"Who are you……"

The leading knight made Ilia feel a little familiar, as if she had seen that face somewhere before.

"Your Highness the Saint. I am Moran Ardel. Hingis Ardel, the former leader of the Knights of the Guardian of the Icon, is my grandfather. The rest are descendants of the knights."

The leading knight bowed slightly and revealed his identity and that of all the knights present.

"They are all descendants of the Knights? But didn't the Knights...ahem...disband? Moreover, the Holy See issued a silence order on the families of the Knights. How did you know about the existence of the Knights?"

Illya now had many questions, so she picked the most important ones and asked them first.

Regarding the argument that the Knights were destroyed artificially, Illya paused and replaced it with disbandment. After all, a large part of the reason for the destruction of the Knights was her fault.

"Yes. The Holy See did issue a hush-hush order. However, our respective elders still knew something about the Knights. After the Holy See bizarrely announced that all members of the Knights had suddenly disappeared, although they were afraid of the Holy See's warning,

We still did some covert investigations.”

Having said this, Moran paused and named a person. He was a key figure in the reorganization of the Knights.

"My father, Snyder Ardel, has a certain close relationship with the custodian of the Secret Data Room. After many requests, the other party gave my father a record of the Knights' actions over the years..."

Moran suddenly gritted his teeth and showed a ferocious anger.

"The things recorded on it made my father extremely angry. If he hadn't been afraid of hurting his friends because of this information, my father would have taken this information full of dark inside stories of the Holy See to the Pope to argue with him right then and there."

"Hmph! What is this piece of information? There are many dark existences in the secret information room that you can't even imagine."

Illya had sneaked into the secret data room back then. After reading through all the information recorded in it, even she, who knew the dark inside story of the Holy See, had to be shocked. It was completely unimaginable that the Crusaders were tainted after they developed all the way.

How much crime and bloodshed.

"It's worth it for your father to make that friend. He even dares to take out these things. You know, apart from the recorder, if even the Pope himself wants to see it, he must obtain the consent of three or more bishops.

Read it. For the rest of you, let alone reading it, even if your fingers accidentally get on it, it will be a capital offense."

"Yes, is that so?"

Hearing this, Moran looked in disbelief.

"Nonsense! You have to know that once these things are exposed, there will be no need for the Christian religion to exist. The anger of the people will completely subvert the Christian religion in just a short time."

Illya rolled her eyes. Since it was secret information, of course it was all shameful stuff.

"That's it. Tell me, why did you come to see me? Since you are all descendants of the Knights, I won't ask any more questions about how to contact me."

"That's it. Ahem..."

Hearing this, Moran immediately cleared his throat and got to the point.

"Your Highness the Saint, you also know the reason why the Knights were established in the first place. As long as you are around, the Knights will exist and protect you. In fact, in my father's generation, the Knights were established again. But

Because without your approval, no one dares to serve as the leader of the Knights without permission. My father has only been managing the Knights as the acting head of the Knights."

"Your father's generation? Why didn't I get any news? If you want my approval, why don't you come to see me?"

After calculating the time a little, Ilia felt that there was definitely something wrong inside.

"It's not that we don't want to come to see you. You don't know that the Holy See completely blocked the main church at that time. And probably to prevent you from doubting, all activities in the main church are going on normally. However, as long as everyone related to the Knights,

No one is allowed to enter. Even hanging around will result in expulsion.”

Moran frowned, with an expression of unspeakable distress.

"Ever since we learned that you escaped, we have been searching for your whereabouts, just to make you acknowledge our existence, and sincerely hope that we can guard you again like our ancestors."

With that said, Moran pulled out his sword. He grabbed the blade of the sword and handed the hilt to Ilia with a solemn expression. Finally, he bowed his head respectfully.

"Your Highness, it is our honor to protect you! We knights have lost our glory for too long, please bring us glory again. A knight without glory is worse than a dead corpse!"

"Please bring us glory!"

Following Moran's speech, all the knights neatly knelt down on one knee, half-kneeling, and looked at Ilia expectantly.

"this……"

For a moment, Illya panicked.

To be honest, the Knights were founded just because they couldn't stand the fallacy taught by the knights who were opponents of the Holy See. Later, they never expected that the Knights would make such sacrifices for her.

Since that time, Illya has rejected the Knights' loyalty from the bottom of her heart.

Therefore, she never thought about establishing the Knights again. Regarding the descendants of these Knights, her thoughts were the same as those of the Holy See in the early days. She just wanted them to live happily without knowing anything. Ignorance

In fact, it is also a kind of happiness.

However, now she doesn't know if she is still right.

Because these families have been knights for generations. Their descendants must have been taught the concept of knights by their ancestors.

As a knight, you must live for glory and die for glory.

Where does glory come from?

In addition to the swords and shields in the hands of knights, the biggest thing comes from the objects they are loyal to.

A knight without an object of allegiance is like a lost dog, and naturally there will be no glory to speak of.

The free knights described in the novel are all lies. In the eyes of various lords, such knights are troublemakers in the war chess game. The final end must be that they are surrounded and suppressed by the lords who cannot see it. If you are lucky, you can survive, not escape.

Overseas, one would remain anonymous. Those who were not lucky would be humiliated in every possible way by the lords, and then humiliated and sent to the gallows.

"Now, I say, you should know what you will get if you loyal to me again, right? Although you will have the glory you have been waiting for for a long time, but..."

As he said that, Ilia's expression darkened.

"However, this means that you are very likely to be enemies of your faith. Although the Roman Orthodox Church is only the largest branch of the current cross. However, even the Roman Orthodox Church, which has now declined, can also turn you into enemies.

You claim to be sinners who betrayed the cross, have you really made up your mind?"

Illya is very clear about the plot of Magic ** Catalog.

War, war will definitely start again.

The war between the magic side and the science side is inevitable.

Then, Illya will never let go of this opportunity to deal with Sophia.

The Roman Orthodox Church will definitely have a gap in its defense due to the war. Then that is the best time for Illya to find Sophia, who is usually hidden deep in the Holy See.

Doing so would mean that Illya officially broke with the Cross. This was not decided by Illya. The crime of murdering the prophet was enough for the Roman Orthodox Church to condemn her as a traitor to the Cross.

At that time, other churches had to define her as their enemy no matter how unwilling they were.

If the Knights were loyal to her, they would naturally be treated as an accomplice by the Crusaders and punished with the same crime.

At this time, Moran's body trembled slightly.

This tremor was not caused by thinking of the consequences Ilia said. It was because something in his arms suddenly vibrated.

"Your Highness the Saint."

Moran raised his head and looked at Ilia.

"You don't have to worry too much."

With the slightly raised corners of his mouth and his handsome face, Moran's smile looked very charming at this moment.

Ilia felt something strange when she saw Moran's smile.

Of course, don't get me wrong, Ilia was not fascinated by that charming smile.

She just noticed something wrong in that smile, which made her feel a rare sense of danger.

Yes, it is dangerous.

Since time traveling, except for the time when she was threatened by Alaya, Illya felt danger for the first time, a danger that affected her life.

"How could I betray the Holy See?"

As he spoke, Moran stood up and returned his sword to its sheath.

"What do you mean?!"

Ilia frowned. Now, Moran's body gave her a completely different feeling than when they first met, and it was very strange.

"I mean……"

As Moran spoke, he took out something from his arms.

"This is it!"

Moran suddenly pointed the object he found at Ilia.

It was a small silver cross amulet, but the bottom of the cross was not square, but an extremely sharp scream. At first glance, it looked like a sword.

"You...cough..."

As Moran pointed at the amulet, Ilia's eyes widened immediately, and then she was stunned for a moment, and a mouthful of blood spurted out uncontrollably.
Chapter completed!