"Stop!" Fortunately, his reinforcements had arrived.

The old priest sat on the carriage, hastily shouting for them to halt.

Isabella rode on horseback, revealing a heroic and spirited side of herself.

Seeing that the others had arrived, Naimes withdrew his foot and kicked Jacques aside.

He never intended to kill the other.

The moment he put him down, a flash of information passed through his mind.

[Commandment Updated]

[Main Commandment: Forgiveness]

[Commandment Feedback: Added (Jacques) — Holy Bone &

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[New trait changed: activated the Holy Bone trait inside identity 2 Naimes Dartmanley’s body.]

[Holy Bone: Enhances the bearing capacity of divine-type abilities, reduces side effects of divine-type abilities, and adds adaptability to faith power.]

As this stream of information flowed, Naimes clearly sensed changes in Naimes Dartmanley’s body.

His whole skeleton itched slightly but quickly faded.

At the same time, Naimes could sense that his once-dim life aura had also changed.

"Shared source power can also undergo linked changes triggered by the commandment? That actually makes sense."

"After all, both Naimes Dartmanley and Jacques are products of the Dartmanley family’s illegal bloodline cultivation experiments." Memories of Naimes Dartmanley’s past flashed through Naimes’ mind.

Jacques was much younger than Naimes Dartmanley, and the technology on him was clearly more advanced. He had not betrayed the family, so his development was more sound.

But at this moment, Naimes, using the commandment, instantly filled in that progress, perhaps even slightly surpassing it.

"After all, Jacques still needs secret techniques to temporarily gain faith blessings from divine miracles, but my body holds purified Divine Nails of faith."

Feeling the change in faith power, a joyful harvest expression appeared on Naimes’ face.

His use of faith power had advanced further today.

Purified faith combined with the Holy Bone’s adaptability to faith caused the Divine Nails inside Naimes’ body to show signs of "melting."

Naimes even discovered that those Divine Nails, originally a combination of solid and ethereal states, had partially ossified and fused with the bones in Naimes’ body.

"Unfortunately, now is not the time to study this further." Naimes looked at the old priest who had dismounted the carriage and chose to question him: "Priest, are you intending to shelter this intern holy knight who attacked me without reason?"

Taking the moral high ground early is often necessary.

When the unreasonable use morality to appear reasonable, the reasonable must consolidate their advantage to ensure the opponent cannot be lightly dismissed.

At this moment, the old priest looked at Naimes, whose face still held a slight smile, the broken knight sword in hand, then at Jacques, his face swollen red, vomiting and gasping nearby, feeling a headache.

He really hadn’t expected Jacques to act so rashly.

Especially after seeing the pale yellow bone ball exposed on Jacques’ chest during his movements, the old priest’s expression turned even grimmer.

But after some consideration, the old priest spoke: "The young man has fallen into his own perception and can’t see things clearly. He was just impulsive."

"Naimes Dartmanley, for my sake, will you spare him?"

"I will punish him severely later, and make sure the Dartmanley family behind him stops troubling you."

"No matter what, he is still young... he shouldn’t bear this guilt." The old priest’s voice wavered slightly at this point. For more chapters visit ɴovelfire.net

"I promised you before because I owed you."

"Now I’m saving him because I owe him too."

"He is also a victim, isn’t he?"

At this moment, the old priest could only speak soft, conciliatory words.

"Are you really sure the Dartmanley family won’t trouble me again?" Naimes then asked to confirm.

"I’m sure!" The old priest replied firmly, insisting he had some face left to keep.

In fact, the reason Naimes Dartmanley hadn’t had much trouble here in nearly eight years was because of him.

Though the old priest admitted to some selfishness, most of the time, he truly cared about these people.

After all...

"Some of the Dartmanley family’s sins also come from me." The old priest involuntarily recalled a former disciple.

Thinking of that person’s changes, he sighed deeply.

"Maybe I really am a hypocrite." With this thought, the old priest looked at the reluctant Naimes and added: "I can personally compensate you with a premium knight sword."

"It is inscribed with eleven holy characters and possesses considerable power."

At this moment, the old priest was full of sincerity.

Holy characters inscribed on artifacts are akin to enchantments.

Generally, most artifacts bear three holy characters;

every additional character increases the inscription difficulty by 30% plus n.

When reaching ten holy characters, the difficulty doubles.

So the more characters, the greater the value.

Previously, Naimes Dartmanley wanted to destroy the holy character dagger of the demonic contract, which only had nine characters.

That was already the only inheritance from Naimes Dartmanley’s parents and extremely precious.

A knight sword with eleven holy characters would definitely trigger a frenzy among many holy knights.

Seeing this, Naimes decided to take the offer while it lasted. Looking at Jacques, who was gradually regaining his senses, he said: "Have him fix my door when the time comes."

After saying this, Naimes no longer stayed in the house without a door but headed toward the village.

Seeing the empty door frame, the others also felt awkward to continue entering.

Witnessing this outcome, Isabella sighed softly.

She vaguely felt that Naimes had some problems. If Jacques hadn’t been impulsive, there might have been a chance to leverage the Dartmanley family’s power to push the church to conduct a genuine investigation.

Now, that was probably impossible.

Meanwhile, Jacques, seeing Isabella’s slightly disappointed gaze, felt worse than being defeated by Naimes.

His pride severely wounded, Jacques simply groaned and fainted.

Seeing this, Isabella shook her head. If Jacques had just admitted his mistake, she would have respected him more.

"But it’s natural. He’s just a young man barely over twenty, not everyone is as sensitive to others’ emotions as I am." Since her grandfather died and she sensed his emotions, Isabella found it easy to empathize with others.

She could feel the sadness and despair in other people’s emotions.

The reason she thought Naimes had problems was because she couldn’t sense any emotion from him at all.

Such people are not nonexistent;

the old priest was like that too, but he possessed a powerful meditation realm.

He had rich experience and could control his emotions from leaking out, which was normal.

So what was the reason behind Naimes?

Isabella then put aside those emotions and began thinking about how to handle this mess.

With the tainted witness dead, they still had a lot to report.

How did things end up like this?