Chapter 140: With the Church of Light, the Inquisition is inevitable
Mo Cheng followed someone closely in the crowd. He felt an aura from that person that didn't belong here. This aura aroused his curiosity, but also caused some concern.
In order to find out the identity of this person, Mo Cheng put aside the matter of accompanying Lilia to school and followed the person who gave him a strange aura.
Walking in the crowd, following the noble in front, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes but had only one servant following him.
They were minor nobles who came to Fairhaven to study. Their family conditions were not very good and they did not have their own private carriage, but for the sake of so-called aristocratic dignity, they often brought one or two followers with them.
The Winterhold Magic Academy covers a huge area, but the two people in front consciously went to a remote place with few people. Judging from their journey, they obviously had a clear destination.
If Mo Cheng wanted to follow, he naturally had to provide adequate cover. With the help of [Seventy-two Transformations], the two people in front hardly felt that they were being followed.
The first person to appear in the crowd was a scholar in plain clothes. Ten steps later, the scholar disappeared, and was replaced by a wealthy businessman with a jewel ring on his hand. Then, there was a student of Winterhold holding a book. When the two young nobles walked into a secluded woods, following behind them was a lazy black cat that could be seen everywhere in the Winterhold Academy.
Mo Cheng followed the two all the way to a cabin in the woods, which seemed to be a place where lumberjacks or hunters rested when they entered the mountains. The black cat leaped lightly a few times without disturbing anyone and arrived in the direction facing the window of the hunter's cabin, turning into a tree mixed in with many trees.
Looking through the window, in addition to the two people he was following, there was also a man with a gloomy expression.
"David, Burton, just the two of you?"
The status of the Yinzhi man was obviously higher than those two people. David and Burton bowed and saluted when they saw him, "Captain Hardy, we are the only two people in Fairhaven who can come here at this time."
Hardy frowned, as if he was somewhat dissatisfied with the small number of people coming, but he still didn't say anything.
“This time…”
Just as he was about to say something, Hardy looked around cautiously, then took out a scroll and opened it to activate it. Immediately, a layer of nearly transparent light spread out within 50 meters around the hunter's cabin.
When seeing the scroll in Hardy's hand, Mo Cheng's heart trembled and he covered his body with holy light. When the light shield swept over, there was no reaction when it came into contact with the holy light on his body.
Mo Cheng recognized what it was. It was the [ Alert . It was very common in the hands of Glorious priests. It was used in the wild to create an alarm device that would wake up the person who set it up if there was an invasion by foreign objects.
But few people know that the [Vigilance Barrier] of the Church of Light is a degraded version of the unpopular spell [Glory Refuge]. [Glory Refuge] can not only form a warning area with a diameter of 50 meters, but all non-holy light life forms in the area will be marked out.
And in the Church of Light, there is only one faction that would modify the spell [Glory Shelter] so that its light shield becomes transparent while also having the effect of camouflage, deception and surveillance.
"Tsk, the Inquisition has won the jackpot."
Even Mo Cheng didn't know how to evaluate his luck. He actually encountered the Inquisition, which was notorious even in the Church of Light, in the Principality of Aundair, a place where the church's power was extremely weak.
The Inquisition was once a subordinate order of the Church of Glory. Its philosophy was to use force to eliminate the "unclean ones" who had infiltrated the Church of Glory. In Mo Cheng's opinion, they were the most insane group of people in the church system.
If compared with the organizations that Mo Cheng knows, the Inquisition is a combination of KGB, MI6, CIA and Mossad, and may even have more power than these organizations.
Because the Inquisition not only collects information from various countries and organizations, but also determines whether it will harm the glorious faith.
It is also responsible for gathering intelligence on powerful nobles and kings in various countries within the sphere of influence of the Glorious Church, to ensure that secular governments do not become distracted by some interests and intend to betray the Glorious teachings.
Even within the Glorious Church, it has enormous power of adjudication, and can require members below the rank of bishop to unconditionally cooperate with interrogations regarding faith.
As far as Mo Cheng knew, the power of the Inquisition within the Church of Light was extremely strong. At its peak, it could even interfere with the will of the Pope and launch a "holy war" against the outside world.
But that is all in the past now, because the Inquisition had too much power, and was even able to interfere with the Pope at one point. In addition, every director of the Inquisition had plans to run for the Pope, but each time he failed to win the papal throne.
Over the past five hundred years, three popes have continuously worked to weaken the power of the Inquisition. Finally, twenty years ago, the Pope and the cardinals joined forces to exile Archbishop Alfonso, the head of the Inquisition, to a place far away from the center of power of the Church of Light.
Archbishop Alfonso was indignant and intended to mobilize the power of the Inquisition to force the emperor to abdicate, thus triggering a civil war within the Church of Light.
After the war, Archbishop Alfonso disappeared and the Inquisition was disbanded. At the same time, for unknown reasons, the list of captains of the Inquisition was lost. Subsequently, those Inquisition personnel hiding in various countries died mysteriously for various reasons.
After that, the Pope reorganized the Inquisition, but only to monitor the internal faith issues of the Church of Light, and the name was changed to the Inquisition.
But Mo Cheng knew clearly that the former director of the Inquisition and former Archbishop Alfonso was not dead. He even saw the advantages of the players when they were in the [Foreign Land] and extended an olive branch to the players when they had not yet grown up.
Afterwards, he even tried to lead a large army to counterattack the Glorious Church and settle the old grievances with the Pope, of course, using the other side 's blood.
The final result of the war was that the Pope used his glorious power to kill Alfonso, but he was also severely injured and died .
At that time, the rewards for the civil war in the Glorious Church were very generous, and even Mo Cheng participated in it. Unfortunately, he was alone and his contribution on the battlefield was not enough, so he could not get the generous prizes offered by the Glorious Church.
Mo Cheng couldn't remember many things related to that war, but he still remembered clearly what the players of the Inquisition thought of Alfonso.
"He has fanatical religious ideas, racial and anthropological theories, and his methods are more radical than those of the hawks. He is just one step away from writing a book called 'My Struggle'. Wait, fuck! There really is a book written by Alfonso circulating within the Inquisition. This guy really has a book called 'My Faith'!"
Then why would the subordinates of Alfonso, the former director of the Inquisition, who even players think is the hawk among hawks, appear in the Winterhold Comprehensive Magic Academy?
