The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the church on the outskirts is as peaceful and quiet as any church in Museg.

It's just that there are no priests coming and going here, and occasionally a few will walk into the church, and they are in a hurry and don't want to be seen.There are no residents nearby, so no one will notice such an anomaly, let alone know that this church is actually a "religious arbitration office".

Since Phoebe became the saint of light, the almost stagnant development of the light god has ushered in a new turning point. She no longer maintains the aloofness of the light church in the past, but actively integrates into ordinary believers—basically, Will The civilians of the Holy Church—go among them, let them get closer to the church, and let them truly feel in their hearts that the God of Light has brought them happiness.

Although the God of Light has not made much contribution to the human world, the Church of Light has indeed done many practical good things, and compared with the troubles caused by their excessive interference in government affairs in the era of Eleanor and Edith before, the Church of Light now It's already a pretty solid organization.

Ironically, in the era of Eleanor and Edith, the expansion of the Illuminati Church did not give the Religious Arbitration Institute the opportunity to grow at all. The Religious Arbitration Institute also had no ability to resist what the Illuminati Church did. It could not even protect itself. Appears reluctant.

However, today, Phoebe is dedicated to assisting the court and helping the development of the Holy Church of Wilton. The Church of Light is more secure than at any other time in history, and the Institute of Religious Arbitration is also growing stronger than at any other time.

Of course, this does not rule out the credit of Udura.

Phoebe didn't feel that she really knew Udulla, but she was at least the person who knew Udulla best in the whole Holy Church of Wilton.

Different from what was formed in the acquired environment, Udulla was born with a sharp personality. When she was both an apprentice, Phoebe who slept in the bed next to her was oppressed by the power of faith she unconsciously released all day long, until it became more systematic half a year later. After thoroughly studying the theory of divine arts, I realized why I couldn't sleep well.

Hecate also knew what kind of power the power of belief in the God of Light was, and it was rarely aggressive in itself.But the power of faith is very easy to be affected by the character and emotions of the user after all. In the hands of Udulla, the power of faith of the God of Light is extremely unstable.

But this also allowed Udura to use all the divine spells for attack and destruction with ease.

It also made her feel that this place was more suitable for her than the Guangming Church after she came to the Religious Arbitration Office.Many people thought she was jealous of Phoebe, but in fact she didn't even envy Phoebe at all.

"In other words, she and you are two completely opposite extremes."

"Yes, we are good at two different fields, so you can't use the experience of dealing with me to deal with Udura. In such a face-to-face battle, she is much stronger than me."

"I see. I'll be careful." Hecate jumped off his horse and walked slowly towards the church.

The setting sun sank below the horizon, and the outskirts were dark without lights or fires, which was convenient for Hecate's actions.But she believed that even in the daytime, no one could stop her.

There were only four small candles burning in the church, but this kind of darkness was more suitable for Hecate to play. As soon as she opened the door, she felt two gunmen hiding behind the door, waiting for the moment she opened the door. rushed up.

Hecate quickly ran forward a few steps, dodging the spears stabbing from both sides, turned back and swung a knife at the spearman on the right.Before the long gunman died, he was still mocking Hecate's pride in misjudging the distance, but the invisible blade composed of the power of faith easily collapsed his armor and body together.

The other spearman was also pierced through the heart by the crescent blade. Hecate pulled out the blade expressionlessly and turned around to observe the interior of the church.

She shook off the blood on the knife, and walked step by step to the very inconspicuous side door in the corner.The corridor behind the door was very narrow, but it obviously led to a more spacious place. Screams and questions came from the interrogation rooms on both sides from time to time. Hecate didn't stop, and went straight to the room at the end of the corridor.

Just when she was about to reach out and push the door open, a cold touch came from the back of her neck.

"Are you Hecate?"

With a short pure metal scepter and extremely aggressive power of faith, Hecate confirmed that the person standing behind him was Udulla.She turned around and held Udulla's scepter, pulled it out of Udulla's hand with a little force and threw it far away, and then, the crescent blade rested on Udulla's neck.

"Let them go." Hecate's blade had sunk into Udulla's skin, "Let Selene go."

"It's wonderful." There seemed to be applause in the distance.

In the dimly lit corridor, a woman in a supervisor's robe slowly came out. Hecate looked at his blade and the puppet on the ground that hadn't been stained with half a drop of blood, and guessed that the person in front of him was the real Udu pull.

"Hiss... It's a good thing I didn't talk to you personally, otherwise I'm afraid I would have died as badly as it did." Udulla approached nonchalantly, picked up the puppet on the ground, "Want to see your sister? Come with me." Bar."

Before opening the door at the end, Udulla stared at Hecate for a long time.

"You really... have the aura of heretics all over your body."

"Hurry up." Hecate pressed the blade against her back, "Don't play tricks."

"Don't play tricks? Isn't His Highness Hecate's expectation of the Religious Arbitration Office a little too naive?"

"If you dare to play any tricks, I'll let you know who is more innocent."

"You probably also know that you can only use a scepter to use divine magic." Udulla turned around and looked at the scepter that he had thrown far away, "But as a supervisor, I have privileges."

As soon as she finished speaking, the power of faith used to flog the apostates rushed towards Hecate. Hecate did not dodge, nor did he raise the crescent blade to block, but just stood there, watching without fear. Udulla.

The scene Udulla imagined did not appear, and the power of faith seemed to be completely dispelled the moment it touched Hecate, and some of it was even absorbed by Hecate.

"Now you should also understand, the supervisor of the religious arbitration office." Hecate pointed the tip of his knife at her, "Your religious arbitration is useless to me, if you want to defeat me, you have to obediently pick up your The scepter uses magic...but do you think I'll give you a chance to pick it up? Lead the way."

Shocked and terrified, Udulla reluctantly turned around and opened the door of the interrogation room for Hecate.

"You go in first." Hecate impatiently tapped her with the back of his knife, "Don't think I'm stupid enough to let you stand behind me."

Selene was tied to a chair in the middle of the room. She raised her head with difficulty and smiled at Hecate to show that she was fine.

"Are you hurt?" Hecate asked her softly.

"No, but the lady you're holding with your crescent blade right now is giving me a hard time."

Just as Selene expected, Hecate put away the crescent blade after hearing this sentence, and punched Udura directly on the bridge of the nose.

I believe that if Udura hadn't had the power of faith to protect his body, and Hecate mercilessly beat him up, the consequences would be almost the same as having his throat slit by the crescent blade.

While Udura was lying on the ground and couldn't get up, Hecate untied the rope tied to Selene, helped her rub the redness on her wrist, and Udura struggled to raise his head and asked Selene: "Who is she? Why is religious arbitration invalid for her?"

Before going to capture Selene, Udulla made the most thorough investigation.The news that Selene is a believer of the Illuminati Sect is basically public. It is not difficult for her to know this. Every prayer will leave traces of the power of faith. These traces are kept in the kingdom of God, but they can be copied directly to the human world by the same principle as copying magic. Under Udulla's order, the religious arbitration office The record is even more perfect than that of the Church of Light.

The truth is, there have been.

Although it was a long time ago, although only a few times, young Hecate was indeed a member of the Illuminati.

There are not many people in the world who really believe in the existence of the God of Light and who really surrender to him from the bottom of their hearts.

As the supervisor of the Religious Arbitration Institute, Udulla is most aware of this.Most of the time, religious trials don't care whether you have committed apostasy or not. As long as your beliefs are not pious enough, you can be tortured for your soul - the only thing that needs to be supported by religious judgments is arrest, and she can't miss it Taking priests away from the Church of Light for no reason, there is no need to make things difficult for honest civilians.

This is the case in the capital church of the Holy Church of Wilton, let alone the two royal family members of the Nord Kingdom?They may join the God of Light for any reason, but in any case, that reason will not be "devotion to the God of Light".

Udulla couldn't figure out why Hecate was immune to religious arbitration.

Could it be that she is really a devout believer who cannot be faulted from the soul level?

"Uudura." Selene walked in front of her, "This is the god I believe in."

Selene could see Udulla tremble visibly.

Like Phoebe, she is a "servant of the God of Light", with a high status in the world, but in the kingdom of God, she can only submit to the gods.