The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 74 The Holy Church is also here (6k)

Snowden secretly exerted invisible pressure during the conversation.

Grand Commander Kamplau arrived later, and he really didn't know whether this slippery old noble had really discussed anything with the Zhou family in advance.

But Camplau thought about it carefully and realized that the Westminster organization, like the Shenzhou family, spent most of its time fighting in its home territories and had little contact with the outside world. Therefore, it was unlikely that it had a deep private relationship with the Zhou family.

The so-called prior negotiation, the worst case scenario is that Westminster is willing to pay an additional price and require the Zhou family to provide more incomplete magic system information to the Solomon Temple, causing their strength growth to lag behind Westminster.

"Hmph, when it comes to wealth, the Knights have always been fearless."

Camplau secretly thought he had figured out the old knight's trick.

Be it money or hidden dragon treasures, Solomon's Temple, which inherited the legacy of the Knights Templar, is only stronger than Westminster Abbey!
Whatever Westminster has given you, I, Solomon’s Temple, will give you three times as much!
Thinking of this, the Grand Commander patted his heavy armor, making a clanking sound, as if he was not at all inferior in momentum, and spoke in a muffled voice:

"Ha! Of course I have discussed the matter with the Zhou family in advance, but the Templar Knights are a big family with great power, which cannot be compared with some small British minions, so I still need to discuss it with His Holiness the Pope."

"Besides, our Knights are a huge organization that travels around the world to spread the glory of the Lord and praise the Lord's teachings. Our members are carefully selected from the two billion believers around the world. If someone does not have a firm belief and does not understand the doctrine, how can he be qualified to enter the door of the mysterious world?"

By this time, Kamplau had already made up his mind that the Solomon's Temple, as a mixed-race organization of religious armed nature, was not suitable for the college system of the Secret Party, and did not need to recruit students.

The Grand Master of his generation had long been in secret contact with the contemporary Pope, and therefore was able to set up branch organizations in various places under the cover of Christianity, absorb half-bloods in the name of recruiting believers, and package all kinds of word alchemy as "the grace of the Lord", and those ignorant wild half-bloods almost bowed down to them.

Now that we have the magic system, we will be even more powerful. We just need to deepen the cooperation with the Pope to establish a church that also spreads the Lord's love and relief. As a title, the Pope will surely agree.

"Oh? Your Excellency, the Grand Commander, has already come up with a mature plan?" The old knight narrowed his eyes slightly, holding the gorgeous head of his civilized stick with both hands, "Please allow me to curiously inquire about what kind of shocking idea it is."

"Oh... Could it be that you are taking the female believers of excellent bloodline from the people into the monastery under the guise of God's grace, so that you can expand the number of wives and concubines for your knights and give birth to more offspring with excellent bloodlines?"

In the old knight's opinion, the Solomon's Temple, which inherited the old system of the Knights Templar, was simply a feudal antique. It used a strict class system that included knights to govern its internal affairs. In front of the knights' superiors, many nuns and believers were just their private property.

"Stop beating around the bush. You, Westminster Abbey, have used only a piece of paper to measure and devour the entire value of the mixed-blood employees, causing chaos in Britain. This is an unforgivable crime in the eyes of God."

Grand Master Camplaw and Sir Snowdon have been at odds with each other for many years, and throwing dirty water on each other has long been commonplace. But things are different now. In this territory that does not belong to them, the two men's words are somewhat restrained.

The Grand Master has made up his mind to never fall behind his arch-rival Westminster and even to achieve the largest scale of development in a short period of time.

He wants to cooperate deeply with His Holiness the Pope, and after obtaining the magic system, allow cardinals to assist them in the management of the new organization, and even invite the Pope to become the symbolic head of the new organization (Papal Constitution!), so as to obtain the greatest support from the Cross in terms of resources and connections.

However, in this case, the new organization must also be named "Church".

Grand Master Kamplau decided to take the lead in grabbing the naming rights, emphasizing that their Solomon's Temple had made an indelible contribution. Therefore, it was necessary to add the word "Templar" to the name of the new church.

Let’s just name it Templar Church.

The two sworn enemies then had a fierce exchange of glances and words in the VIP room, but unfortunately due to the fact that they were playing away from home, the intensity was restrained and it did not come to a physical confrontation.

But if you think about it from another perspective, it can also kill a lot of boring waiting time.

Until Lord Wa arrived with a group of patriarchs from the Shenzhou families.

A new round of conspiracy against the secret party has just begun.

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Emiya's current feeling is, alas, this Nono is not suitable to be regarded as the "half-sister" as Mai Jude mentioned. At least she is not as well-behaved and quiet as Miyu Emiya.

At most, it is similar to Chloe/Xiao Hei, and it still has a "middle school and eccentric way of thinking" that is hard to guess.

Until the RV arrived at Zhou's house, Nuonuo still looked sincere, and insisted on holding his hand tightly and said:

"Emiya, you must be careful and alert to the aristocratic families! Aristocratic families are not good things!" "That family head must be plotting something in secret, don't be fooled by appearances!" "Why don't you and I join forces as soon as possible and stay away from the vortex of this area of conflict of interests!"

Emiya felt that Nono seemed to be imagining something that didn't exist...

I feel that this crazy girl will be a living treasure after she fully recovers. Fortunately, she didn't hold the golden hoop, wear a chainmail golden armor, and wear lotus silk shoes, saying that she would fight together to the palace and "seize the throne".

He heard about the girl's tragic experience from Jude Mai, and only then did he understand Nono's way of thinking a little.

Based on this, it seems that her original family environment when she was in the Chen family was too bad, and once she entered a similar environment, she would develop a PTSD-like condition.

Lord Wa was indeed planning something, but it could not be simply compared with the conspiracies of Nono and her father.

Don’t tell others to be kind without suffering others’ suffering…

Emiya was not an expert in Nono's own life, so it would be difficult for him to correct her current imagination.

After staying for a while, Nuonuo might find that different aristocratic families are very different from each other, and her ideas might become less extreme?
...But it's hard to say. An unhappy childhood may take a lifetime to heal.

After talking to Emiya for a long time and trying to "establish a united front" with him, Nono finally fell into a deep sleep. Her body still needed time to recover.

After getting off the car, a large group of medical staff rushed in from outside the door. Emiya repeatedly refused the invitation to be carried on a stretcher by a group of people... He didn't have any serious external injuries, at most only "internal injuries" on the magic circuit, and he had no problem walking on his own.

So they had to quietly move the still sleeping Nono into a separate ward.

Emiya waved goodbye to Shude Mai and Zero - the two of them would leave in the car arranged by the Potato Chip Girl - and politely declined Shude Mai's insistence on carrying him all the way... He felt that this woman was teasing him secretly by always thinking about this.

It was already noon at this time. Emiya walked on the road where sunlight and tiny shadows were a chaotic mixture. He went to get the "tonic medicine" according to the prescription of the weird doctor, and successfully received unanimous strange looks from the young ladies on duty at the medicine decoction area.

"Shh, I feel like some terrible scandal is going to come out again."

Emiya gasped as he thought back to the women he had come into contact with recently.

After looking at the time, he decided to look for Old Tang nearby. Logically speaking, with Old Tang's luck, if he did not participate in the subsequent battles, he might have only suffered minor injuries and would not be sent to the intensive care unit or the like.

That way, it would be easy for him to find it...

Because all you have to do is find the ward with the happiest atmosphere on the entire street.

"…Room C-7."

After searching for a while, he finally found the ward with the loudest sound. Emiya glanced at the door number and saw that from the door of this noisy room, the loud and excited voice of Old Tang could be heard, which attracted laughter from the people around him.

"...Don't disbelieve me! When we faced the mighty God King Odin and a group of mighty heroes, my brother Emiya and I killed them all!"

Old Tang had already applied medicine to the big swelling on his head, but he just lay on the bed and couldn't get up, as if he had been badly injured in his previous heroic battle.

His long eyebrows twitched from time to time with his exaggerated words and expressions, which made the nurse next to him sit in the chair and almost bent over with laughter.

"Odin roared angrily and thrust his spear forward at a tricky and vicious angle. I had already seen through the attack intention of this fake god king and dodged it with my eyes closed. Hey! Guess what happened?"

"I took the opportunity to clap my hands and send a basin-sized fireball onto the stupid face of the eight-legged horse-eyed dragon..."

In order to remain polite and not spoil the atmosphere of the conversation with Old Tang, Emiya stood by the door and listened for a while. Who knew that Old Tang would keep telling stories, and his descriptions of the plots became more and more outrageous...

What God King's wrath causes millions of corpses to fall, what about moving mountains and filling the sea and the stars shifting, what about taking turns to sit on the throne of God King, tonight it belongs to me, God King Tang!

...until the very end, the original storyline of "Good Brother Emiya" was completely forgotten by this guy, and the script was changed into the Legend of the Hero of Tang Shenwang.

Wow, Old Tang, your small workshop has a lot of raw materials.

"Dong dong."

Unable to bear it any longer, Emiya knocked on the door. When he walked in with medicine, the room suddenly became quiet. Old Tang was stunned when he saw the main character in the story. The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

After seeing the person coming, the nurse stopped listening to Lao Tang's stand-up comedy and ran to Emiya with shining eyes.

She picked up a pen and signed. Then, with a twitch in the corner of his mouth, he wrote some crooked words on the nurse's white uniform as requested by the nurse.

The nurse who was going to get his autograph winked at him, and even grasped his hand firmly and shook it twice, and then left the room happily. Emiya turned his gaze back and saw Old Tang lying on the bed, playing the hero, with a resentful face.

Wow, it turns out that the other person didn't fall into his trap at all and was just teasing him. When the pretending hero meets the real hero, isn't his true face exposed?
"Brother Emiya, you are so lucky. I almost got the nurse's contact information..."

Old Tang's voice was filled with pain and regret for missing out on a romantic encounter. So, since he had time to strike up a conversation, it seemed that he had been living quite freely and comfortably in the ward before.

"You said it was a coincidence? Do you know that I have actually been listening to you chattering outside the door for nearly a quarter of an hour? Jokes are not nonsense, so don't make your changes too outrageous."

Emiya unnoticedly divided the medicine he had brought into two large bags and said, "Here, this is the medicine I brought for you, Old Tang. Stop looking for women and take care of your health."

"what is this?"

Old Tang took the medicine in confusion. As a person with minor injuries, what kind of Chinese medicine did he need to take?
"Wait a minute, let me take another look at the ingredients of this decoction. I almost forgot... Deer antler, wolfberry, Cistanche deserticola, cinnamon, cordyceps, deer penis...hiss!"

The prescription written by the doctor before coming back was in such a flamboyant handwriting that Emiya couldn't recognize what medicine it was. Now he looked at the printed prescription on the decoction bag again and caught the key word "deer penis"... Guigui, this is most likely a hodgepodge of aphrodisiacs!
Old Tang looked up and asked, "Do you understand?" He knew little about Chinese medicine and was very confused.

Emiya just patted the other's shoulder and said, "The medicine is fine, it should be fine?... At worst, you can just use this next time you hook up with a beautiful woman, Old Tang! It will definitely work, those who understand will understand, it works every time... No, it works the first time you try it!"

"Okay, I believe you!"

Old Tang said subconsciously, and then he realized, something is not right, what is the mysterious effect?
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After saying goodbye to Old Tang, Emiya wondered who else he could give the medicine in the bag to.

I shook the plastic bag and found that there was still quite a lot of medicine inside... Why did that crooked doctor prescribe so many doses at once?

Emiya reviewed the list of his acquaintances in his mind, then walked out of the large pharmacy run by the Zhou family to look for the honest man Zhou Yuxuan.

He had already walked around inside but didn't see anyone. Since he was not in the town, he was most likely doing business in a temple.

After leaving this place filled with the smell of disinfectant and Chinese medicine, he walked about a few hundred meters. The golden sunlight passed through the long corridor and slid onto the stone floor. Many quiet breaths swayed gently between the doors and curtains, occasionally interspersed with busy conversations.

Wei Gong soon saw the familiar central hall. This was the most important and formal affairs center of the Zhou family. There were dense patrol and guard personnel gathered in front of the hall and even around it. The sturdy mixed-blood men were wary of all visitors and approachers with suspicious identities.

But no one would stop Emiya's actions.

At this time, Zhou Yuxuan happened to come out of the palace gate in a hurry. Wei Gong saw him and walked aside and greeted him: "Are you busy inside?"

Although this was a formal occasion, Emiya seldom saw such tight security around it. This usually happened when some important matters were being discussed or some important foreign guests were visiting.

Zhou Yuxuan nodded and said, without avoiding the issue of Emiya, he spoke directly:
"…In a meeting, Lord Wa and other family heads and guests have important matters to discuss, but I am not a participant, so I am not very clear about the whole story. I just went in and listened, and they talked about the clock tower and the Holy Church…"

As he was talking, Zhou Yuxuan noticed that Wei Gong was carrying a bag of Chinese medicine... Hmm? The ingredients of that medicine...

"Clock Tower and the Templar Church? Has the news been leaked, or have they already sent people?" Emiya wondered if the two organizations were moving so quickly because of what happened with Odin?
Zhou Yuxuan nodded and was about to explain in detail, but two Westerners happened to walk out of the palace gate.

Emiya looked closely and saw that one of them was wearing a British-style outfit from the last century, like an old British aristocrat, but he looked energetic, walked briskly, and there were not many wrinkles on his face.

The other person was a middle-aged man wearing heavy knight armor, with blond hair, blue eyes, tall build, a typical Germanic race. He seemed to be walking with the former, but in fact, there was a distance between them. It was obvious that there was a big gap in their relationship.

It was none other than Lord Snowdon and Grand Master Camplaw.

When the two saw Wei Gong and Zhou Yuxuan here, their eyes lit up and they walked straight towards them.

Zhou Yuxuan didn't have time to explain in detail, he could only whisper: "It's them." He introduced Emiya to the two Westerners, then quietly retreated behind the crowd.

Emiya nodded. He could see that the old man was a typical Clock Tower magician, and might even be a member of the "noble faction".

(The Clock Tower is divided into three major factions: Aristocracy, Democracy, and Neutrality)
As for the other one who looks like a religious knight, he should be the Templar Church?
There have been some conflicts between the Cathedral Church and the Clock Tower since the beginning. The relationship between the two sides can be said to be like fire and water, and there was even a period of fighting. I heard that they are now in a truce because of the conclusion of a contract.

but……

"Not an agent, but a knight order?"

(The impression given by the Holy Church is usually that of a powerful agent or burial agency, but in fact there are also a large number of church knights. For example, the Inquisition Knights that appeared in the Tsukihime world line, the leader is Lizbefe Stolindobari, nicknamed "Saint of the Fortress" and "Knight of the Holy Shield")
"…Agent? Does that mean acting as God's agent and carrying out God's will?"

Captain Kamplau, who was walking over, thought that he was being talked about, and walked over with big strides with a raised brow. He thought to himself, hahaha, it seems that he has entered the vision of the legendary "God Killer" and "Genius Magician" one step ahead of that annoying old Deng next to him.

However, Sir Snowden was unwilling to fall behind, and with a kind smile he moved quickly, bursting out with an astonishing speed that did not match his age, and took the lead in stepping forward and shaking hands.

"Good day, just call me Snowden... So this young man is the 'God-killer' Shirou Emiya? He is indeed a young and promising genius magician!"

'Shameless old man!'

The captain of the Kamplau standing next to him changed his expression slightly when he saw the interaction between the two. This old man was so shameless that he cheated and attacked. If this old Snowdon took the lead in establishing a relationship with Emiya, it would be bad if he was pulled to the opposite side!
Cutting in line at this time would seem impolite, but it doesn’t matter, Kamplau quickly thought of a solution: throwing money!
If nothing else, the Knights Templar had a lot of money. They had made their fortune in banking since the Middle Ages.

Kamplau took advantage of the moment when Snowdon Oldman just let go of Emiya's hand and handed him a black card. "I am Captain Kamplau. This is a small gift from the Knights. It's just a small gift, not a token of respect."

"this is……"

Emiya's attention turned to the black card given by the captain. The other party said it was a small gift, but it was actually a top-level Infinite card issued by Visa.

In fact, Solomon's Temple is financially strong, and therefore holds various customized credit cards. The credit limit of this black card is as high as hundreds of thousands of US dollars. Only the knight class within the Temple is eligible to hold it.

Depending on the knights' contributions, the Temple will also provide regular payments of different amounts for credit card spending.

But Emiya was almost stunned when he saw the black card... So the Holy Church is so rich that they are willing to give this as a gift? Or is this Knights Templar particularly rich?
Besides, the other party gave me a gift, but I don’t seem to have anything to give…

Kamplau didn't care at all. He just laughed and said, "It's just a token of my personal friendship with you as the captain... I understand that you didn't prepare a return gift in advance, but you can just give me something casually."

After saying that, he looked at the bag in Emiya's hand curiously.

No, are you sure you want this?
With a slightly strange expression on his face, Emiya took out two packets of aphrodisiac from a large bag in his hand and handed them to Camplau, "Just a reminder, Captain, this is a 'tonifying drug' prepared for men."

It was unclear whether Kamplau understood the hint in Emiya's words or not. He thanked her naturally and took the medicine without even looking at her.

In fact, with his level of Chinese, he didn't understand any prescriptions at all. He even secretly guessed that as a "magic genius", the medicines that Emiya carried with him might have something special. In short, it would not be a loss to establish a friendship with him and prevent Emiya from being dragged into the boat by his old enemy...

After Emiya handed over the medicine, he found another hand stretched out beside him——

Old man Snowdon actually handed over a Mint Club membership card with an exquisite and luxurious card surface and took away the remaining two packets of aphrodisiacs.

This interaction is exactly the same as the one with the group leader.

"..." Emiya was shocked to see Snowden smiling as he put away the aphrodisiac, as if he was putting away some precious ancient treasure. I didn't expect that this old man was still so playful at such an old age.

Only Zhou Yuxuan, who was retreating behind, took a quick glance and understood the efficacy of the medicine that Emiya handed over.

But he kept his expression tight and said nothing...

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After saying hello, Emiya just exchanged a few polite words with the two Westerners and left.

He felt that the Clock Tower and the Holy Church's overtures to him were probably just because of his "deicide" deeds. If they wanted to "maintain personal friendship", it would be fine, but if he was completely pulled into the other party's organization camp... then forget it.

The Clock Tower is already known to have a notorious reputation.

As for the Holy Church, although it looks okay on the surface, according to the information revealed in "Tsukihime Remake", the low-level agents in the Holy Church are treated very badly, almost equivalent to cannon fodder, and there are many shady dealings among the church's top leaders.

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