On the Seven Towers

Antillion, where Agurto is currently located, is one of the most prosperous towns near Zulugaya. It is not only a main road connecting other city-states, but also the largest supplier of rainbow fruit wine nearby. Many Zulugaya nobles and merchants have their own holiday villas in this town.

Borlando has been here many times, and he even has a share in a winery. The rainbow fruit wine produced here is colorful and sweet, and it is also of high quality in the entire continent. Therefore, the town of Antillion is often filled with the aroma of fruit, wine and joy. The people here are also usually playful and laughing, and it is one of the best places to live in the nearby city-states.

But when Borlando and Ganuo walked into this place on the afternoon of the day they attacked Miliana, they felt a tense atmosphere in the town. When the two of them walked on the street wearing the priest robes of the Temple of Nature, people avoided them and were unwilling to make eye contact with them.

"What's going on? The last time I came here, the kids would chase me, but now there's not a single kid on the road." Borlando said.

"I saw two, but they were dragged into the room by adults and the door was closed." Ganuo said.

"It's really strange." Borlando looked around and found that there were fewer and fewer people around them.

"Since they are not afraid of you, they must be afraid of the clothes we are wearing." To be fair, the reputation of the Temple of Nature among the people is still acceptable, especially in areas outside the kingdom, where believers are at least much stronger than many city lords and kings. Ganuo has been to so many places, and he has never seen people who are so afraid of priests.

However, when they walked forward for a while and approached the central square, Ganuo saw the source of this fear.

There are several big trees around the fountain in the middle of the square, and corpses are hanging on the trunks of the big trees. Some of these corpses have begun to dry up, while others have been hung up for a short time and look relatively fresh. The corpses swayed in the wind, and a faint stench of decay drifted with the wind.

Gano found that these people were old and young, male and female, and there were very young children among them. But these people had one thing in common, their clothes looked good, and they were not from ordinary families.

Boerlando suddenly changed color: "This! How could this be, isn't it the mayor's family of Antillion hanging on this tree? The one hanging on that tree is the owner of the largest manor nearby! And over there, it's the owner of the largest winery. These people are the most important people in the town, and they were all hanged to death."

"Who else could it be? It must be that Aguerto." In Gano's opinion, the mayor's family had been hung for several days. It seems that they were the first to conflict with Aguerto.

There were several temple knights standing guard in the central square of the town. They saw Gano and Borlando wearing priest robes and hurried forward.

Boerlando recognized that these people were members of the nearby Giant Rock Knights. One of them bowed to the two and said, "Lord Borlando, how did you come to this town?"

"Adio, what's going on? Why are all these people hanged?" Borlando stared at Adio and asked.

Adio's eyes flickered a little, he looked at the ground and said, "These people are spies of the false god. After the problem was found, Lord Agurto executed all their families."

"Spies of the false god? Don't you know the details of these people? The leader of your Giant Rock Knights is from this town, and it seems that he is a distant relative of the mayor here. Several of your knights have married girls from this town. Didn't anyone stand up and say anything?"

"Lord Agurto is a saint. Our leader only listens to him now. The mayor... the mayor "It was he who hanged the leader himself."

"It's crazy."

"Lord Borlando, please, please be careful with your words. Don't let such words reach Lord Agulto's ears. Anyone in the Knights Templar who was reported and talked about him behind his back will not have a good ending." Adio pointed to a tree in the distance. There were several sturdy men wearing green shirts of the Knights Templar hanging on it. "Those are all members of our Knights Templar. They were hanged because they said something they shouldn't have said."

Borlando gasped and suppressed his anger. He grabbed Adio and pulled him aside and asked, "After executing these people, what has Aguerto been doing these days?"

"Sir, please don't embarrass me."

"So many people have seen you with us, can you still explain it clearly?" Ganuo said, "Then tell us what we want to know, and we will let you go."

"He... He occupied the big house of the mayor's family, captured all the beautiful girls from the confiscated families to serve him, and also captured many women from civilians' homes. Then he stayed in the room every day and didn't come out. Just let our captain come forward and catch false god believers everywhere." Adio said.

"Is he still in the mayor's house now?" Ganuo asked.

"Yes." As soon as Adio finished speaking, Borlando and Ganuo suddenly felt the air around them getting hot.

Then Adio showed an uncomfortable expression, his face flushed, his hands grabbed his collar, bent down, roared twice in a low voice, and flames began to emerge from his body.

The flames came from nowhere and instantly swept over his whole body, turning him into a blazing torch.

Borlando and Garno quickly cast water magic on him, but the fire was so fierce that the pale flames burned him to charcoal in a very short time. The flames were like an intelligent elemental spirit, withdrawing from the charred body, and then gathered a human figure on the side. The flames faded, and a sturdy man appeared in front of Garno and the others. He was wearing loose pajamas, revealing his hairy chest, and looked at Garno and Borlando with a hint of disdain.

Garno didn't need to guess that the man in front of him must be Aguerto, the saint of the city of gods who was domineering in this town. It seemed that his best method should be the fighting spirit field related to fire. Judging from his actions just now, his control over fire has surpassed many magicians who are good at fire magic.

Borlando's voice trembled a little: "Lord Aguerto, why do you do this?"

Aguerto said: "I hate people who talk about others behind their backs the most. Such people are often prone to die early."