Lu Chen took An Jie and walked along the corridor all the way to the backyard of the Central Cathedral.

Theoretically, a valet is to handle the daily life of the master and should not be involved in formal work affairs like this;

However, Lu Chen repeatedly asked An Jie to go with him: he was not familiar with life in the other world, and he really needed someone to support him to be brave.

Along the way, Lu Chen also had a deeper understanding of his status as a divine envoy.

It was nearly noon, and although the cathedral had been besieged for four months, there were still hurried church personnel shuttling through the corridors.

As soon as these priests, clerks, and nuns saw Lu Chen, they all stroked their chests and bowed their heads in greeting, giving the divine envoy enough face in terms of etiquette.

It's just that Lu Chen noticed that some of these people's eyes were full of admiration, while some of them had no fluctuations in their eyes and their movements were blunt routines.

- Not everyone in this church is convinced that God has made this puppet role.

At the same time, another interesting discovery is that An Jie's popularity in the church seems to be good - especially the nuns who come and go, after saluting Lu Chen, they will look at An Jie with a smile, and even a few young nuns will lean over and whisper a few words with An Jie.

Perhaps, this girl will be a channel for me to learn about the church?

Lu Chen secretly glanced at his maid a few times.

The central cathedral was large, but Lu Chen and An Jie walked quickly, and soon went out of the back door of the cathedral and went all the way directly to the backyard of the church.

Excluding the Royal Palace and the Parliament Building, the Central Cathedral is the most extensive building in the Imperial Capital. In addition to the towering Gothic main building, the backyard of the central cathedral is also huge. This spacious backyard, with the exception of part of the backyard that is designated as a back garden and part of the farmland where the priests grow grapes and vegetables, most of the rest is a training ground for the church's armed forces.

The Holy Church in this world is different from any religion Lu Chen has seen on the earth - the cathedrals under the Holy Church are not only pure religious ceremonial places, but also have the tradition of keeping themselves armed!

The close integration of religion and military is also a unique feature of this religion in another world.

In the case of the Central Cathedral, in addition to the "Rosus Crusaders", which were disbanded ten years ago, this ecclesiastical hub of the empire also controls two major armed forces -

The "Guards" who guard the church, and the "Holy Knights" who fight against heretics and monsters.

These armed forces need a place for daily training, and the spacious backyard of the cathedral has become their best choice.

It's almost noon, which happens to be the time period for the guards to train every day.

Guards. This is the purpose of Lu Chen, as a divine envoy, who came to the backyard today.

Now that you have decided to try to seize real power, you must first know something about the armed forces in the church.

Now, in his field of vision, a large number of warriors were sitting or standing on the stone brick floor of the training ground. These warriors were variously armed, but most of them were blunt and unbladed, indicating their status as religious forces, and their armor was of a different shape, apparently self-managed, with the only common denominator being that each wore a silk scarf with a red cross motif.

The red cross is the symbol of the central cathedral: there is no doubt that the group of warriors on the training ground are the guards of the cathedral.

There were twenty or thirty guards standing, most of them playing against each other and exercising their fighting skills, some running and push-ups, while the rest of the guards were mostly sitting listlessly on the ground, looking unmotivated.

And in the outermost part of the backyard, there was the iron fence of the cathedral - through the gap in the fence, Lu Chen noticed that on the street outside the courtyard, there were many heavily armed Wehrmacht soldiers, staring at the situation inside the courtyard.

The people inside want to go out, and the people outside want to come in, it's really a classic siege.

Lu Chen just watched this scene from a distance with An Jie, and no guards noticed the arrival of the Divine Envoy. Lu Chen pondered for a moment, then turned his head to An Jie and asked:

"Anjie, why don't so many people get up to train? They have been sitting on the ground for a long time, right?"

"Lord Eliot, you haven't been in the room, you shouldn't know everyone's situation now...... An Jie said with a wry smile, "We've been surrounded by the Wehrmacht for months, priests, craftsmen, servants...... Everybody's tired, but it's not just these guards, these days, the guards have been training routinely just running to the training ground to make a show......

Is being surrounded the reason for you to train to touch fish? Lu Chen stared at this group of subordinates from afar, and snorted dissatisfiedly.

"However, Lord Eliot, you ......" Seeing that Lu Chen seemed to be in a bad mood, An Jie hurriedly said, "Isn't there still people who insist on training!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen squinted and nodded.

An Jie was right: there were about 100 people in the entire guard, and although most of them were sitting on the ground, there were still more than 20 people who were training hard.

Lu Chen glanced around among the guards who were training, but did not find any familiar faces.

Elliot Savile of the past was a book-obsessed nerd who certainly didn't have the leisure to memorize the appearance and name of every squire.

Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then walked towards the center of the training ground with An Jie.

As soon as he appeared, he immediately attracted people's attention—the guards standing and sitting looked at the oracle, and several of the guards who were very polite and well-mannered bowed to him, and even the Wehrmacht outside the courtyard looked at him with a wary expression, like prison guards guarding against recidivist escapes.

Of course, no matter who it is, the face is full of astonishment: the simple envoy of the god comes to the training ground, this is a new thing!

Seeing Lu Chen's arrival, a figure suddenly appeared from the crowd sitting on the ground, and ran in front of Lu Chen in three steps and two steps, as fast as Bolt in another world.

"See the Divine Messenger!"

Otto Douglas, the captain of the guard, stood upright in front of Lu Chen, beat his chest and saluted.

This middle-aged uncle, who was about forty or fifty years old, with brown hair and brown beard, was one of the few members of the guard who had a slight impression of Eliot. Mr. Otto joined the Guard at a young age and served diligently for half his life, finally being promoted to captain of the guard by His Holiness three years ago.

According to Eliot's memory, this captain seems to be ordinary in martial arts and resourcefulness, but his greatest advantage is that he is honest and honest, and he is well liked in the guard team and is enough to convince the public.

"Hello, Captain Otto. Lu Chen nodded lightly at Otto.

As if not expecting the indifferent attitude of the Divine Envoy, Captain Otto touched his face with a slight embarrassment.

"You...... Lord Eliot, how did you have the time to come to our training ground?" Captain Otto asked with a smirk, as if looking for a topic.

"If I don't come here, how can I find out that you are in such a lazy state?" Lu Chen looked at Otto coldly, and stretched out his finger to the surrounding scene.

The guards sat down on the ground like salted fish, and a few of them even made their fists boringly, which seemed to have a very dramatic effect.

"This ......," Otto opened his mouth, not holding back a word.

He looked around with a little trepidation, but the subordinates sitting on the ground looked away—in the face of the Divine Envoy's questioning, the fool would come out to give the captain the pot.

In fact, a few of the quick-witted guards had already secretly gotten up and started training, for fear that Master Elliot would catch him fishing.

"This ...... Lord Eliot, we, too...... There's no way around it......" Otto nodded for a while, and smiled flatteringly at Lu Chen, "It's been a few months since this was surrounded, and the brothers are also flesh and blood!

"What's the use?" Lu Chen's eyebrows furrowed, "Why is training useless?"

"Didn't he say it His Majesty the Pope......" Seeing that God had a tendency to make adults have seizures, Captain Otto quickly explained, "Aren't we about to surrender to the Council, and when the church is disbanded, this guard will be useless......"

Lu Chen glared at Otto viciously, only to feel the roots of his teeth itch.

Of course, he wasn't all angry with Otto: more so under the crown of Gregory.

-- No matter what his own plans are, how can he tell the guards about these plans to surrender? Isn't this clearly ruining the morale of the army! No matter where the leader is, it is stupid to do such a thing!

Lu Chen strengthened his determination to pull the Pope off the horse.

"Lord Divine Envoy?" Seeing that Lu Chen was silent and his face was cloudy, Captain Otto asked cautiously.

"It's fine. Lu Chen snorted, "Do you have a list of the guards? ”

In short, if you grasp the personnel of the guards first, you will definitely not be wrong.

"Lord Eliot......" Captain Otto said with a smile, "According to the regulations, the affairs of the guards are managed by the Council of the Pope and the Bishops' Conference, and although you are an oracle, you do not have the authority to check the list of guards......

Lu Chen almost vomited a mouthful of blood because of the rush of fire.

Is this oracle's position really a complete false title? I can't even look at the list of guards?

"You say yes, that's it. Lu Chen waved his hand irritably, and left Captain Otto's side with An Jie, "I'll just go around." ”

Staring at the back of the divine envoy, Captain Otto reached out and wiped his sweat, and he was also a little puzzled in his heart:

Didn't God make the adults never get involved in the daily affairs of the church? What's the matter today, the sun is coming out in the west?