“I don’t know how she does it.”
After leaving Hearthfire Island, Nora looked at the ruins in the city of Solomon and was quite surprised and moved.
Thanks to the mysterious operation of the Banshee Queen Minerva, the spiritual trees in the city have now completely disappeared, and the higher-dimensional creatures have also disappeared, leaving only a devastated scene.
But people can eventually rebuild their new homes on the ruins.
She thought with some relief, and then she saw the Templars who were maintaining order running towards her in a hurry.
"Miss, you can't stay here." The leading Templar Knight seemed not to recognize her identity and advised, "This is a mutation restricted area. There may be unknown dangers remaining. We need to do a comprehensive cleanup. Please leave as soon as possible."
"Okay." Nora nodded and walked towards the Lateran Palace.
The changes caused by the Spirit Tree have disappeared, and the citizens who were originally corrupted have returned to normal, walking on the streets as if nothing had happened. Some blocks still have a ban on passing through, but some brave people have already sneaked out of their homes, and the passing Templars just pretend not to see it.
Nora passed one of the blocks and saw a large group of citizens using shovels and crowbars to push down the roadblocks blocking the street, and then they all cheered.
A peaceful world without any mutations... How wonderful.
She thought with great satisfaction and couldn't help smiling.
At the door of the Lateran Palace, she saw her brother, Bishop Varian, talking with another cardinal.
"… The Otteville family took advantage of the change in the Vatican to invade the entire island of Sicily…"
"… It is said that two demigods came with the army…"
"…Now that the level cap has reached 20, the power of the demigods has never been greater. The Holy See has decided to make peace with the court of Palermo…"
"... Not only that, I'm afraid the Vatican will start to go on the defensive, and the international political situation will be in turmoil..."
"Brother!" Nora shouted.
Seeing his sister coming over, Bishop Varian quickly gestured to stop, then asked with a smile on his face:
"What did Ask say?"
Just last night, Varian conveyed the intention of the Holy See through Nora, intending to attribute the successful suppression of the Aether Tree anomaly to the Azure Sword Mercenary Group, and to focus on promoting it in the future.
On the one hand, this credit does belong to the people of the Blue Sword; on the other hand, it is a reflection of the political propositions of His Majesty Innocent - due to the rapid rise of the magic tide in recent years, the balance of power between the technological camp and the supernatural camp has been gradually broken, and the Holy See urgently needs to find new strategies to curb the supernatural.
That is Innocent's "fantastic" new strategy of finding a supernatural being to lead the Holy See.
Since the beginning of recorded history, there have been a total of six cycles of demonic tides. The first one almost severely damaged technological civilization, and almost directly knocked back the human Zenith technology that was originally capable of interstellar colonization to the Iron Age.
The second time was similar to the first time, making humans realize that the magic tide was a cyclical phenomenon, thus triggering a wave of research on supernatural powers in various city-states.
Most of the current knowledge system about the extraordinary was also developed at that time. For example, the famous saying "If you can't become a demigod, you will end up as a mortal" greatly strengthened the motivation for humans to turn to the path of the extraordinary.