Pope Heino's body suddenly withered, and after a few days, it got worse and worse, and he was already dying. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 During this period, Heino summoned the High Priest Freeman several times, but did not say a word to Cardinal Halifax, Halifax was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, he kept asking the High Priest, what did Haino say, but Freeman did not say a word, just said that the Pope was probably not good.

"No, then he hasn't thought about succession?" Halifax asked with concern.

"At this time, my duty is to try to heal His Holiness the Pope, and nothing else matters. Freeman replied.

Halifax doesn't believe it, it's so simple, in the face of the supreme power of the entire empire, who can really not be moved? Whether she Freeman is saving Heinault or persecuting Heinault, others have no way of knowing, although the succession of the pope by the high priest is rare in history, and it is not unprecedented.

Halifax thought about whether to launch a surprise attack, but after arriving in Heavenly Grace City, his own forces continued to shrink, and the Pope had been guarding against him, and it seemed too risky to take the throne with only a few dozen people. Freeman is also an eighth-level archmagister, the top priest of the church, and has always been deeply hidden, who is loyal to her, Halifax can't figure it out, if the Inquisition and the Temple Guard are on the side of the High Priest, there is no chance of winning. What's more, the Pope is not dead yet, and if he finally returns to the light and casts the Great Prophecy Technique, he will definitely not die well.

Halifax weighed it for a long time, but still chose to be patient, at least until the Pope mourned before he could take action, the Great Prophecy Technique is not a joke, and no one can resist the god-level skill.

At this time, an assistant priest came to Hainault's message that the Pope was going to summon him, and Halifax came to the secret room belonging to the Pope, the most mysterious place of the church.

Heino was lying on the bed, his eyes closed, looking very calm, but his face was extremely bad, as if he was dead ash, and this complexion made people feel that there was indeed not much time left.

"Are you here, Cardinal?" said the Pope's voice.

"Yes my lord, I have been worried about your body these days and I hope you will get better soon. Halifax put on the most formal of clothes, the moon-white silk chagogy, the church emblem embroidered with gold thread sparkling, stood respectfully by the pope's bedside, bowed slightly, and spoke idealistic words with a mouthful of idealism.

"I'm afraid I'm not in a few days, Halifax, I should join you in discussing the succession. ”

"It's up to the adults. Halifax said that he also understood that he was not qualified to express any opinion on this matter.

"Would you like to succeed you if you were to succeed you?" the Pope asked.

Halifax's body shook, he was ten thousand willing, but he didn't dare to show it in a hurry, obviously the Pope still had something to say, and his tone just now was just a tentative meaning.

"Well, if I tell you all the ins and outs, and you are still willing to stand at the pinnacle of power, then this position will be handed over to you. "Fourteen days, what a difficult fourteen days, I was even shaken in my heart, but in the end I persevered." ”

"My lord, what fourteen days?" Halifax didn't understand.

"Halifax, I could have lived another twenty or thirty years, but I chose to end my life and no longer be the pope, do you know why?"

"You...... You ...... yourself" Halifax was simply stunned.

"Yes, I have taken a lethal potion, and in fourteen days it will have a complete seizure, causing me to die, and if I regret it halfway, I can take the antidote to come back to life. "Today is the thirteenth day. ”

"Don't you regret it?" Halifax thought to himself, Nima, don't regret it.

"I don't regret it, between life and dignity, I finally chose dignity. "Without dignity, life is better than death for me." ”

"How can you not be dignified, who dares not to respect you?" Halifax wondered, but a big rock in his heart finally fell.

"Lord St. Ossidine, you will take away my dignity. "Cardinal, do you really have faith?"

Faced with the pope's sudden question, Halifax was a little overwhelmed, this is the simplest question, but he doesn't know how to answer.

"You and I, as well as many clergy, almost all have no faith, we believe in God, we just believe in God's existence, and with Him we strengthen the rule of the Church, we believe in power, not God. "Neither St. Ossidine nor the Goddess of Wisdom have ever transmitted any ideas to us, and the teachings have been written by successive popes, and they are human thoughts." It is not God's intention to deceive the people with doctrine to make us exalted, to enjoy everything, to be exalted, to be exalted, ”

Halifax was speechless, but he admitted that the Pope was right, and that if it was spread by others and heard by the general public, the church would soon fall apart.

"God's intention is only one, to develop fanatics, and you will see later why this is the case. Because of the contradiction between God and God, the church has the opportunity not to do this extreme thing, but now, it cannot be postponed any longer. "Once the Church is all fanatics, the state of affairs will go mad, and only the will of God and the Apostles will decide everything, and the Pope will become in name only, without power and dignity, and can only act in grievances, so I am willing to die." ”

"The Pope has the power to deal with the apostles, after all, the apostles depend on the church for their purposes. Halifax disagrees with Heinault.

"You're not the Pope, you don't know a lot of things, and you won't know until you have my secret room and all the secrets inside. As the Pope, you will gain more abilities, I will teach you the methods of blood sacrifice and the Great Prophecy, as well as the artifact left by the goddess and the scepter representing the supreme power of the Church, will all fall into your hands, but you will still end up as a poor puppet, a marionette, and the rope of your destiny will always be in the hands of others, and you can only humbly beg God for mercy, do you really accept this result?"

"My lord, I don't believe it, I'm going to give it a try!" Halifax said.

"Well, I declare you to succeed to the throne as the next Pope, and tomorrow, before I leave, I will give you a solemn coronation. Heino said weakly.