William was also stunned for a moment after hearing the news, and then sighed and shook his head a little wistfully.

Uban II was still dead after all, so aggrieved that he wanted to restore the Church's unrivaled position in the holy world, but until the day he died, he did not succeed.

Eventually, he began to think about how he could best benefit from the turmoil in the church.

"Or else...... Supporting the succession of the Bishop of Berlin to the Pope? William thought in his letter.

He thought about this matter for several days, and William has always been very cautious about religious issues, because he knows that religion is very powerful in this era, and if the royal power is not strengthened, even the divine power is higher than the royal power.

During the meal, he was absent-minded and was spotted by Charlemagne, who asked, "Did something happen to the couple?" Can you tell us about it? ”

William glanced at his son, and he was very satisfied with Charlemagne, who relied on having everything he needed for a worthy heir.

"Pope Ubandar II is dead, you should know, and I am thinking about how we can benefit from this religious upheaval!" he said. ”

As soon as William talked about politics, Wella, Lingsi, and the other children were silent.

The two women of high standing knew that they should intervene in such matters, and William's other sons, the eldest of whom was only thirteen years old, were interested in this matter, but they were only listening, and it was unrealistic to expect them to make constructive suggestions.

Charlemagne, who is only twenty years old this year, has matured mentally and physically, and William will discuss many things with him.

After listening to William's words, Charlemagne groaned for a moment, and then said, "Is it ...... Father, is it not good for you to be this pope? ”

Charlemagne's words were so striking that William was even stunned for a moment when he heard his words, and then he reacted.

"I will be the Pope...... Am I Pope? William muttered.

Charlemagne struck while the iron was hot again and said, "Why not, father? You were a saint of the time who was canonized by the previous pope, and there is no requirement for those bishops to run for the Pope, so why can't you, a saint of the time, be the pope? ”

When William heard this, he immediately smiled and said to Charlemagne: "Charlemagne, you have really grown up, maybe I will give you the place on my body soon!" ”

Yes, he was very happy with Charlemagne's suggestion, and he had been thinking about whether to support a puppet pope to control the church.

But now that Charlemagne said that he had just turned this corner, even if he was supporting a puppet, would it be more convenient to have his own pope?

And William actually has another idea hidden in his heart, if the monarchy and the divine power can be combined, so that Charlemagne or the descendants of the Wallace family will be the Pope and the king of the Kingdom of Lorik as soon as they ascend to the throne, what kind of scene would it be! ”

However, William has not yet spoken, and he intends to implement the first step of the plan, which is to make himself the pope first.

In this way, the next day he summoned his courtiers and vassals, and when everyone had arrived, he announced to everyone that he was running for the Pope.

Of course, everyone will oppose this, and after His Majesty becomes the Pope, the Kingdom of Lorik will be stronger, and his status as a vassal of the kingdom will of course rise.

Suffice it to say that everything William did was quite beneficial to himself and his vassals, so everyone spared no effort to support him.

The news quickly spread around William, and everyone embraced William as the King of Shengming, who had banished the brutal Norwids.

The bishops of the church were quite flustered and helpless, they did not expect William to make such a move at first.

There were even those who hoped for William's help in establishing themselves as pope, even if only as a puppet.

But now, everyone's plans have failed, and William didn't give them a chance at all, and he didn't even plan to find a puppet but directly became the Pope himself.

They didn't have anything to do with William, because after the end of a war, all the inhabitants were quite eager for peace, and it was impossible to listen to the words of the church, even if they became the spiritual sustenance of some of the impoverished residents, but William was a living saint canonized by the previous pope himself after all, and it was impossible for anyone to be because of the words of the church that the current Pope did not have.

And William has an army of 150,000 in his hands, and the entire road is really invincible, and even let the Kingdom of Lorik single-handedly challenge the whole continent.

It has come to this point, who else can contain William? Of course not.

In this way, after 5,000 Iron Cross Knights and 80,000 royal infantry, 30,000 long-range archers, 5,000 light cavalry, and a number of William's vassal troops, adding up to more than 150,000 troops, drove up to the Holy Mountain and Holy City, everyone closed their chattering mouths.

No one dared to say a little nonsense in front of this huge army that occupied the entire Holy Mountain, and respectfully welcomed William to the throne of the Pope.

At the same time, the coronation ceremony was held for William on the same day, and William was officially announced as the successor to the Pope.

And the day after his coronation, he crowned himself Emperor of the Lorik Empire, and at the same time elevated the Kingdom of Lorik to the status of an empire, proclaiming himself Emperor of the Loerdes, Norvids, and Chekels.

At the same time, in the name of Emperor Lorique, he canonized Wella as the Empress of the Lorik Empire and Charlemagne as the Crown Prince of the Lorique Empire.

NORVIN. Jill, Urimu. Several of William's more important vassals, such as Zarhan, Dercess, and others, became dukes, expanding the area of their territory.

His high courtiers, namely Vidal, Tus, Jayu, Kenos, Yamamura Masanobu and others, were canonized as counts, while the courtiers below were viscounts and barons.

At the same time, he canonized all his other sons as kings, and in the western part of the continent, which areas that had lost their government, they were divided into kingdoms, and they forgot about their sons, so that they could establish kingdoms there.

Seven years later, at the age of forty-five, several of the kingdoms that had been divided were on the right track, and Delseth restored his Zenketu Principality as he wished, and became the Grand Duke of Zenketu.

The borderlands were also divided, some new states were established in their place, some were annexed by other countries, and the originally turbulent continent was calmed down again.

William sat in his palace hall that had been expanded many times, and there were more than 2,000 vassals and courtiers below, and the number of vassals in the huge Lorik Empire was huge, and the army of the vassals alone was seventy or eighty thousand, and William's direct regular army was also as many as 100,000 people, plus the second-level auxiliary legions, garrisons, and militias, the entire Lorik Kingdom could mobilize more than 400,000 troops in the event of a war.

Now, William can finally proudly say to everyone, I, William. Wallace, who built the mighty empire of the Lorik Empire, I William. Wallace, invincible!