Chapter 1020: 1002Another shapeshifter

Chapter 1020 1002. Another shapeshifter

His understatement made everyone except Tris feel a little dazed.

But if this kind of exaggerated thing is considered in conjunction with him, it is actually quite acceptable.

“But I got other news from the Mud Gang.”

Lan En said to Dudu.

“A temple guard is looking for you, Dudu.”

“Temple guard? Looking for me?”

Dudu repeated, looking puzzled and surprised.

But Lan En, who revealed the news, was also surprised.

He was surprised: Why was Dudu, a shape-shifter who was cautious to the point of being timid, not afraid after hearing the news.

Geralt asked in a deep voice: "Do you know this person? It sounds like their brother is quite famous in Novigrad?"

“In order to show their piety, those who died under their cruel methods have nothing to say.”

“No one knows whether the two brothers really believe in the doctrine, or whether they act like they believe in the doctrine in order to climb up in the sect. Anyway, it makes no difference to the result.”

“Ritu Manji? Caleb Manji’s brother? Brother Manji?!”

The Temple Guard are the Eternal Fire's armed force in Novigrad, adhering to increasingly radical doctrines that will become even more radical in the foreseeable future.

But it's a monster like a shapeshifter.

“Come, let me hear what the news is.”

For non-human races, out of compromise with urban development, they may not act too aggressively against urban residents.

Doodle's halfling's big feet paced back and forth on the wooden floor.

“Both these brothers believe in the doctrine of eternal fire fervently. You can imagine what it’s like to be so fanatical.”

Dandelion walked behind Lann and Geralt's chair, propped up the back of the chair and said to the two witchers.

Lane and Geralt looked at each other.

"The person who is looking for you is called Ritu Manji, and he is the leader of the temple guards. He used his administrative authority to ask the Mud Gang to block the transaction with you and bring your business down."

“Sir Lane, please speak.”

They are both demon hunters who have traveled in the upper reaches of the continent, and they have seen a lot of racial persecution and mutual vendettas.

“There is a reputation, but it is not a good reputation.”

Lan En leaned back in his chair and recounted the information he had obtained.

“He emphasized that the important thing is to catch you as a person, and money is not important. So I think this guy is not an ordinary official who wants to take advantage of you, but for something else.”

Dudu was fine, but Dandelion said in surprise.

They also know exactly what the Eternal Fire fanatics are.

Dandelion continued to describe.

They hate monsters, discriminate against non-human races, and may in the future hate all users of Chaos magic.

"Two months before we got to know Dudu, the real Chapelle died of a stroke. Now this Chapelle simply became him. The shape-shifter is kind-hearted in nature, and he and Dudu began to take care of each other. This is what Dudu is doing." The reason why it’s so easy to get status in Novigrad.”

Except for the three insiders present, everyone was a little stunned.

No one would have thought that within the Church of Eternal Fire, which is the most radical and discriminatory against non-human races, the commander of the temple guard force, the most radical and discriminatory against non-human races, turns out to be a shape-shifter!

"So I'd say, this shouldn't be a big deal, Chapelle can handle it with just one sentence. That's his guy, isn't it?"

Dandelion said matter-of-factly.

Dudu also relaxed a little with the poet's relief.

But after Lan En received the new information, he thought about it for a moment, and then he picked up Dudu's heart again.

“That is to say, the Manji brothers may have begun to doubt the identity of Shapelle’s shapeshifter.”

Dudu’s body twitched suddenly and he looked at Lan En in horror.

“After all, Dudu Bibwit’s identity has very little overlap with Chapelle’s identity, right? At least in public, very little.”

“Both of you are shapeshifters, so you won’t let your apparent identity come into contact with you because you are both very cautious.”

“But a notorious temple guard leader is still eyeing you. He doesn’t want money, property, or stocks, he just wants you.”

With the help of Mentos in his mind, Lan En quickly clarified the relationship and even made a schematic diagram of interpersonal relationships.

“Dandelion said that this matter should be left to Chapelle to handle, but in my opinion, the Manji brothers were probably rushing to knock Chapelle down from the beginning.”

"Shapelle's power comes from the Temple Guards of the Eternal Fire. Even if he is the commander, he cannot change the nature of this force, that is: this is a force loyal to the Church and the teachings of the Eternal Fire. Armed Forces."

"Once his identity as a shapeshifter is confirmed, no, even if his identity as a non-human race is confirmed, the rights in his hands will disappear in an instant, and in turn he will be killed."

“Being the commander of a force and being able to fully control the force are two different concepts.”

Lan En said calmly, but his words made Dudu, who was not very nervous at first, panic again.

Dandelion was also speechless with his mouth open.

The poet has actually seen a lot of situations where the lower class suppresses the upper class, but there is no doubt that his knowledge and vision have not penetrated deeply into the core of the power structure.

It is just a poetic view that the change of rights is due to vague expressions such as human desire or impulse.

But in Lan En’s education and worldview, the operation of power is a real materialization process.

There are traces to follow and follow a set of internal logic.

He can understand this logic, and he can even play it well if he wants to.

Although Lane did not mean to look down on Dandelion’s seven liberal arts degrees, he believed that poetic expression was sometimes an obstacle to understanding the real world.

“The Manji brothers want to investigate Chapelle!”

Potting his head and muttering in a cold sweat, a pair of halfling's big feet made a loud sound on the wooden floor.

"I have to. I have to inform him! Yes! Inform him! As long as he knows, he can deal with it!"

"But two people have begun to doubt him, which means that secretly more people already think that he is abnormal."

Lan En's left hand emitted a cold white magic aura, and he was using the [Yaxi Sign] to calm down Dudu.

"The shapeshifter is kind-hearted in nature, but just hearing about what Chapelle did is enough to make people scared. He has taken over Chapelle's identity for so long, and it must have been a long time since he showed such cruelty to his subordinates and colleagues. If you lose your character, you will be suspected sooner or later.”

“Rather than remind him now, you might as well advise him to leave Novigrad.”