Mystery: The Queen and the Chariot

"Welcome, Mr. Bishop." William greeted Als politely.

"Okay, now take me to meet the lord here." Als said impatiently.

Sure enough, the transcendents of the "Secret Prayer" path are all hidden lunatics.William, who had seen the extraordinary person of the "Secret Prayer" path countless times, made another judgment. It seemed that the lunatic this time was of the reckless type.

William was more polite, "Please wait a moment, Mr. Bishop, I will inform the Viscountess now."

Als sat on the not-so-comfortable seat, flicking his finger bones lightly - it pierced Als's flesh and blood, and the air was exposed, exuding the smell of blood.

Caios, with a keen sense of smell, noticed Ars' abnormality almost immediately, but she didn't say it - this shouldn't be considered too strange behavior in "Rose Bishop". The fusion of biological flesh and blood into the bishop's body caused a strong rejection reaction, always making his own flesh and blood uncomfortable with his own body, so he needed to forcibly correct it.

"Hello, Bishop Ars, welcome to my territory." Caios smiled politely, and extended a hand wearing a black gauze glove to Ars.

Ars did not salute Caios, but said impatiently: "Countees, I need a church, are you ready?"

Sure enough... Caios had already expected this situation, she calmly withdrew her hand, "It's under construction, this church will be the tallest building in my territory."

"Okay." Ars finally lowered his impatience, something nobles rarely do, "You are a pious lamb."

Caios controlled her expression. Lamb was not a good word for her, but at least it was better than offending the church.

"How long will it take to finish?" Als asked, hoping to start preaching soon.

"The basic construction has been completed, but some decorations still need to be done." Kaios replied.

Als thought for a while, even with supernatural power, it still takes a lot of time to build a huge church, which seems to prove the piety of the newly promoted female countess - she at least started to do things for the coming of the church a long time ago. get ready.

Combined with the fact that the viscount became the new viscount by helping the church kill a viscount who disrespected the gods, and that viscount's territory and property belonged to the church, the viscount also donated a lot to the church Property, Ars's eyes on Kaios eased a little.

"Very well, how many lambs are there in your territory that haven't listened to my lord's teaching?"

Caios made a puzzled look, "Bishop, people everywhere are the lambs of the Lord and have heard the teachings of the Lord." She put on a sincere smile: "But most of them are Pan-believers cannot fully recite the Lord's scriptures, but only praise the Lord in their daily life. And this requires your help, Bishop, to spread the Gospel for them."

Als said impatiently: "Okay, I don't need these nonsense, tell me how many people there are." The corners of his mouth slightly raised showed that Caios' flattery was effective.

Caios said to Als, "Bishop, I can't know the exact number, but my steward should know roughly who lives where and who is more pious. After all, the lives of those people can only be given by the Lord who created everything." decision, and only the Lord knows everything.”

Als put on an indifferent expression again, "Okay, Viscountess, thank you for your help, so now I hope you can provide us with accommodation and food."

Kaios nodded, "Okay, I have already arranged these, and I will send you the information in a while."

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"Caios, you don't seem to be in a good mood. Aren't you ready?" Turning on the "light", Nader asked Caios curiously.

"Don't you know that you will die in two years, you have prepared in advance, made a will, and you like death?" Kaios sighed, poked the "lamp", this is a The Transcendent item of the "Sun" path is only Sequence 9, but it is very safe——Before being promoted to "Reaper", Kaios was troubled by the unstable light of the candle and her own flame, so she thought of this mirror——It Its passive effect is to emit dazzling sunlight. With a gray crystal and a curtain, it becomes a "lamp" that can be turned on and off, and can even be heated.

"Well, yes, the local bishop has a lot of interference with the local nobles. For example, the bishop can ask the nobles to pay them a certain amount of taxes. For example, the bishop also has a certain range of judicial power." Nader rubbed his nose and meditated.

Caios smiled, "Nade, these "musts" have a wide range of fluctuations. For example, in some places, the nobles will be divided by half of any taxes paid by the powerful bishops-this does not include the usual believers pay to the church. The 'guide tax' and the 'indulgence coupons' they issued to nobles and wealthy commoners, what is even more powerful is the right to judge, the current bishop can arbitrarily identify a person as 'blasphemous' and immediately execute him, as long as he swallows the spirit of the deceased or sacrifices it sacrifice to the true Creator, then no occult means can 'prove' the innocence of the dead."

"So what does Caios want to do?" Nader gave up thinking about this question and asked Caios the solution.

"Kill all the people in the church." Kaios blinked, "Well, actually I have no good way to deal with them, I can only pretend to be a devout believer - he should be able to see it, But as long as I do it well, he won't say much, I just need to pay him the normal tax now-even if it will put great pressure on our finances, but the economic network established by relying on the river It can support our economy until the steam engine is fully used, and the windfall profits from selling steel can be more than the taxes of the exploited farmers."

"By the way, Caios, what if someone wants to know why you can directly smelt steel?" Nader asked the question he had been worried about for a long time. The law-making organization that people feel relieved did not communicate these things to Caios.

Caios smiled, "It's very simple. If someone asks, just tell him directly how we refine it. Even if this thing is learned, it will not affect us much. After all, steel is only difficult in raw materials, and it is destined to be refined." It will be in high demand, it will make us a lot of money. And soon we will be able to meet all our living needs by ourselves."

"So by then, how will we make money?" Nader began to question again.

“We can print our own money.”

"what?"