Chapter 90
Red Creek Town is located on the edge of Igwyn County, quite far away from the county capital Igwynt. Since the main road is blocked and traffic is poor, it is not a lively place. It is inferior to places like Wokkan Town or Purple Hill Town. Even young people in this county often don't know about this place, let alone people from other counties. It has always been a place with a low sense of existence.
It was in this small place that an astonishing and unexpected discovery was made a month ago. Because of this discovery, the small church in this small town attracted unusual people and triggered an unusual tragedy.
At night, outside Hongxi Town.
Thick black clouds blocked the moonlight in the sky. The smell of gunpowder and blood filled the air. The fierce gunshots and loud noises had subsided for a while. A tragic battle had just ended. The battlefield of this fierce battle was the small church where the villagers usually prayed.
At this moment, the originally quiet and peaceful church had become a mess, with corpses lying everywhere. These corpses were either wearing strange robes or priests and nuns' clothes, and blood was flowing everywhere and seeping into the soil.
The church's fence was destroyed, the stone tablets were smashed, the walls were pierced, and the rubble was scattered on the corpses and blood. It was a cruel scene.
In the chapel, the body of a priest with burns and gunshot wounds all over his body was lying on the cold floor. In front of him was a pale, bloodstained, dying old man in robes. Beside him were two masked men in robes who were helping him up and sitting on the ground.
"Lord Halfdan, we succeeded. All the blasphemers from Tivian are now dead. Our hostage tactics are very effective. The glory of this battle is on our side!"
A man in a robe said while supporting the old man in a robe who seemed to be injured. The old man in a robe raised his hand tremblingly and spoke hesitantly.
"Very...very good...their leader is dead...but I...I can't hold on for much longer...but fortunately...in the end our people survived..."
Blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth and he was having difficulty breathing. He used his last bit of strength to speak tremblingly.
"Bring... bring back the holy relics of the blasphemers. The glory will always be with us. The savior will lead us to sublime..."
After saying that, the old man in the 䲆 robe widened his eyes and stopped breathing. The two men in the 䲆 robes looked at him and called out to him.
"Master Halfdan! Master Halfdan!"
The men in robes called out a few times but received no response. After confirming that the old man was dead, they put him on the ground and slowly stood up. During this process, their movements were not natural due to their injuries.
"Lord Halfdan has died a martyr, but his mission must continue. Let us leave."
After nodding to each other, the two masked men walked down a staircase at the edge of the chapel and came to a basement. In the center of the basement, there was a huge sarcophagus. The lid of the sarcophagus had been opened a crack, and it could be seen that this was a small tomb chamber. Around this tomb chamber, there were several smaller attic chambers.
"Now there are only two of us, let's hurry up and bring the things back home to avoid unnecessary trouble."
"Um……"
As they spoke, the two men in cloaks began to collect the things in the sarcophagus and the nearby ear chambers. In one of the ear chambers, a frightened girl was hiding.
"Ah, this voice... is that group of heretics! What happened to Mr. Rodrigo? Could it be that they have all been killed by these guys? ! "
At this moment, in the corner of an ear chamber, a girl who looked to be about fifteen years old, wearing nun's clothes, platinum-colored long hair and round glasses, was shivering while holding a book. She was filled with panic as she listened to the noise outside.
The girl's name is Vanya Chafillon. She is a nun affiliated with the History Department of the Tivian Cathedral and a member of Bishop Dicket's relic recovery team.
A month ago, when the floor tiles of a small church on the outskirts of Hongxi Town were being laid, the villagers of Shiyi accidentally discovered that there was a basement under the church. After entering it, they found that it was actually a tomb with a huge sarcophagus in it.
From the name engraved on the sarcophagus, the priest of the chapel knew that the tomb belonged to a priest named Dicket. After reading the books, he found that he was a bishop who was martyred in the heresy suppression in Igwen County 300 years ago. His body was supposed to be missing, but his tomb was found here unexpectedly.
The priest of Red Creek Town immediately reported the incident to Igwent Church, and the head of Igwent Church immediately reported the incident to the Diocese of Tivian. Tivian is the capital of Plit, so the center of the entire Plit Diocese is also located there.
Soon, the Divian Diocese sent a holy relic recovery team to Red Creek Town, which included Vanya. However, what was unexpected was that when Vanya's team was recovering the relics in the tomb, they encountered a surprise attack by heretics.
The Savior's Advent Sect is a heretical belief of the Glowing Light Church that does not obey the Holy Mountain Church. They deny the mainstream Glowing Light Church's Three Saints doctrine and directly believe in the Glowing Light Savior. They also claim that the Glowing Light Savior has never had three saints incarnations. Therefore, they were labeled as heretics by the Holy Mountain Church. Since then, they have been in constant conflict with the mainstream Glowing Light Church. Although they were once wiped out, they have recently shown signs of revival.
䀴This time, it was the people of the Savior's Advent sect who raided the Holy Relic Recovery Team in order to snatch the relics of Bishop Dicket. Judging from the battle situation, the people of the Advent sect used dishonorable means to win a tragic victory. The high-end station combat power was lost, most of the personnel were killed, and now only two injured fighters are left.
The situation on the Holy Relic Recovery Team's side is even worse, with only Vanya left alive.
Vanya is an apprentice-level "Lamp" illuminator. Although she is a Beyonder, she is not a combatant and has not received any professional training. She does a clerical job in the church.
Vanya is affiliated with the History Department of the Tivian Glow Church, and specializes in studying scriptures and holy objects. She became a Beyonder in order to better use the Beyonder items of the "Lamp" to conduct research and identification work. Because the recovery of holy objects this time involves historical figures from three hundred years ago, Vanya was also included in the recovery team when the recovery work was carried out.
When the battle just started, Vanya, who was extracting artifacts from the tomb and had no combat experience at all, immediately hid in a small chamber next to the tomb, holding a manual that she had just taken out of the sarcophagus, and prayed fearfully that the outsiders would win. However, she did not expect that her side would be completely wiped out in the end, which made her feel desperate.
'Holy Mother, please have mercy on me and let those heretics leave immediately!'
Vanya prayed to God in despair, but it seemed that there was no response. She could still hear the heretics rummaging through boxes and cabinets on the other side of the wall, and from time to time there were sounds like stone slabs being smashed. It seemed that the two men were looting in a very rough manner, and were destroying things everywhere.
'Be gentle! These are precious cultural relics!'
Hearing the clanging sound next door, Vanya suddenly wanted to shout angrily, but when she thought that going out now would be courting death, she had to hold back her anger.
'Ah... No, I'm almost dead, this is not the time to get angry, Mary, Son, Father, Savior, save me!' She prayed to all the worshippers of the Radiant Church in one breath, but Vanya still didn't receive any response. Instead, the ping-pong sounds of destruction were getting closer and closer, and the other party seemed to have found the chamber where she was.
Vanya didn't dare to go out now. Since the other party wanted to take all the valuables back home, it was only a matter of time before they found her.
In despair, Vanya had no choice but to look for answers in the "Holy Book of Glory" she carried with her, just like an ordinary clergyman of the Church of Glory.
Vanya untied the "Glorious Codex" from the leather buckle at her waist and opened it reluctantly, hoping to find the "answer" to the revelation.
In a sense, this is actually a kind of rotten behavior.
"God, please show me what can save me..."
Praying, Vanya opened the scriptures she read every day, but this time she saw something strange.
On the page that Vanya opened, at the edge where the page should have been left open, a word that was out of place with the text was printed abruptly.
That is spelled by the Puritan language.
"Knowledge."
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