The icon on the cross closes its eyes and bows its head, there is no sound in the quiet streets, and inside the church, a story is told by the priest.It happened in Gotham hundreds of years ago, and no one knew whether it was true or not, not even the priest himself was unsure, after all, his family had long since declined, and there was very little to come.But the stories that happened in the Bible are much earlier, and some people believe them.Sometimes it's not the truth of the story that matters, it's the thoughts and ideas it contains, and Paul, who is dying, also wants to hear the truth about himself, about the city.It was a story of madmen, vampire bats, betrayal and deception.The history of the New World is well known, hundreds of years ago, some people crossed the ocean from Europe to North America, and built a small town on the east coastline, which was the predecessor of Gotham.In the beginning, everyone worked together, and although life was difficult, it was better than living under the royal power of Europe.But the dark foreign land slowly changes everyone.Gradually, it became a city, and a nobleman recruited an army of various thugs, gradually took control of the city, and then obtained the position of governor of the colony by paying allegiance to the English king.It was a man named Rafe Arkham, who had gone mad after drinking a water like red wine, and who was always laughing and doing all sorts of evil deeds.For example, detaining residents, scratching their soles to make them laugh to death; Or hang people on crosses, put reeds in their eyes, and suck the blood of the inhabitants.After the prisoners were tortured to death, Sir Arkham would pretend to wipe away his tears, saying that he only wanted to joke with people, that it was not his intention to kill people, that he just wanted to make life more colorful.The current Arkham Asylum, the mansion where he used to live, was also known as the 'Vampire Castle' a long time ago.The inhabitants could not even flee, as all the ships of Gotham were under the control of Governor Rafi, and the wilderness outside the city was littered with hostile natives of the Indians, and the Governor's army was made up of hippie-smiling psychopathic murderers.They could only crouch in the darkness, waiting for their tragic fate to befall them, waiting for the deadly joke to come to their heads.There are always heroes who will step up at the critical moment.Edmund, the ancestor of the Wayne family, was originally a descendant of an aristocracy in England, and his family fell in a political struggle, and he was about to be thrown into prison as the last survivor, when someone pretended to be a jailer rescued him and took him to the New World by ship.He was rescued by a fighting priest from around Jerusalem, the kind who held a Bible with a rosary wrapped around his left hand and a sword and a torch in his right hand.That man was Bakar van Ray, the ancestor of present-day Jean Paul.Originally, Edmund was just an ordinary aristocratic young master, although he was not a weak scholar without any power, but he was not a warrior, and Bakar saved him because he fell in love with the orphan's aristocratic status, and was able to rightfully take over Gotham after all the dust settled.Anyway, for the king, it didn't matter who ruled an overseas colony, as long as he paid taxes on time, but the only hard requirement was nobility.The Order of St.
Dumas, in which Bakar served, was the most fanatical branch of the Templar Order after the split.It has been a few days since the advent of the Great Colonial Era, and the fleets of Spain and other countries are transporting gold from the New World to Europe by ships, and everyone is blushing when they see it.So his order also wanted a piece of the New World, and they chose Gotham, because the governor of Arkham there had a reputation as a vampire, and as a church, he could immediately gain popular support to eliminate him.When the time comes, Edmund's nobility can be used to deal with the King of England, and the Order will be able to use Gotham as a base to grow infinitely in North and South America, spread the faith, and then launch another crusade to purify the whole world.To put it simply, it is to kill all the heretics and heretics, in 1700, about 400 million, even if there were already front-loading muskets and cannons, this is still not a small number.But if people don't have ideals, what is the difference between them and salted fish?
For this noble and sacred goal, Bakar embarked on a mission as the most devout believer, but he was not young at the time, and armed struggle often meant that he was afraid of the weak.So he began training Edmund on long voyages, teaching him how to use weapons, fighting techniques, infiltrating or enduring pain.Not to mention, that young nobleman really looked like a reinforcement sent by God, and he learned at a terrifying pace, no matter what kind of fighting skills, he could see it, and he could master it as soon as he practiced it, and even when the ship was halfway through and still floating on the ocean, he could climb to the passing island and catch bats with his bare hands.There was a bat cave on that island, and because Bakar told him that he was going to the New World to deal with vampires, Edmund was so obsessed with the study of bats that he even felt like he had become a bat.In order to show his strength and incompatibility with the demons in his heart, he made a long whip out of the skins of hundreds of bats, and even called himself the Bat King.During the long voyage, some people died in storms, some died of scurvy, and even many died of thirst in the windless zone, but in the end, the master and apprentice arrived in North America with a small group of paladins of the Order, and quietly infiltrated Gotham.Here they waged an arduous struggle against the Governor of Arkham, first covertly linking up the masses, and then carrying out some covert sabotage, striking at all aspects of the Governor's arrangement through one operation after another.In the end, they launched a workers' and peasants' uprising, captured the governor's castle, and liberated the whole of Gotham.Before he died, Governor Arkham laughed and cursed Gotham City, saying that his blood would elect a successor and lead the city to its darkest madness.Ancestor Wayne didn't care, he stabbed the governor through the chest, and then kicked him into a dry well in the middle of the castle and fell to his death, just as Leonidas had kicked the Persian emissary.Gotham ushered in a new development, and a few good days passed peacefully.After years of underground struggle, Edmund became a more qualified leader, and many locals supported him.In addition, many of the people of Gotham were Puritans, and for the extremist ideas of Bakar's faction, they preferred Sir Wayne's various policies.From the elimination of the common enemy, there was a gap between the two victors.Bakar wants Edmund to give up half of Gotham City to the Order, and they will use that half of the tax revenue to recruit troops and build fortresses, and first unify North America, such as killing all the Indians.But Sir Wayne, who had succeeded to the governorship, disagreed, believing that everyone should live in peace, and now many people do not even have enough to eat, but have to fight for the things of God?
Is the heavenly one in charge of rice?
Moreover, unlike Bakar's, the Puritan pastors did not say anything about cleansing the Americas.Bakar, a fanatical believer, felt deceived, he was Edmund's teacher, and the young man's skills and experience were taught by himself, why did he disobey after the deed?
Traitor!
Those who are not willing to die for the sake of the Order are all traitors!
He then declares that Governor Wayne has been infected by vampires and is a giant bat that has become a spirit, and calls all of God's people to war against monsters.Of course, there were many people who believed in him, so the two factions started a civil war in the city.But as said earlier, the fist is afraid of being less strong, and when there is not much difference in the strategies and tactics of the two sides, in the end, in the process of the leaders of the two sides going head-to-head, it was Edmund who killed Bakar.On behalf of the colonial government, he seized the Order's property and began to run the city patiently, and later more large families sprung up in the city, all of which were products of that era.But after all, he was also forced to be helpless, he actually didn't want to kill his teacher, but the teacher was too crazy, and his belief in God was terrifying.So he didn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, spared the teacher's family and children, and even left them to live in Gotham.It's just that after the mission failed, the Fan Lei family also lost the support of the Order, and the surviving widows and children had no business acumen at all, and the family business declined rapidly.The Wayne family has been secretly helping the Van Ray family until Bruce's great-grandfather's generation, who died too suddenly without leaving a last word, and since then no one in the Wayne family knows to help another family.The Van Lei family is like a wave in the sea, disappearing into the black sea of Gotham, and even the noble surname has been abandoned.Now, Jean Paul, childless and alone, is the last member of the Van Ray family, and the priest from another decaying family, secretly serving the Order Order of Saint-Dumas, tells him the story of this past.