Late at night, the night was hazy, and only the warm yellow street lights were still shining on the streets of Nafu City. Suddenly, a huge object burning with fire fell from the white clouds in the sky.
The direction of the fall happened to be over the church in the South District, and there was a "boom"!
A violent impact echoed over Residential Area in the South District, and then there was the sound of a building collapsing. A lot of gravel and bricks fell from the church, and a lot of flames splashed out from the huge thing, like fireworks.
The sound of impact was not over yet, and the sound of masonry collapsing continued to be heard. The upper part of the church that was still standing tall was violently knocked away, leaving only a pile of rubble piled below. The flames also burned the church, and the heat wave caused by the scorching high temperature rushed towards them.
Then, a fierce white light flashed inside the church, and a Divine Arts protective shield protected the remaining half of the church.
Randolph and the priests escaped from the church in embarrassment, wearing pajamas. Only Randolph was still holding a sacred book in his arms and looked at the source of the collision with an angry look.
It was a vehicle similar to a ship, but I didn't know how it appeared in the air.
A trace of surprise flashed through Randolph's eyes when he saw it. He recognized this thing. It was the famous Magic Airship among Nafu City. He suddenly realized what had happened.
The church was originally built in Residential Area in the South District. The impact was so violent that some people who had not slept deeply were quickly awakened and crawled out of bed. Soon the church was surrounded and discussions began.
"What happened?"
"I don't know, I just came here. But it looks like the church was hit by something."
"Isn't that an airship?" Some sharp-eyed people recognized it.
"Father Randolph and the others are all fine. I'm so lucky!"
While everyone was talking, knights riding Gale Wolf also rushed over to maintain order at the scene.
Not long after the knight arrived, a bright light flashed in the sky from a distance, and Claire drove Flying Spell and rushed over.
After Randolph saw Claire, his eyes widened and he was so angry that he almost spit out blood, but he gritted his teeth and endured it.
After Claire landed, his first sentence was. "Bishop Randolph, what happened?"
Randolph was so angry that he couldn't speak. He could only point at the airship and stared at Claire, wanting him to give an explanation.
When Claire saw the airship, his expression immediately became extremely shocked. He immediately flew over the burning airship, put on an elemental shield himself and quickly got in.
After about three or four minutes, a weak figure was helped out, staggered to Hant, and shouted loudly, "Isaac is injured, send him to Rona quickly!"
Hant immediately picked up Isaac, got on his mount, and rushed towards the hospital where Rona was located.
After handling it, Claire walked up to Randolph with an apologetic look and apologized. "I'm sorry, this is our problem."
Randolph frowned. Although Claire's face was full of apology, he would not believe this guy's lies. This was definitely planned by him!
So he asked forcefully, "What's going on?"
"That person just now was Isaac, the chief scientist of our Nafu City, and the airship he developed was Magical Artifacts. He may have been experimenting with the function of the airship tonight, but he made a mistake during operation and accidentally fell from a high altitude and hit the church."
Randolph gritted his teeth and said, "You mean this is him doing a magic experiment, right?"
Claire nodded with a smile, "That's right."
Randolph took a deep breath, his chest heaved up and down, and finally he squeezed out a few words, "Okay! Very good!"
Randolph is such a smart person. He naturally knows that what Claire just said blocked all his excuses. If someone else blows up the church, then the church will find out the real culprit no matter how much it costs to save face. But magicians are different. They have no dealings with the church in the first place, not to mention that the excuse Claire used was that he accidentally blew up the church while doing magic experiments.
If the church insists on punishing Isaac, then not only Claire will help him stand up, but all the mages in the kingdom will attack him in groups and stand up for Isaac.
What? They were just doing experiments and accidentally destroyed your church. Magic experiments had a lot of accidents to begin with. You people didn't have any problems at all and let people pay for their lives? This is impossible! They didn't mean it in the first place. At worst, I'll pay you some money! Any more would be a slap in the face!
And you have to supervise us when we do experiments. In the future, do we mages have to report to your church every time we do experiments?
Then do you want to control us mages?
I understand! This is just a pretext, you just want to provoke the second "God Holy War War" just like before, right?
bring it on! We are not afraid! It depends on whether your church can bear the second Holy War!
This kind of thing has happened before. Mages and churches don't deal with it in the first place. Even if someone on their side does something wrong, they will make a fuss with the other party. They have to defend themselves even if they don't understand. It's better to make the other party feel disgusted. What's more, the rhetoric Claire used this time was that the other party didn't mean it at all.
Therefore, even if Randolph wants to use the church to pressure Claire to hand over Isaac, it will be very difficult. If he wants to use force to pressure others, it will easily lead to a dispute between the magician and the church.
Claire suddenly changed the subject, "Isaac He was also seriously injured. Bishop Randolph, please let this matter go."
"Just forget it?!" Randolph couldn't hold his breath anymore.
"Of course we won't just forget about it. This church is already old enough, but since it was us who damaged it, I will take the initiative to pay for you to build a new church. It will definitely be many times better than the previous one!" Claire said softly, "This can be considered an apology from Isaac to you."
Hearing Claire's words, the anger in Randolph's heart dropped slightly, thinking that Claire was compromising with him, and he did not want to make the matter bigger. Although the church is now a little weaker, it is still a behemoth, and Claire is still unable to withstand a small viscount.
"Any more?"
"In addition, I will punish Isaac so that he cannot leave the Science Institute for a year. Is that okay?"
Randolph nodded after hesitating for a moment. If we deal with it this way, the church's face can be saved.
"That's pretty much it!"
In Rona's clinic, Isaac was lying on the hospital bed, leaning back and eating fruit with a contented look on his face. Claire looked weak when he was picked up. He High Mage was seriously injured after falling from a high altitude? No kidding.
Half an hour later, Claire opened the door and walked in. He couldn't help laughing when he saw Isaac on the hospital bed.
He picked up a piece of fruit on the bed table, sat on the hospital bed, and said with a smile, "At least I pretend to be a little bit more like you."
Isaac didn't care. He sat up and asked anxiously, "Don't lie about what you told me! One hundred thousand Gold Coins will help me rebuild a Magic Airship!"
When Claire came to him yesterday and asked him to sacrifice Magic Airship, he was unwilling to do so, saying that this was his first meaningful Magical Artifacts and it couldn't be blown up like this. It was not until Claire stated the conditions for giving him 100,000 Gold Coins to rebuild that Isaac immediately changed his mind.
Why was the original design concept of Magic Airship immature? What flaws were there? I had long wanted to tear it down and rebuild it.
"Don't worry, it's just one hundred thousand Gold Coins."
One hundred thousand Gold Coins is really nothing to the current Claire.