Chapter 55: Mages and Clergy (3)
Inquisitors were priests tasked by the Church with rooting out black mages. Once they began an interrogation, they would stop at nothing to extract the answers they wanted.
Though Gerhen didn’t know of their methods or secret techniques, at this moment, one thing was painfully clear—that high priest had no intention of seriously interrogating the wandering mage.
-Is it true?
-It is not true.
-So he says.
How could this be considered an inquisitor’s interrogation? Even a naive parent questioning their child’s wrongdoing would be stricter than this.
What is this special treatment?
Gerhen was taken aback. From what he knew, inquisitors were fanatics, ready to erase all notions of compromise at the slightest hint of black magic. That was why he hoped to provoke the high priest into doubting Risir, aiming to shift the balance of power in his favor.
Convincing an inquisitor once they had developed doubts was harder than putting out fire on oil. Nothing would have been more reassuring than seeing the inquisitor pressure Risir.
Yet, of all the misfortunes, the inquisitor was placing complete trust in the black magic suspect.
Everything was going completely against his plans.