Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 182 Defection

"Pelak is old"

In the dark corridor, Yuno took a puff of his pipe slowly, and the blazing red shreds of tobacco illuminated his bloodshot eyes.

"Ten years, no, five years ago, he would not talk about the old people and the past like this, he would only point out a direction beyond doubt, and then asked us to spare no effort to implement it-of course, it turned out afterwards that he always Yes."

"Aren't you going to listen to his prayer book for destroying giants?"

Across the corridor, Olivia, the sixth flame archbishop and the only female among the seven archbishops, said softly.

Unlike the other six people, Olivia's figure was not bloated due to the erosion of the evil god's fire. Instead, she maintained a slim and graceful figure that was difficult for normal women to match, and her voice was as sweet as a cold spring. Beautiful.

"No, I'll still do what he says."

"Out of respect?" Olivia asked, tilting her head slightly.

"Out of responsibility," Yuno shook his head and said, "If I am not the Archbishop of Flame, but just an ordinary bishop or monk below, out of respect and admiration for him, I can do anything for him, but since sitting In this position, I must be worthy of my responsibility and mission."

"I agreed to him because I also realized the danger of this prayer book. Although I have always disagreed with Pirac's excessive demands on the purity of faith, I also believe that those forces that are beyond control and too powerful are indeed easy to read. Let people down."

"A few days ago I was immersed in the study of the giant's prayer, and I didn't realize it until Pilak raised it. The content of the book is silently guiding me to go deeper, to a future that I can't even see clearly."

Yuno took down the copper-carved pipe and knocked it against the wall between his fingers. The remaining shreds of tobacco and ashes flew out, burning in mid-air into scattered sparks, and turned into nothingness before landing.

"Olivia, do you still remember the defection of Raeder's branch six years ago?" he asked.

"No flame monk will forget, right?" Olivia folded her arms, leaning on the wall and said, "Bishop Amon led 74 martial arts monks to defect collectively, and the twelve who did not want to defect The monk was killed by them, and when our people arrived, the black flame belonging to the Queen of Death was still burning on the body."

"This level of defection is the only case since the founding of the dynasty. Since then, Pilak has paid more and more attention to whether our beliefs are pious enough. Maybe he is afraid that similar things will happen again?"

"That's right," Yuno nodded, "We are both those who monitor the flames and those who curse the flames. After putting down the giant's prayer book these two days, calm down and think about it. A lesson from the past, we cannot help being cautious when dealing with giant fires that are also beyond our control."

"But you also said that there were no obvious problems when the monks above the bishop studied the prayer book. As long as we are more cautious, we can completely avoid the risk of falling." Olivia frowned slightly and said, "That day I I just wanted to say it, but Pilak still showed that kind of attitude, alas.”

"It's not just a matter of risk," Yuno said, "I've been thinking since the meeting of cardinals that the process of finding this prayer book in the Overseer Fortress went too smoothly."

"Successful? I remember that the report they submitted recorded in detail the whole process of excavating the prayer book, and the counterattack of the remnants of the giants afterwards. The Overseer troops sacrificed no less than ten people for this."

"Those are just appearances—" Yuno shook his head and said, "How could it be possible for an original prayer book that recorded the original power of the flame giant to survive the entire giant war and the subsequent years of war in the northern border without being damaged, and it was so quietly kept in the In the giant cemetery?"

"I know that this is the former site of the giant royal court. After the withdrawal of His Majesty Malika and the late King Ge Fulei, we have not been able to clean it up completely, so that there are still many giant remnants hiding in it, lingering, but These are not the reasons why the prayer book happened to be there."

"You should also remember the name engraved on the gold leaf on the title page of the original book, Saint Helen Moore—"Saint" is the exclusive name of the royal family of giants, and Hellen Moore is the last high priest of the royal court of giants. It can come from his hand The original prayer scriptures should be the most precious wealth of the giant dynasty. Even if there are still a few copies left to this day, they should be treasured by those remnants and guarded as if they were their own lives. How could they be randomly discarded in a half-destroyed giant noble tomb Woolen cloth?"

Olivia was taken aback when she heard the words, and fell silent for a moment.

Yuno sighed deeply, and said: "The original prayer book is probably a trap deliberately set by an existence hidden behind the scenes, but I can't tell whether the trap is the content in the book or the prayer book itself. But no matter what, the other party definitely doesn’t want us to destroy the book just like that—so, that’s exactly what I want to do.”

Olivia took a deep look at the man in front of her, and said with a sigh of relief: "No wonder even Hiron, who didn't deal with you, never questioned your ability to manage the Watcher Fortress. Apart from you, maybe there are real people among us." I can no longer find someone close enough to monitor the flames and stick to my own existence.”

"you flatter me."

Yuno turned his gaze to the depths of the sanctuary, and said softly: "Actually, this is where I really respect Pilak. He was exposed to the ashes and extinction flame earlier than any of us, but he can still retain it better than any of us. A more pious belief, this point, even if you look at the world, how many people can do it?"

He stood up straight and put the pipe in his close-fitting pocket, and said, "The Overseer Fortress should have almost finished the destruction work. If you have time, please also supervise the situation in the north."

"I understand." Olivia replied.

The two archbishops ended their brief meeting and each walked towards one side of the corridor. Soon after, they would leave the church and return to their respective residences to continue their watchmanship year after year.

However, at the same time, the Watcher Fortress thousands of miles away was already in chaos.

All the lights above and below the fortress were lit by people, and there were noisy searches and inquiries everywhere, and teams of sentry cavalry in armor and horses scattered in all directions overnight, holding torches and galloping into the dark night.

In the bishop's study room, the sandalwood desk in the middle was thrown to the ground, and the furniture within reach was also smashed clean. Aganti paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back and eyes red, exuding an aura like Overcast clouds over the rainstorm oppressive.

"How could this child defect, how dare he?!"

(End of this chapter)