Working Prophet

Although Miss Rabbit was anxious to go back to develop the steel industry, she still stayed in Rock Snow City for one more day to attend the funeral of Marquis Cullen.

At dawn the next morning, Hells led the nobles out of the city gate and headed north to the Baisong River, about ten miles away from Yanxue City.

The guards of the Figuerola family pushed the ash boat containing the body of the Marquis Cullen into the river, and piled pine resin and branches on it.

Quintus, the high priest of the Silvermoon Church, personally presided over the funeral for the Lord of the West.

He placed an amulet on the chest of the corpse, and then began to pray aloud.

The nobles on the bank of the river looked solemn, and no one made a sound.

After the high priest finished speaking the last word, Hers stepped forward, took the torch from the guards, lit the wooden boat, and watched it go down the river.

Under the action of pine resin and branches, the flames spread quickly, engulfing the entire boat in a short while.

Staring at the flames on the river, the female lord felt a touch of sadness in her heart. She recalled the day she first met Marquis Cullen. The latter was sitting on the main seat at the other end of the long table, with a straight waist and a majestic face.

Then Miss Rabbit also thought of her stepmother Vanessa and younger brother Blanco.

She and these two people have not seen each other for almost two years. Back then, in order to compete for the position of Patriarch of the Arias family, the two sides were at war with each other, even fighting each other.

The girl was once very disgusted with the mother and son, but she didn't know if it was because a long time had passed. This disgust gradually disappeared, and the female lord remembered the time the three of them had spent together before.

She and Vanessa are not particularly close. Vanessa obviously loves her biological son more than her stepdaughter, but to be fair, Vanessa is definitely not the vicious stepmother in fairy tales.

Although sometimes he couldn't help but ridicule her a few words, but he didn't skimp on her in terms of food and clothing.

And it's not so much that Vanessa doesn't like the stepdaughter Ilea, it's better to say that she hates the house and the black.

Miss Rabbit only realized later that in her father Ruth's heart, her mother Yolanda was always the one she loved the most.

Until the last moment before his death, Ruth always carried the brooch Yolanda gave him.

This can be said to be affectionate, but it is a bit too cruel for Vanessa.

The female lord couldn't help but sighed, and when she looked up again, she found that the boat had disappeared, while Heles and the other nobles were preparing to return to the city.

So Miss Rabbit also planned to leave, but at this time she saw Quintus walking towards this side.

"Sir Ilea, long time no see."

"High Priest Quintus, it's been a long time. I haven't congratulated you on becoming a high priest." The female lord looked at the man in front of her curiously.

Although Quintus put on the silver moon robe of the high priest, his face looked darker and his wrinkles seemed to be deeper.

"I actually prefer preaching in the countryside rather than becoming a high priest." Quintus said.

These words sounded a bit hypocritical, but Miss Rabbit could feel that Quintus was speaking from the bottom of his heart when he said these.

"It's a pity that the Western Territory has become increasingly unstable recently, and the church has undergone sudden changes. I was elected at this critical moment, so I can only grit my teeth and continue doing this. By the way, isn't Prophet Merlin here?"

"Why, does your Silver Moon Church still want to send someone to compete with Shuangxiu Church?" The female lord raised her eyebrows.

"How is it possible?" Quintus shook his head. "When it comes to performing miracles, no one in the Western Region can be the opponent of the Prophet Merlin. The church should not have pushed Adele out in the first place to humiliate herself.

"Not to mention later trying to cover up an earlier mistake with another mistake."

Quintus paused, "Actually, I came to see the Prophet Merlin in the hope that the Shuangxiu Church and the Silver Moon Church can coexist peacefully in the Western Region."

"What do you mean by living in peace...?"

"It means that we don't invade each other. If possible, it's best to exchange information." Quintus said, "After all, we all have a common enemy now."

"You mean Herodotus?"

"That's right, he distorted the original teachings of the church, founded the Blood Moon Society, incited hatred in the western region, gathered a large number of fanatical followers, and used poisoning and assassination as the main means to eradicate dissidents and threaten more people to join They are becoming more and more dangerous."

"Well, I have heard about all the things he did some time ago, and the Blood Moon Society also laid hands on me once, at my birthday party, but I have the blessing of Saturday, and the Blood Moon Society failed in the end. Got it." The female lord said.

"Of course I also want to catch Herodotus, but I heard that his whereabouts are very secretive, and he rarely shows up at ordinary times. He always sends his subordinates to do things. So many nobles in the western region hate him to death, but they all take him There is nothing we can do.”

"Of course we know what you said..." Quintus stopped here and looked around before continuing.

"If you want to eradicate the Blood Moon Society, you must capture Herodotus. As early as half a year ago, we sent a group of internal agents to pretend to join the Blood Moon Society.

"Now some of them have gained the trust of Herodotus and collected a lot of important information, one of which is related to you. In order to show our sincerity of cooperation, I will tell you this piece of information."

"Is it related to me?" Miss Rabbit frowned, "Did Herodotus want to assassinate me again?"

"No, to be precise, it has to do with your family, your brother Blanco, do you still remember him?"

"uh-huh."

"Our insiders lurking in the Blood Moon Society sent back news that Herodotus is planning a crazy plan recently, and your brother and several other nobles will play important roles in it."

The female lord took a breath after hearing this, "Do you think Blanco and Herodotus are together now?"

Quintus nodded, "Just a week ago, they just kidnapped Pep, the head of the Welch family."

"Pep?" Miss Rabbit remembered. She seemed to have received a letter from the head of the Welch family when she first returned to the West.

Pep revealed in the letter that Vanessa contacted him again, wanting to borrow money from him, and in order to please Ilea, a rapidly rising upstart in the West, to make up for the unhappiness at the previous birthday party.

Pep also hinted in the letter that he would take this opportunity to help the female lord secretly solve this hidden danger.

As a result, Miss Rabbit wrote back and told him not to mind his own business. At that time, the female lord had no intention of eradicating the problem.

Now when Quintus said this, the girl realized that this was probably a trap.

Pep was still dreaming about killing Vanessa and Blanco to claim credit from the female lord, but he probably didn't expect that the other side was also coming for him.

However, Ilea remembered that she told Pep that she asked him not to mess around. Why did he fall into the hands of Herodotus in the end? Did that guy not listen, or did something else happen later?