Krautz was held in the backyard, which was a pretty good treat as a prisoner, with only one house in the small courtyard for him to live in, and the surrounding sentry posts were manned around the clock, with magic alarms along the courtyard walls.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, this is it." Chubais opened the door, and the pungent smell of bloody mixed decoctions came to his face.

Clotz lay on the bed by the window, the sun shining on his face through the open window, his eyes closed and his face turned blue, and he looked like he had stopped breathing.

On the wall opposite the head of the bed, a line of blood is scarlet and dazzling.

"Patriots die here......" Roland whispered Krautz's last words, and his heart welled up with unspeakable feelings.

"How's he doing?" Rudolph asked the bedside doctor.

"After swallowing strychnine toxin, it was too late to find out." The prison doctor replied, wiping his sweat.

"Did you say anything else on your deathbed other than the last words on the wall?" Rudolph asked.

The prison doctor thought for a moment and nodded, "I guessed that he was already confused at the time and mistook me for Major Chubais or some other big person, otherwise there would be no need to say those strange things." ”

"What strange words?"

"He asked me, 'If one day your country were in conflict with the church, which side would you choose to be on'......"

Rudolph was silent, as if thinking about the difficult problem raised by Klautz on his deathbed, suddenly sneered, turned to Roland and Chubais, and said: "This man looks tough on the surface, but in fact he is fragile like a woman on the inside, he sees us cheering and celebrating for the independence of the country, seeing us successfully perform the sanctification ceremony and dispel the ghost of the Perro Church wandering in the temple, his heart is so shocked that he cannot accept the reality so that his spirit breaks down, and finally chooses to end his life in the most cowardly way, it is really pitiful and pathetic!" ”

Chubais hung his head and did not dare to speak. He was more worried about his situation than about Klautz's suicide, and whether he would be punished by His Majesty for his poor care.

Roland didn't need to be false in front of his father, and bluntly showed that he sympathized with Klautz's plight: "Although I stand on a hostile position, I have to admit that I am moved by Klautz's unswerving spirit of serving the country to the death, if you don't object, I want to resurrect him with divine magic, and it is still too late to cast a spell." ”

Rudolph shook his head lightly, and persuaded his son earnestly: "Any resurrection magic has a premise, the deceased must voluntarily accept the resurrection, if the other party does not want to be resurrected, the spell will be in vain, Klautz chose to end his life by suicide, indicating that he has lost the desire to live, before he died, he bit his finger and left a bloody book, this bloody last words contain endless resentment, remember his questioning to the prison doctor before he died?" It is clearly cursing our country and the church to split, this deathbed curse first distorts his own soul, even if you forcibly resurrect him, the one who returns to the world is no longer the same Krautz as before, it is more likely to be a monster who has lost his humanity and is extremely vicious, are you sure you want to take the risk? ”

Having said that, no matter how much Roland sympathized with Krautz, he could no longer go against his father's wishes, not to mention that his father's warning was indeed very reasonable.

"Then choose a cemetery for him and bury him well." Roland sighed and said to Chubais: "Major, the aftermath of General Krautz will trouble you. ”

Chubais hurriedly straightened his chest: "It is incumbent on me to be humble!" What are the specific instructions for Your Highness? ”

Roland thought for a moment and said in a low tone: "Try to find an imperial military flag, which will be covered on Clutez when he is buried, and ...... Order a good tombstone, ask for marble. ”

"Do you want to engrave an epitaph?" Chubais asked.

Roland glanced at the bloody book on the wall again, and said to Chubais: "The epitaph uses Klautz's last words, and changes the word - the patriot is buried here." ”

"My subordinates understand! If Your Majesty has no other orders, I will go and deal with the aftermath of Krautz. Chubais looked at Rudolph.

"Busy with your going." Rudolph waved him and the prison doctor away, and said to Roland, "It's rare to take a walk with me." ”

"It's an honor." Roland guessed that his father had something to say to him, and followed him out of the gloomy cell and for a walk in the little sunny courtyard.

Rudolph walked up to the plane tree that Cluse had climbed to look out over the independence celebrations, stopped, turned to look into Roland's eyes, and said, "Klautz is unfortunate enough to make the most dangerous mistake a fanatic can make." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Wrong route."

"I don't quite understand what you mean......"

"Clautz was too persistent, he was too confident in his own piety, he was so contemptuous of those who were not religious, pure, and who made their faith a business, such as Philip, that he took the people he despised as a reference for his soul, and since he believed that Philip was a corrupt bureaucrat and a greedy careerist, he would of course choose the opposite path and end up going astray." Rudolph said with deep feeling.

Roland stood side by side with his father in the shade of a tree, listening attentively to the cicadas chirping on the branches, and it took a long time for the silence to break.

"I still can't figure it out...... Why is it Clautz and not Philip who is making the wrong course? Wasn't Krautz the one who was more devout to the faith, wasn't Philip a corrupt bureaucrat, not a careerist who used the power of the church for personal gain? ”

"You're right, but so what?" Rudolph pointed to the sky, "What the gods need is not the kind of madman who can only cause trouble, even if the madman is very religious, but a capable steward, even if the steward is not very clean, what do you think the priesthood is?" The clergy must first be politicians! ”

Roland was silent.

Rudolph continued: "Think about it from another angle, if Krautz does not mess around, the situation in the Fort of Atonement is still under the control of Philip, according to his plan, to complete the reform of the Church of Pero in the Far East before we return, and to remove all the Far Easterners from heresy, what is the situation now?" ”

"In that case, I'm afraid we will have to cooperate with Archbishop Philip to temporarily accept that the Church of Perot still represents the mainstream faith of the Far East, and even if we can still raise the banner of Sindra in the future, it will be difficult to completely eradicate the influence of the Church of Pero, after all, our biggest hole card is 'Liberation of Heresy', and that card was almost snatched away by Philip and almost played out by him in advance." Roland shrugged and smiled wryly.

Rudolph also smiled, with sarcasm in his smile: "So we have to thank Klautz for making such a farce and helping us to sabotage Philip's wishful thinking." ”