Hortensia Saga

Synopsis

Even though Charlot is the current King of Hortensia, his underage status allows the Pope to appoint himself his legal guardian, and effectively allow the Orthodox Church to rule over the Kingdom. Georg calls upon Maurice to investigate a quarantined village full of monsters that appear human. Maurice takes Alfred and Marius to the village, where they run into former bounty hunter Deflotte Danois and a village full of zombies. Deflotte doesn't trust them as they slaughter the zombies, until Maurice informs him the bodies were not the dead villagers that Deflotte grew up with. Deflotte reveals that he was born in the village, and his father was the head priest who hated that he left, but the Pope quarantined the village to stop the spread of a plague, so the Priest led the village in prayer until he was the last man alive. Soon after finding the priest's diary, the Ecclesiastical Knights of the Church threaten to burn what's left of the village, when a giant monster appears and slaughters them. Marius uses a flower that Deflotte left to hold the monster long enough for the group to finish it off. Later, Deflotte decides to join the group as they decide to find out if Georg sold them out to the Church.

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