Chapter 156: Karin, the Crimson King

Torch Church Central Church.

This is the core area of ​​the Torch Church and a holy place in the minds of most Torch believers.

In the night, the central church stands tall like a solid stone fortress. The overall architectural style is Gothic, and the towering spires are like fingers pointing to the heaven.

The walls are carved with exquisite patterns and bear traces of time.

There was no dome in the area where Karin was, and in front of her was a huge statue of a goddess.

No one has ever seen what the Torch Goddess looks like, and the current statue is just the imagination of the believers.

With an upright posture and a solemn face, the torch held high in his hand ignites a flame full of divine power that never goes out. In the darkness, it appears even brighter and warmer.

Perhaps it can also illuminate the darkness in your heart.

The whole church is immersed in a mysterious and solemn atmosphere, as if you are really being watched by the Torch Goddess here.

Karin is the Saint of the Torch Church. She has held this position for exactly two years, but outsiders mostly call her the Crimson Queen.

About two years ago, or maybe a year and a half ago, she personally defeated the legendary vicious cult leader, Rand Cameron. Unfortunately, on the eve of his execution, the cult leader disappeared.

After investigating the traces, it was concluded that the cult leader had sacrificed himself, that is, he should have gone to see his god and feed on blood.

But as long as the body is not clearly seen, the hunt for this cultist will not stop.

The Crimson King Karin's hair is as golden as the sun, and her eyes are as red as flames.

She stared at the bound knight in front of her with her red eyes indifferently: "If you have nothing to defend yourself, the execution will begin."

This knight killed the merchant in order to rob his property, and she went to capture him personally.

The knight laughed miserably, then fell silent and did not answer.

Karin knew the reason: the knight's family needed money for medical treatment, but the church could no longer pay their salaries.

Ever since more and more countries stopped paying tithes to the church, the church's finances had become so tight that it had to default on paying the knights' salaries, and as a saint, she could do nothing.

In fact, she did not do nothing. At least she did not personally use force to integrate the church's split.

Although it cannot be called acquiescence, at least those separatists who made the choice were not burned to ashes by her.

Perhaps this is already tacit consent.

In fact, the church has essentially split. The armed forces headed by the church knights have all started mining operations in the magic gold mines. As knights, they need a lot of money to maintain the daily maintenance of weapons and equipment, and horses are also a big consumer of food and fodder.

The church could no longer support them, so even if they insisted on violating the church's creed of absolute neutrality and began to occupy and seize money, Karin did not react drastically.

There is also the cowardly faction headed by the Pope. They believe that the Torch Church no longer needs to care about the ignorant and stupid nobles and royal families in this world. When disaster strikes again, these nobles and royal families will naturally come to seek the power of the Torch Goddess.

Karin did not deny this choice. Perhaps by then, everything would be too late.

But she still could do nothing about the fact that church staff, led by the Pope, began to become depressed and start to become cowardly at work.

Perhaps she was the one who made the most mistake. The church is no longer what it used to be. It is meaningless to cling to its past glory and splendor.

She even felt that she had no right to judge the knight who plundered and killed in order to save his family.

If the knight hadn't killed anyone, she would have even considered turning a blind eye.

She no longer knew how to save this falling apart church.

But killing innocent people is still wrong.

Karin clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and looked up, as if she was praying.

And then, the knight turned into ashes and disappeared.

Karin opened her eyes again and looked back.

Passing through the heavy bronze gate, the square outside the church is quite wide. In the past, countless believers came here to make pilgrimages. There are still such believers now, but the number has decreased a lot. However, it is night now, so they did not stop again.

Looking back, you can see the towering dome that seems to touch the sky, and through the stained glass windows, you can vaguely see the sculpture of the Torch Goddess.

At this time, the church hall was lit only by candlelight flickering in the corners, adding a touch of warmth to the solemn atmosphere.

Karin didn't intend to do nothing. Even if she did something wrong, it was better than watching the Torch Church gradually die in silence like now.

She plans to go to the Northern Union to gather some support.

The Southern Kingdom has completely broken off with the Torch Church due to its previous intervention, but the Northern Kingdom has retained the most basic communication with the Torch Church.

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In the capital of the Frost Moon Kingdom, Count Feihu was wrapped in bandages and had a gloomy look in his eyes.

He has no connections to the Scourge, but his descendants do.

His descendants tried to unite with the Scourge Cult, kill him, and then inherit everything from him. Although he has been greatly weakened now, he is still an earl after all.

The earl was already a great noble that most people had to look up to.

It's a bit like the situation of the old stubborn child of the Marquis of Black and Brown. He laughed at the old guy at that time, but now he is being bullied by him.

Later, he persuaded the members of the Scourge Cult to change their cooperation to him.

That rebellious son had also been secretly executed by him.

Now he actually cooperated with the evil cult, but unfortunately the top-level cultist sent to deal with him was so powerful that even his top-level professional guards couldn't stop him, and he almost died.

When they went to deal with Rand, they only used a superior cultist, and as expected, they failed. And if you count the first time when it was not under his instructions, they had already failed twice.

Is it difficult to understand that this little bastard who appeared from nowhere has the protection of top-level professionals?

Otherwise, he would have arranged for people to do it long ago, and no one would know how the little bastard died.

Unfortunately, there is probably no chance now. After being active in the royal city so many times, I am probably going to be liquidated.

This is the royal city, the core of the Frost Moon Kingdom. Many of the Frost Moon Kingdom's guards died in battle with the old king, but there are still many children of the guards who have good qualities and have already grown up.

Although many of the guards are newcomers, their fighting capacity is not necessarily weaker. After all, they have been influenced by their fathers since childhood, and at most they have less experience.

There are also many top royal priests and royal immortals.

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If you do things like this in the royal city, it is only a matter of time before you are liquidated.

Now he had to find a way to cut ties as soon as possible. Having connections with the cultists was more serious than backstabbing his own nobles.

After all, the nobles have a long history of pulling each other's legs, but since the emergence of the Nurturing Blood Sect that swept across the continent, no noble dared to try to cooperate with the cultists.

Especially when the cardinal of the Torch Church is stationed in the royal city of the Frost Moon Kingdom.

But now, he has to use this cultist to deal with Count Stag and that little bastard named Rand.

A little bastard actually brought back evidence from the front line to disgust him and repeatedly refused his summons. He deserves to die a thousand times.

He needed to let that little bastard know that a noble family with a deep historical background and a long lineage of legendary figures was not someone a newly promoted viscount like him could mess with.

Even if he has the protection of top professionals, so what? He has more than one top professionals under his command.

As for the consequences, the king today must check and balance domestic politics, and no matter what happens in the end, he will just have to drink three glasses of wine as punishment.

On the other side of the royal city, Rand was thinking about life by his bed. When he woke up again, it was already the next morning. It was a pity to miss dinner.

However, such a long sleep finally swept away all his fatigue.

The scene yesterday afternoon was really absurd.

Even though they had taken baths together, Rand sometimes took advantage of Ellie.

But performing a live sex show for Ellie was still a bit too exciting for Rand, who was originally quite conservative.

It might be even more exciting for Olenna, as Rand knew that in the past her relationship with Ellie was a bit like mother and daughter.

However, ever since the incident with the photo stone, their relationship has deteriorated a bit.

So now with Ellie watching the fight, Olenna was a little better, but still as shy as an ostrich, trying to bury her head.

She ran away early this morning. She was too embarrassed to face Ellie, so she secretly got dressed and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast while Rand, who was still asleep, and Ellie, who was suspected to be still asleep, were still asleep.

When Rand opened his eyes, he met Ellie's eyes.

Ellie looked away first, then mustered up the courage to look Rand in the face, and said tremblingly, "That's all, that's all!"

Her tone started weak at first and then became stronger as she emphasized.

Rand reached out and pinched her pretty face. When she saw Rand's hand reaching out, she shrank at first, then straightened her chest with confidence.

She is still wearing pajamas, but her figure is still on display.

It's just that some of it is a little bit barren. During the time she came to the hideout, Ellie has grown a little, but not much.

At least it was still far worse than Olenna's, but it was not peaceful at all.

To be honest, it was really hard for Rand to resist attacking Ellie yesterday afternoon and evening.

Especially when Olenna couldn't bear it anymore, Ellie looked at her with a girlish look that really made people feel hot inside.

But later Rand held back.

In this era, many girls got married at the age of fourteen. Ellie was already 17 years old, but Rand still planned to wait another year.

And he planned to gain the approval of the White King first.

I have a feeling that the White King won't be easy to talk to in this regard.

But the White King had supported him a lot, and it would be hard to justify stabbing her in the back and eating her sister.

But it's still okay to pinch Ellie's cheeks, her cute oval face is very elastic.

(End of this chapter)