Ride and Cut

"Wait, this should be a secret, right? It's okay to just say it like that." The lord of Gaoshan Castle interrupted Liola suddenly.

"It used to be the highest-level secret of the royal family. Only me, His Majesty and a few secret guards knew it. Anyone who leaked it must die." The goblin, who was half lying on the wheelchair, paused, as if he wanted to find some panic from the faces of the two listeners.

However, his bad taste was destined to end in failure, so he had no choice but to continue: "But now that the Ice and Snow Goddess Church has run away, there is no need to continue to keep it a secret. It doesn't matter if I tell you."

"Okay, please continue." Li Cha sank into the soft velvet chair back, his eyes watched the faint candle seems to be coming, but his ears refused to let go of every note caught.

"I suspect that the Church of the Ice and Snow Goddess controls the Dark Blue Demon Well for the following reasons—" Liola raised two dry fingers, "First, truly good things will never be borrowed from the unknown like mud. The Church of the Ice and Snow Goddess and the Pompeii royal family are the forces with the longest history and richest heritage in this land. Unless the Dark Blue Demon Well is completely destroyed or buried underground, it is impossible for the royal family and the church to be unaware. Now that the royal family has no clue, it is probably because it is in the hands of the church. "

"This kind of speculation is too forced, I'm afraid it won't hold water." Li Cha was very calm, and his thinking was not completely led by the other party.

There are too many possibilities for the disappearance of a thing, and sometimes the truth is even so bizarre that it surprises people. It would be too far-fetched to conclude that the clues are in the hands of the church just because the royal family could not find any clues.

What's more, the "Dark Blue Magic Well" itself is the result of Liola's deduction, and no one has seen the real thing. From the Lord Lord's point of view, whether it exists or not is still a question mark.

"Be patient, the focus should be on the second point." Sauron said.

"Secondly, every pastor of the Ice and Snow Goddess Church for nearly a thousand years has a level of magical power close to that of a magister, which is very abnormal."

"Maybe it's because they're especially religious."

"Piety? Funny!" Liola waved her hand vigorously, with disdain on her face. "If you compete with piety, no one can beat those foolish men and women in the slums. They really dedicate their whole body and mind to the gods. Why don't they master magic? As a way of using elements, magic is no different from magic in essence, and it also requires talent and hard work to improve!"

This sentence is not so sensitive. If it is put on the bright side, it is a crime of blasphemy that cannot be escaped.

But among the three people present, it is needless to say that Li Cha was born with a lack of awe, and Sauron, as an orthodox mage, did not believe in any gods at all.

No matter how many beliefs the major churches can absorb, at least at this moment in this room, no one believes that their past and future will be determined by a certain existence in the sky.

So after listening, they just exchanged glances, and continued to listen intently without any burden. This is a secret about the situation in the entire continent.

Liola raised an index finger, "If you look at it over a long enough period of time, the promotion and training of clergy should also conform to certain mathematical laws. I have carefully calculated all the historical data of the clergy of the Ice and Snow Goddess Church and the Church of the Holy Light in the last three hundred years."

"I found that even the Church of the Holy Light, which is several times larger, has experienced difficult times in history, and several popes were extremely low-level. But for the Church of the Goddess of Ice and Snow, it seems that there is no such problem at all. Every patriarch has magister-level attainments in ice and snow magic, which is totally unreasonable!"

"Do you still remember the odd number I just said? This is the odd number." Liola's eyes seemed to be shining, and her voice trembled slightly with excitement: "Under the odd number, there must be a deeper problem hidden!"

"In that case... it's really suspicious." The lord nodded.

"That's why Your Majesty began to infiltrate the Ice and Snow Goddess Church twenty years ago, trying to find traces of the Dark Blue Demon Well...cough cough..." Liola suddenly covered her mouth and coughed violently, almost as if she wanted to cough out her lungs.

He spread out his hand, a touch of pure bright red, extremely eye-catching under the candlelight.

"My lord, you must rest immediately." The waiter, who had been huddled in the corner without any sense of presence, ran out in a panic, trying to push the wheelchair away.

This weakened goblin had a violent temper that was completely inconsistent with his appearance. He reached out and grabbed the waiter's collar. His face was ferocious like a ghost, and a word burst out from his throat - "Get out!"

Even though he knew that he couldn't even subdue a chicken, the waiter was obviously shocked in front of that almost tragic spirit, and subconsciously said, "But your body doesn't allow..."

"I say! Go away!"

"His Majesty said..."

"Your Majesty is not here!" Liola stared straight at the other party.

The waiter's face was pale, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he staggered back to his original position.

"Ahem." Li Cha stood up and smoothed things over, "I said dear Liola, why don't you rest and rest first, it's not too late to talk about it tomorrow."

The goblin lowered his head, as if he was talking to himself, and said in a mosquito-like thin voice: "The shadow is chasing me, there is no time to waste."

Lord Lord and Sauron, you look at me and I look at you, neither of them understand what this means.

"I'm joking, you two." Liola closed her eyes and quickly regained her composure. "When the royal family secretly spied on the Ice Goddess Church, the church may not know why, but it must have felt the spying. So in recent years, the relationship between the royal family and the church has become more and more tense, and it is difficult to maintain even the superficial harmony."

"So naturally, the Pompeii royal family began to use the power of the Holy Light Church to suppress the Ice and Snow Goddess Church."

"So that's how it is." Li Cha and Sauron suddenly realized at the same time.

They have known for a long time that the upper echelons of Pompeii are divided into two factions, the reformers support the Church of the Holy Light, and the conservatives support the Church of the Goddess of Ice and Snow. They also knew for a long time that there was a crack in the relationship between the Ice Goddess Church and the royal family, and even reduced the number of priests accompanying the army during the national war between Pompeii and Stuart. They have also known for a long time that there must be a reason behind all this.

They never expected that such a soul-stirring struggle was hidden behind it!

"Now it seems that when we use the Church of the Holy Light to suppress the Church of the Goddess of Ice and Snow, the priests of the Ice and Snow have not been idle, and have started to contact Stuart." Liola shrugged, pretending to be relaxed and said: "I don't know why, but Stuart would choose to support them so much. It's really surprising."

"Anyway, this trend evolved to the end, and it became what it is today-the two countries exchanged religions."