Paladin

As the sky gradually darkened, they walked on the streets of Moane City, and the number of pedestrians on both sides gradually decreased.

The lights in each house exude a warm light, outlining the outlines of the lush crowns of several trees beside the road.Everything is as quiet as this night, and the sound of Hewitt's crutches tapping lightly on the floor when walking is steady and long.

"Huitt, I know it's wrong to rely on absolute power to do these things, but I won't stop doing it." Evan said with a sigh, "The law is a process of continuous improvement, and it also requires people's trust and support, but before we can perfect it, we have to do something."

Hewitt suddenly said: "This is not the first time you have done this, is it? Before you fell asleep, in your era, you also wore a mask and played a guest role... an assassin, or a ranger?"

"Yes, about dozens of people have been killed like this. I still don't know whether I am in light or darkness, serving justice or darkness." Evan raised his palm and looked at it for a while, his fingers moved slightly , seems to be recalling the touch of the sharp blade in his hand and some past events, "But I think, if I do this, then at least other people will not face the same predicament."

Hewitt felt the guilt in Evan's words, and suddenly felt that he should say something to make the paladin's beautiful emerald eyes not so dim and lost.

But at this moment, they all suddenly heard movement behind them.

A thin woman in a cloak quickly came from behind them, walked past them non-stop, and at the same time said in a low voice: "Your Excellency, please follow me."

Evan and Hewitt looked at each other, and then heard the woman say: "My name is Ann, and my sister and I were detained and insulted by a beast for 12 years."

The two followed the woman around several complicated streets in the inner city, and finally entered a dilapidated storage room.

The woman named Ann found a dilapidated oil lamp in the storage room and lit it, and randomly pulled off her mask—so that the two of them could clearly see the cut scar on her chin.

"I know who you are. You questioned and beat my sister's husband at my sister's husband's house during the day." Ann said in a hoarse and fast voice. After receiving the benefits, I immediately forgot about my sister, and even used the money to buy a new wife! At that time, I was still struggling to escape from that bastard’s house, and even unrealistically begged him to report that bastard! "

She spoke quickly and urgently, with eager hatred in her eyes, and Evan even held his breath, while Hewitt had already asked directly: "Who is 'that beast'?"

"The Supreme Cardinal Lawson of the Diocese of Sabillon! That old bastard!" Ann whispered the name, "At first he bought women from the poor, then he trafficked them in the name of recruiting apprentices and nuns, and then Knock the family out with your hands, and then threaten the family members afterwards! No one dares to defy him, he has the right to directly convict a family, and the criminals’ words cannot be obtained, and there is no possibility of continuing to survive!”

Evan took a light breath. He knew that the cardinal represented the highest sense of theocracy in the city, and there were probably less than two hundred cardinals in the entire Casa Empire—their official name was Cardinals can be regarded as an advisory group serving the Pope.

Even each pope was voted by these cardinals and finally took office.This shows the power of a cardinal.

Evan said, "Ann, can you go into more detail?"

Ann took a deep breath, drew her cloak from her body, and showed them her abnormal figure - her waist was so thin that she could hold it with her own hands, the terrible deformity made her The upper body looks severely off balance.Ann said hatefully: "This man likes women with thin waists. He smashed half of the ribs of all the men he captured, and put an iron ring the size of his palm around his waist, and never took it off. Most of the men he captured Women are not killed, but because of bleeding, suffocation and unable to eat! We are locked in a basement like this, there is no strength to stand up, every breath is a torture, I have seen people bite directly with their teeth I rotted my own wrist, and finally died laughing..."

Her words fit perfectly with the bodies Evan and Hewitt had seen.It also explains why almost all the families of the victims are reluctant to mention this matter... The cardinal is simply an unscrupulous figure who covers the sky with one hand.

Ann raised her cheek again, showing the two people in front of her the huge red spot left after a piece of flesh was cut off: "He also used a knife to carve our faces, saying that he wanted to be more like 'Lina'! The most like The people who will be taken out by him, imprisoned in other places, and then never come back. My sister died like this, and I didn't even see what she looked like when she died...!"

"Who is 'Lina'?" Hewitt asked abruptly, "Is the full name 'Leliana'?"

With hatred in her eyes, Ann said in a hoarse voice: "I know that woman, she once gave birth to a son for that old bastard! She was Lawson's first woman, he broke his precept for her, and for her She caused all of this, and since she resisted to the death, she has been constantly... looking for a substitute!"

The female elementalist Leliana, a rising star among mages, gave birth to a son after being imprisoned by a cardinal...

Hewitt came for the news of her death, and now learned the truth of the incident in this way.Anger kept rolling in his chest, and he said in a low voice: "This matter will never end here, Lawson must pay the price for it."

Evan put his hands on his shoulders, and seemed to feel the gloomy anger in his heart, and then said: "Now we have found a party. Ann, if we charge the cardinal, are you willing to testify in court? ?”

"Testimony? Of course I am willing!" Ann said happily, "I'm afraid you won't be able to accuse him at all. This old bastard is a cardinal, and he has secretly reached an agreement with my parents and the man I call brother-in-law. He even made them put me in a penance! I'm a penance, hahahahahaha! I'm a nun, I was violated every day during that time, my body was transformed into How many titles are so coveted by girls for this ghostly appearance! Do you know that all nuns must keep chastity, and their chastity is monitored by priests and deacons, and these men know that we are The stuff that Lawson stuffed in, every day... this penance, which is flocked to by outsiders, is simply Lawson's brothel!"

Hewitt said coldly: "So once Lawson is accused of violating you, first of all, all the nuns will be considered to have lost their virginity and must be punished by sinking?"

"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid at all! Those nuns are not worthy of sympathy at all, none of them want revenge, they have been raised as domestic animals!" An said with red eyes, hatred, "I'm waiting It took so long to find someone willing to investigate thoroughly, and I have become a devil! I know that the Templars have been arrested, and Lawson's magic is extremely powerful. I thought I would never have a chance in this life. I planned to kill my brother-in-law today, kill my parents, and kill all these people who ignore our pain! I can kill one by one, even if I fall into hell after death and be hacked into pieces, I will be extremely happy!"

Ann's hatred was too intense, and her thin and deformed body could hardly bear it. She gasped in pain, and from her chest, which was almost half-shattered, made a whirring sound like a bellows.

Evan stretched out his hand like lightning and put it on her shoulder. The power of the Holy Light slowly poured into her body, and it also calmed her almost suffocating excitement a little.

"We may not be able to understand your pain, Ms. An, but I swear that I will try my best to save you. Lawson's unpardonable crime will eventually kill him—if the law can't, I can." Evan said in a deep voice. Said, "Tell me, can any other witnesses and evidence be found?"

Ann said: "The secret chamber... I know where the secret chamber is. And that woman's son! That 'Lina'... no, 'Leliana' woman, she was the only one who gave birth to a son Man, Lawson took his son! And doted on him, I've heard in the order that Lawson was fond of little boys, and had a special choir for him--he must have taken the opportunity to My own son was sent to a church school!"

Hewitt asked, "How long ago was this?"

Ann panted as she recalled, tremblingly said: "It's been... It's been more than ten years, I don't know. That boy may have grown up... I really don't know. I was... I stayed in the congregation for ten years. Years, if it wasn't for help... I wouldn't know what day it would be."

She was exhausted and trembling weakly, Evan's warm palm rested on her shoulder... But Ann seemed to be unable to bear the warmth, and shrank into a ball in fear.

Her expression was dull, no longer full of hatred and excitement as before, just staring blankly at the ground.

Filled with pity, Evan put the cloak back on her, and then said to Hewitt: "We have got the exact news and witnesses. I think it's time to confirm the information. I want to go to the city to search for Lawson. The blacksmith of the agency, stop by to visit the nuns of the ascetic order and see if you can...help or persuade them."

Hewitt said, "I will find Leliana's son."

Evan asked with some concern: "It's been too long, if you can't find it in a short time..."

"Evan, I am an arcanist. Don't restrict the ability of an arcanist with ordinary people's conditions and restrictions." Hewitt said lightly, "I will definitely find this boy, Leliana's teacher is mine ...Friends. I will do my best in this matter, both public and private. The mage will never let anyone who hurts his companions - the whole world is hunting us and doesn't care about the mage's life or death, so we ourselves , will swear to the death to protect the life and dignity of every companion."