Chapter 266: Religious Genius

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The only ones who can break through the system are the Council of Elders of the Temple, a group of clergy who never ask about the world and are only obsessed with penance.

The so-called Templars refer to a group of people who have almost equal power to the Pope himself, and this organization has existed since the creation of the Temple, and has great power in the Temple.

Every member of the Presbyterian Council is a magician who is proficient in divine arts, and he is also a devout believer, which is also a characteristic of the temple magic: whether or not he has the talent of a magician, it seems that he can learn this so-called "divine art"!

You know, even magicians need to have magical talents to learn magic, and if according to the temple, there is a kind of magic that can be learned regardless of whether you have magical talents or not, it is almost a subversive thing for magicians.

The explanation for this in the Temple of Light is that although there are many ascetics who firmly believe in the gods, in addition to pious beliefs, they also need to be chosen and blessed by the gods in addition to devout beliefs!

However, the Magic Guild directly believes that this is just a cunning statement, because there are also very few people with magical talents, and I am afraid that there will not be one or two out of ten thousand people. Therefore, it is likely that the temple insists on saying that the magical talent is the so-called "divine blessing", so that the so-called ability to learn divine arts without magical talent is just the temple statement.

However, no matter how different the two sides disagree, the magic of the temple is indeed a magical force independent of the magic guild. There have also been records of temple magicians performing magic in history, which is also one of the outside world's understanding of this so-called magic technique.

For example, hundreds of years ago, there was an evil magician in the south of the Empire of Light who used the life of killing people to refine the qi of the undead, and after the magic union sent a law enforcement team, the temple also sent a temple magician to assist in order to show mercy and justice. During the pursuit of this necromancer by the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team, the Temple Mage, with the assistance of the Holy Knights, directly killed the necromancer in front of the Magic Guild!

Later, according to the memories of some members of the magic law enforcement team who participated in the battle, the so-called "divine magic" used by those temple magicians was indeed very different from ordinary magic, which confirmed that there was indeed a magical power independent of the magic union within the temple!

However, this is not unusual, not to mention that the elves have their own magic systems among the alien races, and Macedonia, which is human, also has its own so-called wizards and witchcraft, so the magic in the temple, including court magicians, is regarded as a branch of human magic.

And this Leo Archbishop is said to be the Presbyterian Church from the Temple!

After all, a position like the archbishop of the central provinces can almost be regarded as the direct heir to the next pope, so whether it is the temple or the royal family, they are extremely concerned about this.

Four years earlier, the Temple of Light had suddenly sent a young bishop in his early twenties from within the Holy Province and appointed him as the archbishop of the Central Province. This news spread like wings inside and outside the imperial capital, and almost all the wealthy and powerful people in the empire, including the royal family, were extremely surprised by this.

Suspicion ensued the young archbishop's background, and the official news from the temple was that the Leo archbishop was from the temple presbyterian church, the grandson of an important member of the presbyterian church, born in the Holy Province, and was baptized in the temple since childhood, and it is said that the current Pope himself presided over the baptism.

From an early age, the Leo Archbishop showed great learning ability, and was even considered a blessed person chosen by the goddess of light. When he was less than three years old, he had already learned to read and write, and by the age of five, he could memorize the classic texts of the temple, such as "The General History of the Temple of Light" and "The Revelation of the Temple", and other long classics, all of which could be completely memorized!

In the same year, he was found to have the ability to learn divine arts, so after being baptized directly, he entered the Council of Elders to follow his grandfather, the respected temple elder, to learn divine arts, which gradually faded out of everyone's sight.

So it wasn't until more than ten years later that this temple boy, who was a sensation at the time, appeared in people's eyes.

It is said that after Leo studied with the Presbyterian Church for ten years, his belief in the Temple and the Goddess of Light had reached such a profound level that many of the Presbyterians and even many high-ranking people admired him greatly. So he was recommended to the upper echelons of the temple and was valued by the current Pope, who even presided over his own evaluation.

The assessment took place in the interior of St. Maud's Cathedral, and the assessment was carried out for three full days, and more than a dozen high-level members of the temple headed by the Pope assessed Leo from all angles, including the history of the temple, the piety of the faith, and even the assessment of the level of divine art, and he was unanimously praised by the Pope and others.

In the end, the Pope even praised the young man so much that he gave him a final examination directly in the nave of St. Maud's Cathedral. Without knowing what His Majesty's assessment would be, only half an hour later, the Pope walked out of St. Maud's Cathedral with the young bishop, and directly used the supreme appointment and dismissal power as Pope, announcing that he would be appointed archbishop of the Central Diocese!

As soon as this news came out, although it attracted a lot of attention inside and outside the imperial capital, the temple remained silent and did not give any explanation for the suspicions outside.

It is said that this decision also caused quite a stir in the temple at that time, after all, the Temple of Light was a religious organization. But after thousands of years, most of the internal institutions have their own interests, and there may even be contradictions and compromises between different factions.

However, the Pope's decision undoubtedly touched the interests of many people, so there were many opposing voices, but the Pope's attitude was extremely tough, and with the support of the Presbyterian Council, he also suppressed those opposing voices.

Since coming to the Central Diocese, the Archbishop of Leo has also lived in seclusion, spending most of his time in the temple shrine of the imperial capital, and he rarely appears in the eyes except for some important occasions and the affairs of the diocese. So although this guy is not famous, the aristocratic families in the imperial capital really don't know much about him.

Even Su Ya's understanding of him was based on these news, and that Norman seemed to have almost no intersection with him, so why did this guy come here uninvited today and suddenly appeared here, which made Su Ya also a little puzzled.