Beside Admiral George, a Holy Knight dressed in a simple military uniform was fiddling with a delicate hand crossbow. Its entire body was a bright gold, shimmering brilliantly, giving off a sacred aura that made one want to worship it.
But if you looked at it for too long, within that gold seemed to hide a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, exuding a pungent smell of blood, and the ears would echo with waves of resentful roars. It had been enshrined in the church for nearly half a century, yet it did not change the nature of this lethal weapon.
This was the "Dragon Slaying Holy Artifact" that Marshal Julian had promised him, a recompense given to the English by the Ottomans during the Crimean War.
The Ottomans, who once dominated the Mediterranean and several times threatened Vienna, causing the Habsburg Family's Emperor to flee, have now declined to the point of trading even their life-dependent Divine Artifacts.
