Chapter 13: The Holy City of Roma
The holy city of Röm was nothing more than an inconspicuous frontier town in the north during the time of the Guvien Empire.
At that time, the climate was particularly cold, and although the Venn Empire claimed to have unified the entire Bodi continent, the wild places north of Rom City were basically not counted, and few people would travel there.
The Vane Empire was completely dismissive of the northern alien peoples who drank the blood of Rumao, and collectively called them barbarians.
The Empire's greatest enemy was Orlingte in the East. The first emperors were all overjoyed in their attempts to conquer the continent where Orente was located, and as a result, there were several world wars between the East and the West.
This left a serious shortage of male soldiers in the Venn Empire.
At this time, the emperor remembered the barbarians in the north, and he ordered that anyone who was willing to be drafted by the empire to fight on the eastern front would be granted imperial citizenship, and their families could move south to the empire together.
The barbarians were far less socially organized than the Vaen Empire, and they quickly responded to the emperor's call, and many moved their families south, making the originally small frontier city of Rûm bustling and bustling with activity.
After a long time, those barbarians came with them, and their peculiar religions.
As a result, the city of Röma became a meeting point for the polytheistic religions of the north and the south.
Adherents of different polytheistic religions live together incredibly, and there is very little conflict, because these religions are still in their very primitive stage.
When the Liberal Christianity from the east spread, the situation changed dramatically.
The highly organized liberal arts easily defeated these polytheistic religions with a variety of postures and disorders, and stood on the commanding heights of the spirit in one fell swoop.
The barbarians in the north are very mobile, often migrating in a stubble.
In the late period of the Venn Empire, the emperors were mediocre and degenerate, which led to traitorous ministers seizing power, the army bullying and dominating the market, and the people were miserable.
Suddenly, a strange people calling themselves Dessete appeared in the vast wilderness and permafrost of the north. The blades they wield were glowing firearms unheard of in the Empire, and their magicians were extremely formidable, with those who saw them say that the barbarians who could cast spells had a talent for destroying the world.
At that time, Orlint in the east had mysteriously disappeared overnight, and the people of the Vane Empire were terrified, fearing that their country would eventually face such a fate.
Some even suspect that it was the Dessetes who appeared in the north who wiped out the Orint Empire. Their magic destroyed Orlingt, who had been living alongside Vane.
But where they came from and why they were against Olinte, no one could say clearly.
At that time, the Pope of Bojiao did not care about the destruction of the Vane Empire, he considered that the original confrontation between East and West has now become a confrontation between the north and the south, and if Bojiao wants to be invincible, it must quickly take root in the city of Roma.
The Pope had a unique vision, and he voluntarily abandoned the still prosperous city of Grill and erected the Holy See in Röma. Prepare to educate both the polytheists and the mysterious Desserts.
This peculiar people in the north seem to have given up their migration as soon as they arrived on the Bodi continent, and they have stayed in the northern frontier of the empire, building a large number of buildings and building their own homes. Although these people have divine weapons in their hands, they do not look like the rumored culprits who destroyed the powerful Orlint Empire in the East, on the contrary, they look like some mercenary merchants who buy and sell.
As a bridgehead between the Vane Empire and the north, the city of Röhm became a natural bazaar.
The Desserts were shrewd and capable, backed by weapons and magic, and the Emperor did not dare and could not stop them for the sake of harmony, not to mention that these trade activities were also beneficial to his own country.
On the contrary, it was the chaos within the empire that made the Deseth feel that their vital interests were threatened.
They had long seen the corruption and incompetence of the upper echelons of the Venn Empire, so they took the initiative to connect with those imperial rebels.
The autocratic emperor of the Vane Empire and his corrupt officials were no longer able to command the imperial army at this time, and almost all of those people defected to the rebels.
Wars are fought with soldiers and logistical supplies. The rebel forces have both men and supplies to support Desset, so how can they not be invincible?
The wall fell and everyone pushed it, Hulala seemed to be a building collapse, and the thousand-year-old empire that seemed to be extremely powerful collapsed like this.
But peace was not restored within the Empire, as these rebel forces were again at odds with each other for the leadership of the Empire.
The Desserts couldn't ask for it, and these guys could take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune and make a fortune from the war.
Eventually, when the resistance was almost over, the Dess decided to choose the right Imperial agent according to their preferences.
At this time, one of the most famous popes of the Liberal religion, Clement (who was recognized by Emperor Tamborance as the first pope of the empire), played a key role, mobilizing the faithful to refuse to recognize the pagan head of the empire, and at the same time publicly summoning the generals of the major legions of the Gruvion Empire.
Some of these generals retreated to the mountains and forests, and some of them surrendered to the rebels.
Clement calls on everyone to unite and stop being used by the northern barbarians, and although the Vane Empire is rotten, it is not the turn of the alien race to point fingers.
At this time, those rebel forces who fought to the death and were dying also realized their stupidity, and looking at the entire continent, only Bojiao now has the strength to fight against the Desserts.
In the midst of the crisis, everyone suddenly joined forces again.
Pope Clement's sudden attack caught the Deseth people off guard, and they would never have imagined that a small religious head could have such great energy.
Annoyed and enraged, the Desserts immediately gathered their armies and prepared to move south from Råm to sweep across the Bodi continent.
At this time, the city of Roma seemed to be the world of Bojiao, and even those who believed in polytheism were full of favor and respect for Bojiao.
The Holy See is in the city of Roma, and if the northern barbarians want to go south, they must first take the city. The merchants of Desmet were arrogant and arrogant in the city. If you do business in peacetime, you will definitely provide information to your own people in wartime.
Pope Clement acted decisively, and on the eve of preparing to raise the banner of resistance, he secretly asked his subordinates to keep an eye on these merchants, and when the time came, they were all killed.
All the magically trained monks in the empire were secretly summoned by the Pope and sent to Rûm City to help.
The Desserts have sharp firearms and fierce magic. Clement knew that a hard fight would definitely not work, so he made a plan.
The original pope was chosen from among the eight disciples who followed the Prophet Cyril on a missionary mission. Each of them kept a relic of the Prophet, which was unknown to outsiders.
The chosen pope happened to be the longest-lived of the men, and all these fragmentary relics of the prophet fell into his hands. Since then, it has been passed down from generation to generation, but no one has ever used it.
At the stake of life and death, Clement decisively decided to try Cyril's relics. He gave a public speech in the city of Rûm, gathered a death squad, and confessed that he was going to use the relics of the Prophet against a powerful enemy in the north, but the cost would be great, and someone would have to die. The believers in the city scrambled to take the lead. Clement singled out two hundred of them and elaborated on their plans.
After a full night, the group, led by the former Venn Empire general, walked to the camp outside the city to the camp of Desset.
Everyone died down and was silent. Crémant instructed the crowd to sneak past in order to catch the other by surprise.
The Dess had just set up camp and were in an absolute position in terms of strength and equipment, so their defenses were too lax.
By the time the death squad of 200 people came in, most of the Desert were still asleep, and the camp was suddenly chaotic, crying dad and mother, all of them were caught off guard.
The two hundred men selected by the Pope were each strong and imposing, and they were also fighting against the odds, so they were extremely brave in slashing and killing.
But after all, they were outnumbered, and two hundred people could only take advantage of it for a while. Soon after, the Desserts discovered that they had come to raid the camp by a small army, and that they would not be able to cut down the tens of thousands of people they had here, even if they were all wood.
General De Sett and the magician shouted to restrain their soldiers, firearms and spells beckoning to the death squad.
Seeing that the situation had taken a turn for the worse, the leading former Imperial General used all his strength to throw the magic flares given to him by the Pope into the sky, and in a short time, the originally dark night sky was instantly dyed blood red, and a large meteorite meteorite mixed with flames poured from the direction of Roma City. Two hundred warriors and tens of thousands of Dessert soldiers were buried underneath.
These tens of thousands of people didn't even have time to shout. Whether it was a general or a magician, whether it was a Desert or a Venn, they all fell victim to the fiery meteorite in an instant.
It turned out that the relics left by the prophet Cyril were the magic scrolls he had written after years of painstaking study, and the magic on these scrolls was amazingly powerful, but the requirements for the user were not high, even if he was only a beginner.
Clement uses two reels in a row, just in case, the first is a meteor burst and the second is the ultimate golden bell jar. This second magic can protect both a person and a large area. The Pope used it to cover almost the entire city of Roma, in case the power of the Starburst was too powerful or out of control, causing harm to the city.
After this battle, the vitality of the Dessert people was greatly damaged, although they were full of hatred for Bojiao and the entire Bodi Continent, but the reality of the situation made them have to take the initiative to negotiate peace.
Pope Clement became a hero of the continent, his authority reached its zenith, and there were even people who were ready to make him emperor of the new empire. However, the Pope himself was very sober, and he suggested that the generals of the former Vengu Empire and several leaders of the rebel army get together and democratically elect a suitable emperor, whose rights were no longer hereditary, and the electors could vote to remove him.
Eventually, a general from the Tambolance Military Region became emperor, and the name of the empire changed. However, not long after the general came to power, he was deposed by Clement and several electors. It is said that it is due to ignoring the government and greedy for women. The reigns of the next few emperors were also short-lived, resulting in frequent vacancies in the imperial throne.
The number of electors was eventually limited to six. Clement thinks that this number is just right, and meets the standards of religious aesthetics. He also openly declared that Roma was the holy city of Liberal Christianity and that the city of Gred was the city of the prophets.
This great Pope was murdered and killed in the end. Who the killer was remains a mystery to this day.
The Dess got a taste of the power of erudition, and for hundreds of years after that, they were almost always in the role of businessmen.
This continued peace changed when Field Marshal Cripp, nicknamed the Eagle of the North, seized the reins of Deseth, and the marshal took the initiative to provoke the Tamborance Empire and capture the holy city of Roma in one fell swoop after a series of small contact attempts.
The Holy Seat that once blocked the Deserts is now far away in the southern frontier of the Empire. Emperor Delviot was busy reorganizing his domestic power, which led to the under-garrisoning of the city of Röma, which caused a catastrophe.
Now the burden of holding back the northerners' progress fell on Duke Borot, who was the first to arrive. He knew that he was the emperor's pawn, and he was in a dilemma, and he would not be able to avoid this catastrophe sooner or later.
The Duke is now most worried about his son, His Royal Highness Albert.
General Wellington of the Duchy of Loyle received a secret order to hold on to the city of Front.
The situation is not optimistic.
Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.