Chapter 326 Waiting for the Volcano and the Corrupt Holy See
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The Holy City, the headquarters of the Holy See of Mokar, where the Pope spreads the glory of the Emperor, and the Twelve Bishops sit in the twelve dioceses of the continent of Calradia.
At this moment, inside the Holy City, the only large city without walls on the Calradia continent, countless costumed nobles and Holy See dignitaries live in the aristocratic quarter, and in the luxurious aristocratic villas, they hold *** banquets and discuss various conspiracies in private in the name of hiding people's eyes.
Just like the medieval Cross Religion on Earth, the Pope and the Holy See with supreme authority live a life of supreme authority under unrestricted rights to oppress innocent people and meddle in the succession to the throne of the continental kingdom.
The hierarchy of the Holy See is cold and strict, the pope is the highest, then the three cardinals stationed in the Holy City and the cardinal twelve bishops in the diocese, the status of the two is the same, followed by cardinal priests, cardinal deacons, and at the bottom are priests and ordinary parishioners. The Holy See also has the Holy Ministries, the Tribunals, the Secretariat of the Holy See, the Offices and Councils, and a number of standing committees, all of which are authorized by the Pope to carry out their work.
At the same time, the Holy See also has its own knightly order, and the Holy See is stationed in three knightly orders, each with about a thousand people, and also has countless apologetic heavy infantry and servant regiments who are willing to shed their blood to protect the Holy City and the Holy See.
In addition, the twelve cardinals also have their own knights and infantry regiments to suppress the infidels in their respective dioceses who do not believe in the god emperor, but due to the intentional or unintentional suppression of the kingdoms of the Calradia continent, their diocesan knights and cathar infantry are not numerous.
And now, after receiving the news, hundreds of thousands of sincere believers have traveled thousands of miles to the holy city a few days before the arrival of the divine angel, and those who have money live in inns, but although there are many hotels in the holy city because of the frequent pilgrims in the holy city, in the days of the arrival of the divine angel, countless pilgrims still crowded the hotels of the whole city.
At this time, many business-minded residents of the Holy City took advantage of the opportunity to have spare rooms in their homes and launched cheap temporary hotels to make a lot of money.
However, even so, there are still many poor pilgrims who cannot afford to live in hotels, and even have no food to pay, so they can only sleep on the streets with their humble sackcloth in their arms.
Even so, the misery of the poor pilgrims who came to the Holy City for the sake of faith did not arouse the sympathy of the nobles, and even the servants of the Holy See at all levels of the Emperors were invariably blind to this miserable situation, and the bishops, who were already more corrupt, were more concerned about their own purses and what tricks they played with their lovers and their fair-eyed children tonight than they cared about the lives of the parishioners.
Even the Pope, who deliberately spread the news of the arrival of the oracle in order to expand the influence of the Holy See, did not care about the believers who had been deceived by him.
Today, because of the corrupt style and religious framing, most of the kings and nobles at all levels of the Calradia continent are now very dissatisfied with the Holy See that is pressing on their heads, but because of the ignorance of the beliefs of the poor and the reason of the mouse-throwing, they have not done anything except to suppress the prestige of the Holy See in private.
Although the current Pope is greedy, he is not stupid, he knows very well that because of the actions of the Holy See over the years, he has been sitting on the exit of the volcano under the accumulation of time, and the Pope does not know when this fatal volcano will erupt, and the only thing he can do is to reduce the possibility of eruption, trying to make himself able to spend his life safely.
And now, the news of the arrival of the oracle has finally temporarily suppressed this volcano of anger and resentment, and also put the bishops who are about to move to stop the conspiracy for a while, and this has given the pope an opportunity in this matter, an opportunity to sit in the papacy once and for all.
As for the Pope's plan, those nobles and bishops who are proficient in political struggles have long understood the Pope's calculations, but the bishops and nobles are also a little uncertain about the news of the arrival of the divine messenger.
This is because the holy artifacts that can communicate with the divine emperor and the kingdom of the gods have always only been accessible to the Pope, and it is impossible for anyone to step over the guards of the Templars with cold eyes and unforgiving appearances that do not look like humanoids, and thus come into contact with the holy weapons, not even the twelve bishops.
The Templars, who were dressed in heavy armor and wore artifacts that emitted red light, had never left the Forbidden Land, but even the Twelve Bishops would be burned to ashes on the spot if anyone who was not the Pope stepped into the Forbidden Land.
It was precisely because of this Templar presence that the countries of the continent of Calradia had never resorted to violent means against the Holy See, that is, they were afraid of the Templar crusade.
The corrupt Pope has not yet been overthrown, and the presence of the Templars is also indispensable, so that even lawless wizards dare not express their dissatisfaction with the Holy See in public.
And now, as soon as the news of the arrival of the oracle was released, in addition to the nobles who watched the excitement, the twelve bishops who didn't think it was big enough, and the believers who had firm beliefs and did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles, there was also a group of wizards with supernatural powers who came to this magnificent city in a low-key manner, with a scrutinizing mind, ready to evaluate the truth and falsehood of the oracle.
At this moment, the Holy City is more lively and chaotic than ever, with poor believers huddled in the streets in rudimentary linen clothes, nobles riding triumphantly through the streets in luxurious carriages, profiteers taking advantage of the opportunity to raise prices, and selling all kinds of fake holy water and holy relics to the ignorant and foolish.
At the same time, the barbarian tribe wandering on the wasteland also sent their own representatives and clansmen to participate in this unprecedented event, and the barbarians who were short-tempered and liked to fight without saying a word made the apologists who maintained order in the holy city tired, not to mention the fact that the believers who had no food and clothing had to carry out theft in order to survive, adding fuel to the fire, so that these poor insects were in a hurry, and finally had to give up the plan to completely eradicate the chaos and retreat back to the noble district with all their might. Protect the property of the papal personnel and the nobles.
The well-informed inhabitants of the Holy City had already anticipated this, and they quickly formed their own street security teams under the leadership of some prestigious people, and kept their families safe at their own devices, while also carrying the bodies of poor believers who died of starvation outside the city to be thrown away to prevent the plague.
Fortunately, this season is still summer, and if it is winter, under the pressure of hunger and cold, perhaps the corpses of the dead untouchables can be piled up.
Perhaps it is the beauty of distance, and it is a wonderful irony that the inhabitants of the Holy City do not have much faith in the God Emperor.
This may be because the pope and the cardinals and priests have been unable to have sincere faith after the chaotic private life of the inhabitants of the Holy City has seen the true face of the Holy See.
After all, anyone who always hears the gossip that every cardinal or priest who is there tonight for a tryst with his wife and has been caught with a claw mark on his face, the lofty imagination of the high-ranking of the Holy See in his mind will also collapse in an instant.