Chapter 155: Rise and Fall, Sigh and Cross

The Cross Religion rose from the lower echelons of the Roma Empire, and after hundreds of years of struggle, it finally exhausted the vitality of the empire with its large base of believers, and obtained a formal pardon issued by the emperor, and had a legal position in the empire where polytheism dominated the faith.

After the rise of the Cross Religion, which had a deep foundation, it destroyed the loose polytheistic beliefs by cutting down mountains and destroying temples, completely occupied the faith of the empire, and became the spiritual home of all the people of the empire.

Unfortunately, the power of the Crucian cult increased dramatically, touching the rule of the royal family and the nobility, and a unified empire was not in the interests of the ambitious Crucivers.

Because of this, the senile and sluggish Deathbringer, the lead of the Seven Alchemical Metals, entered the lives of those in power at the top of the Roma Empire.

Wine in a lead glass will taste more mellow, and lead powder mixed into the foundation will keep the lady young forever. Lies like these are so popular that many people are addicted to them.

The immediate consequence was lead poisoning, many nobles had excessive heavy metals in their bodies, most of them gave birth to demented heirs, and unknowingly, the Crusaders killed a large number of political enemies without blood.

Unfortunately, the life of the nobility was imitated by the subjects of the Empire, the same lead poisoning spread among the people of the Romani Empire, and the Crucifixion itself weakened.

At this time, the lost dogs from the Far East, the nomads defeated by the Fifth Dynasty of the Eastern Empire, drove out the barbarians who occupied the vast plains of the Loba continent in Eastern Europe, forcing them to move west.

The weakened Romani Empire has long since ceased to be the force of its heyday, and the legions formed by the citizens of the Empire with weak constitutions are no match for the barbarians who have been defeated again and again and have grown rapidly in the midst of war.

Fortunately, the barbarians were not monolithic, and there were different tribes with very conflicting interests, which could only be maintained by a series of victories and rich booty.

When the Crusaders came forward to recruit the Romani Empire, the Barbarian mercenary regiment was immediately formed and became the main force of the Romani Empire's army.

In the highly civilized and highly developed Romani Empire, where the field of military warfare was extremely developed, foreign legions such as barbarian mercenaries quickly became civilized.

They soon discovered and understood the essence of the Romani Empire, joined forces with their former brothers, and took advantage of a military crisis to destroy the Romani Empire in one fell swoop, completely destroying the royal family and aristocracy of the empire.

On the ruins of the Romani Empire, the Holy Romani Empire, which was neither sacred nor Roman, rose to become the state religion of the Cross Religion, making this religion that arose in the Romani Empire the spiritual home of the alliance of barbarians in a broad sense.

After all, the Roma Empire is a thousand-year-old empire, and the accumulation of heritage is unfathomable, even in the eastern branches, after learning that the foundation has fallen, it will form the Byzantine Empire to continue the glory of the Roma Empire.

In order to counter the "Holy Empire" of the barbarians, they even made friends with the eastern nomads who drove out the barbarians, forcibly took away the barbarians' homeland, and occupied the steppes of the Eastern European Loba steppes, and gained strong allies.

Originally, the Crusades could sweep across the continent of Europa with the barbarians tamed by their faith, snowballing to complete the hegemony of unifying the entire continent of Europa.

Unfortunately, the Great Emperor from the Far East, who sent an elite navy to explore the world of surveying, bypassed the Black Continent and traveled north along the coastline, landing in Western Europa, and excavating the ruins of Athens.

They used advanced and outrageous military equipment, held high the torch of civilization, educated ignorant barbarians, and even led the Druid Order of Sacred Tree worship in the isolated island country.

The Oriental word for "Jianmu" of the World Tree Igdrahir, the Stairway to the Heavens, the Sun Worship, and the myths and legends of the Flame Immortal Phoenix, have all become confidants of the Crucifixion.

Even the primitive beliefs of the barbarians resisted the invasion of the Crucidian civilization and survived tenaciously, and with the help of the Druid Order, the Sanctuary of Asgard was formed, and the Berserker, a special branch of the barbarians, was cultivated.

The hegemony of the Crucifixion was thus hindered and could not be carried out, because the high level of civilization displayed by the Eastern Empire was not under the Roma Empire, and most areas were far surpassed, especially in terms of military strategy, specific tactics, and war equipment.

The all-archers with so many bows and arrows that they can cover the sky, the heavy infantry legions that resist the onslaught of the hoplites, the siege legions that are invincible, and the fortresses of the barbarian feudal lords that sweep through them, even if they are all rocky and located in the mountains that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, have all fallen.

If it weren't for the fact that this great army was ordered to continue to explore the world, leaving only a small number of officers and soldiers who had to take root and had to adopt strategic contraction, whether it was the Cruciasians or the "Holy Empire" of the barbarians, I am afraid that it would not be able to hold out.

The hegemony of the Crucifixion, due to the appearance of a terrible challenge opponent, could not snowball across the continent of Europa. When they regrouped, the Desert Empire rose to occupy sacred sites that were very important to the Crucifixion.

Then there was the Crusades, where spiritual beliefs were on the one hand, and the rising desert empire was straddled along the trade routes between the East and the West, and the feudal lords were also strongly supported by the feudal lords in order to open up commercial channels.

It is a pity that the Desert Empire is on the rise, far from being matched by the feudal lords of the "Holy Empire" who have lost their barbaric spirit, and successive crusades, both the ambitious Crusades and the feudal lords who diligently pursue their interests, have failed.

The only time he succeeded in retaking the Holy Land, he was defeated and driven out by St. Saladin of the Desert Empire, and in the end it was a failure.

On the contrary, the Desert Empire has obtained a lot of wealth by occupying the trade hubs between the East and the West, occupying the three continent elite regions and vast colonies, bringing abundant materials and deep human resources to the Desert Empire.

In particular, when the Desert Empire defeated the Byzantine Empire and the Persis Empire, it plundered a large number of people, especially experts and scholars in various industries, and obtained unimaginable civilization accumulation, thus starting the Renaissance, getting rid of the clamping of theocracy on human nature, and carrying out the first industrial revolution.

The still powerful Crucifixion, in order to maintain its unique position, foolishly rejected the Reformation, rejected the birth of science, and watched the Holy Empire decline.

At this time, the descendants of barbarians and Orientals, on the ruins of Athens, excavated the greatest legacy of Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, the Sanctuary!

Saint Seiya who guards the fate of the constellation, as well as dark saint warriors who are mass-produced, began to emerge in large numbers. The Druid Order, in harmony with nature, brings an otherworldly craft of alchemy. Inherit the glory of the gods of the north, the warriors of the holy land of Asgard, and the berserkers who fight against a hundred, and jointly hold up a piece of the sky of the continent of Europa!

The Cross Sect, which once stood on the top of the mountains, is the cucumber of yesterday, the shriveled green beans, the brood pheasant that has shed its feathers, and the joke that exposes its stupid and ignorant face.

After all, the main force fighting the invasion of the Desert Empire head-on is a combination of the two holy lands, and the secret lineage of the Pan-Polytheistic Cult, which uses the Druid Order as a common bond to maintain the dignity of Europa.

The feudal lords of the Holy Empire are secular and utilitarian, except that they are not stupid and ignorant, they have long since opened their eyes to the world.