They recognized their feelings, but the knight had been reincarnated as a fox cub

"How can you take this risk alone? If you have any clues, why not hand them over to the Inquisition for investigation?"

“…”Fate didn’t know what to say.

He handed the clue of the Dream Marrow Stone to the Inquisition, but when he came to the cave for the second time, what was waiting for him was an ambush, and he didn't know who took the Dream Marrow Stone away.

Moreover, with so many people in the trial court, so many professionals, would their progress be slower than his if they investigated seriously? ?

If they really investigated it carefully, wouldn't they know that this incident was linked to the demons? ?

If this is true, then the knights who graduated from the Knight Academy are really just a bunch of highly educated fools who are useless, but this is obviously impossible.

Under the current circumstances, Fate didn't know whether he should trust the Inquisition.

Chapter 90: 88~City-wide Inspection

In the following days, Rowling seemed to have gotten used to living in the church. She refused to leave, slept in the church every day, and only returned home occasionally to clean up.

"Thanks to Mr. Topfit, the condition doesn't seem to be getting any worse."

really not?

When Fate woke up this morning, he saw that Rowling's entire arm was completely covered with black fibrous keratin, making the entire arm look bloated.

If this goes on, you will be discovered even if you cover yourself with clothes.

His [will] is not powerful enough to eliminate the disease, it can only reduce the impact of the nightmare on Rowling. If it can really alleviate the disease, he can open a sanatorium in Batti City to save all living beings.

Not only that, it wasn't just her hands that were changing. Large patches of keratinized skin also began to appear on Rowling's legs, soon to cover her entire legs.

If all the limbs are covered with keratin membrane, the next step will be the torso, and the speed of attaching to the torso will be much faster than you think.

But he still hasn't found out the cause of the disease.

It was too difficult for him to find the cause of the disease by himself, after all, he was alone, but now seeking help from the tribunal had become a very risky behavior.

For a moment, Fate was in a dilemma.

When he was racking his brains to no avail, the sound of armor colliding was heard outside the church.

He looked up. He was very familiar with the sound, it came from the armor.

"My two colleagues, please go out for a moment." It was the deputy whom I had just met a few days ago. Today he was wearing his armor and looked very businesslike.

"Is there something wrong?" Fate asked.

"Today, we will be conducting a routine inspection of hidden dangers in the city." Mr. Deputy stood with his hands behind his back. "Everyone will be inspected, including us."

an examination?

The deputy didn't say much, and after giving his instructions, he planned to leave.

"Stop." At this time, Rowling came over, squatted down and picked up something.

"Ok?"

"The cigarette fell out when you were walking just now." Rowling returned the cigarette wrapped in a burlap bag to the deputy.

"Oh, thank you, I didn't notice that."

"You're welcome."

"Yeah." The deputy took the sack from Rowling, glanced at Rowling's hands wrapped in thick gloves, and looked at Fate meaningfully.

"It's getting late. I'll wait for you outside." After saying this, the deputy lit a cigarette for himself and left the church.

"What does he mean by inspection?" Rowling clenched her hands together, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

"Let's go." Fate walked in front of Rowling. He made eye contact with the deputy just now and understood what the other party wanted to express.

"It's okay." Fate held Rowling's hand, turned his head and comforted her as she looked anxious.

Panic and fear gradually filled her heart. Rowling handed her hand to the only sense of security in front of her, letting him lead her, a puppet whose strings were about to break and whose soul was about to be lost.

Fate's movements were very careful, for fear of alarming Rowling.

"It's okay, just a routine check."

When they arrived at the city center under the guidance of the knight, they found a long queue. The citizens complained that this was a waste of their time, but they did not have too much resentment. After all, this was to track down the monster lurking among them for the safety of the people in the entire town.

After Fate and Rowling arrived, they stood at the end of the line.

The front of the team led directly to several makeshift wooden cabins. People coming out of them were notified by the people from the Tribunal that they could go home directly. There seemed to be no signs of this happening at the moment.

"Ugh!..." Soon, a distorted and sharp sound, like a sharp object rubbing against glass, resounded throughout the sky, like an air raid alarm.

Rowling quickly shrank into Fate's arms like a frightened little rabbit.

While Fate was protecting Rowling, the voice came from the cabin.

After hearing it so many times, this sound has become commonplace.

Then a humanoid creature that was neither human nor ghost rushed out of the wooden house. It seemed that he found that the wall had been reinforced and he could not break through it at all, so he had to rush out through the door.

The reason why he is neither human nor ghost is that half of his body has been completely keratinized, while the other half retains the appearance of a human.

"I, I'm not a monster!"

"Don't catch me, don't catch me!"

"Control him!" Two knights and several Inquisition guards captured the fleeing man and pinned him to the ground.

"I, I'm really not a monster! I'm a human being!" The man who was pinned to the ground explained desperately when he saw that he couldn't struggle.

"All monsters say this when they are captured!" After the knight pinned him down, another knight took out an iron chain that was flashing purple light.

This iron chain is enchanted.

"You, you can't do this, you... can't, do this!" The man's voice began to become distorted, and his voice kept switching between human and monster.

Upon seeing this, the knight was about to put the chain on the man, but before he could do so, the human part of the man was completely devoured by the monster part, and he was completely transformed into a monster.

It easily shook off the knight who had restrained it, and was about to attack another Inquisition guard present in anger when the iron chain caught it. The high-frequency electric current continuously released from the chain made it tremble, stand up straight, and fall backwards like a stick.

When it falls, the knights will finish it off with a succession of fireballs and magic-breaking crossbow arrows.

Apparently after realizing that the monsters' characteristic was their extremely strong vitality, the Inquisition sent out more ferocious and powerful weapons to destroy them. The magic-destroying crossbows carried by this knightly order were extremely powerful.

Rowling's pupils widened, she covered her mouth in fear and shrank in Fate's arms, watching the monster being hunted down and killed in public, as if she saw her own future end.

The deputy who was watching the team at the end of the team watched Rowling's reaction silently, his eyes gradually narrowed.

After a while, the monster took a break, and the members of the Inquisition who had been standing nearby for a long time walked forward, cleaned up the monster's "fragments and remnants", packed them up, and took them away in a box.

The silence was mixed with cries and wails.

They were the family member of the unfortunate virus carrier just now. His mother, who was over fifty years old, fainted upon seeing this scene.

The knights seemed accustomed to this scene and did not make any unnecessary moves. The inspection team continued to move forward.

Fate felt the force on his shoulders increasing. He turned around and saw that the nun had collapsed in his arms. Her legs were weak and trembling, and she couldn't even stand.

The deputy who saw this scene threw away the cigarette butt and silently lit another cigarette for himself.

Chapter 91: 89 ~ Black Arm Guard

The inspection team marched forward and slowly drove into the wooden house.

Everything went smoothly after that and nothing else happened, but Rowling's condition became worse and worse, her face became paler and her fingertips clenched tighter and tighter.

The most painful thing is often not the moment of getting the result, but the process of getting the result. Every minute and every second is torture.

The setting sun dyed half the sky red. Dusk had arrived, and it was almost evening. The marching team had reached the end, and there were only a few families left ahead of Fate and Rowling.

The inspection was almost over and it would soon be their turn.

Fate could clearly feel that the girl in his arms was trembling, and he was not so calm at the moment.

After confirming that the demonized humans will not have human consciousness and are extremely aggressive, the only measure left for these demonized humans is to completely eliminate them. This cannot be blamed either for the sake of public life safety or for justice.

The Knights were right to do so.

"Mr. Guard, do you remember what I said to you a few days ago?" The deputy knight who was in charge of the safety of the rear of the team took the initiative to speak to Fate.

"If you mean what was said in church, remember."

"Do you really remember? Or just remember?" The deputy folded his arms, leaned against the wall and smoked a cigarette.

"You should have been a knight before, and you shouldn't have made such a low-level mistake. Or, is it because you made such a low-level mistake that you have become a church guard?" At this point, the implication is very clear.

"When faced with monsters that are indiscriminately hostile to humans, knights have the obligation to eradicate them. But are demonized monsters that retain human consciousness still monsters? Just because their bodies have mutated, even if they still have human consciousness, do they have to be considered the mortal enemy of humans?"

"If this hostility is caused by physical differences, then how do you explain that humans are still friendly, or at least not hostile, to alien races with completely different physical characteristics from their own, such as dwarves, elves, and sub-humans?" Fate silently shifted his gaze to his deputy.

"I think that the aliens have not done anything to harm humans, nor do they have any intentions to harm others. They just want to live a simple life, so we should not be hostile to them."

"Except for a few extremely malicious people, is it right to kill them all just because they are a certain race?"

"It's not the race that's guilty, it's the behavior."

"............." Rowling raised her head and looked at the blond man who raised his head in a daze.

"............." The deputy did not answer, but just watched the advancing team silently.

The family of three came out safely from the other end of the cabin, and Fate looked at the person standing in front of him.

The last group.

Standing in front of them was a bachelor who seemed to live alone, but there was something strange about this man.

He was too quiet the whole time.

It was so quiet that it felt a little eerie.

The deputy seemed to have noticed something was wrong with the man and he took a few steps forward and waited outside the cabin until the man entered.

This time, Rowling grabbed Fate's collar even tighter. If nothing unexpected happened, they would be the next, and she was about to expose her secret.

As she thought about it, she became a little absent-minded. Now she was like a death row prisoner about to be taken to the execution ground, welcoming her last moment when she could breathe freely.

A teeth-grinding roar accompanied by a huge vibration in the wooden house interrupted her thoughts. She stared blankly at the wooden house in front of her, which had a big hole in it at some point, and the huge monster with scarlet eyes.

Rowling's eyes widened. This monster was more than twice as big as the monsters she had seen before, and it easily broke through the anti-magic wall specially designed for the cabin.

"Stop it!" The guards and knights of the Inquisition took up the magic net and stepped forward, but were slapped away by the monster, which also kicked over another wooden house.

After slapping away all the guards and knights around it, the monster noticed Rowling in front of it and immediately pounced towards her.

The deputy sensed something was wrong. He felt that although the monster seemed to be targeting Rowling, it did not seem to be hostile to her, and in fact, it was quite the opposite...

Rowling's pupils constricted. She had been suffering for the entire morning and her hands and feet were weak. After this scare, it was as if her feet had taken root there and she couldn't pull them out no matter what she did.

He drew his sword with his off-hand, trying to stop the monster, but his speed was obviously not as fast as the monster's, and it was too late.

The deputy can only place his hopes on Fate. After all, he used to be a knight, so he can be of some use, right?

But he soon discovered with some disappointment that this was a routine inspection and for safety reasons, except for the knights and the guards of the Inquisition, no one else was allowed to carry weapons.

Even if Fate had secretly carried a weapon, it would have been taken away during the body search just now.

Without weapons, it was unclear whether the leather armor could block the monster's claws that could easily tear apart the beams of the house. The chances of success were looking slim.

Fate asked Rowling to step back and stood in front of Rowling.

The fishy wind swept towards us, as if it could scratch our faces.

Fate fought the monster with empty hands, but the monster had no martial ethics. Seeing that Fate had no weapon, it waited for him to go back and get it before continuing to fight.

Seeing Fate blocking his way, the monster roared angrily, and it seemed that any man who dared to block his way would be torn to pieces in the next moment.

The size difference was equally despairing; the monster was a full body taller than Fate, while Fate's height only reached the monster's waist.

"Damn it!" the deputy cursed. They underestimated the enemy. After all, since they obtained samples of this kind of monster, they had never seen such a large species. The walls of the wooden house were designed with a protection level according to the size of ordinary monsters. This situation was really beyond his expectations.

The sharp claws whistled down with the sound of cutting wind. Compared with the fragile structure of humans, the wind alone seemed to be able to split Fate into two people.

"Mr. Fate!" Seeing the man protecting her, Rowling was at a loss for a moment.