<h4>Chapter 55: The Church</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio <strong>Editor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio


    A few dayster, another group of knights entered Bull Mountain Range. They were heavily armored, wearing cloaks and carrying swords. Each of them bore the sigil of the sun on their cloaks.


    An old man wearing a long dark red cardinal robe walked out of the group of people surrounding him and into the tomb. He immediately saw the bodies littered on the ground and the empty golden coffin. The underground tomb was in chaos.


    A few filthy ves were tossed in front of the red-robed cardinal. A few knights carried forward a few gold coins along with some gold and silver wares, among which was the mask worn by the Golden King.


    The red-robed cardinal looked at the items and nodded. If the ves weren’t trying to sell these items, they wouldn’t have discovered this ce. The cardinal looked at the kneeling ves, “Did you find these here?”


    The ves were trembling. Before them was one of the ten red-robed cardinal of the Church of Light. The number of people in such a high position can be counted with the two hands. His name was widely spread within the Alen continent. Even the emperor of the Crete Empire would have to treat a red-robed cardinal of the Church of Light with respect.


    Normally, the ves would never have the opportunity to meet a person like the cardinal, who imed to be people closest to God; not to mention get the opportunity to talk to them. But at this moment, there was only fear in their hearts.


    One of the knights put a sword to a ve’s neck and said, “Speak!”


    The ve could not handle the pressure and shouted, “I’ll speak. We’re Viscount Tena’s ves. We entered the Bull Forest a few months ago. Over these few months, we have always been following the master’s orders and excavating here. At first, we did not know the reason for what we were doing, butter we found out that the Viscount was searching for the tomb of the Golden Dynasty!”


    The cardinal nodded. This was information he already knew. The Tena family was the master of this area, but the Bull Forest was not under their control. They have already vited thews of the empire, but that was not the red-robed cardinal cared about.


    “What did you see here, tell me everything!” Even the red-robed cardinal was at awe of therge amount of treasures before him. But he appeared collected. He was not a small noble by the countryside that have never witnessed such a scene!


    The ve continued with a shaky voice, “That day, we excavated a pit and discovered this ce. There were many traps along the way, and many of us died. But the master continuedmanding us to go forward. We opened the door and found this room. We found the coffin of the Golden King!”


    “Get to the point. What else did you discover?” a priest wearing a ck robe standing behind the cardinal asked hurriedly.


    The cardinal turned his head and stared at his subordinate, causing him to retreat in embarrassment, “You need not hurry, take your time.”


    The ve nodded, “Viscount Tena said we should open the coffin, but Lord Sova objected, saying God would curse us. After all, this is the tomb of the Golden King. But that didn’t stop Lord Tena. They then opened the coffin.”


    At this point, the ve’s eyes revealed an expression of extreme fear, ” Back then, the Golden King seemed to be alive. He did not seem dead. But after we opened the coffin, he disappeared like a ghost!”


    “Then, then they were all struck by a curse they started killing each other. They killed each other manically!” The ve was immensely frightened as he recalled the scene.


    The cardinal frowned. “What did they find in the coffin?”


    The worker thought about it and said, “First, they found a sword. They said it was a divine sword given to them by the God. It still had a cold glow, able to slice a knight’s sword into half with a strike. It was still shiny as snow despite being in the tomb for over a thousand years!”


    His words shocked everyone present, including the knights of the Church. Everyone had a longing and excited expression, “It is the Sword of the King. God has given us the authority of the king and had chosen the emperor. It must be a true divine weapon since it was found here!”


    The red-robed cardinal was very excited. A divine weapon that had been gifted to them by God could truly represent the orthodoxy of the Church of Light. They had to obtain it. That was the whole reason why they hade here in the first ce. If he was sessful, it was highly possible that he would take the position as the next leader of the Church.


    At this moment, the red-robed cardinal suddenly remembered something, “You said they first found the sword. What else did they find?”


    The ve realized that he had chosen the wrong words, his gaze wavering. The red-robed cardinal’s voice became stern, “Speak!”


    Nervously, the ve shouted immediately, “They found... ichor!”


    The atmosphere instantly became quiet. The cardinal shivered as he asked, “What?”


    The ve quickly continued, “Theyter found a golden gemstone in the coffin. There was ichor sealed within. When they took the gemstone out, a picture was instantly projected onto the wall. It was a picture of a scene that happened a thousand years ago, the scene of God giving the Golden King his divine mission. Back then, God did not only give the Golden King his divine sword and seeds. He also gave him ichor. God told the Golden King...he said...!”


    “What did he say?” the cardinal could not help but grab tightly on the shoulder of the ve. He did not care if the ve was filthy anymore.


    The ve shivered as he said, his voice bing shriller because of his fear, “God said, ‘he who drinks the blood of God will be a descendant of God, and will wield the power of my Almighty!’”


    The red-robed cardinal reacted immediately. He shouted manically, “Kill all of them, kill all of them, as well as all who knows about this. Leave no one alive, kill all of them!”


    “No you cannot do this! We did everything you said!”


    “Oh Goddess Maria above, you’ll face the punishment of God...”


    “Spare me, don’t kill me!”


    The knights charged forward and killed all of the ves. The heavy atmosphere made breathing difficult. Some timeter, the red-robed cardinal finally collected himself, “Send a message back to the Church. This is top secret, no one here is to speak a word of this. Anyone who speaks a word of this will be hunted by the Church of Light for the rest of his life!”


    “Also, lead the knights of the Church and find all the ves that were here back then. We must find the sword and the ichor!”


    “The rest of you are not to leave this ce. Seal this ce. Do not allow anyone to enter or leave the Bull Mountain Range!”