Chapter 236: The Archbishop's Doubts
Archbishop Hadro of the Chongbai Church has been secretly observing.
Well, it's a bit wrong to say that it's a covert observation, the Principality of Silver Eagle is a very small principality, and de jure it is still part of the Varla Empire, so it itself has not received much attention, and the church of the Chongbai Church stationed in the Principality of Silver Eagle does not have too many powerful Holy Cult Army.
The Holy Cult Army sent to Sotimi before was completely wiped out by the Undead Orc and his subordinates, and after he also learned the news of the corpse dragon from the Temple of Splendour, Hadro directly issued an order to shrink the remnants of the Holy Cult Army and mainly defend the city of Tunaia, highlighting a cowardice.
When the players showed up in Tunaya City as 'reinforcements invited by Angra, the heir of the Fats', he didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, their appearance is too low.
The variety of equipment highlights that they are not regular troops, but rather a ragtag army like mercenaries, and not only that, but some of them seem defenseless.
Could it be that the monkfish head covering, which looks like an incomparable sand sculpture, has some other special abilities?
Archbishop Hadro also doubted whether someone was the elite of the Holy Church Army of other churches, deliberately pretending to be a ragtag army to make himself take it lightly, and their church could take the opportunity to occupy the main position of Tunaa, a humble city on the whole continent - in fact, the bishops of many small cities were in a similar crisis situation, and those small churches made efforts to save the city, so as to gain the support of the city people and even the nobility, and finally changed hands from the big churches such as the Chongbai Church and the Temple of Splendour.
However, after careful observation of those people, the archbishop abandoned the idea.
Because the temperament of those people is not only compared with the elite members of the church, but even the regular army, at first glance they are the kind of laymen who have not been professionally trained and can't help but laugh out loud when they hear the strange confessions of some believers.
Compared with his own elite, such a guy is simply belittling the elite believers in the Chongbai Church!
Angela probably wanted to use these people as cannon fodder to delay the dragon's attack on Tunaya City as much as possible, and give several large churches time to send strong people from other churches to come to the rescue.
This made Archbishop Hadro couldn't help but look at this future duke.
For him, it is better than a benevolent but indecisive lord who is inactive in the face of all kinds of horrific disasters because he cares about the lives of a few civilians, and is obviously able to use the mercenary's name as cannon fodder to buy more time and a higher chance of victory.
After all, religious personnel are different from political leaders, and the way to promotion is very rare, and Hadro is probably tied to the city of Tunaya in his life, otherwise the holy city of the Chongbai Church will not happily give him the title of archbishop.
It is almost an open secret that if a person is canonized as an archbishop in another territory, he will never be able to return to the Holy City to serve unless there are special circumstances.
You must know that even in the Holy City, the number of archbishops is not large, so it is impossible to let outsiders like Hadro and others return to the Holy City and add to the other archbishops.
After all, compared to other territories, it is obvious that living in the Holy City is closer to the gods you believe in, and it is easier to receive the gifts of the gods......
So the current cities of Hadro and Tunaia belong to the kind of situation where both prosper and lose. And Angela's style of acting is quite in line with the archbishop's appetite, and even the idea of persuading Angela to enter the Chongbai Church has once again emerged, and if necessary, he can even accept the other party as his own personal disciple!
It's just that Angra's attitude is very ambiguous now, and Hadro feels that it is probably the people of the Temple of Glory who have blown a lot of evil winds in the ears of the future Silver Eagle Duke, and now that the time has not yet come, he needs to take the time to change the other party's concept, and if necessary, let him see the 'true face' of the Temple of Glory, and then it will not be so difficult to include him in the sect.
Back to the ridiculous-looking ragtags.
Hadro didn't know what Angela had promised to the motley army, so much so that they were still smiling and eager to face the terrifying dragons (Hadro felt that this was a sign that the motley army was a fool with no vision), but it was certain that they would all die under the dragon's kiss.
Originally, I thought that these miscellaneous armies would be able to win about half a day, after all, even if the dragon is in the transcendent race, it is an exceptional level of existence, even if it is a bone dragon, a rotten dragon and a corpse dragon that has changed from a dragon to an undead race, it is extremely powerful in itself, without the help of the mage group or the chant team, if the number of ordinary elite troops does not reach an order of magnitude, it is still not their opponent.
The Criffos Mountains are so close to the city of Tunaya that flying dragons are a stone's throw away, and it takes less than half an hour to get there.
But through the news sent back by the believers who were sent out to act as scouts, those ragtag troops who looked very weak actually tripped a red corpse dragon in the Criforth Mountains for a whole day, and until now the corpse dragon has not been able to leave the whistling corridor!
Even the Saint Cult Army sent by the Temple of Glory in the past is no more than that!
- In fact, he didn't know that the Holy Cult Army of the Temple of Glory was going to change dishes, and they were unprepared for the fact that they didn't last long after encountering the red corpse dragon and were wiped out, but at that time, the red corpse dragon Sakasky was still investigating the situation in the modern world through his spell-like ability, and he didn't set off for Tunaya for a long time, otherwise the players would have to meet this corpse dragon in the city.
This result made Hadro confirm his previous guess:
It seems that this group of ragtag armies is indeed the Holy Cult Army of other churches, and it should still be the elite of the elite, if it is analogous to the Chongbai Church, it is probably the existence of the legendary 'Pure White Courtyard Erasure Mechanism' or the 'Underground Sanctuary Ground Ground Thirteenth Floor' composed of devout ascetics - of course, the 'elite of the elite' of the small church must not be compared with the two transcendent institutions of the Chongbai Church.
Even so, those members should be a rare and powerful person, but it is a pity that their church leaders made a wrong decision to bury all these strong people in the Criffos Mountains for the sake of the position of the main church in a small town like Tunaia.
Hadro showed a sneer: Even if they succeeded in seizing the position of the main church in the end, but without these strong men to suppress the formation, I am afraid that the position of the main church will not be stable, right?
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Chapter 236: The Archbishop's Doubts