Originally, according to Howard's thoughts, he wanted to send someone to investigate first to see how accurate Jenn's information was, and then try to find a way to stop these transactions as much as possible, after all, it was safer. Unfortunately, Jenn didn't give him a safe chance, he only gave Howard two days to inform the members of his subordinate church, and then directly attacked and destroyed the den. Of course, Howard also knew that it would be more effective, and those big chambers of commerce were very ghostly, and if there was anything unusual on the Templar side, they might be aware of it and take precautions. In this way, even if you search yourself, you will not get any useful information. And if it is dispatched directly according to Jenn's plan, then the evidence can be grasped in the shortest possible time and the relevant personnel can be wiped out.

Of course, Howard was not without worries, after all, since Jenn was able to come up with such detailed information, it meant that he must have investigated those people. And didn't those people find anything wrong with Jenn's investigation? In case they find out something, and then they have already run away, what is the matter with the big thorn on their side and bringing people over?

However, Jenn didn't give Howard any time to think, he asked Enoa to bring the letter to explain the matter itself, and also indicated the detailed location of each den, and at the same time, Jenn had already prepared all the plans for Howard. If someone came to him and pushed him -- not to mention that he had written the letter in the first place, and it had also used the mark of the diocesan bishop, so Howard was just following orders. Secondly, those guys who are caught are in serious crimes, and they should be cut and cut down, and they should not let go of any of them. As for those refugees. The repatriation of the repatriation, all of which had nowhere to return were sent to Passus. Of course. In the end, Jenn did not forget to mention that all the property of the Lion Minions Chamber of Commerce would be confiscated and confiscated, leaving nothing behind.

Even Jenn thought about what to do if a local ruler intervened. The answer he gave was that if anyone dared to block it, they would be beaten to death, and all those who dared to block their actions would be punished as accomplices of cultists, regardless of their status. Those who dare to resist will be killed!

After reading the entire plan, Howard didn't even have the ability to sigh, and between the lines was Jenn's unique style. However, although it seems tyrannical, in fact, if you think about it carefully, this plan is indeed feasible. Many of the slave trades were supported by cultists. It can even be said that with Howard's experience as a clergyman for so many years, he has never seen a trafficker who does not hook up with cultists. Because cultists often use evil rituals to sacrifice lives, they need living people as sacrifices. Unless the demon god they worship designates a specific person, these cultists generally buy sacrifices from human traffickers. After all, under the suppression of the Templar Order, these cultists have to be human beings with their tails between their legs. If you casually kidnap someone, it is easy to arouse the suspicion and investigation of the paladin, but human traffickers are different, they are very good at this kind of trick to make people "disappear". Therefore, buying from them is convenient, fast, and safe.

And for traffickers, these cultists are dangerous, but they are well paid. And they will also help themselves deal with some "defective products", so they are naturally happy to deal with the cultists.

At this point, Howard had no choice but to do what Jenn asked. But Howard wasn't stupid either. He did not give an order immediately, on the contrary, he made an excuse for the investigation of the diocese in the New Year. Summoned all the paladin leaders in the entire Eagle Plateau, and then secretly assigned them this task. Although logically speaking. This kind of thing should be communicated to the bishops of the diocese by Howard first, and then they should command the paladins under their command. But Howard also knows his own family affairs. Knowing that the bishop-level figures are very wary of this matter, and to be honest, many of the people below are also closely related to the nobles, in case the news is revealed, then it is himself who is unlucky. It is even possible that this will cause conflict between the Templars and the nobility, and that it is not impossible to ignore their orders. And these paladins are different, they are jealous and hateful, and they will not refuse such things. No qualified paladin would refuse such an opportunity to fight evil.

In fact, after listening to Howard's orders, the leaders of the paladins under him were all as excited as if they had been injected with hormones, and promised in their own religious names that they would never divulge secrets, nor would they tell the bishops of their precincts -- it seemed that they also knew what the virtues of those above them were.

This is not to say that the bishops are bad, but that the positions are different. It's like the police, the police catch the thief, catch the murderer, it is a matter of course, he doesn't care who you are, as long as the evidence is conclusive, catch it first. But this is the grassroots level, if you become a leader, then you have to consider the social impact, for example, to catch a star, he also has to consider whether this matter will have a bad impact on the entire department. For example, if you slap him or kick him when you catch the star, you may be reported as lynching, which will cause a lot of trouble. And for the police, it doesn't matter if you are a star in the sky and on the ground, if it turns out that you are a ** murderer, you will still be slapped in the face if you dare to resist when you are arrested. But if it is seen by reporters, it will become a rough law enforcement, so the upper side will be unlucky.

And the relationship between these paladins and the bishops of their jurisdictions is also roughly the same, for the paladins, it is a matter of course for them to fight evil, as long as there are people in front of them who bully men and women, then they will naturally take care of it. But for the bishop, what if the person who bullies men and women happens to be some nobleman? The church has to live on the donations of the aristocracy, and if you make people unhappy, don't give money or give less money, then what will happen to the livelihood of the church?

This is the main source of internal contradictions within the Templar Order, the Paladins and the Bishopric do not like each other, the Bishops always criticize the Paladins for not knowing the price of firewood and rice, if it were not for the donations of those nobles, where would you get the money to maintain the armor and horses? The paladins believed that life was to life, faith was to faith, and those nobles did not donate money to buy peace. We are also the rogue ruffians who collect protection money. Could it be that these people spend money and can do whatever they want in front of us? And we take their money and want to abandon our faith and pretend to be grandchildren? Could it be that there are all bad aristocrats in this world, and there are no good aristocrats with pious beliefs? Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if there are bad nobles in this world. If we don't take their money, we'll starve to death?

This is the conflict between ideals and reality, before that. It had always been the episcopal sect that prevailed, but since Nadia questioned the Central Bishopric and received the gift of the True Eye, the whole situation has suddenly reversed. Although the paladins in other places have not been as blatant as Khalkhalan, they will also take care of it when they see nobles doing evil outside, which naturally leads to further deepening of the contradictions between the two sides. So now the paladins and the bishopric are basically walking half of the road towards the sky, and no one pays attention to each other. Bishop Howard asked them not to divulge the matter, which was naturally agreed by the paladins, and they then took a detailed description of the location of their respective targets, and then quickly left, agreeing to do so in the early hours of the morning two days later. And before leaving. Bishop Howard gave each paladin what looked like a scepter, and they didn't know what it was for, but they just heard Bishop Howard say that if they ran into trouble that they couldn't deal with, they could just pull the rope below, and as for what the rope did -- Howard himself didn't know.

Night falls.

There was no light in the dim forest, and a paladin looked up, glanced at the starry sky overhead, and nodded to the white-robed man beside him.

"My lord, it's time."

"Good."

Hearing the words of his subordinates, the paladin at the head nodded. Then he stared wide-eyed at the brightly lit manor below the hillside, from which he could faintly hear the sounds of joy and music coming from inside, as if an ordinary manor was partying. But judging by what he got from Archbishop Howard. This is where the Lion Minions Chamber of Commerce used to sell people.

"That......... My lord............? ”

"What's wrong?"

"Are we really going in?"

Hesitantly glancing at the manor below, the young paladin looked a little uneasy. It's no wonder that in the past two days, they only know that their boss is excited. But I don't know what he wants to do. It wasn't until this afternoon that he gathered himself and the others together. Then he came here and said he was going to destroy a den. This also scared the other paladins by surprise. It wasn't until Archbishop Howard's order was taken out that the paladins were much more reassured.

It's just that even so, looking at the ordinary manor in front of them, everyone is also a little drumming in their hearts. What if I get it wrong?

"What are you afraid of!"

Sensing the cause of his subordinates, the captain of the paladins led by him glared at him viciously.

"This is an order from Archbishop Howard himself, can it be wrong? Ready, give it to me!! ”

With that, he immediately stood up, and then strode towards the manor below.

When a group of paladins appeared at the gate of the manor, someone immediately noticed that something was wrong, and soon saw two guards coming forward and blocking their way.

"Paladins, may I ask you what ...............?"

And in the face of the guard in front of him, the paladin led by him didn't say anything, on the contrary, he waved his hand suddenly, and then shouted loudly.

"Rush in!!"

"Yes!!"

At this point, these paladins had no other way but to answer loudly, and then two paladins quickly stepped forward and pushed away the manor guards who tried to stop them, and then pushed open the gate and rushed into the manor.

Maybe it was because he had never seen a paladin so violent, and the guards outside couldn't help but be stunned, and they couldn't figure out how these paladins could come to the door in the middle of the night. But the Paladin, who was the leader, didn't care about this, he walked into the manor and glanced around, but he didn't see anyone else, only the backyard of the manor was brightly lit and the music was constantly sounding. But as a paladin, he instinctively felt that something was wrong, knowing that it was late at night, even if it was a gathering of those noble lords, it was time to go home. And those manor owners like to make trouble, and it's not that they toss so late. And now, this party is not over yet, and there must be something wrong with it.

Thinking of this, this paladin did not hesitate and immediately waved his hand.

"Let's go, let's go to the back!"

And when the group rushed to the backyard of the manor, they were completely stunned by the scene in front of them.

I saw that in this small backyard, there were dozens of richly dressed men with masks on their faces. Next to it, there was a table of food and a band playing next to it. It looked like a normal banquet, except that it was completely different from an ordinary banquet -- I saw that in the center of this banquet hall, a high platform was erected, on which dozens of wooden stakes were erected. And on top of those wooden stakes, young girls were naked. The naked were tied there, their hands and feet were bound by chains, and their mouths were gagged, as if they were animals hanging there to be slaughtered. And in front of these maidens, those in masks are also pointing, as if they are picking up goods.

Seeing the appearance of the paladin, these people were also stunned, obviously they didn't understand why the paladin appeared here.

And for the paladins, after seeing this scene, they obviously already knew what they had to do. I saw the paladin with a gloomy face, and with a gloomy "swish", he drew his long sword and pointed forward, and then gave an order.

"Arrest them all!!"

The next moment, the killing cry began. (To be continued......)