Does the church have a trump card? Of course it does.
As an organization that has ruled Europe for more than a thousand years, and is a huge religion that has been passed down for thousands of years in a world where gods clearly exist, the church had considerable strength when it was still called the Holy See.
However, with the decline of the mysterious power, the power of the Holy See has shrunk. Although the church still has some powerful trump cards in its hands, these trump cards cannot be played easily.
Moreover, those powerful guardian knights and priests who can perform divine magic are still mortal bodies. Perhaps those guardian knights can withstand small-caliber bullets with their blessed armor, but they obviously cannot withstand the power of artillery and heavy machine guns.
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Times have changed. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, productivity has been liberated. Factories have replaced manual workshops. Mass-produced firearms have armed a large number of civilians who only need simple training. The power of personal force has lost its meaning on the battlefield.
Knights in the Age of Knights needed to spend their entire teenage years undergoing comprehensive training to become a qualified knight. In the Age of Hot Weapons, even training an officer only required four years in a military academy, not to mention three months.
Ordinary soldiers brought to the battlefield to fill trenches.
During the First Industrial Revolution, the Seven Years' War, known as the real First World War, was famous in Europe for its sieges, arson of towns, and field battles that caused heavy losses. The number of casualties caused by the entire Seven Years' War
Only a million people.
As for the troops mobilized by various countries, they are basically around tens of thousands of people, and rarely more than 100,000 troops are mobilized.
However, in the First World War after the Second Industrial Revolution, the number of casualties soared sharply, causing tens of millions of deaths and more than 20 million injuries. The impact of the liberation of productivity can be seen.
What ends an era is always a change in productivity, not the invention of a certain weapon.
The invention of gunpowder in the East did not end the cold weapon age and the feudal dynasty. What truly ended feudal rule was the liberation of productivity brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
This is the true magical power that is inferior to the number of days.
Similarly, it was precisely because of the development of productive forces and the establishment of the colonial system brought about by the Industrial Revolution that the entire European society ushered in a great development, and the increase in national strength of various countries ended the church's rule over Europe.
However, this is just like the end of peaceful evolution and does not completely destroy the church. It only ends their dominance over other countries. The church still has huge influence and appeal among the people.
And the core strength of the church was also retained.
In Chen Mo's original world, the three major knights of the church have long since become the tears of the times with the changes of the times, leaving only some legends and relics for people to pay homage to, and the rest is just an empty shell that does not live up to its name.
Forget it, it is no longer the sharpest sword in the hands of the church back then.
But in this world where myths still remain, the three major knights of the past still have many powerful knights who maintain the inheritance of the knights. Although they are no longer military organizations, they still serve the church.
As for those clergy who can perform magical arts, they are an important means for the church to rely on all kinds of demons and monsters.
It's just that the church no longer has the strong power to collect tithes from all of Europe, and is unable to cultivate these powerful beings on a large scale, which makes the church appear to be declining day by day.
Gu Shen
In fact, if the church is really willing to spend all its money, it may not be able to defeat the world's first-class military power, but the army of a second-class country may not be able to withstand the church's attack.
After all, in the deepest part of the church's holy treasury, there are not only the holy relics left by the saints of the past generations, but also fragments of the true cross and even more precious existences.
In addition to being extremely lethal against evil spirits and being used to create holy miracles to promote faith, these things also have a greater role in combating heresy when the church needs it.
For example, during the Crusades, the church used fragments of the True Cross and Holy Nailed Saddles to be used by the Crusaders generals, allowing them to display their power on the battlefield.
Not to mention the famous Holy Spear of Longinus, which is one of the most powerful holy objects in Christian legend. It is called the Spear of Destiny. Those who hold it will be invincible and lead and rule the entire world.
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In history, in addition to its first owner, Longinus himself, who stabbed Jesus to death, the famous emperors Constantine the Great and Charlemagne also owned this sacred object.
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Even Napoleon had been obsessed with this sacred object and was only a few steps away from seizing it.
Of course, the Holy Spear of Longinus is not in the hands of the church today, but fell into the hands of Germany in 1938. The failed Austrian art student also became more confident because of this, feeling that he had grasped the spear of destiny and was about to be like
As in the legend, he rules the entire Christian world.
But even so, the cardinals in Rome were absolutely sure to repel the besieging army with the help of the holy relics in the Holy Library.
It's just that they are hesitant whether it is worth it. After all, every sacred object in the holy library has extraordinary value and significance, and is not a weapon that can be used for consumption and waste.
Just like before, all Mussolini asked for was the church's support, which did not conflict with the interests of the church, so the church turned to cooperate with him instead of relying on holy objects to destroy his army.
Now that Italy is being invaded, the British and Egyptians are certainly the enemies of the invasion of Italy, but for the church, as long as they do not affect the interests of the church, the church actually does not care that much about the change of secular rulers.
Therefore, the church decided to send a cardinal to negotiate with the Anglo-Egyptian forces and cooperate with them to allow the church to regain secular power, or at least to find out the intentions of the Anglo-Egyptian forces.
As for the fact that Egypt respects necromancy and promotes heretical beliefs, as long as they are willing to convert to God and give up their heresies, then everything can be discussed.
Of course, even if Egypt is unwilling to discuss this topic, it is not unacceptable to the church. As long as Britain and Egypt are willing to support the church, the Pope can support the British and Egyptians just like he previously supported Mussolini and Hitler.
However, the church wanted to talk, but Chen Mo didn't want to talk, and even the British didn't want to talk.
It is true that the church is the leader of Christendom, but the Anglican Church is not the same sect as the Roman Church, and this is an existence even more unacceptable than a heresy.
Therefore, Chen Mo prepared sufficient countermeasures for the church's possible means: the ship girl Littorio, a mage group composed of thirty lichs, and thirty battle groups composed of Dark Angels, Blood Angels and Ultramarines.
