Iron Powder and Spellcaster

[Old camp of Wenduoerbu]

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"[Herd] Old man, I'll tell you the truth."

Winters, who had a black eye, sat on the camp bed with a straight face and stared at the tall and thin old man under the tent:

"[Hede] Compared with someone harming you, old man, I don't understand why you are being harmed now. Your Ayinle is too small and cannot cross the river in the wilderness; your Ayinle is too weak and cannot be stopped. The plunder of tribes.”

Winters' eyes were so intense that the tall, thin old man did not dare to move his eyes towards his face.

He asked seriously: "[Hidden] tell me, why are your herds taken away now?"

"[Hede language] My Ayinle is too poor and not worth shooting with arrows." The tall and thin old man said.

"There are always poorer tribes on the grasslands than you."

"[Hidden] The poor will not harm me, but the nobles are cold-blooded."

Winters pondered for a moment, glanced at Father Carman beside him, and asked bluntly: "[Hudian] Do you recognize 'Saul'?"

"[Hidden] What...'Saul'?" The tall, thin old man was extremely confused.

…

After the order led the tall and thin old man down, Winters looked at Kaman and frowned slightly: "The more I ask, the weirder I feel. Is this old man related to your Reform Order?"

"I'm not..." Kaman retorted instinctively, but he had corrected Winters so many times today that he was too lazy to waste any more words, so he shook his head and changed his words: "I don't know."

"You don't know?" Winters frowned, crossed his arms, and squinted at Kaman with only his right eye - because his left eye was swollen to the point of leaving only a slit - looking extremely funny.

However, Kaman only felt that Winters' eyes were full of contempt and ridicule for the perpetrator, which not only made him feel guilty, but also made him furious.

Just when Kaman had the uncontrollable idea of ​​punching the wolfdog's intact eye again, Winters sighed.

"It seems that you are really unsure." Winters wiped the tears from his left eye and asked puzzledly: "Didn't this old man get any 'results' from communicating with you? Is it because the translation is not good? Wait until the banquet is over. , I’ll ask Bell to translate for you, why don’t you go talk to him again?”

"No need." Kaman refused: "I already know everything I need to know."

Winters was startled for a moment, then feigned anger and slapped his thigh: "Then you should tell me!"

After some inner struggle, Kaman finally decided that the old man Hurd’s matter did not involve the oath of secrecy, so he told the truth:

"The thing is, I found something right in his beliefs, but...but there was also something totally wrong..."

"What are the correct things and what are the incorrect things? You religious guys are really convoluted!" Winters mercilessly poked the lid of the pot that Kaman was unwilling to open and asked straight to the point:

"Are you trying to say that what the old man believes in is not purely the way of the Huds? It's a bit like the Catholic Church, but it's not entirely the Catholic Church either?"

For the sake of half of Winters's swollen eyes, Kaman replied with a sigh of relief: "Yes, the...'thing' that the old man believed in, whether it was rituals or doctrines, had the shadow of Catholicism. When I When I spoke to him of heaven and hell, original sin and sacrifice, judgment and resurrection, he soon understood everything I said..."

Winters listened attentively, nodded frequently, and encouraged Kaman to continue.

Although Kaman became more and more reluctant as he spoke, for the sake of one eye, he continued to explain: "But his beliefs are mixed with many impurities of the Hedian paganism. They believe in the omniscient and omnipotent Supreme Heaven and the Son of the Supreme Heaven. , their 'mass' is presided over by their 'shaman', they use mare's milk instead of wine, and milk residue instead of unleavened bread..."

Kaman bit his lip and whispered: "And these are just appearances - I don't know how much of the 'things' he believes in are ours and how many pagan 'things' are there. Want to do something Clearly, one must talk to their 'shaman'."

"What?" Winters raised his eyebrows: "Isn't that old man a 'clergyman'?"

"No." Kaman shook his head: "He is just a 'lay believer'."

"It's similar, but not exactly the same." Winters thought for a moment and suddenly laughed. He stood up, happily put his arm around Kaman's shoulders, and asked with a smile: "Isn't this the thing you hate the most?"

Kaman's face turned green and white for a while. He pushed away the wolf's paw and asked angrily: "What do you know again? This... is different, do you understand? Different situations, different sentences; different targets , different treatment methods; different identifications at different times..."

Kaman never mentioned the word "heresy" in one sentence, but he never strayed from that word, which made Winters want to laugh.

"Okay, okay, I don't understand." Winters raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, but said unforgivingly: "Then how are you sure that this matter is not the work of the Reformation Order? Isn't your Reformation Order the favorite? Is it okay to dress up as a ‘barbarian’, sneak into the ‘barbarian country’, and study the ‘barbarian’ magic?”

"I told you, you don't understand at all!" Kaman retorted angrily: "The mission of the Reformation Order has never included preaching!"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Kaman immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly added: "Of course, spreading the gospel on the earth is the mission of every believer, but the Reform Order has a better way to serve the Lord."

After hearing this, Winters joked: "So, the 'pope' who excommunicated the Reform Order must be a nostalgic person who prefers a more traditional way of service. It seems that the service of the Reform Order is not Very approved?”

Kaman didn't find it interesting at all. He kept to himself and said: "More importantly, I am sure that the doctrines that the old man believes in are also heretical for the monks of the Reform Order."

"What? There are still heretics?" Winters became interested, sat back on the camp bed, adjusted to a comfortable position, and then patted the bed: "Sit down and speak slowly."

Kaman ignored Winters and asked directly: "Do you remember the murals in the Wolf Town Church?"

Winters was speechless: "How could you not remember?"

The memories of the past were suddenly recalled, flooding into my mind like a tide, as if it was just yesterday, and it seemed like it was already another world.

"Is that the mural that Brother Red said was the work of a heretic?" Winters sighed softly: "It has been destroyed by the turmoil."

"Yes, that's the mural." Kaman's voice was cold and deep: "Do you know what era that mural is from?"

"I don't know." Winters shook his head.

"I don't know either." Kaman said seriously: "No one knows!"

Winters spread his hands to indicate that he was listening.

Kaman explained quickly: "The church in Wolf Town was expanded on the basis of the old chapel. The wall with the mural is the wall of the old chapel. And when was the old chapel built? No. People know.

"Bishop Gevaudan believed that the old chapel was built by immigrants, but I asked Mr. Mitchell that when they immigrated to Wolf Town, the old chapel was already standing there. Even because of the existence of the old chapel, That’s why Wolftown is where it is now.”

Winters digested what Kaman said as quickly as possible, thinking about the history that Brother Saul had told him, and asked: "Are you trying to say that the old man's 'Order' originated from the 'First The Great Break'.

"No, it's earlier than that." Kaman looked incomprehensible: "Even for the heretics of the first great rupture, the old man's beliefs are heresies. If I guess correctly, his sect Like the mural, it can all be traced back to the Arian sect that was suppressed after Dalek II promulgated the [Edict of Mia]..."

Kaman paused: "That was a thousand years ago."

[The summary of this chapter is in Chapter 26 [Gold Bars and Drawings] of Volume 2, Chapter 13 [Oath] and Chapter 14 [Divinity] of Volume 4]

[It is very common and natural for "heresies" that are not accepted by mainstream sects to spread their wings in the fringe areas where the influence of mainstream sects is weak. This is true of Arians, and so is Sufism. However, this book only borrows the name of the Arian sect and the experience of the Arian sect, nothing more]

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