The cardinal of the French Empire, whose name is Leonard, is the parish of the entire French Empire.

Leonard was appointed by the Pope fifteen years ago as the archbishop of the French Empire, and received the title of cardinal, if he went further, he would be able to enter the Cardinal Pontifical Council in the Holy City, which is the center of power of the Illuminati Cult, and be able to attend the election of new popes, and even some young cardinals have the opportunity to serve as new popes.

But more than a decade later, Leonard is still only an imperial archbishop, blocking the door of the Holy See's power center. More importantly, Leonard was one hundred and fifty years old, and although the title of cardinal was for life, there was also a retirement age.

The limit of lifespan on this continent is generally about two hundred years old, and cardinals almost all have a lifespan of two hundred years due to the blessing of light magic. However, in the early days of the Illuminati Church, a pope stipulated that in order to make the Holy See more vigorous, once the age reaches the age of 160, he can no longer serve as the cardinal and diocese director, and the cardinal pope who has reached the age will also cancel the voting rights of the new pope.

At Leonard's age, the title of archbishop of the French Empire is almost the limit of his life, and he has little chance of being promoted to the cardinal. Even if he holds the position of cardinal, he will have to retire compulsorily within a few years. Although he still has the status of a cardinal, once there is no diocese and power, an empty name is of little significance.

So as the retirement age approached, Leonard began to relax his requirements for himself, and only wanted to enjoy himself in the last few years of his clergy career and prepare for his life after retirement.

At the same time, he also planned to bring one or two bishops to ensure that after his retirement, he would still be able to have a certain influence in the diocese of the French Empire. In fact, the Holy See is similar to officialdom, after enjoying the benefits and pleasures brought by power, what is most afraid is that people will go to tea and cool.

Kasmai is one of the bishops chosen by Leonard, and the reason for choosing Kasmai is also very simple, that is, because Kasmai does not have any power, he slowly climbed up from a small priest, so that the bishop with no background is easy to control, and he does not have to worry about his wings hardening and betraying himself.

Another point is that Carsmail is ambitious and can do things, and every once in a while, he will give himself a "Mass money", and Leonard is usually very satisfied with Carsmail.

It's just that the lack of background is an advantage, but also a disadvantage, and Kasmai's foundation is too thin, and he can't convince the public every time he is promoted. At the beginning, he served as the bishop of a broken place like Storm Castle, but he was opposed by some other archbishops in the French Empire, and it was difficult to imagine how difficult it was to be promoted to the position of archbishop.

Although Leonard is the archbishop, the Holy See is not a feudal dynasty after all, it is more like an early parliamentary system, and it is still difficult to do it alone. And with the fluctuation of Hell's Gate, Storm Castle is likely to be in ruins, and whether Kasmai can survive is a question, and slowly Leonard is planning to give up on Kasmai.

The amount of money that Duke found in the secret room of the Storm Castle Church was that Kasmai planned to make a last-ditch effort to make Leonard feel his importance. As a result, he didn't expect to be pulled into the water by Duke, and later he was even more involved in the same stream, and Storm Castle was also defended, so Kasmai's desire to transfer out quickly faded, and this matter was over.

Now, thanks to the investigation of Archbishop Auré of Andorra, this line can be used again, and with Duke's financial support, Casmai has a lot of confidence to pay bribes. On the same day, he used the magic of the Cult of Light to send a message to Leonard about the witch investigation.

However, instead of focusing on witches, he said that Archbishop Ore's excuse to investigate witches was actually trying to probe the tithes of Stormcastle. And Carsmail said very vaguely that there would be a large amount of "dispersed money" to be transported to the imperial capital, and if Ole made such a fanfare, it would affect the prestige of the Holy See among the residents of Stormcastle, and affect the future dispersal of contributions.

In fact, Leonard knew how this large amount of Mass money came from, and even to a certain extent, it was Leonard who acquiesced to Carsmail's embezzlement of tithes. So now that Kasmai says that Ore wants to investigate tithes, Leonard has almost no suspicions, and he has to make sure that the risk of this matter is nipped in the bud, and if it is revealed that the cardinal union bishops are embezzling tithes, it will be a shocking scandal.

Even Leonard knew that embezzlement of tithes was not an unusual thing in the upper echelons of the Holy See. But the unlucky guy is always the first to be exposed, and in order to prove his justice and light, the Holy See will definitely punish himself as a negative example, and when the time comes, he will not only fall from the clouds to the bottom, but may also be worse than death, those methods of the Inquisition in the Holy City, Leonard shuddered when he thought about it.

So after receiving a magical message from Kasmai, Leonard did not hesitate to send an order, ordering Ole to stop his investigation of the diocese of Stormcastle. As for the witch incident, Leonard didn't pay attention to it at all.

It may be that the Holy See advertises that witches are evil devils who will bring disasters and plagues, etc., but the top brass of the Holy See know that witches are just an excuse to fight against uncontrolled magicians, just like heretics and infidels are used in the same way.

Take 10,000 steps back, just with the strength of the witch, not even a single hair of the Holy See can move, and the Holy See has never put the witch in its eyes, and it doesn't matter if they collude or not. In fact, even if it is an investigation and punishment, it is not because of any threat caused by collusion with witches, but more like a proof of the strength and authority of the Holy See, so that the imperial lords on the mainland can understand who is the real controller and what the consequences of violating the religious decree of the Holy See are.

After the bishop's decree was given, Leonard began to take a closer look at the date at the end of the magic message, because the amount of Mass money in Casmier would be hidden in it. After a cursory glance just now, he thought it was 2,000 gold coins, but now that he took a closer look, the Mass money that Cass offered this time was actually 20,000 gold coins!

Leonard was surprised when he saw this number, knowing that the tithes of Stormcastle a year were only about 10,000 gold coins, even if it was corruption plus real Mass money, it was the limit for Casmeel to give himself a few thousand gold coins.

Now that there are 20,000 gold coins, this guy from Carsmail shouldn't have embezzled all his tithes, right? Thinking of this, Leonard understood more why Ole would investigate Castle of Carsmail, this is too dark, who will you investigate if you don't investigate?