What's more, according to the tradition of the Temple of Light, the level of the cardinal archbishop of each diocese is the real core of the temple. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the death of each pope, according to the tradition of the Temple, the new pope is the cardinal archbishop of the five dioceses of the empire. The central provinces include the imperial capital of Giliath, so the cardinal archbishop of this diocese is in a very important position in the temple.

Although in the selection of a new pope, the public criterion is to list the achievements of each archbishop during his tenure in the local diocese, including the income from the temple tax, the degree of edification of the faithful, the number of new believers, etc.

However, according to the practice within the temple, every cardinal archbishop of the central diocese will basically assume the position of new pope after the death of the old pope. This even became an unwritten rule within the temple for a time, but anyone who was appointed as a cardinal in the Central Province before being appointed pope!

In other words, the cardinal in this carriage is likely to be the new pope of the next Temple of Light!

Such a revered status is probably almost the same as that of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Empire, and even a few points more noble than the status of ordinary members of the imperial family! It can be seen from this that the status of the temple is in the Bright Empire, not to mention that although the northeast of the empire is within the provincial area, it is actually the fiefdom of the temple of the country within a country!

Thinking of this, Joseph couldn't help but glance at the carriage a few more times, but the carriage was quite tight, and the people inside could not be seen from the outside.

More than twenty holy knights in the front row opened the way in front, and there were also many servants and low-level clergy behind the carriage, and finally there was a team of holy knights behind the palace, and a team of men and horses was quite magnificent.

In fact, this is also the first time that Joseph has seen the so-called Holy Knight.

According to Su Ya, within the Empire of Light, where religious forces are very powerful, the Temple of Light has a strong influence, and in some ways, this authority has even threatened the imperial rule of the Empire.

From the very beginning of the Empire of Light, the Temple of Light had its own fiefdom: the Sacred Province in the northeastern part of the Empire, which was actually the area ruled by the Temple. The Temple of Light has its own land, its own taxes, and a certain amount of armed forces here.

This armed force is the so-called "Holy Knights" of the Temple.

In the Holy Provinces of the Empire, the Temple of Light selects a number of children from within the diocese, and then raises these children from an early age, and when they reach a certain age, they are differentiated according to each person's talents.

For example, if a child has a talent for magic, he will be selected by the temple and incorporated into the temple's mage group to learn "divine arts" and become an excellent magician. Those who have the talent for martial arts let them train in martial arts, and when they reach adulthood, after being baptized and tested, they will select those with excellent martial skills and devout beliefs to join the Holy Knights of the Temple.

As Holy Knights, their mission is to defend the honor and dignity of the Temple with their lives, and to give everything they have to the Temple and the gods.

Knights generally have their own knight rank badges, which are the same as mages, and in the entire continent of Ceylon, only the holy knights of the Temple of Light will wear two knight badges on their chests.

One of them is a knight rank badge issued by the Continental Knight Association after the assessment and certification, and the other is a holy knight badge representing light and honor! Only the holy knight will wear two knight badges in the entire continent.

The decoration of the Holy Knights is also quite simple, basically wearing the special white robes inside the temple, and the armor inside is the armor, such a strange dress is also a major feature of identifying their identity.

That's why when Jose saw these guys, he felt a little familiar. On the way from the northwest to the imperial capital, no matter which province or larger city you are, you can see the religious places set up by the diocese of temples of different sizes.

However, this convoy seemed to have just come out of the direction of the imperial palace and drove into the outer city, and the pedestrian soldiers along the way saw the convoy of the temple and respectfully gave way to it, and even the central army in charge of the city defense only asked a few words before letting go.

"The power of the temple is really not small, even ordinary royal families probably don't have such a majestic stand!" Qiao Se squinted his eyes and watched this group of people leave, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and thought of the scheming city of Montevia IV, I am afraid that it will definitely not be able to tolerate these temple forces.

Thinking of this, Joseph simply stopped thinking about those messy things, just patted the fat man's head and pointed in the direction of the inner city: "Let's go, go back to Su Ya's mansion, I think at this time, Su Ya should also come back......"

The carriage quickly entered the inner city and returned to the Ellos family's mansion, where Suya was already waiting for him in José's small courtyard.

"You're finally back!" the girl seemed to have waited for him for a long time when she saw Jose say something at first sight.

"What's the matter, is something wrong?" Seeing Su Ya's expression, Jose couldn't help frowning.

Su Ya shook her head: "I guessed that you should have returned to the mansion, but I didn't expect you to come back now." How's it going, the assessment has been decided, right?"

"Almost," José smiled as well, and then told Suya about his visit to Master Kant.

The girl raised her eyebrows after hearing this, but looked at Jose with some surprise: "According to what you say, Master Kant actually promised to recommend you a staff member?"

After Su Ya finished speaking, her expression was a little solemn, and when Jose saw her like this, she couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What's the matter, is there anything wrong here?"

"Jose, you're doing things too fast...... Su Ya sighed lightly and glanced at Jose: "You must know that this is the imperial capital, not only has the most powerful nobles in the empire, but also has a lot of open and secret forces, and many things are far from being as simple as you think." ”

When Su Ya said this, her expression became a little heavy: "Today, Your Majesty summoned me to the palace, and what I asked was only about the war in the northwest, and I could feel that Your Majesty was very dissatisfied with me." The Northwest War is a sensitive issue, Your Majesty originally intended to use this war to weaken the Northwest Army, but I kept the main force of the Northwest Army, although the Sistine has some means, but it may not be easy to deal with the Northwest Army.

The situation in the imperial capital is even more unclear at the moment, not to mention anything else, do you remember the assassination when we first entered the imperial capital a few days ago?"