The Divine Hunter

The cold wind blew into the window on the second floor of the library, picking up the broken hair on Yaer's temples. Yaer stretched out his hand to cover the slightly dazzling white light outside the window, and rubbed his sore eyes and wrists.

He said with a little murmur,

"Roy, you should look at the sky outside, we've been looking for an afternoon, and it's getting dark! You have to understand that I'm just an ordinary person, short-sighted, without the perverted physique of a witcher, can you let me Rest for a while?"

"Come on, man." The witcher's voice was loud, still full of energy, not showing any signs of fatigue.

"Let's hurry up and save Leto from the pervert!"

"And didn't you say this morning, have you seen the concept of the 'seven deadly sins' in a travel journal? Let's look through the travel journal again, and we will definitely find it!"

"I wish I had copied all the books in the library so I could find the book right away."

After Yael finished speaking, he wailed and continued to bury his head in the book.

For a time, in the empty library, there was only a rapid rustling sound of pages turning.

I don't know how long it took, Yaer's heavy eyelids were almost closed completely, his eyes were red and tears were streaming, and his narrowed eyes swept over a certain book, and suddenly became round.

He slammed the table and stood up suddenly,

"Roy, come and have a look, I found the book!"

"My dear, there really is you-"Van Zelenan's Travel Notes"..."

Yael opened the yellowed hard cover and came to the first page, groping for the words with his slender fingers, reciting them over and over again.

"Van Zelen, 1168-1239, a missionary from the Temple of Meritelli in Erland, traveled to Nilfgaard in the south in 1215, and spent ten years traveling around most of the southern land before returning to the temple to write this book. . This book introduces the customs and cultural beliefs of the Nilfgaardian Empire in detail."

"Page 39, City of Golden Pagoda..."

Roy moved his head to Yare's side and read word by word intently.

"Today, I came to the capital of the Nilfgaardian Empire,

The city of urn. This magnificent city on the banks of the Alba River is the heart of the Nilfgaardian Empire. In the eyes of the locals, only the city of the Golden Tower and the people living around it are qualified to be called the real Nilfgaardians. Residents of other regions of the Empire are not eligible for this privilege. "

"It is adjacent to the Yaruga River and has the largest port in the entire south. It is uniquely endowed by nature to make it the economic center of the south."

"Not only that, but it is the center of religious culture in the South, with the headquarters of the 'biggest religion' in Nilfgaard."

"The origin of the 'biggest religion' has to be mentioned eight years ago in 1207, when the then king of Nilfgaard, Fergus Enreis, carried out radical political and religious reforms, so that the originally flourishing South, One of the biggest religions was born, the Sun Cult."

"Forgus Enris appointed the Sun Cult to be the Nilfgaardian Cult, and appointed himself as the high priest of the Sun Cult, and made the clergy in the sect serve as key officials of the state's public institutions, unifying the monarchical power with the divine power, skillfully Make the entire empire more united and power more concentrated."

As a religious person, Van Zellen may have felt this, and he focused on the Sun Cult here.

"Glory to the great sun! Praise the sun!

- The Nilfgaardian Hymn. "

"The Cult of the Sun became supreme in the South. The Temple of Meritelli was female-dominated, while the Cult of the Sun was diametrically male-dominated, with both its high priest and clergy being male."

"These men of great power believe that all life in the world is sheltered by the sun, the giver of life and the protector of mankind! But equally cruel and destructive."

"Unlike the tolerance and kindness that the goddess always preached, the dark side of the Sun Cult is shocking."

"By chance, I discovered the hidden secrets of the Sun Cult."

"Forgus Emhyr wrote the seven original sins in a secret scripture to alert the core members of the church. They are greed, gluttony, laziness, anger, jealousy, silver lust, and arrogance."

"Every year, the church secretly selects the seven sinners from the death row inmates and performs a little-known sacred prayer ceremony!"

"Sacrifice to the supreme sun with the blood and flesh of the original sin to destroy evil and give birth to beauty. The sun will give blessings. In order to maintain the purity of the ceremony, during the sacrifice, the hands of the participants should not be contaminated with the blood of innocents, otherwise the ceremony will be contaminated."

"The vast majority of followers of the Sun Cult are male, and the purpose of rituals is usually to let the sun bless their spouses."

"Although the meaning is beautiful, I think the sacrifice process is extremely inhumane. Even if the so-called "sin" is triggered, it will not lead to death. If things go on like this, it will inevitably lead to disaster."

(Following words: Sure enough, in 1236, my mind was not completely chaotic, and suddenly I heard news from the south that Fergus Enris was completely overthrown by the usurper, and the power of the Sun Cult plummeted and never returned to the past.)

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"Sun Cult?"

Roy pondered the word and lost his mind for a moment.

And Yael suddenly realized, "No wonder we have been looking for so long. The Seven Deadly Sins are not from a sect in the north at all. They were born in the southern empire and involved a secret ritual. The Sun Cult has only flourished for less than 30 years. With the emperor's abdication and complete decline... the thousands of books in the temple are estimated to be recorded in this travelogue!"

"No..." Roy muttered to himself, "Now the Sun Cult has begun to revive."

The unification of theocracy and monarchy, Forgus Enris, is the biological father of the current Southern Emperor, Emhyr Enris, who was overthrown and murdered by the usurper, but his good son had already reported for him a few years ago. The one-shot revenge, killing the usurper and regaining the power of the empire, also put the Sun Cult on the political stage in the south again.

"The Prince's Revenge as soon as it appears."

Roy felt that with the restoration of the Sun Cult, the Nilfgaardian Empire continued its northern expedition, and no fanatics of the Cult were allowed to come to Elland.

"Then can it be concluded that the murderer, that high-level vampire, is a remnant of the Sun Cult?"

"According to the description in the travel notes, he killed the seven sinners one by one in order to offer sacrifices to the supreme existence. The murderer is a tall male vampire, and male believers usually participate in the ceremony to pray for the desired woman or spouse. . This should also be the murderer's motive."

"The corpse sites are gathered around the palace - this is not a coincidence!" Roy suddenly looked shocked, and Yaer, who was opposite him, looked blank.

"In the palace, there is a woman the murderer likes, and the murderer is showing his love to the woman in this way! If this woman is a maid, it would be a big deal to spend a lot of time for an ordinary maid..."

"Does Prince Heward have a princess?!"

Roy suddenly uttered a sentence, which startled Yaer, and the thin young man was stunned, and stammered, "No... No, His Royal Highness has no heirs!"

"Roy, my boss, what did you think of? Don't be surprised. I haven't slept all night. If you are scared again, I feel like my nerves are weak..."

"By the way..." Roy ignored his complaints, but remembered that after the death of Siward in the novel, one of his relatives legally inherited his throne and became Siward II. If the prince had a child, he would not be Let that relative take advantage.

"Since there is no princess..." So his brows furrowed tightly, "Who in the palace deserves the murderer to offer such a lofty sacrifice?"

"Nilfgaardian Sun Cult, sacrifice, palace, woman," these words came together, and Roy suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, "This... Could it be that a woman is..."

"And the murderer can defeat Leto..."

Nine times out of ten, it is a high-level vampire.

He already had a suspect in his mind!

Although the information observed before is normal, high-level vampires, like the cursed, can change their form and blind his perception.

Now that the motivation is basically clear, it's time to go to the showdown with that guy!

"Yar, if I don't come back to report safety before tomorrow night, help me give this notebook to the old lady Nannick."

The road ahead is unpredictable, life and death are unpredictable.

But he couldn't back down, and Leto was still there.

The witcher took a deep breath, checked the alchemy supplies, and stood up abruptly.