Paladin

Cesis took off his hood, showing a young and handsome face. He lowered his head and was still being looked at by everyone in the court, and said in a low voice: "My name is Cesis, and I have been... Van Lawson, His Excellency the Cardinal, was brought back to the mission school and taken in as an orphan. But I have a vague memory from very young age, I remember my mother being a woman whom he called...' Lina ' woman. And he is also my... biological father."

I don't know who is making a low sigh in the field.

Lawson looked at Sethis with only a calm expression on his face, and he said, "Sethis, I personally sent you to a church school for training, personally witnessed your growth, and even taught you to practice divine arts. This is you In return for me—to conspire with an outsider to frame me?"

"...Father." Sethis called directly, "I know that you... have done a lot for me, and I know how much you love me. Although I don't have many opportunities to meet you, I... ...I also know that you ordered me to go to the church in Emden for further study, because you are going to let me accumulate enough qualifications and then directly promote me to be a deacon."

At the seats, the bishops all looked sideways when they heard the naked words.

Lawson and Sethis looked at each other for a long time, and Sethis lowered his head.

Evan heard his breathing gradually quicken, as if there was a choke.Evan called out in a deep voice: "Cercis."

Cesis turned his head and glanced at Evan. His eye sockets were already red and wet, but he nodded with all his strength: "I understand, Evan, I... I'm already prepared. Lawson... never treated me badly , but now I have to do something ungrateful..."

The shoulders of the underage young monk trembled slightly, he gritted his teeth and endured it for a long time, and finally continued, "I'm going to do something ungrateful, I'm sorry, father, I... I can't tell lies, and I can't condone injustice in this land. Happened in the land. But where I can tell the truth, I must tell the truth."

"The cardinal swore to dedicate all his allegiance to God the Father. He shouldn't...have a relationship with my mother, and he shouldn't condone my birth." Sethis said hoarsely, "I didn't... should appear in this world."

Evan and Hewitt looked at each other, and Hewitt told him slowly with his lips: Cesis came voluntarily.

Evan closed his eyes and nodded at him.

At this moment, there was a lifeless silence in the field, and only Sethis said intermittently: "My mother 'Lina' is unwilling to give birth to me for him, but my father... insists on wanting a child. Mother once escaped, After being caught and brought back, she was imprisoned in the basement until I was born. Later, she attempted to die several times, but was rescued by her father... with his profound attainments in divine arts. Finally, when I was one year old, she ...while my father was rushing back to the holy capital to attend the meeting, he set fire to himself in the basement."

Tears welled up in Sethis's eyes. He hurriedly raised his sleeves to wipe his face. When he raised his head, he saw a little tear in Lawson's eyes.

It seemed to be an illusion, but it penetrated deeply into Sethis' vision.

There was an unexpected pain in the monk's heart. This pain seemed to tear his soul out. Watching his body numbly continue to narrate: describing how he was registered as an orphan by his biological father, and how he was painstakingly trained to become a monk. , became an official pastor at the age of 17, and was sent to the church in Emden to train and experience...

When his words finally came to an end, the court was silent, and no one knew how to continue the trial.

It was the son who testified against his father, and the monk against the noble cardinal.

Lawson closed his eyes and said calmly: "Master, you have violated the commandment of 'Thou shalt not lie, nor bear perjury'. I am a cardinal, and I have dedicated my whole life to God the Father. I neither It is possible to have an ulterior relationship with people, and it is impossible to have any offspring. You say you are my son, how do you prove it?"

Sessions couldn't prove it, and knew it better: Lawson was very disappointed in himself.

It was difficult for him to answer this question for a while, but Hewitt took a step forward and said lightly: "It's very simple, the sand lizard in Trimore can judge the type of blood, now search the medicine shop in the city, as long as there is a living sand lizard, I will There is a way to tell if two people are related by their blood."

"It's nonsense, it's heresy." Lawson scolded coldly, "I've never heard of this method anywhere. If it's not evil witchcraft, it's obviously a trap carefully designed by you!"

Hewitt laughed mockingly, and then said: "Very well, then I have an easier method, do you want to hear it?"

The mage lowered his hands, and suddenly stretched out a dagger from the sleeve of his robe. He slowly put the dagger on Sethis's neck, and said lightly: "If he is not your son, then I will kill him here now." He, you shouldn't care."

Lawson's pupils shrank suddenly, and he said, "Don't hurt the innocent!"

"Innocent? Didn't you say that he committed perjury and is our accomplice?" Hewitt raised the corners of his mouth, showing a cruel smile, and gradually stabbed the dagger into Sethis's neck.

Even knowing that he would never kill Cesis, at this moment, even Evan couldn't help being a little worried.The paladin thought helplessly: What an evil expression... Huitt's acting skills are really good.

Sethis stood motionless, letting his own blood flow down the sharp blade.

Several people confronted each other in silence for a moment, and the smile on Hewitt's face gradually widened.He let go of the blade a little, and then thrust into——

"stop!"

Lawson suddenly shouted, and at the same time, he waved a white light and knocked down the dagger.

Huitt didn't have much strength in his hand, and let the dagger come out of his hand and fall to the ground.

After a crisp sound, the scene fell silent again.

The veins on Lawson's forehead were exposed, and he said angrily, "Don't involve innocent people! Sisters, underage monks, blacksmiths, physical evidence... If you want to deal with me, don't hurt others! "

"Clap"!

Hewitt clapped his hands, and said slowly: "It's easy to talk. This explains why you care so much about Cesis's life? It really is a benevolent cardinal."

"But you are too eager." Evan took his words and said in a deep voice, "Look at your own expression, no one will show such an angry expression because someone unrelated to life is threatened..."

Lawson's red face gradually faded, he gasped twice, and suddenly looked around in a panic—everyone in the auditorium and the judge's bench looked at him, with confusion and suspicion in their eyes.

"Also, I never mentioned the blacksmith. I only mentioned that the physical evidence is all iron tools." Evan continued, "Why are you so eager to deny a 'blacksmith' that has never been mentioned?"

He asked questions that most of the people present had.

After the words fell, Lawson's face twitched slightly. After a long time, he finally sighed and sat back on the chair.

The cardinal seems to feel that he has been strongly attacked, and the other party's evidence is solid, and he has no way to recover.

Is it denial, passive defense, betting that his prestige is enough to suppress the suspicion of the public?still……

Lawson's face was uncertain, and he spoke again after a long time.

"Yes, I have a son with a woman..." He squeezed the words out of his throat.

The cardinal sat on the chair panting heavily, as if he was enduring some pain.His face was filled with pain and remorse, but there seemed to be a trace of confusion in his eyes: "This woman is named 'Leliana'... She is a mage, an evil elementalist from East Bierrance. "

There was silence in the arena. Everyone has received enough shocks today, but they didn't expect that there would be new shocks coming near the end.

"I am a bishop, but I fell in love with that pagan..." Lawson looked far away, seemed to stay on Sethis, but penetrated him to look at the man who fell in love with him at first, but escaped with death in the end. His female elementalist, "I love how she looks when she studies the mysteries of the elements. She records the evil witchcraft. Her rationality... her wisdom and elegance, her... eyes that pursue the truth , and her contempt for foolish faith. She is the only woman I have ever seen in my life who is extraordinarily beautiful because of her wisdom..."

"I love Leliana deeply, and this feeling has not diminished until today. I love her dedication to truth, but I hate her evil!" Lawson said with his chest heaving violently, gnashing his teeth, "Those women It was Leiliana who asked me to capture her. She wanted to study human internal organs and bones to develop the witchcraft that mages depend on for a living! I was... I was too young, I loved her so much that I lost myself, so for She has taken too many victims. Yes, I am guilty, I have committed the unforgivable sin from the first moment I fell in love with a mage."

"You're talking nonsense!" Cesis suddenly raised his head and said, "Mother has never done this... no, she has been detained in the basement since I was born, how could it be...how could it be..."

Hewitt raised his crutches, signaled Sethis to back, and said to Lawson: "You plan to put the blame on the dead Leliana? She is an elementalist, and she doesn't need to study the human body at all, let alone Abducting and abducting women, raping and imprisoning them for years - you think that's something a woman would ask someone else to do?!"

"She's a mage!" Lawson yelled angrily. "Is there any other reason for an evil mage to do these things?! Wasn't the tragedy that happened in Emden just half a month ago because of a A mage? He destroyed our coasts and reduced Sabylon's fishing output by half this year. Have you found any reason?!"

The two confronted each other, and there was a lot of discussion in the court because of their words.What happened in Emden really affected the vital interests of most people present, which caused many people to subconsciously vent their anger on the mage.

Some began to think that a wicked pagan could indeed do such a thing; others, however, thought it impossible for a woman, whatever her status.

"This is ignorant prejudice!" Hewitt said coldly, "Because of the wrong things done by a mage, you are going to classify an innocent victim as a criminal? Do all mages deserve to be insulted like this?"

"Okay, you finally showed your true colors." The cardinal stood up, opened his arms and shouted hoarsely towards the audience, "Look at this man! He is defending the evil heretics!"

The atmosphere in the arena was finally tense to the extreme, and the noise caused the guards to raise their weapons subconsciously.

Evan looked around, finally stood up, and said in a deep voice: "Enough! No matter who the mastermind is, Stefan Lawson, the crime you confessed to commit is not enough for you to die for it?!"