The Reunion

"Guards, arrest him." Lin Yun's words had piqued his curiosity, but the priest's expression was so plainly guilty that he couldn't hold back any longer. Better to arrest the wrong man than let the guilty one go.

Of course, he wasn't going to kill the fellow. At most, the man had slandered Lin Yun and abused his authority.

Still, this was the Warhammer world, and the man was a priest of Hendrik, so... he would probably get off with a slap on the wrist.

But Lin Yun had added one more thing.

"You said you smelled corruption. Was that true or not? If you can't produce any evidence, then even if you are a Templar Knight, I'll have to put you on trial." Theodore frowned at Lin Yun.

After all... the priest's tactics weren't all that different from theirs.

In truth... Witch Hunters were much the same. The Templar Knight Order barely paid its members, so most Witch Hunters had to fend for themselves. Their equipment and food weren't free, after all.

And when they spent days chasing after all sorts of strange creatures, how were they supposed to go back and collect their wages?

That was why, aside from taking strange commissions and acting like mercenaries, quite a few Witch Hunters simply threatened merchants.

They would tell them, "Pay protection money, or you're a cultist, and I can burn you alive."

Of course, whether that worked often came down to how good they were with their hands.

After all, the Templar Knights usually operated in relative secrecy. Few people even knew they existed.

Naturally, Witch Hunters generally avoided the large merchant guilds. For one thing, those merchants might fly into a rage. For another, the big guilds usually paid their protection money in full—though that money went to the