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Chapter 403: Chapter 222: Strength is Truth

"You, how do you view wizards?"

This was undoubtedly a life-threatening question.

In an era when witch-hunts were prevalent, countless people had been asked the sa question, whether they were from other planets or mbers of so relief organization, and possibly even believers of the Ashen Church.

The questioner often wore a smile and presented a benevolent deanor.

This was to coax people into revealing their true thoughts.

Often, by the ti these questions were asked, the questioner had already prepared torture instrunts and cells for imprisoning the wizards’ "accomplices". Should the respondent provide a neutral or sympathetic answer, these instrunts and cells would then co into play.

Fu Ling had learned that the Tribunal was a product of the witch-hunt era, initially founded with the slogan of eradicating all evil.

It was the Sun God who had bestowed upon them the power to give life and death.

And now, Duan Mingyuan was facing a deadly question.

"I have had many disagreents with the martyr you ntioned; I do not think that he and the adjective ’brave’ are remotely related."

Duan Mingyuan spoke bluntly, "He claid to have executed over twenty remnants of the Witch Council, but the truth proved that he had no sense of prevention against the wizards’ curses, forcing one to doubt whether those more than twenty executed remnants of the Witch Council were just innocents frad with cris."

At least from Duan Mingyuan’s perspective as a total bystander, the martyr’s claid accomplishnts were greatly inflated.

"You think those people were wronged."

The Iron Blood Bishop’s expression beca even more benevolent, even sowhat compassionate toward humanity.

He had gotten the answer he wanted.

The man before him was just as the rumors described, a hopeless case.

He had said the sa thing countless tis, "In the midst of war, there are no innocents at all. Do you know who I despise more than wizards? Those who think they are kind, yet help demons out of ignorance, these foolish people who are blinded by their imdiate feelings, completely unaware of the consequences their supposed kindness leads to!"

"What consequences does it lead to?"

Duan Mingyuan interrupted the Iron Blood Bishop’s impassioned speech to inquire.

Thus, the atmosphere in the church once again fell into a deathly silence.

The Iron Blood Bishop stared at him for a long while, unable to answer the question for the mont.

Usually, when he gave his passionate judgnts, there was no opportunity for the accused to ask questions; even if they could still speak, most were bitterly pleading.

Seeing the Iron Blood Bishop at a loss for words, Duan Mingyuan curiously turned to the nearby believers wielding weapons and threw the sa question at them, "What consequences did those foolish people ultimately lead to?

"Ah, um..."

The believers were also caught off guard by this sudden question and stuttered for a long while before answering, "Probably leading to their hos being occupied by demons, their kin becoming playthings of the demons, and dying tragically and such."

"Which planets have been occupied by demons so far?"

This ti, the believers looked at each other, unable to answer once again.

Wizards are descendants of demons, their strength cos from the demons’ gifts, spreading the doctrine of demons among mankind, for the believers of the Ashen Church, all of this was common knowledge.

They would never question the accuracy of common knowledge, nor would they investigate to find out which planets had been occupied by demons.

But still, those misled by wizards would inevitably beco playthings of demons, this remained an unshakeable truth!

"And you, are the very fool I speak of!"

The Iron Blood Bishop didn’t want to let Duan Mingyuan continue questioning any longer; he raised his scepter high and slamd it down hard on the ground.

The ruby at the top of the scepter burst into a dazzling brilliance, and in an instant, the church vanished in a blazing inferno. Duan Mingyuan and Fu Ling found themselves amidst volcanoes, with only a solitary rock under their feet and scalding magma below. Nurous chains radiating intense heat sealed off the entire space.

The Iron Blood Bishop floated in the air not far away, his gray robe billowing with the hot wind.

"The great Sun God never needs to explain anything to you; you only need to believe!"

Believe, listen to the will of the Sun God.

Doubt itself is a sin.

Clearly, Duan Mingyuan was a man of trendous sin.

And now, he was about to fulfill his role as the Judgnt Chief and judge this trendously sinful man before him.

"This is not in line with our plan!"

Fu Ling, looking at the scorching chains coming at them like arrows, about to pin them to the ground, said anxiously.

Their plan had been to engage in peaceful diplomacy, to peacefully discover during the conversation that the airship that was supposed to arrive here had been hijacked by the Wizards, and then naturally shift the bla to the escaping Witch Council.

But now the Iron Blood Bishop seed to have completely lost interest in the fleeing airship, and Duan Mingyuan, by expressing his doubts just monts ago, had successfully made himself the target of all.

Duan Mingyuan admired the twisted, scorching space; the bishop’s actions confird what he had been thinking.

"Look, haven’t you also learned a lot from them?"

This was not the Ashen Church’s thod, but rather the application of the Inherent Barrier that Ah Jing had ntioned; in fact, he had felt a familiar sensation from the mont he first saw the Iron Blood Bishop.

This precisely indicated that the Bishop had learned a great deal during the war on the Wizard Star, even surpassing most wizards, creating his own Inherent Barrier.

Before parting from Ah Jing, he had inquired a lot about the Inherent Barrier.

Ah Jing had ntioned that Inherent Barriers are often a asure of a witch’s strength, and there is only one way to break an Inherent Barrier—by suppressing it with a more powerful barrier.

In the blink of an eye, the scorching chains had already reached the two of them.

Finally, a smile appeared on the Iron Blood Bishop’s face.

He had judged many people in the sa way before.

Not just wizards and witches, but also those who questioned his authority, challenged his decisions.

As the war ca to an end, he gradually understood sothing.

—Strength is the ultimate truth.

He stared intently, unwilling to miss the mont when the two were completely incinerated.

What followed, however, was a brief darkness, during which he seed to hear the sound of breaking.

When he returned to his senses, the bishop found himself kneeling on the ground, not knowing when he had dropped the scepter. The glowing ruby on it now had several noticeable cracks, and as he instinctively reached out with both hands, the gem shattered right before his eyes.

"I also have a question that I want to ask you; this is also the reason I ca here."

Duan Mingyuan said, "For a long ti, the Ashen Church has believed that wizards are descendants of demons ... why then do you never hunt down real demons?"