Chapter 1418 1390 Two Views

Chapter 1418 1390. Two opinions

Is the Church of Eternal Fire big?

It is very big. It can almost be said that it is the most widely spread faith in the north besides the Meliteli faith.

And unlike the Meliteli faith that broadly emphasizes maternal love, the Eternal Fire has actually established a church with strong control and execution as an organizational structure.

In fact, any religious concept, even if it is a laissez-faire, once the organizational structure is established and it is spread on such a large scale, then this religion can no longer be just a religion.

The nature of the organization will naturally tend to hold greater power and strength.

So now, the loose and broad Meliteli faith is still a faith of maternal love.

But the Eternal Fire that established the organizational structure has become more radical and exclusive.

And because of this radicalism and exclusivity, it has developed more rapidly at the organizational level.

But it is precisely because of this radicalism and exclusivity that they are unlikely to get detailed information about the demon hunters.

Because this undoubtedly violates their overall organizational style in recent years.

There are always pros and cons. The style of the Eternal Fire allows them to expand rapidly, but at the same time, it also makes it impossible for them to flexibly adjust their attitudes.

Knowing that you are looking for knowledge about demon hunters, what would extreme believers think?

Doesn't the church actually believe that the power of the Eternal Fire is a sacred and supreme guidance?

And those warlocks and demon hunters who are themselves the targets of the Eternal Fire Church, who dare to seek cooperation with the church? Leak information?

Of course, the Eternal Fire Church is now so big that there must be people studying demon hunters and even other mysticism.

But this matter is bound to be impossible to bring to the table, and it is impossible to put it in the cooperation with the White Rose Knights.

Although the White Rose Knights' belief in the Eternal Fire has become a trend, it is still an armed organization outside the church and an outsider.

There is no shortage of power struggles within the church, so how can outsiders be trusted so much?

Therefore, the Eternal Fire and the White Rose Knights are unlikely to be the source of the investigation of the demon hunter's physical information.

But now, even Seaward doesn't get involved. So where do these news and knowledge come from?

And this teleportation array.

Lan En turned his head and looked at the wall he had just smashed.

The magic array submerged in blood showed a corner in his field of vision.

According to Lan En's eyes, this is a magic array with the function of "notification + positioning".

In other words, if the recipient of the notification is not a warlock who has the ability to open a portal, this thing is completely useless.

The White Rose Knights have a warlock friend who is not bad, or at least a collaborator with interests.

But. Who could it be?

On the hill outside the castle where the White Rose Knights are stationed, a man wearing the armor of the Knights, with a blooming white rose shield hanging on his chest, shook his hands.

He has a brown beard and looks about forty years old. These beards are connected to the brown short hair on the side of his cheeks. He has a square face and a serious temperament.

Such a face appeared in the front of the White Rose Knights, and it was not out of place.

Jaques of Edsberg, this is indeed the most famous figure in the White Rose Knights. A strong candidate for the position of leader.

As he shook his hand, the regular chaos magic light suddenly scattered and finally disappeared into the night.

It was really ironic that the knight of the White Rose Knights had the light of chaos magic on his hands.

But the knight himself did not feel anything.

"The portal failed."

He looked at his hand without surprise.

The hand that failed to cast the spell was intact, because he put all the cost and damage of the failure of the portal on the people in the portal.

"Of course, of course it will fail."

He said it without surprise.

The square face that looked serious and righteous looked at the resident castle, as if he had seen everything that happened inside.

The first requirement for a military organization's garrison is that it cannot be directly observed from the outside, so as to prevent someone from seeing the number of personnel, warehouse distribution, patrol routes and other information at a glance.

Therefore, when camping outside, you usually have to choose the highest terrain around you, so that you can observe others from a high position, but once the wall is erected, people outside cannot see inside.

The garrison castle of the Knights also adheres to this point.

But this man's sight makes people doubt whether the wall can block his observation.

"The [Hunter], the defenders of Cintra and Vergen, have always been so strong. How can a portal stop him from killing people?"

The man in his forties muttered in a low voice, looking at the garrison castle with flickering fire, and turned away.

Lan En did not set the fire, but as the castle became more and more chaotic, more and more people woke up from their sleep, and naturally more and more torches were lit.

"But it's just right. I was planning to let these rubbish die in the portal."

"This way, the purge within the Knights will be complete."

He walked steadily and easily on the mountain road while wearing a full set of plate armor, and casually removed the small white rose shield hanging on the chest of the armor.

Jaques threw the small shield emblem, which symbolized the identity and honor of the Knights, into the grass on the hill without any care and disappeared.

But the paranoid flame in the man's eyes almost burned up!

"The corrupt and powerless White Rose has been purged, and next, it will become a burning flaming rose!"

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Lan En noticed that the action of the White Rose Knights seemed to be connected and jumped by someone else.

But there were too few clues left in this place, and there were no traces of letters and documents.

Lan En suspected that the contact between the White Rose Knights and the hidden guy was probably entirely transmitted verbally.

And the Knight Commander Rudolf himself became a pile of pieces in the literal sense.

In addition, the meeting date on the island of Thanedd was approaching, and there was really no time to investigate in depth.

So Lan En could only frown and put this matter aside for the time being, and prepare to go to Gos Velen now according to the schedule agreed with Geralt and others before.

But before leaving the completely messed up castle, Lan En had a ‘cordial’ conversation with the dwarf guard captain.

Dwarves are indeed stubborn, but fortunately, the dwarves in the magical Middle Ages were not as stubborn as the dwarves in the world of Arda.

Although there is no big conflict between us, as long as you want to force me, I will not give in even if you put a knife to my neck.

Before Lan En took a crossbow with a magic-blocking gold arrowhead and gently "placed" it into the rock of the wall of the secret room with a relaxed gesture that was almost like tapping his fingers-

"I have never admitted who I am, Captain Kramer. It was our concerted efforts and skill that took down this castle and killed all the White Rose Knights inside."

"I didn't see your face clearly, but you didn't even say a dirty word, and you still made me believe that you were a bandit? What nonsense are you bragging about? Anyway, I am the captain of the guard of Prince Heward. I say what I see, without making up or lying. That's it."

And then-

"Then what. Now, tell me again what you saw, Sir Captain?"

Faced with Lan En's soft and even very polite questioning, Sir Dennis Kramer first looked at the arrowhead that was pushed hard into the rock, and then looked at the shadow under the hood.

The dwarf's stubborn and hard face was very calm.

"I saw Rudolf and his men scramble to enter a portal to escape, but the wall suddenly collapsed, and a crossbow with a blue arrow was inserted into the wall, and then the portal suddenly became unstable and collapsed."

"And after I came here on the orders of Prince Heward, I have been staying on the upper floors and have not had the opportunity to look down, so I didn't see what happened below."

All true, no lies.

When the portal was opened, a magic-blocking gold crossbow flew by and caused the portal to collapse, which was completely logical and realistic.

So after a friendly nod, Lan En turned and left the castle.

Dennis Kramer watched the unusually tall figure gradually go away until he disappeared into the stairwell, his face still wooden.

Until two minutes later, his lips cracked in his beard that had been hardened by vomit.

"Huh!"

He let out a long breath, and a layer of white sweat almost instantly emerged from the skin on his forehead, back, and neck.

The dwarf gritted his teeth, as if he had just finished a battle that consumed a lot of energy.

He looked up at the staircase where Lan En walked down, with a complicated expression.

He would still report everything he saw to Siward, Duke of Elland, because this was his duty, and he was definitely not a person who would neglect his duties.

And this was not only known to him, but also to Lan En.

Even at the same time, they both knew: even if the news was told to Siward, he would definitely use the statement that Dennis Kramer said later to make an external announcement.

The current situation is different from the past.

As the Duke of the Duchy in Temeria, Siward, the dwarves serving beside him can realize this even more. The storm is coming!

At this juncture, it is not important that the knights were killed by the [Hunter] .

Compared with this, the most important thing is to make sure that the [Hunter] still stands with the North, not Nilfgaard.

The second most important thing is who is behind the action of the White Rose Knights, and who instigated or controlled them to do such a thing.

Are there more knights who have been instigated and controlled, but have not yet taken action, waiting for a more critical moment to take action?

The survival of this knight order itself is even ranked third in importance.

And Dennis Kramer and Lan En also know that Seaward will still tell the truth when reporting to Foltest. But when the King of Temeria announces the results of the investigation, he will still use the second statement.