I don't know what the man in front of me is thinking, but he should be extremely depressed. He was the Pope just a second ago, the ruler of billions of lives in the entire galaxy, with a seemingly endless lifespan, power far exceeding that of ordinary people, and three years of ecstasy. The listless Wang Caiang puffed out his chest and barked like a husky. But that is the past tense, his brilliant career just ended abruptly, because he was fired.
No matter how many stains his rule has, he is a person worthy of sympathy at this time. Maybe he can still stand in front of the Mobrador civilians as a puppet to maintain the stability of this theocratic society, but for a man in his Losing authority is basically another death for someone in this position.
After Biluna's voice fell, the Pope remained silent for a long time. I could feel his gaze sweeping over us through the mask. Obviously, he still felt a little unreal about the current situation. However, the light from the imperial warships outside the window had not completely dissipated, and he could see a large number of people gathering towards the Pope's Palace just by looking outside, which made it impossible for him to question the current situation at all. Of course, these are only part of the reasons, the most important thing is that he found that he has lost his most trusted power.
Sandora just cut off his mental power to connect to the outside world, that is to say, the current Holy Pope is already the same as ordinary Mobrado people except for his physical fitness. His most powerful weapon "Sharp of Conviction" has left his grasp. Sandora told me that the so-called "Sharp of Conviction" is a high-level armed satellite with an output power at least 50 times greater than that of the satellite Milia connected to last time, which is enough to burn a huge city to ashes in an instant. It is said to be a very powerful support weapon, if the other twelve pieces of Conviction Sharp are also of this scale,
Then it is no wonder that the Holy Pope and the Twelve Knights were able to use their power to suppress the resistance of the entire world within three years.
But as I said before, that was already in the past tense. When he suddenly found that his ability to control the ancient weapons had left him, the Holy Pope finally confirmed that this was not a nightmare, let alone directed by Zaku. Ridiculous drama. Even if the people in the room in front of him are not sages, they are enough to drive him off the altar.
"Unexpectedly, I was not knocked down on the battlefield, but was forced to take off the robe in my room, just like a poor mortal." The pope looked around at the people with a very vicissitudes of life, Lilina hurried A word of persuasion from the side: "You can talk about it, we have to take it off and wait for us girls to go out!"
The figure of the pope looked more vicissitudes, and I took Liliana aside: it's about this time, we should save some face for the other party.
"So, you are sages? The masters I follow?"
"The identity of the heir is your self-proclaimed.
"Sandora responded with a cold voice. She was not satisfied with the human being who claimed to be the "successor" in front of her. It’s not to the point where “sanctions” are needed. I can understand this kind of feeling a little bit, and it’s probably the disappointment that comes from seeing the successor of one’s servant perform poorly.
"Then where did I go wrong?" The pope stood up slowly, still wearing his mask, confronting us through this layer of smooth metal, "I firmly believe that I am walking the path you have prescribed for this world, Power, obedience, discipline. Absolute unity, these are the imprints you left on the ancients, and I carefully reproduce them in this civilization, and I don't think I am wrong."
"I'm really curious how you know the old empire, that is, how the sages in your mouth ruled the ancient civilization. Just a few clues left by a ruin hundreds of thousands of years ago is not enough for you to sum up these things." My lord He looked up and down the other party with curious eyes and asked.
The Pope was surrounded by us like a prisoner. At this time, he could only answer questions: "The Order of Conviction has brought us excellent knowledge, but also has many vague memories. Those memories show us a brilliant and powerful image. ...they showed me the way to save the world!"
"Well, the belief is quite firm, but the direction is wrong." Lilina concluded heavily.
"I'm really not chosen!?" The Pope finally struggled to ask us, Sandora snorted, and I kindly explained to the other party: "The so-called "chosen. It does not exist. In fact, even the apostles of Xiling cannot choose a person who will be born tens of thousands of years later as the successor. In a way, you really have inherited our legacy. It's a pity that improper use cannot be recognized. Didn't you just want to ask yourself where you went wrong? Then take this opportunity to think about it, if this civilization really makes you go on like this, is there still room for development? "
This is why Lou and Sandora agreed that the man in front of them is not suitable to continue to lead the Mobrado civilization: not only because of the other party's unpleasant personality, after all, it is not unacceptable for a ruler to have a bad personality Shortcomings. Where he really makes us dissatisfied is the way of thinking.
In all fairness, a person who almost single-handedly ended the war history of the entire race, bringing civilization into a state of complete unity and eliminating all disputes (at least most of the disputes that can be discovered) can almost be called a great man Yes, what this pope has done is not an exaggeration for the entire development history of Mobrado, but everything must happen, and the law should be followed. The reason why the Apostles of Xiling can completely eliminate civil wars is because their civilization has developed At a certain level, its internal struggles have become the residue of being run over by the wheels of evolution, and civilizations like Mobrado have obviously not yet reached this level. Under the rule, I dare not say that all disputes in the entire world have been eliminated, but the pope has stopped everything with violence. The end of internal strife may have allowed the entire civilization to embark on a path of rapid development in the early days, but after a certain period of rapid development, they will face the bottleneck of lack of motivation: under the protection of the ruins of the empire, this galaxy is absolutely safe and will never There is no external aggression, and there is no internal struggle, and within the foreseeable future, they still have inexhaustible energy. In this way, even if some people want civilization to progress, how much motivation do they have for progress as a whole?
The flowers in the greenhouse cannot be strong, and there is no motivation without pressure. If you let Pandora live in the kindergarten from now on, you may have to forget about growing tall.
This is still one of the bottlenecks, and the second bottleneck is the loss of diversity after the thoughts of the entire race are unified into one person. There is only one person in Mobrado that can be regarded as the absolute truth, and that is the Pope, who believes that his judgment is always correct. Then this civilization will never have the second kind of thinking. The Pope fanatically admired the knowledge of "sages and sages", so all the scholars in Mobrado only studied the legacy left by the sages, and any scholars who studied other branches of science and technology were regarded as heretics and sent to the stake. According to historical data, in Mobrado a few years ago, although the knowledge of sages was also the focus of human research, there were still countless other disciplines in this world. After the world was ruled by the Twelve Knights and the Holy Pope, those disciplines were condemned as rebellious and burned.
If those disciplines can continue to this day, coupled with the technology unearthed from the ancient ruins, Mobrado might not be imprisoned in the stage of star system civilization. In short, the pope's "ideological dictatorship" made the entire civilization lose the courage to develop freely. They only dare to carefully read ancient documents under strict rules. Such a race will never want to display its own technology tree in another 10,000 years.
The third mistake of the Holy Pope, and the point that Sandora and I can't let him continue to stay in this position, is that he may bring the whole world into destruction. This is not alarmist talk, but has revealed the possibility. Although the current Holy Pope makes people frown frequently,
But many records and signs show that he was just a heroic young man with a little head in the air three years ago. Uncle Zaku called him a "fool" at that time. Integrity can also become a hero, so the performance of the Holy Pope in the first year of ruling the world is quite satisfactory. But with the passage of time, he has changed.
The world does not need to question the Pope’s judgment, because the Pope’s judgment comes from the guidance of the sages—the Holy Pope hypnotized himself with this sentence last year, and finally not only convinced the believers, but even himself believed in it. He has become arrogant and arrogant, living in his fantasy half-god identity, ruling the world as the son of God. Even after someone breached the Pope's Palace, he calmly judged the other party's identity by himself: he thought he should know everything.
The long-term absolute power, the absolute authority that no one dares to question, the superhuman life, and the infinite lifespan have turned a heroic stunned young man who was once only a bit passionate into a monster other than human beings. This has to be said to be a tragedy . And if he continues to live in this position for three years, the Pope may not be alone in the tragedy.
But it's not all his fault, it's because of the environment, he has gained incomprehensible power, but he doesn't have a clear guide to get him on the right track, so he can only make up his mind, and if he overdoes it, he will fall into the second grade. Just think about yourself, I was just an ordinary high school student back then, my identity changed drastically in the blink of an eye, and I also gained the power to scare people to death, if Pandora hadn’t come to me at that time, Sandora hadn’t told me so many things , without a group of cute and annoying subordinates making noise all day long, what would I become? What has the earth made of itself
I can't imagine which path I would be on now if things unfolded in that column, anyway, if that were the case, this book would definitely be an early hit.
I am also a little bit aggrieved for this Holy Pope. You said that this is more or less a big man. He has led the Lord for three years out of billions of people. As a result, he did not fight bloody battles on the battlefield, and he did not fight coldly in a palace coup. , In the end, it turned out that a group of people surrounded him in his bedroom and was announced to be laid off. This way of ending is really not in line with his life in the previous three years. This is probably the most depressing part of the Pope himself. I can't help but want to suggest suggestions, if it doesn't work, he will be Pope for a few days first, we will send a few heroic spirits to assassinate him when he is going to give a speech outside, and then he will be as sad as Lelouch from the high platform Rolling down, so that face is saved.
Later the Pope refused.
"Zaku, tell us about your past?"
Seeing that Biluna was busy talking to the Pope, I called Zaku over to have a chat. No one is worried that the Pope will suddenly take any action, because Sandora has turned him into an ordinary person. The Pope's previous strength was completely based on the power that is absolutely beyond this world. He himself knows this very well. When all the power After being blocked, anyone whose IQ exceeds double digits should not act rashly. Of course, it's quite admirable that the opponent didn't go crazy after suffering such a big blow.
From the conversation between Zaku and the other party just now, I have already guessed a lot of things, but no person involved personally said it, I always feel that my guesses are just my colleagues...
"I'm afraid it's just an inconspicuous little story to you." Zaku shrugged to us, saying that this story is nothing to talk about, but he simply told it, "That happened more than three years ago. When the war is raging, there is a group of lively and happy guys in the troubled times: an adventure group that relies on ancient relics and reselling arms to squander, and I am the leader of that adventure group.”
"At that time, all races in the world were fighting with each other, and countries were also at war with each other. There was almost no place that was not filled with gunpowder, but the adventure group I led became a very special place. In the group, almost all countries gathered , Members of all races, we are all orphans of the war, we gathered together when we were wandering and fleeing, fighting and fighting since we were young, and almost forgot our race. This man who now calls himself the Pope, whose real name is Ruduff, he and Biluna was the earliest guy I knew. A group of vagrants, from the street gangsters, to the thieves group stealing chickens and dogs, to the "adventure group" who dared to go to the ruins and the battlefield to pick up things, came here step by step. Now that I think about it, although my life back then was dangerous, it was the happiest day in my three years of memory...
Back then, Ruduff was a heroic and passionate young man. He and Biluna were bullied everywhere in society because they were regenerated humans. I was not much better. Ordinary humans always looked down on lycanthropes. In the difficult life, Ruduff often said that he must become a great person to quell all the wars in this world, and to make all races equal-this should be the environment in the adventure group that made him give up and other people. racial hatred. Although his idea is a bit exaggerated, it is actually the wish of many people in the regiment.
Later... the adventure group gradually grew, we had our own airship, and we started to receive some big business and even took the initiative to search for ancient ruins.
Of course, the Canglan Church had not yet been established at that time, and the relics of the sages could be explored by everyone.
With the idea of making a fortune and then idle for a few years, we went to a place called "Echo Mine", which has now become a holy place for the church, but at that time, it was just a mine that had been abandoned for a long time. We heard the wind, He said that he saw a blue night light glowing from the ground near the mine, so he decided to go and see if he could be lucky.
Later, we really hit the jackpot...
There is an almost perfectly preserved relic of a sage. But... that was also the day when the adventure group was destroyed.
In the ruins, a rookie in the group accidentally ran into the defense system of the ruins, including that rookie, dozens of people in the adventure group died in an instant, and the remaining fifteen of us ran desperately, without direction. I broke into a place filled with blue light, and those blue lights are still jumping around in my eyes.
In a panic, Biluna and I got separated from the other thirteen people. We scrambled like headless chickens in the channel glowing with blue light. When we were exhausted, we ran into a section of transparent crystal channel, separated by Pipeline…”
"He saw me and the other twelve brothers and sisters trapped on a suspended flying bridge. A flame passed over the flying bridge, and then we all fell." The pope interrupted Zaku's narration aloud. , he stood up and gently took off his mask.
I thought I would see a severely burned face, or an ordinary middle-aged uncle, or a gloomy man with the word "conspiracy" engraved on his face, or you could just look like Guo Degang, Or Marilyn Monroe, but in fact... there is nothing behind the mask, only a small blue light ball vibrating at high speed.
Several uncontrollable low exclamations sounded in the room, the most obvious of which was Biluna's exclamation.
"The flames burned our bodies and purified the sins of mortals." From the small ball of light came a sharp and small voice. "It" floated out from the Pope's hood, and the Pope's long robe and artificial skin were like It fell to the ground like a rag. It's just a set of skins, the real pope is just a ball of light the size of a ping pong ball? !
"The blue light gives us rebirth. When we wake up, we have become the purest light. There are magical machines left by sages in the ruins. They have transformed us. This transformation has also given us a more powerful Powerful power, although we have lost our bodies, we can use our spiritual power to do exactly the same things as we do when we have a body, and we can control a more powerful sacred weapon: the sharpness of sin."
After the pope finished speaking, the little ball of light moved closer to Biluna: "You are right, my era is coming to an end, since this world is left by sages, we should follow all their arrangements. Accept it unconditionally. Maybe the long life really confused me, I almost forgot the vow I made after returning to the human world from the ruins."
"No wonder you have been wearing a mask since that day." Uncle Zaku hissed, and then looked at the skin on the ground, "When you invited me and Biluna to join your great cause, you refused to take off the mask , So that’s how it is.”
"It's the special technology of my fortune-tellers, a method to extract the souls of fallen soldiers and make them immortal," Sandora said in a low voice, "but the success rate is not high. It seems that a large dose of crystal radiation has strengthened them. The spiritual strength of the thirteen knights allowed all of them to pass the transformation. In this way, they really "passed the test and became the successors." "
"Sage, please forgive me for my previous recklessness." The small ball of light in the air trembled slightly towards me and Sandora. "I didn't expect that after being suddenly removed from this identity, I would feel sober... Please go to the hall, I hope to know the end What happened, for the first time in three years, I am curious about fate."