Since then, the name "Quasimodo" has become a code name for the clergy within the Holy See, and even to some extent equal to the angels.

Today is the 11th of the month, so the person who was allowed to see him was provisionally named "Quasimodo XI".

He described in detail what he had experienced in the Northern War, from the beginning to the end.

"The combat effectiveness of the sixth is very strong, and we captured the Lock Dragon Pass without any losses. There we got a lot of loot. Gold, silver, grain, clothing, everything. ”

"The giants of the north are cunning, they have avoided our forces, and their main forces have shrunk to the north, leaving large tracts of land and empty cities for us to occupy. They really destroyed everything, didn't leave us a single piece of food, and even polluted the water source. It was under such circumstances that the Kingdom of Plantagenet and the Kingdom of the Vikings were defeated and completely collapsed. ”

"As far as I know, the Duke of Calis of the Rhine Kingdom once had a disagreement about the direction of the march in the later stages of the war. The Duke of Calis preferred to retreat from the north, leaving enough men to hold the Lock Dragon Pass. But Bishop Somson vetoed his opinion. They were very unhappy about it. Later, the Duke led the main force of the Rhine Kingdom to the south, and then we were attacked, and the whole army retreated south to join the Duke. ”

"The Kingdom of God betrayed the Alliance, and they stabbed us in the back when we needed it most. Your Majesty...... You'll never imagine what a terrible spectacle it was for those damn heretics to unite with giants. Many people were killed, and the blood flowed under the lock dragon pass. The corpses did not close their eyes until they died, they were true followers of the Holy Lord, and it was the heretics who killed them. ”

"Bishop Somson led us to the fortress of Kamui, only to find that it had long been overrun by giants. The Grand Canyon blocked our way home, and Duke Calis led the main Rhine army to attack desperately...... Unfortunately, it was too late, and the giant had already caught up. Every second someone is dying, their artillery fire is so fierce, the encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and our food is running out. Luckily, I escaped in the dark and headed west along the bottom of the canyon, avoiding the search of the Giant Cavalry. After hiding and hiding for more than a week, I finally found a gap and climbed the cliff to the south, and I have lived until now. ”

Speaking of the back, the middle-aged man began to cry. He fell to his knees, his hands on the ground, and cried so sadly. A man who has not personally experienced that kind of tragedy can never imagine, and more importantly, he knows very well that in His Majesty the Pope there is absolutely no way to lie.

After a long time, Maximilian, who was sitting in a luxurious high-backed chair, let out a long sigh: "Get up, my child. You have done what you have to do, you have done your best, and the All-Knowing Lord is watching over you all the time. ”

An attendant left the audience hall with a middle-aged man.

Although the Pope's chair is placed in the center, the surrounding environment is dark. The windows are located at a high level in the building, and they are made of enamel stained glass, and the light is refracted to keep the interior of the hall bright, but not dazzling, even during the day, it still feels like being surrounded by many candles at night.

"Those yellow-skinned giants...... They're finally here. "The Pope is expressionless? Muttering.

Joseph's pale skin stood out against the black robes. His voice is low? It is interspersed with undisguised sarcasm: "All this is the result of your misdeeds." If it weren't for you and your predecessors suppressing science? Things simply won't turn out the way they are. ”

Maximilian looked up? Looking at him with indifferent eyes: "Are you teaching me to do things?" Or do you feel there is a reason to accuse me? ”

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Joseph sneered and shook his head: "Accusations? If the accusation is useful? I'd love to do that. But the question is, has the war been lost? Don't you think it's a bit redundant to talk about it now? ”

The elderly pope did not speak? His cloudy eyes emitted a sharp and cold light, as if he wanted to see through the entire body of this bold priest.

How long has the Holy See existed? No matter who or what is involved, there are too many secrets.

Maximilian used to be a lively and cute teenager? When he was seventeen years old, he fell in love with a young girl, and they swore an alliance? Secretly agreed on a lifelong event. But just when Maximilian decided to explain all this to his father, dreaming of getting married at the age of twenty, the girl he loved suddenly fell seriously ill and died early.

She had a very strange and terrible disease. The whole person quickly became dehydrated in just a few days, and the young and plump body became withered? Smooth and plump skin sharply shriveled? Even more wrinkled than the dry bark of a tree. The eye sockets are sunken, and the muscles on the entire cheek have atrophied, making it look like a living skeleton.

It was a strange disease that no doctor had ever seen, so it caused panic among the local population. They approached the girl's family and demanded that the girl, who was not dead at the time and was still dying, be "disposed of" as soon as possible. Village chiefs and local officials have even said they can help the girl's family if they can't do it.

As a result of Maximilian's busyness at his lover's bedside, he could only watch her die without a cure.

He has since become decadent and spends his days in taverns. Later, he was brought home by his father and brother, and after much persuasion, Maximilian finally decided to apply for the seminary.

At that time, he had lost interest and confidence in a normal life. It is not surprising that all young people who have suffered a love blow will feel that their worldview collapses, and there is nothing left in their lives to support their lives. They become indifferent to everything because the best things in their hearts have dissipated and cannot be recovered.

The father had four children, and Maximilius arranged for the second eldest brother, an older brother above, and younger siblings below. Heaven has shown him great affection, and Maximilian is the most intelligent of his generation, as well as the most capable of understanding and learning. The reason why he made the decision to apply for the seminary was because of his father's persuasion and the persuasion of his family.

"You are still young, don't give up everything easily, have hope in life."

"The merciful Lord is watching over you in heaven, and He can give you everything you want."

"Dear brother, we will help you and help you with all our might. But you have to promise not to do anything stupid. I know you're in love with Nina, but she's dead, and you have to face it. ”

Maximilian, who had chosen a new path in life, was actually very fond of the natural sciences. But he was a practical man. The presence of the Holy See had become a powerful oppressive force, and he had seen nobles and officials bow respectfully in front of an ordinary clergyman, just to obtain the so-called "forgiveness of the Holy Lord". Young people have a lot of momentum, and Maximilian at that time was not afraid of the gods, and even had doubts about the "Holy Lord".

The destruction of the civilized era has prevented the book "Red and Black" from being passed down to the present day. However, Maximilian made the exact same choice as Julien. They didn't like theology, but they were driven by fame and fortune to enter the field.

He studied very hard, and the long Gospels were memorized by Maximilian in just one month. He stunned all the examiners in his first exam, and subsequently received the honorary title of junior priest as a first-year seminarian.

If you want to do it, you must do your best, and you must do your best to achieve your goals. Maximilian did exactly that.

According to the normal procedure, the seminary lasts for four years, and after graduation, there are two years of internships in various dioceses before they can walk the world as a junior clergyman.

For Maximilian, the four years at the academy were actually very boring, and if it weren't for the many visits from his father and brother, he even wondered if he would have lost his normal logical thinking in a monotonous and boring environment and turned into a stubborn maniac focused on theology.

The income of my father's farm was improving, and it is said that a nobleman came to the farm by accident, and he was so impressed by the quality of the milk and cheese that he offered a high price for the related dairy products, and my father expanded the business in this way, and the income quadrupled after a year, both in terms of the area of the farm and the number of livestock.

The eldest brother is an honest man, and it is impossible for him to go back to school at his age. He helped his father do everything well, and the scale of the farm was inseparable from him. The good name spread around, and a cheese dealer was very satisfied with the eldest brother who often came to deliver goods, and married his daughter to him, and since then the two production and marketing alliances have formed an alliance, and the scale of the business has expanded rapidly.

The third brother is very smart, and he has good grades in school, especially in mathematics. When Maximilian was in his third year at the seminary, he passed the county tax collector's examination and became a "servant of the king", as the peasants jokingly referred to as he was called, a civil servant of the civilized age.

The youngest sister was ordinary-looking, but she had a docile personality, and as a result———— she married a good man, a nobleman of great status, a real baron.

Everyone's development was good, and Maximilian graduated with honors in the first place of the seminary that year and became a young priest of the second class. A year later, he was recommended by the bishop of his diocese to become a presiding priest of the church.

In the next few years, Maximilian's life seemed to be on the rise, and his status quickly rose like a rocket, crossing the enviable ranks of regional bishops, deacons, regional bishops, deacons of the Inquisition, deputy presiding judges, and cardinals of the second degree, and went to the Rhine Kingdom as a court priest in a distinguished capacity. It was at that time that he formed a strong friendship with the Calis family.

The size of my father's farm was expanded at least twenty times. Because of the high-quality agricultural products offered to the king, he and his eldest brother even received the title of "knight". That year, my father wrote in a letter to Maximilian that the family's income this year would not be less than 120,000 pounds, and possibly even 130,000.

This is a very impressive number. Even some of the old nobles, viscounts and even earls, usually earn about fifty thousand pounds a year.

The third brother became a county-level magistrate. Although he did not receive a knighthood, he wielded a great deal of power, and could even influence a decision made by a higher provincial administrator.

The little sister is happy and has a husband who loves her deeply. He was no longer a baron, but a viscount.

It was at that time that Maximilian met Joseph, who was on his way to the Rhine with the Holy See mission.

He took the initiative to ask Maximilian for a private conversation.

The other party's first sentence, Maximilian felt incredible: "Actually, you are my family, hehe, a real direct descendant." ”

Maximilian's first feeling was that "this guy is not in his right mind, he is a madman." ”

Joseph apparently saw through his thoughts and smiled and told Maximilian more secrets.

In order of blood, Joseph should be the great-grandfather of Maximilian, that is, his sixth ancestor.

That was many years ago, when Joseph was very young, and he was a third-level priest in charge of research.

The Holy See never gave up its exploration of the underground of Gabriel. The area was so large that although many places had collapsed due to the Cataclysm and were blocked by rocks and various debris, the Holy See hierarchy believed that there were more secrets behind these blockages. They selected the most devout people from a large community of believers to form an engineering team, led by priests, and went underground to dig and search for the remnants of civilization that had been drowned in the river of time.

The underground areas that have been discovered are guarded by the Holy Cult Army, and the exploration of unknown areas is very slow. In addition to the complex and difficult to excavate ancient terrain, it is more important to face various potential hazards during the exploration.

Lighting, for example, is a tricky problem. In some places, explosions occurred inexplicably during the excavation process, and it was later discovered that this was due to the fact that gas had spilled from the inside of the excavated enclosed space, which was ignited by the oil lamps used for lighting...... In short, every time there is an underground search, someone dies, and even the bones cannot be found.

Joseph had bad luck and he fell through a crack during the excavation. It was a huge spatial fault, and the darkness was so dark that the people standing on the top of the fault could not search for and rescue him, so he could only put Joseph on the list of missing persons.

He was lucky enough to fall into the opening of the pipe in the lower middle of the ancient base, and just happened to be neutralized by the soft parts, and slid into a still functioning training pod.

It is an ancient instrument that uses geothermal energy for its energy supply. The asteroid hit the earth and destroyed most of the base, but the training module happened to be in the medical area, and the outer walls around it were very hard, and the external impact did not cause the space to collapse, but only caused the main control computer program to be disordered, and the hatch was automatically opened...... In this way, the instrument remained on for a long time, as the energy supply was stable and the accompanying cleaning procedures were still ongoing, tirelessly maintaining the operation.