Chapter 10: Four Years of Time
As the interrogation work slowly came to an end, the Great Purge within the Holy See gradually ended, due to the arrest and interrogation of a large number of clergy, the work of the Holy See also fell into a brief chaos, but fortunately, Pope Edward IV had already prepared, and a group of young clergy quickly arrived in place, and quickly resumed the daily work of the Holy See under the leadership of the predecessors who were not arrested. But the Pope, who was supposed to come out at this time to appease people www.biquge.info did not show up for a long time, and the thing that dragged the Pope was the information that Les and Manto had just gotten from Keller.
"His Holiness the Pope, in addition to what Keller said, there is one more thing. After Manto had recounted what Keller had said, Rice spoke again.
"Well, what's the matter?"
"Neither Keller nor Saladin had anything to do with the last abduction of the Son, and in the case of the use of 'Dream', no one has been found to be related to the assassination of the Son seven years ago and the kidnapping of the Son two days before, which, by all accounts, are supposed to have been committed by the same group. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the man who showed up in the alley the night I returned to town. ”
"Well, that means there's still a group of people still hiding in the Holy See?" the Pope asked Rice, putting aside his thoughts about the Crumb Empire for the time being.
"I'm afraid that's exactly what happened, His Holiness the Pope. Three of the five people you asked Master Manto to spy on the previous two days were determined to be apostates, but upon interrogation, it was discovered that not any of the three had appeared in the alley that night, and two others were still uncertain, and they had not behaved in any unusual manner. Before Les and Manto went to meet the Pope, Les had already discussed the matter with Manto, and learned that Manto had been ordered to spy on all those who left the Holy Mountain on the night he returned to the city.
"Now that the matter is no longer suitable to expand, let's first transfer those two uncertain people from the Holy Mountain. As for the list," the Pope said, pointing to the new list that Les and Manto had put together on the basis of their confessions, "and to give them all the people whom the bishops had used to inquire about the information, and to dispel them from the minds they should not have." As for the apostate who colludes with other forces, it is good to keep one or two, and the others will be executed together with those who have already been captured, and as for the Kram Empire, I will arrange for people to secretly investigate. ”
"Your Majesty, Keller ......" Manto knew that Keller could not handle it like everyone else, otherwise it would have a huge impact on the Holy See.
"Bring him in, I'll talk to him personally. Edward IV said.
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"Your Highness the Holy Son, Lord Rice is here. ”
Allen, who was practicing etiquette under Elaine's "torture", heard this, and hurriedly jumped up from his chair, quietly rubbed his sore waist, and shouted outside:
"Ask him to come in. ”
Now Alan would rather accept Rice's running punishment than learn any etiquette from Elaine, provided that no one kidnaps him again, of course.
Elaine glared fiercely at Les, who walked in, and said angrily: "Lord Rice, His Majesty the Pope has instructed the Holy Son to rest well!" Elaine was angry not only because Les disturbed the Holy Son and himself to learn etiquette, but also because of everything that happened yesterday, if Uriah hadn't succeeded in rescuing Alan, the current Eren would be a corpse.
"I know, Sister Elaine, that I have only come to say goodbye to His Highness the Son. ”
"What, don't you teach me martial arts?" Although he doesn't have a good impression of Les, Alan does hope to learn some martial arts to protect himself now, and the night he was rescued, he chatted a lot with a knight named Lehman on the way back, and learned that in the Holy See, Les should be the strongest martial artist at present.
"I'm sorry, Your Highness the Holy Son, the Pope should arrange someone else to teach you, I will soon go to the Forbidden Mountain Range, this is some of my experience in martial arts over the years, I hope it can be useful to you. As he spoke, Rice took out the black book from his bosom and handed it to Alan.
"Forbidden Mountain Range!" Alan couldn't help but take a breath as he thought of the descriptions of the Forbidden Mountain Range he had seen in the book this morning. Elaine also looked at Rice in surprise, although she was angry at Rice's behavior, she didn't expect him to receive such punishment, after all, Alan finally returned safely.
Les looked at the expressions of Alan and Elaine and said, "Don't be so surprised, I deserve it." With that, he glanced apologetically at Allen, the young son who should have been his disciple.
The kind-hearted Elaine blurted out, "This punishment is too heavy......!
"Little girl, don't think everything so scary, and Thor has been there for too long, it's time to come back and rest. By the way, Your Highness the Holy Son, you can propose to His Holiness the Pope that the Knight of Thor teach you martial arts, and I am sure that he will be a qualified teacher. ”
Les bent down slightly and made a knightly salute, "Farewell, then, Your Highness the Son." Then he walked out the door.
Elaine stayed for a moment, and then saw Eren quietly running to the back room with the black book.
"Your Highness, let's continue to practice etiquette!"
"Ah, spare me. ”
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Four years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Allen has lived quite a fulfilling life, not only growing from a twelve-year-old boy to a sixteen-year-old youth, but also completing the study of many courses such as the history of the Holy See, the history of the continent, and the geography of the continent, and successfully passed the Pope's test.
At the same time, Alan also followed Rice's advice and asked the Pope to practice martial arts with Thor, Thor was indeed an excellent teacher, and under his teaching, Alan also became a qualified probationary knight, of course, with his status, no knight would dare to accept him as his servant.
What makes Alan most proud is his height, after the rapid improvement of the development period, he is now 1.8 meters taller than Elaine, but the relationship with Elaine has not progressed at all. As he learned more and more, he also knew the Holy See's rules prohibiting marriage, although the Brilliant Holy Sect was not too strict in this regard, so Alan could also determine the Holy Son as soon as possible after his succession, and directly pass on the throne to the next generation of Holy Sons when they became adults, so that he could leave the Holy See to marry and have children, but no matter what, it would take many years to complete all this.
Therefore, Alan still has to find a way to modify the canon, even if the two fall into an inextricable love, Elaine will never do anything that violates the canon. In short, Alan has a long way to go in every way, but these are not things to worry about today, because today is the day when His Royal Highness Allen, the Holy Son, is baptized in the Holy Light.
This is also the most important day in the life of the Son after the rite of passage, not only because it will allow the Son to acquire a unique divine skill, but also because the Holy See will basically determine the successor among the Son according to the degree of baptism of the Holy Light. Of course, for Allen, the only Holy Son of the Holy See, this is a day of awakening magic.
In the past four years, Alan also learned that in the Firmament War, that is, the Second War of Gods and Demons, although the gods led the order camp to victory, they also suffered heavy losses themselves, dragons, elves, goblins, giants and many rare races were almost wiped out, and some of the remaining clansmen gradually disappeared into the long river of history. And the biggest loss is what the Pope once mentioned - the fall of the elemental god Orim, the magic elements that fell into the riot are not only unusable, but also wreaking havoc on this continent, the helpless god king Augsg had to seal all the magic elements between heaven and earth somewhere in the endless ocean, which made the earth calm again, as a price, human beings not only lost the ability to use magic, but even the clever martial arts can no longer be used, because that also requires magic elements.
In this case, Alan can only pin his hope on the divine arts, the secret texts of the Holy See record that the divine arts are the blessing of the gods in the baptism of holy light, and the divine skills awakened by each baptized person are different, and they need to constantly explore themselves. Only those who believe in piety are eligible to be baptized, at least as far as Alan currently knows, only the Pope and the Manto priest have divine magic, of course, the number of people in the Holy See who has divine magic will definitely not be so small, but this is also a secret of the Holy See, and Alan has learned from it.
Manto's magic Alan has already seen it, and as far as Manto said, his magic has the power of hypnosis. As for the Pope's magical abilities, Alan had no idea about it, and he didn't dare to ask, since he knew about the purge four years ago, Alan no longer dared to think of Edward IV as a kind old man.
In any case, Eren is going to be baptized in the light today, and although he himself does not think he can afford to be called a pious person, as a privileged class, he can always ignore some rules.
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"Your Highness Allen, you can't do this, this outfit is not in line with today's occasion. Elaine chased after Alan with a suit of clothes.
Alan, who had been excited all night, got up early in the morning, took a set of clothes and put them on his body, and rushed to the temple, and when Elaine found him, he had already walked a long way.
Alan turned around and saw Elaine running profusely and walking towards her in distress.
"Oh, what are you doing in such a hurry, come, hurry up and rest. Lehman, go find a chair!" Lehman, who was snickering on the side, rolled his eyes, Lehman, who had stayed by Allen's side for four years and was not "killed", had already regarded himself as a confidant of His Highness the Holy Son, and he was familiar with Allen's temper, and he only took two steps back, not acting according to Allen's intention at all.
"What kind of chair to find, Your Highness Allen, hurry up and change your clothes, otherwise you will be laughed at when you arrive at the temple!"
"Okay, okay, you rest. Lehman, find a place for us to change!"
"Yes, Your Highness. But Your Highness, it's you who change your clothes, and I don't need it. ”
"Don't be poor, go quickly. ”
Looking at Elaine, who was about to get angry again before she could catch her breath, the two hurriedly ran away.
After a period of chaos, the three of them hurried to the temple, at this time there were already many people in the temple, basically in the Holy Mountain's high-level Holy See, seeing Alan appear at the door of the temple, they saluted him one after another, seeing this scene, Alan was a little nervous, after all, it has only been behind closed doors in the past few years. At this time, Elaine coughed lightly behind her, which made Eren instantly recall the terrifying etiquette training, but the effect of this training was remarkable.
Alan hurriedly straightened up his waist and walked slowly into the temple, smiling at everyone in return, looking very personable.
Edward IV, who was standing on the stage, whispered to Manto next to him: "Well, now don't doubt that little girl's ability." ”
"It's really a thing descending from a thing, but Your Majesty, don't you worry about the Holy Son's ......" Manto sighed, and then said with some worry, where can they old people not see the little thing between Eren and Elaine.
"In front of some things, some subsections don't have to be too concerned. Now, get ready to get started, Manto. ”