Although they had been mentally prepared for a long time, when they heard Hemmes's words, everyone in the hall couldn't help but be shocked, and at the same time raised their heads in unison.

In any case, this is a meeting that will determine the helm of the Church of Light for decades to come, and it is destined to go down in history!

Everyone held their breath and waited for the next step from Jaime.

Fortunately, although Hemias lost his teeth and spoke slowly, his head was still not confused after all, and he continued to say what he should say: "Now the first step in the election is to self-nominate the candidates. All of you here today are eligible to nominate yourself, and if anyone thinks they are fit for the pope, please stand up and nominate yourself. ”

Jaimes's words are really not polite, you must know that the Church of Light is a huge institution with tens of millions of believers, hundreds of thousands of troops and staff, extremely tightly structured, and it can be said that it is comparable to a country, and such an institution is of course not only a high-ranking official with real power such as cardinals, the lord of the Inquisition, and the Minister of Supervision, but also some honorary titles that are equivalent to their rank but have no real name, such as high priest, or Jaime's own ascetic leader, etc.

Although these titles are fictitious, in terms of status, they can indeed be called high-ranking figures of the church, at least they have the qualifications to become a candidate for the pope.

In fact, with the exception of the "outsiders" of the Church of Duke Habs, everyone in the hall at this moment is qualified to be a candidate for the Pope. Of course, qualifications are qualifications, but whether they will stand up and nominate themselves is another matter, so the words that came out of Jaime's leaky mouth no longer knew how far they had floated out, and the hall was still so quiet that a pin could be heard on the ground, and no one spoke at all.

Leo waited for a while, knowing that it would be impossible for the others to open their mouths to fight, so he got up from his chair and said very calmly and seriously, "I, Leo Sargeras, nominate myself as a candidate. ”

As soon as Leo opened his mouth, countless eyes gathered on him, and the ingredients in these eyes were quite complex, with almost any emotions such as envy, jealousy, unwillingness, resentment, etc., but there was no surprise. Everyone present had their own channels of information, and naturally knew that Leo was bound to win the Pope's position, and they would not be surprised by Leo's self-nomination.

James's somewhat cloudy gaze swept over Leo a few times, and then nodded slightly: "The first candidate, Leo Sargeras." Are there any other self-nominated candidates? ”

Jaimes asked several times in quick succession, but no one answered.

A trace of excitement began to emerge in Leo's heart, as a candidate for the Pope, Leo had already studied the mystery of this papal election. Since this system has lasted for three hundred years since the establishment of the Holy See, and basically all kinds of accidents have occurred, almost all cases are traceable, such as the current situation where there is only one candidate.

Normally, if there is only one candidate, that candidate can become pope without a vote of the Cardinals!

The reason is simple, everyone wants to be pope, but why is there only one candidate? Obviously, because everyone else knows that they can't compete for the nomination, it is better not to offend the new pope.

So in such a situation, there is no point in voting or anything, just don't vote and pass it directly, and everyone is in harmony.

And there is a precedent for this kind of thing, in the history of the church, there are four popes who directly became popes as the only candidates, and these four popes without exception have a characteristic, that is, they firmly control the power of the entire church during their tenure, and belong to the kind of powerful popes who are famous in the history of the church.

Am I about to become the fifth? Leo's heart suddenly felt a little excited.

After repeated inquiries, there was still no second candidate, which made the leader of the ascetic have a look of surprise on his face.

As an ascetic, Jaimes spent almost most of his life meditating and praying, and didn't really care about this kind of struggle for power, but the old ascetic still understood the rules of the election, so Jaimes coughed and said, "Very well, since there are no other candidates, then I declare—"

"Wait!" A breathless voice interrupted Jaimes: "Who said there are no other candidates?" ”

This sentence instantly shocked everyone, and everyone turned their eyes to the direction where the voice came from.

Leo was also shocked when he heard this, but he was prepared for it and immediately calmed down, and infinite battle intent immediately appeared in his eyes.

It's still coming, and the president of the Brotherhood of Vengeance, Entropy Demon, really appeared at the time of the election.

Today, the entropy demon was dressed in a white ascetic robe, but he was still wearing a hood that covered his face, and no one knew when he had quietly sneaked into the hall from the many heavily guarded church masters outside.

Leo took a few deep breaths and stared at the Entropy Demon with a solemn gaze.

Let me see what kind of intrigue you're up to!

Hemmes, who was presiding over the election, was obviously also shocked by this sudden change, and when Hames saw the ascetic robe on the entropy demon's body, a pair of cloudy eyes suddenly flashed with a gleam, but his mouth was still slow to say: "You are——? ”

Without the slightest hesitation, the Entropy Demon opened his mouth and said loudly: "I came here today to nominate myself as a candidate for the next Pope!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the entire hall was shocked except for a few people, you must know that most of the people here didn't even know about the existence of the Entropy Demon before, so it can be said that the situation in front of them can be said to be unpredictable.

But everyone knows it in their hearts - there is a drama to watch now.

Leo snorted, he and Cheetos had not spent the past few days in vain, the two of them had already made a lot of plans for the possible way of the entropy demon on election day, and the situation in front of them was of course also expected.

So Leo coughed, and his eyes looked directly at the hood that covered the entropy demon's face: "I think you should know very well that you need qualifications to run for the Pope, how do you prove that you have the qualifications to run for the Pope?" ”

Everyone present knew very well in their hearts that if you were not second only to the Pope in terms of the status of Cardinal and Lord of the Inquisition, then even if you shouted the sky, you would not be a contender for the Pope's throne.

In other words, if the Entropy Demon really competes for the Pope in person, then it will be impossible to keep his identity secret.

The Entropy Demon laughed, and suddenly took off the hood on top of his head, revealing his true face under the hood.

"Whether or not I am eligible to run for the Pope will be known by all means."

(End of chapter)