Chapter 396

The knights came to the side in a blink of an eye, and the crowd made way again. Bernie, the leader, and a middle-aged man with a cardinal costume and a little haze on his face, rode a horse to the old man. Bernie looked at the body of the knight on the ground and was stunned. He pointed to the old man and said to the cardinal beside him, "Lord Charlotte, it's this guy. It seems that my knight was also killed by him." Charlotte is the judge of the Dabson Inquisition, and many well-informed people were shocked to hear Bernie call out the name. Charlotte rode on a tall horse and condescendingly. She looked coldly at the old man, and then at the indignant crowd around her, and said, "It seems that the matter is clear. Catch him." The knights rushed up like wolves, clamped the old man's arms, and tied them tightly. Charlotte rode back and led the knights to the south. Bernie ate a belly of dust, coughed repeatedly, and scolded in his heart. He called a few people to help and took the three bloody bodies to the church to preside over the funeral. On the other hand, Charlotte took the old man back to the largest church in Dabson, put him in the underground prison of the court, and ordered the guards to take care of him carefully, but he went to deal with the official duties of the day.

The next morning, Charlotte finished her breakfast, and a man ran into the restaurant in panic and whispered in his ear. Charlotte stood up, looked at him in disbelief for a long time, and then strode out. A moment later, the two came to the underground prison and came to the cell where the old man was held. The old man sat cross-legged in the middle, with a wooden stick on his lap, and more than a dozen bodies lying horizontally on the side. It was the prisoners in the same room, all with blood on their foreheads. Obviously, they were beaten to death by him. Charlotte trembled with anger and shouted, "What's going on? Why is the murder weapon still in his hand?" The men said with a bitter face, "I don't know. We put it away, and somehow it's in his hands again." Charlotte said, "Where's the warden? Where is he? How can you let him kill people?" The men pointed to the other side of the cell and said, "Where is the warden..." Charlotte looked at the place he pointed, and the chubby warden lay straight in the corner, and his body had been stiff for some time. Charlotte said angrily, "On the contrary, the person who dares to kill me. Announce the whole city that I will execute a heinous heretic at noon today, and I will purify him with the sacred flame!" The men said, "Yes--" He ran out quickly. Charlotte looked at the old man again and saw that he had no response. She couldn't help humming and went up.

One day is enough to spread a piece of news all over the city. What's more, the murderers and the killing process are so strange. So after the news spread, the square in front of the church was quickly crowded with people who came to watch the execution. At noon, a group of knights came out of the side hall of the church, cut the old man's hands, and lined up everyone to the stake. The two priests came forward and tied the old man firmly to the stake. The old man closed his eyes and opened his eyes again. He looked at Charlotte on the viewing table not far away and said, "Is it a punishment without judgment? This seems to be against the practice of your temple?" Charlotte said righteously, "What kind of trial do you, an active murderer and heretic, want? This is the common will of the people and the God of Light. Don't you think so?" The crowd shouted, "It's not wrong, burn him, burn him to death..." Charlotte smiled proudly, but the old man sighed and said, "Oh, life is so sad, and death is so painful. Is there anyone at the scene who is willing to burn me to death for me? I will be happy in his past life." This sentence was not loud, but it spread all over the square. The crowd onlookers burst into laughter, and Charlotte couldn't help laughing, "Hahaha, this guy is crazy. Do you think he is a saint and want someone to die for him? That's enough. It's time to send him to hell. What are you still doing? Light the fire." A priest answered, holding a torch forward and throwing it on the wood pile under the stake.

At this moment, someone shouted hoarsely in the distance: "I do, I do, I do, I'm willing to die for you." The audience was suddenly in an uproar. The priest was stunned and looked back at Charlotte, but he was also stunned and muttered to himself, "Is it possible that he has magic?" Charlotte became curious, called the priest who lit the fire, and said loudly, "Bring that man here." The two knights under him galloped away. After a while, they came back with a young man who was tied up, and there was another knight beside him. The two knights glanced at Charlotte and threw the young man down the stake. The old man said loudly, "Are you really willing to die for me?" The young man rolled on the ground, hit his head repeatedly, and kept shouting, "I do, I do..."

The whole audience was stunned again. Charlotte finally came to his senses and said, "This madman really wants to die for others. Who is he? Why are you tied up?" The knight who followed him came to him and said, "Your Honor, he is the biological son of the Duke of Charin, the public enemy of the mainland." Charlotte was shocked: "What, isn't he dead?" The knight said, "That's fake. I really got the news in advance and sneaked away. He pretended to be a beggar in Charles City in the west for several months, and didn't even go back after Charlin presided over the state affairs again. If we hadn't received a report yesterday that he was secretly paying tribute to Charlin at night, we wouldn't have known that he was still alive. Charlotte looked at the young man and sneered, "Hahaha, Charlin's son, very good, very good! No wonder he wanted to be burned to death by the fire. Humph, he also thought it was too simple. Either it was so easy for him to die. What about my brother's hatred? Hahaha, well done. I remember your credit. The knight was overjoyed and retreated aside with great gratitude. But the old man said, "Since you are so sincere, you can suffer for me. I will arrange a place for you in Elysium." The young man kowtowed repeatedly. Charlotte sneered and said, "Who allowed you to decide without permission?" He shouted loudly, "Drag him over and don't interfere with our execution. Boy, I will carefully prepare a big meal for you. It's still early for you to die. He deliberately lowered the tone of the latter sentence, and only a few people nearby heard it.

The young man shouted, and several knights came forward, forcibly dragged him down and handed him over to the previous knight. The knight saluted Charlotte and pulled him out of the crowd. Charlotte motioned to the priest on the side, and the priest came forward again and threw the torch in his hand on the wood pile. The blazing fire suddenly rose and soon swallowed up the old man. But after burning for a while, I couldn't hear the screams inside. Charlotte and the priests were puzzled, and the screams suddenly sounded. Charlotte laughed, but smiled twice. Suddenly, she felt something wrong. Her face changed greatly and she shouted, "This voice is not the old man's." He took two steps and looked through the flame to look inside, but he saw that the young man who was not tied to the pillar just now. But no one knows why he became him.

The onlookers were noisy, and the priest stammered, "Lord Charlotte, what's going on? What should we do?" Charlotte shouted, "Fool, turn off the engine quickly. If you kill him, I'm the only one who will ask." Several priests were shocked. Although they were not water mage, it was easy to cast a few water balloons. At that time, they kept hitting the water balloons. Unexpectedly, as soon as the fire was poured by water, it seemed to encounter oil. The flames rose higher and higher, thick smoke rolled, and the young man was burned clean in a blink of an eye. Everyone was tongue-tied and stood there unable to move. Charlotte stared for a moment, suddenly reacted and shouted, "Go and see if the old man is outside..." Before the words fell, everyone heard someone screaming in the distance, and then exclaimed repeatedly. Charlotte led the priests and immediately ran there, only to see the old man walking north with a wooden stick. A group of knights chased after him.

The old man is very slow, and the knights are extremely fast, but the distance between the two does not shrink, but increases more and more. Everyone was stunned when they saw such incredible things. Charlotte took a horse and turned over, patted the horse and chased it, and marched side by side with the knights. When the knights saw him coming, they were even faster and whipping. The scenery around them retreated like lightning, but they still couldn't catch up with the old man. The more they chased, the cold they were, the colder they were, and the more fear they were. Chasing to the gate, Charlotte finally realized that she had met a master, reached out to stop the crowd, and watched him go out of the gate and go north.

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Heidix, next to the Qingshui River outside the palace, gathered dozens of young people. The leader is a 17- or 18-year-old girl, wearing a mage's robe and a beautiful temperament. It is Princess Acia of Haidix. Beside her is a group of noble children in gorgeous clothes. Since Princess Asia drove away the tenth shameless suitor, all the young people have learned to be obedient and began to pay attention to their demeanor, no longer so stalking. At first, several people were really looked at by Alicia, but when there were a large number of people, she had nothing to look like. At this time, she went out for a walk. On the one hand, she was worried because the emperor was seriously ill. On the other hand, she wanted to avoid them, but who thought that these guys were all well-informed and came to her directly. Alicia looked at the river in a daze and muttered something. An unknown young man said, "Your Highness, what are you thinking?" Alicia reluctantly raised her senses and said, "Nothing, I want to go."

The group walked west along the river embankment and unconsciously came out of the forest. Outside the forest was a stone bridge connecting the north-south road. Several people stood on the bridge for a while and was about to leave when an old man in a thick cloth and a wooden stick suddenly came on the south road. Alicia was stunned for a moment and couldn't help smiling. When the young people saw her smiling like flowers, they were drunk for a while. The old man finally walked to the bridge, glanced at everyone, stopped and said, "Those who believe in me will live forever. Do you want to go to the world of Bliss?" Everyone was about to scold, but Alicia giggled and said, "I know you. You are the magic stick who made a scene in Dabson." The old man smiled and said, "I'm not a magic stick. I'm the guide of the Pure Land of Bliss. Those who believe in me will have eternal life. Princess Acia, do you believe it?" Alicia was stunned and said, "Do you know my identity?" The old man said lightly, "In addition to Princess Acia, who else on the mainland can be so beautiful?" The suitors nodded one after another and said yes, "Old man" and you finally have a little eyesight. Alicia smiled and said, "If I say the letter, will you hit me with that wooden stick?" The old man said, "That's right." The suitors shouted, but because of Alicia's presence, they did not dare to come forward and beat him. Alicia smiled and said, "Then am I not dead?" The old man said, "As long as you believe, death means new life and bliss, and there is nothing to fear. Your Highness, do you believe it? Ashia smiled and said, "I believe... lied to you, haha..." Before the words fell, the old man beat Alicia's brain with a wooden stick and fell to the ground. He took the stick, put his hands together and said, "The disaster is not far away. If you die early, you will be born early."

"You killed the princess!" Everyone was shocked and took out their long sword wands and attacked the old man, but no matter how they attacked, they could not get close to the old man's body. The old man smiled and said, "Do you believe it?" Seeing such a strange situation, everyone panicked and only shouted, "We don't believe it, we don't believe it..." For a moment, they ran without a trace. The old man smiled and looked at Alicia's body. There was no injury on the body. It was no different from when she was alive, but it gradually became weak and finally disappeared completely. The old man smiled and said, "It's really a predestined person." He walked slowly to the north and didn't take the princess seriously at all.

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On the top floor of the library of Bexon Undead College, Conrad stood at the window, holding an ancient book in one hand and a long sword in the other. Occasionally, a young man in a black swordsman's uniform passed by and spontaneously bowed his head to him, and Conrad didn't care. Since Rothers regained mastery of Sipulos, the necromancer is no longer the only profession of Sipulos, but also has two new professions, Death Knight and Dark Swordsman. In recent years, Wang Qi, Wang Tian, and then Anste and others appeared, which made the coquettish masters on the mainland recognize themselves again. They are no longer as high as before, but to teach students with masters living in seclusion everywhere. Conrad was personally invited by Rothers and promised to join the School of the Dead, specializing in swordsmanship teaching. The book in his hand is one of the ancient documents that Rothers has found from all over the world in the past two years, describing the lost swordsmanship in ancient times. After thinking about it for a long time, he was itchy. He put down the book and prepared to go out to study. When I went downstairs and passed through the data room on the third floor, I suddenly saw a thin old man standing beside the bookshelf. Conrad was stunned for a moment, pulled out his sword with a sneer, and pointed to the old man's vest. The old man continued to turn over the book as if he didn't notice it. The cover of the book was written with the words of the wonders of the mainland, which was close to the end page. Conrad didn't say anything. When the old man finished reading the last page, put the book, turned around and said, "You murderous stick, when did you come to Beckson and how did you get into the library?" The old man said, "Magic Sword Saint Conrad, what are you looking for me for?" What's the matter?" Conrad laughed a few times as if he heard a big joke, "I'm going to take you to paradise." The old man said, "It turned out to be a fellow, but I don't seem to have given you this power." Conrad said, "Power? What kind of power do you want? If I have a sword in my hand, it is power. Is it possible for your family to open the world of bliss?

The old man said, "That's right, I am the creator of the world of bliss." Conrad laughed and said, "Hahaha, it's really interesting." The old man ignored his irony and said, "Those who believe in me will live forever. Do you choose to believe or not?" Conrad sneered and said, "What if you believe it? What if you don't believe it?" The old man said, "The believer is hit by my wooden stick. Those who are firm in faith can enter heaven in the flesh; those who are not firm in faith can enter heaven." Conrad smiled angrily and said, "I'm so bold. I'm really impatient to dare to preach that set of evil tricks to me." The old man said, "Conrad, don't you believe it?" Conrad said, "Not only do I not believe it, but I also want to kill you." With that, the long sword shook, released a fierce murderous spirit, and said, "Others can't kill you, but I don't believe that I can't kill you either." The old man shook his head and said, "You can't kill me." Conrad was angry and said, "You are an outsider like you. Everyone has to be killed. Why can't I kill you?" The old man smiled and said, "Because you dare not do anything to me." Conrad laughed and said, "Hahaha, that's a good joke... Well, even if it's the Pope himself, I can still do it." The old man smiled and said, "Really, what if it's Anste?" Conrad was shocked and stepped back and said, "What are you talking about? Are you Anste?"

The old man smiled softly, and his figure gradually became a young man in his twenties. He smiled and said, "Long time no see, Conrad, haven't you remembered?" Conrad looked at him in surprise and said, "So that's an illusion. Who the hell are you?" The man said, "I'm Wang Qi." Conrad was stunned and said with a smile, "How can you be Wang Qi? My eyes are not so bad that I can't tell whether it's a man or a woman." The man returned to the old man's appearance again and said, "Believe it or not, it's not true, but it's not up to you." Conrad heard this, stared into his eyes for a while, and finally gradually believed it and said, "Is it really you? Did you change your body?" Wang Qi smiled and said, "I still have some eyesight." Conrad put away his sword and looked at him in surprise and said, "So you're pretending to be a ghost. What the hell are you doing?" Wang Qi said, "Didn't I say, guide people to the world of bliss? Do you want to go?" Conrad stared at him for a long time and shook his head and said, "I'm living well. Why should I die?" Wang Qi sighed, "People who think they are shrewd often do stupid things. That's what they are talking about." Conrad smiled and said, "What a stupid thing. Is it a good thing to die?"