"Chapter 449: The Holy War Rises Again"

It's still the Holy See of Light, or the holy angel who floats in the air, gently waving his wings and spreading holy light. While the rest of the inexplicable continent is at war or joining in the fun, this region is still developing with good momentum, and the happiness index of the people is steadily increasing.

All this is thanks to the two Orientals, to be precise, a big Oriental fat man and a saint. The former used his own economic means to control most of the trade channels between the Holy See and the East, allowing spices, silks, porcelain, gunpowder, weapons and special "magic items" from the East to spread all over the Holy See, not only making the high-ranking clergy and the nobility of the principality rich, filling the warehouses with gold and silver, but also driving a new economic wave, allowing many poor people to live a life they had never dared to imagine before. The latter, who not only saved hundreds of thousands of lives when the plague spread, but also became the spiritual leader in some regions, and people built statues of her and worshipped her like angels.

What was once known as the City of Restaurants now has high walls and countless towers. From the air, you will feel as if the city is a carved lonely mountain. And when you walk inside, you will know that you are not wrong in your previous thoughts, the shortest and thinnest wall here is taller and thicker than the wall of the Holy City of the Holy See. Because the builders of these walls are not thin human beings. The city is guarded and inhabited by gigantic rock giants and giants, and many of the buildings in the city are tailor-made for their shape. This city has many names in the outside world, such as "Shangshi City", "Oriental Shops", "Golden Treasure House", "Miracle Fortress"... However, now the people of the Holy See call it the "City of Giants", because when humans arrive there, they will only know how small they are when they see the buildings and creatures. And the owner of this city, the immensely wealthy Dong Tuhao, has also become the uncrowned king of the region, because this army of legendary beings has repeatedly smashed and powdered enemies who dare to invade the place, including even an unbelieving bishop of the Holy See.

And the City of Divine Grace, the Holy Maiden from the East, the so-called city of the Holy See's divine envoys, although not as magnificent as the giant city, but everything here is shrouded in holy light (because angels stay above it most of the time), and some people have even seen some skeletons also bathed in holy light, and the Holy See has also hyped this for a while, claiming that the darkness has fallen under the holy light, as for the truth, who cares. Because the Holy See has invested heavily here, the walls here are all golden (even if the Holy See does not intervene in the problem of the city wall), the houses are exceptionally simple and beautiful, and there is a cathedral advocated by the Holy See, covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters, but it has not been completed so far. But for some reason, it was no longer the guards of the Holy See who were guarding the place, but some archers with different hair colors, priests who had never registered with the Holy See, and many strange people. There are many explanations for this, but the only thing that can be confirmed is that they are reluctant.

Perhaps the Pope and his bishops will be jealous of this, because there are two more forces within the Holy See that are comparable to a Duchy of the Holy See, and it is still difficult to control. But their efforts did bring them a lot of benefits, and now they no longer had to worry about the complaints of the poor in the Holy See, and the gold and silver in the treasury gave them the confidence to wage a new holy war.

"Our Holy Father (the Pope) has decided to crusade against the barbarians and heretics of the North! It is intolerable that they should openly use the power of the undead and even unite with cultists like the Shadow Church! All darkness will fall under the light, and our Inquisitors will soon judge and punish them! ”

In front of the church in the city of Kedar, the bishop of the Holy See is standing on a high platform, announcing to the crowd gathered below the latest directives of the Holy Father and the Pope, or rather, to convey the will of the God of Light. (It's pretty much the same for these senior clergy.)

There was a lot of noise and whispering in the crowd, but there was no cheer and support from the bishop as he had imagined. This is not a good thing for the bishop, the several dioceses of the Holy See have different divisions of labor, and the Diocesan of Judgment is the main source of troops for the Holy See, and if the diocese of Kedar does not recruit enough soldiers, someone will always take his place.

The bishop looked at the crowd below who didn't react much, and had no choice but to resort to a trick.

"The Illuminati purify everything, including those of heretic. And their property, except for the fixed fee dedicated to the god of light, will go to the brave warriors! Join our Inquisitors, take part in our Holy War, and we will retake the Land of Light, and the warriors who die for it will get everything they want! Wealth, status, are in jihad! ”

Before the bishop could finish speaking, there was a commotion in the crowd below, and when the bishop finished his last sentence, there was a cheer. Cheers are the young people who have nothing to do, and the poor who still live in poverty today. For for centuries the Holy See has only one thing that has kept its promises, and that is the distribution of the spoils of war. As soon as the Holy See announced that it was going to go to war, there would be a large number of Inquisition soldiers and recruits who would make a fortune, and of course more of course the corpses of cannon fodder.

The bishop sighed, and judging by the cheers of the people, he estimated that he could raise at least a thousand cannon fodder and two hundred men with their own weapons and equipment in the city, and that he could be called soldiers, and counting the people recruited from the villages of the diocese, his task was not only accomplished, but also surplus. As for the future situation of these people, it doesn't matter to him. The Holy See has been at peace for a long time, and the rising powerhouses of the people are either used by them or have entered the nobility of the principalities. Among the more than 1,000 people, there are only 100 low-level warriors whose strength can be sustained, and the proportion is even inferior to that of many small countries. On the battlefield, these newly recruited soldiers were just providing cover for the Inquisition, and they were just a few. Only the soldiers of the Inquisition Army are the troops that the Holy See has really cultivated with heart, and it is precisely because of the crushing military power of the Holy See's high-level people that the rule of the Holy See in the south has been so stable.

The Bishop soon stopped laughing, though, as the crowd was forcibly dispersed by a new troop. And for this army, he didn't dare to have a temper at all. In addition to the priests and doctors led by the priests of light, there are also those tough and rude yellow-haired warriors. On the other side of the street, two giants joined their team and cleared the way for them.

The bishop knew that although Kedar City was still under the jurisdiction of the Holy See, the strongest force in the area was no longer them, and he also knew that no matter what the other party wanted to do, his errand this time was estimated to be impossible to complete. Because he is not the first bishop of the Holy See to have such an experience.