they are also carrying The gauntlets made of tin-iron alloy look like a group of armed nuns.

Just like the equipment on the nuns, every nun who enters Notre Dame must undergo strict combat training in addition to daily prayers and study of holy scriptures, and master the skills of using war hammers, half-hand swords and shields. In addition, they are used to trap people. You also need to learn how to cast a line.

Only nuns who have passed the rigorous combat test and completed seven trials of conscience and seven trials of divine grace are qualified to take the oath of redemption here and become official nuns of redemption.

It is very difficult to pass all the trials and tests. There are nearly a thousand nuns in Notre Dame. In the past two years, no more than 50 people have been able to complete these trials and become nuns of salvation.

However, this situation will improve starting from this year. The Black Cave has produced a divine grace potion specifically for women. This potion can make nuns stronger and pass various trials easily. The only The drawback is that the use of this potion will cause extreme pain, but this is a good thing for Sister Melissa of Notre Dame, because only those with the most devout faith and strong faith can endure this kind of pain, This can help her select candidates for the Sisters of Redemption more quickly.

The seven trainee nuns who will become the nuns of salvation are the best results of the divine grace potion. This is the first time that so many nuns have passed the trial at the same time, and there are seven of them by chance, which makes Mei Sister Lisa was even more confident that this was the revelation of the Seven Gods and their recognition of the divine grace potion.

Faced with Sister Melissa's question, the seven novice nuns solemnly said the same answer: "I do."

Sister Melissa asked the same question twice more, and after still receiving a positive answer, she placed Linde's bloody long sword flag under the Seven Sacred Emblem, and asked the seven novice nuns to read out the revised Oath of the Night Watch. A pledge of redemption.

After the oath-taking ceremony, she asked the seven nuns to take off their novitiate robes, and then asked the nuns of redemption in the seven sanctuaries to take out the chain armor, nun uniforms, metal holy scriptures and the scepter of the seven gods that matched their sanctuaries. , seven nuns select their favorite sanctuary and put on the corresponding equipment.

However, a somewhat embarrassing scene soon occurred. The Heavenly Father and Our Lady's Sanctuaries each had two nuns, while the Blacksmith and the Stranger had no candidates. This forced the Heavenly Father and Our Lady's Sanctuary to temporarily add a set of equipment.

The Blacksmith and the Stranger Sanctuary were not dissatisfied with this. In fact, they both felt that this was good, because the resources of the sanctuary were divided according to the number of sanctuaries, not the number of people. The Stranger Sanctuary and the Holy Mother Sanctuary received The resource tilt is the same, so although the number of people in the Stranger Sanctuary and the Blacksmith Sanctuary is not very large, the Redemption Sisters in these two sanctuaries are living more comfortably.

"The Silent Monastery has selected seven silent monks to join the bodyguards of the Chosen Ones. We cannot neglect them. Each of your sanctuaries has selected one of the strongest nuns of salvation to join the bodyguards." When the Redemption Sisters were about to leave, Sister Melissa suddenly demanded.

"Yes, Lady Melissa." the nuns responded.

The next day, Sister Melissa led the seven selected Redemption Sisters to leave Notre Dame and walk towards Redemption Town.

In the honeypot house on Baihua Street in Redemption Town, Knight Robin Levell was carefully checking everything in the room.

The body of the prostitute in the room had been removed by the garrison team and sent to the Justice Office. Although the garrison team responsible for this matter had undergone professional training and tried to keep the scene as intact as possible when moving the body, there were still many clues. All were destroyed.

Fortunately, the destroyed clues were only minor clues, and their presence or absence would not affect the final judgment. Other more important clues were enough for him to discover the truth of the case.

"Gino, Ralph, tell me, what did you see?" The truth of the case had been discovered and the murderer had been identified, but Robin did not arrest the murderer immediately. Instead, he turned towards the two men following him. apprentice, asked.

Ralph briefly analyzed it and said: "The deceased did not have any struggle with the murderer before he died. His throat was suddenly cut by the murderer with a knife. Then the murderer wiped the blood with a sheet, jumped out of the window and escaped into the street outside. , the situation here is the same as what the honeypot house proprietress said, we should hunt down the murderer immediately."

After hearing this, Robin did not express his position, but turned to look at Gino, waiting for his answer.

"I agree with part of Ralph's judgment. The murderer did suddenly cut the deceased's throat, but..." After Gino said a word, he stopped, with a troubled look on his face, and it took him a long time to speak. He said, "But it feels a little weird here."

"Feeling a little weird?" Ralph couldn't help but smile and said with a look of disdain: "Brother Gino, are you going to use your set of emotional rhetoric to fool the assessment again? The last time, Knight Lemon was treated like this by you. You’ve been fooled in the past, now you want to fool Robin Knight again.”

"I'm not fooling around. This place is really abnormal." Gino frowned and said in a deep voice.

Ralph also wanted to taunt the other party, but was stopped by Robin. Then he heard Robin say: "Tell me what you think is abnormal."

Gino took a deep breath, avoided the blood stains on the ground, walked to the bed, pointed to the sheet where the murderer wiped the blood stains, and said: "First of all, the most strange thing is the murderer's reaction after killing. Why did the murderer wipe it again after killing someone? Blood stains?”

"Do you even need to ask? Of course it's to avoid being seen when escaping." Ralph said disdainfully.Gino ignored his companion's attitude and calmly analyzed: "But it was late at night, and there were no people on the street. Even if there were people, as long as the murderer stood in the shadows, it would be impossible for anyone to see the blood on his body, and the murderer When killing the deceased, his throat was cut from the front. According to the traces of blood spatter, the murderer's body should be covered with blood. It cannot be wiped clean with a bed sheet, so the best solution for the murderer is to wear a burqa. Then just put on the cloak, wiping the blood is a complete waste of time."

Ralph couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Gino's analysis. Although Gino was his competitor in the Justice Office, he would try every means to slander Gino's ability in front of Justice Robin Knight, but he He would not forget his responsibilities, so when Gino revealed his doubts, he quickly noticed something unusual, and some of the clues he had seen before became suspicious.

"This place was deliberately arranged." Ralph quickly changed his previous judgment and said.

Robin looked at the two of them and did not make any comment on their judgment. He just said to them: "It's up to you to bring the murderer to the justice office before dark."

"Yes, sir." After hearing this, Gino and Ralph smiled in unison.

Robin turned and walked out of the room, went downstairs to the courtyard, and said to the people being guarded by the guard: "You all must stay in the honeypot house today, and you will not be released until tomorrow."

A well-dressed merchant hurriedly came forward and said, "Sir, I am Casper of Rose Trading Company. My master is Lord Garland of Highgarden. He has ordered a batch of goods from Lord Lynde. Today Just..."

"These matters are not my business. I am only here for justice for the deceased." Robin gave the merchant a cold look and had no intention of talking nonsense with him. He just pushed the merchant out of the way and left the honey pot house. Just when I was leaving, my eyes inadvertently stopped on the upper body of the proprietress of the honeypot house.

After leaving the honeypot house, Robin walked directly to the Avenue of Salvation where Justice was located.

Redemption Avenue starts from Redemption Temple, passes through the middle of Redemption Town, runs through the territory on the west side of Shengxia Hall, and intersects with Tenghui Avenue in Green Valley City, connecting the territories of Shengxia Hall and Tengshi Town. As for the middle Green Valley City has been completely ignored.

On both sides of this avenue are not only the offices of various local departments in Redemption Town, but also the offices of important departments in the entire Shengxia Hall territory, such as the Tribunal, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Cabinet of Government, etc., only Only a few departments related to the ocean, such as the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and the Maritime Trade Chamber of Commerce, will be headquartered in Miracle Port.

Among the buildings of many departmental offices, the notary office is very inconspicuous. It is just a two-story wooden building with a small courtyard, but its location is very special. On the left is the court, on the right is the Ministry of the Interior, and behind it is the garrison. The army camp, and these buildings are all masonry buildings, which seems to be forced in, and is somewhat incompatible with the surrounding environment.

Although the location of the Justice Office is so inconspicuous, no one will underestimate this independent department established by Linde who specially removed some authority from the garrison and the tribunal.

The scope of authority of the notary office is very vague. As long as the justice envoy feels that something is unfair, it has the right to take over the investigation. For example, this time it was because Robin felt that the garrison's handling of the murder of a prostitute was too casual and hindered justice. He decided to intervene in the investigation.

Although the Office of Justice only has the power of investigation and is not responsible for trials and arrests, it does have extremely high powers of arrest. In the entire territory of the Summer Hall, except for a few people such as Linde and Nymeria, it can issue Issue an arrest warrant and make an arrest.

A month ago, Sir Caleb Swan, who succeeded Rosso Brun as the commander of the cavalry regiment, was arrested by justice for a murder within the cavalry regiment and was eventually convicted.

You must know that after the standing army in the territory of Shengxia Hall was integrated into the two major corps of the Guards and the Cavalry Regiment, the power of the commander of the Cavalry Regiment is already very great. He can be regarded as one of the top five big figures in the Standing Army of Shengxia Hall, and such a big shot is still Being arrested by the Justice Office and taking the blame made everyone in Shengxia Hall understand how powerful the Justice Office was.

As a result, everyone in the Midsummer Hall territory now looked at the Justice Office with a hint of awe.

When Robin returned to the Justice Office, he happened to meet his colleague Lemon Knight coming out of the house.

The white-haired Knight Lemon came up to him and asked with concern: "How are those two boys doing?"

"It's okay." Robin gave a pertinent evaluation and said, "If we combine Gino's intuition and Ralph's observation, then we will have one more colleague."

"Take your time." Knight Lemon smiled slightly and said calmly.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion on the street, and Robin and Lemon looked in the direction of the sound in confusion.

Then I saw eight nuns wearing different colors walking over from a distance. The nun at the head was Sister Melissa, the dean of Notre Dame Cathedral of the Redemption Church. The people around them turned towards these nuns. Salute to show respect.

Both Robin and Lemon, who were attentive, discovered that except for Sister Melissa, the other seven nuns were dressed a little unusually. They wore mail armor under their nun robes, and they also had gauntlets on their hands. Their feet were suitable for fighting. The leather boots he used were sleeves, and there was a dagger sheath inlaid on the leather boots, with a dagger inserted inside.

In addition, they could also see that the Seven Sacred Scriptures held in the arms of the seven nuns were all made of metal. A rough estimate showed that their weight was definitely about the same as a heavy hammer with both hands. However, for such a heavy item, the seven nuns only carried it alone. Their hands were held in their arms, and the other hand held an equally heavy metal scepter. Such a powerful force just matched their tall figures.

When the nuns passed by the Office of Justice, Robin and Lemon, who were devout believers, saluted them in unison. Then Lemon, who was slightly better informed, whispered: "The Sister of Redemption should be sent to do the work for the Earl. The close guards are just like the armed monks sent by the Silent Monastery before."

"With the Earl's strength, do you still need their protection?" Robin couldn't help but ask.

Lemon hesitated for a moment and just shrugged without giving an answer.

(End of this chapter)