Chapter 252: Royal Capital Infiltration Operation*
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The First Volunteering Knights, also known as the Temple Volunteering Knights, were composed of personnel recruited from monasteries and associated orphanages throughout the Papal States. These recruits were rigorously trained using methods from the era of the God-Protected Empire until they are recognized as full members. By the time they turned 22, 90 % of the applicants had dropped out, and of those, 10% died. There were no general public recruitments.
The Temple Volunteering Knights, established in this way, were further divided into four divisions internally. Each division was assigned a name with a sacred four-letter (Tetragrammaton) designation, but they usually humbly refer to their own division by a number rather than using the name of their master out of respect.
Basilio Cazali, who belonged to the First Division, usually served as the Deputy Director of the Heresy Investigation Department, engaged in various activities. The work of the Heresy Investigation Department involved investigating heretics both domestically and abroad. If it involved a small village or similar level of heresy, they used means such as assassination to eradicate it themselves. For larger organizations that were beyond their control, they reported and entrusted it to a larger force. Of course, this work also included undercover investigations. However, they never expected to be dispatched all the way to this northern edge.
Basilio was now in the north of Sibyaku.
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About two years ago, there was a major battle in this area. Many of Basilio’s acquaintances and friends perished here. After all, this was the place where half of the four divisions, the Second and Third Divisions, were wiped out in a single day.
Before him stretched a land overgrown with grass, and beyond that was a low-growing forest. Perhaps because it was near the city, the battlefield had been completely cleared. At a glance, it just looked like an open field. The reason the grass appeared to be sparse in some places might be because it was land that absorbed human blood. There were no visible traces of the thousands of corpses that lay there and the lives that were lost two years ago.
It was a desolate place. Basilio thought that, if he could, he would like to create a forest where the birds’ songs could be heard for the sake of his fallen comrades, but it was something he could not possibly do.