316 Blooming Liu Li (1/2)

If you randomly stopped a man and asked him, what is the Priory of Zion, the answer would mostly be a bewildered face.

Even within Holy Light Religion, the Priory of Zion was not a widely spread secret. Among the present thousands of priests and holy knights, only less than half of them knew the meaning of it.

Simply speaking, it was a group of rebels lurking inside the church. They similarly believed in Holy Light, but not of one heart with the church. On the surface, they obeyed the rules of the church, but secretly, they plotted to overturn it. The official view of the church was that the Priory of Zion was a group of shameless unbelievers. Although they could use the Holy Light, they were actually the church’s biggest enemy. However, the Priory of Zion has been around for a long time. For those familiar with the inside story, the Priory of Zion meant that the current dominant voice within the church was not as upright and righteous as they were previously. Perhaps the sea of holy light was paramount, but its human spokesperson was obviously not.

Of course, at least on the surface, the Priory of Zion was still the sworn enemy of Holy Light Religion, the largest illegal organization. For any member of Priory of Zion, there was no reason for the church member to reason with them—upon meeting, they have to be immediately eliminated.

”You said the Archbishop is a member of the Priory of Zion, what evidence do you have?” A priest who had always respected and loved the Archbishop loudly asked.

When Faceless One first claimed that Archbishop and Holy Woman had become traitors, he was skeptical. But now, claiming that Archbishop was a member of the Priory of Zion was simply too much for him, moreover… how would people believe an evidence-less slander?

”Evidence? Since Rowan himself is present, why don’t you let him produce the evidence himself? Rowan, why don’t you reveal your believer heart so that everyone can take a look? If you’re not a member of that secret organization, I will immediately commit suicide in front of you, how about it?”

Faceless One laughed, pulled out a pen and drew a warm smile on his face.

”Oh, Rowan, as long as you show us your believer heart, if I have wronged you, my believer heart will collapse, and I will die before you. I am a man of my word and can make a vow to prove it. So, now it’s up to you.”

All eyes turned toward Rowan.

If he was just mysteriously being questioned, asking to prove himself innocent, Rowan might scold back by saying: ”I don’t need to prove my faith to a devil.” His decades of devotion was enough to win the trust of the people. However, Faceless One has launched a high-pressure policy, which forced the Archbishop and the Holy Woman. His method was radical and even sinister that he even questioned Rowan’s believer heart.

However, now the situation was not the same. By using his life as a guarantee, Rowan could only comply. He had previously proclaimed exaggeratedly Faceless One as the root of all evils and as long as Faceless One was eliminated, the world would be at peace. Then how could he not use this extremely effortless method to eliminate Faceless One?

Rowan had no choice at all.

Facing the gaze of thousands of people, Rowan sighed. ”Ah, you’re indeed worthy to be the sharpest knife of Holy City. I don’t think that anyone has ever discovered this secret for years.”

While talking, Rowan opened his heart. A bright white light appeared on his chest, and a white-golden shaped matter appeared. That was Rowan’s believer heart.

At the same time, bouts of astonished cries echoed one after the other inside and outside Dragon City.

His believer heart was dazzlingly pure and bright, symbolizing Rowan’s unwavering faith in the Holy Light. As the Archbishop of the parish, Rowan’s faith was undoubtedly firm and pious. However, on that believer heart, there was a deep mark, as if it was an ugly scar, that extraordinarily caught everyone’s attention.

This mark was exactly the thing that triggered those countless exclamations, because it was the symbol of the Priory of Zion!

Faceless One was right, the man who had served the church for decades was actually the greatest traitor of the church.

After his greatest secret has been exposed, the Archbishop seemed remarkably calm. He lightly withdrew his believer heart, put on his robe back and then said, ”I knew that the church was hopeless since Jean d’Arc was burned at the stake eighty years ago. A Holy Woman who saved millions of believers was vilified as a heretic, while at the same time, church’s top leaders were immersed in Golden King’s Treasure House in Taobao City, and even refused to look back at the evil that was happening behind them! Although afterward they posthumously awarded her as a Saintess, they actually forbid the deed of Jean d’Arc to spread. Instead, they constantly erased her influence, making the world forget her existence in order to cover up their own mistakes! Incidentally, the two Holy One who passed the sentence and carried out the execution of the Saintess did not receive any investigation for their mistakes. They did something wrong and killed the wrong people, but they went unpunished. How could such a church not be questioned?”

There was nothing impassioned with the tone of those words. After decades of that secret being stuffed inside his heart, once he poured them out, Rowan was neither happy nor sad.

Because everything didn’t matter. He had seen Jean d’Arc once again, so even if he immediately died, even if it brought ruin and shame upon himself, so what? It was just that, unfortunately, in his last moment of life, he was not able to achieve the expectation of the Holy Saintess. This war could not be calmed down by himself alone.

”Hahaha, what an emotionally touching speech, an apostate can really rebel so wonderfully, what else can you say? What a pity, if you don’t enter the Priory of Zion, and thus bring ruin and shame upon yourself as an Archbishop, your previous words do have some persuasive power. But now, what I heard instead was just a raving of an apostate. Holy Light believers, there are only two paths before you, either being compassionate and side with the apostate, or use the sword in your hand to prove your faith.”

As soon as he finished, Faceless One began to become transparent and then disappeared, reabsorbed back into his real body, and continued to press Bedivere. However, on the battlefield, the atmosphere began to change rapidly.