Sword of Daybreaker

A strong **** gas poured into the nostrils, causing Bishop Fernanco who had just stepped into the room to frown subconsciously, with a dignified look on his face.

As a regional bishop who once personally went to the battlefield and still practices the God of War creed, he personally travels to several dangerous areas every year to assist the local knights to destroy Warcraft. He is familiar with this breath.

The other two priests in the room noticed the arrival of the regional bishop, and immediately retreated to the side silently. Fernanco's eyes crossed the others and swept slowly in this rather spacious priest's lounge.

The scene in the room is clear at a glance-the beds, tables and chairs are all furnished as usual. There is a shrine symbolizing the God of War against the wall on the north side. On the floor in front of the shrine there is a large piece of blood that has not been completely coagulated, and in the middle of the blood beach, It is a mass of flesh that is completely mixed together and can't see the original form at all.

In the creepy flesh and blood, you can see many fibers connected together, as if in the process of forming some kind of fascia, fine hair spread from some cracks in the meat block, the hair is thick and hard like It is thorny, and there are many pieces of clothing that have been completely corroded scattered at this terrible death scene, and the blood stains are scattered on the ground three meters outside the blood beach.

Even the Bishop of Ares, who is used to seeing **** and weird scenes, couldn't help feeling a horror from the heart in front of this scene.

"Your Excellency Fernanco," a priest approached, "Salute to you, may your heart be like steel."

"Heart is like steel, my compatriots," Fernanco nodded to the priest, and looked back at the death scene in the middle of the room. Shen Sheng asked, "When was it discovered?"

"In the early morning, a night priest discovered the anomaly first and issued an alarm."

"What about the pastor?" Fernanco frowned. "Bring him to see me."

"That priest ..." The priest on the side had a weird look on his face. "His situation is a bit abnormal. We just calmed the spell with a powerful spirit to calm him down-I'm worried that he will get out of control again and even attack you."

Fernanco shook his head: "It's okay, I'm also good at spiritual soothing-bring him."

"Yes, sir."

The priest ordered to leave, and a moment later, footsteps came from outside the door, interspersed with a panic and repeated murmurs. Fernanco looked around and saw two church attendants holding a young man in a common priest's robe, one by one, into the room. The latter's condition caused the regional bishop to frown immediately. ——

The poor man was trembling, his face pale as a dead man, the fine sweat beads covered his every inch of skin, a layer of turbid and **** haze covered his white eyes, he had obviously lost his normal reason and walked all the way The visitors kept mumbling whisperingly, and they could only hear the fragmented language when they got closer:

"God of War bless ... bless ... heart if steel, heart if steel, survive for hundreds of battles ... Worship of God ... I have converted, I have converted ..."

The poor man was nagging like this from beginning to end, as if he hadn't noticed the regional bishop who was standing in front of him. It was only a few seconds later that his scattered vision suddenly noticed the scene behind the regional bishop and the group lost The vital flesh seemed to stimulate the greatest fear in his heart for a moment, he instantly uttered a scream that was almost impossible for humans, and he broke free from the **** of two strong attendants, and suddenly rushed to the nearest Fair Nan Ke, at the same time, shouted a fanatical prayer that had been transposed: "In the name of God! Eradicate heretics! In the name of God ..."

The surrounding priests exclaimed suddenly, but Fernanco only slightly stepped sideways. He grabbed the clothes of the out-of-control priest with his backhand and pulled back while the other elbow slammed out suddenly. After the sound, the out of control priest passed out without resistance and fell to the ground.

It wasn't until this time that the priests reacted nearby, and they hurriedly approached: "Your Excellency Fernanco! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, but he may need to rest for a few days," Fernanco waved his hands, frowning at the priest who had fallen to the ground, "... take him down."

The attendant immediately took the pastor who passed out, Fernánco sighed deeply, and a priest could not help but asked: "Your Excellency, do you think this matter ..."

"Has the pastor always been like this? Keep praying, keep calling our Lord ... and treat normal fellow churchmen as heretics?"

"Yes, it was like this when we found him," the priest replied immediately. "He was found falling down at the door of the room. He was already mentally ill at that time, and even nearly killed a servant. But no matter what method was used, No sign of mental erosion or soul curse ... as if he were making these crazy actions at his own will. "

Fernanco nodded solemnly, and then asked again, "Who knows anything about this?"

The priest thought for a while: "In addition to the people in the church, I have only notified you at the moment ... Oh, the Earl may have heard the wind-he should not know what happened in the church, but we urgently sent messengers and The fact that the church was sealed off after dawn is in itself not concealing the earl. "

Fernanco's brows grew tighter, and the situation was moving in the direction he least wanted to see. However, everything was irreversible. He could only force himself to focus on the event itself-the flesh and blood on the ground was obviously It is the deacon who died in the church tragically. The **** of war priest Kosto in this church himself knows this priest and knows that the other party is a powerful extraordinary person. Even if he is attacked by a high-ranking strongman, he will never die without resistance. However, in the whole room, except for blood stains, there was no trace of fighting at all, and even the residual breath after the combat magic was released ...

The flesh and blood are located in front of the shrine of God of War. There are some pieces of cloth that have not corroded and cleaned. In addition to the clothes, the rest should be the mats used for prayer ... plus only a small section of candles and utensils left in front of the shrine The remaining incense and the prayer book spread out on the table can only combine a disturbing result:

This dead war priest seems to be in the normal process of praying to the gods ... suddenly melted by his own flesh and blood.

Fernanco believed that he was not alone in guessing the possibility of this horror. He saw an unshakable haze on everyone's face.

Reminiscent of the priest who went crazy because he saw the first scene, the strangeness of the whole thing is even more disturbing.

"Sir Bishop," a priest could not help but say, "What do you think the priest of Kosto suffered?"

"... A very powerful evil spirit may have raided our temple, which interfered with the prayer ritual of the priest of Kosto, distorted the ritual to point and polluted the soul of the priest," Fernanco said in a deep voice, "but This is just my personal guess, and if such a powerful evil spirit really appears in the town, it must be reported to the Archdiocese ... "

"The Earl's Court should soon be sent to ask about the situation," said another priest. "How should we reply?"

Fernanco thought briefly-from the perspective of the regional bishop, he did not want this matter to be exposed to the eyes of forces outside the church, especially did not want this matter to attract the attention of the royal family and his vassals. Since the coronation of Seta Augustus, the policy of the Tiffin royal family on various churches has been tightening. After countless confrontations, the Church of God of War today has lost many privileges, and the God of War priest in the army has also been from the original The independent theocratic representative has become a "assistant soldier" who must obey the noble officers. Normally, this is still the case. Once what happened here today poke out, I am afraid that it will soon become a new excuse for the royal family to further tighten policies ... …

But things can't be concealed, and managers in this area must always be told.

"Clean up the site and burn these distorted objects with holy oil and flames," Fernando ordered to the people beside him. "There were soul eaters parasitic on humans and infiltrated the church. The priest of Kosto wrestled with it after it was discovered. , And eventually died together. However, due to the erosion and corruption of the soul eater, the priest ’s body was inconvenient to show people. In order to maintain the dignity of the deceased priest, we purified the priest ’s body before dawn and returned it to the kingdom of the Lord-that ’s all the truth."

The priest on the side bowed his head: "Yes, sir."

Fernanke snorted, and then glanced at the tragic scene in the room again. The vague sense of anxiety and disgust rushed up from the bottom of his heart again. He put his hand on his chest subconsciously, and his right fist was stubborn. The sword prayed silently in my heart at the same time: "God of War blesses me, if my heart is steel, I will survive for hundreds of battles, my flesh and blood will be weak, only steel will live forever, and he will not fall into hell. I have converted ..."

With the prayer, his mind gradually calmed down, and the power of the gods fell silently, once again making him feel at ease.

...

That afternoon.

A secret report sent by the communication tower and transcribed by the intelligence officer was sent to the table case. Rosetta Augustus opened it and glanced at it. The long-sullied and solemn face suddenly appeared on the table. Come with a serious expression.

Mattilda, who was sitting next to him to help with government affairs, immediately noticed the change in his father's face, and subconsciously asked: "What happened?"

"Another God of War priest died, the cause of death is unknown," Rosetta Augustus said, "The local church reported that there were soul eaters sneaking into the church, and the dead priest was killed in the process of fighting the monster-but there was no No one sees the corpse of a priest, and no one sees the ashes of a soul eater. There is only one battle site that is not known to be true or false. "

Matilda's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly, and her tone became serious: "This seems to be the sixth time in half a month ..."

"Yes, for the sixth time," Rosetta said in a deep voice. "The cause of death is unknown, the body was destroyed in advance, and the evidence is full of doubt ..."

"Those churches must be hiding something!" Matilda couldn't help saying, "Six bizarre deaths of priests, and they are also distributed in different churches ... The news has been leaked to a certain extent, but they I have never responded positively to the royal inquiries. What the **** are the churches doing? "

"Yeah, the six churches are located in different places ... The two furthest apart are even located on the north and south borders of the empire. This is not an ordinary" attack "... There is no such a large-scale attack in the empire Forces cannot be coincidences caused by monster raids. "

"The most suspicious is that those churches are obviously concealed," Matilda said, and then shook his head, "Unfortunately, under the current imperial laws, we can't search churches based on suspicion ..."

Rosetta nodded: "We must maintain our own laws, which is the basis for maintaining the authority of the royal family, but ... the necessary investigation is still essential. You recently went to the Great Church to contact Malm, he probably I wo n’t say anything to you-after all, as Pope God of War, he has n’t taken the initiative to discuss anything about the bizarre death of the priest until now, but I believe that with your keenness, you may be able to observe some things.

Matilda nodded: "Okay, Father Emperor."

Rosetta groaned for a while, tapped her fingers and tapped on the table, and whispered to the empty direction: "Diana."

A dignified woman wearing a black maid's suit immediately came out of a corner that no one noticed, and looked at Rosetta Augustus calmly.

The latter nodded to her: "Send rogues and go to the places mentioned in this secret report-remember, covert actions, don't clash with the church, and don't have to contact local officials."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The woman in the black maid's suit bowed slightly, took the note that Rosetta had passed, and then quietly returned to the depths of the shadow as it appeared.

When the room was quiet again, Matilda broke the silence: "Father and Emperor, what do you think ... what's going on?"

Rosetta Augustus sat quietly in his high-back chair, and was lost in thought in the sinking sunset. It was not until half a minute later that he sighed softly: "I don't know, But I hope that all this is just an "attack" against the Ares sect ... "

Matilda gave his father the emperor a surprise look.

In her memory, her father's near-weak posture is rare.

But in the end, she said nothing, but nodded gently.

...

In the evening, Daniel returned to his mansion.

The young apprentice Mary was tidying up the living room. When she saw the mentor appeared, she immediately greeted him with a smile: "Teacher, did you come back so early today?"

"There is nothing in the laboratory for a while, and I will be back," Daniel glanced at his apprentice. "Aren't you taking the technician to go to the Great Temple of God of War to do the magic net transformation? Why are you still home at this time?"

"It was originally taken with people, but the priest of the Great Church suddenly said that the area we are constructing will be temporarily blocked-the project will be postponed until the next time."

Daniel frowned as soon as he heard the apprentice: "So, they suddenly kicked you out?"

"That's right ..." Mary said casually, but soon noticed that the tutor's expression seemed to have a deeper meaning, "Teacher, what's ... the problem?"

Daniel groaned for a moment, his expression slightly more serious: "I'm not sure yet, but I heard some winds recently, and there seems to be something going on in the Ares Church ... maybe I need to report it to the owner."