Chapter 891 The Injury of the Monastery

"I'm not the Pope, the Pope has—" Isabella was about to deny it, but Agatha stopped her by patting her shoulder.

"The task is important, His Majesty will not mind."

The seemingly unrelated words, but Isabella instantly understood the meaning of the other party. She also knew that this method was more convenient, but for a king who valued power, this was indeed a dangerous signal.

Recalling what she had seen and heard in Neverwinter, she hesitated for a moment and took back her denial, "What do you mean by saving you? Where are the trial warriors and priests?"

"They ran away!"

"No, some people were called away by the Holy City!"

"We committed a crime and killed the priest..."

"That's not her fault!"

"No food, no clothes... no supplies for two whole months, are we abandoned?"

"What stupid things are you talking about? Isn't Your Majesty here?"

There was a burst of answers at the scene.

"Everyone be quiet!" Isabella said impatiently, "It's fine for one person to speak." She swept across the crowd, and pointed to the leading nun, "You come first, stand up and speak."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The nun respectfully touched her head to the ground before struggling to get up, "The last time I heard from Hermes was more than a month ago..."

After half an hour, Isabella finally had a general understanding of what happened here.

Since the Battle of Cold Wind Ridge, the supply of the monastery has been deteriorating. At first, the food portion has shrunk, and later, even the frequency of food has been halved. Since the three courtyards are managed in a closed manner, the news is all transmitted from the outside world, and the order is still relatively stable. The stationed clergy and trial warriors encouraged everyone to pray frequently and get through this difficult period with a strong attitude, saying that the situation will get better soon.

But this is not the case.

The other party's so-called last news was that the church dispatched all the judges and priests a month and a half ago.

The nuns didn't know what orders they had received, they only knew that those believers who hadn't been transferred came out of the hall with ashen faces, as if they had lost their souls.

After that, the monastery became a place of disaster.

According to the principle of automatic replacement, they proclaim themselves the new priests, but they no longer lead the crowd to pray, and they are unwilling to follow the system of shrinking clothes and dieting set by the predecessors. Not only did they enjoy the small amount of food stored in the warehouse without restraint, but they also further deducted the food for the orphans.

When the nuns went to negotiate, they learned of a world-shattering news, that is, the collapse of the Hermes Cathedral.

The church has reached a point of life and death.

In order to fight the enemy to the death, the high-level officials decided to abandon the old holy city and transfer all full-time personnel back to the plateau. The last order left to the monastery is to resist the invading enemy by itself and dedicate your life to the gods until the last moment.

As unbelievable as these events may sound, the closure of the passage leading to the Church of Reflection seems to confirm their claims.

Faced with this bad news, the nuns also split into two factions. Some were completely disappointed and joined the "new priest faction", while the other part was hesitant and didn't know what to do—according to the leading nun, the church used to So powerful, so powerful that they hardly need to think, and never think about their own fate... Because of this, the news almost completely plunged them into chaos, as if the world they knew in the past suddenly collapsed.

What broke this situation was the intensification of the new priests.

They were originally low-level believers, and their status in the monastery was only a little higher than that of the nuns. They were usually responsible for assisting the administrators in handling the affairs of the monastery, and there was almost no possibility of promotion—those who were truly capable would not be assigned here at all. Now that he has finally tasted the sweetness of power and lost the supervision from above, it is naturally out of control.

Such as the "blessing" of choirs and church classes.

In fact, this kind of thing itself is prohibited, but the Holy City's management of the monastery is not strict, so there are often big shots with special hobbies coming here to have fun, which is not a secret in the compound. It wasn't until the Extraordinary escaped that the church strengthened its supervision on this aspect.

But now they have no worries.

"Blessing" has changed from pulling people alone to forced obedience by the whole class, and even finally evolved into a trade of exchanging their bodies for food. Not only is this completely against the edicts of the Church, but it also pushes the undecided nun to the side of the orphans.

Although these girls of different ages were scavenged from the Four Kingdoms, teaching them to read, read, and learn rituals and carols is not without emotion after a long time. Coupled with the orders given by the church, the nuns began to resist the orders of the new priests, and secretly took out the food in the warehouse and distributed it to the starving children.

It's just that no matter how much they shrink their clothes and diet, they can't conjure food out of thin air. The food in the warehouse was getting scarcer day by day, and the priests also noticed the "rebellion" of the nuns, and the conflict broke out-during a smuggling of food, they caught and executed two nuns on the spot. It made the rest of the nuns uneasy. After some planning and connection, the leader launched a counterattack one night. The priests who were indulging in pleasure were caught off guard, and the Orphan Allied Forces, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, cooperated inside and outside and wiped them all out.

Not only that, the leader also contacted the other two monasteries through tunnels, and used the same method to deal with those ugly believers.

Just when everyone was trying to send a representative to report the plight of the place to Hermes through the high wall of the compound, the army of Dawn Kingdom appeared on the border of the old holy city.

Now that it has been abandoned, there is no other way but to resist on your own. Everyone knew that once the enemy captured the monastery, even if they did not resist, the end would not be much better, so there was the scene Isabella saw first.

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After listening to the nun's statement, great doubts arose in Isabella's heart.

She has also heard about the bad habits in the monastery, and it is not uncommon for those incompetent to corrupt quickly after gaining power. What surprised her was the order announced by the church.

In order to fight the enemy to the death? If this is the case, it is impossible for them to ignore the monitoring of the mountain trails while abandoning the outer city wall. What is the difference between doing so and giving up the first line of defense?

Even if they take ten thousand steps back, the Holy City is so short of manpower that even Yun Zhongti can't take care of it, and it is impossible to say "abandon the old Holy City".

Because most people don't know the secrets of the church, but she knows it very well - neither the new holy city on the plateau nor the old city at the foot of the mountain is the core of the church. There is only one true core of the church, and that is the Privy Council hidden deep underground. Whether it is the mining of the sacred stone, the study of the magic stone sigil, or the transformation ceremony of the God's Punishment Army, all of them are built in this 400-year-old church. It was carried out in the former secret institution.

In the old holy city, there is a secret passage leading to the Privy Temple, and even the location of the main exit. How could such an important position be given up so easily?

This order is full of loopholes and outright lies!

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