Chapter 1056 The Captured

In the dim dungeon, the firelight reflected the hanging figure on the wall, like a branched tree.

There was no struggle, no cry of pain or begging for mercy. Only when the whip crossed it, the black shadow would shake twice inertia, and at the same time a low humming sound could be heard.

But this soft groan will soon be covered up by the next blow of the whip.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

The swaying figures and the swaying firelight overlapped, and the dull sound of whipping seemed to be the only sound in this silent dungeon.

It wasn't until more than ten lashes later that Count Lorenzo said, "That's enough, stop the meeting!"

"Yes." The executioner quickly backed away.

The back of the woman hanging on the torture rack was already scarlet red, and the criss-crossing whip marks were old and new. It was obvious that this was not the first time she had been tortured. Judging from the tip of her nose and arms, which were covered with a little sweat, it seemed that the pain was not useless, but the other party suppressed all the cries deep in her heart with willpower.

"Why, aren't you going to reveal the whereabouts of the Holy Code?" He walked up to the woman, reached out to clasp her chin, and forced her face up - that was a rare and beautiful face among the Judgment Army, even if she was imprisoned Being tortured in prison did not make him any less disgraceful. In other words, in the flickering firelight, her sweat-covered skin and her eyes, which were also flickering, added a strange color to it. "The church is over, Falina, how long do you want to go against me? Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about those captured companions, right?"

These damn lost dogs, Lorenzo thought bitterly in his heart. The wolves are obviously so big-hearted that they have to fight against the Grand Duke Island. Isn't it clear that his attitude towards executing those envoys is not clear enough? With a team of God's Punishment Warriors in hand, as long as they don't provoke Graycastle, where can they find a place to live a happy life and actually try to murder him? If he hadn't been cautious and asked for a few more people from Lord Mayne, I'm afraid his head would have been hung on the city wall by now.

Thinking of this, his missing left ear started to hurt again.

During the melee between the two divine punishment armies that day, the sword that almost cut off his neck was struck by Farina. Fortunately, she was close to exhaustion at the time, and her sword movement was interfered with by her men, and in the end, she only cut off half of his ear.

It would be fine if he only suffered a little external injury. What makes Lorenzo even more angry is that of the twenty or so God's Punishment Warriors that he managed to save, only two or three are still alive. The rest will not be reimbursed in a death battle. , it just lacks arms and legs, and it is almost impossible to use it for fighting.

This is his capital to occupy Grand Duke Island!

Those wolf-hearted nobles did not seek to settle their accounts with him, not because he changed his appearance from a bishop to a noble, but because of his limited strength and did not dare to act rashly in front of the God's Punishment Warrior. If this news leaks out, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to hold his position as earl.

Lorenzo wanted to cut the opponent into pieces with a thousand knives to vent his hatred.

But he couldn't do that.

——Before knowing the whereabouts of the holy book.

"I don't know if the church is over, but you are definitely over... Count Lorenzo, no, I should call you a traitor." After a while, Farina whispered, "Not so much. It's my fault that you have the God's Punishment Warrior, but you don't have many left to use, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be so eager to ask where the Holy Code is. You want to know the secret passed down by the Pope - the God's Punishment Army Manufacturing methods to protect your poor status——"

"Snapped!"

A sharp slap interrupted her sarcasm.

"Since you know what I want, you'd better say it honestly!" Lorenzo gritted his teeth and said, "I ask again, where is the holy book?"

A trace of blood dripped from the corner of Falina's mouth, "I don't know..."

"That's really a pity," the count looked at the executioner, "cut off a leg for me, anyone's, I want this bitch's companion..."

"Stop acting," Farina said, although she was extremely weak, her tone was full of sarcasm, "Do you remember the finger you sent last time? The blood has coagulated and changed color, and you still want to use it to threaten me? It seems that the bishop's Your life has been so comfortable that you have forgotten the difference between the living and the dead - those were cut from corpses, right? You would have killed them long ago, traitor!"

Lorenzo's face darkened.

"And I'm not even the acting pope, so how could I have come into contact with the Holy Scriptures? Lord Tucker Thor may know, but he has never mentioned this to me, so there will never be anyone in this world who knows how to cultivate God. The army will be punished."

"You're lying!" He said with a livid face, "Tak Thor asked you to come to Wolfheart, isn't it to rebuild the church and avenge Hermes? Without the Holy Scripture, why would the church fight against Graycastle? ?”

"Ha..." Falina actually laughed out loud, "Even with the God's Punishment Army, there is no way to fight against Gray Castle. The Acting Pope just wants to save everyone's lives and let the remaining people live the rest of their lives in peace."

"Absurd! Do you think I will believe it?" the earl growled, "Since we are spending the rest of our lives in peace, why bother to attack Grand Duke Island? Not just to hoard coins, food, armor and weapons here! Tucker sent all the God's Punishment Warriors to He handed it over to you, but you said he just wanted you to live well? This is simply ridiculous!"

"You can't help it if you don't believe it. That's the truth," Farina said unconcernedly. "I also want to tell you one thing - if you didn't kill those envoys at the beginning, but refused them nicely, We don’t have to go to Grand Duke Island. But you just made the worst choice. You know what I hate the most is a double-faced traitor!"

"you……"

"You have betrayed His Majesty O'Brien's trust, and you do not deserve to enjoy the rest of the life that Lord Tucker Thor sacrificed himself for." She said decisively, "It is a pity that I could not kill you with my own hands, but Wolfheart's Sooner or later, the nobles will discover your bluff - even if you take off the cloak of the Holy City, you will never become one of their kind! You are just a traitor, and the end is not far away!"

Lorenzo took a deep breath and tried his best to calm down the anger in his heart, "You angered me so much because you wanted me to kill you to avoid leaking the news about the holy book, right? Don't worry, I'm not that easy to be fooled. You have to know that there are more than just people here. Along with the supplies accumulated during the raid on the wolf heart, there are also a lot of torture instruments - used to torture witches. I wonder how much better your performance can be compared to those degenerates?"

He glanced at the other person's bare feet, "I think we'll start with the toenails... When you pull them off piece by piece, I hope you can still stick to your previous answer. "

…

After returning to the castle hall, the Earl could no longer hold back his rage and swept all the tea sets on the table to the floor!

Damn, damn, damn Farina!

Although he acted confident, God knows how long she, who was born in the Judgment Army, can hold on. These tin cans usually don't contain oil and salt, so it may not be that easy to pry her mouth open.

Grand Duke Island cannot suddenly close shipping routes and prohibit trade, as that will only arouse suspicion from all parties. If the status quo is maintained, those merchants are the best informants of the nobles. He urgently needs the force that can fill the gap in the God's Punishment Army, before everything is too bad to be undone!

But the key clue lies in the hands of a person who is eager to get rid of him quickly.

How hateful!

Just then, one of his housekeepers came in, "Sir, I heard some interesting news recently——"

"Don't listen, I'm not in the mood!" Lorenzo interrupted rudely.

The steward looked at the fragments of utensils on the ground and said patiently, "It may be helpful to the trouble you are currently encountering."

"What?" He raised his head suddenly, "Tell me about it?"

Since he proclaimed himself an earl and took Grand Duke Island as his territory, the believers and congregants who followed him have also become members of the "family". The butler named Hagrid is one of his close associates and once served as a director priest. He did have a few ideas, "The Dawn Border seems to be uneasy recently, and seems to be planning to head deeper into Cage Mountain again."

"What does that have to do with us?" Lorenzo frowned, "No matter which lord occupies Cage Mountain, Grand Duke Island will not get any benefits."

"The interesting thing is not the matter itself, but the leader of the incident..." Hagrid paused, "Sir, I heard that the people over there who want to enter Cage Mountain are from the King of Graycastle."