A strange world

Chapter 1028 Section 259. Annan, the Guardian of the Kingdom

Free City does not have a guardian church, or rather, there is no church in Free City at present.

The reason is... the "Temple of the Gods" inspired by Annan is too shocking.

The Order Camp thinks that putting all the gods into one temple is too chaotic, while the Chaos Camp thinks that putting all the gods into one temple is too orderly, so they have never been so united to resist a thing together.

If Annan was not popular in Middle-earth, if the believers who lost contact with the gods were not so anxious, if Annan had not been fighting on the front line of human resistance to alien races, that group of fanatics would have launched a holy war long ago.

Even the Empire felt that Annan was too barbaric, and sent people to persuade him that the gods were only temporarily out of contact, and might return, at least wait a few years...

Unlike chaos, the way chaos solves problems is to create chaos, and in the eyes of the Order camp, Annan is an object that can be won over and can be "ordered", so the Guardian Church of Seltovis did not hesitate to answer Olmedo's questions.

The one left in the church dungeon was the priest of the Doom Girl - the Iron Girl did not lie about this.

In the year 999 of the Saint Laurent calendar, when the gods completely lost contact, countless churches on the Allen continent fell into chaos. In order to reconnect with each other's gods, the believers tried every means to start a war.

The Order camp would still care about the turmoil caused by actions, but the Chaos camp had no scruples. They implemented countless methods, including but not limited to sacrificing a city to please the gods, slaughtering a certain race, letting the entire principality sink into carnival and enjoyment, and hunting hostile churches.

The followers of the Doom Girl are one of the "unscrupulous" ones. They spread bad luck everywhere, trying to make the girl of bad luck pay attention to them again.

Louise is the name of the priestess. She is in charge of the entire Kingdom of Rekanel. The kingdom was not so bad at that time...or rather, it had not been discovered to be so bad. In order to eliminate Louise and her men, the Guardian Church paid a lot of price.

Something happened later, which deepened the contradiction between the church and the kingdom. The Guardian Church gave up operating in the kingdom, and Louise was deliberately left to the kingdom.

"They also said that since we asked this, it means we met her. Stay away from her, the farther the better. The followers of the girl of bad luck are full of misfortune. Once she escapes, the whole New King will be captured by bad luck, and even those who killed them will suffer unexpectedly, so the church just seals her up."

From this point of view, Annan not only cannot use her, but also has to continue to seal her so that bad luck will not break out in the New King.

But continuous sealing is not good either...the people in the church said that the longer the seal is, the more resentment the priest will accumulate, and the more violent it will be when it breaks out.

After all, the priest is the leading figure of the church, the person in charge of a kingdom, and a big figure who can contact the gods before the turmoil of the gods. Even if he has no magic, he is still difficult to provoke.

The Guardian Church left a big trouble, but not for the new capital, but for Annan.

He could almost imagine what kind of nightmare the people living in the hard-working new capital would suffer when the resentment of the Iron Girl erupted...

"Does the Guardian Church have more information about the Iron Girl... Louise?"

"I'll ask again."

Soon after, Annan opened the portal, and Olmedo said that the church didn't know much. They only knew that many believers in the Doom Church were orphans.

Annan thought: "Did Aunt Susan cook?"

...

Later, Annan came to the deepest part of the dungeon with an apple pie.

The magic lamp hanging on the prison door still exuded a comfortable halo. Annan hesitated outside the door for a while, thinking that the prison door could not prevent any bad luck, so he opened the prison door and walked in.

Maybe it was because the ground was wet, or maybe it was because the grass absorbed water. Annan slipped on the wet grass and only had time to lift the apple pie to prevent it from falling out.

His back hit the cold ground hard, making it difficult for Annan to breathe.

The malicious detection and magic shield of the wizard robe were not activated. It was an accident... just an accident...

"Are you okay..." Maria rushed over with a cry.

"Don't come in--"

It was too late. Maria slipped and fell backwards just as she approached Annan. The tail hidden in the uniform fell out, and was lifted up with her legs and placed on Annan's chest.

Can elite ratmen also fall? This time it must not be an accident...

Annan pulled the tail beside his head away, lay on the ground for a while, and was pulled up by Maria.

"Fortunately, I didn't fall on the apple pie..." Annan checked the intact and steaming apple pie, exhaled, and walked to the iron girl on thin ice, ignoring the wet grass on the back of his head, and put it aside.

"Aunt Susan made apple pie. Martin and I love it the most. Do you want to try it?"

The Iron Girl didn't move. Annan guessed that she was shy and left the cell with Maria.

As for the cell door... it seemed useless to lock it. Those who stayed in the Purification Court were all executioners with their hands stained with the blood of the Free Blade. Annan didn't feel bad about losing them.

After activating the Cleansing Spell to make the uniforms outside look brand new, Annan and Maria left the dungeon and did business first.

Sheriff Milburn should have received the news, but he didn't expect Annan to really attack him.

So when Annan led the people of the Purification Court to surround the manor of Sheriff Milburn, he was still in the city guards before they arrived.

Sheriff Milburn arrived late, only to see the outside surrounded by nearby residents, his family being controlled, property piled up next to him, and several victims who had just escaped from the dungeon of the manor.

"Mr. Olmer, I have never offended you." Sheriff Milburn's face was so gloomy that water could drip out.

"Bar, do you know?" Annan glanced at the victims who were festering all over their bodies, "The king's cousin, the Marquis, has never offended me either, but he is imprisoned in the dungeon of the Purification Court and is ready to be hanged."

"You..."

"Milburn Brito!"

Annan's cold shout choked Sheriff Milburn.

"I arrest you for colluding with the Free Blade, corruption, privately setting up dungeons, and imprisoning people of the kingdom!"

"... Free Blade? I didn't!"

Annan knew he would quibble, and pushed Buster out calmly.

"Do you still recognize him?"

The moment he saw him, Sheriff Milburn's face was ashen.

"This Freeblade has confessed that he accepted your bribe... What else do you have to say?"

"I was... an undercover agent."

"Undercover agent?" Annan looked at Buster.

"My lord, he is lying to you! He gave us a bag of gold coins and asked us to develop in Hot Street!"

Burster blamed Sheriff Milburn for what Annan did.

Sheriff Milburn stopped quibbling because he knew that it was not important to prove his innocence. Young Master Olme just wanted to kill him...

"Why!?" He stared at Annan in anger and confusion.

"Because I am an official of the kingdom, and any act of betrayal will be brought to justice!"

I don't know who started to applaud first, and applause and cheers gradually sounded around.