In the year 2704, under the impetus of the vassal system, the first empire of mankind, the Ussain Empire, was proclaimed. It was the most powerful force in the secular world at the time.

However, another peculiarity of the vassal system is revealed, and that is that it must be constantly expanded. Because, the core of the vassal system is to pull more people into their camp and share common interests.

Because the lords have the support of their vassals, they have gathered more power and gained greater power, and there are more and more people who share the benefits, and there are more and more people.

The people of the Ussain Empire showed great enthusiasm for their work in order to obtain the status of vassals. 200 years later, the Usein Empire reached its most powerful peak, and the vassal expansion became louder, and Usein III decided to expand and dominate the human world.

When the war began, Usein III was shocked to find that things were not as smooth as he had imagined, as the noose of the Church was still on the heads of the lords.

The Usein Empire was indeed strong enough to mobilize an army of 50,000 men at a time, which no kingdom could resist. However, any battle of more than 10,000 people would provoke a backlash from the church.

It's like a strong man who is tied hand and foot to fight a duel with someone, and no amount of strength can be used. The crushing war is fought hard to add fuel. The other kingdoms were aware of the limits of the church and took full advantage of this rule, forming alliances to support each other and resolutely resist the annexation of empires. Because, they also have vassals.

After more than 40 years of fighting, the Ussain Empire made little progress, while the internal contradictions of the other kingdoms were greatly alleviated, but the size of the empire was too large to be delayed. Because, the vassals did not enjoy the dividends of the war and began to express their dissatisfaction with the emperor.

The Ursain Empire was forced to open up the wilderness.

With the support of the Church, the empire made good progress, but it also consumed a huge amount of national power. And the neighbors of the empire, taking advantage of the weakness of the empire, began to invade the territory of the empire, and the fundamental reason was still due to the vassal system.

After hundreds of years of back and forth, the Ussain Empire finally collapsed, and a new empire rose on its corpse.

Since then, the human aristocracy has begun, and you have sung and I have appeared in the game of power, but no empire has ever existed for more than 1,500 years.

The tragedy of the Ussain Empire was felt by all the lords, who became increasingly dissatisfied with the strength of the Church, and used various means to put pressure on the Church to expand the scale of the war. But the Church was unmoved, claiming that the Radiant Code was sacrosanct, and that if the lords dared to violate the Radiant Code, the Church would take back the lord's right to rule. At the same time, the church asked the lords to spend more energy on the wilderness and was willing to provide free support, but the lords unanimously despised it.

Out of resentment towards the Church, the lords began to relax their pursuit of wizards, hoping to make some trouble for the Church in this way, and the vassal system greatly weakened the influence of the Church on the common people. Wizards have re-emerged in the human world, and have established many wizarding organizations.

The emergence of the wizarding organization did cause a lot of trouble to the church, although the church was already extremely powerful at this time, due to the non-cooperation of the lord, the wizards were repeatedly suppressed and intensified.

At this time, the church's control over the civilian class has weakened, and the awakened are all children of the common people, and they are often protected by relatives and friends, which makes the church a headache for these rat-like wizarding organizations. In response to this, the Church formed the Inquisition.

In order to eradicate the wizarding organization, the Inquisition took drastic measures to suppress the ordinary people who sheltered the wizards, and most of them were relatives of the wizards, which further aroused the hatred of the wizards against the church.

Driven by the pressure of survival and hatred, the wizarding organization began to merge, and in the year 5014 of the glorious calendar, the pantheon of the wizarding organization was born.

This radical group of wizards, with a hatred for the Church, has been constantly assassinating the clergy of the Church, especially the members of the Inquisition.

The Lords chose to stand by and watch the Pantheon's activity, despite repeated warnings from the Church of Radiance, but they were only putting on a show.

The Pantheon, on the other hand, never attacks civilians and nobles, which makes the church very powerless, because wizards cannot trigger the lord's protective duties if they do not attack civilians. According to the provisions of the Radiant Code, the Church cannot rule that a liege is negligent because of his passivity, and therefore cannot punish the liege for his inaction.

Thousands of years have made everyone clear about the rigidity of the church and learned to take advantage of it, but thousands of years have also made people forget the horror of wizards.

In this way, the pantheon and the Inquisition lingered for hundreds of years, until the birth of the Blair siblings.

In the year 5423, the Inquisition received a complaint that a pair of twin siblings, the elder sister Blair and the younger brother Brian, had awakened their wizarding talents in a village.

When the paladins of the Inquisition arrived in that village, they found that the siblings were missing, apparently they were hidden by the villagers, and the paladins had seen this kind of thing a lot, and the way to deal with it was simple, they gathered the villagers together and killed the child's parents and then the grandparents in front of everyone. In this way, all the relatives of the child were killed, and then the other villagers were killed, and then the villagers gave in, and they handed over the siblings.

On the way back with the Blair siblings, members of the Pantheon attack them and rescue them. Although the Church organized a force to hunt down, nothing was found, and they had no choice but to record the incident in the archives of the Inquisition, which was common at the time.

Little did they know that more than 20 years later, the siblings had brought great disaster to the church and changed the entire human world.

More than a decade later, the Blair siblings became active in the Pantheon's actions and showed great strength. Her older sister, Blair, is a man of the elements, invincible and invincible in battle with the clergy, who can set a paladin on fire and burn it to ashes with a single look, while Brian just stands quietly by her side, like a bystander.

The mighty Blair was elected leader of the Pantheon by wizards, and under her leadership, the Pantheon smashed the Church again and again, and took revenge on the Church again and again, and eventually, the Pantheon breached a cathedral of the Glorious Church and killed a cardinal, which led to the collapse of a parish. Blair has since been known as the Great Wizard.

The pope was furious, and the lord was rejoicing.

The Inquisition, at the Pope's behest, sent out a challenge to the Pantheon, knowing that Blair would fight because their sibling's enemies were among them, because she had the ability to stand head-on.

The Blair siblings came, two of them, facing more than three hundred elite paladins, more than twenty paladins, a cardinal, and the chief referee legendary paladin Bethel.

With the blessing of the cardinal, runes flashed all over his body, surrounded by holy fire, and the wind elemental realm of the legendary paladin unfolded, stirring the void element into turbulence, and when he charged at Blair, it was as dazzling as a meteor falling to the ground.

But Blair stretched out a white finger and pointed it at the Mithril longsword, turning Bethel into an ice sculpture. The Legendary Paladin Bethel has fallen.

The clergy then launched a suicidal assault on the wizard, only to be met with a merciless slaughter. The Inquisition was destroyed.

The pope was shocked, the lords were shocked.

This time, the wizard once again showed the world what extraordinary power is, and the attitude of the lords quietly changed one hundred and eighty degrees.

The lords knew very well that no family could stand up to Blair, not even royalty. Although the Church is also unrivaled, they put shackles on their lords as well as on themselves. And wizards are unchecked!

Eventually, with the cooperation of the lords, it took the church a few years to lead the Pantheon to a desperate valley. There, the Pope is accompanied by the Pope (head of the bishops), six archbishops, 27 legendary paladins, and the 5,000-strong Knights of Radiance. Such a lineup is enough to push the secular world sideways.

There was no suspense about the outcome of the battle, but the price paid was unbelievable.

With the members of the Pantheon dying one by one, Brian finally lets people know what his abilities really are!

During the battle, Brian had been following his sister's side closely, as silent as ever, but the clerics found that any magic that entered his surroundings turned into nothingness, even the elemental power of knights, and Blair was able to transcend the limits of the law in his realm, reaching the level of spell casting in the wizarding era.

As a result, the Knights of Radiance shot an overwhelming rain of arrows at Brian, and despite Blair's desperate attempts to intercept, Brian took a step forward and calmly died.

Brian, who was on the verge of death, turned into an illusion and merged into Blair's body in full view, and then the witch's power continued to rise, and the laws of the world seemed to have no effect on her at all, she was the master of earth, fire, wind, and water, showing the power of natural disasters.

Rains of fire wrapped in magma, hurricanes caught icicles, the earth cracked, and thunder rained. For a time, the church suffered heavy casualties.

At the cost of his life, the Pope blew the golden horn, and six angels of light descended from the sky and fought with the witch for half a day, and finally Blair was purified.

This battle led to the loss of the main force of the Radiant Church, the vitality was greatly damaged, and the lords were ready to move.

In the 1500 years that followed, two major events occurred that led to the upheaval of the Church.

700 years ago, Emperor V of the Rand Empire, taking advantage of the chaos of the northern lords, recovered the nomads, and expanded his territory to the northern plains, intending to get his hands on the northern territory.

He mobilized 50,000 freedmen to build the city in a strategic location, killing more than 7,000 people in the process. And the Church struck again and beheaded the Emperor Rand for the slaughter of the freedmen!

This incident shook the human world because it was not in keeping with the church's practice.

First of all, the lords have already tried to figure out that a war with more than 10,000 deaths will be intervened by the church, and the Rand Emperor did not touch this bottom line, and the death of the free people was not caused by one time, let alone the war, which is unreasonable!

Second, it is also unconscionable that the fifth emperor of the Rand Empire was killed on the spot, rather than being captured and publicly executed!

It was this strange incident that led to the decline of the Rand Empire, which caused the indignation of all the lords, and under the undercurrent, the White Tower camp officially appeared, and the lords joined this loose alliance aimed at uniting and protecting themselves.

300 years ago, there was a scandal in the Papal State of El Eyre, the lords of the White Tower camp took the opportunity to send troops to the El Are, and finally the Radiant Pope announced that he would not interfere in the specific affairs of the Church, and the Holy See State of El announced that it would leave the jurisdiction of the Church and join the Rand Empire, which was already crumbling at that time.

The Church, represented by the Pope, the Presiding Judge, the Presbyterian Body, and the Lords, signed the New Covenant of Light with the lords. The New Testament is based on the Radiant Code, with the addition of a provision that the Church no longer executes lords who violate the Radiant Code, but instead imprisons them.

On the other hand, the human lords also swore in the Radiant Cathedral that they would never reveal the scandal again, nor would they record or talk about it in any form.

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"King, continue the analysis. When the recollection was over, Victor commanded Taling.

"My lord, this history reveals a message that there has indeed been change within the church. ”

"Of course, the Pope withdrew from the center of power and became the spiritual leader, while the Church was run by the Pope, the monastery, the Inquisition. Hehe, I really want to know what that scandal is? can actually force the Pope to step down. Unfortunately, Edwin said he didn't know, huh, I guess it's a glamorous story. Victor gossiped.

"My lord, judging by the aristocratic attitude towards reproduction, this scandal has almost zero to do with women. ”

Listening to the king's words, Victor suddenly felt a panic on his face, and he remembered the ridiculous night banquet with Sylvia.

The nobles of this world, for the sake of noble blood, are really sacrificed! No, I myself am green。。。。。。

Victor thought of his titular wife, the beautiful Marquis Sophia, and actually felt a little sour.

Thinking of this, Victor was a little restless, as if Nicole was his wife and Sophia was just a stranger.

"My lord, it is impossible for a scandal to remove the Pope from power, only strength can do it. The king continued, ignoring Victor's uncertain expression.

"My guess is that the knightly class has taken control of the church. ”

"What? what did you say?!" Victor asked, stunned, not thinking any longer.

"My lord, the foundation of the church is divine magic, and the clergy who make up the church are actually divided into two camps, ordinary people and paladins. And paladins are actually knights too. ”

"The turning point came in the decisive battle between the church and the pantheon, which greatly damaged the vitality of the church, but it was indeed said that the vitality of ordinary clergy was greatly damaged, and the paladin estimated that the loss was not large. ”

"Why do you say that?" asked Victor.

"My lord, your speed of movement in the apocalypse state is more than 25 meters per second, coupled with super perception and X-3's precise control, these make your chances of survival in the face of natural disasters far greater than ordinary people. So, what about knights with a high degree of unity of strength and spirit? What about knights of the silver rank? What about paladins in the realm of legends?"

"I see what you mean, the Legendary Paladin's chances of surviving in the face of a wide range of blows far exceed those of ordinary clergy, so they survived, while ordinary clergymen suffered heavy casualties, and most importantly, the Pope died, which left a huge power gap. As a result, the paladins occupy more power within the church. Victor nodded.

"The point is not that the Pope is dead, but that the Pope has become weaker, and the 12 Angels of Light can only summon 6 and pay with their lives, and the Paladins see this. Perhaps, the golden horn has fallen into the hands of the paladin. The king added.

The Pope has been passed down from generation to generation, holds the Golden Horn, and is the leader of the Church, but he is the representative of the ordinary clergy, and the ordinary clergy and the paladins are incompatible, which is caused by the disparity in power, the knights are far more powerful than ordinary people, and the same is true in the church, but they have been suppressed by the Pope for thousands of years, and now they have seized the opportunity to seize power.

"No wonder, the church's subsequent actions are full of aristocratic style, full of conspiracy. The Emperor Rand may have been murdered. Victor said coldly, a rigid and rigid church is more in the interests of the lord, and no one likes a church that can play tricks.

"Paladins are also knights after all, they can't get rid of the desire for knight blood, and intermarriage with other families has allowed them to form a new camp, the church knight camp. The king continued.

"The death of the Emperor of the Rand Empire must be in the interests of this camp, and they are testing the rules of the Radiant Codex, which is completely in line with the needs of the lord, it must be the lord of the church knight camp who manipulated this matter, so there is the White Tower camp, it is not for the church, but to fight against the church knight camp. "Victor figured out a lot of things in an instant.

"It's just that I don't understand why the White Tower camp will unite with the Church Knights camp to force the Pope to abdicate? ”

"My lord, why can't it be that the White Tower camp and the Pope have joined forces against the Church Knights? The papal abdication and the signing of the Bright New Covenant illustrate this, with only the paladin's camp being the winner. The king said.

"What do you say?" asked Victor's heart, but he didn't grasp the key point, and asked simply.

"The Church Knights' camp should have two purposes for murdering the Emperor of Lante, the first was for political gain, and the second was to test the rules of the Radiant Codex. ”

"It is a fact that Emperor Rand was killed, but I am afraid that it was not the paladins who did it, because they were attacked when they tried the rules of the Codex, and the clergy who carried out the mission lost their strength, and it should be the secular knights disguised as paladins who killed people. ”

"There are two things that confirm my inference, first, that they did not escort the Emperor Rand back to the Holy See, but killed him on the spot, which would not have happened if the clergy had not been counterattacked. ”

"Second, the New Testament of Light no longer provides for the execution of lords who violate the Radiant Code, but instead of imprisonment. On the surface, it seems to be beneficial to the lord, but in fact it expands the law enforcement power of the church, which is very detrimental to the lord. ”

"!" Victor said in a foul mouth.

Hearing this, he had fully understood.

The Church Knight camp has seized control of the Church, and they want to use the power of the Church to obtain greater political benefits for themselves, so they need to test the rules of the Radiant Codex, and the Rand Emperor is their target, but the Rand Emperor has not violated the bottom limit of the Radiant Code after all, so the Church Knight camp has been counterattacked. This led to the formation of the White Tower faction, which subsequently tried to help the Pope***** but failed, and was forced to sign the New Covenant of Light. The New Testament of Light gave the Church knights the right to enforce the law, which meant that if they needed to deal with a liege, they would imprison that lord for killing freemen. Since they didn't kill the lord, they wouldn't be deprived of their strength, which also proves that they were backlashed at in their first temptation, so they came up with this trick.

"Why hasn't the Church Knights Camp unified the human world?" asked Victor, puzzled.

Now the church knight camp is both a policeman and a judge, and they have the advantage, but they have dragged on for 300 years without major movements.

"I believe that the White Tower camp has formed an alliance with the ordinary clergy in the church, after all, there are more ordinary clergy in the church, and the White Tower camp is not without countermeasures. ”

"By what means?" asked Victor at once, which was closely related to him.

"Total war!" said the king.

Victor suddenly realized, yes, if the church knight camp dares to use the power of the church to unify the human world, then the lords of the White Tower camp will expand the scale of the war without limit, until the Lord of Radiance is angry, withdraws the power of magic, or lets the wizard return to the world, it's a big deal that everyone will end up together!

"It seems that the situation can still maintain the status quo, and the paladins will not be able to bypass the restrictions of the Radiant Codex. Victor breathed a sigh of relief, he now had small arms and legs, and he couldn't afford to toss.

"My lord, the unification of the human world is in the interests of the lords, and now it is in line with the will of the church, the unification is inevitable, and the lords of the White Tower can sign the new covenant of light, which shows that they will no longer fight to the end with the knights of the church, and the reason why they still keep this camp is to negotiate conditions and strive for more benefits. However, you must note that the Great Lords in the White Tower camp will leave the camp once they get the benefits they want, and the White Tower camp is just a bargaining chip for them. Adults, you have to prepare in advance. ”

The Bright New Covenant stipulates that the lord will not be executed, but in fact, the two camps have set the limit of the struggle. You can fight, you can talk, you can form an alliance, you can marry, but the child and your surname, you just don't want you to live or die, otherwise everyone will end up together.

"You're right, but I'm in a remote place here, even if those big lords play their brains, they can't hit here, we have time to develop our own strength, and now we have two strategies, one, make more money, and two, don't be cannon fodder. Victor replied with a smile.

It's always pleasant to sit and watch the tigers, but Victor doesn't have the ambition to dominate the world, he wants to live his own little life.

"By the way, the King, what do you say if the Radiant Code collapses, will it be the end of the world?" asked Victor with some melancholy.

The knightly class has no faith in the Lord of Radiance, and has just mastered the rules of the Church and began to test the rules of the Radiant Code, maybe they have really been spoiled by them, and the Pope's family is upright and cute.

"My lord, the Radiant Code will not collapse, it is actually Pope I who has set a shackle for his successors, in order to limit the abuse of divine power by the clergy, and the Radiant Code itself does not generate power. The source of the divine magic is the contract between Pope I and the Lord of Radiance, and I believe that it is only when the devil reconnects with this world that the power of the clergy will collapse completely. And at that time, the Lord of Radiance will also be touched. ”

"But even then, it won't be the end of the world. The king added.

"Why are you so sure? The Lord of Light is a powerful man who changes the laws of the world, and as his opponent, the devil, how can we resist it?" asked Victor anxiously.

"My lord, you think too highly of the power of these transcendent creatures, and too much of the power of humans, I never think that the Lord of Radiance has changed the laws of the world. If he really changed the laws of the world, then why could the alchemy pagoda, which was obviously a transcendent power, still be used?"

"Even so, why do you think humans are more powerful?" Victor asked again.

"Neither the Awakened nor the Church are at the same level as the Alchemy Empire. Humans, on the other hand, have created an alchemical empire. ”

"You think we're descendants of the Nairel Empire?"

"There is no doubt about it, and the fact that alchemy humans are exactly the same as those of current humans proves it. ”

"But the Nerriel Empire is destroyed, and it is likely that the devil or the Lord of Radiance did it. ”

"Your Excellency has no more evidence to prove this, but there are indications that the Nairel Empire has killed countless powerful transcendent beings, made them into alchemy towers, and then fought against the invading alien races and defeated them. ”

The king's words left Victor speechless.

"My lord, your vision is limited by the humans here, this world is beyond imagination, how can you be sure that the humans here are the only human race in the world? Their thousands of years of history represent the history of all human beings? The Nairel Empire is a thousand times stronger than the Chosen One, and it has not explored the Endless Forest, north of the Turrell Mountains, south of the Jinshui River, and finally disappeared into the long river of history, compared to such a vast world, transcendent beings are not very powerful. ”

The king's words made Victor feel that his eyes suddenly brightened, yes, maybe it was because the Alchemy Empire explored the world and encountered aliens, and when he couldn't resist it, he made the devil into an alchemy tower and defeated the alien race, so the devil wanted to exterminate the descendants of the Alchemy Empire, and they couldn't even directly intervene in human beings, they could only do so through deception, and the Lord of Radiance could be the alchemy life created by the Alchemy Empire?

Thinking of this, Victor only felt that the haze had dissipated, and he had a feeling that the world was so big that he really wanted to see it.

"Having said so much, at this time, I felt that it was all boring things, and it was not as affordable as the alchemy militia. Victor smiled wryly.

"King, start creating an alchemy militia, this time loading short weapons mastery, long-range weapon mastery, and spirit monkey secret form. Victor ordered, whether it was the supernatural creatures, or the struggle for power between the church and the great nobles, it was too far away from him, and it was only right to survive.

"Yes, sir. "The king faithfully carried out his duty.

"My lord, the alchemy militia has mutated!"

"What?"