Chapter 310: The Deep Game of Forces of All Parties
The main members of the Church of the Sages are monks, and although their practice is different from that of the Church of the Holy Sound, it is still clear that they use holy power.
The power is not bad, or even stronger, but the problem is that you are too 'conspicuous' and do something unseemly, as long as you are seen, you know that you are the church.
But it is impossible for a huge force to exist without some darkness.
Therefore, the church either does some bad things under the guise of doing good deeds and hides them, or it is trying to get a group of members who do not use holy power.
Many of these churches have been worried about this, but they have gradually found their own solutions.
Some churches secretly keep a group of people in other professions, which is the most common method, let these people work for the church, but this method is not cheap, and the promotion of other professions always requires various resources, and they are not necessarily willing to stay in the dark all the time.
Some churches have set up special organizations, using a certain way to change some of the nature of the holy power, and finally come up with a special profession, in a semi-detached posture from the church, to do black work, with the support of faith, they are much more reliable, but faith sometimes deteriorates, and once this kind of person who does black work deteriorates, it is always easy to cause big problems.
Of course, the methods of the Church of the Holy Ones are much simpler and crude, they find some criminals, secretly rescue them, and perform some kind of ritual on them, which makes them have to obey the church.
And these criminals are similar to consumables, the rituals of the Church of the Sage, so that they cannot resist any order of the Church of the Sage, and whenever the relevant personnel of the Church give them a holy order, they must accept it.
It's just that the holy order is related to the ritual, and there is a limit to the holy order that each criminal can bear, generally one to three holy orders, and if there are too many, it will directly break the other party's thinking ability and make him become an idiot, so the highest priority holy order is naturally not to expose the relationship with the church.
Although the Holy Order is limited, the Church still has a very strong control over these criminals, and after these criminals are reformed by the ritual, they must rely on the ritual to maintain them in order to live for a long time, and the longer they are outside, the faster their vitality will be consumed.
As long as these people do not want to die, they must complete the tasks given by the church, and then return to the church and accept the maintenance of their bodies again by the rituals.
Of course, the controlled criminals did not think about resisting, but unfortunately, their time was not enough, and in the midst of the ritual, his mind and body would be limited, and he could not think about how to solve the problem of the ritual.
And by the time they came out of the ritual and went on a mission, not to mention the problems caused by the Holy Order, by the time they figured out how to counter the ritual, they would have died long ago due to the lack of maintenance of the ritual.
Naturally, the Devil Claw Demon didn't want to be under the control of the church, and he was definitely not willing to be controlled until he died.
Therefore, after snatching the ledger, he did not immediately go to meet with the people of the Church of the Sage.
There are only two holy orders that he can accept, one is naturally not to reveal his relationship with the Church of the Sages, and the other is to complete this mission and seize the ledger to the greatest extent.
But there are no longer enough holy orders to manipulate the actions after the seizure of the ledger.
"Use the ledger as a bargaining chip to ask for help from someone who has the power to treat me. The Devil thought so.
He didn't want people to help him remove the rituals on him, he couldn't get people to tell the specific steps of those rituals, because those steps had obvious relevance to the church, and if they were spoken, they violated the First Command.
What he wants to do is to open the opportunity to condense merit again, once the condensation merit is successful, with the help of the breakthrough return stage, the return of merit can carry out a substantial improvement on his body, and this improvement is very likely to allow him to break through the limit of the ritual.
It's not that easy to just condense merit, especially for him.
At that time, he had completed most of the steps of condensing merit, and his life force had begun to become active, and when his life force was about to be connected to the completion of the deeds, he was stopped.
The man was a monk of the Church of the Sages, and they beat him half to death, then threw him aside, and left without looking at him.
He originally thought that he was saved, but he did not expect that soon someone from the Church of the Holy One would appear and bring him back.
In that condensation process, he spent a lot of life force, his body fell into deficit, and after a few years, although many people still remember, no one sang about it.
"I need to remind them of their fear of me again. The Devil Claw thought as he looked at a child playing on the side of the road, and stuck out his tongue and licked his upper lip.
It's just that he quickly suppressed this impulse, and he is now being hunted down by three parties, whether it is Viscount Surrey, Prince Gwen's people, or other nobles are secretly looking for him.
Even the Church of the Holy One, which does not see him return for a while, will come to him.
At this time, any superfluous behavior will only reveal his position, and the means of changing the breath of life are not omnipotent, once discovered, he is not sure to escape again.
"We still need to find allies first. The clawed demon resisted his desire to destroy, and the breath of life changed again, and he ran towards another place.
And during the time when the evil claw demon escaped, various games were also going on.
On the one hand, Prince Gewen went to solve the problem of the battle between the strong in the return stage of the city, and on the other hand, he constantly put pressure on several nobles, and at the same time secretly gave some benefits, intending to break the alliance of the nobles.
The effect is there, but it is limited, even if the nobles want to sell their teammates, they will only sell if they see enough benefits, and the problem now is that the Surrey family is destined to be killed, so why not insist that it is the Surrey family?
Selling other teammates may also cause other teammates to counterattack and step on the Surrey family, then there is no problem at all, so they will be soft on Prince Gwen's pressure, but if they want them to hand over more information, then forget it.
In addition to this kind of thought, there are also various influences that the Church of the Sage has been carrying out, they hint that those nobles, the ledger is in their own hands, so that those nobles can withstand the pressure of Gewen, and they will be responsible for the aftermath.
When everything is done, the business of smuggling ordnance can continue.
For the aristocracy, they did not want to bear the loss of interests, and it would be better if they were able to continue smuggling armaments.
Compared to Prince Gwen, who will definitely block this line of interests, although the Sage Church wants more, at least it still has benefits.
Happiness is all contrasted, and at this time, many people have begun to scold secretly, blaming whoever and who, and specifically proposing to leave the Church of the Sage alone.
Completely forgetting that when they proposed to leave the Church of the Holy Ones alone, each of them chose to agree.
The forces of all sides are constantly converging vertically and horizontally, exchanging interests, and constantly using various means in order to draw more people to their side, at least not to let the other side fall to the other side.
And in this clash of interests, the ledger becomes the key.
This thing is not only evidence of the crime, but also a guarantee for the distribution of interests, of course, there are many people who want to find Saba's traces, want to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and obtain that batch of ordnance as a supplement to interests.
Unfortunately, Saba seemed to be dead, and those people couldn't find it no matter how much they looked for it.
Now Nether has gained enough of an advantage, and the ordnance is now in his hands.
"Therefore the ledger cannot fall into the hands of the people of the Church of the Holy One. Nether quickly determined this, if the people of the Church of the Sage were in possession of the ledger, then they would most likely suppress this incident and hide the interest line of arms smuggling.
And if this line of interest is still there, then the value of this batch of ordnance in Nether's hands will depreciate, and only if this is the last batch of ordnance in a short period of time, the value of this batch of goods can skyrocket.
And the nobles who have less income will not be so resistant to waging war.
The smugglers of ordnance are generally the old nobles, they have a variety of industries to guarantee interests, have a variety of connections, are one of the vested interests, under normal circumstances, to start a war is to create competitors, so the old nobles are against war.
Only if the old nobles have lost enough will the war have a chance to continue.
"So we have to find a way to destroy the ledger. Nether touched his chin and thought that the chaotic situation was the most beneficial for him with the armament.