Sensing that someone was entering, the black dragon turned its head and stared at the person who walked in with its savage golden eyes. The dragon's wings flapped and a stench of wind blew, and the flesh and bones of cattle, sheep and beasts smashed into the white-robed cultivator.
The white-robed cultivator held the cross on his chest, and a faint layer of light was released, blocking the stolen goods. Holding a torch, he walked along the edge of the huge underground cave, admiring the dragon that was kept in captivity underground. It was originally just a stone-like egg. After the glacier, it was brought back from the extreme north by the Holy Court by special means, and hatched with a secret method for nearly three hundred years.
It is a pity that, on the one hand, because the legendary era has come to an end, on the other hand, this is only a half-blood descendant of the real dragon, and the black dragon is far inferior to the legendary evil dragon.
a replica.
An infinitely smaller replica.
"The back of the dragon in the legendary era is like an ancient mountain when it crawls." The white-robed monk sighed to himself, "I really want to see what an amazing creation it is."
The black dragon has gradually calmed down, and the white-robed monk approached the iron rope and put his hand on the mechanism.
"Since you are a dragon killer, why not kill a dragon again?"
He said, with an odd smile in his voice.
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Legrand, Palace of the Roses.
The advice given by the head of the witches to attack the "House of the Pope" was similar to the last admonition given by the devil before he left. The king did not express any attitude towards it at the time, but after the hunt was over, the chief of the house was ordered by the king to summon Ann. Dean Neil.
Or should be called "Archbishop Anil".
He was appointed Archbishop of St. Weiss by the King not long ago.
While the king summoned Archbishop Anil, the witch chief was temporarily hidden. Although the king sheltered them, as a witch, she was always reluctant to face the clergy. In particular, for the dark world, the name of Father Anil is much louder than that of the bishop of the Twelve Sanctuaries of the Holy See.
"House of the Pope."
Hearing the king's question, Archbishop Anil pondered for a while, and then told the king carefully.
The so-called "House of the Pope" means that the Pope has absolute authority on all religious issues. The Pope is the head of the family, and all believers must obey it. [1]
"The Pope is the monarch of the spirit world," said the king thoughtfully, and he had probably guessed something.
He did not continue the topic, but instead asked Archbishop Anil about the miracles of the Holy Empire and the progress of the Reformation in Legrand today.
After that famous "Legrand Jurisprudence Dispute", a group of theologians and scholars gathered at the Greyhawk Tavern in Metzl City, where the first discussions on the reform of the Legrand Church took place. Later, when the Holy See launched the "House of Truth" on the other side of the Abyss Strait, General John almost tit-for-tat presided over the Legrand religious meeting ordered by the king.
In the "Legrand Jurisprudence Controversy", the Legrand Church lost its judicial power, and in this first Reformation Conference, this was based on the "Book of Obedience to the Law of the Occupation" and further used the "Book of Obedience of the Occupation Law" The Prohibition of Appeals fixed it. The ostensible "no appeal order" refers to the prohibition of bypassing the royal court and bringing proceedings directly to the Holy See.
In reality, however, it is a more complete schism.
It completely separated the Legrand Church from the Church that had become the Holy Empire. Not only did it completely cut off the judicial connection between Legrand and the Holy Court, but also canceled Legrand's tribute to the Holy Court.
"It's hard to imagine that the implementation of the "No Appeal Order" has been so smooth."
Archbishop Anil said in a low voice that although he is not good at politics, he still has some basic understanding. When the anti-suit injunction was voted on, the speed at which it was passed was astonishingly fast. Even the representatives of some great lords remained neutral in front of it for the time being, and the support rate of the lower-level members was even more astonishingly high.
"I thought you knew why, Mr. Bishop." The king chuckled softly, leaning back in his chair and reminding Archbishop Anil, "You should know very well about the court case."
Archbishop Anil was silent for a while, looking a little sad.
The king's fingertips tapped the armrest casually, and on his desk there was a pile of files he had already read. If you want to target the enemy, you must know the enemy better. And what he knew about the Holy Court was that the king had hinted that the Reformation Council had issued a "Suppressing Appeal".
He knew it would be supported.
Because the corruption of the Holy See's papal court is notorious.
In name, the Holy See is the highest court of the entire church, but in fact, the Holy See has taken many cases into its own hands that could have been resolved in the bishops and county bishops' courts. Even the local lords who did not support the king were particularly dissatisfied with this. To a certain extent, it also divided the economic income of a large part of the local lord's court. On the other hand, every case directly submitted to the papal court from various countries needs to go through countless hands, and for each hand, a corresponding "unwritten fee" must be paid, and in addition to these conventional fees , and many more additional bribes. [2]
Even aristocrats with a decent income could not bear this layer of exploitation.
Some people have done statistics, and the remuneration for a single link of the case summary is as high as dozens of times the official fee[3].
In addition, the cumbersome and protracted church court process has become a well-known laughing stock.
A slang joke shows this most vividly. It tells of a prosecutor who went to the Holy See court to file a lawsuit. His wife waited for several years, unable to wait for her husband to come back, and couldn't bear it any longer to ask the prosecutor's friend. A friend congratulated her: "Holy Lord bless you! Your good gentleman has run out of all the official offices! He can go home after completing the brief next month!"[4]
As for the second point in the Prohibition of Appeal Order, the termination of the tribute to the Holy See.
- Is there really anyone in this world who will sincerely hand over their money for nothing
Regardless of how many people believe that Bishop Anil's "piety lies in faith", this reform, although in the name of "religion", is actually just a re-segmentation of interests.
No one refuses to receive a benefit, as long as it is not taken away from them.
Bishop Anil finished his account of the synod, and at the same time asked the king something that puzzled him: "How did you manage to make the miracles of the Holy Court have so little influence on Legrand? Your Majesty? ."
Someone like him who knows the secrets of the Holy Court does not believe that the so-called "miracle oracle" of the Holy Court is normal, but the impact of the Holy Court's miracles on the ordinary people of Legrand is more than he imagined. much smaller.
Bishop Anil was originally prepared to face stronger resistance from the larger people after the miracle, but the result was unexpected.
"Because I haven't seen it with my own eyes." The king replied, after a pause, he added meaningfully, "Besides, they chose to use the Black Death."
This doubt of Bishop Anil is also the doubt of the witch leader.
After arriving in Legrand, the witches stayed at the First Pathological Research Institute of Legrand, and all they came into contact with were lunatics in the eyes of normal people. Therefore, they subconsciously believed that the indifference of the people in the research institute to miracles was because of their own abnormality - hell, there are people who are eager to study the difference between angels and humans.
But in the hearts of witches, they subconsciously believe that normal people have a different attitude towards miracles.
On the way to escape from the Holy Empire, they met many fanatics who were more terrifying than the Judges of the Holy Court.
Legrand, however, was completely different.
Crosses are not everywhere, people are not kneeling outside churches in groups, and indulgences are almost extinct. Walking on the street, it doesn't take long to hear people proclaiming "oracles" loudly. The midwife and the widow did not worry about when she would be dragged out and identified as a witch. A group of scholars haunted various taverns, loudly criticizing and mocking the records of the "House of Truth" returned from the other side of the Abyss Strait...
Everything here left the witch in shock and awe.
She felt like she had stepped into a very different country.
Finally, after seeing a scholar give a speech on the street and the crowd dispersed, she couldn't help walking over and asked her own question.
The scholar glanced at her in surprise, and then replied in a matter-of-fact tone: "But what does Blaise's miracle have to do with Legrand?"
"But..." The answer made the witch stunned, she always felt that something was wrong, but it seemed that there was nothing wrong.
Seeing her sluggish appearance, the scholar thought for a while, and then answered his own opinion carefully: "The Pope said that the Black Death was the Holy Lord's punishment for people, and the Holy Lord forgave the world, so the angels came. However, as early as the angels came Before, our Majesty had already expelled the Black Death in the southeast and made death bow its head. So, isn’t His Majesty, who solved the Black Death earlier than the Holy See, a closer representative of divine will than the Pope?”
The witch finally understood why.
- The Holy See wants to use the influence of the Black Death to expand, so as to establish the Holy Empire more smoothly. And this just made it lose its sacred aura in the eyes of the Legrand people, because the king of Legrand solved the Black Death earlier than the Holy Court.
She couldn't help but smile happily.
The scholar rolled up his drawings and prepared to leave. The witch saw the dense oval tracks and spheres drawn on the drawings, and curiously asked what it was.
"Oh, this!" Mentioning his own drawings, the scholar's interest suddenly rose, "This is the orbit of the celestial body that I simulated, those guys in the Hall of Truth are stupid enough to claim that the heliocentric theory is wrong, but the truth is not. They are like that! It's a pity, I originally wanted to visit Mr. Tia, I once had a correspondence with him, and his research progress in this area is much faster than mine, but it doesn't matter!"
Scholars are in high spirits.
"I believe that I can also take off the sun!"
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[1] Quoted in History of the Reformation
[2] Same as [1]
[3] All pre-Reformation papal court proceedings had to be recorded, but fees for briefs were as high as 24-41 times the official fee.
[4] The pre-Reformation Roman church had been transformed into a court, but not the most respected kind, where the sale of privileges and immunities and the purchase of priesthoods was conducted. But the plaintiff had to run from one office to another with the indictment in hand.