Chapter 13 - The Holy Weapon

　　A thin chuckle escaped Easily Dust's lips, and he surveyed Jester, who was sitting on the couch in a state of disarray, with great amusement. Kane danced around his pistol and sat in his usual spot, rubbing the bruise on his forehead with his left hand and grunting as he watched Jester. Phyllis and Gore stood one inside the bar desperately wiping glasses, the other leaning against the doorway of the room to watch the action.

　　Jester waited for half a day, Yi Duan still didn't say a word, he smiled bitterly, "Boss, I'm sorry, what do you say, I'll admit it anyway. I just went over to check out the wind and colours, who knew I'd go head to head with them?"

　　Yi Dust snapped his fingers, took off his tunic that was stained with a few points of blood, and said in a ha-ha streak, ''Aha, Jester, dear Jester, you challenged people's two cardinals and a dozen or so bishops head on, and actually said that you were just looking at the wind and colours. You are so great, you, a former servant of God, are really an honest lamb. Hasn't God taught you that lying is strictly forbidden?"

　　Jester spread his hands in resignation and gestured to Kane, "Kane, I'm sorry, I was in a hurry to get out, so I knocked you out, you see to it, you can retaliate against me any way you want, at the most, I'll just let you beat me severely."

　　Kane gave a small smile, "Well that's okay, I'm not too interested in beating up a superhuman, my hands are going to hurt. If it happens again in the future, please talk to me first, I'll treat it as if you've knocked me out to handle it." Jester smiled bitterly and let out a long breath, looking at Yi Duan, he said, "OK, boss, there's no problem with Kane, what are you going to do about me?"

　　Yi Dust sat on the sofa opposite him and said with a smile, "How about this, because you caused me to get injured, so what, forget about deducting your share of this year's dividends. Of course, Fata Dio will give you a share of their earnings, but you won't get a cent of the income from our own several venues, agreed?"

　　Jester laughed up, "It's okay, I have enough money now, and I'm not a Chekov, so deduct it."

　　Yi Chen nodded and his face became serious, "Then, Jester, tell me, what is a holy weapon? Inside St Paul's Church, there are actually two Holy Weapons present." Easy Dust told Jester a little bit about what he had spied, and these twists and turns attracted all the people present, even Kane came close and sat on the sofa next to Easy Dust, listening intently.

　　Jester's eyes widened, "God, fucking God, two holy weapons? For fuck's sake, this strengthens the Holy See again." His face was full of unwillingness, and his ferocious eyes flashed as he looked at Yi Chen and asked, "Boss, why didn't you take out those priests? You should have been able to take out a few with that surprise attack, right?"

　　Yi Chen smiled, ''Why risk taking them out? I don't have any deep hatred with them, there's no need to irritate them excessively. Making them lose a Knight's Sword is already enough to make them sad."

　　Jester laughed out loud, "Yes, yes, a holy sword with great attack power is lost, Van Erst and the others must be reprimanded by the Pope."

　　Easy Dust nodded and glanced at Phil, who had gently walked in and closed the door to the room, gesturing for him to sit closer and listen, and asked the Jester, "So, what exactly is a holy artefact? Is it a truly powerful treasure that has been blessed by God or an angel?"

　　Jester shook his head and said, "The so-called holy weapons are implements that have been passed down from that time in the Middle Ages that have quite a strong power. Well, they weren't blessed by God or some bullshit angel, but because their original owners had a powerful cultivation that can't be matched now. Their owners, generally devout ascetics, after laying down these weapons, constantly repented and practised in front of the murderous implements they used to slaughter, thus allowing their powerful holy qi to infuse these implements, giving them incredible power."

　　Yi Chen frowned, "Could it be that the monks of that time possessed even more powerful holy power than the current bishops?"

　　Jester shrugged his shoulders, "Who knows? Anyway, that's how it is, some of the implements passed down from that time do possess a strong power that cannot be matched by the present-day clerics. Perhaps, because the clergy nowadays have begun to degenerate, the power they get is naturally weaker than the ascetics of that time. Thinking about those clergymen of the Diocese of A who raped boys at the beginning of this century, tsk tsk, would God, the old man, have given them power? It's probably already merciful not to just strike them to death with lightning."

　　Yi dust oh, nodded and said, "Maybe, just like the cultivators in Country C. Ancient cultivators easily reached the realm of celestial unity and ascended to the immortal realm, while the cultivators nowadays ... even if the few old ghosts I know are already too strong to be human, but they still don't have the power to ascend ah . Country C hasn't had an immortal appear for hundreds of years."

　　Jester whispered, "There hasn't been a powerful saint in Europe for hundreds of years either, perhaps hearts are falling so that there is no one left worthy of that kind of power."

　　Yi Chuan smiled, "Regardless of that, then, what kind of procedure is the so-called identification of the Holy Weapon as well as the recognition of the owner?"

　　Jester very disdainfully pooh-poohed it and said, "Identifying a holy weapon is to let a few cardinals detect what kind of ability a certain unidentified holy weapon has, whether it is attack, defence, guardianship, healing, or exorcism ... To put it practically, it's just a group of artifact dealers valuing the antiques. As for the so-called recognition of the master, it is under the auspices of the greatest, the most notarial, the most majestic, the most sacred, the most representative of God's countenance of the Pope's Lord, so that a bullshit knight with noble sentiments, strong strength, and a pure body obtains the power of the holy instrument, and becomes the faithful fighter of the Holy See ... is such a thing. "

　　Yi Chuan slightly tilted his head, frowning and thinking about something, Jester suddenly coaxed a laugh: ''Of course, the blow the boss gave to that shit Paul was enough to make the Papacy cry out, generally if a set of holy weapons is incomplete, it can only exert at most 30% of the power in it. And after the holy weapon recognises the owner, if the owner is dead or injured, at least within a year, he will not reattach to a new owner ... so this set of holy weapons is equal to becoming waste within a year, of course, if the Pope is willing to put forth his effort to fix that damn Paul, then everything is equal to nothing."

　　Yi Chen said with a bit of regret, "Is that so? If I had known, I would have killed Paul.... Can the Pope heal a cripple whose bones are all broken and whose meridians are 50% broken?"

　　Jester licked his lips and revealed a vicious wolf-like smile, ''Boss, if the Pope gives his all and doesn't skimp on his stamina, he can indeed resuscitate a person within a few days of work, even if that person is dying. Of course, we can keep Paul from becoming a Holy Knight, can't we? Boss, we have the strength, don't we?"

　　Yi Chen raised the index finger of his right hand and shook it in front of Jester, admonishing him, ''No, Jester, you have to remember that if things aren't completed satisfactorily, then don't regret it and don't try to forcefully remedy the situation. The power we have now is not enough to deal with the current manpower of the Holy See. Understand? You must learn to make trade-offs. You have already initially built up a small universe, as long as you continue to cultivate, you will most likely reach the effect of shedding your body before I do, and at that time, you will be the so-called Immortal level, are you still afraid of not being able to retaliate against your enemies?"

　　Jester muttered clear, "Yeah, yeah boss, I hear you, I won't be impulsive anymore ..." He waved his fists heavily and gave a wicked grin.

　　Yiduan evacuated his tendons and said with satisfaction, "So, all problems are solved, Phil, wait for dawn you go to the gate to greet the newspaper, see what the headlines are, I'm looking forward to the performance of the British Empire's tabloid journalists oh ... I really don't know how the Church is going to hide certain things, really looking forward to it."

　　Yi Chen suddenly remembered another question and asked Jester strangely, ''Then, Jester, tell me, why didn't those Dark Council people finish off Paul? Wouldn't it be more straightforward if they took out Paul and then destroyed those two holy weapons? I know that they cherish the lives of their members, but if they can strike the Holy See, they wouldn't care about a little sacrifice, right?"

　　Jester said dryly, "A holy instrument can be destroyed destroyed, but a holy instrument that has already been recognised, his holy power can never be destroyed. The Holy See can infuse the holy power on it within any utensil of the same nature, and although the effect is slightly less effective, it doesn't make much of a difference."

　　Yi Chen shouted, ''So that's how it is, I see. Then, the best way to deal with these holy weapons is to seal them, isn't it? That's why those lucky vampires had to escape with the holy swords, their Supreme Councilor has a way to seal the holy weapons, right?" Jester nodded his head and approved Yi Duan's statement, Yi Duan laughed, rubbing his hands together excitedly and said, "It's really ... funny that I can't see such a fun thing, I really want to see the sealing methods of the western black magic, ah, it's a pity, it's a pity, the Dark Council will definitely not be happy for me to go to observe their actions s."

　　Jester looked at Yi Duan a little strangely, he really didn't understand why Yi Duan would be interested in these.

　　Yi dust mood became very good, shouting to get together a table of mahjong, began to congregate gambling, Phyllis laughs sitting on his lap to give him a haphazard card, so that Yi dust a time is a big loss, and sitting on his lower hand Phil is full of smiles in a row to eat the cards ...

　　...

　　As dawn breaks, Phil goes out to wait for the paper and Kane is forced into a bet by Jester.

　　Ten minutes later, a surprised Phil walked in: ''Boss, there is no news related to St Paul's Cathedral in the newspaper. The Times' news director swore that he would send a reporter to the first time to rush to the ... Likewise, above the tabloids like The Sun, there is no news related to St Paul's Cathedral, and even such news as more than twenty policemen suddenly being seriously injured and hospitalised is not reported."

　　Yi Duan didn't move and snatched back an eight-barrel from Fili's hand, threw a 40,000 out, and said indifferently, ''Is that so? Very well, very well, Jester, look, look, the strength of the Holy See is not something we can imagine. Even the Sun Newspaper, which dares to report on the B Kingdom's royal family's dog biting indiscriminately, actually didn't move a bit this time. Their power is really strong."

　　Jester grimaced, grimaced and didn't say a word, and threw a card out haphazardly, which ended up cheaply for Gore, who smiled and ate his card under his hand.

　　Yi Dust stood up, stretched his waist and said, "So tired, so tired, Jester, I'm warning you for the last time, be honest, if you weren't lucky last night, and my power was enough to back you up from a distance, you would have already been killed. Remember, you only live once, you can waste your life, but don't drag your mates down with you. Let's all take a rest, that's it for this time, there's nothing more to say."

　　Vaguely, a few people with particularly sharp senses, such as Yi Duan and Phyllis and Jester, vaguely felt some kind of strange vibration coming from the sky, but it was very weak, Yi Duan shrugged his shoulders, and pulled Phyllis upstairs without a care in the world.

　　An hour later, Easy Dust was woken up by Phil: "Boss, someone from Scotland Yard has asked to see you, well, a senior superintendent."

　　Easy Dust muttered something, "Senior Superintendent? Phil, have we had any fights inside the yard lately? Any deaths or other violent crimes?"

　　Phil is also confused and shook his head and said, "Recently, everything is normal inside the field, ah, a few boys who like to cause trouble were taught a lesson and did not dare to come back again, the wind and waves are calm, and we do not have any leverage in their hands ah. Moreover, half a month ago, didn't you send a batch of money to their leader?"

　　Yi Dust was full of displeasure as he redressed and went to the parlour on the first floor.

　　The serious, roughly forty-year-old Senior Superintendent smiled and extended his hand, "Mr Yi Chen, I've heard a lot about you, it's not easy to meet you."

　　Easy Dust's hand also reached out and shook his, "This is ... I basically know all the Scotland Yard officers, but, you're a rare sight."

　　This Superintendent introduced himself, "My name is Victor, Carl Victor, you can call me Carl."

　　Yi Chen secretly laughed in his heart: "Carl? It's very much like a dog's name. ..." However, on the surface, he still courteously said to the superintendent, "It's an honour to meet you, Mr. Karl. You are ... "He reached out his hand to gesture, and the two of them sat down on the sofa.

　　Carl shrugged his shoulders with the characteristic posture of a B countryman and shook his head slightly to show his helplessness and said, "I'm in charge of certain specialised cases, so I seldom deal with bigwigs like you, and this time, there's something I'm asking for Mr. Yi's co-operation."

　　Yi Chen nodded slightly, "It is our obligation to co-operate with the police to maintain social stability, we are all law-abiding citizens of the British Empire, may I ask, what kind of case is it that has sent out a senior police officer from the Special Investigations Division?" From Karl's self-introduction, Yi Chen slightly guessed the organisation Karl belonged to.

　　Carl opened the door and said, "A special aircraft belonging to the VTN Order was shot down by a light anti-aircraft missile and crashed into a residential area. According to analyses, the attacker may have used A domestically produced Stinger missile, we would like to ask Mr Yi Duan, do you have any relevant information? Do you know of anyone who has recently let slip that they are buying such arms?"

　　Yi Chen's heart moved, so that burst of vibration was because of this, the Holy See's turnaround was shot down? I don't know if there is a big person like a cardinal on it, if there is, I'm afraid that the kind of crazy judgement and crazy fire sentence situation in the Middle Ages is going to appear again, isn't it? Papal retaliation is no fun.

　　Yi Duan smiled and said, "I am a law-abiding citizen, Mr Carr, do you think I would sell arms? That's really horrible, how could I possibly know these things?" Yi Dust's heart was beating a little bit, he had eight Stinger missiles placed inside his secret armoury, in case Scotland Yard really got hold of certain information, then he really couldn't afford to eat it ...

　　Carl gazed at Yi Duan and said sincerely, ''Mr Yi Duan, I won't say any meaningless and hypocritical words, what kind of character you are, you know yourself well, and we have more or less a little bit of information in. However, compared to all the other big bosses, you are still considered to be the most peaceful, so we don't want to offend someone like you. Give me a little bit of what I want to know, and I'll leave right away."

　　Yi Chen picked up the glass of wine offered by Gore, gently took a sip, and said with a smile, "Is that so? Then ... well ... this can be difficult."

　　Carl looked at Yi Duan and said very seriously, ''The above has given us a lot of pressure, so I hope you can understand. We have the information of all the bosses of LD City in our hands, however, we are not very familiar with certain channels, so we still ask for your cooperation. The special plane that was attacked this time is affiliated with the Holy See, and it's likely that it will evolve into a particularly serious incident because of the Holy See, so if Mr Yi Chen's interests are damaged because of our comprehensive investigation, I'm afraid that's something you wouldn't want to see, right?"

　　Yi Chen didn't pay any attention to his euphemistic threats, and said with a deadpan look, "What you mean, I'm still not clear, alas, but if you can guarantee something, maybe I'll be able to recall something." Since Karl himself had admitted that certain channels were unclear to them, then he wouldn't know exactly what was in his inventory either, right, Yi Duan was instantly relieved.

　　Carl nodded and said knowingly, "If you can provide certain unique, valuable information, of course, I'll be happy to give Mr Eden certain special care in the future."

　　Yi Dust smiled with satisfaction and said to Carl, "Thanks for your promise, a gentleman is bound to keep his promise ... Well, there is a special villa in a certain garden area in the western district of LD, well, all his roofs are golden, and his owner, perhaps, knows something about it ... Of course, for some reason, I didn't give you the above, did I?"

　　Carl looked at Yi Duan and asked a little doubtfully, "This master, what kind of person is he? A channel or an intermediary?"

　　Easy Dust looked at Carl, rolled his eyes a little, and didn't say anything for a long time, and after finishing the wine in his hand to raise enough of Carl's appetite, he said slowly, "Is he? He's a big, heavyweight figure ... huh, heavy firepower figure."

　　Carl understood something, and secretly cursed Yi Chuan a few times in his heart, "Presumably, this heavyweight still has certain unhappiness with you, otherwise where would you be willing to say it so painfully?" However, on the surface, he still smiled and expressed his gratitude to Yi Chuan.

　　Yi Chen sent off the guests with a smile, and when he reached the gate, he asked in passing, "Mr Carl, why did those people attack the Holy See's special plane? Could it be that there is some big shot on it?"

　　Carl answered him smoothly, "Big shots? No, there's no one up there except the two unlucky pilots, that's strange, what do they want? God bless, the two Cardinal Lords were not on the plane, otherwise ..." Carl's face also had a little afterthought look, if the two Cardinals were on the plane, I am afraid that the security measures of the B government will be attacked by the Christians all over the world in a miserable way.

　　Yi dust watched Karl get on the car and drive away, standing in the doorway of C city pondering, "Well, the people on the plane are probably all Sgang's henchmen, to be able to escape from such a situation, well, still able to have time to take away the holy weapon ... Strange, isn't Paul on the plane? "

　　Yi dust suddenly smiled, "very good it, the Holy See's heart is really ruthless, just like this to give up Paul, also ah, but just a year's time, a year later, can be born a glorious holy knight, how wonderful things ah, although the holy sword is missing power is not enough to fully play out, but think at least is also considered a master! ..."

　　Yi Chuan staggered back, the matter of the Holy Weapon ended like this, it was more or less complete. Although I don't know if it was the people from the Dark Council who did this, but what exactly is the inside story, and what does it have to do with Yi Chuan? Where did the Holy Weapon end up, and what did it have to do with Yi Chen?

　　Meanwhile, Whitechapel was with his boss in a secret stronghold in LD's West End, and the two gawked at today's special edition of The Times, devoted to the attack ...

　　Bai Jiade muttered, "Boss, these people we're looking for are a bit too quick and ruthless, aren't they? What do we do?"

　　His boss's face was also extremely ugly, "These crazy people of theirs, they actually, actually directly hit the Holy See's special plane with missiles, God, I didn't mean to offend you ... Bai Jiade, hurry up and pay them the rest of the payment, and we'll leave Country B immediately."

　　Regardless of the pair of wonderful people's hand-wringing and dealing with the aftermath, they're still efficient, and it's wonderful to find a group of mercenaries in one night's time, and those mercenaries have directly attacked the Vatican's special plane with a missile.

　　Of course, within the same time, in a manor house in the western suburbs of LD, a man from the Dark Council was informing into a telegraph, "Senator Goya-sama, a guy hired our peripheral mercenaries to demand for the Sacred Artifacts, and I instructed them to attack the Holy See's special plane, do you have any instructions?"

　　Goya laughed maniacally, ''Hahahahahahaha, that's brilliant, so was it you who ordered the people to do it? Very well, very well, tell them to hide ... hahahahahahahahaha, we have already obtained the holy sword, and the special plane was destroyed, that holy armour must have been damaged as well, the power of this set of holy weapons has been greatly reduced ... very well, very well, you have done a good job, wait until the the next election, I'll offer to promote you to senior deacon."

　　Things in the world have such a universal connection, it's a lot of fun indeed ...