"The missions have arrived. ”

Salikado looked to the end of the night, everything was so obvious, piercing through the dark pillar of light to the docks of Old Dunling.

Shermans also glanced out the window at the dark night, his eyes full of sorrow.

"The first one is named Anthony Russo, do you have any impression of him?" asked Salicado, it would not be difficult for him to get the list of the missions, after all, he was also an honorable duke, and he might have to attend a welcome dinner in a few days.

"It's him......"

When Shermans heard the name, his eyes changed slightly, with a little horror and melancholy.

"It looks like he made a big impression on you. Seeing the change in Shermans, Salicado noticed.

After the night of Lawrence's attack, a new world unfolded before Salicado's eyes, and the scavengers had washed away his memories of that night, but they never thought that he would recall it again in his nightmares.

The old Dunling was on the eve of the storm, and the different forces were caught in this cold steel city, and at this moment the group of Salicado and Shermans was still hidden in the darkness, and Salicado knew that once it was exposed, it would inevitably be liquidated by the mysterious mechanism, and they tried to hide and wait and see how things changed.

"He was a traitor, Antony betrayed us, betrayed the holy cardinals, and turned to the new pope. ”

Shermans said slowly.

"Anthony was originally from our side, and although he is not very prominent in the Templar Order, he has actually secretly controlled a large part of the power with our assistance. ”

Salikado listened quietly, without speaking.

"After the night of Advent, the Evangelical Church was greatly damaged, and the old Pope was also wounded in that incident, and the days were running out, and after his death we needed to elect a new Pope, but at that time, the situation in the Seven Hills was chaotic. ”

Unlike other exiles, Shermans is very old, and all these things he has experienced over the years have destroyed his will, and power and ** are not what he expects, just like a stubborn old man, what he is doing now is just for a little boring unwillingness.

"Maybe this is the inferiority of human beings, even faith and dark fear cannot stop their greed. Originally, there were two strong candidates for the next pope, one was Cardinal Migar and the other was Cardinal Medici. Shermans said.

"The Medici who is in charge of wealth?"

"Lorenzo Medici, the great Lorenzo, who led the Emerald to the Golden Age, but it came to an end because of his own years. ”

At the mention of this great man, Shermans couldn't help but be in awe.

"When I was a young man, he was already a noble cardinal, I thought he would become pope, but he didn't, he did more terrible things than I thought. Shermans recalls the yellowed days,

"Cardinal Medici did not become pope, but he secretly supported several cardinals to the pope," Shermans explained to him, looking at Salicado, "to be pope is to be out of the world, which will inevitably weaken its rule over the world, and the Medici family is rooted in finance." ”

"The Pope became the puppet of Cardinal Medici, ruling both the faith and the secular, something that has never happened in the history of the Church. ”

Although he did not know all about the Evangelical Church, Salicado sensed his horror in Shermans's words, and he was a little puzzled.

"Isn't there anyone against it?"

"Of course," Shermans laughed, "but when you object, the Medici will easily bankrupt your family, not a drop of blood, and support someone else to take your place, when the whole of the Emerald belongs to him, and the supported Pope wants to resist, but he is put under house arrest, and the Pope is bewitched by demons." ”

"He ended up committing suicide in his bedroom, and Cardinal Medici gave him a solemn funeral, followed by the inauguration of the next puppet, and it was then that we realized that he was in complete control, and that he was doing a good job. ”

Shermans looked out the window at the steel city, where the steam engine was born, and the roar of the factory shattered faith.

"One of the main reasons why we were not wary of the steam engine at first was Cardinal Medici, and although your steel torrent was fearsome, under his leadership Fei Leng Emerald also entered the Golden Age, he was a ruthless tyrant, crushing his enemies with gold, plundering all his assets, and pouring wealth into the Church, even the original opponents gradually turned against him. ”

"Cute people will always grow old......"

Shermans sighed, and this was where Cardinal Medici's legendary life ended.

"He is old, Cardinal Medici seems to be tired, he continued to let go of power in his old age, and with his exit, the golden age ended, and we realized how important he was. ”

"He had gold and prestige for the first half of his life, and the whole of Philemerald, under his rule, governed the faith and the world, but in his later years he laid down all his weapons and turned to the patronage of artists, who were amiable, and each of whom sang of his benevolence and selflessness. ”

Salicado laughed when he heard this, and although he had never met the legendary cardinal, he still admired it from the bottom of his heart.

"The first half of his life was like a tyrant, but the second half of his life was worshipped as a saint. ”

Shermans nodded, and Salicado's words were appropriate to describe Cardinal Medici, "like a blood-stained thug, what he did in his old age may have been atonement." ”

"After the night of Coming, we need a new leader, and there are two people who are admired by everyone, the new Migar, and the other is the elderly Cardinal Medici, in fact, everyone prefers Cardinal Medici, hoping that this old lion will be able to turn the tide and lead us back to that golden age again.

But then we find out that Cardinal Medici is dead, and that he died quietly on the night of Adventing. ”

Shermans said slowly.

"No one paid any attention to these things, and in his later years he lived in seclusion, dismissed all his servants, had little social interaction, and only had one priest who served by his side, and that priest died. ”

"We examined the decomposing corpse, and it is speculated that Cardinal Medici died on the night of Arrival, and that the riots of that night were not just the Cathedral of Santa Narro. ”

"This ...... It wasn't the way he deserved to die. ”

Salicado lamented that such a tyrant ended up dying in such obscurity, in a secluded place, until someone searched for him and found his already decomposed body.

"We don't have time to find out the cause of his death, and without his rivalry, Cardinal Migar is almost destined to be the new pope, but that's when that Seni Lothair appears. ”

Shermans's voice trembled a little, it was the owner of the name who had forced them to where they were now.

"He became the final winner?" Salicado remembered the name, now the name of the Pope.

"Seny Lothair, who suddenly appeared, with the letter of appointment left by the previous pope...... This thing is actually useless, every pope is elected by the cardinals, but with his appearance everything changed, as if premeditated, the cardinals who were originally on our side suddenly turned against him.

The whole situation was chaotic, his vote was equal to Migr's, and we urgently investigated his identity, but the results were strange. ”

There was an indescribable confusion in Shermans' eyes, and even today he couldn't figure it out.

"Seny Lothair appeared suddenly, but none of us knew that there was such a man with the old pope, and none of the priests who survived Advent had seen him, but the information he gave gave clearly recorded all the ...... of his life It's like...... It's as if there is a divine power in control of all this, suddenly inserting a non-existent person into the world and paving everything for him. ”

He couldn't figure it out, and neither could Cardinal Migar, as if everything was doomed.

"And then there is what I said to you, that the votes of Seny Lothair are increasing, and we do not want to lose them, and we have even decided to use that dirty means in order to make the Evangelical Church glorious again. ”

Sherman paused, took a deep breath and continued.

"Speaking of Anthony, Anthony was our man, he was a secret chess piece that we had planted in the Templar Order, and we wanted to use him to kill Seni Lothair, and everything went well, and he did not show the slightest intention of betraying until the beginning of the mission. ”

"We thought that night was the beginning of us, but we didn't think it would be the end, the Knights Templar had our list, and they were supposed to attack the Cathedral of Santa Narro, but they appeared before us, unprepared and bleeding. ”

It was a nightmare night.

"We were almost wiped out, and the only men who escaped from the Seven Hills overnight, after which Seni Lothair was promoted directly to Pope, and the rest of the cardinals were all under his orders. ”

This was the cause and result of this group of exiles, of whom Salicado was one of their patrons, who also tried to fight back against the new pope.

"Anthony is a cunning fellow, and although he seems cold and tough, he is very good at scheming, and the new Pope has definitely not sent him with any good intentions. ”

Salikado nodded, silent not knowing what he was thinking, and after a long time, he said slowly.

"Secrets related to you. ”

In that constant nightmare, Salicado repeatedly dreamed of all the frightening things, ordinary people might be afraid, but the business giant found a new desire in that constant fear, and the mystery seemed to attract him, constantly pulling him.

Shermans shook his head, he refused.

"Secrets are also one of the benefits, and you already know enough. ”

"That means I need a better price to know those, right?" Salicado smiled keenly sensing something.

"Bid, Cardinal Shermans, this must be what Migar wants you to do, you have nothing but the knowledge hidden in your minds, you need money, manpower, and too many things, after all, you can't get back to the place of the seven hills with slogans alone. ”

Salicado's gaze was like that of a jackal, and he did not take them in and fund them out of mercy, but for the sake of secrets, and when those secrets were known to him, the exiles lost their usefulness, and Shermans knew this, but could not do anything about it.

These exiles had been persecuted to the extreme by the cruel new pope, otherwise these honorable people would not have bowed to Salicado.

"Some secrets are taboo, and I am not the only one who can call the shots. Shermans said he was like a dead tree dying compared to Salicado's strength.

"Actually, I'm tired. ”

Shermans sighed and glanced at his robe, bright as blood.

"I wanted to quit long after Advent night, and I didn't care about the struggle for power, and I could understand why Cardinal Medici chose to let go of power. ”

"And what about you now? If so, you should submit to the new pope. ”

Salicado looked at the sad Shermans, the fellow was very old indeed, his skin wrinkled together like an old tree.

"No, that's the bottom line, I can accept that, but I can't accept the new popes," Shermans replied, "I'm a cardinal, and no matter how you judge the gospel church right or wrong, I'm always a member of it, and the new pope is different." ”

Shermans opened his mouth to say something, but after a moment of hesitation, he swallowed it back, refusing to reveal the crucial secret.

"At least I want to die with dignity, not to accept the mercy of that kind of person and live my life. ”

He spoke again, his voice tinged with the weariness of a stranger.

Salicado looked at him, and Shermans looked at the end of the night, which was the direction of the Seven Hills, and for a moment he seemed to see through all that the old man had.

"You're different from Migar, that guy just wants to be pope, and you just want to die, right?" said Salicado.

"Every cardinal should be buried in the place of the seven hills, in harmony with the other sacred, and not in a foreign land. ”

Shermans said in a sold-fashioned manner, but this seemingly ridiculous old-fashioned was the last insistence of the old man.

"I am different from them, I still believe in the ancient sacred, and I am willing to spend my life defending it, and Migar and I have only come together because of the seemingly same position. ”

"I don't care who the pope is, I just hope that the holy I believe in will not deteriorate. ”

Shermans has a strong faith, even if he is reduced to such a situation, he is always unwilling to take off that red robe, this is not power and status, this represents his faith.

"Then why can't the Pope be Seni Lothair?" Salicado asked.

"Because he is a heretic. ”

Shehlmans replied with an angry and iron-clad roar.

"Seni Lothair is a heretic!"