Throne of the North

Marquis Beifeng felt his brain was a little congested. He looked at Ryan with a gloomy look, ignoring whether the relationship between the two had eased before.

He never thought that it would be Baron Ryan who stood up to refute him, and he was speaking for the Holy See.

"Baron Ryan, what do you mean? Do you think it was not the Holy See who killed them, but other murderers?"

A noble stood up and scolded, it was Viscount Hogg.

"Viscount Hogg is joking. We all know that the murderer can only be the Holy See, but if there is no evidence, we will be very passive."

"We can say that the Holy See killed the lord of Beifeng Province and declared war, but we can't produce evidence. What if the Holy See can produce evidence to prove that they have never done it?"

"How could they..."

Marquis Beifeng was halfway through his words, but suddenly fell silent.

Because just before, after the cardinal died in the imperial capital, the Holy See also claimed that their cardinal could not have committed suicide, and even used divine arts to verify the truth.

The answer was, of course, not good for the Empire, and that was why the Southern Kingdom and the nobles looked at the Empire strangely.

"So, no murderer was found, right?"

Ryan asked, but he had already gotten the answer. The knights around the lords who were killed could not even leave an assassin.

It is even possible that they did not react.

"By the way, I have another thing to say."

Ryan became angry as he spoke.

"On the second day after Lord Valente died, assassins broke into my territory and tried to kill me."

"Killed a baron of the Empire!"

Ryan shouted loudly, and all the nobles looked up, a little surprised. Baron Ryan was assassinated?

"Bring the bodies in!"

Ryan shouted outside, and soon, soldiers brought bodies into the hall, and in front of everyone, Ryan lifted his cloak.

"These damn assassins tried to assassinate me in the night."

"I still don't know where they came from."

A noble frowned.

"Baron Ryan, this corpse has probably been dead for several months. Are you sure they assassinated you a few days ago?"

"Of course."

The eyes of the Marquis of Beifeng brightened up, and he looked at Ryan with a lot of eyes.

"This is the means of the Church. They can make the dead body become like this in a short time. This is a kind of magic, but the empire knows the truth. This is the extraordinary inheritance that the fanatics of the Church snatched from the vampires."

Vampire? Ryan was a little confused. How could he be related to vampires again?

"In the past, the Church had a bad relationship with people of other extraordinary ways except knights."

"They called magic evil witchcraft. Vampires, such extraordinary lives, would be burned to death with holy light if they were discovered. Other extraordinary ways were also suppressed by the Church and dared not walk in the sun at all."

"I will write a letter to the Giant Stone Castle, and Earl William will tell me who the murderer fights for."

Earl William is a well-known name, not only because of this surname, but also because he is the earl of the Silver Moon Highlands Province and has a supernatural army under his command.

A... extraordinary army of vampires.

"Does the earl have the power to make these corpses tell us the answer?"

"Of course."

Marquis Beifeng didn't say much. Ryan guessed that this might involve the fight between vampires and the Church.

As the saying goes, the one who knows you best may not be your friend, but more likely your enemy.

He looked at Viscount Hogg, who seemed to have the blood of William.

"Earl William will send someone, and we will get evidence soon."

Marquis Beifeng looked around and looked at these local nobles.

"This war was started by the Church, and we must accept it."

After that, he looked at Viscount Walter. The governor of Tieshan County was a little helpless, but when he looked at Ryan, he was grateful. Ryan's behavior just now was considered to have pulled him, a nobleman in the center of the storm, out a little.

Standing up, Viscount Walter said righteously:

"The Church is provoking all the nobles of the empire. This war is a war between all of us and the Church. They are trying to replace our rights in our own territory in the name of faith."

"Do you know? That missionary wanted to build a church in my viscount's territory!"

"He actually wanted to be the priest of my territory! Let my people pray in his church every morning and evening!"

The initial confrontation between theocracy and royal power was based on strength, and the reason was power.

When the priests of the Church were gone, the power of the noble lords was suddenly huge, which also significantly improved the cohesion of the subsequent nobles to resist the Church.

They tasted the sweetness.

The faith of the Church will weaken the power in their hands. When Viscount Walter said this, all the nobles' eyes changed.

They may not care whether there is a church in their territory, but they care that the church will not be under their control.

This is the royal power of the territory.

The royal power is no longer absolute, is it still royal power?

"What does the Governor want us to do?"

Earl Winter finally spoke, and his words represented the attitude of many nobles.

Marquis Beifeng had a smile on his face.

"I need you to find all the members of the Holy See in the North Wind Province and kill or expel them."

As the provincial governor, Marquis Beifeng still has great power.

Of course those who were killed were those assassins, and those who were expelled were Adrienne's missionaries.

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"We can't stay in Thunder Cloud County any longer."

Archbishop Adriana said this after a moment of silence.

Next to them, the missionaries were also helpless.

"Their assassination will only make the empire target us."

"Archbishop, what should we do now?"

The archbishop raised his head and glanced at the sun in the sky, then lowered his head and looked piously.

"Let's go. Father Buffett and Priest Siko will become regrets in the hearts of all of us, but they died to spread the glory of the Lord. They will definitely enter the eternal kingdom of heaven and serve beside our Lord."

"It's time for us to do what we're supposed to do."

A group of several people no longer attached to the two missionaries who died in Beifeng Province, left Leiyun County and went to Longshan County. They began to walk in each territory and began to spread the faith of Dawn in the way of missionaries.

This is what they were supposed to do when they came here, but too many unexpected things interrupted the plan.