Chapter 305: Torch Church and Torch Church, Saintess and Son

After Karin arrived at Full Moon Territory, she soon saw Rand with a serious look on his face.

"Your Excellency, what happened?" Karin asked.

Karin actually has a very high opinion of Rand, but she doesn't want to see Rand often, because every time she sees Rand, she is reminded that she is working with a cult.

Her behavior has deviated further and further from the original teachings of the Torch Church.

However, since the cooperation was a serious matter, she could not leave it entirely to Bishop Kahn.

Therefore, she had no choice but to close her own detective agency and come to Man Yue Ling.

"Let's talk while we walk." Rand jumped on his horse.

Rand's guards also moved in sync.

The hideout has a total of three military forces: one is the regular troops stationed at the border of the Burning Land, one is Rand's personal guards, basically wherever Rand is, they are there, and the other is the garrison troops in various places, which will not be dispatched easily.

Rand's guards were undoubtedly the smallest but also the most elite force.

With the cutting of the newly defeated iron golem, Rand's personal guards are now gradually expanding, and the number of magic steel plate armor knights has increased from fifty to seventy.

In fact, it could be expanded to a hundred, but Rand felt there was no need to rush. The Royal Guards would rather have a shortage than have unqualified ones, and they needed strict selection, so now the number of Royal Guards was only growing steadily instead of expanding immediately.

On the way to the southern border, Rand briefed Karin on what had happened.

Karin was also a little bit incredulous. As the person in charge of the Torch Church in the past, she had seen some shit before, but she had never seen something like the massacre of a village.

Karin, who was riding alongside Rand, said, "If it is confirmed to be true, I will handle it personally."

Rand asked the question he had always wondered: "Can you, the Paladins of the Torch Church, still use the power blessed by the Torch Goddess after doing such an act?"

"No." Karin answered without hesitation.

"Then why?" Rand was even more confused.

"Paladins who are qualified to receive the blessing of the Torch Goddess are extremely rare." Karin replied, "Specifically..."

It is normal that outsiders do not understand this kind of thing. After all, the Torch Goddess is not that idle, and she has to bless every paladin.

The paladins of the Torchlight Church have a relatively higher resistance to fire than ordinary knights. As for the others, they are just more well-trained, more determined, and more adept at using fire to destroy the enemy.

This does not mean that the promotion process of the Torch Church's Paladins is completely normal for professionals.

When they use fire to eliminate evil, it is equivalent to offering a sacrifice to the Torch Goddess. The Torch Goddess will give back to the sacrifice in this process, which will allow the Paladins of the Torch Church to master some fire-related powers.

But at its core, it is just a business and has nothing to do with blessing.

Perhaps only someone like Rand who sacrifices himself for free can be called blessed.

After listening to Karin's explanation, Rand roughly understood the situation: "So the Paladins of the Torch Church can be completely evil, right?"

"I don't want to admit this." Karin still wore the crown covering her eyes today and said with pursed lips.

She always believed that the Torch Church had become what it is today largely due to her incompetence, although she had only been in charge of the Torch Church for two short years.

…

The iron hooves of the warhorses of the utilitarian Torch Church paladins trampled across the flat land.

"The roads here are well built, Lord Saint." A paladin of the Torch Church said respectfully to a young man in the front row with even more gorgeous armor.

"Don't talk nonsense, this mission is very important." said the paladin known as the Son of God.

He is the eldest son of the Grand Knight of the Templar, and the "orthodox" Son of God of the Torch Church.

Although this orthodoxy is recognized by the utilitarians themselves.

"Yes, Lord Holy Son." The paladins responded in unison.

They still had some reservations about the massacre of civilians, but as long as they thought of them as pagans and cultists, they could completely accept it.

Their past learning and life experiences have made them relatively kind, but if they are facing pagans and cultists.

Then the cries of women, children, the elderly and the weak can be ignored.

As utilitarians, they know very well that if they want to gain enough benefits to maintain their status, they must use any means necessary.

They came to the next village.

The method to determine whether it is a heresy is very simple. Ordinary villagers cannot tell the difference between the so-called beginner sect and their orthodox one.

With just a little questioning, it can be determined whether a massacre is necessary.

After confirming, the paladins of the Torch Church drew their weapons.

Ignoring the puzzled looks of the missionaries, young and middle-aged men, women, children, the elderly, the local garrison troops, and the militia, they launched the charge.

Then it was a one-sided massacre.

They also encountered Tauren missionaries in some villages.

The "orthodox" Son of God had not expected that heresy could develop to such an extent.

Is Bishop Kahn just here to do nothing?

This time they brought a lot of fighting power. Now that Karin seems to be dead, they can also kill the immortal Bishop Kahn at the same time.

If they destroy the Old Holy City as well, they will truly be the only orthodox ones.

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In this era when cults are becoming increasingly rampant, it is easy to put the Torch Church above all else again.

By then, when his father grows old, he will be the king of the entire world.

The Son of God led the paladins of the Torch Church and began to massacre. They were very familiar with taking lives. The only mistake they made was probably that they did not bring too many spare weapons.

Human flesh and bones are tougher than they imagined, and their knives have become dull after killing so many people.

…

When Rand arrived, there was only a charred village.

"Scout, be careful!" Rand said in a serious tone. After careful exploration, the enemy should be not far away.

This was not the first destroyed village they had encountered.

It was a real massacre where no one was left alive, and Rand didn't encounter a single survivor.

He was already burning with rage. Even when he was threatened and blackmailed by that Baron Huyuan, Rand was not as angry as he was now.

They are all his people! His people! "It is the Torch Church." Karin and Elsa made a conclusion after investigating together.

After Karin finished speaking, she kept silent for a while, then said, "No, they are not the Torch Church."

Rand looked at Karin in surprise. As a saint, her judgment should not be wrong. Isn't it the Torch Church? Karin glanced at the burned village again, with corpses all over the ground.

The air was filled with a sickening stench.

This village was very different from the village she had encountered in Xinyue Territory, but she saw the bodies of acquaintances.

The minotaur missionary with the strange accent who had given her eggs

This minotaur missionary's body was covered with countless knife and gun wounds, and his back, chest and abdomen were full of arrows, making him look like a hedgehog.

He still held the battle axe tightly in his hand, his face was split open, revealing the broken skull and brain inside, but his expression was still wide-eyed and angry.

Next to the minotaur, Karin also saw the bodies of several villagers she knew in the Crescent Village. Karin could even call out some of their names.

"They are not the Torch Church." Karin said, "They are - demons. I will represent the Torch Goddess and use fire to wipe out the demons."

Karin couldn't accept that her former colleague would do such a thing.

Rand, who was equally furious, understood what Karin meant.

Rand felt the temperature of the air rise slightly, just like the first time he met Karin.

Rand felt that the person next to him was no longer a blind beautiful girl, but a volcano and a scorching sun.

The cult leader and the saint now once again reached a brief, complete agreement.

This time, Rand didn't want to capture them as labor. He felt that they had no qualifications to recreate value and redeem themselves.

Rand thought they should -- die.

(End of this chapter)