Pirate Kingship-Chapter 825 - 504: The Culprit, Bone Cathedral

On the surface, I'm the Warden, but it's like I'm imprisoned myself, with no joy to enjoy. Didn't I pay the 'concubine tax' this year for nothing?!

By the Creator, the Pope should refund me!"

He pays the "concubine tax" every year.

But essentially, he is the kind of Orthodox priest who only "strikes in priest form" when encountering specific targets, showing no interest in adult women.

When he comes to the nunnery, he absolutely does not purify it here.

Of course, it depends on how one understands defilement. In some sense, it might be that it's even dirtier once defiled.

The Archbishop complained in his heart as he walked, feeling a stronger stomach ache upon seeing all the prisoners in the upper cells turned female.

"If I stay here for a few months, I might become a Protestant.

No drinking, no smoking, no entertainment venues, restriction of consumption and desire for entertainment, a deep loathing for premarital sex, adultery, and abortion.

Listen to these precepts—is this a life for people?

We are, after all, servants of God, supposed to stand at the pinnacle of the material world, doing whatever we please.

Eventually, breaking the side effects of the Gospel of Heaven and becoming angels on earth, we can enjoy all this forever.

It's all the fault of those damned Protestant clergy. What does it matter to you whether the believers live or die?

Who would be foolish enough to start a revolution against oneself? I think you must be too well-fed usually!"

His resentment towards the austere life was soon transferred to the Protestants.

The Orthodox Church believes: "The Holy Mother gave birth to the Saint Heir and deserves worship; the Pope is the Kingmaker's representative on earth and should be venerated."

The Protestants are evidently purer. They uphold the "Gospel of Creation" as supreme, believing: "Apart from the Creator, there is no other god, nor should idols be worshipped.

Everyone should do their part, and working hard is the best repayment to the Creator."

In other words: "What belongs to the Creator belongs to the Creator, what belongs to the King belongs to the King."

The fundamental difference in doctrine is that the latter seeks to make God's representatives on earth unemployed, to strip them of their privileges completely, returning power to the King.

We clergy only need to guide people's faith and should not interfere in secular matters.

But despite Babatila's hatred for the Protestant doctrine, he couldn't change this order from Saint John, the leader of the Holy Infant Society.

Because back then, Babbitt exerted pressure on Queen Margaret I of the Eternal Night to cooperate, and personally led the team to capture Vanessa into prison.

It was that successful action that allowed Babatila to stand out, donning the red robes of a Cardinal Bishop.

To say he was one of the culprits of the Verreliette family's dispersal is not an understatement.

And to prevent intelligence leaks, the Church's decision to have him, the insider, act as a temporary Warden was only natural.

Soon, he stood at the door of two cells at the lowest level, looking at the Bayfolk prisoners inside with a cold smile, thinking to himself:

'Now that the war is tense, Emperor Frederick III has issued orders to call back all the Doppler Greatswordsmen mercenaries to join the battlefield.

Just like back in the day when the Whale Hunters were driven to search for Noah's Ark for the Church, now they are ready to mobilize the forces of the Five Bay States.

Hightins can't dispatch troops during the civil war, but the Kalmar Union ruled by the Evernight Queen, the Uncrowned King, recently famous across the continent, and the Iron Anchor Bay of the Bay Citizen Princess are available. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

The few people inside these cells are the collars to make the latter two obedient.

The instructions I received are:

Whether willingly or by force, even if the Bayfolk have knelt, they are never considered one of us. Their role is always just consumables, cannon fodder, even if it means fighting to the last Bayfolk!

No matter how much blood they shed for the Church, the hostages here can never be released, only to endure endless exploitation.

Moreover, they must be instilled with panic, pain, and despair, transmitting these emotions to their own family members to make them dare not slack off.

Lord Holy Spear Vallet, as a Holy Knight, though reliable in character, is simply too rigid.

Why give these prisoners treatment unbefitting their status? It's truly a waste.

On Saint's orders, they are to be separated and locked in different prisons by tomorrow.

Before departure, let me teach you how to be obedient captives!"

Babatila recalled how, after subtly hinting at the White Rose York family, they generously bribed him to accept their "poison" commission in chapter 491, his eyes flashing with undisguised malice.

He took out a palm-sized white bone house from the Storage Miracle Object and casually tossed it away.

Boom——!

Suddenly, as if forcibly squeezed into the current space, it transformed into a [First Level Holy Relic·Bone Cathedral] with an internal space larger than the entire underground prison!

It incidentally enveloped both cells.

"Hundreds of years ago, a plague killed one-third of the Old Continent's population, leaving corpses strewn across the land.

The dead bones from the Electorate Kingdom of Bohemia were used to construct this eerie building.

It possesses terrifying power."

Though it appears as a very ordinary Gothic building from the outside, the interior of the church is eerie.

Because the inside is filled with a multitude of human bones, with every decoration made from human bones themselves.

Crosses, crowns, and the like that can be seen everywhere in the church are all pieced together from different parts of the human bones.

The candlesticks and Baroque altar surrounding the church, each candle is lit on bones, eternally illuminated.

Most notably, the human bone chandelier in the center of the nave.

It's composed with leg bones forming the main frame, jawbones strung into curtains, with the main frame divided into eight leg bones, the lamp stand supporting slabs of pelvic bones arranged in a circle, each holding a skull serving as a candlestick.

Standing beneath, one feels as if countless skulls are staring intensely, making the scalp tingle.

And one of the effects of the [Bone Cathedral] is to spread the "Black Plague"!

A chilly gust of wind swept through, causing all the female members, including the mythical creature Vanessa, to shiver involuntarily.