Payne, a kind and stubborn old man, is well known in the Temple of Light, and he is also the teacher of the current Holy Maiden...... Basic Enlightenment Teacher, although he has only been teaching for half a year, this experience alone is enough for him to hold an important position in the first department of saints.

So, is Nadette a wicked person?

Neither is it! Echo City under Nadette's rule did not dare to say that the road was not left behind, but the people at least lived and worked in peace, and he managed very few nobles in the city, and there were very few bullying of men and women. The people of Echo City, in general, live a happier life.

Since both parties are good people, why hurt each other?

Without him, the position is different. For believers, heretics are ten times more odious than heretics...... The Light Priest may even forgive a demon, but never a heretic.

What is heresy, everyone believes in the goddess of light, but you don't want to agree with my point of view, it's heresy.

There will always be differences in concepts between people, and there will always be differences in some doctrinal interpretations, and when the differences are so big that they are far from each other, that is when there are factional differences.

It is actually very simple to avoid this, just like the Wealth Cult, which has a universal doctrine that the gods recognize.

But the goddess of light has not performed miracles for three hundred years, and now it is said that only the holy woman can communicate with the goddess of light, but the Pope does not believe it.

This is where the contradiction arises.

Of course, this is only the superficial reason for the infighting in the Temple of Light, and what the real reason is, Beta has no way of knowing for the time being.

Late at night, because Payne is also a kind old man, he can't die in the city, he can't die outside the public, and he can't be killed by the city lord.

A set of black clothes was issued, everyone put them on, covered their faces, and then set off from the official road behind the City Lord's Mansion according to the original team.

A long secret passage leads from the underground of the City Lord's Mansion to the outskirts of the city...... This secret passage is narrow and can only be passed by one person. Everyone walked in the dim secret passage for a long time, it seemed to be as long as a century, but this was actually just a psychological illusion caused by the secret passage being too dim and too quiet.

Coming out of the secret passage, there was a sentry post stationed in the suburbs, two expressionless soldiers guarded outside, and after they all came out, the secret was sealed and hidden, at least from the outside, it was impossible to see that there was once a secret passage.

The four squads quietly left the sentry post and disappeared into the darkness, and Beta's third squad, which was responsible for ambushing on a high ground and finishing up the operation.

Although it was a summer night, the night in the mountains and forests was always a little cool, and the third team of six people hid in the bushes on the hillside, looking at the road below.

Because of the reflection of some moonlight, the road looks much brighter than in other places.

Beta condensed his mental power to the lowest point and crouched behind the bushes, motionless.

After a while, Heidi leaned in, probably because she was going to whisper, and she was close to Beta.

"You seem to know how to hide yourself? Done something similar before? ”

"Combat is also part of magic, and the instructor taught us how to cooperate with our teammates and led us to sneak up on the enemy."

"What kind of enemy?"

Heidi asked, their voices whispering, but it was so quiet in the neighborhood that only the chirping of night bugs could be heard by all. Now everyone was around, and they seemed to be quite interested in Beta's business.

"Orcs, and bears." Beta replied without any hesitation or hesitation, these questions were actually in his consideration: "There are also some strange and valuable magical beasts. ”

"Then you said you didn't have any combat experience before?"

"I really don't have much experience fighting humans." Beta said helplessly, "Humans are far more intelligent than orcs, and I think the previous way of fighting may not be so useful. ”

Heidi, who was covered with a scarf, smiled slightly, and felt that this young man was indeed as Nadette said, looking diligent and realistic.

She is different from Nadette, who is a nobleman, a superior person, and thinks about the big picture, so she has a lot of kindness to Beta, who is also a nobleman, Heidi is just an ordinary professional, and her intuitive woman tells herself that this young man is not simple, and there must be another reason for coming to Nadette, so she has always wanted to test Beta.

Heidi gently leaned against Beta and asked, "When I was a child, I also wished I could be a spellcaster, but I didn't have that talent, and I was curious about the world of magic until now...... For example, what is life like in the Magic Tower? ”

Beta knew that Heidi was testing herself, and he smiled inwardly...... Although he has never been to the Magic Tower, there are many mage players who have lived in the Magic Tower for several years, and they have already posted the system of the Magic Tower and their usual lifestyle on the forum in the form of videos.

"It was hard at first." Beta thought for a while and said, "When we first started learning magic, meditation was the most difficult for us, and many people couldn't successfully control their mental power and enter a state of meditation, and then they would be punished by their mentors. ”

"What kind of punishment?" Robben next to him suddenly asked, although his voice would be a little distorted when he spoke with a veil, but it was not to the point where he couldn't hear it.

"We're the Red Tower of Magic, and we're good at fire-based sculpting magic, but that doesn't mean we can't use other spells. In addition to fire magic, my mentor is also very good at lightning magic. As soon as we didn't fulfill his request, he would be tied to a hard bed and used lightning for half an hour. Although it does not kill people, incontinence is a normal thing. ”

"It is also for this reason that the Guru is privately called the King of Thunder and Lightning."

The other five laughed out loud at the same time, but because it was a mission, they all kept their laughter low enough that everyone could hear it, but it definitely didn't get far.

"Anything else interesting?" Heidi asked.

"A lot...... Every once in a while, the mentor would take us to explore some special ruins, and we once found a dragon's lair, which could only be opened with a golden dragon's claw, and there was a dragonborn undead ......"

The life of the Magic Tower is actually similar to ordinary college life, but because of magic, there is an extra layer of mysterious aura, and because of this aura, the life of the Magic Tower is particularly attractive to the other five members of the team.

Beta's 'stories' make these people yearn for them.

After about twenty minutes, Beta suddenly stopped talking, and the others didn't feel abrupt, because a red light appeared in the night sky in front of them, and then disappeared after a few seconds, and then a rumbling sound came.

"There's a fight ahead, Arnold should have used my Great Fireball Scroll." Beta explained to them.

Heidi, the leader of the third squad, immediately made a gesture, and the thief Sion turned into a black shadow and snaked down the hillside, ambushing into the shadows of the road, and the other two team members were pure warriors, who walked down the hill and hid. Robben was the shield guard, and he pulled out the shield behind his back and crouched in front of Beta. The shield warrior's first priority is, of course, to protect the spellcasters in his team.

The sea jumped slightly, hooked his left hand on the branch, and the whole person barbed to the branch like a bat, using the leaves to hide his body, and at the same time the short bow was also held in her hand.

Beta didn't move, but everyone could feel that his body was beginning to surround him with magical elements.

The third team is responsible for finishing the work, and according to the previous plan, they will ambush here together.

But after more than 20 minutes, there was still no enemy coming, and no one of his own people came.

A little tension and uneasiness began to fill the air.

Beta quietly took a long-range detection scroll from the mansion space, stuffed it into his cuff, and began to pretend to chant the incantation, and when the spell ended, two transparent water balls, one large and one small, appeared in front of him.

He pointed forward, and the small balloon flew into the night sky.

There is no other spellcaster here except him, because no one can see through this little trick of his kind. Everyone thought he was using the spell on his own.

Heidi jumped down from the branch, pressed her right hand on her back, and asked slowly, "What kind of magic are you?" ”

There was a faint vigilance in her words, and Beta pretended not to hear it, and said, "I think something is wrong, and I made a spell to see what is going on in front of me." ”

As soon as his words fell, the large balloon of water floating in front of Beta's eyes came to an eye...... In the dark, nearly twenty white-robed people surrounded more than a dozen black-robed people, although the encirclement was a bit large, but the black-robed people wanted to break through, but they failed, and on the ground nearby, there were already three black-robed people, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

"They're in danger, and we've got to help them."

Heidi was in a hurry and was about to rush down, but Beta grabbed her hand.

"We obviously fell for the trick, and the other party deliberately lured us out." Beta said calmly, "If you rush over, you will only fall into the tiger's mouth." ”

Heidi shook off his hand and shouted angrily, "They are companions, are we going to die without saving them?" ”

"Of course you have to save, but you can't rush blindly to it." "We have to have a proper plan," Beta explains. ”

"Well-planned...... We don't have that time. Heidi still has to rush out.

At this time, the other three members of the team who had descended to the foot of the mountain also ran back, and the thief Sion stopped Heidi and said, "In this case, I think Cook has a point, and it is not too late to hear what he has to say." ”

Robben also helped on the side: "Yes, yes, the spellcaster must be smarter than us." ”

At this time, an old man in the water polo screen suddenly looked this way...... Then he stretched out his hand, and after a white light, the big water balloon disappeared, and turned into an ordinary puddle of water, and fell on the grass.

Seeing this scene, Heidi took a deep breath: "You better hurry, they are dangerous now." ”

"Since we don't have enough time to make a plan, let's have the simplest tactic, and you'll listen to me later......"

After Beta finished speaking, he quietly deducted a group of light spirit techniques from the mansion magic space, put them in the cuffs, and cast them in the appearance of chanting spells.

Feeling that her body seemed to be half lighter, Heidi ran down first, and the other four followed. Beta deliberately fell behind, after all, now he is playing a warlock with amazing magic but not excellent physical fitness.

On the official road, which was almost a kilometer away from Beta and the others, Arnold and the others were indeed surrounded, and an old man was far away from them.

This old man is Payne, his expression is very gentle, and in front of him, there are three black-robed people.

He had killed all three black-robed men, and before killing each of them, he would chant a simple Helios prayer, a prayer to bless the spirits of the dead to find the kingdom of heaven.

Seeing that those black-clothed people had failed to break through several times, Payne smiled slightly, and then he found a small water balloon in the air, and with a light finger, the white light shone, causing the small water balloon to turn into a burst of steam.

"And a spellcaster?" Payne looked at the black-robed magician who was obviously protected, and looked quite surprised: "Where did Nadette find so many talents. ”

He didn't intervene in the fight, and as far as he was concerned, as long as he used himself to lure these people out, then he was half the victory. Nadette is calculating Payne, but Payne is actually calculating Nadette.

Just as Nadette felt that Archbishop Payne should not die in the city, Payne also felt that Nadette should not die in the city, after all, Nadette was a good lord, and if the people saw his body, they didn't know what would happen.

Payne also arranged his own internal response in the City Lord's Mansion, although there was not much news he could hear, but at least he knew that Nadette wanted to kill him, so he planned and used his life as bait, and finally invited the city lord Nadette out of Echo City.

He smiled as he watched the man in black in the encirclement fall three more ...... Now in the encirclement, there are only nine black-robed people who can stand, and all of them are injured. On their side, the white-robed priest only had a few minor injuries, and it would not affect their battle.

Looking at the embarrassed black-robed people, Payne said loudly: "Nadette, you don't judge the defects, as long as you go to the statue of the goddess, admit that your papal sect has deviated from the doctrine, and ask her for forgiveness, then we really forgive you." ”

None of the black-robed people spoke, they were just taking a short break, trying their best to regain some strength.

More than twenty priests connected their spiritual power in tandem, and the magic array formed effectively prevented the impact of the black-robed man, although the magic array used was the lowest-level magic array, but it was not something that Nadette and the others could break through, after all, there was a huge disparity in combat effectiveness between the two sides.

"You're so stubborn...... Well? ”

Payne suddenly turned around and saw that in the night sky behind him, more than thirty golden balls of light had smashed down.

Arcane missiles? This thing is not powerful, what does it matter if there are many of them? Payne was a little amused, he raised his hand, and a huge curtain of light appeared above their heads, this was a light magic shield, which could resist most magic attacks.

In Payne's judgment, it was a very simple matter for the Bright Magic Shield to block these thirty or so arcane missiles that looked powerless.