The city of Marinope is located in the heart of the continent of Noi, where some of the most powerful nobles in the continent gather. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThrough the continuous efforts of the ancestors of the Noah tribe, today's Marinope City has deservedly become the largest capital city in the entire continent. In such a great city, there are so many people of all walks of life, and every day people are born or die in this great city, and today is no exception.

At dawn, all the people of the city did not sleep. Both the elderly and children knelt silently in the church to pray for the Pope.

This gracious pope has lived for 120 years, making him the longest-reigning pope in history. But the whole capital, no! Perhaps all the famous doctors on the entire continent believe that His Holiness the Pope's illness will not survive this night.

The people of the Noah tribe worshipped the goddess of the underworld, Anna Nimsi, and almost all of the Noahs were followers of the church dedicated to the goddess Noi.

Suddenly, the crash of a huge death knell came from the tall buildings of the Holy See Center. It was like a ripple of water droplets, and the bells of the whole city were joined together to make a neat low chime, followed by the crying of the whole city.

As the most orthodox religion on the entire continent, the influence of the Church of Noi has completely replaced the rule of royal power. Hundreds of years ago, the last royal power had completely vanished. The current continent of Noi is completely ruled by the church, and the Pope has become the most powerful person in the entire continent. Each pope reigns for life, which means that once someone is elected as pope, that person becomes the king of the continent of Noi for life.

In the city of Marinope, both nobles and commoners are crying, and everyone is trying their best to vent their grief.

But Driss couldn't, because he had the important task of finding a new pope.

In the Church of Noi, the Pope, as the mortal closest to the goddess of Noi, is undoubtedly the most honorable existence. No mortal can appoint the next pope, not even the pope himself. According to the teachings, only the goddess Noi could appoint a pope. So when the Church needed a new pope, the oracle of the goddess would appear.

The specific method of receiving the oracle is that seven soothsayers determine the oracle of the goddess through the astrological signs on the night of the Pope's death. This time, the oracle revealed that a new pope would be born on a farm outside of Marinope.

Driss is the current chief of the Guard's Guards to Pope Angeli Kuss, and he has studied the art of fighting since he was a child and is proficient in a variety of weapons. His martial arts and pure character were trusted by the Pope, so the old Pope entrusted Driss with the task of finding the next new Pope.

Driss was tall, forty years old, but still one of the best in the capital. As if to cater to the grief of the city, it rained in the sky after the low sound of the death knell resounded through the city of Marinanope. Driss wiped the rain and tears from his face with his big rough hands, brushed the brown hair that stuck to his forehead with the rain to the sides, then rolled over and dismounted, and strode to the door of a simple farm hut.

The owner of the farm seems to be a poor man, with a dilapidated windmill in the distance and a wooden fence enclosing a few elderly cows soaked in rainwater. Driss thought that if it weren't for the fact that the cows were too old to flee, the fences would have been toppled and flattened.

The cabin in front of me was slightly better, but the carpenter hired by the master was really poor, and the handle on the door seemed to have been nailed to a ready-made piece of bent wood, and there was no skill or skill at all.

It's hard to believe that a child living in such a humble hut would become the most powerful pope on the continent the moment Driss opened the door. Driss shook his head, throwing useless thoughts out of his head. Then he got dressed and prepared to knock on the door.

But before Driss could tap on the wooden door, he heard a woman's scream in the room! Before Driss could draw his sword, he hurriedly kicked the wooden door open, and then rushed into the hut.

Because of the rain, there was no moon tonight, and the house was pitch black. Driss struggled to get his eyes used to the darkness of the room, but a sharp sword slashed across clearly didn't want to give him time to adjust. Fortunately, Dris's ear saved his life, and when he heard the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps, Driss immediately crouched down. However, even if he responded at the first time, Driss still lost the opportunity and entered the embarrassing situation of being beaten passively.

The opponent's continuous slashes made Driss tired of dodging and unable to draw his sword. To make matters worse, Driss is unfamiliar with the situation in the house, and he accidentally trips over a chair while dodging an attack. And the enemy naturally did not let go of this good opportunity to fall into the well, and the sharp sword pierced through the darkness and pierced Dris's chest!

Although he was stabbed by the opponent, Driss unexpectedly grabbed the opponent's sword with a backhand. I saw a burst of blue light emitting from Dris's palm, and the sword suddenly turned into a slender iron hammer and pierced into the opponent's entire arm.

"Warlock!" The swordsman who was pierced through the arm exclaimed.

Driss let out a cruel laugh, and pulled out the other half of the undeformed sword from his body with a fierce shot, and the blue light in his hand continued to turn the remaining sword into an iron drill and stabbed the opponent's face.

The wounded swordsman was able to dodge the fatal stab, but the black mask and the right cheek were cut deeply. The swordsman kicked his leg hard and stepped back. For a swordsman whose right hand has been deprived and who has lost his sword, this situation is indeed only a retreat.

Driss did not pursue the enemy, because his situation was not optimistic, and the most important thing now was to confirm the safety of the new pope.

At this moment, Dris's eyes had fully adjusted to the darkness inside the room. Clutching his bleeding chest, he leaned against the wall and walked to the bedroom.

In the cramped bedroom, an adult man is lying in a pool of blood in the doorway, and in the corner of the wall, a woman leans against the wall with her blood on her belly. Both of them had already lost their breath, and the room was filled with only lifeless silence and the strong smell of blood.

The oracle of the soothsayer indicates that the next pope will be the newborn baby in this hut.

And this news was not told to anyone except the old pope. Driss himself had received a personal order from the Pope to carry out this mission secretly. Could it be that the soothsayers leaked the news? But what Noah would risk his life to assassinate the Pope?

Driss shook his head, not thinking about these things. Now he's bleeding profusely and must finish his mission before he falls unconscious.

He squinted and found a handmade rough cradle in another corner of the room. But this did not make him happy, because under the fierce fight and the shrill screams of the woman just now, it was impossible for any baby to remain quiet.

So, the new pope is likely dead.

If the baby died, then Dris's life would also end as well. He took a deep breath, then walked tremblingly to the cradle.

Surprisingly, the baby is still alive and still sleeping soundly. Driss endured the sharp pain in his chest and carefully picked up the baby, and after an examination, he found that the baby was not injured, and he was relieved. The baby who was woken up kicked his calves indiscriminately and cried.

However, before Driss could say a prayer of thanks to the goddess Noi, he was interrupted by another high-pitched baby cry. He slowly turned his tall body and walked with heavy steps towards the blood-stained wooden bed.

The heavy palms had never trembled so much, and Driss gently lifted the heavy blood-stained quilt, and a baby with a blood-stained face appeared in front of him. The baby seemed to have been smothered by the blood-stained quilt for too long, and his little face was purple, and he cried even harder after uncovering the quilt.

Driss looked at the baby in his arms who was kicking his legs, and then at the bloodstained baby on the bed. He whispered, "What...... How...... That's going to happen. ”

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The funeral of Pope Angeli Kus in the city of Marinope was held as scheduled, with a solemn black rock sarcophagus, white flowers all over the city, and the sad faces of the faithful. Everything was exactly as the Pope had arranged.

However, only the upper echelons of the church know that the church is in chaos.

Ever since Knight Driss returned with the two babies in his last breath, the church has been in complete disarray. Everyone is used to a step-by-step life, and this sudden situation makes everyone a little at a loss.

Seven soothsayers were urgently summoned, and the archbishops of the various chambers rushed to attend the holy council convened by the Pope.

In general, the oracles conveyed by the soothsayers were accurate. No matter what kind of person the successor is, it will be clearly described. This time, however, the soothsayers said that the oracle only said that it was the newborn baby of the farm, not which one.

According to the doctrine, if the successor is an infant, then the Pope will take the place of Pope until the new Pope grows up.

So it was decided that both babies would be candidates for succession to be consecrated as sons and receive the best education and care until they became adults. Until then, the Pope will act as Acting Pope for the Church. As for how the two children will choose their successors when they reach adulthood, no one knows except a few archbishops and the Pope.

The two babies were named by the Pope: Ilzer Nimsi and Hal Nimsi. Because the Pope believed that the survival of the two children was entirely due to the protection of the goddess Noi, they followed the goddess's surname.

The religious adults believe that Driss was blessed by the goddess Noi as the guardian of the Son. Therefore, after Driss recovered from his injury, he still served as the chief of the guard of the Royal Guards and was responsible for protecting the two holy sons.

Time passed quickly, and the two Holy Sons were already ten years old in the blink of an eye. During these ten years, they received the best education and read through almost all the major texts of the church. The two sons of heaven possess great talents: the son of Ilze has a brilliant mind, can almost remember it, and has a very gentle and kind personality; The Holy Son of Hal has a very good talent for fighting, and at the age of only ten he already has the physical fitness to be equal to that of an adult soldier.

If these two sons were talented, perhaps the Ilze Son would be more suitable to be the pope, but it is a pity that the Ilzer Son was born deaf and could not hear. This also explains why he did not cry when he was in the cradle.

The doctrine dictates that at the age of 10, the Son must follow the Pope on his rounds of the Chambers. So the Pope and the two Sons began a huge tour. When they left the city, the two holy sons who were deeply affected by the ** were blessed by the believers of the whole city. But no one could have imagined that when the still huge patrol team returned, there would be one less person.

Hal Nimsi, the 27th candidate for the Pope in 2043, was assassinated by Chief of the Driss Guard while inspecting the Chamber, and disappeared while on the run.

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