Chapter 216 Who is the orthodox of the Torch Church? And the conflict continues.
"So you are worried that the Torch Church will conflict with our Fengrong Sect, right?" Taner sat in his seat.
He has calmed down now.
It seems that the old man in plain clothes I just saw was his mentor, Bishop Kahn.
Taner really wanted to meet his mentor.
But not here!
Rand nodded: "But I really need to cooperate with the Torch Church. Shelan and Pero have gained more support. The advantage we have established in the Full Moon Territory will soon disappear."
"So." Rand sat on the lord's chair and looked at Taner, "Is there a way for us to cooperate with the Torch Church?"
"I'm not sure." Taner said solemnly, "But now we can try to convince Bishop Kahn."
"Persuade the Torch Church and the cultists to cooperate?" Rand smiled.
Before arriving at the hideout, Taner also felt that this was completely unrealistic. He believed that all cults should be eradicated and that they were the parasites of this world. This was the general idea in the Torch Church.
"I don't think we are a cult," Taner said.
Rand had always thought that Tanner was a serious person, but he didn't expect that he would start joking now. He wondered if he was influenced by the Centaur.
"Are you talking about the identity of the Torch Church that we used to preach?" Rand thought about it carefully and felt that he might not be joking. "But shouldn't heretics be more hateful than cultists?"
"But no one is orthodox now." Taner replied. As a paladin from the Torch Church, he did not want the church to split, but since the situation has come to this point, many times a choice should be made.
Taner stood up from his chair and said, "I hope you will allow me to talk to Bishop Kahn."
Rand was a little surprised. Based on Taner's previous reaction, he thought there was some disagreement between Taner and Bishop Kahn, but now it seems that this is not the case.
But asking a rebellious knight to discuss cooperation with a local bishop...
Rand hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
Seeing Rand's approval, Taner saluted and left.
Taner was selected by Bishop Kahn from among the common people to become a member of the Torch Church. Later, Taner studied under Bishop Kahn for a long time.
But now, Tanner felt that something Rand often joked about was very true.
"Why can't we be orthodox members of the Torch Church?"
On the other side, Bishop Kahn went to the tavern again and tried to chat up the elf maid, but failed again.
After walking out of the pub, he began to look for the brothel in the holiday villa.
It has to be said that becoming a high-level professional can greatly improve one's physical fitness. At least Bishop Kahn, at his age, can still go to brothels.
In the Frost Moon Royal City, he was a frequent visitor to the royal brothel. As for whether this would damage the reputation of the Torch Church.
Bishop Kahn believes that the reputation of the Torch Church will not be affected by this.
In other words, the Torch Church had long lost its reputation among the nobility and the royal family.
After Bishop Kahn realized this, he no longer cared much about his image. In fact, even before that, he was the bishop with the worst image.
But as he walked along the road, he felt something was not right.
The fully armored paladin I met in the upper hideout today looked more and more like my former student Taner.
Although his armor was half black and half white and mottled, it was indeed the armor of the Torch Church Paladin.
Moreover, Bishop Kahn knew about the disappearance of the top-ranking paladin Taner.
He kept paying attention to it, and later heard that a clue had been found, but there has been no follow-up news since then.
In fact, he had even heard that there was a strong general under Viscount Rand who was suspected to be a Paladin of the Torch Church. However, in Bishop Kahn's impression, Taner was not the type who could lead an army into battle, so he never thought about it in this direction.
However, just now, he saw a paladin who looked very much like Taner. Although this paladin was fully armored and wearing a helmet, Bishop Kahn felt that it was definitely Taner.
So this kid doesn't want to wait for assignment at the Torch Church headquarters and comes out to find a job on his own?
The more Bishop Kahn thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He no longer had the heart to look for the place with willow smoke. He turned around and walked towards the upper hideout.
As a high-level professional, Bishop Kahn looked very old, but his pace was quite fast, and he quickly reached the stairs leading to the upper hideout.
At this time, Taner, with Rand's permission, also walked down the stairs from the hideout.
It was noon, and the midday sun was shining brightly, reflecting Taner's paladin armor.
At this time, Taner had taken off his helmet and was holding it in his hand. Under his dazzling golden hair was a young and calm face.
Taner's majestic body blocked a lot of the sunlight, casting a long shadow on the ground.
Part of the shadow was cast on Bishop Kahn's body, which looked a little thin in comparison.
Bishop Kahn was not wearing the bishop's attire of the Torch Church at this time, but just a casual dress. Although Taner was wearing paladin armor, he did not look like a paladin.
"Tanner." Bishop Kahn spoke first.
"Let's talk upstairs." Taner didn't say much, just turned around and indicated that there was a quiet place in the upper hideout where they could not be disturbed.
Bishop Kahn followed Taner quietly. Taner's face was not much different from what he remembered, but the rest was far from what he remembered.
Arriving at the conference room, Taner and Bishop Kahn sat opposite each other.
In fact, for a moment Taner wanted to say that he was just undercover and that this was actually a super large cult den, and then invite Bishop Kahn to go undercover with him.
Thinking of this, Taner smiled. He remembered when he first came to the hideout as an undercover agent. Now he thought that he was too naive.
Taner said slowly: "I think the teachings of the Torch Church are no longer suitable for the current era."
"I think that needs to be corrected—"
If it were any other bishop, Taner would not have said such a thing, but Bishop Kahn was an exception. Bishop Kahn was not an old-fashioned person who followed the rules.
At least other bishops wouldn't go to brothels for no reason.
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Perrault's territory was attacked.
He had almost eliminated the unstable factors in the territory.
Ever since agreeing to allow the Full Moon Territory's army to pass through the territory, the instability factors in the Pero Territory have been reduced a lot. It seems that the instability has been shared by the Full Moon Territory's army.
Pero was somewhat pleased with himself, as this plan not only saved him money, but also allowed him to collect travel expenses, and the problems of the territory were also shared, killing three birds with one stone.
But just as he was about to arrange manpower to start building the town's walls, enemies appeared in his territory.
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In fact, Pero and Shelan are already developing at a very fast pace.
If it is a normal frontier territory, it will take ten years to grow from zero to a noble territory with normal output.
It’s just that there are the legacy assets of the original southern nobles here, and he and Shelan did not start from scratch, so the progress is very fast.
According to Pero's prediction, within two years, this place will become a territory with an output that can reach the average level of the Viscount Territory of the Frost Moon Kingdom.
However, the progress of Full Moon Territory was faster. Pero did not understand why the development of Full Moon Territory was so fast. Could it be that those nobles in the south did not attack Full Moon Territory? And now, he was attacked by a monster in the water.
"Hold the formation and don't retreat!" Pero roared and ordered.
The proportion of conscripted soldiers in the infantry is not high, and their weapons and equipment are relatively good, but when human soldiers face the hideous-looking fishmen, they still can't help but waver.
Especially when they find that the weapons in their hands are not particularly useful.
It's not that it's impossible to inflict damage to the murloc, it just requires enough force to cause damage.
Whereas it only takes one sword to deal with a human, it may take two swords to deal with a murloc.
Also, the oppressive power of the male Naga is too terrifying, and the giant weapon in his hand can kill everything with one sweep.
At this time, Pero ordered his knights, the Flying Fox Army, to attack.
The war horses neighed and then charged.
The Naga commander in the rear frowned.
Then he ordered the Naga wizard to cast a spell.
Naga mages are slightly different from human mages. Most of the spells of human mages are magic balls with explosive power, while those of Naga mages are the impact of water flow.
However, the Naga wizard cannot create water out of thin air. If he fights far away from the coast, he will need to prepare water tanks in advance and transport the water.
As elite knights, the Flying Fox Army's combat effectiveness is not weak. Some of the Flying Fox Army were knocked off their horses by the water flow and fell to the ground, surrounded by fishmen and Nagas, but they were still able to resist for a while.
As for the other knights who formed a formation, their sophisticated weapons could easily cause damage to the murloc's scales.
Their superb martial arts also allow them to cause damage to those terrifying giant male Nagas.
With the help of the horse's speed, the lance can still penetrate the tough scales of these male Naga Kamiya dragons.
As the Flying Fox Army charged, Pero breathed a sigh of relief. The Flying Fox Army was indeed the capital on which the family relied for its development. Even when facing creatures like the Naga, they still had a considerable advantage.
The Naga commander once again ordered the Naga mage to cast a spell.
This time the target was not the charging knights, but the infantry who were blocking the advance of the front line.
The pressure on the infantry line was already great. Every moment, their companions had their limbs chopped off and their internal organs crushed by the strange weapons in the hands of monsters.
The charge of the Flying Fox Army relieved their pressure to a certain extent, but in the complex battlefield environment, they could still only see seemingly endless enemies in front of them.
In fact, as long as they hold on for a while, the Flying Fox Army will be able to break up the formation of the Murlocs and Nagas.
But the arrival of water magic completely crushed their morale.
When two of the ten soldiers were stabbed to the ground by the fishmen, three were chopped into several pieces by the male Naga's sharp blades, and three were knocked to the ground by the water flow with blood oozing from their ears and noses, it was too difficult for the remaining two to maintain their morale.
But when the first soldier starts to run away, many things are irreversible.
It only took a few breaths of time from the first to the hundredth.
Pero wanted to order the governor to kill the deserters, but it was too late.
When all his infantrymen began to face the enemy with their backs, Perrault realized that the situation was hopeless.
"Retreat." Pero took a deep breath. Defeat was not terrible, as long as the core Feihu Army did not suffer too much damage.
He planned to gather the defeated soldiers and then find a solution.
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