The Pope is equal to the Code of Radiance, representing the law of contract between the Lord of Radiance and the Church of Radiance. This can be understood as a connection, and the Pope is the connection between the Lord of Light and the Church.

The Lord of Radiance has no sense of autonomy, and the clergy at the top of the church will feel a little bit of happiness, but the pope has a sense of autonomy, and when they hold the supreme power, they can't satisfy everyone, especially the pope in order to maintain his authority, always wants to suppress the knights and nobles, hoping that they will bow down to themselves like ordinary clergy.

Knights are naturally transcendent, far superior in wisdom, strength, and ingenuity to mortals. The papal lineage's attempts to bring the knightly nobility to their knees would only cause division and disaster in the human kingdom.

After the loss of the pope, the top of the church took the strictest supervision measures against the pope, and the most important condition was to avoid contact with the outside world as much as possible. In fact, this generation of Pope Necayat was born and raised in an isolated mountain monastery, never met his biological parents, nor did he know his siblings, and after inheriting the papal throne, he learned that he was the son of the previous pope, a descendant of His Majesty St. Enoch.

Nekayat was a true ascetic, devout in faith, benevolent and friendly, with no ambitions, and fully met the criteria of the Holy See for the selection of the Pope. He moved into the papal palace on the Holy Mountain of Light, became a priest of the Holy Spirit, or studied theology and practiced magic as he did in the convent, although he would also inquire about religious affairs and the current situation, and express his opinions, but what he saw was what the Holy See wanted him to see, and his orders were not out of the papal palace.

The Guardians of Light in Nakhtigarh guard the Papal Palace, and their main duty is to protect the Pope, but in fact, outsiders are forbidden to enter the Palace, even high-ranking clergy. The entire Holy See is only the Grand Master of the Glorious Knights, the three patriarchs, and Nakhtigarh can go to the palace to meet His Majesty the Pope.

Victor's request made Clement feel embarrassed, but he remembered Father Miller in Pinghu Town, and vaguely felt that this move of the Angry Wind Sword Saint had a deep meaning, and it might be related to the fate of his bloodline.

"If it's for the Great Prophecy, the priest stationed in Pinghu Town probably has more say than His Majesty the Pope. Clement said tactfully, tentatively.

Victor's eyes had turned to a strange dark gold, and he nodded, and said vaguely, "Father Miller has given me great help and inspiration. ”

Clement said: "It is impossible for His Highness to meet the Pope in private, if the Church canonizes you as a saint, you can go directly to the Holy Mountain of Light and meet His Majesty the Pope...... With His Highness's merits and achievements, it is also appropriate to canonize the saints. But ......"

The Pope paused and explained frankly: "His Highness killed the Centaur Great Khan in the Wharton Prairie, but the eldest princess Auguste died in order to save His Highness. ”

"The canonization of His Highness as a saint can only be put aside, and the Church must take into account the attitude of the Augustian family. Clement said in a tactful tone.

Saint is not only a noble title, Sword Saint Draven is currently the only saint canonized by the Church, and his status in the Church is second only to the Pope. This can be understood as another form of repression, in which the Pope attributed the Church to the Church for the delaying of the ogre king by ordaining saints, and placed him under himself. In exchange, Draven, in the name of a saint, was able to directly mobilize and direct the clergy into battle in times of emergency.

On this basis alone, it would be almost impossible for the Holy See to canonize Victor as a saint, and even if the Pope had proposed a bill, it would have been a political manoeuvre by Clement. Moreover, the excuses of the Holy See are not unfounded. Victor himself believed that Sylvia was suspected of killing Roland, and the church only needed to check Sylvia's whereabouts at the time in combination with Nakhtigar's reaction near the savannah, and then check Sylvia's whereabouts at that time, and then come to a similar judgment to Victor.

Sylvia is suspicious, and Victor can't get out of the relationship. What's more, he went to help Roland, but Roland fell in order to save him. This is a stain after all, but no one dares to question it in front of Victor.

Victor has no intention of entering the clergy system, and he wants to meet the Pope because he is the same inheritor of the Alchemy Empire.

The soul fire preserved in the No. 7 Alchemy Tower is immortal, and Victor and King Taling speculate that the soul fire of the Alchemy Tower comes from the soul of a transcendent being, the so-called devil or evil god. In the Giant Wood Forest, Victor learns from the Elder Bear Monster that the Ancient Behemoth once waged an eternal war to devour the divine laws of other Behemoths and achieve the goal of transcendence. It is highly likely that the victors among them have retained their self-consciousness and become gods, while some of the ancient beasts have followed the will of Tyron Riel and embarked on the path of pan-consciousness.

Due to the ability of the proto-sorcerers to communicate with the gods in both directions through the resonance of the law, the mage councils of the ancient alchemy empire possessed a lot of valuable knowledge and thus had unimaginable creativity. For example, they have the opportunity to capture god-level transcendent beings, erase their self-will, and divide the immortal soul fire to create the Alchemy Tower.

The Lord of Radiance is a special case, he is as self-conscious as the soul fire of the alchemy tower, and he is not a pan-conscious deity whose will is diffused over living individuals. This is a very obvious man-made trace, and Victor can almost conclude that the Lord of Light is also an extraordinary creature of the Alchemy Empire. From his point of view, the Lord of Radiance assumes the function of receiving and transforming the power of the heart, turning the faith of the people into holy power, allowing ordinary people to reach the level of the holy realm.

The Mage Guild of the Ancient Alchemy Empire is in the same vein as the Chosen Wizard, and Victor highly suspects that the first Pope Enoch's succession to the Lord of Light is the result of a secret premeditation.

In the timeline, Enoch was born more than a hundred years after the outbreak of the blood sacrifice war by the wizard, and he could not be the initiator of the blood sacrifice war, but the cruel war caused by the devil's blood sacrifice ritual undoubtedly provided objective conditions for the Lord of Radiance to condense his faith, and the ancient great wizard Andrew invented the blood sacrifice ritual as if it was specifically to awaken the Lord of Light.

Wizards are able to communicate with evil gods, and if Andrew's blood ritual comes from an evil god, then he is most likely behind it.

What was His purpose in awakening the Lord of Light?

Where is He?

Victor has many mysteries to solve, and the encounter with the Shadow Knight in the Giant Wood Forest allows him to catch the tail of the man behind the scenes.

The Shadow Knight's extraordinary powers look like divine magic, and Victor can't be entirely sure about it, but he can make a bold assumption.

The Ancient Behemoths devoured each other's divine laws in the Eternal War in an attempt to transcend immortality, and the victors became gods, but they were in an unfortunate position against the will of their creator, Tyron Real. Therefore, the ancient gods needed to tempt humans to sacrifice to them, first taught the alchemy tower of the void creation technique, but after the collapse of the alchemy empire, no one sacrificed the laws of matter to the alchemy tower, and they bewitched the chosen sorcerer to perform blood sacrifices, and thus transformed into the devil and evil god in the mouth of humans.

One of them is an evil god who has taken a fancy to the most powerful legacy of the Alchemy Empire, the Lord of Radiance, who can transform human faith into holy power. He used some ancient gods to plan the blood sacrifice war of mankind, and secretly guided the first Pope Enoch to awaken the Lord of Light, unite the faith of the people, and create the Church of Light. He then parasitized the Lord of Light to steal the purified power of faith in order to maintain his immortal will.

The Shadow Knight is his favorite, the Shadow Priest is his minion, and Victor, who can sacrifice the laws of matter to other evil gods, has become a thorn in his side.

Of course, these are just Victor's guesses, and there are many mistakes and omissions, such as the fact that the powerful alien races that have invaded the alchemy empire can't be pieced together. But in any case, Victor wants to meet with the Pope, even if he can't communicate privately, and it is good to remember the characteristics of the Pope. With his current ability, he can completely communicate with the Pope secretly through his rivalry and wind control skills halfway up the Bright Holy Mountain, or try it.

"Isn't there any other way?" asked Victor, frowning and reluctantly.

Clement smiled and said, "With His Majesty's status as the Pope, it is not easy for the Raging Wind Sword Saint to ask for a meeting, but he can summon you. But I have said beforehand, if His Majesty the Pope summons you, Nakhtigarh, Friedus, Tamor and I must be present, and besides, there are some things that cannot be said to the Pope, we will explain them beforehand. ”

"So, do you still want to meet with the Pope?"

Hearing this, Victor's heart was immediately alert, with Nachtigar and the three patriarchs present, he couldn't talk about any secret things, in this case, what else did he want to see the Pope? His Royal Highness Randall's old enemy combat skills are almost incomprehensible, and it is not a secret in the small circle of top extraordinary powerhouses. Didn't His Highness Randall's insistence on meeting with the Pope in order to remember the characteristics of the other party?

Victor hesitated for two seconds, nodded and said, "It's good to see each other." ”

His Royal Highness Randall had no extra explanation, Clement's eyes were slightly condensed, but he chose to believe Father Miller, pondered for a moment, and said calmly: "It is not appropriate for His Highness to take the initiative to ask to see the Pope, so I will write a letter to His Majesty the Pope, stating that the Angry Wind Sword Saint is in the El Sect, and ask him if he wants to summon you." But I can't guarantee it's going to work. ”

Victor smiled and said, "Thank you for your help, that's enough." ”

Clement and Victor came to the study, hand-wrote a letter in front of him, and ordered the attendants to deliver it to the papal palace.

All that's left is to wait. Lady Melissa had carved out an area of the manor for Victor's chariot to settle down, where Tournans and Caligula had lost to the legendary paladin without any suspense, but he had also caused a lot of trouble for his opponents, and after lunch, they chatted until the afternoon, and neither Gillian nor Charlotte had returned from the fairgrounds of the Holy City. In the evening, the retinue of the estate came to inform him of the visit of King Nakhtigarh.

Clement, who was playing against Victor, put down the crystal chess pieces, as if relieved, and said with some regret: "Nakhtigarh personally visited, it seems that His Majesty the Pope has no intention of summoning you...... Let's go meet Nakhtigarh. ”

Victor shook his head and smiled wryly, got up and left the lounge with the Pope, and walked towards the gate of the manor.

Nakhtigar stood outside the door with a horse-leading attendant, he was dressed in elegant aristocratic civilian clothes, his figure was slender and well-proportioned, his short brown-red hair, his temperament was calm and calm, his face was extraordinarily handsome, more than Victor, he looked like a young man of 17 or 8 years old, and his bright blue eyes were shining brightly, and he looked strange and noble.

Victor met King Nakhtigar for the first time, but he had long heard of the other party's characteristics.

Carsten Nakhtigarh is one hundred and twenty-three years old, and when he was promoted to Legendary Knight, Sylvia was not even born, making him the oldest Legendary Paladin today. But he described him as a young man, gentle as jade, which made people feel good at first sight, and it was difficult to think of the first paladin who had dominated the Holy See for decades.

The appearance and temperament of a high-ranking knight coincide with his own heart. When Victor first met Sylvia, she was like an ordinary lady in her 30s, mature and beautiful, sexy and charming. As Victor grows, Sylvia gradually blooms into otherworldly beauty, and any high-ranking female knight is overshadowed by her demeanor, and when she and Victor stand together, everyone will be born without exception, this is the idea of a couple.

Nakhtigar's promotion to the rank of Transcendent Knight as a teenager and his original appearance show that he has always been young and energetic, but from another point of view, Nakhtigar is determined to be unmoved by external objects, and in a pejorative term, he is stubborn to the point of causing headaches.

The reason why Victor has a negative view of Nakhtigar is not unrelated to Roland's fall.

Nakhtigar made eye contact with Victor, smiled apologetically, and said to Clement: "Your Majesty, your letter, the Pope has received it, but he has no intention of summoning His Highness Randall, I have come here to explain." ”

"Your Majesty Nakhtigarh, please come inside, you two may need to talk to each other individually. Clement measured his body and raised his hand in motion.

Back at the mansion, Clement led Victor and Nakhtigar into a VIP lounge, where the servants brought refreshments and exchanged pleasantries, before leaving the room.

Victor's dark golden eyes turned to King Nakhtigarh, and asked with a faint smile: "His Majesty the Pope has not summoned me, do you still want to ask His Majesty the King to make a special trip?"

"I didn't let him summon the Raging Wind Sword Saint. Nakhtigarh said frankly: "I can't figure out the purpose of His Highness's request to see the Pope, and if His Highness is to learn about historical secrets, it seems that I am the most suitable person to talk to." As for His Majesty the Pope now...... His Highness should have heard of the current way of transmission of the Pope's lineage, and we do not want outsiders to disturb His Majesty the Pope, but after all, he is a priest of the Holy Spirit and should be respected. So, in order to reduce unnecessary trouble, the thing we can solve is not to bother the Pope. ”

The subtext of Nakhtigarh is that we lied a lot to the Pope, but as a top-notch transcendent, he will inevitably notice it when he meets with outsiders, so we can't let you meet with the Pope.

Victor knew that the chances of meeting the Pope were slim, as if no lord would take a guest to his secret treasury, he just wanted to try it once. It is understandable that the Pope helped and was blocked by Nahtigar.

Victor secretly regretted it, diverted his attention, and asked bluntly: "His Majesty has come to explain in person, is there anything you want to talk to me about?"

Nakhtigarh nodded very dryly, and said, "Your Highness and the Queen of the Rose have taken out the rock bricks, and it will be easier to open up the war, and I hope that Gombis will allow the Rand Empire to join the camp of crossing the river to the south." As long as the Kingdom of Cambis is the first to make a commitment to put aside the blood feud of Ryan August, I can convince Neowest to end the Rand Empire and participate in the Frontier Wars of the Southern Continent as a Pioneer Lord. ”

Victor looked at Nakhtigar amusedly and asked softly, "Is it that simple?"

Nakhtigarh said calmly: "Regarding what happened to Ryan and Roland, I don't want to say that it was a misunderstanding. However, it is also true that the three kingdoms of the south betrayed their lord. Emperor Neowest has been promoted to a legend, and he deserves to be rewarded, and it is his responsibility and right to take back the three eastern provinces of Gombis. I told him to give it his all in the face of the Golden Knight, it was his responsibility as a traditional ally, and there was nothing to be sorry for...... In fact, in that knight duel, Neowest was on the defensive from beginning to end. For Ryan's fall, Roland shouldn't blame Neowest and me. ”

"Sylvia said, you were nearby...... In addition, Nakhtigar is well aware of the Great Prophecy. Victor said with a sharp gaze and a cold expression.

Nakhtigarh shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly and said, "The Queen of Roses hides the identity of the god knight, and the church must react. After the battle of Whitewater Fortress, Tournans took the initiative to challenge Sylvia, and it was my turn to warn that if I could not deter the arrogance of the Yorks, there might be one or two more lords in the abbey worthy of the attention of the Queen of Roses. ”

"I secretly watched the knight duel between Neowest and Ryan...... Does Your Highness think that I will be able to leave the Holy City of El without the unanimous request of the Holy See and the Knights of Radiance?"

You blame me alone for what the church decides, so it doesn't make sense.

Nakhtigar's explanation is tantamount to showing weakness, but his image of a handsome young man seems natural. Victor was speechless, fixed his mind, and asked rhetorically, "Can you call the shots for Neowest?"

"Adam is the Emperor of the Rand Empire, but most of the high-ranking knights of the Rand Empire are willing to listen to me. Nakhtigarh smiled and said, "I'm very humble in saying that. ”

"So, you are for the Nakhtigarh family to better develop their secular power. Victor raised his eyebrows, which were as slender as a sword, and said, "In that case, you have to pay for the rock bricks, a total of 20 million gold soles...... I don't mean to be embarrassed to say this, it's the price in every kingdom. ”

Carsten was dumbfounded, and after a while, he asked with a wry smile: "I can't take out such a large sum of money...... Can it be a little less? How about 2 million gold soles? It's better to repay it in ten years......"

"No!" Victor felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure in his heart, and flatly rejected Nakhtigar's proposal.

"Then we'll just have to wait...... When the rock bricks are worthless, they secretly build giant brick kilns. ”

Now it was Victor's turn to be dumbfounded, he never thought that Nakhtigar could be a scoundrel and take it for granted.

"Isn't His Highness Randall playing a scoundrel by offering a sky-high price that I can't afford to refuse to allow the Rand Empire to join the Nantuo camp led by the Kingdom of Gombis?" Nakhtigar looked directly into Victor's eyes and said with a chuckle: "It's better to think about my first proposal first, and then we'll talk about Kinsor...... I can't afford 20 million gold soles, but I think the Trigovar family will be willing to help me raise some of the money. ”

Victor was silent for a moment and said, "Your Majesty has cast a magic spell on me, and I can convey your proposal to the Kite Castle." ”

Stunned, Carsten asked in disbelief, "It's that simple?"

Without waiting for Victor to answer, he stretched out his right hand to summon a layer of white-gold brilliance, and said with a smile: "Paladin's self-healing technique...... If Your Highness is not satisfied, I can cast all the Holy Knight's magic for His Highness to see. ”

Victor shook his head and said expressionlessly: "It's okay, Your Majesty the King, please go back, I will fulfill my promise, but I don't guarantee the attitude of the Kite Castle." ”

Nakhtigarh stood up from the couch, smiled and saluted, "The Kingdom of Gombis needs to build a harbor at the mouth of Lake Fez, otherwise your fishing fleet will have nowhere to dock, and the fish caught will only rot in the cabin...... We're all trying to work together. ”

Without saying a word, Victor got up and returned the salute and sent Nakhtigar to the door.

Before leaving, King El smiled elegantly and said, "Your Highness, on behalf of the Nakhtigar family, I invite you to be a guest at the El Palace. If you find it inconvenient, I didn't mention it. ”

Victor nodded and said, "If the Kite Castle agrees to His Majesty's proposal, I will definitely visit the royal palace in Nakhtigarh if I have the opportunity." ”

"I'm looking forward to this day and I'm leaving. ”

Seeing Nakhtigar leave the manor, Victor muttered in his heart, "I can cast a radiant magic...... He is unlikely to be a Shadow Knight. ”

"Who the hell is ...... Shadow Knight and the real Shadow Speaker?"