Chapter 488: Purge
The problem of the pilgrimage can be said to be big news in the world, and for the believers and people in the church, it is the question of the life and death of the pope.
The reason why the pope can still maintain the title of emperor in Europe, a place where the concept of democracy is extremely developed, is because his position has many magical powers, the pope is the only person in the church who can directly contact God except for the saints, believers have believed in it all their lives, and they still meet the god who has been blessing themselves, but God can't see everyone, so let the pope as an agent to receive the world for him.
At that time, the mysterious power that Feng Wu felt from the Pope was almost the same as the kind of power that Rukia broke out at the beginning, if that power was the power of God, then who was Rukia, a relative of God?
This kind of conjecture Feng Wu didn't dare to say it in front of Rukia, she was a faithful believer in God, if the two of them fell out because Feng Wu slandered her faith, then this plan probably couldn't be carried out.
Barry quickly agreed to Feng Wu and the others' plan, he was already more than a hundred years old, but the Pope was younger than him, if there was nothing else, there was basically no chance to become a Pope, since Feng Wu and the others could fight with the Pope again, he also had the idea of fighting.
For such an important thing as the pilgrimage conference, the security measures must be very strict, but it is still broken through all kinds of defenses by those Middle Eastern people, and there must be some kind of dirty deal between some people in the church and Middle Eastern people, so after the church hastily ends the conference, there will be a wave of purges.
After the Pope returned to his palace, he made a direct appointment with Barry, and he had always been wary of this old man, and he felt that if someone wanted to betray him, this old man was the most likely.
As soon as Barry returned to his residence and was about to implement the plan, he received an order from the Pope, and he was not too surprised, the cardinal archbishop was not too different from a politician, especially a person like Barry, who had long thought about the situation he was going to face.
"It's so dangerous today, I almost died. The Pope said in a calm tone.
"Those madmen are reckless, I believe the Pope has already put those people to death!"
"Of course, if it weren't for God's blessing, I don't think I would have seen you, but those people mentioned you when they died, do you think I should believe it!"
"Of course, this kind of thing is up to you, and I won't do it. ”
"I don't think it can be you, but there must be traitors among us, and you will preside over this purge operation!"
Barry's heart jumped when he heard this, and he looked at the pope of his age in disbelief, this kind of thing happened a little unexpectedly, but he quickly responded: "No problem, I can preside." ”
This pope has a pathological possessiveness for the control of power, since he took office, basically all the cardinal archbishops have no available power, and there is only one Inquisition, but the presiding judge seems to be his descendant, so Archbishop Barry is surprised that the pope gives him power, but this is also good, Feng Wu's plan is easier to implement.
Now that Barry has decided to accept the purge, he has to do all the superficial work, looking for the person who caused the trouble from top to bottom, looking for the person who betrayed the church on the surface, and secretly colluding with some people who can support him.
After a few days, the spy was not found, but Barry was happy from the bottom of his heart all day long, and six of the remaining nine cardinals supported him, and the remaining few did not openly show their support, but they all showed their dissatisfaction with the current pope.
Next, the last thing Barry had to convince was the only one in the church who had his own power, the chief arbitrator of the pilgrimage conference at that time did not participate in everyone's expectations, as the representative of the dark side of the church, he actually did not participate in those activities on the open side, so Barry was not too sure about convincing this person.
"Archbishop Barry, have you gone too far in investigating our Inquisition?"
The presiding arbitrator turned his back to Barry, and his words revealed his displeasure.
There is really nothing wrong with his words, the Inquisition can be said to be the most unlikely place in the entire church where spies appear, they are people who specialize in catching spies, that is, three-quarters of the people behind Barry who assisted in the purge operation are from the Inquisition, so it is actually an extremely funny thing for him to come to the Inquisition to find spies.
"Dear Presiding Arbitrator, I don't mean to offend you, after all, it's better to confirm something like this. ”
"Alright, I'll see what tricks you're going to do!" the pre-arbitrator turned and stared straight at Barry.
This arbiter is not like those cardinal archbishops who are some gray-haired old men, in comparison, he is much younger, just the age of a middle-aged person has already held important positions in the church, it can be said that it is quite powerful.
"I want to ask you, is your holy sword still there?"
As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere in the whole room froze, and a powerful force attacked Archbishop Barry, but Barry was not a vegetarian, and an almost equal force erupted in the old body's body to fight against it.
"Arbitrator, don't get excited, we can have a good talk, I'm not one of his. ”
Suddenly, that kind of powerful confrontation disappeared, and the whole office was as if nothing had happened, and the arbiter was still staring at Barry, and said, "In that case, what do you want?" ”
Barry knew that he had made the right bet, the presiding arbitrator who had been raised by the Pope had already had a different heart, and this time he also had to thank Feng Wu and them, if it wasn't for Feng Wu telling him the information that the presiding arbitrator had lost the holy weapon, he wouldn't have been able to get the information he wanted so easily.
"The loss of your holy weapon should be the handiwork of that person, he doesn't trust you anymore, in fact, he doesn't believe in anyone, only believes in himself, you have great power, he has already gotten rid of you, you have to think more about yourself, the chief arbitrator is a rare position than the cardinal, but many people want to compete for this position!"
"Now that he's the Pope, why do you want to keep me?"
"The Lord doesn't like this pope anymore, so we need to change one, how about it, are you interested in being the next pope's presiding judge?"