In a small lookout room in Fort Torre, Duke Don Bavi was sitting in a wheelchair and was looking at the city of Buhalanther below through the wide window of the lookout room.

The lookout room is very high. In order to have a better view, the person who built the room specially built the whole lookout room to highlight it outwards. There is a row of wide windows on the semicircular walls, so that more things can be observed as much as possible.

However, because of this, when you look out from this observation room, you always feel like you are standing by a hanging cliff. A timid person even thinks about the steep cliff under the wooden board that is trampled by him, and he will often be immediately frightened and dare not move.

Duke Don Bavi has been in this lookout room for a long time. The wind blowing in from the empty window made his mouth turn blue, but he stubbornly refused to leave, and even drove the servants around him out, leaving only himself here.

The city of Buhalanse below looks so beautiful. This is the pride of Duke Don Bavi. His family has ruled here for four generations. Except for the earliest Duke Don Bavi, his short-lived father and uncle have not ruled here for much longer.

Pamonid Don Bavi is almost 70 years old. He has been the Duke of Buhalanse for almost 30 years. This period was his best time. During these days, he not only had power and power in the Castile court, but also became the largest feudal lord in the south of this kingdom. Even today, when Queen Isabella has shown obvious attempts to confiscate the power of the feudal lord, he is still the best among these lords.

He owned large tracts of fields and vineyards, almost the most fertile land in the kingdom, and a wealthy chamber of commerce that did overseas trade. These wealth was enough to make any European nobles jealous. As for power, although he had not been to Valladot again for a long time, his influence was still so great that most nobles wanted to get advice from him before making decisions on many important matters.

In Buhalanthus, he is the ruler and destiny, and even he is God. No one can go against his will, which is very clear to anyone.

He could choose merciful rule and brutal exploitation, or he could decide to make any family happy or disaster come. In Buhalanth, his name was read by the people every day when praying for the people, because when they were praying for the blessing mass, they did not follow the rules and pray for the Duke to pray for peace. Even his name was only behind the queen and the wife, and before other royal members.

All this was enough to make him feel honored and enough to satisfy him not to ask for anything, and that was indeed what Permonides Don Bavi thought.

He hoped to spend his old age so peacefully, because he had experienced so many things in those years before. When he was old, he hoped to live a peaceful life. Perhaps it would take a few years for his life to come. If he was lucky, he would see God in his sleep. If he was unlucky, he might suffer some sin before his death. However, this was nothing compared to the blessing he enjoyed in this life.

Don Bavi felt that he was really open-minded. He had asked his eldest son to take over the affairs of the territory. He had not left Fort Torre for a long time in recent years. He even thought of a way out for his several illegitimate children. He felt that he could not treat them badly, so in addition to one of them who had arranged to be the dean of the monastery, the other two were arranged to work in the chambers of commerce in Malaga and Ceuta, so that their future lives would be guaranteed.

Don Bavie got everything ready, and then he was ready to enjoy the last few years of his footprint, and wait for God's call with satisfaction and regret.

But this beautiful dream was suddenly destroyed, and the one who destroyed his dream was Isabella who had risked his life to support him.

When Isabella and Ferdinand got married, Don Bavi keenly realized that the couple might make some moves in the future. He knew that Ferdinand was a very cunning person, and Isabella had extremely firm will. The result of the combination of the two people would definitely lead to a significant increase in the power of the royal family.

However, Don Bavi still chose to support Isabella at that time because his territory was located in the south of Castilla, and the Moors were very close to his territory in Granada, the last country of the Iberian Peninsula. In order to fight against the increasingly unfavorable situation, Granada at that time launched a fierce counterattack against Andalusia in the hope of establishing enough buffer zones near its own country before being eventually invaded.

At this time, the army sent by the Granada monarch Boabudir posed a threat to many southern regions, including the city of Buhalanse, and at that time everyone knew that Enrique had no interest in invading Granada and expelling pagans.

For Don Bavi, the threat of Granada is greater than that of the future kings who might confiscate the noble power. After all, it is a matter that is both far away and has no basis, but the threat brought by the madness caused by the Moors to survive is real.

It is precisely because of these that Don Bavi made the most risky choice in his life at a critical moment and that he would come back to see the most rewarding choice.

His choice was finally rewarded, Enrique was forced to announce the abolition of Juana's inheritance rights, and then Isabe was on the throne. The queen also showed enough gratitude for Don Bavi's support for him and her at a critical moment.

Everything would have had a perfect result, and Don Bavi was ready to spend his old age comfortably, but Isabella attacked him, or at this time, or to say, all the feudal lords.

When Isabella first preached the holy land, people did not know the queen's true thoughts. Many people were purely supportive of faith, and some were also happy to see the second day of the world appear in Castile for one purpose.

At that time, many people spared no effort to express their strong support for the Queen's promotion of the Second Heaven Kingdom. The lords were excited to ask their subordinates to collect various miracles and signs of possible miracles among the people, and then sorted them out and sent them to Valladot. However, all kinds of messy auspicious auspiciousness that suddenly surged out from all over Castile, although many sound incredible and even absurd, seeing that the Queen was enjoying it, the nobles still reported the "miracles" in their respective territories according to their preferences.

Even Don Bavi was just a little bored at the Queen's fantasy of making Xiangrui so popular. He felt that Isabella probably had lived a safe life for too long, and as she grew older, she began to consider the reputation that might be left behind him.

It is obvious that the Queen is probably not satisfied with the achievements and reputations obtained by secular society, so she encourages her to find good fortune in order to dress herself up as a devout monarch who revives the heavenly kingdom on earth.

This originally seemed nothing, and Don Bavi didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but suddenly everything changed!

Many of the reported miracles have inexplicably become heresy, and those men and women who have previously been envied by people have claimed to have received God's revelation became demons and witches.

These people were sent to the church for interrogation, and priests and pastors used torture torture and torture these people and asked for confessions.

Pandora's box opens when a place begins to use a desperate way to judge whether a person is heresy.

They tied the poor people to the stake and ignited the raging fire, and then claimed that if the sins they accused were not true, then these people could use pious prayers to obtain shelter from God, and miracles would occur to be saved.

The result is self-evident, and many people are burned to death in such a ridiculous ruling.

After their death, they were also treated as heresy and destroyed the corpses.

More people were implicated, and countless people had to sell their property and find ways to clear themselves or their families in order to get rid of prison or even more terrible punishment.

The priests unbridled accusations of someone as heresy, and at the same time they encourage the public to report.

For the whistleblower, the church promises to reward and give opportunities for atonement.

This has allowed more and more people to see opportunities, and many people try to make a fortune or get exemption from crime in this way.

Others regard informing as a means of revenge on others.

The church turned a deaf ear to this motive, and they were more concerned about catching heresy and witches.

The priests in many places simply deprived the local nobles and judges of the power to judge these prisoners. They directly instructed the apologists composed of people and soldiers under their command to arrest and detain those whom they were accused of heresy, and then they judged in some ridiculous ways whether these people were heresy or witches.

Once you are identified like this, it is almost destined to be difficult to get rid of the terrible fate, and often waiting for the defendant is a variety of terrible punishments.

The arrested people were just ordinary urban citizens and peasants at first, but gradually, some lower-class nobles were also implicated, and the priests did not care about the methods of these little nobles at all, and even became even more cruel. This finally shocked the Castile nobles, who tried to stop the fire that had already burned them, but soon they realized that it was too late.

Castilla was full of priests who caught heresy and burned witches and escorts who followed them, and the encouragement and instigation of the church made them even more unscrupulous. In some places, nobles found that they were gradually losing control of the people in their territory.

Then, news came that Isabella's private confessional priest Thomas Tongomada suggested to the Queen that it set up a trial court of the church.

Don Bawei sensed the crisis from these signs.

The frequent actions of the church to interfere or even penetrate the land of feudal lords in the name of punishing heresy are obviously a dangerous signal. This frequent actions not only offend the dignity of the nobles, but more seriously, as such things continue to occur, the power of the nobles is being eroded and replaced unconsciously.

This sign has appeared in many places. The church has completely controlled the process of the suspects from arrest to detention and finally to the execution of the judgment. The nobles have become dispensable symbols in the court.

In the name of punishing heresy, no noble dared to take the risk of publicly and accuse such behavior.

The priests became more and more bold and unrestrained. Even some of the little nobles were unable to escape being dragged to court to accept all kinds of offenses from questioning to trial.

Don Bavi noticed the unusualness of this, and when he heard that Thomas Tongomada had proposed the idea of ​​the church court and Isabella happily agreed to actively promote it, he finally understood where the root of all this lies.

First, they promoted the discovery of miracles, and then when various places responded to the reports of real and fake legends and strange things as miracles, they suddenly turned against each other and announced that these strange phenomena were conspiracies of heretics and witches. Then they quickly used churches in various places to attack them, and at the same time took the opportunity to infiltrate the territory of the nobles, and used the church and the people to directly seize judicial power in those places.

Later, when the time came, it was ripe for the establishment of a church court, completely emptied the nobles from all over the country.

It is obvious that Isabella is using the seemingly harmless god-making movement to secretly promote plans to eliminate dissidents and weaken the aristocratic power.

Don Bavi felt unprecedented fear.

Before, because those trials were only targeting ordinary civilians, no one cared too much, and did not arouse the vigilance of the nobles. However, when the nobles finally realized that things were beginning to develop in their unexpected direction, the changes in the situation had already exceeded his imagination.

The Thomas Tongomoda Society openly proposed to establish a church court because the situation has become very beneficial to Isabella. This is a surprise attack on the nobles using the church and the people. It is obvious that Isabella achieved a real victory in this war.

The cold wind blew in from the surrounding viewing windows, but this coldness was not comparable to the chill in Don Bawei's heart.

Isabella's elegance makes Don Bavi creepy.

He could not have imagined that the princess who seemed to him was just a young girl at the time had become a dangerous hunter.

She had unknown intentions behind her seemingly ardent pursuit of faith in Valiadod's palace.

What's even more terrifying is that even if he already understood Isabella's intentions, there was no way, because Isabella occupied the great name for preaching Christian doctrine.

This has resulted in a favorable situation where no one can compete with her head.

Could it be that Isabella would just let her eat step by step, and finally she turned into that woman's food on the plate?

Don Bawei held the leather armrest of the wheelchair unwillingly. Although he was thin, his fingers were still very strong and he had to let go, but in the end he had to let go.

Don Bavi moved his body, which was a little numb by the cold wind, tightened the deer-skin blanket wrapped around his legs, then picked up the wine glass placed beside him, and took a sip of the strong wine.

First, it was cold, then the feeling of burning his throat made Don Bawei's energy cheer up. He took a breath and then exhaled it hard, as if he wanted to expel the depression in his chest from his body.

"Elizabeth Ella Rastamara," Don Bavi murmured to himself. To him, the name was already closely entangled with his fate, and it seemed that fate was destined. No matter what happened in the future, the relationship between him and the name was inseparable.

A light knock on the door came from behind, and a follower came in to report to Don Bavi: "Master, the Pastor Gado had just executed a stolen in the city. He declared his half-brother Mandosa a heresy, and then burned him to death on the spot. And Mandosa's family, who were all declared to have stolen for heresy, and then Pastor Gado announced that all the property of the Mandosa family was confiscated to the church."

"This bastard," Don Bavi pounded the chair hard. "He's taking revenge now. When Mandosa forced him to go to the convent, he didn't expect that one day would be like this."

"Master, people in the city are now saying that Pastor Gado will be a bishop or even an archbishop in the future." The entourage said carefully. "It is said that he publicly said in front of many people that he would punish all heresies, and even the nobles would never tolerate them."

"What does he want to do? Do you think of himself as the justice of Buhalanthus?" Don Bavi was angry. Seeing that the entourage seemed to have something to say, the duke said unhappily, "Is there anything else? Tell it out, I can't think of anything worse than this."

"It's such a master," said the attendant licking his lips carefully. "Some people say that when Pastor Gado was stolen, the Duke of Romanesia was nearby, and he saw the whole trial."

The follower's words made Don Bawei stunned at first, and then fell into deep thought.

Then he waved his hand and signaled his followers to push him out of the observation room. In the corridor of the castle, with the monotonous sound of the wooden wheels of the wheelchair, Don Bavi's face also flashed from time to time.

Finally, his wrinkled face showed an undetectable smile.

He asked his entourage to push him towards the hall. After coming to the center of the hall where many weapons and armor stood, he allowed his entourage to push him and slowly turn around the hall.

Looking up at the flags left by the ancestors of the Tang Bawei family hanging from the high beams of the house, Don Bawei sighed loudly.

"From my grandfather, the Don Bavi family ruled Buhalanth less than a hundred years," Don Bavi said slowly. "But my family has served the monarch since the time of Sancho Garcia, Earl of Castile, and that was centuries ago, so my family is the oldest noble in Castile, just like any family."

Don Bavi was like a man talking to himself or an old voice echoing in the hall, while the entourage behind him pushed the wheelchair and walked slowly with his eyes down, as if he didn't hear what the master was saying at all.

"A hundred years may be too long for a person, but it is still too short for a family. So here I swear in the name of Duke of Buhalanthus that Pamonid Don Bavi would be the fourth lord of Buhalanthus, but it was by no means the last lord. The glory of the Don Bavi family has just begun."
Chapter completed!