Asker suddenly woke up.

Ah, it's exactly 12 midnight.

Even if you take a break, of course, you can't sleep all night, it's only 4 hours at most.

Turning his head, Eleanor was sleeping soundly with his arms in his arms, and the smooth blonde hair had reached his neck, making his skin itch a little.

But the smell on her body is still quite good. Hey, does this girl wear perfume? Or body odor?

Asker pondered for a few seconds. First of all, perfume is excluded, because Eleanor is a girl who usually doesn't even clip extra hairpins in her hair, so naturally it is even more impossible to wear any perfume.

As for body odor, it is even more outrageous, and in Asker's knowledge, white people are more likely to have body odor than body odor.

However, this world was born out of the world of "A Song of Iron and Fire", not historical medieval Europe, and I haven't heard of any female NPCs with fox odor.

Well, maybe it's really body odor. Considering the noble background of this blonde girl, maybe every piece of clothing since she was a child has been incense, and it has been stained on her body after wearing it for a long time.

So it's not physique, but money ability?

The arm was pulled out, but it was not pulled out, and the girl hugged it tightly, as if she was afraid that he would run away suddenly.

However, looking at this strength, Eleanor's body must have recovered.

So Aske pinched her nose mercilessly.

"Hahu!" Eleanor sat up sharply from the floor, gasping for breath before realizing that Aske was looking at her with a smile.

"Captain!" She cried out a little angrily, and a little weak-hearted. I was only worried about whether he didn't fall asleep last night and whether he listened to what he said......

"The body is back, isn't it? Then let's go! Asker waved his hand.

Ah, my neck hurts again, my mouth is dry, it's a feeling I haven't felt in a long time.

Eleanor breathed a sigh of relief.

"Asker." After walking for more than ten minutes from the hut, Eleanor followed him briskly, and suddenly said, "Didn't you really read the letter I had in the book?" ”

"No, what's wrong?" Asker asked.

"Well......" said Eleanor, "it is. Nola's family had business dealings with the Medici family in Florence, so they should arrive in Florence before heading to Solomon. ”

"So, what do you mean?"

"They'll probably be waiting for us in Florence." Eleanor looked ahead, stunned.

Or...... Pick it up in person. ”

Asker turned around and saw a helicopter formation flying in front of him in this direction. A young girl reached out from the side of the cabin and swung it vigorously in this direction.

"Nice pomp." Asker commented.

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"Wow my God, Ellie, you don't know how worried I am about you!" In the cabin, Nora sat between Asker and Eleanor's place, grabbing her hand and reproaching worriedly, "How dare you do such a thing!" ”

"Nola......" Eleanor didn't know how to react, only to keep an apologetic smile.

"We haven't been worried too much, after all, Asker has gone to save you! But then I heard that the murderer had been caught and killed on the spot, and I was almost scared to death! ”

"Caught?" Asker interrupted her.

"Hmm." Nora was also a little puzzled, "It was said that he was killed on the spot by the Acid Erosion Dragon." ”

But then they said that the murderer was a Hussite Taborite, so everyone was reassured. Anyway, there must be something wrong here. ”

"After that, we went to Milan to make a phone call and then took a pick up and dropped off in Florence to ask for assistance. It just so happened that they said that the Emperor was negotiating an armistice with the Holy See, so the Consul Luca said that he could send a helicopter to search for you. ”

"Wait, the Emperor and the Holy See have negotiated a truce?" Eleanor was overjoyed and asked incredulously.

"yes, yes." Nora nodded.

The Imperial camp is 60 km to the southwest, on the front line of the Holy See at Canossa Castle.

Climbing up the mountain path, the Acid Dragon Hedwig accompanied the Emperor to the castle gates, where he asked for an audience with the Papal Guard.

However, the guards said that the Pope was taking a nap and would not let the two enter until the Holy See woke up and made an announcement.

So the Emperor and the Acid Erosion Dragon could only wait outside.

After three hours of waiting, there was still no response from the castle.

"Obviously it's for us." The Acid Erosion Dragon lowered his voice and said, reminding the Emperor not to be angry.

At this time, the emperor was already angry, gritting his teeth and muttering something, the acid dragon was so close to him that he could hear the name he had been repeating.

Sophie.

The emperor struggled to concentrate on his daughter, barely being completely enraged by the pope's humiliating behavior at this time.

Of course, Pope Innocent was not a short-sighted person, so he pretended to wake up from a nap that evening, and hurriedly welcomed the emperor and demigods who had been waiting outside for an unknown amount of time.

The emperor knelt in humiliation and misery before the pope and begged the Holy See for forgiveness of his sins. Innocent indifferently counted the crimes he had committed, and the emperor pleaded guilty one by one, and even squeezed out a few tears.

Eventually, in the presence of the Pope and the Cardinals, the Emperor was forced to stamp a treaty on which all his crimes were written, and Innocent agreed to pardon him and make a truce with the Empire.

This confession, written in the emperor's voice and stamped with the emperor's seal, was quickly printed in tens of millions of copies, distributed to all principalities and parishes in the Holy Solomon Empire, and posted outside the doors of every town-level and even village-level church, so that all the believers of the empire could see the emperor's personal confession of the sins he had committed, as well as the Pope's generosity and mercy in forgiving him.

The Emperor could no longer remember how he had left Canossa Castle and returned to the Imperial Coalition camp. In any case, upon his return, he declared that he was bedridden, and the dukes immediately organized the return of the remaining forces north, intending to return home through the Alps.

Along the way, he collected a lot of routs who had fled before. Upon learning that the dukes were preparing to return home, most of them surrendered immediately, so much so that by the time they reached the foothills of the Alps, the number of routs was three times that of the dukes' army.

The dukes had no choice but to temporarily and urgently deliberate, and once again announced the pardon for the crimes of these routs, and reorganized them into the establishment.

Otherwise, in the event of a rout in the mountains, although the demigods could kill them without difficulty, these precious duchy laborers would be completely lost.

In fact, the dukes and emperors were fully aware of the changes that this defeat would bring to the empire.

The Imperial Coalition as a whole suffered heavy damage, but not to the extent of shaking the country's foundation.

The prestige of the House of Saxony had plummeted, the Emperor's confession had been widely known, and his political life had fallen into a state of substantial death.

Therefore, after returning to China, the Saxony family must deal with the rebellions within the Duchy of Lorraine as soon as possible, and there is no time and energy to interfere with the outside world for the time being.

The major families will usher in a golden period of development, and without the strong constraints of the Iron Throne in the Grand Palace of Aachen, the competition and friction between the principalities will intensify, and the unity will become quite important.

Of course, the righteous name of the Iron Throne will still be in the hands of the House of Saxony.

Emperor Otto will stay on the Iron Throne and continue to survive in zombie form (doing nothing, doing nothing) for 2-3 years. After the internal situation of the Duchy of Lorraine is completely stabilized, it will be passed on to the prince Otto the younger under the arrangement within the family, so as to completely get rid of the negative impact of this ** on the Saxon family.

And during this time, as long as the emperor did not commit another offense, there was no doubt that the Holy See would help the Iron Throne to breathe a sigh of relief - as can be seen from Innocent's removal of the emperor's expulsion order, but did not announce the restoration of the emperor's deposed status:

The Holy See did not want an extremely strong emperor, but it also did not want the principalities within the empire to be fragmented. They want the empire to remain balanced, stable, and maintain the status quo, so that they can continue to dump goods, plunder the economy, and suck the blood of talent against the empire.

The Holy Solomon's Empire, the traditional gold mine of the Holy See, will soon be back in operation after this unsuccessful uprising.

And the culprit who caused this **, the Blue Sword Mercenary Group, has declined the invitation of the Medici family and transferred to Solomon City in Florence.

At the same time, at the gates of the city of Florence, the dragon of fantasy, Bruno, waited for the man he was looking for, Cosimo the Elder, the contemporary head of the Medici family.

"I see what you mean." Accompanied by the guards, Cosimo Sr. leaned on crutches and said leisurely, "But it's not time yet. ”

"Your Majesty's wanted notice for the Cyan Sword Mercenary Group has been revoked." Bruno Masashi, the dragon of utopia, said, "The Empire no longer has any hostility towards them. ”

"I know what you mean, but it's not time yet." Cosimo Sr. repeated again in a vague manner, slowly extending his right index finger to the night sky overhead.

Bruno immediately understood what he meant, why the Medici family would prevent him from contacting the Azure Sword mercenary group again.

Raphael.

This is the meaning of the Holy See.