The crisp sound of footsteps came from afar in Silence.
Under Adil's gaze, in the distance, Kaiga hurried over with an anxious look on his face. He walked directly in front of Gruer and whispered something to him.
Not long after, Gruer's face changed drastically, and the expression on his face became serious.
This scene was accurately seen by the surrounding nobles attending the banquet.
"Your Highness, is there something urgent?"
In front of Gruer, a handsome middle-aged noble with a flawless etiquette asked, seeing all the changes in Gruer's expression.
"It's nothing big."
Soon, Gruer reacted, and a familiar smile appeared on his face again: "Everyone, please enjoy the banquet here, I'll go outside to greet an important guest."
After saying this, with a smile on his face, he turned around and left, walking straight towards the outside world.
Staying in place, looking at Gruer's departing figure, Adil pondered for a moment, feeling the familiar aura coming from the outside world. A moment later, with a smile on his face, he stepped forward and slowly followed Gruer out.
The distance between the banquet and the gate of the manor was not too far. In just a moment, in the outside world, a figure slowly walked in from the outside world.
It was an old man wearing a dark robe, with dense black lines engraved on his face. At this moment, he was walking towards the center of the banquet surrounded by a group of people.
This man looked very old, the skin on his whole body had shriveled, and his old face was full of wrinkles, but he had a kind of amiable and faint influence, making people unconsciously get close to this old man when they see him, and slowly have a good impression of him.
He just walked in from the outside, and as he walked, the unique aura on his body bloomed, accompanied by his white hair fluttering.
Greeting the old man walking out, Gruer quickly smiled and hurriedly bowed to him: "Bishop Cudoni, why have you come in person …"
Hearing this address, Adil, who was at the back, came to a realization.
Cudoni was one of the three bishops of the Dark Church in the Kingdom of Tamru. In theory, he was one of the highest leaders of the Dark Church and represented the highest power in the Dark Church.
Even Gruul's father, the sick King Tamru, had to abide by etiquette and show the greatest respect to a person of this level, let alone a prince like Gruul.
"Because of some matters, I need to make a trip to Thamu City. When I heard the news about you, I decided to come and take a look …"
Cudoni looked very harmonious and serene. He didn't have the slightest bit of arrogance and indifference. Instead, he revealed a unique affinity that made people involuntarily trust him.
This was the influence of one's nature and heart, as well as the effect of divine arts and divine power.
To worship and serve the gods, one had to offer everything they had to the gods they served. During this process, one's spirit and will would gradually draw closer to the gods they served, slowly gaining a bit of divinity and transforming into another form.
If the gods they believed in were evil, then the priests would also be evil. If the gods they served were good, then the priests would also be good.
This point would continue to deepen as the strength of the priests became stronger. If it reached the extreme, it would be the legendary realm and level of a saint on earth who was with the gods.
As a bishop, Cudoni's strength was already far above that of ordinary priests. His understanding of the path of serving the gods was also far from what ordinary people could compare to. The essence of his soul had already begun to move closer to the god he believed in. In his speech and actions, he naturally revealed a little extraordinary essence. It made people feel close to him, yet it also made people feel noble and unattainable, making them feel admiration from the bottom of their hearts.
All of this was a natural process. Even Gruul, the prince of the kingdom, couldn't help but sigh in his heart when facing such a devout believer who had embarked on the path of transformation. He couldn't help but be affected by it.
"The so-called path of transformation of priests is really amazing …"
Standing in place in Silence, feeling the lofty essence of the old man in front of him, Adil couldn't help but sigh, feeling unprecedentedly curious about this path.
"This is the knight who escorted you back safely from the south."
While Adil was thinking about this, the old man's gaze had already shifted from Gruul and slowly fell on him.
He looked at Adil with a kind smile on his face. Silence looked at Adil with some appreciation.
Inexplicably, Adil felt a strange feeling. At this moment, it was as if his heart had been stabbed, and there was a very uncomfortable feeling.
"Dear Bishop Cudoni … you are more dignified than I thought."
In front of Gruul, Adil didn't show much hesitation and directly lowered his body to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.
"Young knight, you're flattering me."
Cudoni had a smile on his face as he looked at Adil in front of him. At this moment, he maintained a kind and amiable smile on his face, like a kind old man next door, or an elder who knows you very well, patiently teaching you: "I'm just an ordinary old man. Every time I see you young people, I feel that my youth is getting further and further away from me …"
He sighed softly, his words were filled with deep emotion, lamenting that he didn't have much time left.
The corners of Adil's mouth twitched slightly. Listening to the old man's words, he really wanted to speak at this moment.
Although the old shaman looked old and decayed, there was a strong life force supporting him from the inside of his body. According to Adil's senses, the old shaman might look slow and sluggish on most days, but in terms of endurance, he might have lived longer than some of the Silver-tier knights.
In front of Gruul, Adil didn't intend to expose the other party, and could only continue to respond with a blank face.
Fortunately, after a few words with him, Cudoni seemed to lose interest in him, and soon shifted his attention from him to Gruul, allowing Adil to hide at the side and remain silent.
Retreating from the conversation center, Adil raised his head and looked at Gruul and Cudoni, who were constantly talking in front of him. They seemed to be talking very happily, as if they were two old friends. He couldn't help but secretly shake his head and prepared to stay in that corner.
The waiting time was naturally very boring. Adil closed his eyes and pretended to sleep for a while, but then he had to open his eyes again and look at a corner in the distance.
There, a somewhat unique gaze was staring at him. There was a little bit of hostility in it, and that kind of emotion was so blatant that Adil couldn't help but notice it. He couldn't help but open his eyes and look in that direction.
When he opened his eyes and looked, two pairs of eyes instantly met.
Adil opened his eyes and looked, only to see in the crowd in the distance, a little girl wearing a black robe with dark patterns painted on her face, who also looked like a Dusk Priest was standing there. At this moment, she was staring at him with a pair of eyes, and there was a hint of hostility in her expression.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Adil always felt that this little girl was a little familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before, and it was not long ago.
"It's the street that day …"
After a moment, a flash of understanding flashed in Adil's eyes, and he remembered the source of this feeling of déjà vu.
During the first few days in Tham City, Adil had wandered around the city. During those days, there were many people staring at him, and one of them was this little girl.
After that day, Adil no longer appeared on the street, so he didn't see this girl again. It took him a while to remember her appearance.
The little girl looked cute, and she looked to be about 14 or 15 years old. She had a pair of somewhat round little faces with some redness, and it seemed that she had drunk some wine.
She stood there from afar and stared at Adil. She was wearing a black robe unique to Dusk Priests, and from her attire, she should be a Probationary Priest.
Standing in the distance, the girl obviously didn't realize that she had been discovered by Adil. At this moment, she was still staring at him with her fists tightly clenched, and the faint hostility in her eyes was very obvious.
In the same place, Adil thought for a while, and first looked to the side.
On a large table on the side, Gruul and Cudoni were still chatting there, and their words and actions seemed to be in sync. No matter what they thought in their hearts, at least on the surface, they still seemed to be in sync.
Looking at this scene, Adil secretly shook his head. After lowering his head to think, he picked up his wine glass and slowly walked into the distance.
"What are you looking at?"
A unique voice sounded. In the corner of the ball, Adil walked to the girl and asked softly.
Ah?
Hearing the voice, the girl was obviously stunned. When she turned around and saw Adil, she was even more stunned, as if she didn't expect him to appear in front of her.
"You …"
She was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect this scene to happen.
"Dusk Church's Priest …"
Looking at the girl who was stunned in front of him, Adil revealed a smile on his face. He didn't talk nonsense and went straight to the point, "You seem to have some opinions about me?"
"Bad guy!" Seeming to have thought of something, the girl's face suddenly became agitated, and her pair of big eyes stared at Adil, making Adil a little inexplicable.
"Bad guy?" Adil shook his head, and the smile on his face didn't change, "I indeed can't be called a good person, but to say that I'm a bad guy doesn't seem to be right …"
"I don't seem to have … offended you in any way, right?"
"You injured Uncle Hill, if you aren't a bad guy, then what are you!" Seeming to have thought of something, the way the girl looked at Adil became more and more strange, as if she was looking at a potential enemy, ready to attack at any time.
Although she was just a probationary priest, the girl also had a lot of combat power, at least compared to ordinary people, she was also a lot stronger.
"Hill, huh." Hearing this name, Adil's eyes flashed a trace of understanding.
Hill, this is the Dusk Church's priest who seemed to stop Adil from leaving when Adil and Gruul first met.
At that time, in order to successfully leave with Gruul, Adil forced his way out of the Dusk Church's divine spell, leaving quite a big impression on the Dusk Church.
The divine spell was forcefully broken by Adil, so the Dusk Church must have suffered a lot of backlash, and was probably still in a state of serious injury.
After calming down, Adil's expression returned to normal, and he looked at the little girl in front of him and continued to ask, "What happened to him in the end?"
That day, after Adil left the city, the city located at the border of the Kingdom of Veruba was subsequently massacred by Orff, and the church of the Dusk Church was among them. No one knew what happened to them in the end.
In front of Adil, the little girl directly turned her head to the side, it seemed that she did not want to answer Adil's question at all.
"Hill, he's fine." A gentle female voice came from afar. The voice was gentle and kind, giving off a warm feeling.
A beautiful woman with a delicate appearance, wearing a simple robe, came from afar. Her face was also painted with the Dusk Church's unique runes, and her robe was loose, completely covering her seductive figure. She looked very plain.
She smiled from afar, and first patted the little girl's head, "Kiddy, you're being stubborn again."
After speaking to the little girl, she turned around and looked at Adil with an apologetic expression, "I'm sorry for the child's attitude, please forgive me."
"It's okay." Adil shook his head, not really caring about it, "Compared to this, I'm more interested in what happened in the city after I left that day."
"This is a bit complicated …" The woman went into a daze for a while, then soon after, she smiled and said, "After you left that day, the remaining believers of the Massacre God set up the Massacre Domain in the city, and everyone in the city was massacred."
"Because Zim and the others were in the city, they did not die on the spot even though they were under the protection of the main god's territory. However, they were seriously injured and almost died on the spot."
"This is also the reason why this child was hostile to you before."
She patted the little girl's head and said, "She is Hill's adopted child, and Hill is her father …"
"I can understand." Adil nodded calmly, "In fact, I'm also very sorry about what happened that day …"
"We should be the ones who are sorry …" The woman lowered her head and bowed to Adil, "What Hill and the others did that day was wrong in itself. It was an operation organized by the radical faction within the church."
"The power of the church shouldn't be used to interfere with the country's internal affairs. Once they did that, they won no matter what happens to them."
As she spoke, she raised her hand and revealed a faint smile. Together with her appearance, she gave off a very quiet feeling, "Here, I apologize to you on their behalf."
Adil nodded silently, feeling that it didn't matter to him.
Adil nodded silently, feeling that it didn't matter to him.
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