Chapter 432 Heresy
Perfect has never shown such a terrifying form.
Although she was called the Bloody Earl in the past, what she showed to the world was only her ruthlessness and cruelty in her methods, not how terrifying she was.
After all, no matter what cold and cruel things a teenage girl does, she still looks weak and cute on the outside.
However, at this moment, endless anger filled Purficott's heart.
Purficott, who was already very angry and stressed because of the endless overtime and paperwork during this period, felt that the string of reason in her mind had broken. She even went out of anger and just wanted to be completely Erase the person who offended her from the world in the most cruel way.
She is working overtime, forgetting about food and sleep, in order to save more people, to maintain social stability, and to prevent more innocent people from dying due to the turmoil of the doomsday.
But now, there are still people who take the initiative to stir up trouble, and even come up with such cruel and heinous atrocities as cannibalism. She really can't find a reason to convince herself not to be angry.
The suppressed emotions were completely released, and even under the influence of the Philosopher's Stone and alchemy, the appearance and form of the Steam Knight armor she wore was completely distorted.
Originally, this set of steam knight armor that Perfectcott temporarily found was a set of knight armor for women. The lines in appearance are relatively soft and the size is smaller. It is not like that of male knights. Thick nails.
The decoration is mostly dominated by rose patterns and golden brass edging, which looks very gorgeous and beautiful.
However, now, under the influence of the anger released by Purficott, the surface of this set of steam armor was completely burnt black as if it had been burned by flames, and was filled with red and yellow flames. The texture is as if someone said that flames were imprinted on this armor.
If that’s all, it’s certainly not scary. What’s really scary is that on the shoulders, knees, chest, back of hands, etc. of this set of steam armor, patterns and reliefs of skulls or human faces all appear. .
And they were all entangled in thorns, roaring in pain.
These patterns and reliefs are so lifelike that when others just see this set of steam armor, they can feel countless people wailing in their ears.
Not only that, even the originally round and soft appearance of the steam armor has become ferocious and sharp. Many spikes emerge from the surface of the steam armor, making the armor's appearance even more ferocious.
Especially when Purficott spread a pair of bat-like wings on the back of the armor and flew up, it made the armor even more terrifying. .
It was as if the devil from hell had descended.
When Perficott flew over the city in this form, countless people were frightened. They really thought that the end was coming and the demons from hell appeared in the world.
Although their judgment was not wrong in a sense, it has to be said that Perficott's appearance did scare many people.
Especially when she came to the location of the mastermind based on the letters she searched, some people were even scared to death.
This is a noble manor, belonging to a certain earl who has never even heard of the name Perfectcourt. However, at this moment, the earl is already lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth. It can be seen that he has died. I was stunned.
As for the mastermind behind the scenes, he is still standing in front of Purficott at this moment. He looks like a missionary, but his clothes are clearly capable of infiltrating the heretics.
Beside this heretic, there is a group of believers who look like marginal nobles and small businessmen. Although they are also afraid at the moment, they show a kind of fanaticism that surprises Purficott. and firmness.
"O Father! Is the end of the world really coming? Why do you allow the devil to run rampant under the sun?" Faced with such a terrifying appearance of Purficott, the mastermind behind the scenes ordered She unexpectedly shouted to the sky to her father, which almost made Purficott confused.
Why do you call a heretic the All-Father? Shouldn't we believe in some evil gods? You make me seem like a villain!
But the anger did not make Purficott stunned. She opened the helmet of the Steam Knight Armor, looked at the person behind the scenes with an angry and serious look, and questioned him: : "Traitor, why do you want to incite riots in the empire and betray the empire at such a critical moment!"
The mastermind behind the scenes looked at the demon in front of him and suddenly a girl's head appeared, and thought he had seen it. He was hallucinating, but then he shouted loudly: "Devil, you can't tempt me! I am a staunch believer of the Father, and I will never be bewitched by you!
The world is not facing the end at all. This Everything is just a lie!
It was made up by the Lord of the North in order to deceive the empire and seduce the people of the empire. Then when they arrive in the north, she will use evil spells to enslave them and enslave them. They sacrificed themselves to evil gods!”
While the man behind the scenes shouted loudly, he also did not forget to shout to the people around him: "Brothers and sisters, strengthen your faith! Let us fight the evil together!"
As he said, the man behind the scenes shouted The envoy waved a cane made of unknown wood in his hand and hit Perfectcott.
Inspired by the mastermind behind the scenes, other believers also rushed towards Purficott, trying to attack her with flesh and blood, challenging the power of the Steam Knight armor.
Faced with this scene, Purficott only felt sadness and anger, but no fear.
She just closed her eyes slightly sadly, and then countless spikes shot out from the ground around her body, skewering everyone who rushed towards her.
After returning to Langton, Purficott kept saying that she had two Philosopher's Stones with her. At this moment, when she was fully exerting her power, after being strengthened and amplified by the Philosopher's Stone, she It only takes one thought to completely eliminate all living creatures in this manor.
But Purficott didn't kill them all, or she didn't kill anyone.
Everyone was impaled by spikes and hung up, but they were all still alive and not dead.
On the one hand, the puncture of the sharp thorns is not that instant death, and on the other hand, Purficott deliberately avoided fatal places such as vital points.
When she opened her eyes, there was only one heretic standing in front of her who was holding a cane and intending to hit her. As for the others, they were all pierced in various positions on the spikes shot out of the ground. .
"You evil devil! What kind of monster are you? This is all an illusion. You can't scare me!" Fear also appeared on the heretic's face, but he still shouted and asked, as if he was the righteous party. .
Perfect looked at him and felt that the person in front of him had probably lost his mind, or he was acting like he believed it. Otherwise, why would he say such a thing in front of her? "Who are you? Why did you start a riot in the imperial capital? Who are your accomplices?" Purficott asked repeatedly, trying to learn from this heretic what exactly happened.
However, the other party just shouted loudly words with unclear meanings such as "evil" and "all father", and then waved his cane and knocked on Perfectcott's steam knight armor, saying A hollow sound.
“Are you crazy?” Purficott looked at the heretic in front of him uncertainly and shook his head helplessly.
It was obvious that this heretic was crazy enough. Not only was he not afraid of the power armor at all, he even dared to hit it with his cane.
This made Purficott a little reluctant to kill him. After all, even if a heretic at this level could not dig out information, he could still use the human body refining technique to invade his brain, and then directly kill him. The most important part of the memory was taken out of his mind.
So Purficott didn't just kick him to death, but prepared a special treatment for him.
She snapped her fingers, and a huge T-shaped frame rose from the ground of the manor, and then directly hung the heretic on it.
His hands were nailed to both ends of the T-shaped frame, and his body was wrapped around the pillar by thorns. The whole person looked like a suffering saint in a religious mural.
But unlike the saint, the thorns that entangled this heretic grew out of his flesh and blood and spread throughout his body along his blood vessels.
This caused the heretic to suffer great pain in an instant. The branches and sharp thorns that pierced his body were tormenting his body all the time. What was even more terrifying was that these branches and his back The shelves also grow together.
One of the thickest branches grew from the shelf, and then got into a hole in the heretic's body, then entered his body, and then turned into a piece of paper to wrap him Of vine net.
"I ask again, who are you? Why did you start a riot in the imperial capital? Who is your accomplice?" Purficott flew up and pressed his hand on the heretic's head On his head, he continued to ask questions.
But this time, she did not expect an answer from this heretic, because she had already activated the human body refining technique and was getting the information she needed from his brain.
Soon, as Purficott continued to ask questions, the heretic was in extreme pain and could no longer strengthen his belief. Although he did not speak, his mind already had what Purficott needed. All the information was reviewed.
“I thought it was something, but it turned out to be just a deviant heretic!” Purficott felt that he had been tricked.
She originally thought there was some big conspiracy behind this, but after some "soul searching", she came to the conclusion that this was just a heresy with a bad mind, a group of religious elements separated from the church.
They come from a turbulent era in the church about two hundred years ago.
At that time, due to the efforts of the monarchs of various countries, the church's secular influence was declining day by day. Coupled with the uneven quality of the clergy and the corruption of the pastors, the entire church was in a state of unrest and was about to end.
So some knowledgeable people began to reflect, looking for new answers from religious classics, hoping to reform the church and save the faith of the Father.
There are some who are successful, some who are unsuccessful, some who are conservative, and naturally some who are radical.
Today's church in the Victoria Empire is actually largely based on the current doctrines and ideas formed at that time, and has become the official faith of the empire through the efforts of some pastors and priests.
The influence of this branch of sect has continued to spread to the world with the rise of the empire. Now it has become the mainstream sect of the church, and even its leader has become the patriarch of this generation of the church.
Beyond this, other sects are not idle either. They are each interpreting new doctrines and looking for opportunities for development.
Some cooperate with other countries and gradually become the mainstream belief there.
But because everyone split from the same sect, although there are differences in doctrines and behavioral methods, they still believe in the All-Father.
And as various sects reformed the church and took root in their respective countries, different sects also exchanged their knowledge with each other, trying to prove to other sects that they were the best, and trying to make other sects surrender to themselves.
In the end, only the empire's sects gradually became more powerful due to the expansion of the empire's influence, and began to overwhelm other sects, forming the current structure of the church.
Beyond these mainstream sects, there are also some small-scale sects. Most of their teachings are somewhat different from the mainstream, and their teachings are not widely spread, but most of the people who believe in them are very firm.
For example, the heretic that Perficott is encountering now comes from a sect that advocates hedonism. He incorporates some elements of ancient Dionysian beliefs and has become an existence that is only spread among a small group of nobles.
This sect will hold joyful banquets regularly, summoning the nobles who have joined the sect, and then everyone will wear only a mask to cover their faces, and they will be naked to show that people are naked and pure when they come to this world. It also symbolizes letting go of differences in secular identities.
After that, it was three days and three nights of indulgence.
They are like a certain fallen dynasty in ancient times. They will continue to eat, drink, and indulge in sexual pleasures. When their stomachs are full, they will use emetics to vomit, and then continue to eat after emptying their stomachs.
In short, any way of enjoyment you can think of can be found at this joyful banquet. The negative distance between men and women is the most common way of enjoyment at this banquet.
Because of this, the teachings of this sect also pursue extreme enjoyment, believing that heaven should be a place to release desires and indulge in enjoyment.
The joyful banquet they held allowed believers to enjoy the joy of heaven in advance.
One can imagine how such a sect would react when Purficott announced that the end of the world was coming and all supplies became scarce.
There is no such thing as the Doomsday Judgment in their teachings. Only those who believe in them will return to heaven after death and continue to enjoy themselves. This is obviously contrary to what Perficott preaches.
So under the instigation of thoughtful people, this sect tried to start a riot in Langton to overthrow the empire, establish a country led by this sect, and then enjoy the ultimate happiness.
(End of this chapter)