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Chapter 351 The Queen's Commission

Wu Chang held Julie's letter in his hand, his eyes became dazed, and some memories that had never happened emerged in his mind.

His current identity as the descendant of the arcane knight was inherited from the Moonlight Sanatorium. At that time, his identity was false and could not stand up.

Under the effect of the True Walker title, he actually turned his originally fictitious identity into reality, and along with Irene's identity, he got a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

Now Sean has actually become a descendant of the Mystic Knight.

It’s just that Sean’s ancestor was just an apprentice arcane knight, the last one in the knight order, and a little transparent person with a low sense of existence.

Not long after joining the Order, it quickly declined and its members went their separate ways.

In addition to completing the authenticity of his identity, the real walker also helped him fabricate an experience that could not be falsified.

At this point in time, five years have passed since he left the Moonlight Sanatorium.

After the collapse of the Moonlight Sanatorium, he left Stellan in search of new opportunities and took a ship to the New World, Stellan's former largest colony.

I heard that the world's largest gold mine was discovered there, and a global gold rush is about to break out.

In the end, he didn't find much gold, but he did make a small fortune and gained some fame by helping the gold mine solve its haunting problem.

During an exorcism, he met Irene, an exorcist from the church, fell in love with her, and they got married.

Just when the days were gradually becoming stable, a letter across the ocean brought him and Irene back from the New World to Grimland, the capital of Styland and the center of the world.

The letter asking him to come back was from Julie, saying that there was a big commission waiting for him.

As long as it is accomplished, not to mention wealth and glory, even promotion to a higher position and restoration of the glory of ancestors would not be a bad idea.

To increase credibility, a letter of appointment from the leader of the Mystic Knights was placed in the envelope.

It was for Julie's promise that Wu Chang and Irene made a bumpy journey into Grimland.

At this moment, the two of them had just rented a hotel and put down their luggage when Julie's second letter arrived.

Waking up from the false real memory, Wu Chang flicked the envelope.

As soon as he landed, the letter arrived like a shadow, which showed that his and Irene's actions were completely under each other's control.

During his absence, this old friend seemed to have made great progress.

Julie was very cautious and used occult techniques to add a code to the sealing wax that would automatically identify the King's emblem.

If someone who was not wearing the king's emblem tried to peek at a letter, the moment the sealing wax was removed, the letter inside would spontaneously combust and leave a mark on the peeker.

The encryption technique was very sophisticated, but in front of Wu Chang's eyes of law-breaking, all the designs were visible at a glance.

learned.

While Wu Chang was writing down the mystical applications of the sealing wax, he tore open the wax and took out the envelope.

There were two pieces of paper in the envelope, one of which was a clipping that looked like it was cut from a newspaper.

The huge length symbolizes its front-page status.

《Breaking obituary: The honorable Prime Minister suffered an emergency and was called by the Lord last night.》

The text of the news stated that Prime Minister Sir Neil Ron died peacefully at his residence due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 55.

Her Majesty the Queen was deeply saddened upon hearing the sad news and ordered the entire territory of Stirling to fly flags at half-mast as a sign of mourning.

After the clipping, there was a piece of letter paper with the handwritten words 4pm, St. George's Cathedral.

"Trigger the hidden side quest. Go to St. George's Cathedral and meet Julie before 4pm."

Wu Chang opened his pocket watch and took a look. It was two o'clock in the afternoon.

With two hours in hand, instead of waiting in the hotel or gathering information everywhere, it is better to go to the area around St. George's Cathedral early in the morning to check out the area.

He and Irene briefly described their current situation and they set off immediately.

After earning some money in the New World and returning to Stylan to prepare to take up the position of leader of the Knights, Sean pays great attention to the quality of life.

The Rich Hotel where he and his wife lived was very luxurious. It specialized in receiving aristocrats and foreign tourists and was famous for its service.

Wu Chang came to the front desk and said:
"I am going to travel now. Please prepare a carriage for me as soon as possible."

The hotel was very efficient. In less than ten minutes, an exquisite rental carriage appeared in front of Wu Chang.

The person driving the carriage was not an ordinary lower-class coachman. He was wearing a full set of neat uniform, with neat and tidy curly hair, a top hat on his head, and a neither humble nor arrogant smile on his face. He was obviously an excellent trained coachman.

Wu Chang took Irene to the carriage and said, "St. George's Cathedral."

As the world's most powerful country today, Stirling's capital, Grimland, is both the center of the world economy and the center of the world industry.

The huge chimneys of the factory discharge smoke from burning coal into the sky, so that no matter what season it is, the sky in Grimland is covered with a layer of gray-black fog.

The carriage was traveling through the street. Wu Chang opened the window of the carriage. Before he could see the appearance of the heart of the world clearly, a strong mixed smell rushed into the carriage and went straight to the top of his head.

The pungent smog, the rotten-smelling sewage and garbage dumped randomly on the streets, the sour stench of excrement, mixed with the wheat aroma of open-air bakeries, the grease of fried fish and chips, and the strong scent of various perfumes.

They mixed together to form a smell that contained both fragrance and stench, and was very intoxicating.

This smell is the smoke of Grimland.

Wu Chang sniffed and frowned slightly. He smelled a hint of blood in the air.

Listening carefully, I could hear noises and shouting coming from the distant neighborhood.

Before he could open his mouth, the driver took the initiative to say, "Sir, I'm sorry, the road ahead is blocked, I need to change the route and take a longer route."

Wu Chang asked curiously: "What happened in front?"

The driver said, "It was just an ordinary workers' march, but they chose the wrong time and ran into the gunpoint."

Wu Chang followed up by asking, "Why are the workers marching?"

The driver sighed and replied:
"What else could it be? It's nothing more than the usual demands for more wages, better working conditions and universal suffrage."

Wu Chang said: "From what you just said, the demonstration will turn into a violent conflict."

The driver shook his head and said, "Not necessarily at ordinary times, but right now the Prime Minister has just been assassinated, er, just passed away, the police are so busy that they have no place to vent their anger."

"Moving to a large-scale demonstration at this time is like adding fuel to the fire. I hope not too many people will die."

Wu Chang narrowed his eyes and said:
"You just said that the Prime Minister was assassinated? I saw in the newspaper that the Prime Minister died of a cerebral hemorrhage."

At this point, the driver also opened up and said:
"Dear sir, you and your wife are obviously foreigners. You are here to attend the industrial expo in a month and are not familiar with Stiland."

"Prime Minister Ron has always been healthy and has the title of Iron Prime Minister. How could he die of a cerebral hemorrhage?"

"People are speculating that there is something fishy about the prime minister's death."

Wu Chang took out a few banknotes from his pocket and stuffed them into the driver's pocket, saying:

"We are indeed here for the World Industrial Expo, and we just happen to need a local who knows the inside story and can tell us some interesting information."

"For example, Prime Minister Ron and the St. Paul's Cathedral we are going to. My wife and I are both devout believers. St. George's Cathedral is the largest church in Grimland. We are very interested in it."

In his false memory, he had vaguely heard that there had been a reformation in the religion of Stellan.

The original Holy Bishop was replaced by the Holy Revelation.

I don’t know if he is too sensitive, but the name of the Holy Revelation Church reminds him of the Book of Revelation.

The driver touched the banknotes in his hand. In Stellan, the main currencies used by ordinary people were copper coins and silver coins. Only the upper class disliked the inconvenience of carrying gold coins and used paper money.

For the coachman, paper money is a huge sum of money.

His attitude became more respectful as he spoke about the information about the Holy Revelation Church.

Speaking of the change of the Holy Bishop to the Holy Revelation Church, Prime Minister Ron should also be mentioned.

Prime Minister Ron adheres to the principle of giving priority to Stellan and believes that the Holy See is influencing Stellan through the Holy Bishop. In order to weaken the power of the church and get rid of the control of the Holy See, he promoted the establishment of the Holy Revelation Society four years ago.

The Society of the Holy Spirit maintained its original religious customs, but no longer obeyed the orders of the Holy See. Queen Olivia was the supreme religious leader, and Archbishop Smith was in actual control of religious affairs.

Archbishop Smith, Wu Chang frowned slightly and confirmed:
“Archbishop Julie Smith?”

The driver nodded.

Wu Chang sighed. It seemed that their Miss Julie held a higher position than he thought, and had a closer relationship with the Queen. But this was also true. If not, she would not have been able to take out the "King's Badge" at the Moonlight Sanatorium.

As the coachman explained, the carriage soon arrived at St. George's Cathedral.

St. George's Cathedral has a history of more than 700 years.

The church is three hundred meters high and is built entirely of marble. It is the largest church in Stirling and the second largest in the world, second only to the Vatican Headquarters.

Wu Chang looked up at the sky. A huge round stone dome pierced the sky. It seemed that its existence was preventing the dark gray clouds in the sky from falling to the earth.

The huge church is like a super fortress. Only the extraordinary world could have created such a human wonder seven hundred years ago.

He and Irene entered the church, and even though he did not believe in any religion, he was still infected by the solemnity inside the church.

The statue at the front of the church is a woman with a compassionate face and a golden trumpet in her hand.

He didn't recognize the woman's face, but he was very familiar with the golden horn in the woman's hand. Just as he had guessed before, the Holy Revelation Church was indeed a branch of the Book of Revelation.

If the Church of the Holy Spirit is an offshoot of the Book of Revelation, then the identity of the person Christine wants him to help is obvious.

It was either the nominal supreme leader of the Holy Revelation Church, Queen Olivia, or Archbishop Julie.

Wu Chang, who discovered all this, suddenly had a strange expression on his face.

If Julie was a believer in Revelation from the beginning, then everything that happened in the Moonlight Sanatorium was not just a game between the Serenity Sect and Revelation?
He originally thought that he and Lehman were destined to be together. The moment he entered the Abyss Game, he became entangled with him. He did not expect that the same would happen with Revelation.

Because we took a detour on the road and listened to a lot of information about Stian from the driver, it was already 3:30 in the afternoon when we entered St. George's Cathedral.

There was little time left, so Wu Chang and Irene simply sat in the church and listened to the priest preaching in the front of the church.

Irene listened very carefully, with an expression of understanding on her face, but Wu Chang was not so interested and looked around at the glazed windows.

Not long after, a man sat down next to him and whispered:

"Sean, long time no see."

Wu Chang turned his head to look at the woman sitting next to him. It was Nurse Julie who had helped him at the Moonlight Sanatorium.

But compared with the Moonlight Sanatorium, in addition to the coldness and sexiness on Julie's face, there is also an extra layer of sacred and inviolable attribute unique to clergy.

This unique temperament was like poison, intensifying the aggressiveness of her appearance and turning it into an oppressive and superior one.

The moment people see her, they can't help but feel awe and worship. This temperament will also increase others' desire to conquer her.

Wu Chang whispered:

"What should I call you now, Nurse Julie, Knight Julie, or Archbishop Julie."

Julie prayed to the holy image and then said nonchalantly:

"The name is just a code name. It's enough for us to know that we are calling each other."

Wu Chang shrugged and said, "Okay, Archbishop Julie, you called me back to Stylan from the New World. I don't know what you want me to do."

Julie stood up and said, "You have been entrusted by someone else. Follow me."

Wu Chang and Irene stood up and followed Julie towards the secret passage inside the church.

On the way, Wu Chang asked Julie about what happened after the Moonlight Sanatorium, such as the situation of Dean Randy, whether the Serenity Church was liquidated, and what happened to her over the years.

According to Julie, after Wu Chang exorcised the possessed Lyman, Dean Randy did not die, but was saved by her and brought back to Grimland.

After the Moonlight Sanatorium incident, Dean Randy turned a disaster into a blessing and unlocked his long-hidden talent for mysticism.

His powerful talent for the occult, combined with systematic occult training, has allowed his strength to grow rapidly. He has become a qualified occult knight, and his combat power is even not inferior to that of his ancestor, Old Anderson.

Now that he has been assigned to an important position, it won’t be long before he can restore the reputation of the Anderson family.

As for the Church of Tranquility, Forest City and the Vino Family were all liquidated, and Randy led the team to eradicate the Vino Family.

Following the clues, they tracked down hundreds of believers of the Ningjing Church.

Those with serious offenses were hanged in public, loyal believers were treated as serious criminals and exiled overseas, and ordinary people who were coerced were not held accountable.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but when the three of them were talking about Julie herself, they happened to come to a secret door.

“Here we are,” Julie said.

She pushed the door open and led Wu Chang and the other man into a secret door, where a man in a black robe was already waiting.

Seeing Julie asking someone to come in, the man in black robe took off his hood, revealing his golden hair as bright as the sun and a sweet face that was more dazzling than the sun.

Wu Chang stood in front of Irene, saluted the black-robed man as a knight, and said:

"It is an honor to meet you, Her Majesty Queen Olivia."

Without Julie's introduction, he could guess the origin of the black-robed person in front of him. The woman in front of him, whose movements were as graceful as velvet and whose every frown and smile was more exquisite than porcelain, was the nominal supreme ruler of the Stellan Empire.

Queen, Olivia.

"Mr. Sean, I heard about your performance from Julie a long time ago. Defeating the evil god with a mortal body, this kind of courage and wisdom is the best and most valuable quality of the arcane knight."

"It's nice to meet you too, and the beautiful lady behind you."

Irene wanted to imitate Wu Chang's salute, but Wu Chang grabbed her hand and stopped her.

How could their own goddess bow to a mortal queen, even if it was a knight's salute?

"Her name is Irene, she is my wife. The religion she believes in is somewhat different from the Holy Revelation Church. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Olivia was very easy to talk to. She smiled and responded:
"It is understandable. The establishment of the Holy Revelation Church was too direct and crude. It does not have a very good reputation among the religious branches of the Holy See."

"But the conflict between us is purely about power. There is no difference in the gods we believe in."

Wu Chang agreed verbally but couldn't help rolling his eyes in his heart.

Keep pretending. What you believe in in the Holy Revelation Church is not much better than what the Tranquility Church believes in.

Olivia didn't know what Wu Chang was thinking, so she continued:

"Mr. Sean, Julie invited you back this time because she wanted to use your wisdom and strength to clear the haze over the empire."

Wu Chang's expression became slightly strange. The smog in Grimland has changed the city's nickname to the Fog City. To control air quality at this level, you have to control factory pollution. Asking him for help will not solve the problem.

Olivia sighed. At this moment, she seemed to have taken off her armor, and a distressing look of worry appeared on her face.

"Mr. Sean, after you defeated the evil god Lehman, you left Stilan and went to the New World. You don't know about the changes in Stilan."

"During these five years, under the leadership of Prime Minister Ron, Stilan's technology has made rapid progress, and its technology and industry are the best in the world. However, the rapid development speed has also brought huge hidden worries."

From Olivia's description, Wu Chang gradually understood his mission this time.

With the development of science and technology, the various forces in the empire are no longer satisfied with the old distribution of interests.

Beneath the apparent prosperity of the empire, there lurks a turbulent undercurrent.

Before, there was Prime Minister Ron, who was able to maintain the balance of power among all parties relying on his strong prestige.

But because of this, Prime Minister Ron was too arrogant and thought that no matter what the reforms were, all parties would tolerate them for his sake, which brought him fatal disaster.

Just as the driver said, Prime Minister Rowan did not die of illness, but died in a shameful assassination.

Although Olivia regretted the death of Prime Minister Ron, as the queen, she was naturally concerned about the overall stability of the empire.

"Before Prime Minister Rowan died, strange phenomena occurred in Grimland. Anti-Corn Law marches and workers' strikes took place everywhere. Extraordinary assassins were rampant at night, and everyone was in danger. A cholera epidemic made the living environment in the slums difficult. The Quiet Church took the opportunity to rise up and try to revive."

"Now, coupled with the assassination of the Prime Minister, there are shadows of various forces behind these events. They are all tools for them to fight for power. Once Prime Minister Ron dies, they will have nothing to worry about."

The fragility on Olivia's face disappeared at this moment, and her eyes became firm.

"The International Industrial Expo is coming soon. This is a great opportunity to show our national strength and dominance to the world. As the queen of our country, I will never allow them to mess this up."

"Mr. Sean, so I would like to ask you to investigate these things, catch the mastermind behind them, and deter the forces they belong to so that they can restrain themselves."

"We don't have to solve all the problems. We only need to solve one or two problems so that the International Industrial Expo can be held smoothly."

"Hidden side quest: Clear the haze of Grimland and catch at least one person behind the city's anomalies. There is no penalty for failure. Do you want to accept the quest?"

(End of this chapter)