Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

Chapter 332 Velino Bakar

After bidding farewell to Archbishop Sid and leaving the "Noble Temple", Luo Xiu went straight to the "Sacred Reserve" to obtain a sacred material of "epic" quality.

After two days, he could borrow the altar of the main church to preside over the sacred ceremony of resurrecting the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus...and during these two days, he was quietly waiting for Archbishop Sid's summons again.

At that time, the [Glorious] saints who are recuperating, such as Columbator and Evans, will make a formal report to the Archbishop.

Luo Xiu then went to the "Healing Place", went to his room, and soaked in the new, steaming "Holy Spring" for a while.

After almost recovering from the remaining injuries on his body, he changed into regular clothes and left the church. He went to his main residence in Songyuan City and returned to the "Wolf Hunter Tavern" to rest.

…

Wolfhound Tavern.

Originally, at this time, Isaac, the "Knight of the Throne", was either sitting on a small bench in the courtyard watching the wind, or shouting and playing chess in the room, but he was not in the courtyard at this time.

When Luo Xiu first stepped into the courtyard of the tavern, he saw another "Knight of the Throne" Blueyere wearing black and red armor, holding a helmet like a gladiator in his left hand, striding towards the courtyard door.

"Good morning, Luo Xiu!"

Blueyere also saw Luo Xiu at a glance, so he came over and greeted him roughly: "You haven't come back all day. Brother Isaac said that you were on a mission. I am quite worried about you."

"I heard - there was a huge pit outside Songyuan City. Is that what you did?"

"Good morning, Old Knight Blueyere." Luo Xiu smiled at him and responded, "That's right. Are you ready to go out?"

"I was preparing to go to the 'Hall of the Round Table' when the Marquis issued an urgent call for us retired knights of the throne."

Blueyere said: "I heard that it was to reinforce the war in the Kuma Territory - hey, brother Isaac has gone ahead."

"That's it." Luo Xiu nodded, "Then I wish you good luck."

"Haha! Good luck to you too." Bluyere came over with a smile, raised his hand and patted Luo Xiu on the shoulder, and then strode out of the courtyard.

Isaac and Blueyere had already left, and the door of the tavern was unlocked. Luo Xiu walked in and went up to his room on the third floor.

And just in the room, Luo Xiu saw another plush, familiar white figure——

Intis, who has transformed into a two-tailed civet, is lying lazily on the windowsill. It wasn't until Luo Xiu pushed the door open and walked in that it turned its head, its green eyes looking in the direction of its "Lord".

Puff-Puff - Intis cat jumped off the window sill, and landed steadily and lightly on its four feet on the carpet-covered ground. Then there was a burst of mist, and it returned to its human form.

"Lord." Intis first paid the servant salute to the Lord, and then said softly:

"The mission you assigned has been completed."

"The illegitimate son of the Marquis, 'Velino Bakar', who is now the judge of the Department of Justice, 'Velia Loggins', I and several compatriots from the 'Sacred Abyss' have already locked in of his whereabouts.”

"Tell me about it." Luo Xiu took off his robe, walked to the bed and sat down, looking at Intis with gentle eyes.

"Okay, Lord."

Intis nodded and then said:

"Indeed, as the Bronze Knight Hodwell said, the illegitimate son lives in Loggins Mansion."

"His mother - as you said, his mother was a maid in the army, and about twenty years ago, she married a wealthy local businessman, 'Onglai Loggins' '.

"Therefore, Velino, who was only about eleven or twelve years old at the time, became the adopted son of the wealthy businessman 'Onglai Logins'. However, Angolai had no bloodline heirs, so he was He adopted him as his biological son and named him 'Vilia Logins'."

"The wealthy businessman Anglet also made a will at the Department of Law, stating that after his death, all his property will be inherited to him."

"And just fourteen years ago - probably when the illegitimate son had just reached adulthood, the wealthy businessman Anglet was suddenly assassinated. When he was discovered, his body had been quartered, with his head, upper body and lower body thrown away separately. Three mansions in Anglet.”

"Because Anglet had a high influence in the business world, and his death was too strange, it caused quite a stir in society and even the Department of Justice at the time. At that time, Lord Gawain personally ordered Thoroughly investigate the murderer.”

The murderer Lord Gawain investigated... Luo Xiu had a thoughtful expression on his face. In his estimation, Gawain was only fifteen or sixteen years old at that time.

And that Lord probably still doesn’t know that ‘Vilia Logins’ is his half-brother…

But the Marquis of Vizia obviously knew - he might even have sent people to investigate the cause of death of the wealthy businessman Anglet. He also specifically asked Gawain to investigate, and it was intentional -

He wants to take this opportunity to let Gawain, who has just entered [Supreme], establish meritorious deeds? This can be regarded as the road paved in advance by the father for his children... Thinking of this, Luo Xiu then listened to Intis say:

"Afterwards, Lord Gawain quickly identified the murderer - according to the final investigation results announced by the Department of Law, they characterized the assassination of the wealthy businessman Anglet as a vicious incident committed by pagans, and the reason for doing so was to trigger social of confusion.”

"So, the Department of Justice, together with the General Church of [Glorious] and the General Church of [Wisdom], launched a large-scale cleanup of dozens of pagan strongholds in Songyuan City. According to those who had witnessed the scene at that time, Songyuan City at that time was a complete bloodbath..."

"The various forces that were originally secret organizations were naturally hit hard by this."

"And in the Department of Justice of [Supreme], a few Supremes took advantage of this incident to attack political opponents. They slandered their political opponents as traitors who colluded with pagans, and thus labeled them as "order killers". Marquis Vizia, who was at the top of the [Supreme] rule in Songyuan City, also "executed" many [Supreme] extraordinary people with second and third destinies."

"It was an era of panic, but in return, it brought order and peace to Songyuan City for a long time."

This is the early history of the illegitimate son "Velino Bakar"... While Intis was talking, Luo Xiu was also thinking.

Fourteen years ago, the thorough investigation of the cause of death of the wealthy merchant Anglais by Marquis Vizia really achieved two goals with one stone... He found sufficient reasons to purge a group of pagans in Songyuan City, and the suspected order killers who were "executed" did serve as a warning to the [Supreme] Order.

In addition to these - "After that, the illegitimate child naturally inherited all the property of the wealthy merchant Anglais, right?" Luo Xiu asked softly.

"Yes, my lord." Intis nodded.

"In that era, when [Supreme] joined forces with [Glorious] and [Wisdom] to vigorously purge the heretical forces in Songyuan City, Velino also went to the Law Office to handle the procedures for inheriting the property of his adoptive father, the wealthy businessman Angrai."

"He paid the Law Office an inheritance tax equivalent to 30% of Angrai's property, and the remaining 70% had a net valuation of nearly 3 million gold coins, which was enough for him to live a prosperous life in Songyuan City for the rest of his life."

"Yeah." Luo Xiu nodded, "I roughly know."

In his mind, no matter who the real murderer of the wealthy businessman Angrai was, the property owned by the wealthy businessman was the most fundamental purpose of this assassination--

Maybe Velino hired a killer himself? It may even be that he did it himself... and he must also know his relationship with Marquis Vizia. Therefore, even if the young Lord Gawain really discovered something at that time, with the invisible umbrella of Marquis Vizia, Velino could not be truly convicted.

At this point, the entire assassination incident can basically be regarded as the "family affair" of the Bakar family - except for the wealthy businessman Angle himself, he was simply a pawn being used, and he was used as a burning fuse to eventually create a huge and sensational explosion.

This is the past of the illegitimate son "Villino Bakar", and that's all Luo Xiu wants to know.

He thought for a while and asked Intis:

"I already know his past. So, what about now?"

"Now..." Intis lowered his head, looking thoughtful for a long time, and then said softly:

"Now Villino... should be said to be "Judge" Vilia, his performance... well, too normal."

"As a "Judge" of the Law Office, he always arrives at the Law Office on time every morning, and always leaves on time every evening, never delaying even a minute."

"And in my secret surveillance of him- He also rarely had social contact with other [Supreme] people, always going alone, so in the eyes of most of his colleagues, the relationship with him was neither good nor bad, just a little indifferent. "

"And when he returned to his Loggins mansion in the evening, he no longer went out, and no one came to visit him... He gave me the feeling of a single nobleman who was alone."

"..."

"... Well, I understand."

After Intis finished speaking, Luo Xiu nodded with approval.

"That's almost all the information I want to know."

Combining the "surface" detected by Intis with the "dark side" explained by the previous "Fire Bronze Knight" Holdwell, Luo Xiu could almost analyze the status of Velino personally.

In the Law Office, he tried not to have contact with any other [Supreme] people, most likely for disguise. And in his Loggins mansion, there might be various secret doors and passages for other "Order Killers" to report to him and move around.

But Intis and other "Holy Abyss" apostles could not investigate to that extent. The premise for Luo Xiu to let them carry out the mission was to avoid exposing themselves, and he believed that Intis could do it well.

It was for this reason that Luo Xiu was finally able to decide when he would take action against the "illegitimate child" Velino Bakar -

That was tonight - at the time when he had just finished the mission of the General Church and everyone knew that he had just been "seriously injured".

Archbishop Sid would most likely not summon him again, and he also had sufficient "alibi", which was the best opportunity.

...

"You did a good job, Intis."

After Intis almost finished reporting the information she had found about Velino, Luo Xiu said in a praising tone.

Facing Intis's somewhat restrained and expectant eyes, Luo Xiu opened the panel of the divine object "Spiritual Spring", took out 200,000 experience points from it, and transformed them into spiritual "infusion" into Intis' body.

This is a routine reward, and this is also the most generous "reward" Luo Xiu has given to Intis-

Intis' current level is lv.29 of the three-fold destiny of [Red Lotus], and after receiving the 200,000 experience points rewarded by Luo Xiu, her level has jumped to the upper limit of lv.30!

Feeling the warmth that fills her body from all sides and surges up to herself, Intis's face showed an expression of enjoyment.

She vaguely felt that she had quietly broken through a certain shackle of the three-fold destiny of [Red Lotus] just now. In front of her eyes-or rather, in the vision in her mind, a golden door burning with scarlet flames appeared in her perception for a moment.

"Is that... a door?" Intis murmured absentmindedly.

"That's the door." Luo Xiu gave Intis a positive answer. He stood up, walked to Intis, and gently stroked her soft silver-gray hair.

"That is the extraordinary door for you to be promoted to the way of [Red Lotus] - I have given you a new power so that you can see it."

Then, Luo Xiu said to Intis in a calm and gentle voice:

"And what you have to do is to constantly stabilize your spirituality so that the 'door' can appear clearly, when you want it to appear, and anywhere in your perception."

"You may hear some guiding voices, which come from your [Red Lotus] pillar god - the guidance from the 'Destruction Seat' to you."

"Listen to Him, accept Him, and do what He says, Intis - this is the last step for you to be promoted to the 'Fourfold Destiny' and become the 'Shadow of Killing'."

"..."

"I understand, my lord..."

"Thank you..."

"..."

Intis still responded in a daze, her cheeks flushed slightly, and her face showed a slightly drunk expression.

Even if Intis reached her "bottleneck" first, Luo Xiu didn't know what kind of promotion task Intis had triggered after reaching the level cap, but he would give Intis some guidance based on the experience he had gained from the natives.

After feeling that the 200,000 experience points he had instilled into Intis had been almost completely digested by Intis, Luo Xiu withdrew his hand that was stroking her long hair and sat back on the bed.

Intis still had her head down, and she seemed to be still feeling something.

Luo Xiu waited patiently until another three minutes passed, when he saw Intis slowly raise her head, with a tiny scarlet light in her eyes, and said:

"I did hear... the whisper from the 'Destruction Seat'... from Him."

"He asked me to kill, to kill with abandon, to kill in a carnival..."

"That was His guidance... Lord."

After saying this, the scarlet in Intis' eyes gradually faded, and her eyes gradually returned to clarity.

"Then do as He says, Intis."

Luo Xiu's voice was still calm and gentle, and he smiled faintly, saying:

"This is the only way for you to embark on [Red Lotus]."

"Coincidentally, there will be a perfect stage tonight, Intis - I allow you to release your nature and allow you to have no taboos."

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