289 Seizing the Chance (1/2)
Chapter 289: Seizing the Chance
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
The creepy smile on the clown mask never changed, but the voice coming from behind it was rather deep, ”Not really. Lucien Evans seemed to be quite frank and open with why he sent the message to Granneuve using Grace. Maybe he's not the one we are looking for.”
”You really think so? He is the only one we can investigate right now who is directly related to Professor,” said the battle priest, Juliana, who lowered her head in dismay and held some of her black hair in her hand unconsciously.
Professor was just a code name, and it had not been used much anymore. If they lost the clue here, they had to rely on using the spies in the Congress of Magic to steal files for them, which the grand cardinals would never allow them to, since it was such a waste of resourses.
Minsk, the Red Dragon, growled like a real dragon: ”Impossible! Lucian Evans for sure has something to do with Professor! At least he knows who Professor is! Professor first appeared because there were apprentices asking him information. Then Professor dragged us into the fight against Argent Horn. He killed the traitor, and also, Lucien Evans' uncle and aunt were rescued. During Lucien's absence, Professor never showed up again…”
Hearing Minsk's words, both Juliana and Lend slightly shook their heads. Minsk was just trying to justify his opinion, and what he said was not completely true. For example, after killing the traitor, Professor had already never showed up, and Lucien left Aalto almost half a year later.
”Although Minsk's reasoning isn't that persuading, we shall not forget the message from Djibouti parish. Felipe and Professor, the two famous men on the Cleansing List, once showed up together on the land once possessed by Wilfred,” said Clown.
Before, the Church did not know about the Feast of Death. However, the fact that Felipe forced his way through Storm Strait leading a whole bunch of sorcerers pissed the Church off, and they also noticed that they were all necromancers following the ancient magic system, thus the Church started to intensively investigate the area once possessed by Wilfred, since it was the only place that could gather so many necromancers.
Even if Felipe did good preparation before they set off, facing the Church's focused searching, finally a magic apprentice was caught by the Night Watch. Therefore, although the Inquisition
failed to get the name list for the Feast of Death, they still got the basic information from the apprentice—there were two famous men attending the event. One was Hand of Rehabilitation, and the other was Professor.
Involving two men on the Cleansing List, Djibouti parish sent the information to the Holy City, Lance. Then, the cardinal in charge passed on the message to all the parishes and inquisitions.
”Others may not know, but we've been watching Lucien Evans for so long! He was in Djibouti at the same time, exactly in the Wilfred area! That was the exact time when Professor attended the Feast of Death!” Clown raised his voice angrily, ”But when we reported this to the Violet Inquisition, they did not care at all! They said that there was not enough evidence, and they even did not bother doing some investigation! Don't you know why?”
”I think, like the inquisitor said, the biggest chance should be that the princess sent Professor to protect Lucien Evans on the way,” said Lend, the Devil Hunter Knight, who was not as emotive as Clown.
A parish's inquisition had three main positions—Executer, Censor and Arbiter. However, powerful parishes, in order to control all the inquisitions, always sent a cardinal to each inquisition, who was the one who really got the power.
Minsk growled, ”Plus all the coincidences? If Lucian Evans doesn't have anything to do with the Professor, I'm willing to be sent to hell! Lend, I'm telling you… those people in the inquisition do not want to piss off the princess… that's why. Princess Natasha was a faithful follower, the future duchess of Violet, an important weight in balancing the power between the nobles and the Church! The inquisition just won't investigate her sweet lover just because a middle-rank mage killed some useless night watchers!”
”You tell me, Lend… Have you forgotten Salvador's death? He died on his way saving Natasha, and his body was reduced to ashes!” said Clown with a sad voice, ”At that time, only a few grand knights were chasing after Natasha. Salvador could fly, and he had powerful divine items, but he was just killed like that, before anyone could come to help. Guess who he met at that time, and who killed him?”
The muscles of Lend's face twitched a bit and he buried his head. ”I don't know.”
Hearing Clown's words, Juliana was the saddest one among all the night watchers. She sobbed, ”No inquisition cares. Our leader, a level five pastor died, and no one ever tried to investigate this thoroughly. The princess was only imprisoned for three years. The life of a devoted guard of God only deserve that? I chose to be a night watcher because of the sentence in the Canon—at the foot of God's throne, all his devoted lambs shall be equal. But now… I finally realized that lambs are never equal… Although I'd still rather believe that this isn't the will of God.”
Hearing that, while crossing in front of their chest, they all prayed, ”Only truth lives forever.” The way Clown and Minsk drew the cross was closer to the classic cross before the Saint Calendar.
”Next, what should we do with Lucien Evans?” Lend calmed down a bit after praying.
Clown turned around to look at Lend. ”We directly attack Lucien Evans to see if he's a sorcerer or not.”
”What?!” Lend did not expect Clown to be this crazy, ”This would annoy Natasha so bad. Right now she is a radiant knight with the well-known title, the Sword of Adjudication! And the Blue Tide, Camil, always follows her around. The two can directly destroy the entire Night Watch in the duchy, and the inquisition is not going to protect us for sure…”
After becoming a radiant knight, Natasha also got her own honor title.