Chapter 235: Chronicles of Darkness (Part 3)
The long conversation between Gu Yun and Marian lasted all night, and most of the time was Marian's questions about the future. She was extremely eager to know the future of Winchester and the Holy See, the trends of the world, and her self centuries later.
Even for the witch who has eternal life, centuries are an extremely long time.
When Marianne heard the revival of the witch association and the decline of Winchester, she finally smiled.
The conversation was eventually interrupted by the noise outside the door.
As soon as the sky was dawn, fanatical people gathered on the streets. Looking down from the windows, people had already lined up in a long line and rushed towards the square like a parade.
"Today is the day to execute the witch."
Marian stood in front of the window, pulled down the nun's hat and covered her face. She watched the endless crowd. This morning was like a celebration, and everyone cheered from the bottom of their hearts that the land would eventually be purified.
"Do you want to go and have a look?"
"good."
After receiving a positive answer, she slowly bent down in front of Gu Yun. Under Gu Yun's surprise gaze, she turned into a black cat. The only thing that the black cat had the same as Marian was the pair of amber eyes.
"The execution was presided over by the church. There should be a lot of witch hunters in the square. This is more secure. It's just that you have to borrow your arms for a while."
As he said that, the black cat jumped towards Gu Yun's body agilely. Gu Yun subconsciously raised his arm and caught the black cat.
The location of the square is not difficult to find. After leaving the tavern, Gu Yun just followed the crowd and came to the city square in less than a quarter of an hour.
At this time, the square was already full of onlookers, surrounding the entire square in a dark way. Those who later could only stand at the end of the onlookers. In fact, most people could not see the specific situation of the execution from this angle, but what is certain is that every citizen had a fanatical smile on his face.
In addition to the fanatical citizens, there were also many demon hunters wearing light armor and silver weapons gathered in the crowd. However, their faces were not generally laughing wildly, but instead they looked solemn, as if they were waiting for some sacred ceremony to be completed.
They sincerely believed that this was the end of a dark age. Although many people did not understand the witch group, they had already heard the evil deeds of the witches from the Holy See.
With Gu Yun's eyesight, he can naturally see the situation in the square clearly.
There were five execution racks in total. The log nails penetrated the palms of the prisoners' hands and nailed them to the execution rack.
The five people were uniformly wearing plain linen prison uniforms. The prison uniforms were torn and ragged, revealing bloody wounds. The dry hair blocked their faces, and they could not see their appearance clearly here.
Before the execution began, many onlookers kept throwing stones on the execution platform. Many wounds on the prisoners were smashed out by stones. The prisoners in the nearest group had lost their lives, and the red blood flowed along her face to the ground.
The remaining three people didn't say a word, waiting quietly for the arrival of death, and another younger one kept crying, but her voice was soon drowned out by people's cheers and insults.
Soon, the five priests dressed in the form of the same priest came to their respective prisoners. They poured the prepared holy oil on the prisoners, muttering words.
Under the expectation, the fire rising from the sky made the temperature of the entire square rise a lot.
Listening to the heart-wrenching shouts of the flames, people were celebrating a grand bonfire.
Gu Yun turned around and walked towards the direction he came. He had actually seen the same scene many times.
During his days of traveling around, he had seen more than once the believers burned prisoners to death, and the onlookers were as enthusiastic as they are now.
Under such a scene, a certain "sense of justice" in people's hearts seems to be released to the greatest extent.
"Green Winchester has no holy church, and I plan to leave here, too."
When he arrived at a place where no one was around, the black cat jumped down from Gu Yun's arm and turned back to Marian's appearance.
She has gone from her initial anger to her numbness now for the execution of the witch.
Even when she sometimes sees people who are not witches being nailed to the execution platform, she can only feel a deep irony.
In people's eyes, the action of purifying the world is essentially just a means used by the Holy See to eliminate pagans. What they want to eliminate is not witches, but magic.
To erase all the magic of disobedience to them in this world and to be given the name of justice, and they hardly need to bother, the fanatic will send those who look like witches to the execution grounds.
"I think this is probably the reason why the magic disappears."
From Gu Yun's description, she imagined the scene of the world centuries later. The witches, pharmacists, and alchemists were almost extinct, and the era of magic and spells quit the stage of history.
"Next, go and find Count Dracula and convince him to return the two broken pages."
"I just met him a few times at the meeting. He usually lives in his own castle, but there is a way to find out the specific location of his castle, but this method may be a bit risky."
In fact, Marian was eager to find out the whereabouts of Count Dracula at this moment. Gu Yun mentioned that Green's head was cut down by someone in accordance with the method of treating vampires, which undoubtedly showed that he might have reached some kind of agreement with Count Dracula after seizing the Demon Book.
No wonder he did not meet Gu Yun and finally failed to wait for Green at the Holy See's base camp.
"Tell me straight."
"The Brando family should know the specific location of the castle."
The Brando family is the oldest family among vampires. Nowadays, most powerful vampires are attached to the Brando family, and Dracula is no exception.
"It's just that my death has been spread. They should have known the news of my defeat. The leader of the Brando family is a very powerful vampire. Once he discovers my current situation, he will likely attack us."
If she had acted alone, she would never have gone to the territory of the Brando family at its weakest time.
Vampires have always been famous for their cruelty and tyranny. In addition, when the witches were the most powerful, they had already divided a lot of their territory. The Brando family should have been resentful to them for a long time, but they were not shown because of her magic.
"It's okay, go there."
Gu Yun waved his hand and said, "I'm actually very good at negotiating with others."
Chapter completed!