Pope Mario, who walked out of the hollow pavilion, looked back at the hollow pavilion that was still brightly lit in the night.

Then he turned and walked to the church in the distance.

It's an eventful time.

The rise of the Holy See has upset too many people.

If it was the beginning, he could have carried the will of all the people to suppress all the noise.

But now he didn't dare, if everything in this world was trampled under the feet of the Holy See, it would be too late to find out that there was something wrong with the Lord.

"I don't want to do it, I have to do it, all the people don't want me to do it, but they force me to do it. ”

Pope Mario waved his hand, and in his hand appeared the most brilliant artifact, the Sword of Cass.

Now this is an artifact comparable to the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.

At least in the eyes of believers already.

"Is it a quick sword to cut through the mess?"

Pope Mario hesitated, he was not sure if he would succeed even in what he was doing.

"Kill all of them with a sword, am I or the Lord who cut them off?"

"If it's the Lord, then what's the point!"

Pope Mario put away the sword of Cass in his hand, which was as bright as the stars in the sky.

He looked at his tiptoes and carefully calculated the current situation in the Holy See.

At this time, Ivan I, the new Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch far north, was eyeing him to compete in the land of Europe.

And the European countries are carefully testing his bottom line, wondering if he will want to restore the glory of the Papal States.

Moreover, on the other side of the Mediterranean, the Green Religion is already on the rise.

But inside the Holy See, he was like an arrow from the string, and the entire Holy See was ready to revive the Papal States long before the arrival of the Angel of Cass.

He could not stop the Holy See from merging the new school with the Orthodox school now, he could only delay.

But procrastination won't solve anything.

"Difficult!"

Pope Mario sighed.

It was clear that he had given up on his original idea of restoring the glory of the Holy See, but no one would believe that he had given up.

The Pope at his peak was the real ruler of all of Europe, and who said he didn't care if anyone believed in such a position?

He had obviously given up the idea of ruling the whole world, but the Holy See behind him, which had grown into a behemoth at this time, pushed him forward.

This is the biggest helplessness in life.

"They didn't want to be my opponents, but they had to be my opponents. ”

Pope Mario smiled wryly.

"Ivan I, are you now thinking about how to snatch countless believers out of my hands?

Pope Mario stood in front of the church and looked north and muttered to himself.

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And at this time, in the center of the cathedral, Ivan I was looking at the museum map of his country.

The golden frescoes surround the entire Holy See, showing a divine aura.

In the hand of Ivan I was a golden cup, in which was filled with bright red blood, and in the blood seemed to shine with endless brilliance.

It's the Holy Grail!

In 33 C.E., on the 14th day of Nisan in the Jewish calendar, the Passover supper before Jesus' crucifixion, Jesus used a wine glass with 11 of his disciples after sending away Judas Iscariot.

Jesus once took the cup and told his disciples to drink the red wine that symbolized his blood, thus establishing the Memorial Rite.

And in the cup here is the blood of Jesus.

Ivan I never let the Holy Grail out of his sight since he took it out.

After glancing at the map on the table, he frowned and said:

"I don't have time to put together the museum's affairs right now, the Holy See is already at war, and I have to spare my energy to stop him. ”

Ivan I felt that the current museums were all small things, and only the popes who were about to do it were the big things that gave him a real headache.

But, after all, it was the ambassador of his kingdom who asked for him, and he could not refuse.

"So, you organize prayers around the museum, and the number of people who pray must not be less than 10,000, and you must pray all the time, and then I will send nine bishops to lead them. ”

"But everything around the museum must be moved!"

"There must be absolutely no one there except those who pray. ”

This is the method that Ivan I came up with to delay, to suppress the entire museum with prayer to invoke the light of the Lord.

But there is too little light to be drawn in this way.

It can only be guaranteed that there are no problems with the museum.

"Is there really no way to get rid of it completely?"

The diplomatic ambassador frowned.

"Put the Holy Grail in it or you can rely on the power of the Lord to suppress it, but then what do we use to stop those who are papal?"

Ivan I was a little impatient, and he frowned indistinctly.

"Are you going to let them slaughter?"

Hearing the explanation of the Ecumenical Patriarch Ivan I, the ambassador could also understand.

Polar bears are also afraid of the Holy See getting bigger.

Once the Holy Grail is taken, the Orthodox faction will have no one to confront the Pope who wields the Sword of Cass.

The diplomatic ambassador sighed and said:

"I respect your decision, Great Ecumenical Patriarch, and I will do as you instruct, but will you really be able to stand in the way of the unification of the Holy See alone?"

Ivan I looked at him and said:

"Annexing the new faction, and then uniting with the Green Church, should be able to counter them. ”

"What about Dongfang Kyushu?"

The ambassador asked.

"There will naturally be Tianzhu, Dongying and various forces to restrain them, and after we integrate the entire Holy See, we will naturally take out time. ”

The ambassador added:

"But does the Green Church agree?"

"Do they have the right to choose?"

Ivan I smiled and said:

"Now that the Pope is in a big vein, and the whole of Europe and even the entire Mediterranean coast is under his threat, do you think that the Green Sect is really not afraid of the Pope's vein launching another crusade?"

"You know, the Crusades have been launched more than a dozen times in history. ”

"They are not opponents of the Pope's faction at all now, how can they not cooperate with us?"

The ambassador nodded in agreement with Ivan I's statement.

Then he asked:

"Okay, then do you still want to help? Many European countries are willing to make the Orthodox line their state religion to gain support. ”

This is secretly linked, and no one dares to openly support a religion on the surface.

After all, if you don't make it public, if you don't get it right, something big will happen.

"What they want is balance, but there's no problem, the balance they want now is our strength. ”

Ecumenical Patriarch Ivan I laughed.

His eyes sparkled on his beard-covered face.