The Cirith Peninsula, the city of Olympia, the holy land of mages, is currently preparing for the war intensely.

Constantinople had fallen again, this time to the short-lived Latin Empire of the Crusaders, and the new master of the Queen of Ten Thousand Cities, Emperor Suleiman of the Seljuk Empire, had begun to march fiercely against the cities of the Thracian plain.

At this moment, a phone call from the Holy See reached the study of Appilius, the lord of Olympia.

Since the destruction of the Demon Tide ended, the Holy See had sent new communication calls to the countries of the continent within a few weeks of regaining productivity, even the rival Emperor Otto of the HRE Empire. At this moment the telephone rang ringing, and Apperius knew that it must have been from the Holy See, and that no one but the Holy See knew the number of the new phone.

"The Azure Sword?" Apperios listened to the question on the other side and groaned, "Yes, my granddaughter is indeed in that mercenary group. ”

"If I were you, I would arrange a marriage for her." Pope Innocent said, "Instead of letting her run around the world." ”

"Luckily, her maternal grandfather was me." Apperius snorted coldly, "She's not the Empress of the Empire anymore, she's just a transcendent with dreams. ”

"Even so, Theodora still has the noble blood of Solomon's royal family in his body!" Innocent's wording was a little more intense, "In the era when Constantinople has fallen, just one Empress Zoe can't support the prestige of the royal family of the Solomonic Empire." Appilius, don't you hope that one day you will be able to regain Constantinople? ”

"If I remember correctly, the fall of Constantinople stemmed precisely from someone's perfidy." Apperios said coldly.

"I confess that it was a mistake to allow the Crusaders to plunder Constantinople." Innocent's tone softened slightly, "The Cardinal Church is not a place for me to make a self-determination. But what no one expected was that only tens of thousands of Frankish knights could actually capture Constantinople. ”

"So the wood is already in the boat, what's the point of mentioning the past?" Appilius said impatiently, "There is no Eastern Solomonic Empire anymore, only the Epirus ** Monarchy on the Cyreus Peninsula. As for the glory of ancient Solomon, whoever wants to take it will take it! Whether it's Otto or Suleiman! ”

Innocent was speechless for a long time, and suddenly said:

"What if the Holy See launches another crusade?"

"Raid Constantinople again?" Appilios sneered, "From the hands of the infidels? ”

"This is a real crusade." Innocent replied quietly, "Take Constantinople, rebuild the Solomonic Empire in the East, and restore Christendom's strong shield in the East." ”

Appilius was silent for a while before he said, "Even so, the Eastern Solomonic Empire supported by the Holy See is just another enclave of the Papal States in the East. ”

"Nope." Innocent denied, "We will support Theodora as empress." ”

There was a long silence.

"Was it the supercomputer's decision?" Appilios asked in a deep voice.

Supporting Theodora, as the Empress after the restoration of the Eastern Solomonic Empire, was completely inconsistent with the interests of the Holy See in the East.

Theodora himself belonged to the orthodox lineage of the royal family, with natural and deep political prestige, and with the support of his maternal grandfather, as long as he entered Constantinople with the power of restoration, the subjects of the entire Orthodox Church would worship him wildly and swear to serve his life.

The moment she reascends to the throne, all the chains imposed on her by the Holy See will automatically break.

In fact, Apyrios asked himself if it was impossible for him to call for a crusade if he was in the position of Pope Innocent, but it could never be to rebuild a new, centralized Eastern Solomonian Empire.

Unless that's what Raphael meant.

As a politician, one of the most serious problems is that we often only see short-term benefits, especially in times of crisis.

Because humans are realistic animals that have evolved over tens of millions of years, those apes who have a long-term vision and do not pay enough attention to short-term interests have long been eliminated by the current cruel natural competition before the long-term interests have arrived, and it is the norm to compete for the right to survive every minute and every second.

Raphael was different. It is a super artificial intelligence, it is a super artificial intelligence that can calculate tens of thousands of years forward and simulate thousands of years in the future, even the most complex Oriental Go, for it is just a Rubik's Cube that completely unravels the steps, it will only consider the overall situation, and the whole refers to the present to the infinite future.

In other words, the reconstruction of the Eastern Solomonic Empire is more in line with the existence and continuation of scientific and technological civilization? Even if it is to make the Holy See pay a lot of money in recent decades without getting enough returns?

Wrong! The point in Innocent's words is not at all to "rebuild the empire of the East Solomon", but to "make Theodora the empress"!

Theodora...... Apperius, who had figured out the key points, was shocked for a moment, and then quickly stabilized his mind and suddenly asked:

"What is the threat level of Theodora in Raphael's surveillance queue?"

"Encloid level, R4." Innocent was silent for a moment, and replied, "At first, it was just the young man named Asker, and then just last night, after a new round of updates from the BI warehouse. ”

"The Azure Sword Mercenary Regiment, all members have risen to the encluid level, R4."

"Do you know why?"

"No, the algorithm that predicts chaos can only be chaotic, wrapped in layers of modified convolutional neural networks, and it is impossible to reproduce the entire logical loop, because the observation itself will perturb the prediction. Observation is collapse, and you should know what I mean, Lord Apelios. ”

"I understand." Apperius's voice grew majestic, "Your Majesty Innocent......"

"If your supercomputer is really a last resort, then Theodora's return to the imperial throne in the future is probably an inevitable end point in the future timeline. At that time, her attitude towards the Holy See was friend or foe, which would seriously affect your survival in this world, so now she can get the threat level of R4. ”

"Not bad." Innocent replied, "Therefore, the Holy See would rather give charcoal in the snow than icing on the cake." ”

"When is the Crusades going to be scheduled?"

"2-3 years later, after the war with Emperor Otto, the Holy See will initiate early contact with the Azure Sword. Once I had convinced the cardinals, a new crusade began. ”

"Okay." Appilius was silent for a long time, and finally said, "As soon as the Crusaders cross the Adriatic, all of Syrius will join the Crusade...... It was for Theodora. ”

"For Christchurch." Innocent said slowly, in a solemn tone, as if he had sworn an oath to God's knees, "and for ...... The future of human civilization. ”