Throne of the North.

Chapter 541 Gerald's Last Honor
When the news of the first priest's death reached Count Mo Tong, the Count was also shocked and nervous.

"How could this be?"

When the news that the tenth priest had been killed reached his ears, the count became numb and his eyes became unfocused.

"how so."

The death of a priest is never a trivial matter. According to the standards of the Holy See, when one reaches the level of a priest, their death means going to the eternal heaven to serve the great Lord of the Dawn. It is the will of the gods.

This kind of thing is not a trivial matter and the Holy See should take it seriously in terms of faith.

To be more realistic, the status of a priest is not much lower than that of a baron. In short, according to the rules of the nobility, it is the death of a nobleman.

Still killed.

A large number of nobles were killed at the same time.

This would not be a trivial matter no matter where it happened, it could even be said to be a huge disaster. Not only would the nobles involved in this matter encounter huge troubles, but countless nobles inside and outside would show extreme attitudes towards this matter because of nervousness.

The nobles ruled the land, and the reaction they brought was earth-shaking.

The best example is that a cardinal died in the imperial capital, which led to the direct war between the Holy See and the Empire. From beginning to end, no one thought that there was anything unreasonable about this matter.

The Earl fell into confusion and chaos, and at this time the castle's steward appeared in front of him in panic.

"Master, Master, it's bad, those damned peasants, no, that's not right, it's Pastor Bradley who has gone crazy, he is leading those peasants to attack your army!"

"Stop them."

Count Zetton Gerald suddenly went from being confused to being angry. This was his castle, Gerald's castle. No one could trample on the dignity of Gerald's bloodline.

But the next moment, he called the butler.

"Tell Knight Rek not to hurt those clergymen. No more deaths can occur. Absolutely no more deaths can occur."

The housekeeper nodded and left like a chicken pecking at rice, but soon came back trembling.

"Master... come, it's too late."

People died faster than expected. In the small town below Earl Mo Tong's castle, there was the largest church in the land. The priest there was praying to the Lord of Dawn when he died. His faith was devout and had not been corrupted.

Because of this, the clergy around the priest were all absolute believers. They were angry about the priest being killed, and brought a large number of believers who followed them to ask the count for an explanation.

The soldiers naturally could not allow outsiders to break into the Earl's mansion, especially since these people had ill intentions.

The two sides confronted each other, but the Dawn Church had ruled the world for too long, and the clergy were not afraid of those knights at all. They also possessed extraordinary powers, and the two sides soon collided with each other.

Three respected pastors died in the chaos. After the priests, they had the highest prestige in the hearts of believers.

The knights were shocked, and the Holy Light Knights were also in disbelief. The three priests were old and did not have much physical strength. They were protected because they were the only ones who could question the earl.

"How...how did they die?"

"I don't know. I think Rachel is over there."

"Don't talk nonsense. I was fighting with that priest knight. I didn't touch them."

The crowd was talking at once, but they were retreating further and further away, which made the three corpses in snow-white robes on the ground extremely eye-catching.

"You killed Pastor Vega!"

A Holy Light Knight roared angrily, and a ray of holy light fell from the sky. His eyes turned white in an instant, and then he rushed towards Gerald's knights frantically.

"Dammit, stop him!"

In the sky, Knight Rick, the Holy Land Knight beside Count Mo Tong and also a student of the Moonlight Knight, arrived and looked coldly at the three corpses on the ground.

"It wasn't our people who killed them. The wounds on their bodies were too small."

The pressure from a Holy Land Knight calmed everyone down, except for the knight with snow-white eyes, who was still charging. Knight Rick was helpless, he could only suppress him himself and let several knights behind him hold his limbs down, but even so, he was still struggling.

"Give Carlson back!"

The clergy were fed up. How could they continue to watch their companions in such a miserable state after devoting their faith to the cause?

For a moment, the two sides once again engaged in a tense battle.

"We didn't kill them, but the Imperials, those damned believers of the Imperial Light!"

Rick's brain reacted quickly. He roared and used his faith in light to make these Dawn believers quiet down again. Both sides were breathing heavily and looking at each other with red eyes. The soldiers in the front were less than two steps away from each other.

The war suppressed by the power of the sanctuary no longer continued. Several priests gritted their teeth, pushed aside the knights and came to the three dead priests. They cried bitterly and kept consuming their own vitality to release divine spells, but corpses were just corpses.

"Pastor Vega and his companions were supposed to enter the eternal kingdom of heaven in two years. It's only two years away."

The priests' bodies and hands were shaking, the knights' eyes were once again mad, and the holy light was radiating over them. For the believers of Dawn, nothing could be more desperate than these words.

"We didn't kill him. We don't have weapons like that."

Knight Rick also felt his scalp tingling. He had the ability to kill all the enemies present, but he didn't dare to do so.

The power of the sanctuary can only barely maintain its persistence at this moment. Only the Earl can calm these damn Dawn believers down.

He had already asked the Earl's butler to go and call...

Knight Rick was breathing rapidly, but at this tense moment, one of Gerald's soldiers, not a knight, but an ordinary soldier suddenly drew out a fine dagger and rushed towards the priest who was too weak for him.

Under the gaze of everyone, the dagger pierced into the opponent's heart. With his eyes churning with madness and anger, the soldier even opened his teeth and bit towards the opponent's neck.

"Kill you, kill you monsters!"

"Mandel!"

The soldiers nearby opened their eyes wide, horrified and unable to understand what was happening at the moment. Only one soldier was also trembling. After watching this scene, he roared, pulled out a dagger and rushed towards another priest.

He failed. Knight Rick appeared behind the previous soldier and slapped him to death with one hand, then grabbed the second soldier by the neck and lifted him up.

The soldier struggled frantically, his face flushed red as he slapped Knight Rek's iron-like arm with one hand and waved the other hand holding the dagger around randomly. He was not elite, and the dagger couldn't even leave a scratch on Knight Rek's armor.

"It was them. They killed my mother and forced my father to death. They stole all the food and copper coins from our family and burned down our house. They forced me to sell my son and daughter to them. And my woman, Elsie, died just because of a little rain."

"It's all their fault, these damn monsters, they killed everything I had!"

The soldier roared as he struggled.

The clergy on the opposite side were also not happy. They saw with their own eyes that Gerald's soldiers killed the priest, and now they prayed to the sky without hesitation.

Holy light descended from the sky, and the snow-white beams flooded the entire land. Then the clergy rushed out from the holy light and charged frantically at Gerald's knights.

In front of Shenghui, they had only one goal, the battle between life and death, and they could not do whatever they wanted. At the beginning, after many of Gerald's soldiers were killed, the remaining ones instinctively resisted.

"Kill them!"

Count Mo Tong, who hurried out of the castle, happened to see this scene. The bloody battlefield between the two sides made him angry and frightened.

"Rake! What on earth are you doing!?"

Knight Rick had no idea what he was doing. He looked around and saw that his armor was covered with scars. He didn't even resist, but he couldn't suppress these Holy Light Knights who were covering their flesh and blood with holy light.

"It's over..."

When the battle stopped, the bodies lying on the ground were clearly distinguished. Gerald's soldiers were in a mess and covered in mud, while the clergy of the Vatican were lying on the ground in white.

"master!"

In the distance, a knight was riding a horse towards them. Seeing the tragedy on this land, he couldn't help but his pupils shrink, but he still suppressed his emotions and came to the earl.

"There was a lot of chaos in the Earldom of Golden Eyes. Your uncle's knights killed a priest and burned his head to ashes."

Count Mo Tong raised his head and opened his eyes wide.

"We just wanted their food, how could it turn out like this? Aren't we starting a war for the Dawn Church? Why did it turn out like this..."

The Earl looked at Knight Lake with trembling hands.

"Knight Lake, blockade, blockade the town. We must not let Pastor Yawen know about this."

"Follow your wishes."

Knight Rek was in a state of panic. He was timid throughout the entire battle and was now somewhat at a loss. …

The stream flows from the high mountains in the north to the distant south. Humans live on the water, and this stream feeds many people. Naturally, a road appears beside the stream.

Ryan, along with his two followers, Brand and Egil, were waiting on this road on horseback. Soon they saw twenty or thirty knights coming towards them.

"Who are you?"

Knight Fore became nervous the moment he saw Ryan and the other two. This was Earl Gerald's territory, and outsiders should not be allowed here. And the three people in front of him did not look like slaves in Gerald's territory.

This land is not big, and the circle is not big either. The temperaments of Ryan and the other two do not belong to any of the ones they know.

"Are you Kemon Gerald? The successor of Count Mo Tong?"

Ryan ignored Knight Fol and looked at the young man next to him.

Looking at the young man opposite him who was slightly older than him, Kemon subconsciously became nervous. He felt the same feeling he had when facing his father in the other person.

"who are you?"

"Lane Clayton."

"That Imperial Baron?!"

"The noble who killed the werewolf king?"

"Is it his army that stole our food?"

The knights were breathing rapidly, and Knight Forle entered combat mode in an instant.

"Are you going back to Motong Castle?"

Ryan asked, and Brand and Egil beside him looked at the opposite line of knights, then looked at each other and made a simple and tacit decision to divide the spoils.

"Baron of the Empire, why are you here?"

Kemon was nervous. He was worried about the cavalry corps that came and went like shadows around him. There were no large troops in Gerald's territory to stop them from attacking the Earl's castle.

Thinking of Ryan's question, Kemon replied:
"We have had some conflicts with the priests of the Holy See, and my father is needed to resolve them."

Ke Meng regretted what he said. He was already at a loss because of this matter and he couldn't handle the scary chaos.

"Your father is heading to Moonlight Manor. If you don't mind, let's go together."

After Ryan made the invitation, he turned his horse and headed towards another road at the fork in the road ahead. Brand followed behind him, while Egil stayed where he was, blocking the intersection of the other road and looking at the twenty or thirty people here.

"Master Kemon, we have to get back to the castle."

Knight Fol said in a low voice. He instinctively did not trust the Imperials, but Kemon hesitated at this time.

"He said father was not at the castle."

"Besides, he is going to Moonlight Manor, and father...will most likely discuss it with Grandpa Meilan there."

The team added three people, but the atmosphere in the team became completely different. The knights put their hands on the hilts of their swords, and the horses under them also sensed a familiar atmosphere. They lowered their heads and looked at the road ahead, their muscles surging like waves as they moved forward.

Ryan and Kemon walked side by side at the front, neither of them saying a word all the way until Moonlight Manor came into sight.

"It wasn't a smooth journey, was it?"

"Ah."

Kemon nodded subconsciously, then suddenly reacted and looked at Ryan.

"you you……"

"Don't doubt it. I know that many priests and pastors died in your territory. Some of them... were killed by people I sent."

Behind him, Brand's palm suddenly fell on the shoulder of Knight Forle next to him. In an instant, the terrible power made Knight Forle look at Brand in shock. The warhorse under him was trembling as it moved forward, but it was no longer its own will. It seemed as if Brand was picking up both the horse and the man and walking away with one hand.

"take it easy."

In front, Ryan looked at Kemon’s pale face and laughed.

"But only a part of them. The rest were all killed by Gerald's people."

"Not every church's clergy is as holy as the one at the foot of your Earl's castle. In many places, the owners of the churches are corrupt and have offended many people."

"It's not me who is offended, but Gerald's people."

Ryan's words made Kemon confused, but the knights behind him had flickering eyes.

The priests all acted like decent people in front of the nobles, but they were not like that in their understanding.

"So, this is not a frame-up."

The group finally arrived at Moonlight Manor. Because of Kemon, they did not encounter many obstacles along the way.

"Go and report to that legendary lord. I also want to meet this Moonlight who has lived for nearly two hundred years, if he is not willing to kill me directly in the depths of this manor."

In the center of the manor, the two earls appeared here again as expected.

"Those damn guys, we just went to them to discuss some food, but they actually..."

Count Mo Tong was roaring angrily, while Count Jin Tong's face was so gloomy that water could drip from it.

"How could this happen? Even if chaos broke out, those priests shouldn't have been killed."

"Those peasants, can they kill those priests?"

Faced with the legendary knight's question, Count Mo Tong could only suppress his anger and replied:

"Those priests are too weak. They don't even have the blessing of Dawn's protection. Any dagger can cut their throats."

"But……"

There was a knock on the door. The three turned around and looked outside. Ke Meng gritted his teeth and said:

"Father, Grandpa Meilan, Mr. Tiffany, Ryan Clayton, the northern baron of the empire is waiting for your reception."

The two earls understood in an instant what Kemon could not have imagined, so when Ryan entered here, he was faced with two pairs of murderous gazes.

"My Lord Count."

Ryan was meticulous in his aristocratic etiquette. He looked curiously at the two earls whose eyes spoke of glory and splendor, and finally his attention fell on the silver-haired Knight Tiffany.

"You killed those priests?!"

Count Jintong asked gloomily. The chaos in his territory was almost impossible to suppress, and it broke out too quickly.

"I'm sorry. Although what you said is not wrong, I still want to say that those priests all died at the hands of Gerald's people who wanted to kill them. I only provided them with courage and ability."

"Also, as an apology, I came here in person to resolve this matter."

"Solve it?! That's easy for you to say. So many priests have died. Even the Pope would be alarmed and send an envoy. How can you solve it?"

Ryan was surprised, then laughed.

"Is this the process? That's easy. We just need to make sure the Pope doesn't dare to send anyone."

Ryan finished speaking, and without arguing with the two earls, he took a deep breath and saluted Knight Tiffany, saying:

"I am here to ask Lord Moonlight to save Gerald, just like you saved Gerald's ancient bloodline and dignity a hundred years ago. Today, a hundred years later, Gerald still needs your help."

After saying this, Ryan looked at the two earls.

"You can't win this war. I can end your war at any time and kill Gerald's knights on the battlefield. After the defeat, Gerald will have to pay for all the losses of Count Pascal's Gargoyle Legion. In the face of the wrath of the empire, the Andara Kingdom will not let Gerald go without even a knight left."

“The glorious past and glory of the Gerald bloodline may soon become Norris’ history.”

"Unless you can change from the defeated party to the victorious party."

"And in this matter, only the legendary Lord Moonlight can save Gerald once again."

(End of this chapter)