Chapter 209 Heart of Iron and Stone

  The robin prayed devoutly, the Kestrel hangover was on the bed, the Shrike was sorting out his work, and Arthur was worried about how to educate this rebellious child...

   Put aside those monsters and ghosts, in fact, everyone is ordinary people, and there will never be less worry about the hard work and worry about running around the world.

  Time slowly went to zero, and the old year disappeared. For a time, the ancient emerald bell rang, and the deep and melodious sound spread over the entire city, extending to the place of the seven hills.

Father Anthony leaned by the window, looking at the city by the river bank. In the birthplace of the faith, the people of Fei Lengcui were much more enthusiastic about the birthday of God. The believers took to the streets to celebrate and sing. There were almost countless lights. Ignite the city, it emits bright light, like a torch in the night.

  Even in the tranquil San Nalo Cathedral, Anthony can hear the cheers.

  He crossed the earthly land, prayed secretly, and cast his eyes behind him. Someone was talking, seeming to be instructing others.

   "Are Mianxia still busy?"

  Someone came over and said to Anthony.

  The man was a bit younger than Anthony, and had the same costume as him. This was Anthony's previous subordinates. After rebuilding the Demon Hunting Order, they were also merged into it and became Anthony's deputy.

  Anthony nodded. He seemed to have been waiting for the person here, and then motioned for the person to follow him.

  "It’s not long before I took office. Although Thunder has solved many people and strengthened their position, there are still some people who are unwilling to submit to the crown, let alone those sinners who took the opportunity to escape."

  "Are they preparing to counterattack?"

   "Probably, I don't know this. After all, the outcome of the matter will not be known until the end of the meeting."

  After Anthony looked at the layers of walls, a vague voice came from there.

The birthday of God is of great significance to the Gospel Church. Normally this time of year is the most enthusiastic carnival time for the Gospel Church. Even the silent St. Nalo Cathedral will rejoice, and the pope and cardinals will gather here. Welcome tomorrow in devout prayers.

But this time is different. The new pope brings blood and cold wind, and his principles of behavior are completely beyond everyone's imagination. Some people try to create chaos during this transition, but he suppresses all aliens, Qiqiu. The blood flowed into a river.

  He is shrouded like an iron curtain on the place of seven hills, even on the day of God’s birthday, there is still silence and solemnity here.

  There is no joy or prayer. Those in power gathered here tonight, waiting for the pope’s order.

  "Is there something going to happen?" The visitors were a little puzzled. The sacredness of San Nalo Cathedral was no longer, but was full of pre-war depression.

   "Maybe, Samuel."

   Anthony talked as he walked, thinking of recent rumors in his mind.

   "The civil war in the northern Viking countries is over. A Viking named Ragnar unites the countries again. They are like a group of hungry vultures staring at the south."

  The cold wind is blowing from the north.

This is not good news. For the Viking countries, everyone hopes that it will always be in a civil war and continue to wear down its strength, but now they have ended the civil war, the northern materials are barren, and those Vikings are destined to focus on On the other side of the sea, predation is their nature.

"The Leber Empire in the distance is also developing. During the Glorious War, they have not been idle, constantly developing trade, and today's industrial technology is constantly upgrading...Even they have left the Holy Gospel Papal State far behind. Behind you."

  The rise of industrial technology has broken the already established dominance of the Western world, and now there are a steady stream of new players joining, which makes Anthony feel uneasy.

  The power of faith is terrible. The power of the once sacred papal state can radiate the entire Western world. In some countries, even the king cannot succeed without the approval of the pope.

  But now the faith is full of dust, the status of the gospel church is not as good as before, and those in power must be unwilling to make it rise again.

  There is not much time left for the evangelical church. When all of this intensifies to the peak, it must be the rise of a great war, which will sweep the entire Western world.

   "Presumably the Pope is also suffering from these headaches, not to mention the escapees. They know the secrets of demons... I don't know what they will do."

  Anthony walked to the end of the promenade, and a gate stood before his eyes.

The doors in the Cathedral of Saint-Nalo are actually the same, but the keys to open them are different, just like a huge maze. If no one guides you there, you can hardly find the door you want to open. .

  Slowly twist the key, and the door opens, and the interior space is dim, only a little candlelight reflects it.

   "What is this going to do?" Samuel looked a little curious.

  He only joined soon, and he has a strong curiosity about weird monsters, which is like a world of shadows, now appearing before his eyes.

   "Archive Room."

   Anthony replied.

"Our situation is very bad. Cardinal Miguel took most of the Cardinals and fled. Although their remnants on the mainland have been eliminated, no one knows what they are hiding, not to mention that they still know too much. It's more about the secrets of the church."

   Gently brushed the document bag on the wooden table with his hand, the yellowed paper carried a sense of historical staleness.

  "The chaos caused by the night of Holy Prophet was great. A lot of church information was lost in that betrayal...many secrets are not even known to us."

  Samuel felt the pressure of this incident. Those secrets were recorded on paper, and now they are all destroyed in the fire. All this secret exists only in the minds of those involved.

  "Are we going to hunt those cardinals?" Samuel speculated.

  As long as the cardinals who escaped exist for one day, the Pope’s rule will not be absolutely stable. Judging by his iron and blood methods, he will never let this group of people go.

   "No, there is nothing to worry about in this regard, what we have to do is something else."

   Anthony opened the file bag and took out the paper.

"All countries have started the competition. We don't have an industrial foundation. Sooner or later we will be left behind... This is the order of the Pope. On the surface, the church will have technical exchanges with Inervig, in exchange for the knowledge of demons in exchange for the support of steam technology. , But secretly this requires our work."

   Anthony flipped through the paper. He seemed to have read it once, and now he just checked it again.

   "What job?" Samuel asked.

  "Follow the "Revelation"."

  Anthony said in a deep voice, this is the key to the secret blood technology. Before the Holy Gospel Papal kingdom is completely thrown down, they must retrieve it so that the secret blood can continue to be produced.

   "It can be determined that Lawrence betrayed the church. He stole the "Revelation" in the night of the Holy Advent. The Temple of Silence detected Lawrence's Silver Bolt a few days ago. The location is Inervig."

   "Silver Binding Bolt?"

  It hasn’t been long since Samuel took over, and he doesn’t know much about the Demon Hunting Order.

"A special device is used to limit the Demon Hunter. When his blood secret awakening level exceeds the threshold, the Silent Temple will detect him, but because of the loss of "Revelation", this thing has been discontinued. "

   "It's... magical."

  Samuel sighed that since joining, something refreshing his worldview appeared every day, and he didn't feel too surprised by the mysterious silver-binding bolt.

  The whole gospel church is a combination of weird secrets, and no one knows what is hidden in this darkness.

  Anthony picked up the photo clipped in the paper.

   "Of course, it's not just Lawrence, we also detected another demon hunter at the same location."

  At the same time, two demon hunters broke through the critical value, and they were still in the same position. I don't know whether they are fighting against or fighting each other.

  After obtaining this information, the power of the Gospel Church in Inervig was secretly mobilized. Although it is not as good as it was in the past, it is still useful today. They operate efficiently, collect information and then report it.

   "According to the feedback from the Temple of Silence, we checked the code of the Silver Bound Bolt and the demon hunter that this code originally belonged to... According to the list, he should be dead."

   Anthony looked at the man in the black-and-white photo. Due to the angle of the candid shot, the man's face only showed a little in the crowd, but this was enough to judge his identity.

   "Who is he?" Samuel asked.

   "Lorenzo Holmes." Anthony said.

  "Name? I thought that the demon hunter had no name."

  "He took this by himself. He is a detective by profession, and he is currently suspected of having something to do with the decontamination agency...This will make matters more complicated."

Anthony doesn’t know if Lorenzo is allied with the decontamination agency. Once the two are aligned, it will make his actions more difficult. Moreover, with Lorenzo’s existence, the decontamination agency already knows something about demons. Knowledge, this will only make the evangelical church pay a greater price.

   "Then we are going to hunt him next?"

  Anthony shook his head.

   "The decontamination agency will not allow us to act arbitrarily on their territory, not to mention that I suspect that they already know the existence of "Revelation". Once it deteriorates, it will cause us to go to war. We will go as a mission."

   "This is what we have to do." Anthony continued.

  "A few days ago, the first group of demon hunters had already gone to Inervig. There is the best of you in the team, and he will be one of the hopes of this operation.

  They will investigate all this in the old Dunling secretly, and we will deal with the decontamination agency on the surface to paralyze them. "

   "This plan doesn't look very reliable."

   Samuel doesn’t like the best, he has seen the disturbing guy.

   "Because you don't need to know the whole picture." Anthony said indifferently, "and we don't know anything about the old Dunling. Many plans need to be there to prepare."

  This is an extremely critical action. A little carelessness may cause a siege of the cleansing agency. With the influence of the current evangelical church, it is difficult for them to leave Inervig alive.

   "In short, this is probably the case. Go back and prepare. We will start our journey in the near future."

  Anthony thought for a while, and then said.

   "Better say goodbye to your family."

  The journey is to say goodbye, but this is said from Anthony, but it has a completely different meaning.

   "Will I die there?" Samuel couldn't help being serious.

   "It's very possible." Anthony said a little heavy.

"This is related to the pattern of the next world. The cleansing agency will not relax its vigilance against us, and the two demon hunters are also the same. They have experienced the night of the holy night, and they are very clear that the newly emerged demon hunters represent what."

  He glanced at Samuel from start to finish.

"You... and those new demon hunters who are flowing with the secret blood of the second recovery, and there is no **** of silver binding in their bodies. If you want, you can directly demonize and maximize your combat power, but the same Yes, it also means that you are bound to die."

   "Perhaps I won't be forced to that level." Samuel said that after implanting the secret blood, he endured a great deal of pain, and he also possessed the power far beyond ordinary people.

"No, you don't understand, Samuel, you have never seen a real demon hunter. After all, you are just a poor substitute for them... We are all, with those who can still slash freely under the constraints. Compared with the demon hunters, we are too vulnerable, just like the gap between a newborn baby and an old hunter."

   Anthony said that the demon hunters have been trained since childhood. They were born to fight against demons. They have no name, no past, and maintain absolute sanity.

  And these newly promoted demon hunters are selected from among the Templar knights. Compared with those cruel and cruel demon hunters, they are still too gentle.

  Although the secret blood is flowing, but he has a completely different heart, a heart of iron and stone.

   "Then have you seen a demon hunter? Father Anthony?"

Samuel asked, he knew the past of the Demon Hunter, and he also knew that all the demon hunters were dead except those who fled. He didn't understand that Anthony had not seen a real demon hunter. Why do you still have such... fear of it.

  Anthony was silent, and he sighed faintly after an unknown period of time.

   "I have seen it, Samuel."

Thinking of the steel mask in his mind, burning eyes slowly rose in the darkness below. Even after so long, Anthony still can’t remember how he left the stagnant temple, but he was there at that time. Then I knew why the Pope was able to survive so many assassinations.

  Seni Lotaire, he himself is the most terrifying predator, but no one knows it.

  The breath exuding at that moment, fear and despair, as if being stared at by the most terrifying thing in the world.

   "When you meet him, you will realize the difference between you."

  Anthony said profoundly.

  Like a child playing with fire, verbal descriptions can’t make them awe after all. Only a burning burn can wake them up, but this time is different. Once a mistake is made, the price is no longer cheap burns, but death.

   Samuel will understand that when he faces the blazing flame, he will feel the same emotions as himself.

  The fear that comes from the depths of the soul.

  (End of this chapter)