After Becoming The Tyrant - Chapter 140

April of the holy empire is pouring with rain.

The emperor of the holy Empire, the Pope of the Holy See, and theolde, who holds this dual identity, stand in front of the painted glass window carved with the statue of the Virgin mother saving her son, watching the rain fall down the glass, and the Virgin mother is as sad as pity.

It was this scene that the cardinal, sissian, came in with a secret letter from the Knights. Subconsciously, he slowed down his pace, and his anxiety gradually eased down. He had known Pope theold for a long time, and in his mind, the Pope was the most determined and invincible man he had ever seen.

Facts have proved that his impression is correct.

The man who said to him in the seminary, “I want to restore the glory of St. Peter,” has now established a powerful kingdom and driven the carriage forward with a firm will.

Since the founding of the kingdom of God, different voices have always existed inside.

Sissian knew that few old nobles were optimistic about the holy see in private. In their opinion, the Holy See was powerful, but it was impossible for them to make the transition from religion to a country. They chose to be silent, but they wanted to wait for the Holy See to be unable to deal with a series of affairs, instead of relying on them. Just like the former king Blaise, they could not do without the help of the nobles.

However, Pope theold showed his political skill no less than that of theology. He controlled the greedy and timid nobles, just like the most brilliant puppet master controlled a group of dolls.

Sometimes, sissian felt that theold was a natural monarch.

“The LORD teaches us peace, my dear friend.” The Pope heard his footsteps and turned slowly. “No matter what happens, you should keep your peace of mind.”

“Yes, your majesty.” He handed the war report to the Pope, “the news from the first Legion is that the port of the lowland alliance has been attacked and the throne has been destroyed.”

“It’s really bad news.” The Pope sighed, “our allies are not as reliable as we think, but our enemies are stronger than we think. How did they do it? ”

“According to the news, the attack took place at night, and the navy of Legrand launched the attack through the thick fog. They seem to know the layout of the port like the palm of their hand. Our defensive counterattack failed. They directly attacked the most vulnerable part of the port’s military defense. ”

“Astrologer.”

The Pope shook his head slightly.

“They made the wrong choice.”

“Second alliance of astrologers.” Sissian also thought, his face a little ugly, “in addition, the Dragon Wing warship appeared.”

“The zodiac can’t be destroyed by Dragonflies alone.”

“Yes.” Cecilian was a little ashamed. “The serpentine appears in olecranon Bay. She is the host of the snake of the world. We’ve been chasing her for so many years that we never thought that she was hiding among the Warwick pirates. Your majesty, this is my dereliction of duty. If I had made no mistake 11 years ago and successfully arrested her… ”

Eleven years ago, cecilian was the man who led the twelve sanctuaries of the Holy See to kill grela.

The Pope patted him gently on the shoulder: “you have already taken the punishment for your mistakes eleven years ago. You don’t need to criticize yourself any more. If you want to say that, I have more responsibility than you. I didn’t expect Legrand’s depravity to be so thorough. They have recovered the Dragon Wing warship. It’s my fault that the throne is destroyed. ”

“Your Majesty.”

Sheesain was surprised and quickly wanted to explain that he didn’t mean to blame the Pope.

The Pope waved his hand to him not to do more on it: “what else?”

“The city-state of hopeless inland sea has yielded, and the city-state that still retains the old gods has been attacked by the alliance of other city-states.” Sheehan report.

The burning of the old gods campaign went a little bit better than it had been planned.

When most of the city states succumb to the prestige of the holy Empire, they will turn to the help of the holy court. It is not difficult to understand that there is a conflict of interests between the city states. It is a cake for other city states to carve up the “city of heresy” with the prestige of the holy court.

“Besides, according to your command, we focused on the surveillance of Xiaer, but we did not find any barbarian knights. It seems that the heavy cavalry of gulendy did not intend to participate in the war. Your majesty, why should we pay so much attention to an unearthly mercenary army? ” Sissian was puzzled.

“They will be one of our enemies.”

The Pope replied.

“What about Legrand?”

“The count of pritany is ready, and the Balinese are on board. The judge’s ship has also landed. ” He hesitated and asked, “sire, do you think those two families are really reliable? Although the rebellion provides time for our overall preparation, it does not provide time for Legrand to breathe? ”

“My dear friend, you have confused one thing.” The Pope gently explained that he led him to the map hanging on the wall of the room, “it’s not that we gave the enemy time to breathe. As a matter of fact, if I could, I would like to go out and hang that stubborn heretic family in the bud more than anyone else. However, we don’t have that time. “The Pope pointed on the map: “this is the battlefield where we helped Charlie to attack ferry III. This is the “war of God’s responsibility” launched by us. This is our cleansing campaign against heresy Before and after the founding of the kingdom of God, we launched a total of three major battles, each time we won

“God bless his soldiers.”

He drew a cross on his chest.

“No, it’s not the Lord who protects his soldiers. It’s the Millennium savings of the holy see that protect our soldiers. ” The Pope shook his head with a smile. “Today, every war we fight is rapidly consuming the wealth and prestige accumulated by the holy see for thousands of years. You’re not responsible for this. You don’t know why. What does our empire look like to you? ”

Without hesitation, he replied, “the kingdom of the Lord is as strong as a rock and cannot be broken.”

The Pope laughed: “no, in my opinion, our empire is just a castle in the air, just like the light and shadow in the water, gorgeous but not yet rooted.”

Sheehan was surprised: “your majesty! The Lord is above

“You and I have known each other for so many years. Don’t you know what the kingdom of God is The Pope unconsciously shook his head, “we are different from any nation in the world. Our people are all over the world, but there are no real people in the world. We often say that a person is a believer first and then a Chinese, but the reverse is true. ”

The Pope’s voice was steady and powerful, and he paced slowly in the room.

“Without real people, it means that we can’t recover slowly after being hit hard like other countries. We have built a powerful empire through these three wars. The enemy succumbs to us because of our strength. All our glory is closely related to our strength. Once we are no longer strong, all the lambs crawling in front of us will turn into jackals in a flash and devour our flesh and blood more fiercely than anyone else. ”

“Legrand is different from other lambs who will yield in front of them. They are scarred but greedy hungry wolves. In the face of such an enemy, even the lion must do his best. There will only be one comprehensive and large-scale battle between us and Legrand. ”

“Either don’t move, or wipe the country off the western continent.”

The pope said coldly.

“This is a fight to the death!”

The heavy rain outside the window rippled, and the lightning tore the world apart.

Sean was in a cold sweat. He finally saw the real terrible crisis under the continuous prosperity.

This is the true face of the world. At the feast of power struggle, the identity of lamb and jackal may change at any time. If you don’t win to the end, it will turn into someone else’s meal.

“According to your wisdom.”

He crossed his chest and bowed his head with sincerity.

“Send a message to everyone that Ferri III is dead. There is no kingdom of Blaise in the world. ” The Pope issued his own orders one by one: “send a message to all the hopeless city states in the inland sea, those who still keep the belief of the old gods, and other city states should start a military expedition; let astrologers make a more accurate prediction of the drought that will appear in the northwest of the Empire in late April; strengthen the propaganda of the” doomsday theory ” Finally, the order for the collection of the “holy Legion” was issued

A series of orders were murderous.

“Yes.”

Sean wrote them down one by one.

After theon stepped down, the Pope stood alone in front of the map. He looked at rogram on the map.

Some ports along the central coast of Legrand have been marked by him.

He reached out and connected a line between Swan harbor, where Legrand had changed control, and the small countries along the abyss, with a smile.

“In this world, the most terrible thing is the greed of the people, not the tyrannical armed ah.”

The Pope sighed.

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People driven by interests can do anything.

Therefore, the king was not surprised to hear that the pritany family began to clear away the crows in the territory. He was more concerned about what count Brittany relied on to get rid of the spies of the house manager.

“The information network of the Holy See, white hawk.”

Another report was sent to the king by the housekeeper.

“We have an opponent that can’t be underestimated.” The king sighed, “this is tit for tat.”

As soon as they destroyed the throne of the Holy See, the Holy See set off their net in the territory of Legrand, the knight publicly called by the count of pritany in his own territory. His action was quick.

Different from the previous northern rebellion, this rebellion was called “Jihad”

one of the most important reasons for the Earl of Brittany to organize military action was that he accused the king of being easy to heresy, indulged witches and degenerates to set foot on Legrand, and even publicly protected the heresy. As a believer of the Lord and a subject of the king, it is necessary for him to use force to force the king to correct his mistakes.

He was supported by the Minister of justice of the Holy See, who came all the way across the abyss.The director of justice brought a “no penalty order” issued by the Pope to the king, as well as dozens of witch wanted notices.

With the arrival of the director of justice, another net has been opened in Legrand.

It’s an intelligence network opposite to the king’s crows.

After the northern rebellion subsided, the king had cleaned the territory of Legrand and pulled out some nails planted by the Holy See. But the time is short, the aristocratic territory crisscross, the information network of the holy court can not be completely destroyed in such a short time. With the arrival of the trial director, this intelligence network has been fully activated.

The “eagle eye” belonging to the Holy See launched a war hidden in the smoke of gunfire between the “crows” belonging to the king and the “eagle eye” belonging to the pritany family and the Maison family.

These days, on the territory of the two families, it is often seen that armed knights, led by people in grey cloaks, kick open the door of the tavern, drag out seemingly ordinary people from behind the bar and at the table.

From time to time, the priest in the church was walking in the alley, and suddenly he was wiped in the throat with a knife.

When night falls, people do not dare to leave their homes, but they can still hear the sound of galloping horses colliding with swords, vaguely mixed with the sound of hand guns.

This is the battle between the white hawk and the crows.

“I have to say that our count, with the help of the Holy See, has more brains than ever before.”

The king commented.

After the denunciation, the count of Brittany did not immediately gather his army to attack the Royal City, but cut off the communication fortress between the royal city and the eastern coast. The voice of “military crusade” is loud, but what we do is try our best to cut out the coastline in the middle of Legrand.

It’s not much like the intelligence of count Brittany.

The count of Brittany, a member of the new king party, voted for Lord Grice in the “change of the rose”.

Unfortunately, in that civil war, the Earl was soon defeated by the old men of the Duke of Buckingham, and the men disguised as women were able to escape the pursuit of royalist soldiers.

Mr. Brittany’s “moving deeds” once became a joke of the upper class of Legrand. Therefore, after the “change of the rose”, the count of Brittany almost retired from the upper class and has been shrinking in his own territory. Now, it seems that when he rebelled with Archduke Glasgow, it might not be that he was attracted by Archduke Glasgow, but that he had already fallen to the Holy See.

After the arrival of the director of justice, the count, who had been able to escape by disguised himself as a woman, immediately came out of his castle, dressed in armor and armed with a huge axe. He wanted to shout his bravery to the whole world.

However, this kind of action does not seem to help him to wash his story.

After a while, some nobles joined the vanguard of the holy war.

“The Phillies, the Colville…”

The king looked at the list submitted by the chief of the house and whispered out the names of every one who stood in the camp of the holy court. He was so calm that it was hard to guess his happiness and anger.

The housekeeper stood aside with his head down and did not disturb the king’s thinking.

The king quickly looked through all the lists. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes slightly.

The list is similar to what he expected. The central nobles who took part in the rebellion are basically small nobles with small territory and little chance of promotion. The rest of the big families did not join the rebellion, but they did not send troops to fight against it.

They didn’t move.

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In Upton County, which is not far from Colin County, Earl gray, like all the great nobles in the middle of the country, reorganizes his weapons, but ignores the chaos of the nearby Brittany and Mason family territories.

“Father, shall we wait like this?”

Sinley, the son of count gray, came in in a hurry.

He is a young man, Gao Da Yingwu, Gao Gao was canonized as a knight soon.

Count gray wiped his sword: “don’t they still have it in the castle?”

“Mount” in count Gray’s words refers to the mount family in the west of Upton county. They are feuds with the gray family. Their territories are too close to each other, and the conflict between them due to personal feuds can’t be written down in a whole manuscript.

“Just because they didn’t move, we had to bear it?” Asked Hindley.

“Father means we should wait and see.”

One side of the elder brother Dale patiently explained to his grumpy brother.

Dale is much older than Sinri and has begun to deal with the affairs of the territory with his father.

It is not only the king who pays attention to the coup on the other side of the abyss Strait. The storm that started from the northern rebellion has already worried all people. As nobles, the great nobles of Legrand clearly saw the current situation of the Blaise nobles on the other side of the Strait.

They either lost their lives in the “war of divine responsibility”, or lost their superior position after the establishment of the holy Empire, from the original status similar to the church aristocracy, but fell under the sacrament. This change of identity is not only the frustration of dignity, but also the change of local control.The grand nobles of Legrand do not want a group of monks and priests who come across the abyss to take away the territory that has been handed down for hundreds of thousands of years from their own hands. In this big cake of Legrand, they want to take away a large part from the part that originally belonged to them.

They don’t want to be the second former Blaise aristocrat.

Only the little nobles would fall into the arms of the holy see so enthusiastically, because once the Holy See won, they would have a chance to turn from the little nobles to the great nobles.

“But then why don’t we crusade against them?”

Xinli said indignantly.

“They are a group of usurpers and despicable people.”

“Are you sure it’s us or the Vatican who will win in the end? Can you resist the holy Legion or the coming of angels? ” Dell asked.

As soon as Hindley was about to say the oath he had taken when he was knighted, Dale held his shoulder and shook his head.

Because in their argument, father has wiped the sword.

Count gray stood up and looked sharply at his young sons: “of course, we are for inheritance, but not just for inheritance. We are aristocrats and Legrand people. If it is necessary to fight for Legrand, it is indeed our mission. But I want you to remember – ”

” war is not a joke. ”

Count Gray was seldom severe, and the two brothers did not dare to say more for a moment.

At this time, a messenger ran into the castle hall.

He brought the latest information on the rebel territory.

The war is on fire.

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The city of herid is a city on the east coast of Legrand. It is famous for a swan harbor under the name of the king. Although Swan port is not as big and prosperous as kossia port in the east of Legrand, its strategic significance is higher than kossia port.

Swan harbor is located in the middle of the coastline of Legrand, which is the estuary of a branch of DOMA river.

After the battle of bouvin, one of the conditions set by the brescian expeditionary army in the negotiation of returning “Yuehe fortress” was the delivery of Swan harbor and Brescia.

Three days ago, the mayor of the city of helid received a letter from pritany asking them for food.

This unreasonable request was firmly resisted by the people of the city of herid. Therefore, the mayor directly and directly refused count Brittany’s request. It is said that the messenger sent to answer the letter also reported the derision of the city of herid for “the great man who survived on women’s clothes”.

Perhaps for the sake of his own face, or at the direction of the director of justice, after receiving the letter, the count angrily held up his flag, crossed the wasteland and went straight to the city of herid.

As one of the Royal cities, the city of herid was not idle after rejecting the request.

The soldiers raised the drawbridge and closed the gates, and the citizens armed themselves and began to prepare to guard their city with a mockery of the “Earl in disguise” – the new name for the Earl of Brittany.

“God forbid him to go to war in his long dress.”

“That way, he may really be able to kill all sides in the battlefield – after all, his opponents are patronizing and laughing.”

The soldiers on guard were talking, waiting for the enemy to come.

Everyone is watching the battle.

Objectively speaking, even if count Brittany, who is a particularly bad battlefield commander, is left out first, the strength of the Brittany family and the Mason family are not very good, and they are not the strongest families in Central China. Even if the director of the judicial bureau supports him, not many people are optimistic about his action.

What does he need to attack the city of helid?

The answer is the dragon.

The Earl of Brittany, dressed in armor and riding on a tall horse, looked majestically at the wall of the city of helid, which was submerged in the flames.

The solid city walls were smashed, red flames were rolling for tens of meters, smoke and dust were rolling, and huge stones were splashing.

The broken limbs of the soldiers were thrown high in the explosive waves. A ferocious black shadow rushed out of the broken city wall, flapping its wings and flying into the sky, roaring and spitting out a flame enough to melt everything against the solid tower again.

This is no longer a war.

It’s a massacre.

Even if all the nobles nearby came to help, it would not help. The citizens who guarded the city saw the legendary creatures.

It’s a black dragon!

The roar of the dragon, which spread far away, made the whole castle tremble in the roar of killing. The wind between heaven and earth swept, and the dragon spread its wings and circled over the castle of human beings. One or two brave soldiers with bows and arrows shot iron arrows at it with all their strength.

But the arrows that were shot with all the courage of a soldier had not reached the dragon before they were crushed by the strong wind.

Count Brittany, who had been complacent, was inexplicably afraid in the sound of the dragon.

The director of justice looked at the black dragon who was slaughtering the city of helid. He was the “attendant” that Maisen clan leader met in the heavy rain that day. He went to the harbor of Maisen family to meet the huge ship coming from the Kuroshio. The passengers on the ship were only a dragon trainer in white robe and the dragon.”It’s violent.” The judge sighed, “it’s like venting hatred.”

“It’s not about venting hatred.” Standing beside him, the Dragon trainer chuckled, “this is the anger of two ages.”

The city of helid was submerged in smoke and red fire.

After a thousand years –

the place where the Dragon comes!