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"Lord Sephora. The priest with long black hair greeted Caterina Sephora, "What happened to Father Andrewson's punishment in the Papal Hall?"

"Call me Katerina, Vátsru. "As one of the most noble bishops of the Cross in the Papal Chamber, Caterina is a very beautiful woman, she has long golden curly hair, a pair of silver glasses on the bridge of her fair nose, and silver-blue pupils that shimmer with a wisdom rarely seen in ordinary women," the Pope and the bishops decided to remove him from his position and demote him to the rank of ordinary itinerant priest, but because the operation would continue, he would continue to wait in the White Rose City for the time being, until the new commander went to Southridge to replace him. ”

"Demotion yet...... Not so long ago it was Father Abel...... Father Andrewson...... Hearing Katarina's words, Vashiro sighed, "The reformers and the Didactics really seized every opportunity to suppress us as much as possible......

"Father Abel's character is not fit to be a leader, as for Father Andrewson...... I support his decision in the first place. Caterina subconsciously pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, she had foreseen the suppression of her by the other two main factions of the Church. After all, as the Duke of the Empire, the person who has sat in the position of the supreme bishop has been the only one from ancient times to the present, Caterina Sephora. If she, the "Emperor's Dog", had really attained such a sacred status as the Pope, the reformers would have staged a coup d'état, and the Didactic would not have given her a good look at her as the Pope - even now, as the Supreme Bishop and the "hermit", her existence has been deeply feared by many people in the Imperial Hall.

As the saying goes, the small sees the big, and from the three major factions of the Sunnah, we can see a microcosm of the entire Church of the Gods today.

Thirteen Sections of the Special Service Agency representing the forces of the Emperor's faction.

The Stigmata Knight, who represents the forces of the Reformists.

A monastic order representing the forces of the Didactic sect.

It's just that unlike the thirteen branches in the Sunnah, among all the forces of the entire church, the most dominant sect at this time is the sect of teachings with the support of the pope, which occupies four seats among the thirteen supreme bishops, plus the two votes of the pope, and the seats at the top of the entire church have exceeded one-third.

The next three reformers also have a pivotal position.

Then there are the other five supreme bishops who vacillate in their positions, belonging to the neutral faction. In Caterina's view, these centrists are the real wise people, and they will not make drastically different decisions because of the different people who are sponsoring the bill. In fact, it is also true that in the resolution of the Emperor's Office, when the doctrinal and reformist factions are arguing endlessly, it is often these neutral wise men who play the final role.

And the twelve, there was Caterina, the lonely emperor.

As the supreme priest of the eastern territories of the Empire, where the church was most prevalent, Caterina was both a devout believer and a vassal of the Emperor, and there were many imperial nobles like her in the eastern counties, and in general, high priests like her had to give up their worldly status when they became servants and shepherds of the gods - unless they were divinely ordained.

That is, the nobles of the empire who donated all their territories to the Church, and thus were forever given the title of Families of God by the Pope.

Yes, this is a very common situation in the eastern counties of the empire, where the church is the strongest, and even the Duke of the Night Stalker, Caterina, one of the nine imperial electors who is theoretically the eastern prince of the empire and the most noble of imperial blood, has lost all of his family fiefs since his great-great-great-grandfather, and now the capital of the eastern counties, the holy city of Mirandor, was formerly the capital of the eastern dukedom, Mirandal.

However, the religious piety of the ancestors often does not mean that their descendants will also like the strict dogma of the ascetic and prudent religion of the church, even if they have a very high reputation and status in the church and the people of the empire, but the divine nobles in the east, watching the nobles in other places eat and drink and live extravagantly, there is still no shortage of people who are jealous and want to return to their fiefs.

And it was under such circumstances that Caterina, as the leader of the nobility of the eastern counties, was forcibly promoted to the seat of the Pope's Hall by these ordained nobles, who mostly occupied a half-official position in the church.

However, although I want to say sorry to those divine nobles who support her, the reason why Caterina is willing to become the supreme bishop has little to do with the superficial wishes of these divine nobles.

Therefore, no matter what people in the outside world may imagine, the people around Catalina often have their own reasons, but they are never as simple as the shallow desires of the emperor or the divine nobles.

Vátsru had forgotten why he was by Katerina's side, but watching little Katerina, who was only knee-high at the beginning, grow step by step into the beauty and supreme bishop she is today, Wenceru has long been accustomed to standing by her side, thinking about her thoughts, and solving problems for her: "...... The Silver Rose family has had a decent relationship with the Church for the last century, and the initial decision to send the Sunnah to participate in the assassination has already led to a lot of controversy...... Why do those people intend to continue even after such a blow?!"

"The reformers need merit to further expand their power...... In addition, if you look at the settlement conditions offered by the little duke of the Ian family, you won't find it so strange. Caterina sighed, to be honest, she did not support the use of force against Nanling, but the Pope's Hall sent the Sunnah to fight against the Silver Rose, not because she and the Duke of Southridge, the most powerful in the Sunnah, had the intention of consuming each other, "But the next action has nothing to do with us, go back and contact Andrewson and tell him not to act rashly." The Reformation mobilized their most elite Ninth Airmobile Crusader, and the Cultists decided to take one piece out and take part in the holy war against the South Ridge. ”

"......!" Wenceru was stunned and didn't speak for a long time, "What kind of conditions did Evan Ian propose!?I remember that the relationship between the Sect and Nanling was not good?!!Why is it ...... now?"

"It is precisely because of the good relationship that the rumors must be refuted. Caterina explained lightly, "Although the Sect of Doctrine is the most powerful now, it is at a disadvantage in the debate with the reformers over the doctrine, because they insist on the Dark Divine Technique and the Light Divine Technique go hand in hand, they have been beaten many times as conspirators with the Dark Chaos, so the reason why they took out the magic weapon this time is also to show an attitude." ”

"What the hell did Evan Ian do......" Wenceru didn't know what to say.

"The little duke didn't do anything, he just did what he had to do. Caterina, who is also a nobleman of the Empire, couldn't help but have a hint of sadness in her tone, "But the strangulation of the black bloods has always been something that the Church has spared no effort to do, seeing that the day of the contract judgment with the gods is approaching, the emperor and other nobles are confused and unaware of the existence of darkness, and in the shadow of the empire, the actions of those dark mages are becoming more and more rampant......"

"We're running out of time. Katerina looked up at the bright afternoon sun over the Holy City, "That's why the reformers are getting more and more crazy, and now even the Doctrinal faction has finally chosen to gamble on this last chance." ”

"......," Vátsru couldn't help but be silent for a moment, "what about us, Lord Duke, what did you choose in the end?"

Katerina did not answer immediately.

The 30892nd Proposal Meeting of the Imperial Chamber, the resolution was voted on, and the result was -

With ten votes in favour, four abstentions and one vote against, the resolution was adopted.

"If, as Andrewson says, he is capable of subverting the Empire, then the world will need him for the foreseeable future. Katerina gently pushed her glasses, a flash of sharpness in her silver-blue pupils, "Wenceru, tell Andrewson and Abel to protect Evan Ian with all their might, even if it is confirmed that he was killed by the Crusaders-"

"We must not let him become the Dark Lord's Demon Horcrux!"

Holy City, deep underground in the Great Basilica of St. Vena.

The red-robed blindfolded nun and the white-robed blindfolded nun walked quietly on the underground corridor one after the other.

"Knetting......" The red-robed nun who was walking in front suddenly spoke, the nun turban covering her eyes made her expression unrecognizable, "You haven't spoken since just now, do you have any questions about the resolution of the Imperial Palace?"

"Supreme Bishop...... The nun who followed the red-robed nun was none other than Evan Ian, who had not seen her for nine years, and she opened her mouth.

"Privately, you might as well call me Nona. The red-robed Supreme Bishop said softly, just as she had done more than ten years ago when she and Knetting had studied with the then High Priesthood, now His Majesty the Pope.

"Sister Nona......" Knetting looked at the senior sister in front of him with mixed feelings.

"It's because of Evan Ian. Nona already knew what she wanted to say, "You've always thought Evan Ian was a good boy, but I've already told you that the secret of the Black Blood has nothing to do with his character, as long as he is a Black Blood Man, he has the possibility of bringing a great crisis to the world, and as servants of the gods and shepherds of the world, we can't ignore such obvious loopholes." ”

"The better he is now, the more attractive he will be to the dark ones, and if they succeed, the more dangerous the disaster will become. ”

"......" Knetting understands this, so she has always been silent until now, but knowing it does not mean that it is acceptable, and the discomfort in her heart is impossible to speak. If it weren't for the fact that the day of the covenant with the gods was running out, there was still room for the church and the Silver Rose family to turn around, and Evan Ian would not have ended up like this.

But the Church is now unable to turn around, and neither can the Didactic School, and she, Archbishop Knetting, is equally unable to shoulder the lives of tens of millions of people throughout the empire and say a single "no".

"I just hope Evan Ian can understand us...... Nona said lightly, "This is the misfortune of his birth as a member of the Ian family, and also the misfortune of his being a black-blooded person, for the sake of the entire human race, his family and other black-blooded people can only be sacrificed." ”

Seeing that Knetting was silent, Nona nodded with satisfaction, she knew that her hot-blooded but not reckless little junior sister could figure it out, so she didn't have to worry that she would reveal the actions of the church to the Nanling side.

She stopped, inserted the pendant around her neck into the jack, and pressed her hand against the stone wall of the white marble stone door in front of her.

With a loud roar, the long-sealed door slowly opened.

In the brightly lit stone chamber, a black mask with only the upper half of the face lay silently in the center of the platform.

"This is a divine weapon prepared for the appointed day. Walking into the encircled magical enchantment, Nona gently picked up the mask, "The magic weapon of the goddess Vena that only a saint-level divine affinity can control." ”

She turned around and handed the precious artifact to Knetting, "Give this to the sisters of the Hermit Order and let them take it to Southridge, where there happens to be a candidate for the Black Saint to use it." ”