Chapter 30: The Future of Almani (10)
"Who is that? You actually asked Crodisi who is?"
Ella slapped the table in anger and stood up. This behavior immediately attracted the attention of the guests at several tables next to her. Ella realized that she had overreacted, and smiled apologetically at the guests, and sat back on the chair. Then, she scolded in an angry voice:
"Master, if you can't remember who Crodis is, believe it or not, I will put you in a cell directly after I go back, so that you can't drink for a year!"
"King of Sweden, you're a little overreacting." Alfred advised, "his intelligence has played a big role this time. Since he's drunk, let him sleep for one night and wake up the bar."
"No matter how great the credit is, I can't drink while performing tasks! I have reminded him many times because he has missed many things because of drinking! Now that we are here, it's not because he hasn't explained the situation clearly in the letter!"
"King of Sweden, you said you can't drink when performing a mission, but now the mission has been completed?" Dust shook his head vigorously, trying to make himself more clear. "Our enemy is the Duke of Aquitaine. I have written it very clearly in the letter. The consul triumphantly. Doesn't this mean that everything has ended and the Duke of Aquitaine failed?"
"You should make it clear, how did he succeed? He only had two hundred swordsmen from the sword clan who followed you, how did he capture the fortress of Bastille!"
"He did not attack, but cut off the iron chains on the suspension bridge by himself. Moreover, he was not only two hundred people. He was the Earl of Ile-de-France, but also the Duke of Burgundy. His subordinates brought reinforcements from Burgundy, many reinforcements..."
Ella's tone eased a little: "That is, he forced himself to conquer the Bastille with his own army?"
"Yes, otherwise? You can't just let the Parisians take him back by acting cute, right?"
Ella and Alfred looked at each other - if the situation was true as Dust said, they had been a little worried before.
"But what about Dust and Crodis? In addition to the Duke of Aquitaine, he is also an important goal, right? You said that the mission is over, so he should be alive or dead, so there should be news, right?"
"Crodisius..." Dust frowned and thought hard. Suddenly, he knocked his head, as if he finally remembered, "I mean that very old apostle, right?"
"It was him. We designed him to drink the potion of the Duke of Aquitaine. Now the entire faction of the Duke of Aquitaine is gone because of this potion, but what about Crodis? Has he been affected?"
"I really don't know this. Because of this potion, there were too many people in the city that day." Dust's wine seemed to have finally woken up completely, "but I can go and inquire about the information and come back to tell you."
“How much time do you need?”
"A day is enough. At this time tomorrow, you will wait for me here like now."
"By the way, see if I can find out about Meli's information for me," said Alfred. "She has disappeared for a long time."
"Merry, right? It's wrapped around me."
Perhaps because he realized that he had misled the matter, Dust dared not stay in the tavern for too long, put on his clothes and hurriedly left the tavern.
Ella served the dish, but Alfred and Ella were not thinking about it.
"If the situation is as he said, I think I may not be able to find out any useful information in one day." Alfred said, "Would we go and find out ourselves?"
"I think so, too." Ella replied, "Let's go to the local church tomorrow. If anything is abnormal, you should be able to see a clue from there."
He found a hotel to rest for a night, and the next morning, Ella took Alfred to the local church. Before coming to Paris, they asked the priests in red to perform a symbolic baptism ceremony for them, and received two crosses as tokens, hanging these two crosses on their chests, and they looked like ordinary believers of the Abrahamic church.
The church door was open, but there was no sound of prayer inside. Walking into the gate, you could see that the lobby, which was originally used for mass, was filled with wooden boxes containing things. In addition, there were many scattered things on the ground, including some religious ritual utensils and daily necessities, which were being sorted into boxes by priests and nuns and sealed.
Seeing Ella and the others come in, a nun greeted him and said a little apologetically: "Sorry, this church has been deactivated. We are packing up and preparing to leave."
"Disable? Why?" Ella asked in surprise, "Are you moving somewhere else?"
"Don't you know? Just a few days ago, the consul gave us an ultimatum to leave Paris within a week. Now it's a few days away. If he doesn't leave, he will put us all in a cell."
"The Count of Ile-de-France asked you to leave Paris? Why is that?"
A priest who was packing things in the back looked up and said, "Actually, this is quite common. There are always some lords who are repeatedly dealing with us. It is estimated that soon, he will order our church to be expelled from the entire Federation. Before the decree is issued, we must go to Cologne and report to the Archbishop about this matter."
"What does the Archbishop mean?"
"Article Gregory. But he recently returned to the Tianfang Empire, and a Cardinal named Alexander is acting in his position."
As soon as this sentence was spoken, the priests and nuns sighed and said with regret: "What a pity, if Archbishop Gregorian was here, how could the Count of France dare to do such a thing to us?"
"Will no one else give you...to stand out for us?"
The nun shook his head: "Where will there be? I'm afraid even the archbishop in the cardinal will not be able to deal with this problem. The Earl of France is willing to give us a time limit and we are already grateful. The Duke of Otto and the most recent Duke of Aquitaine were all bloody when expelling our church."
"But don't worry." Someone comforted Ella, "For you believers, we will solve these things as soon as possible. The church will put pressure on the Earl of Ile-de-France. It's really not possible. There is a powerful Tianfang Empire behind us."
"Then, I'm waiting for your good news."
After answering perfunctorily, Ella pulled Alfred and turned away from the church.
"These priests seemed to have no idea about Crodisius." Ella whispered, "Is this a little strange?"
"The situation inside their church seems a bit complicated," said Alfred. "But he has received useful information - since the Count of Ile-de-France expelled the Church of Abraham, he has not joined forces with the apostles."
"But this does not mean that Crodis is dead."
Chapter completed!