Imperial Dragon City, Holy Light Cathedral.
After the morning prayers, the nobles left the prayer hall one after another.
After the crowd dispersed, Cardinal Mensay walked towards Pope Gregory.
"When did you come back?" Gregory asked while motioning Mensay to follow him out.
"Your Majesty, I came back yesterday, because it was too late, so I didn't disturb your rest." Mensay replied respectfully.
Gregory nodded, but didn't speak again. He didn't ask again until the two walked out of the prayer hall and came to the secluded courtyard:
"What's the situation? How did I hear that a squad of orcs attacked Winterspring?"
"Everything is going well, Your Majesty." Mensay said with a smile, "Colin Angelet has been controlled by Prince Lexi. As for the orc team, it was indeed an accident, but it did not affect our plan. What effect."
"That's good." Pope Gregory nodded in satisfaction, but then he still wondered, "However, how did this orc squad happen to attack Winterspring?"
"Maybe it's a coincidence?"
"Coincidence?" Gregory seemed dissatisfied with the answer.
Seeing this, Mensayi quickly comforted him:
"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry. The number of this orc squad is not large, only about four or five hundred. It is estimated that they are orc deserters who broke up from the front line of the Loire Valley to the rear.
Moreover, the Duke of St. Landers and the Knights of Sparton have already gone to the Loire Valley camp. They will each mobilize 5,000 soldiers and horses to retreat and encircle and suppress this orc team.
Presumably there will be good news coming back soon. "
"Hmm." Although Gregory still had doubts, he couldn't think of the reason why the orcs suddenly appeared in Winterspring, so he could only regard it as a coincidence.
After walking for a while, Gregory asked again:
"What's the royal family's opinion on Colin Angelet's disposal?"
Mensay's eyes flickered slightly, and then he replied:
"Your Majesty, the royal family is still a little worried that killing Colin Angelet rashly will cause a mutiny in the northern army, and even cause even greater turmoil... After all, this person has just commanded the Great Victory in the Loire Valley, and his reputation is growing at this time..."
Gregory interrupted impatiently: "Then what are they going to do?"
Mensay lowered his voice and said:
"Your Majesty, Consul Fred hopes to deprive Colin Angelet of the command of the Imperial Coalition Forces through legal procedures, and let Prince Leahy become the commander of the Coalition Forces, responsible for the military operations to recover the western border.
In this way, Prince Leahy can take the opportunity to arrange the northern army to carry out the most difficult and dangerous tasks, consume the strength of the northern border, and wait for the orcs to be completely driven back to the west of the Tianduan Mountains, and the empire will have no foreign troubles. At this time, Colin Angelet was on trial.
At that time, even if the northern lords were dissatisfied with the trial, they would not dare to act recklessly if their strength was greatly weakened. "
Gregory thought for a while after hearing this, then nodded and said:
"Fred's plan is indeed more secure. However, if you want to deprive Colin Angelet of the coalition commander's power, you need the emperor's permission... But Emperor Reinhardt is dead, and the successor Prince Harrison is Colin. A student of Angelet.
Moreover, as far as I know, Prince Harrison admires Colin very much, and it is not easy to make him obedient... "
Mensay said with a smile:
"Your Majesty, Prince Harrison is only a fourteen-year-old child, how many opinions can he have? We only need a little provocation and guidance, and his admiration for Colin Angelet will naturally turn into resentment."
After a pause, Mensay's tone became cold again:
"Of course, if this kid is really stubborn, then we can still use intimidation and other means... Anyway, Yulong City is under our control, and with the cooperation of Consul Fred and Prince Leahy, it is impossible to let him go. A child of fourteen submits."
Gregory nodded thoughtfully, and said:
"I see."
After finishing speaking, he strode out and at the same time ordered the attendants:
"Prepare the frame, I'm going to the Phoenix Palace."
Mensay quietly watched Gregory's receding back with deep eyes.
…
But it is said that Pope Gregory came all the way to the Phoenix Palace.
Before entering the hall, two royal knights came out of the hall carrying Princess Judy.
Princess Judy was obviously very reluctant about this, and she was struggling constantly, shouting in her mouth:
"Let go of me! You let me go! Brother! You can't do this! Brother..."
Gregory thought that the siblings were having an awkward fight, so he didn't care about it, and turned around and entered the hall.
"Your Highness Harrison."
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry to make you see a joke." Prince Harrison was drunk, and he seemed to have just drunk a lot of wine, and explained in a muffled voice, "Judy wants to go to the front to avenge her father, I can only let People put her in confinement... "
Gregory smiled slightly, and comforted: "His Royal Highness is also filial, and I hope you can persuade me patiently. Of course, I am also very sorry for your majesty's heroic sacrifice. I wish you condolences."
Prince Harrison nodded, his eyes turned red again, but he still held back his tears and asked:
"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you coming to see me this time?"
Pope Gregory sighed, and said in a deliberate tone:
"Your Highness Harrison, in fact, I am here this time because of your father's death..."
"Why? Is there any secret behind my father's death?"
"Your Highness, I don't know if you have carefully read the battle report of the Loire Valley, but there are indeed many strange things in it. For example, why is the Central Army suffered the most casualties, and why is your father injured so much? severe, and even died... ”
Prince Harrison narrowed his eyes, took a few steps towards Gregory, and asked in a deep voice:
"Your Majesty, what do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is, don't forget who was in command of the Loire Valley campaign? After His Majesty died in battle and the Central Army was disabled, who would benefit the most..."
Prince Harrison's breathing gradually became heavy, and a cold light shone in his eyes.
He slowly approached Gregory, as if he had been persuaded...
Suddenly, he staggered, as if he couldn't stand still because he was drunk.
Gregory subconsciously reached out to help:
"Your Highness, be careful..."
Chi!
Gregory only felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, and only then did he realize that something was wrong, but when he was about to break free, Prince Harrison had already pounced on him like a hungry wolf.
"You... Ah! Ah..."
One knife, one knife, another knife.
Prince Harrison was riding on Gregory's body, stabbing him in the chest with a dagger like crazy.
Gregory cried out in pain a few times, but there was no movement outside the hall. Obviously this was a premeditated assassination!
The guards had already been transferred away.
Gregory struggled again to get the golden horn on his waist, but he was stabbed several times, and he couldn't last until the moment of blowing the horn.
The spokesperson of the gods, the leader of the church, and the seventeenth pope of the Glorious Empire, Gregory, died in the hands of a fourteen-year-old prince just like that.
(end of this chapter)