Chapter 491: The High Seat in the Imperial Capital
Not only was this Qin Xiaoxia's first time seeing a so-called holy knight, it was also the first time Brantai, a noble, had encountered one.
"Are all holy knights that strong?"
He quietly asked the captain of his guards, who only then relaxed after holding his breath in intense concentration.
"Without a doubt, young master. Without a doubt, holy knights are all as strong as monsters. But that man just now was even stronger than he showed, because he is the Hand of Retribution!"
Only after saying this did the guard captain turn to look back at the two bodies beside the campfire and give orders to his soldiers.
"Dig a pit and bury them. Farther away. Don't let Young Master Brantai smell them."
As the soldiers cleared the scene, at least the two people who had been hunted down would not have their corpses left exposed in the wilderness.
Naturally, Brantai would not stay beside a campfire where people had died. He moved somewhere cleaner with the guard captain.
He was not some frail noble young master, nor did the deaths of two people before his eyes make him sick or uncomfortable. He drank his meat broth and ate his black flatbread as usual.
Before that, however, he went to his beast-drawn carriage and found an embroidered book. As he read, he thought about the holy knight he had just seen.
The Church of the God of Light represented the majesty of God in the mortal world, which was why it had powerful members of the clergy. Yet the church was not alone in possessing wondrous powers. Among certain groups and individuals, there were also people with extraordinary strength, acquired either willingly or through circumstances beyond their control.
This was