Chapter 456: Secret (5th Watch)
"Priest Mark Blom takes orders!", Mark Blom is different from the people before and after, in front of others, he is the high Priest of Mark Blom, but in front of the Grand Prince Helsay he is a dog.
Hulsey told him to bite whomever he wanted, and he would bite whoever he asked.
That's because more than ten years ago, the original priest of the Grand Ducal City was not Mark Blom, but an old priest who had lived for nearly 400 years and was named Alphonse Dude.
When the old priest chose his successor, he actually had three choices.
The first choice is also one he will never choose, and that is the goddess apostle Yulan Jing.
Because this one is not only an ordinary goddess envoy in the sacrificial temple, he is also the second daughter of the previous Duke of Yulan.
With today, the Grand Duke of Magnolia is a pair of twin sisters, the Grand Duke of Magnolia, is the elder sister, and this Magnolia Jing is his younger sister.
Due to the special law of priestly succession, it was clearly stipulated that the immediate family members of the local fiefdoms could never inherit the position of local priests.
Even if the lord is his own family in any place, and it is his own family who holds the supreme divine power of the local area, this will lead to a monopoly of the family, and it is easy to affect the rule of the entire kingdom.
Therefore, on the continent of Atlantis, no matter which country it is, it basically follows this system, and there is a strong maintenance additional system for this Du.
It is specifically stipulated that if any nobleman dares to violate this ordinance, unless he is pardoned, the whole family shall be destroyed.
Of course, if the title is high enough, for example, to the rank of the Grand Duke, if this happens, it will also be directly reduced to an earl because of violating the law of priestly succession.
So this kind of operation is basically not allowed by their children to do it.
As a priest, he is naturally familiar with the priestly inheritance law, so this Magnolia Jing was excluded for the first time.
Then there are only two people who are eligible for the qualifications, the first is the current contemporary successor, Priest Marc Blom, and the other is Florence Loiret.
Florence Loiret, his identity is actually quite noble, his family is a once smash hit Florence clan, and the current head of the Florence family is one of the four counts of Magnolia fiefdom.
Therefore, his identity is very noble, and the inherited bloodline is the same, the bloodline is very pure, and his spiritual power is far more than 10 times that of ordinary people.
And he is very calm in his work, and he especially likes to study divine arts, and he usually respects the old priest Florence Loiré, often serving him tea and pouring water, and greeting him every morning.
Anyway, he was an apostle of God, and Florence Loirey basically did everything properly, which made the old priest very satisfied with him, and finally in the last time, he even publicly stated that Florence Loirey would inherit his priesthood.
But Mark Blom, who is now a priest, is the opposite, his identity is just an ordinary nobleman, without any power support, if it weren't for the old priest who accepted three god apostles in his life, he really wouldn't be a number.
In his last days, Priest Marc Blom watched the old priest get closer and closer to Florence Loiret, and when he arrived, he even secretly made a warrant for the priesthood.
The warrant of succession for the priesthood has been decided, and basically the next priest will be Florence Loiret.
But before that, Priest Mark Blom accidentally discovered the priest's inheritance warrant hidden by the old priest.
Out of curiosity, Marc Blom just didn't admit defeat and opened the warrant, and it turned out that he did see Florence Loiret's name on it.
Then he found a piece of paper in this warrant, and after looking at it, Mark Blom was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, and the paper in his hand also floated on the ground.
After a few more moments, a hint of anger rose on Mark Blom's face, and he picked up the piece of paper again, re-read it, and saw that it was written:
"Florence Loire, if you see this piece of paper, it means that I am dead, and you have inherited the priesthood, according to the rules, the other two god apostles who did not inherit the sacrificial position, Magnolia Jing and Mark Blom will automatically remove the responsibility of the god apostle and enter the depths of the temple to cultivate, but I want to tell you, Mark Blom This kid has bad intentions, just in case, after you see this letter, find someone to kill him immediately!!"
At the end, Priest Mark Blom grabbed the small piece of paper and let out a heart-rending roar.
Looking at the sky helplessly, he didn't know what he was going to do.
He could do nothing better than Florence Loiret, without whom he could do things, without whom he could be a man, and without whom his family was powerful.
As it stands, Florence Loiret would have sent someone to kill him as soon as he succeeded to the priesthood.
If he took this piece of paper away, his ending would not be much better, after all, Florence Loiret and he were once on the same starting line, so it was possible to inherit the position of priest, it was just a matter of chance.
Although Florence Loiré won in the end, as a leader, he certainly would not let a potential threat of his own exist, so at that time, Priest Marc Blom was almost certain that even without that note, Florence Loiré would not have spared his life in the future.
But the question is, what if he knows, how can he change his fate without anyone to help him?
It was also when Mark Blom fell into deep despair, in endless darkness, day by day, and when he was about to die, a mysterious black-robed man from the royal city found him.
At that time, Mark Blom felt very strange, he was in the royal city, there were no acquaintances at all, and there were no relatives, friends or the like, and it was impossible for anyone to come all the way to find him.
But the black-robed man said that there was a big man who wanted to see him.
In the end, Mark Blom followed the black-robed man to meet the eldest prince Hersay, who was still in his twenties at the time.
Hersey gave Marc Blom a bottle of poison to the priest, saying that after some time the old priest would return to the royal city for the annual royal meeting, and that he should try to get as many people as he could.
Later, Marc Blom tried his best to find a way to keep his old rival Florence Loiret in the Grand Duke's city, and he just followed the old priest all the way from the Magnolia fiefdom to the royal city to worship.
When I first started, it was quite normal, and it took half a month to take ordinary transportation to the royal city, and participate in the annual royal worship according to the rules.
Then the old priest also took part in a special personal conversation prescribed for each year of the state sacrifice, and the content of the conversation was nothing more than how many believers had been developed this year, the Magnolia family in the fiefdom, and the other marquis counts, and whether there were any changes or any such things?
This kind of question is a regular one, and every year the old priest prepares it in advance, so it is basically answered fluently, and at the end something very strange happens.
The national priest, who was basically not close to anyone, showed enough enthusiasm that when the old priest was about to leave, he patted the old priest on the shoulder with a smile and said a word.
"Go all the way"
Halfway through, the old priest had lived most of his life and had never received such treatment, so he enjoyed himself for a long time.
And Mark Blom was given the opportunity to smear poison in the goat's milk cup from which the old priest used to drink.
Originally, after the old priest drank it, because he was a six-star priest, he generally had resistance to ordinary poisons, or highly poisonous, in his body.
But after drinking it that time, he directly spurted blood and died.
The reason is that when the old priest left, the one of the national priests gently patted the shoulder, but it actually destroyed the magic power in his body, the magic hub.
And this kind of destruction is not immediate, but has been hidden in the old priest's body, as long as the old priest does not use large-scale magic techniques, such as controlling the weather to rain thunder, rain of fire, etc., it is absolutely impossible to find out.
Because of this, as soon as he drank the poison, the already destroyed hub in his body collapsed directly, causing the divine power in his body to be disordered, plus the poison was strong enough, so he played directly.
After the old priest died, Mark Blom bought a lot of salted fish and tied them to the back of the car to reduce the smell of the corpse's corruption.
"Florence Loiret poisoned me, and now I'm dying, please help me kill this rebel!!"
This sentence is so short that it is basically clear at a glance, but just such a sentence directly buried Florence Loire's young life.
By the time Mark Blom returned to the Grand Duke of Magnolia with the corpse of the old priest, his former rival, Florence Loiret, had been dead for more than ten days.
And at that time, the old priest was already dead, and the question of the heir was put on everyone's table, Florence Loirey was killed, and Magnolia Jing According to the regulations, you can't inherit, you can only quit.
Then only Mark Blom is eligible to succeed as priest.
The following month, Priest Mark Blom assumed the position he had dreamed of for decades through his intrigue.
But all of this was given to him by Helsay, who helped him get to the position he wanted and kept him alive, and Mark Blom was also the equivalent of being caught by the other party.
So much so that in the following decades, Mark Blom could only obey the eldest prince, and this secret could be completely buried.
If one day the priest Mark Blom did not want to follow Helsailles' instructions, or rebelled.
Then Mark Blom could almost have imagined that the dirty things she had done before would become a thing that everyone knew about.
At that time, Mark Blom became the target of the country, and no matter which country he fled to, he would be spurned and never be able to live this kind of human life again.
So Mark Blom had no choice but to obey, and that obedience has come to this day.
The story is not over to be continued