The dense raindrops hit the window, as if countless hands were beating at one's heart.
The fireplace was lit inside. Although it was already spring, the rainy season in Old Dunling brought people back to the cold winter nights again.
Anthony was obviously not used to the weird weather in Florence. Compared with it, Florence was like a paradise.
He frowned and read the telegram from Florence with palpitations. There was not much content on it, but it all came from the mysterious new Pope, who was thousands of miles away and issued new instructions to Anthony.
He checked the limited content over and over again, fearing that he might have made some mistakes. After mechanically repeating himself, he leaned back in his chair and sighed tiredly.
"Can someone who has been dead for so long have such great power?"
He was very puzzled. The Medici Cardinal had been dead for several years, and his legacy and power had long been divided up by greedy people, but now the name had returned, carrying the stench of death.
The original plan was to take back "Apocalypse", for which Anthony sent a large number of demon hunters to sneak into Old Dunling secretly and use their expertise to infiltrate different departments. But now all this has been disrupted, and a mysterious opponent suddenly appeared on the chessboard.
"The Treaty of the Scabbard..."
Anthony recalled all this. Although he had not been the new pope for long, he had read a lot of knowledge about the Demon Hunting Order. He had also browsed through all the sealed secret projects one by one. However, the only thing he had not seen was the project called "The Scabbard Treaty". In fact, the new pope did not know much about it.
This project seemed to have been deliberately forgotten, and was only discovered in a corner today after so many years.
There is no record of what happened, just a few burnt pages. There are many such projects. Too much information in the Holy Night was permanently destroyed in the fire, but this one is different because the executor of this project is Lorenzo Medici.
Lorenzo de' Medici once dominated the entire Florence and held all power. He was involved in many secret projects, but according to the dates on the projects, Lorenzo de' Medici had already retired at that time and no longer participated in any affairs of the Gospel Church.
But now this name appeared on the burning pages. When the old man lived in seclusion, he was still secretly planning something, and those who knew about it died on the night of the Holy Coming... including him.
Suddenly Anthony felt a strange chill, as if he had caught a glimpse of some strange creature, and that strange creature was looking back at him.
He couldn't help but take a deep breath. It felt like he was being corroded. A sharp chill pierced into his mind. For a moment he felt like he was on the verge of death, as if a poison was spreading through his blood vessels to his entire body.
Is the cause of the Holy Night really just as simple as Lawrence’s betrayal
Only at this moment did Anthony suddenly realize the weirdness. The church's previous inference was only because it was the most reasonable one, but now new clues have emerged, shaking the previous conclusion and creating fine cracks.