Chapter Ninety-Four: Nero's Fire

Your Majesty's meaning.

No matter what excuse Bishop Chino came up with, Bishop Valyan would only say lightly, this is what His Majesty meant.

Soon, Bishop Chino was defeated by this ruthless repeater, and could only say angrily:

"You're free at 3 p.m. today, and you bring them here."

"Hmm." Bishop Valyan nodded, and suddenly said, "It's a pity that none of us thought about Bishop Langdon. ”

"Why, Your Majesty asked you to test me?" Bishop Chino asked sarcastically with an embarrassed expression.

"No, it's my own meaning." "Judging by the anger you've shown at this point, you should have been unaware of Bishop Langdon's plans. ”

"So what?" Bishop Chino snorted, "He doesn't trust me because if I were involved, there would be no way I would agree to such an overly radical plan as the Spirit Tree. ”

"But I am more pessimistic about your revisionist path than the ridiculous purification goals of the human purebloods. The transcendent is the transcendent, and at best they will become ignorant administrative bureaucrats, but it is impossible to understand what we need to put into scientific research, let alone lead us forward. ”

"I'm the next pope, not Nola." Valyan said earnestly, "What you call 'layman guiding insider' is not possible. ”

"Come on, Your Majesty has already designated to canonize her." Bishop Chino sneered, "Unless you always keep the same pace from now on, who will the cardinals listen to if you disagree?" Pope or angel on earth? You are sowing the seeds of schism in the Holy See! ”

"You're just conjecture and suspicion." Valyan disagreed, "Don't forget, Nora is my own sister. ”

"I hope that in the future, when faced with a living saint, you will still be able to command her as you command your sister, Walyan." Bishop Chino waved his hand, signaling that the conversation was over.

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In the afternoon of the same day, Bishop Valyan arrived again with a few men of the Blue Sword.

Nola, Sheila, and Mia, as well as the regimental commander, Asker.

Bishop Chino looked at the three young girls who needed the law of induction with a blank expression.

They're too young, aren't they?

Even Nola, the eldest of the three, Vallian's own sister, looked to be in her early twenties. Sheila is supposed to be underage, as for Mia...... A little girl at this age should stay at home and study, instead of running around the world playing mercenary games!

Although he knew about these people in advance, the data on paper was not as real as seeing them with his own eyes, and in an instant, Bishop Chino even became suspicious of Raphael.

Is there something wrong with it that makes these young and weak girls list as R4? Considering that even Bishop Langdon can easily tamper with Raphael's data, Bishop Chino begins to doubt the authenticity of this R4 rating.

It can't be done by His Majesty the Holy See himself, right? Deliberately stuffing a bunch of people into the R4 class to confuse the line of sight, in fact, it is just to pave the way for Walyan's sister to the future.

Even recently, there have been strange rumors among the bishops that the Holy See is not betraying the technological camp and engaging in transcendentalism, but is trying to get out of the new technological camp with the characteristics of the Holy See......

It sounds exactly like the theory in Olympia City, what "in fact, the existence of supernatural power is a normal physical phenomenon", "to prevent the stigmatization of supernatural power", "make supernatural power variable, usable, and controllable", Balabala ......

"Come in." Bishop Chino gathered his divergent thoughts and said lightly.

When he turned around, he suddenly remembered that the little girl named "Sheila" in the middle should be Theodora, the empress of the Eastern Solomonic Empire, and the granddaughter of Apelios, the lord of Olympia.

Could it be that the Holy See and the city of Olympia are really connected!

Such thoughts rose in his mind and lingered for a long time.

Arriving at the data monitoring room, Bishop Chino turned around and asked:

"Come one by one, which of you comes first?"

"I'll do it." Sheila said.

"Hmm. Lie down in the data connection pod. Bishop Chino nodded.

Sheila lay down in the connecting pod, while Valyan crouched on the edge of the pod, telling her what was to come:

"The data connection pod will use holographic technology to take you into a virtual world."

"This world has been carefully designed by Raphael to guide you to comprehend the laws designated by induction."

"In order to ensure a sense of substitution, your informational body in the virtual world is exactly the same as your real body, including extraordinary abilities, which can also be used smoothly."

"Disasters and enemies designed by virtual programs can be far more than you can handle. We have designed emergency security procedures to ensure that if you encounter a force majeure attack, we will try to stop the program before you are killed. ”

"But it's not a panacea. Once you are killed in the virtual world, it can damage your self-perception. After returning to the real world, some test subjects have phantom limb pain, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, etc., so even in the virtual world, you have to work hard to survive and not die easily, you know? ”

"I see." Sheila said.

On the other side, Bishop Chino had arrived in the monitoring cell, and several clerics were finalizing the onboarding program.

"What script did Raphael choose?" Bishop Chino asked.

"The law chosen by this Miss Sheila is 'natural disaster.'" The priest replied, "Raphael chose the script of the 'Great Fire of Solomon' during Nero's reign at the beginning of the Quaternary period. ”

"Acts of God?" Bishop Chino wondered, "What is that?" ”

"Miss Sheila is talking about ÎșÎ±Ï„Î±ÏƒÏ„ÏÎżÏ†?, which means 'disaster' and 'calamity' in the Cireus language." The priest replied, "The closest law we find in Raphael's database is 'exitium,' which means 'destruction' in Latin. ”

"Of course, to summarize the law in words, there must be a distortion effect, so Raphael used a script close to the exitium, that is, the Indium of the Quaternary, which occurred in the city of Solomon."

It is said that the fire started near the arena and spread rapidly under the strong dry autumn winds, which lasted for seven days and seven nights. Three of the city's 14 districts were completely burned and seven were severely affected, damaging up to two-thirds of the area. ”

"I have an impression of this historical fact." Bishop Chino nodded, "It is said that the reigning Emperor Nero privately forbade the urban fire brigade to rescue the affected neighborhoods, and instead asked them to set up a quarantine zone to protect the wealthy areas where the nobles and senators lived. ”

"Yes." The priest also replied, "This is the record of history, but there is more speculation about other conspiracy theories." There is a theory that it has been nearly a hundred years since the demon tide rose to its peak at that time, and there are signs of a decline soon. ”

"Once the demon tide recedes, any transcendent will not be able to continue to advance. Emperor Nero was already a Lv.10 arcane mage at the time, and sensed the ritual of 'exitium', the law of 'destruction'. ”

So he was anxious to complete the ritual mission and achieve promotion as soon as possible before the demon tide retreated, so as to extend his lifespan. As for the fire that spread throughout Solomon, it was actually part of his ritual mission. ”

"Is this Raphael's reasoning?" Bishop Chino asked.

"No, Raphael has no record of this, which is what later historians guessed." The priest laughed, "However, Raphael can be censored by the outside world, so we can't completely rule out this possibility." ”

"Hmm." Bishop Chino nodded, then asked, "How difficult is the script?" ”

"Considering the difficulty of the script itself, we appropriately lowered the remaining unstable factors to ensure the cognitive safety of the experimenters." The priest replied.

"Nope." Bishop Chino hesitated, and Masasei said, "Turn up the difficulty to the maximum." ”

"The biggest?" The priest was surprised, "but ......"

"Miss Sheila is a person brought by Bishop Valyan, and she is R4, so there is no need to say much about her own strength." Bishop Chino said seriously, "The more difficult the environment of the script, the more it can force her to the point of life and death, so as to prompt her to comprehend the law of sensing." ”

"This ......," the priest was momentarily embarrassed, "all right. ”