Chapter 30: The Cardinal's Visit (Page 1/1)

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It's day, late at night, in another part of the city.

"Lord Sirudelt, Governor Scambed is still busy today, maybe he will have to wait until sometime tomorrow to come on behalf of the lord, you might as well rest in the church first."

In the brightly lit main hall of the cathedral, a thin old man dressed in a white church robe and a white triangular pointed hat with gold trim bent his back to another middle-aged man who was also dressed as a clergy of the church not far in front of him, respectfully giving him his suggestions for consideration.

Just as the Imperial City of Aurorus in the Golden Empire has St. Mire's Cathedral, which is the main hall of the Sogo Church, there is also a similar St. Antonios Cathedral in the Northlands, named after an ancient holy warrior named Antonios, commemorating the martyred saint in the Second Age of Castaño, and in the present era, it is used as the religious center of the northern empire to manage local believers and related affairs.

Priest McCaron is seventy-six years old, and as a local priest appointed by the main hall of the church, he has been working in this cathedral in the Northland county for more than twenty years, and in his hand a staff decorated with a disc with a pattern of the sun and the balance at the top supports his hunched figure as usual, and his thin body is only about 160 centimeters even if he stands upright, and he faces the middle-aged man named Sirudelt in the church with his eyes in a white robe.

The main hall of the Basilica of San Antonios is not splendid, but it is also exquisitely decorated.

Sirudelt paced back and forth on the long carpet that led straight from the main entrance of the church to the bottom staircase, and the blue eyes under the blonde hair of the Holm people glanced up with impatient eyes from time to time, looking at the large crystal chandeliers hanging from the dome of the temple, the prayer benches on both sides of the aisle, the metal candle stands on the sides of the two vertical benches that melted with the crystal chandeliers, and the several paladin guards wearing armor and standing in symmetrical formations in the corners of the hall and the left and right walls of the temple. The long stained-glass windows that adorned the walls of the church against the backdrop of candles and lights, as well as the podium and marble statues of the celebrant and the celebrant behind him—

Finally, after about a minute or two, he turned sharply, fixed his eyes on the old priest's face, and walked quickly from the church door along the long carpet at his feet, and said as he went: "I think I have made it clear to you in the lingua franca that every Imperial man can understand, Priest Macallon, I have come with the will of His Majesty and the order of the High Priest!" You'd better not try to fool me, who came here as an envoy this time, for you won't do you any good if you delay like this! ”

As the words fell, he snorted with displeasure, and stopped a few steps or so from the front of the Priest McCarron, the tip of his nose raised slightly with a superior haughty pride under his eyes, as if to exert pressure, or rather demonstrate—but none of the paladin guards present nor the old priest criticized or protested against his arrogant behavior.

For each of them could see that the presiding priest, who claimed to be an envoy named Sirudelt, was dressed differently from an ordinary priest of the clergy. Although the other party was wearing the same white robe as the priest of the church as the priest of the Macallon, the white robe on the other party was covered with a red robe, and the thing on his head was not the white high hat of an ordinary priest, but a low round hat that was also red.

The red garment is a special garment that is rumored to have a meaning of longevity in the far East, and in the territory of the Golden Wing Empire on the shores of the Emerald Bay, for the clergy of the Sogo Church, it symbolizes a high status known as the cardinal.

The cardinal, who is sometimes called the cardinal because of his red robe, has a higher status than the priest anywhere, only below the only and supreme priest in the Church, and belongs to the highest religious decision-making body called the Council of Cardinals with the other cardinals in the plural, and is personally examined and appointed by the high priest himself under the supervision of the emperor and several representatives of the cardinals, and whenever the current high priest dies, the cardinals elect a new high priest from the board of cardinals.

Sirudelt's face is a little old, but in fact he is only in his thirties, which is ridiculously young for a cardinal, and it also shows that this "young" man not only has considerable attainments and talents in religious knowledge and divine qualifications, but also has a politician-like sense of smell on the other side of the clergy of the Church, otherwise it would never be possible to climb into the cardinal of the Church so smoothly before the age of fifty or sixty.

The Priest of McCaron is the local priest of the Northlands, and his religious title is lower than that of Sirudelt, who is the cardinal, so even if the arrogance of the other party has been unconcealed on the surface, he still does not want to express the teachings or accusations of the elders to the juniors, and after taking a deep breath, he has to smile bitterly at him: "But the Governor of Scambed really can't get out, especially during the period when the lord himself is away. ”

"Then why not let your lord's legal heir, Miss, come forward?" Sirudelt looked at the old priest of the Northland with cold eyes, and chased after him in his arrogant voice, "That 'Frost Princess', Miss Alice Stun, a genius who graduated from the Imperial Royal Mage Academy, she can't happen to go out with the Earl of the Northland, right?" ”

"Lady Alice is not out of the house, but this is ......," the priest of Macallon shook the staff in his right hand with a look of embarrassment.

Fortunately, at this moment, the old priest's gaze suddenly passed over Sirudelt's side, as if he had found a savior, and saw a familiar figure appear in the night outside the cathedral door.

The silhouette of the figure entered the church door, and quickly became a tall old man like a bear in the light of the lights and candles. He wore a black winter coat with a velvet cloak, his well-groomed white hair covered his head with a few small clumps of melted snow, his sea-blue eyes showed a decent confidence and reserve in the two deep sunken eye sockets, and his calm and calm voice followed his steps at this moment and said:

"Lady Alice didn't go out with her lordship, but it's better for the temporary regent to come down and do the work, isn't it, Lord Priest Sirudelt?"

Sirudelt heard the words coming from the door of the church, and turned around, and suddenly saw that the guy who had suddenly interjected from the door of the church at this time was indeed Scambed, the old court chief of the Earl of the Northland.

He finally came.

It's just a little neglectful, for such a matter as receiving a cardinal who is visiting from the imperial capital.

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