Chapter 101: Mending the Artifact
"Ah, that's so comfortable!" Red drank the Bordeaux from his glass, then stretched out and let out a pleasant cheer.
For those cardinals, without Red, the nominal archbishop on their heads, these real rulers of the Church of Light can continue to fight, as long as such a struggle does not affect the church's influence in the world, there is no need to worry about being interfered by Red, the titular archbishop.
Speaking of which, the current chaos of the Church of Light is really inseparable from the previous archbishop Iber, at that time, Iber's old age and weakness, coupled with the use of God's prophecy many times, has been unable to control the situation, but he is worried that once he leaves, there will be no one among the human race to restrain the erosion of the demigod lich, so he has to drag it until the orcs attack the imperial capital.
In order to ensure that no one in the church can dominate and affect his position, Ebel supported the 12 cardinals to form several factions of equal power as much as possible, but the end result of this was that when Red succeeded him, he could not suppress these guys who had gone further and further on the road to power due to his lack of prestige, resulting in internal strife. Later, when Iber's soul was projected on the plane of the palace vs. the demigod lich, the scorching angel staff that affected the archbishop's inheritance was destroyed by the skeleton demon, which put Red in an extremely disadvantageous position in the Church of Light, if he hadn't been recognized by "Praise of Light", maybe Red would have become the first archbishop in human history to be ousted.
"I said, Red, you've been here for seven days, and you've almost drunk a big barrel of the best Bordeaux, what are you going to exchange it for? You must know that such a barrel can be sold for at least tens of thousands of gold coins in Paradise of Freedom, and this is still half sold and half given away, and if it is taken to auction, I am afraid that tens of thousands of dollars will be no problem. Ryan said with a smile.
"Alas, stingy fellow, the Faras are all yours, her stuff is not yours, as your friend, you have to negotiate with me for a few barrels of Bordeaux now!" Red casually wiped his mouth with his sleeve, completely ignoring the archbishop's robe he was wearing, which symbolized God's position as the spokesman of the plane, and then grabbed a greasy roast from the table and ate it in a big gulp.
"Looking at your appearance, I'm afraid that you have been miserable in the imperial capital in the past few years, right?" Alendor leaned back in his chair, posed in a comfortable pose, and said lazily: "If I hadn't known that you had a very good relationship with Faraz, I would have thought that this guy of yours would not be able to mix in the imperial capital anymore, and he had to come here to eat after being hungry for dozens of days!"
"Hey, Alendor, you're actually sarcastic, yes, yes, after having a woman and about to become a father, you've changed a lot as a guy. But speaking of, alas, in the Church of Light in recent years... Forget it, don't mention it, I want to cry when I mention it!" Red deliberately wiped his greasy sleeve on his eyes a few times, but his other hand still kept stuffing the roast meat on his hand into his mouth, so that his words were a little vague.
"What kind of life is this, there is no oil star in food, not to mention wine, if I speak and behave a little bit out of order, at least I can grind for three or five days for the priests who are in charge of my daily life! I would rather go to penance again than be this archbishop, at least the former can occasionally sneak out and peek at what kind of bath, isn't it? Even if I drink another pot of Bordeaux, it is very pleasant!"
By the time Red had finished saying this, and there was only one bone left in the roast in his hand, Red grabbed the hem of the archbishop's robe and rubbed it vigorously on his mouth a few times, and then continued to spit bitterness at Ryan and Allendo. Fortunately, there were only three of them in the whole room, otherwise people would have fainted a large number of devout believers immediately when they heard that the archbishop of the great Church of Light was like this.
"Speaking of which, I really envy you, at least you can go on adventures to your heart's content, even if you have been wandering between life and death, but you can greatly improve your strength, hehe, there are now a total of 3 legendary powerhouses in the human race, and it turns out that except for Victor, it is the two of you. It's a pity, it's a pity, if that old fellow at Eber doesn't let me succeed to the throne, maybe I'll be the fourth?"
Red tilted his head and thought about it, and finally gave up the above illusions, he knew very well that even if there was a fourth legendary powerhouse, it would definitely not be him, at least when the Lace Six participated in the Royal Athletic Competition, the warrior Oz was much more diligent than him, not to mention Alina, who later turned into a mage, speaking of which, among the six people at the beginning, only Red was the first to gain strong power, but unfortunately his passable nature made him finally left far behind by Ryan and others, if it weren't for the remnants of Iber, Red was now afraid that he would really have to follow Faras and them to eatγ
"By the way, is Alina okay at the Imperial Capital Academy of Magic now? I heard that when she took the new level test this time, she actually reached level 16, but it's a pity that she didn't add her part-time job as a thief, otherwise she might be able to go up to level 20?" Ryan thought about it carefully and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen her for a long time, but I miss the time when we used to adventure together, and at that time we didn't seem to need to look forward like now, that is the real fun of adventure!"
"Are you old, right? Only old people will remember the old years, Your Excellency Lane ** Master!" Red curled the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "And Ellendo, you can really do it, you don't make a sound, but now you even have a child, well, how long will it take to give birth? When the time comes, you must let me hug me, I heard that the hybrid of humans and elves is not only very beautiful, but also inherits the talents of both sides, tsk, a half-elf who transforms into a wind wolf, and then pulls out a longbow......"
"you! What kind of image is this, it's too ugly, isn't it?" Alendor laughed and scolded, he has changed a lot now compared to the beginning, no longer that rigid expression, at least now in front of familiar people, Alendor finally has a smile like a normal person, compared to his druid predecessors who were infected with bestiality because of their specialization in druid transformation, Alendor seems to be completely untroubled by this, after being banished from the druid tribe, Alendor has completely abandoned the previous transformation fighting method, and naturally there will be no trouble in this regard again.
"Alright, alright, you've been eating and drinking here for a few days, so let's talk about your plans!" Ryan shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth to steer the topic to the right path: "I don't believe you're hiding here just to drink and eat meat and sleep, unless you've completely abandoned your identity!"
"Alas, okay, okay, I said it can't be done?" Red looked at Ryan's eyes that seemed to have seen through everything, and couldn't help but raise his hand in surrender with a wry smile: "Can't you make me comfortable for a few more days?" Well, this private library of yours has a defensive enchantment, right?"
"Emma, excuse me......" Ryan said this, and was immediately interrupted by Red's wave, who said with a serious expression: "It's better to let Emma go, it's not that I can't trust her, but what I'm going to do next is quite bad for her!"
Ryan was stunned for a moment and gestured to Emma, who quietly left Ryan's private library with an unchanged expression. After Ryan had completely sealed the entire library with a magical enchantment, Red pulled out a storage bag engraved with magic charms from his bosom and gently poured the contents in front of Ryan.
A powerful mana fluctuation filled the entire private library in an instant, and the light divine power that could purify everything was even more crazy surging out from this large pile of debris in front of Ryan, if it weren't for Red's voice just now to let Emma leave, I am afraid that Emma's soul would be directly evaporated by this giant holy power at this moment.
"Burning Angel Staff!" Ryan recognized the prototype of the pair of fragments in front of him at a glance, after all, he had seen the plane projection of the demigod lich forcibly shatter this artifact, but he didn't expect that even if it became a fragment, this "artifact" still had such a powerful holy power attached to it, no wonder that Ebel, who had it, could summon angels to descend directly, and could directly confront the demigod lich so powerful existence.
"Yes, it's it, it's a pity that it's now in pieces!" Red said helplessly: "This is also the biggest attack point on me in the Church of Light at present, because I have destroyed the inheritance of the entire church, without it, it is impossible to inherit the power in the Praise of Light!"
"I don't guarantee it's going to be fixed!" Ryan shrugged his shoulders, he had already guessed Red's mind, so he said, "This is an artifact!"
"I didn't expect you guy, I counted on Freya, the Elven Queen!" Red smiled and said the beautiful name: "Ahem, with the relationship between you and her, if you are willing to speak, I don't believe she will refuse." What's more important is that among the few artifacts that are now known to have been made by the gods themselves, Her Majesty the Elven Queen has 1 one, although the god of light and the goddess of the moon are not the same system, but they are all made by the gods themselves, so there are traces to follow, right?"
"You mean the Moonlight Brooch?" Ryan remembered his days in Magic Moon City before he was promoted to Legendary Mage, and he was fortunate enough to get to know Freya and get the opportunity to understand the artifact directly, which allowed him to comprehend the power of Legendary in such a short period of time, thus becoming the second Legendary Mage of the human race.
"Yes, that's it. Red thought for a while, and then spoke: "Besides, Her Majesty Freya is a level 54 identification and prophecy ** master and a level 48 enchanted archmage, if only one person can repair this artifact, it can only be her, except for her, I really can't think of anyone who can identify what the material of this artifact fragment is!"