Chapter 396: Throwing out the window

Chapter 396 – Throwing Out the Window
The two of them held their breath as they watched the rowdy crowd of people pass through the window.

“Whew!” Lister rubbed his chest. “Not at us.”

“I’ll go down and check!” Sevia removed the cloak hanging on the wall and said she was going downstairs.

“You’re crazy! What’s the point of fooling around!”

Lister grabbed her, really, doesn’t this woman know what she is?

Sevia turned back and wanted to snicker at the man for being too timid, but seeing the worried look on the other party’s face, her face slowed down and said, “Don’t worry! No one can recognize me with my current appearance.”

She broke away from Lister’s hand and put on her cloak, “Any news about the church is of great interest to me.”

After saying that, she turned around and went downstairs.

“Ugh!” Lister stomped his foot in exasperation and followed.

……

“Angelo!”

“Angelo!”

The streets were abuzz with people, the new bishop’s name being repeatedly chanted, some with great emotion, others simply getting along.

Sevia and Lister both followed the flow of people, realizing that it was moving in the direction of the cathedral.

“Hey! This gentleman, what’s going on?”

Lister inquired carefully as he gently tugged on the shirt of the person next to him.

“****! Those damn vampires of Collins, **** are coming to exploit us again!”

The other person came up with a burst of affectionate greetings to the so-called “vampires” in his mouth, and in his somewhat confusing words that were filled with all kinds of civilized language from the Horns of the Gulf, Lister understood the cause of the matter.

After Sevia made a big news, the Church’s armed forces continued a high-pressure policy against Fort Ness for a period of time, and then lifted the blockade under the new Bishop Angelo’s initiative, which caused the strong dissatisfaction of Archbishop Elvis of Horn Bay, who was far away from Collins, so he sent his envoys to Fort Ness, and rebuked the Bishop of Fort Ness in front of a group of high-ranking clerics, which made the people of Angelo’s faction furious.

Worse yet, the envoys also brought orders from Collins to raise taxes – in order to cope with the expenses of the ever-growing so-called [Purification Teams] around the world, the newly-promoted Archbishop of Hornbill, Elvis, at the suggestion of some, added a special religious tax, which the Church has traditionally charged its followers, a different kind of religious tax The Church has always collected another religious tax on believers — tithing, that is, one has to “donate” one tenth of one’s income to the Church, but don’t think that according to the actual income, more is collected, less is collected, less is collected, the tax is based on the estimated income, with the current technical means, the Church does not have the ability to account for the specific amount of a person’s income. With current technology, the church does not have the ability to account for a person’s specific income.

The new religious tax is also a poll tax, which means that no matter whether a person has income or not, such as the elderly or children who are not capable of working, they all have to pay the tax.

To add insult to injury, 90% of the new tax was to be paid to Collins for distribution by the Corner Bay General Church, while the local churches in Nisborough could only keep a mere 10%.

The news immediately caused an uproar, all sorts of undercurrents in Fort Ness, this time even with the church previously engaged in the sealing of the city’s Corner Bay Alliance Convocation were unable to sit still.

Corner of this land, although the sea trade is developed, but also nearly half of the country is landlocked, coastal countries hold the sea transportation to earn a lot of wealth, has been only in the hills and a small piece of plains inland countries can only live in the coveted, but these landlocked countries to the Heavenly Father and especially pious, the Church’s instructions are almost obedient to the words of the Archbishop of Corner of the Gulf of Corner of the most powerful inland country in the Corinthian, not the most economically developed Corner of the Gulf of Corner of Corner of the Alliance. Corner Bay Confederacy, the most economically advanced.

The people of the coastal nations have always wondered if the Church has been secretly supporting the inland nations with the tax money it receives from them to maintain their loyalty to the Church.

The Convocation sent a delegation headed by the Marquis of Foster to negotiate with the Archbishop’s emissary from Collins. The negotiations were deadlocked as both sides argued over their respective positions. The man from Collins was so firm that he did not even bargain.

What infuriated the archbishop’s emissary was that a group of clergymen led by Angelo, the protagonist of Nisborough, sided with the Convocation in opposing the tax increase, which in the eyes of the emissary was tantamount to betrayal of the Church.

While the negotiations were stalled, a new archbishop’s order came from Collins this morning – to remove Angelo from his position as Bishop of Nisborough and escort him to Collins for trial on the charge of being in league with the wizards and plotting to corrupt the church, together with several other Nisborough church hierarchs who were removed from their positions and were to be escorted there, they All of them are Angelo’s supporters.

Nisborough once again public outcry, Angelo is a deeply respected clergyman, when he did not become a bishop, he made every effort to hunt witches in the avoidance of wrongdoing, after becoming a bishop is to ease the high-pressure tactics that lasted for several years, so very popular.

Now he was to be “transported” to Collins, and naturally the people were not going to do it.

Without knowing who instigated it, a powerful march was spontaneously organized, with people joining in along the way, aiming directly at the cathedral.

“So much has happened in the few days we were closed. Alas, my office was just about to open its doors when chaos broke out.”

Lister pulled Sevia to stand beside the street, shaking his head and sighing.

“I’m going to take a look.”

Sevia’s face looked very excited, obviously watching the fun, I guess she couldn’t wait for it to get bigger and bigger in her heart, after all, it was the church itself tearing itself apart internally.

“Don’t! This kind of situation is most prone to stampedes and even riots, we’d better not get involved.”

Sevia frowned once, “Just take a look from a distance! You go back first.” After saying that, she went with the flow of people.

Lister followed helplessly. The two of them followed the marching people to the square in front of the cathedral, which was already full of people, coming from all sides of Nisborough.

“Release the people!”

“Give us back our Lord Bishop!”

“Banish the villains of Collins!”

The cries rose and fell, and the group of church knights who held the handles at the entrance of the church were as nervous as if they had never seen such a scene before.

Lister quietly asked one of the men next to him, “This gentleman, what’s the situation inside now?”

The man replied with a grave face, “Marquis Foster is making his last ditch effort inside! Alas, I really don’t know what Archbishop Elvis is thinking.”

As he was talking, the church door suddenly opened, and in full view of the crowd, only Angelo and his party walked out with their hands in shackles, flanked by the armed men escorting them, and a man dressed as a high-ranking cleric with a haughty demeanor, loudly scolding the populace to demand to get out of the way.

The powder keg was detonated!
The people in the square, who had been suppressed for a long time, had their emotions ignited all of a sudden.

“It’s too much!”

“Collins’ minions!”

I don’t know who shouted, “Charge in! Beat these assholes to death!”

As if this was a signal, the crowd immediately converged into a hammer and slammed into the church doors, but it was blocked by the blockade formed by the church knights.

The messenger from Collins rose up in anger, was this still the meek lamb of the Heavenly Father? It was a mob!
In a shrill voice he bellowed his orders, “Shoot on sight anyone who dares to storm the church.”

However, the church knights who formed the blockade line did not draw their weapons, on the one hand, because they were facing ordinary civilians who lived together in a city, on the other hand, it was still only a physical push and shove, if there were really casualties, they could not hold back the people after they lost their minds.

Besides, there are also a large number of Angelo’s supporters in the church knights ……

The thin line of defense was immediately broken through!
“Outrageous!” The expression on the messenger’s face changed from anger to fear.

“Retreat inside first!” A group of people escorted Angelo and the others to hurriedly retreat into the cathedral before closing the door.

But the doors were quickly slammed open as well, and the angry populace swarmed in.

“It looks like the Archbishop’s messenger is not going to end well!”

At the entrance of a nearby dark alley, Lister and Sevia quietly watched the situation in the cathedral.

“Hmph! Self-inflicted.” The witch said disdainfully.

Suddenly, a window on the second floor of the church was opened.

“Throw it down!” “Throw it down!”

Wave after wave of sound came through.

“What happened again?”

Lister focused his attention and looked toward the second floor.

Only to see someone pushing and shoving in the window, and then a man being lifted up.

With a “plop”, the man was thrown out of the window with a hard thud!

Before he could scream in pain, he was immediately beaten by the crowd below.

“Poof!”

“Plop!”

The sound of a human body hitting the ground rang out continuously.

The Archbishop’s Messenger and his entourage were thrown out of the window one by one.

(End of chapter)