Chapter 673: The Holy See Goes Crazy
Aeolia returned from Telvisburg, and after a tiring journey, and without resting, he climbed three hundred stairs to the outside of the Pope's bedchamber to await his summons.
When Aioria returned this time, she was relieved to find that the atmosphere on Mount St. Ann's had improved considerably. Last time, because of the news of the appearance of the undead, the entire Holy Mountain people were panicked. This time, it seems that everyone has returned to the regularity of daily prayer practice. His Holiness the Pope's appeasement is certainly indispensable.
It is true that the reappearance of the undead after tens of thousands of years is something that no one can ignore. This is also the duty of his Aeolia. If they do find traces of the undead, he and his Knights of Light will be the first to charge, driving these evil beings back to their lairs.
After waiting patiently for a while, the Templar guards at the gate came out to inform him that the Pope was going to receive him. So Aeolia carefully dressed and took the steps of identification, and entered this temple that was not grandiose, but extraordinarily majestic and sacred.
Unlike last time, this time the Pope sat on the throne above the temple, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a crown, and his figure was a little haggard. The last time Aeoria saw the Pope, the Pope, though he had his back to him and prayed to the idol, was still straight, and he was not so emaciated. What happened to him during his absence? What bothered His Holyness to be troubled as well?
Aioria silently crouched down and knelt on one knee, her voice still as sonorous as last time: "Your Majesty, I'm back." ”
On the throne, the Pope nodded slightly, and his voice was obviously tired: "Get up, my child, you are doing well...... Tell me what you've investigated. ”
"Yes. ”
Aioria half-bowed her head. The scenes he witnessed on his trip to the battlefields of Shikoku and the clues he found. I went through them one by one.
"I think, evil undead. Be wise. They are acting in a premeditated and planned manner. This is a testament to this in my research. Evil undead, what they're looking for. More people on the battlefield of Shikoku saw the scene of the resurrection of the dead, and I also think that this has something to do with the appearance of the undead. ”
Aeolia looked so serious that he spoke his own judgment. These were all things he didn't say to Ge Wei's clone that day. The stakes are so high that he can only report to the Pope alone.
"And, I think. The obsidian powder that appeared on the battlefield of Shikoku was deliberately left behind. Aioria looked up, and then told the Pope his judgment, which he had not told him that day, and that he had found obsidian powder by accident, but that it was not.
"Oh?" the Pope, who had been listening silently, raised his heavy eyelids when he heard this.
"I think someone is deliberately leaving traces of the undead. ”
"Human?"
"It's not clear. Aioria shook her head.
The Pope muttered for a moment. "This news is very interesting. Could it be that there are humans working with the undead?"
"It's more like being coerced. Aioria said.
The Pope was silent again.
It was a long time before the Pope spoke again: "You have done a good job, my child. The undead thing. Let's stop here...... Until we get more information, we can't tell why these evil things have returned. We...... Can't judge ...... yet"
Judge what, judge if the undead are really about to launch a new war. Is a new holy war really coming?
Aioria could hear the Pope's helplessness. I don't know if this incident made the Pope look a lot haggard.
"If nothing else. You stand down. The Pope's heavy eyelids were half-closed and he said to Aeolia wistfully.
"......" Aioria hesitated. Bowing his head: "Yes." ”
Aeoria slowly got up and turned to walk towards the temple door. In fact, he wanted to ask the Pope what it was that made the Pope so concerned.
It wasn't until he walked out of the temple gate, the sun shone on his face, and Aeoria couldn't look back. Looking at the foothills of Mount St. Ann on the high cliffs, the paladin sighed deeply. Head down the mountain.
In the temple, on the throne, the pope's eyelids gradually lifted as if he were asleep, and a sigh sounded: "Why, O God of the Almighty, why have you stopped responding to me all these years? Why...... I don't feel it, your presence ......"
Aeolia, who was walking down the three hundred steps, suddenly stopped in her footsteps and looked in amazement at a priest who had rushed up from the bottom of the mountain. I saw that the priest was sweating profusely and his eyes were full of terror, and he rushed directly past him, and before he could even say sorry, he ran down the stairs to the Pope's bedchamber.
Seeing this, Aeolia's heart jumped, and a bad premonition arose. He immediately turned around, strode after the priest, and rushed into the templar.
When I saw that the priest ignored the guards at the door, I heard him shout inside with a scream like a pig: "It's not good, it's not good, it's not good."
Aioria looked at the priest in astonishment, what had happened, how could there be such a commotion on Mount St. Ann's.
The clergy tried to break into the papal palace despite the obstacles. However, he was stopped by four golden-armored Templars at the door and was not allowed to enter. I had to shout one after another: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!
Aeolia was about to go up to dissuade him when he heard the pope's voice in the temple.
"What's the matter, so flustered, what has it become. Apparently the Pope was also very unhappy with this shouting on the Holy Mountain.
However, the priest's next words made everyone almost jump.
Then the priest cried out like a pig, "God, the vision of God...... By...... Destroyed!"
"What!?"
A thunderbolt from the blue, cleaved in the minds of Aioria and the others. Aeoria suddenly remembered that this priest seemed to be the clergyman brother who was in charge of the vision.
Several of the Templar guards were even more stunned, and when they heard this, they stopped their hands, and the priest fell to the ground at once, and when he looked up, he saw a pair of feet standing in front of him.
Everyone got down on one knee.
Even the Pope couldn't sit still, and his amazing strength teleported out from the throne in the hall.
I saw the Pope grabbing the clergyman's collar, and his cloudy, tired eyes flashed with essence. He shouted, "What did you say? Tell me again!"
Aioria and several Templars were shocked and bowed their heads. Don't dare to look into the eyes of the Pope. The priest was stunned by the powerful aura emanating from the Pope's eyes, and stumbled back, "God." Vision ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the Pope let go of him, and his figure flashed again, disappearing from the spot.
Aioria and the others looked at each other, pulled their legs, and ran down the mountain, then turned to another mountain path and climbed the steps higher up the sacred mountain. At the top of that hill, there is a palace, the Palace of the Eye of God. It was the pinnacle of the Holy Mountain. The closest place to heaven on the continent. The clergy who oversaw the Vision were there.
Finally feeling the Vision, Aeoria was stunned by the scene in front of her.
The priests of the Vision's Palace were all depressed, and they looked at the sky with dull eyes.
"How, how is it possible, how can the Vision be destroyed?" said Aeolia.
"God, are you going to give up on us......" I heard a priest from the Vision's Palace cry to the sky: "Are you punishing us, our fall, you have to give up ......"
"O omnipotent god of light. Please don't leave us behind......"
"God......"
As far as Aioria could see, the entire mountaintop was filled with mourning. It's like the sky is falling.
At this time, I heard a loud shout coming from the Vision Palace: "This is the evil undead declaring war on us!!"
It was the Pope's voice!Aeolia ran quickly to the palace, and as soon as she entered the palace, she saw the Pope burning in anger and furious. Kicking the other and shouting, "Oh God." Are you going to abandon us?" beat the priest until he vomited blood.
For the first time in her life, Aeonia walked into this Holy See Forbidden Land, and for the first time saw strange "mirrors" in front of her. "Mirror" on. What is shown is a strange scene: rows of golden objects suddenly explode into fireballs one after another in the dark void. Then the screen disappears. Replay.
Even the Pope looked at these surveillance footage in disbelief, unable to believe that the Vision had existed for tens of thousands of years. It was destroyed in an inexplicable way. This is absolutely man-made! The Vision could not all be destroyed at the same time. In the past tens of thousands of years, there have been only two recorded instances of the destruction of the Divine Vision, with an interval of tens of thousands of years. How can it be destroyed at the same time.
Combined with the few looming lights captured on the screen, the Vision of God is destroyed, there is no doubt about it!
"This is the evil undead who are declaring war on our Holy See!" The Pope's angry roar resounded throughout the Holy Mountain: "The omnipotent God of Light has not abandoned us, he is watching us. The time has come to test us! We must uphold the dignity of God, and we must eliminate evil!"
All eyes were on the Pope. Aioria clenched her fists tightly.
"Your Majesty, we, what should we do......" the bloodied clergyman asked.
"Fight!" the Pope raised his arms and shouted: "If they want to fight, then they will fight!" I, Rodriguez XI, hereby announce to the whole continent that the Third Holy War has begun!"
Everyone looked at each other and was silent. This day will eventually be recorded in the annals of the continent.
However, poor Pope Rodriguez, this punch is bound to hit the cotton. Without the Vision, the Holy See would not have been able to find the enemy.
Unable to find a real target, the angry Pope could only sprinkle all his evil fire on those necromancers on the continent. As a result, the whole continent was shocked for a while, and every day I saw the three Holy Knights of the Holy See rampage all over the world, arresting "heretics" everywhere and burning "heretics" at the stake.
After half a month of turmoil, until the end, this "holy war" did not find the real target to be fought. The necromancer was wiped out, and the real undead were not seen. After a large-scale war between the countries of the continent, after stopping to watch the papacy go crazy, the countries went to war and the war became even more tragic.
If you want to talk about changes, the only change in the end is that because of the problem of burning at the stake, the forest coverage of this planet has decreased by 1%, carbon dioxide emissions have increased dramatically, and the unjust souls who have been burned at the stake reported to Ge Wei have also been blowing out every day, bringing a large number of fresh undead to Ge Wei.
What was Ge Wei busy with during this period?
When the Holy See was preparing for war with great fanfare, Gowey had already returned to the Land of the Dead. On the one hand, he was thinking about how to make money, but on the other hand, an unexpected unexpected event in the territory made him very busy, where could he have the time to entangle with these fools of the Holy See. (To be continued......)