Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 243 The Night of the Red Dragon's Dance (Part )

"In this civilized age, you still want to burn a woman to death? Many years ago, you sent someone to perform a white matter surgery on her, turning her into a fool. Now you still want to burn her to death?"

"I really don't know. You also know that I am just an agent for someone. There is a big gap between me and my agent."

The Inquisitor shook his head and ignored the terrifying alchemical weapon in Xizel's hand.

"What does your agent want?"

Xizel felt that all the blood was concentrated in his head, and the volcanic anger would burst through his skull at any time.

Here they come again! Those men in black from the rainy night more than a decade ago are finally here again!

Now they finally jumped out and reached out to Madam Linlang again. What exactly made them want to hurt their mother so persistently?

Xizel was thinking rapidly, with countless thoughts running through his mind.

Was it the reception?! At the welcome reception, Mom danced with the Pope and was exposed to everyone! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! He was careless! The best way to protect Mom is to hide her deep inside Canterbury Castle!

How could Madam Linlang have a heretical belief? She is a fool! Her only hobby is to look at the silent moon at night! How could she want to sacrifice her own children? She can't even figure out that Césaire is her son and Adele is her daughter! Her mental age is still that of a young girl!
"The burning at the stake can certainly be dispensed with and replaced by another punishment."

The Inquisitor spoke slowly, looking at César with some pity in his eyes.

"Another punishment?"

"A lobotomy."

"You know what you did to her! She no longer has any white matter! Cut it off again? Then cut off her cerebellum? Then cut off her cerebrum?"

The anger finally broke through his head, and Xizel roared, quickly looking around with his peripheral vision.

"The previous surgery didn't seem to be thorough enough, so let's just treat it as a repair."

The Inquisitor spread his hands, indicating that he had no way to help. "I don't know the inside story at all. I'm just an agent. My instructions are that as long as you perform one more small operation, you can take your mother back. From now on, don't let her show up in public again, and keep her away from the Holy See."

"One last question, where is my mom?"

Xizel had no expression on his face, and the bronze sword box stopped shaking.

"She is right here, on the rooftop. We have arranged for the best doctor in Florence. As long as you agree, we can perform the surgery and take her home tonight."

The Inquisitor nodded and waved.

With a low rumbling sound, the elevator descended from the sky. The elevator was located in the center of the church, like a black pillar reaching the sky, straight to the roof.

The Inquisitor and César took the elevator up, entered the hole in the center of the dome, passed through the pitch-black darkness, and arrived at the secret space on the top of the cathedral.

It is surrounded by solid black stone walls with exquisite religious paintings on them. They are very old and the colors have faded, leaving only the lines drawn in real gold that are still shining.

But this is undoubtedly a prison. You have to open an iron gate every few steps, and there are still thick iron nails on the stone wall. You can imagine that the jailers used iron chains to lock the prisoners and then nailed the chains to the stone wall. The pine oil torches on the wall burned and dripped pine oil, burning large blisters on the prisoners' skin.

"Is this where you put my mother?"

Veins popped out at the corners of Xizel's eyes, and the fingertips of his left hand had rubbed blood on the metal pattern.

“Please don’t misunderstand me, Your Highness. This was indeed a prison used to hold the most evil heretics. Demons reside in their bodies, and only the aura of the temple can suppress them. That’s why this prison was built.

But it was abandoned decades ago. We placed your mother here to prevent her from being harassed by irrelevant people. You don't want your mother to be imprisoned in a public prison, do you? It is not suitable for a beautiful and dignified woman like her. She has never suffered any hardship here, but she has lost her freedom of movement. "

As the Inquisitor spoke, the last iron door opened. César stepped in quickly and walked through the long corridor, but was blocked by an iron fence in front of him.

Opposite the iron fence was a quiet and dust-free hut with simple furnishings, except for a cross-shaped iron bed with iron handcuffs at both ends.

Madam Linlang sat quietly in front of the only small window, with her back to the iron fence. She was wearing a plain white gown with a very low neckline, her back was as lonely as a girl, and her long hair was loose, like the finest silk in the world.

"Mommy mommy!"

Xizel held the iron railing tightly, and the sword case hit the steel with a low thud.

This scene was truly moving, as one moment his words and actions were full of cruelty and brutality, and the next moment he revealed the true face of a fifteen-year-old boy: his expression was anxious, and his voice was shaking uncontrollably.

But the only bystander was the judge wearing an iron mask, whose expression could not be seen. He politely retreated to the end of the corridor, leaving space for Césaire and Madam Linlong to be alone.

The woman at the small window turned around and tilted her head to look at Cesar. Yes, it was indeed Mrs. Linlong. She looked even younger because there was no maid to put makeup on her. Her eyebrows were light, her lips were also light, but her eyes were still as black as ink.

She showed no surprise when she saw Césaire, nor did she show any fear of being locked up in this dead silent place. She walked to the iron railings, tilted her head and looked at Césaire as if she were looking at a stranger.

She has always been like this, unable to recognize that Cesar is her son. In her world, Cesar is probably just a boy who often appears around her and looks a little familiar.

Now she was probably trying hard to think about who the boy who suddenly appeared was. After a long time, she seemed to finally remember, so she took the initiative to reach out her hand.

At this moment, Cesar felt an indescribable surprise in his heart. He immediately reached out and grabbed his mother's hand. When they clasped their hands together and felt her body temperature, his heart slowly fell back to its original position. His mother was indeed fine and healthy. As for staying in such a place, it was not necessarily unbearable for her. She was not happy to live in the comfortable and luxurious Canterbury Castle.

Madam Linlang let her son hold her hand like a very obedient girl, and her proactive behavior just now seemed to have disappeared again.

"Mom, I will definitely take you away from here tonight." Xizel said softly. He knew that Mrs. Linlang would not understand what he said at all, but he still wanted to say it.

As soon as he finished speaking, he squeezed his mother's hand vigorously, turned and left, and soon came close to the judge.

"Prepare for the surgery, but I want to watch it in person." "Okay"

Before he finished his words, the high-frequency oscillating [Lust] passed across the Inquisitor's neck, cutting the iron fence and stone wall behind him into pieces.

The extremely sharp wakizashi easily cut open the iron gate that prevented the mother and son from meeting each other. César put aside his [lust] and began to concentrate on braiding his mother's hair, reciting sacred verses.

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; cut off, but not out of hope; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry about in the body the gift of death, so that the gift of life, given by God, may also be made manifest in our body.”

He tied a knot in his mother's hair with his handkerchief: "Okay, Mom, we are ready to go."

As if in response to the boy's words, the executives in the square suddenly saw an incredible scene: a huge black shadow descended from the sky, like a giant black whale swimming slowly with air as water.

"【Leviathan】!"

The huge monster that should never appear on a rainy day squeezed into the cathedral's airspace, immediately attracting the attention and vigilance of the executive officers.

"No, something happened!"

The huge black box fell straight down from the airship, and César covered his mother's ears. The black box smashed through the hard roof of the church, creating a thick cloud of smoke and dust.

The executive officers who were busy outside the church trying to check the situation were forced back by the loud noise of the black box hitting the church, followed by various building materials falling. When they saw clearly, they found that the entire corridor had disappeared, replaced by a heavy black iron object.

This is the black box. It didn't look big when it fell from the airship, but it was the size of a Leviathan. When it landed, it was as big as a small house, and judging from the solid armored outer wall, it weighed no less than ten tons.

Césaire opened the black box from the other side, and a large amount of steam filled the cell. Césaire took off his cloak and walked in with his thin upper body naked.

"Leviathan appeared right above the Sistine Chapel and threw a black object down a dozen seconds ago! Request new instructions!"

The tip-off reached certain people over the telephone lines.

"Are you still unwilling to compromise with us? That little lion really is untamable."

"It's all in the file. He's a willful boy. He always has been."

"It's not just César who is willful. How can César mobilize the Leviathan-class airship with his authority?"

"It's time to end this farce. How can a willful child become the leader of the Seraph Knights? How can a willful child conquer the East for us? That child is useless, give up on him."

"He has just committed a crime that could destroy him, so let it all end in the Sistine Chapel."

"It's a pity, but you can't let the lion you raise bite you." Someone picked up the phone and said in a cold voice, "Send an order to the Inquisition. All officers must shoot with live ammunition. Do not let César leave the Sistine."

"Yes!"

The square was full of flashes of fire, and the officers equipped with long-range rifles were firing into the air. Their bullets were coated with white phosphorus, leaving flashing trails in the night sky. Leviathan tried to float up, but the behemoth also came to the end of its life.

When floating in the clouds, it is almost invincible, because except for a few monsters, there is currently no means to threaten high-altitude targets, but it is courting death if it descends to this altitude. Its airbags are filled with flammable light gases, and any full-power bullet with white phosphorus may ignite it.

But in order to throw it accurately, it had to descend. The giant whale threw the black box into the temple at the cost of its own life.

"Aim at the gate! Shoot with live ammunition! Cover with fire!"

"Aim at the gate! Shoot with live ammunition! Cover with fire!"

This order quickly spread among the executive officers, and all guns were pointed at the main entrance of the cathedral. The armored knights also received the same order. Among the twelve armored knights, six were [Heavy Gunners], and they had heavy rapid-fire guns on their shoulder armor. At this moment, those rapid-fire guns surrounded the cathedral in a fan shape.

The automatic gun began to rotate, and the ammunition belt loaded brass bullets into the magazine one by one. They were ready to spit out a barrage of bullets at any time.

Among the remaining six knights, four were [Charge Knights] whose main weapons were steel spears. They lined up at the bottom of the steps, using their bodies as a steel barrier for the executors.

The last two knights were the most elite [Sword Dancers], who had the fastest reaction speed and the most complete combat skills. They carried heavy dragon tooth swords and maintained a cold silence. There were only two of them, but they were the strongest barrier, and the storm of sword light was everywhere.

The door of the church slowly opened, and thunderous piano sounds suddenly rang out from the depths of the church. Someone had turned on the two-story high organ in the church. It could play hundreds of kinds of religious music by itself, and tonight it was playing mass music like a vast ocean.

The nervous executives almost pulled the trigger the moment the music sounded. They knew what they were going to snipe, but precisely because of this, they were instinctively afraid. The moment the door of the temple opened, it seemed that something extremely sharp and angry surged out, like the breath of a dragon, like a knife cutting the face.

"Ready! Ready! Ready!"

The chief of the executive officers raised his hands and shouted, his crosshairs fixed firmly on the door of the temple.

Heavy footsteps sounded in the church, and a black shadow passed through the sea of ​​light composed of countless candlesticks. The light was extinguished by him, and darkness expanded behind him, with wax spilled all over the ground.

"Ready! Ready! Ready!"

The captain continued to shout, and the officers' fingers on the triggers began to stiffen and become numb, and the guns could go off accidentally at any time.

The crimson giant finally walked out of the temple and stood on the top of the stairs. Steam filled its body, and it held a white-robed woman in a black-feather cloak in its arms. The weapon rack behind it was surrounded by swords and guns.

"Fire!"

The guns roared, bullets rained down, hundreds of flashing trails focused on the giant Seraph at the same time, mixed with the dense fire of the rapid-fire guns. The rapid-fire guns of the mobile armor were like thousands of cannons firing at the same time, and a single pull of the trigger would result in a barrage of bullets.

Xizel tightened his arms slightly to prevent his mother from running away in fear, and at the same time raised the huge copper shield to carefully cover her.

"Don't be afraid, let's fight our way out together!"

(End of this chapter)