Chapter 488 — Collapse
Blade of Dawn · Page 4 of 4
"It is the evil magic of the Cecil people! The Cecil people have used evil magic and devil's contracts to interfere with the heresy trial! The ritual has been disrupted by them—this trial is void, void!"
The priests chimed in loudly one after another, and amid these shouts Franc Beland recovered a little of his spirit. For the last time he stirred the Holy Light, and proclaimed in a loud voice the outcome of today's farce: "This heresy trial has been affected by sorcery and is hereby temporarily suspended."
Then this tall, towering acting bishop simply ignored everyone in the plaza. Casting the reactions of the common folk entirely from his mind, he led the priests swiftly through the gates of the church district as though in flight.
At the outer edge of the plaza, a pair of amber eyes watched through the crack of a window in a private house, coldly observing that farce in the plaza come to its end in the manner most fitting for a farce.
Franc Beland had fled back into the church district; the bishop and priests of Frostgate were still alive.
But the Church of the Dark Sun in the lands of the South had at last died.
Now there was only one thing left to do.