holy flame

Chapter 017 The Mission of the Holy Court

Although just after a big battle, many wealthy families in Julian City also had children who died at the station, but everyone knew how important this banquet proposed by the red-robed priest was after the incident of the angel descending.Therefore, no matter whether you are sad or not, men and women are all smiling and dressed up to attend.Hearing Samuel's arrival, there was a slight commotion in the crowd, but when the rumored apprentice paladin stood at the door in uniform, the scope of the commotion suddenly expanded a lot.

Not everyone present attended the purification ceremony, and more than half of the present had only heard of Samuel's reputation, but had never seen him in person.So although it was rumored that he had a face as handsome as a hidden elf, not everyone believed it. Even if he believed it, the difference between imagination and real life was still huge.

Regardless of men and women, for most people, when they saw Samuel for the first time, what they thought of was not Samuel's record, but the countless romantic fantasies associated with his appearance.In this regard, women are relatively better, and some men's eyes are too naked.People began to doubt the origin of his identity as a trainee paladin, and some people even thought that such a little boy, how could he be seriously injured and comatose after several days of fierce battles with the undead?He wouldn't have bought it with his own body, right?

Amidst the whispers of the nobles, a priest greeted Samuel first.Samuel remembered that he was one of the many young priests beside the priest. Sure enough, this young man came to take Samuel to meet the priest in red.

Kissing the ring on the officiant's right hand, Samuel bowed and stepped aside, but his etiquette obviously displeased the officiant in red.Although the knights of the Holy See are only loyal to the Holy Spirit according to the holy scriptures, under normal circumstances they will not even kneel down to worship the Great Saint—unless the priests were the spokespersons of God at that time, just like in the purification ceremony, the red robe The officiant was to testify Samuel's fidelity on behalf of the gods.However, this is just a practice thousands of years ago. In the eyes of the red-robed priest, he stretched out his hand just now as a gesture, and Samuel, a little "apprentice" paladin, should immediately kneel down and kiss him in admiration robes and even shoes.After all, those little knights and even high priests were like that.

Although there was still a loving smile on his face, the priest was already unhappy in his heart.Regarding the interruption of the miracle, he has already figured out how to deal with it. He made an appointment with Samuel today to see if he is a "good man to make."If it is, then of course he will take good care of this handsome knight, although his bed is not to mention a little knight, even princes, princesses and even the monarchs of a country have served him diligently.However, it is also a very pleasant thing to be able to conquer such a young and beautiful apprentice paladin, possibly even the youngest paladin.

But now it seems that this Samuel is not very knowledgeable about current affairs. In that case, there is only the second way for him to go.

However, the priest still felt a little bit impatient - not because he still had a conscience, but because of his greed and desire.

"Apprentice Paladin Samuel, I heard you are traveling?" The priest squinted and smiled, reaching out to grab Samuel's arm.Although the chief priest was nearly seventy years old, but because of the power of divine magic and proper diet, his hands looked as delicate and smooth as those of a young man.But I don't know why such hands don't make people feel happy and joyful, but instead make people feel a creepy sense of disobedience.

"Yes, Your Excellency." Samuel admitted blankly. Although his hands were held by the officiant's hands, they were still placed stiffly on both sides of his body, and his eyes did not have the slightest enthusiasm. Midwinter ice.

After an embarrassing silence, the priest was obviously suffering from the cold from Samuel, and he no longer wore a fake smile on his face. He reached out to the young priest who happened to be behind him, and the priest who glared at Samuel was very proud A roll of parchment was handed over.

"Samuel is an apprentice paladin. The Principality of Chris in the east found the devil haunting him, so he had no choice but to ask the Holy Court for help. This is just a trivial matter. You don't need to go to the Holy See Knights or the Court. Let you solve it."

"Yes, Your Excellency." Samuel took the parchment, and then continued to accompany the sculpture beside the priest.

The officiant likes sweet beauties who are flattering and flattering, who know how to advance and retreat. Although the iceman Samuel is eye-catching, he is not so eye-catching to the point where he is willing to stick it on himself to be frozen.He shook his hand impatiently and swung Samuel back.

If you don't want to join, you are the enemy, and as a direct participant in the purification ceremony, the officiant will not let him spoil his good deeds by frolicking around.Of course the priest knew what happened to Chris's remote principality, and it was because he knew that he was sure that Samuel and his followers would never come back!

Samuel was standing aside holding the parchment. Of course he knew what the officiant was up to, although he had no feelings and didn't care about that kind of thing—more precisely, because he was very slow to feelings, Samuel Past and present lives are very cold.Of course, his bodily functions are normal. When he wakes up every morning, he still feels like he is in the sky. He also feels touched there, but the feeling is one aspect, and the pleasure is another aspect.This is a very strange situation. Through analysis, he can know that a certain feeling is pleasure, and his body will be in the midst of surging enthusiasm, but his brain never knows how to enjoy it, let alone intoxication, that is, Say body and soul are totally out of sync.

But this does not mean that Samuel is willing to sell himself, because he has no feelings, so he longs for feelings, and very strangely but firmly believes that feelings are extremely holy...

Therefore, Samuel did not accept the disgusting peach-colored olive branch of the red robe officiant at all, and simply responded with a cold face, choosing to fight for a way out by himself!

Samuel declined the invitation of the red-robed officiant. It stands to reason that Samuel should enjoy the banquet at the Santo's Mansion.Wine, Food, Music, Dance!But he didn't. He asked the waiter for a glass of water. He stood near the terrace and drank the water on his own.

As for the reason, on the one hand, of course, he is not a person who likes to enjoy himself.On the other hand, this kind of ancient European banquet is definitely not an enjoyment-those TV dramas describing ancient European courts are very beautiful, and ancient balls are even more beautiful, but in fact~

There are no toilets here, not even a latrine.The dance party participants and waiters could only settle in the chamber pot placed on one side, the ladies could settle with a flick of their skirts, and the men were even more generous.However, with so many people, it would not be uncommon to break the chamber pot, so... What's even more frightening is that the guards at the banquet cannot leave their posts without authorization, so they can only be dealt with on the spot no matter how big or small they are. ①

People pride themselves on not bathing, and the ladies are slightly better off.And the men had just experienced the battle a few days ago, especially the men who went to fight, many of them still smelled of corpses.

One way for the nobles to enjoy is to drink the emetics after eating their stomachs full. Although the food for the dance is set aside and taken by themselves, there are not many nobles who "enjoy" in this way, but even a few are enough up.They didn't even want to wait for the servant to bring the basin, but just vomited on the ground.

The combination of all kinds of smells is even scarier than the smells emitted by Samuel's undead in the cave.Standing here, he felt as if he wanted to faint. He really didn't understand how those nobles had fun.

Playing with the pottery cup filled with clear water in his hand, Samuel was thinking about the situation of the red-robed priest, such a greedy and obsessed guy, he broke eight if not ten commandments in the holy scriptures, but he But now he is still sitting securely on the seat of the red robe officiant.Moreover, Samuel could feel the majestic divine power contained in his body. Although he had known for a long time that the hands and feet of the priests were not very clean, he did not expect that the upper echelon of the holy religion had been corrupted to such an extent.What kind of rules do these gods use to choose their spokespersons?

After drinking all the water in the glass, Samuel quietly left the banquet venue. If he stayed any longer, he would really faint. The smell here was worse than the barracks.

The author has something to say: ①In the 51th century, a city government in France held a large-scale ball in the city hall and rented [-] chamber pots. Because only two of them were broken in the end, the ball was considered to be very successful.This was true of the official municipal banquets of the eighteenth century, let alone earlier periods.So ==, those glamorous ladies and gentlemen in the ball on TV are all floating clouds, floating clouds~