Holy City, the Eastern Prefect, and the Duke of Ye Xiao.
"Duke Sephora." The priest with long black hair walked up to Caterina Sephora, "How was the punishment of Father Andrewson in the Pope Hall?"
"Let me call me Caterina, Vaccilu." As one of the highest bishops of the Cross of the Pope, Caterina is a very beautiful woman with bright golden curly hair, silver glasses on her fair nose, and silver blue pupils flashing the wise light of ordinary women. "The Pope and the Bishops decided to remove him from his post and demoted him to an ordinary circuit priest, but because the action has to continue, we will continue to wait for the time being in White Rose City until the new commander takes over him in the South Ridge."
"Drop?... Not long ago, Father Abel... Then Father Andrewson..." Hearing Katerina's words, Vasulu couldn't help but sigh, "The Reformers and the Educational Sect really seize every opportunity and suppress us as much as possible..."
"Father Abel's personality is not suitable for being a leader. As for Father Andrewson... I support his original decision." Caterina subconsciously pushed the glasses on her nose. She had long foresawed the suppression of her by the other two major factions of the church. After all, as the Duke of the Empire, she has sat in the position of Supreme Bishop. From ancient times to the present, only her Eastern Prefect, Caterina Sephora. If her "Emperor's Evil Dog" really even gained such a sacred status as the Pope, the Reformers would definitely launch a coup, and the Teaching Sect would not give her a good face to become the Pope. Even now, as the Supreme Bishop and the "hermit" position, her existence has become deeply afraid of many people in the Royal Hall.
As the saying goes, seeing the big one from the small, but from the three major factions in the Holy See, you can see a microcosm of the entire church of the gods today.
The Thirteen Divisions of the Secret Services Agency representing the power of the emperor.
The Holy Scar Knight representing the reformist forces.
A memorial service representing the power of the teaching sect.
However, unlike the thirteen disciplines in the Holy See, among the entire church, the most advantageous one is the teaching sect supported by the Pope. Among the thirteen Supreme Bishops, four seats were occupied by the Pope. With the two votes of the Pope, the seats in the top leaders of the entire church have exceeded one-third.
The second is the three reformists, who also play an important role.
Then there are the other five Supreme Bishops whose stance is volatile, belonging to neutral factions. In Katerina's view, these neutral factions are the real wise people, and they will not make completely different decisions hastily and make completely different decisions just because of the different candidates for the proposal. In fact, the resolution of the Royal Hall of the Falcon, when the teaching factions and the reformists are constantly quarrel, they are often the wise men of these neutral factions who finally play a final role.
In addition to the twelve people, there is Katerina, this lonely emperor.
As the highest prefect of the eastern territory of the empire with the most prosperous church, Katerina is both a devout believer and a vassal of the empire emperor. There are also many imperial nobles like her in the eastern counties. Generally speaking, high-level priests like her need to give up their secular status when they become servants and shepherds of the gods - unless they are god-given nobles.
That is, those imperial nobles who donated all their territory to the church and were given the title of God's family forever by the Pope.
That's right, this is very common among the eastern counties of the empire with the strongest church beliefs. Even the Duke of Night Owl Caterina, the theoretical prefect of the eastern Empire and one of the nine emperor electors with the most noble imperial bloodline, has lost all the family fiefs since the great-great-great-grandfather's term. Now the capital of the eastern counties, the holy city of Mirandor, was predecessored by Mirandal, the capital of the eastern Duke.
However, the pious beliefs of ancestors often do not mean that their descendants like the church's harsh dogma of abstinence. Even though they have extremely high reputation and status among the church and the empire, the god-given nobles in the east, watching the nobles in other places eat and drink and live in extravagance, still feel jealous and resentful, and want to return to the fiefdom.
And in this case, as the leader of the nobles of the eastern counties, Katerina was pushed to the seat of the Pope Hall by these divine nobles who mostly occupied half of the offices in the church.
However, although I have to say sorry to those god-given nobles who support me, the reason why Katerina is willing to become the Supreme Bishop has nothing to do with the shallow wishes of these god-given nobles.
Therefore, no matter how people from outside imagine, those around Katerina often have their own reasons, but they will never be as simple as the shallow desires of the emperor or the god-given nobles.
Vacillus had forgotten the reason why he would be with Katerina. He just looked at the little Caterina who was only his knee-high at first, growing up step by step into the beauty and supreme bishop of today. Vacillus had long been used to standing by her side, thinking about what she thought, and solving her problems: "...Stay on time and staying behind?! The Silver Rose family has had a good relationship with the church in the past century. As early as the initial decision to send the Sanskrit Institute to participate in the assassination, it has caused a lot of controversy... Why did those people still plan to continue even after encountering such a blow?!"
"The reformists need to achieve their achievements to further expand their power... In addition, if you look at the reconciliation conditions provided by the little duke of the Ian family, you won't feel that strange." Katerina sighed. To be honest, she does not support the Nanling Martial Arts, but the Pope's Hall sent the Sunnai Station to fight against Silver Rose, which was not the intention of letting the strongest power in the Sunnai Station consume each other. "But the next action has nothing to do with us. Let's go back to contact Andrewson and tell him not to act rashly. The Reformers dispatched the Ninth Air Mobile Crusader, the most elite, in their hands, and the Education Sect also decided to take out a [magic weapon of the gods] and participate in the holy war against the Nanling."
"…!" Vaccislu was shocked and didn't say anything for a long time. "What conditions did Yiwen Ian put forward?? I remember that the relationship between the Teaching Sect and Nanling is not good?! Why are you now...?"
"It is precisely because of the good relationship that we have to deny the rumors." Caterina explained lightly, "Although the Teaching Sect is the most powerful now, they are at a disadvantage in the debate with the reform party's doctrine. Because they insist on the progress of the Dark Divine Arts and the Light Divine Arts, they have been beaten many times as a defiled person with the Dark Chaos. So the reason why they took out magical tools this time is to show their attitude."
"What did Yiwen Ian do..." Vaccisru had no idea what to say.
"The little duke did nothing, he just did what he should do." Katerina's tone was filled with a hint of sadness in her tone, "But the strangulation of the Black Bloods has always been something the church spared no effort to do. As the day of the contract and judgment with the gods was approaching; the emperor and other nobles were confused and unaware of the existence of darkness; and in the shadow of the empire, the actions of those dark mages became increasingly rampant..."
"We don't have much time." Caterina raised her head and looked at the bright afternoon sunlight over the Holy City. "That's why the reformists are getting more and more crazy, and now even the teachingists finally chose to take a gamble on this last chance."
"..." Vaccilu couldn't help but remain silent for a while, "What about us? Lord Duke, what did you choose in the end?"
Katerina did not answer immediately.
The 30892nd Proposal Meeting of the Royal Hall, the voting of the resolution of the "Dispatch the Ninth Air Mass Crusader on Nanling", the result-
Ten votes agree, four abstain, and one vote against, and the resolution passed.
"If he is really a man who can subvert the Empire as Andrewson said, then the world will need his existence in the foreseeable future." Katerina gently pushed her glasses, and a sharp determination flashed through her silver-blue pupils, "Watzru, tell Andrewson and Abel to protect Iven Ian with all his strength, even if she confirmed that he was killed by the Crusaders-"
"You must never let him become the demonic spirit weapon of the Lord of Darkness!"
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Holy City, deep underground in the Santa Vina’s Grand Church.
The blindfolded nun in the red robe and the blindfolded nun in the white robe walked quietly on the underground corridor.
"Kenetine..." The nun who was walking in front suddenly spoke. The nun's headscarf covering her eyes made her look difficult to recognize. "Since just now, you didn't speak. Do you have any questions about the resolution of the Royal Hall?"
"Supreme Bishop..." The nun who followed the red robe nun was Knetin, who had not seen Ewen Ian for nine years, and she opened her mouth.
"In private, you'd better call me Nona." The Supreme Bishop in the red robe said softly, just as she did when she was studying with Knaten more than ten years ago when she and Knaten were studying at the time, the Pope's Coronation.
"Sister Nona..." Knaten looked at the senior sister in front of her and felt in a complicated mood.
"It's because of Ivan Ian." Nona already knew what she wanted to say, "You always thought Ivan Ian was a good child, but I have told you that the secret of the Black Blood Man has nothing to do with his personality. As long as he is a Black Blood Man, there is a possibility of bringing huge crisis to the world. As servants of the gods and shepherds of the world, we cannot ignore such obvious loopholes."
"The better he is now, the more attractive he will be to those dark people, and once they succeed, the disaster will be more dangerous."
"..." Knaten understood this, so she was silent until now, who had always had a hot temper. However, knowing it does not mean that she is acceptable. Her discomfort cannot be expressed in her heart. If it weren't for the fact that the date of agreement with the gods had not been too long, the church and the Silver Rose family would still have room for a turn, and Yiwen Ian would not have ended up like this.
But the church is now in a turning point, and the teachings are not in a turning point. And she, Archbishop Knaten, is also unable to shoulder the lives of tens of millions of people in the entire empire and say the word "no".
"I just hope Yiwen Ian can understand us..." Nona said lightly, "This is the misfortune of being a member of the Ian family, and it is also the misfortune of being a black blood man. For the sake of the entire human race, his family and other black blood man can only be sacrificed."
Seeing Knatetin silent, Nona nodded with satisfaction. She knew that her passionate but not reckless junior sister could figure it out. In this way, there was no need to worry that she would reveal the actions of the church to the Nanling side.
She paused, inserted the pendant around her neck into the socket, and then pressed her hand against the stone wall of the white marble stone door in front of her.
With the huge roar, the long-clogged door slowly opened.
In the brightly lit stone chamber, a black mask with only half of the upper face lies quietly in the center of the platform.
"This is a magical war weapon prepared for the agreed day." Walking into the surrounding divine art barrier, Nona gently picked up the mask, "The magic weapon of Goddess Vina, which can be controlled by only the saint-level divine art affinity."
She turned around and handed the precious artifact to Knitin: "Take this to the sisters of the Secretariat and take them to the South Ridge, where there happened to be a candidate for the Black Saint, enough to use it."