The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

When Li pointed out that the king was involved in a series of events that happened in the temple.

The next moment, the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed.

A bloody holy light bloomed from Edward's body. Li felt pain all over and quickly distanced himself from Edward.

The old king stayed where he was and resisted Edward's threats.

"Your Majesty, you'd better give me an explanation!"

Edward was not interested in the power struggle between the kingdom and the church; he only cared about who killed the archbishop.

Favors owed to others must be repaid, and Edward was a man who would repay favors and revenge.

"Edward! Are you going to attack me? I'm the king!"

The warrior's energy burst out from the old king, confronting Edward's killing holy light.

The chessboard and chess table between the two of them were squeezed and torn into pieces by the energy, leaving only the chess pieces made of special materials, which flew onto Li's face.

"… King, Your Majesty, you were the one who pushed the Archbishop to power. Are you doing him justice by doing this?"

Edward only hated that this was not a battlefield against demons.

Facing the king, Edward finally chose to compromise.

Edward did not take action against the king, but he demanded a reasonable explanation from the king.

When the throne of the temple was rotated, it was not Edward's godfather's turn to take the throne.

It was the king who found the dead archbishop, nominated him to power, and asked him to cooperate with the king to help him influence the church.

In the end, the archbishop became a discarded pawn and was abandoned by the king!

Edward couldn't accept this!

"…Edward, I had no choice but to do this, and this was not my original plan."

The old king was also helpless. Now the people he trusted and who lived in the same era as him were becoming fewer and fewer.

The old king didn't want the archbishop to die like this.

"But the archbishop's position is too special. As long as he sits in that position, the archbishop must die."

Li, who was standing by, took over the king's unfinished words and put the cruelest reality before their eyes.

Edward was attracted to Lee, his face full of incomprehension.

Edward didn't understand why the archbishop had to die when everything was fine.

Lee picked up the white bishop chess piece that had fallen beside him and twisted it between his fingers.

"Because history is like this, the course of the times requires the archbishop to die."

Li first said something high-sounding, and seeing that Edward and the old king's eyes were all on him, Li felt that he had scored perfect marks for being cool.

"To put it simply, you can understand it by looking at history."

When the temple was first built, they stood with the people. They were ascetics walking in the world. They would bless the suffering people and cure their diseases.

"At the beginning, the temple was just a group of kind priests who joined the legion to serve as doctors and relieve the psychological pressure caused by the war on the soldiers. But what happened afterwards..."

Five hundred years ago, the priests of the church could only be the most marginal guests, sitting among the soldiers and sharing the roasted goat together.

"Three hundred years ago, the Holy Temple held the Knights of Judgment and was invited by the king to participate in the court ceremony."

Two hundred years ago, the temple presided over the king's succession ceremony and publicly declared that the king's throne was a symbol granted by the goddess.

"When our king ascended the throne, he knelt before the archbishop, who beat his back with a laurel branch soaked in holy water until his skin was torn and flesh was exposed. Only then was he qualified to wear the crown!"

When Li talked about this, the old king trembled all over.

The person kneeling there being whipped in Li's words was the old king when he was young.

"Edward, if you were the king and had experienced something like this, how would you view the sept?"

There have been similar stages in the history of the Earth.

Faith and religion are above secular monarchy.

Regardless of who is right or wrong in such an era, when you are on one side, you will inevitably regard the other side as your mortal enemy.

Power is something that is meant to converge at one point. When another group of people jump out and want to share the power, if the two sides do not fight immediately, it can be considered that both sides are well-mannered.

"But this is not the fault of the Holy Temple. The reason why the Holy Temple has become more and more powerful and even dared to make trouble for the throne is that it was actually handed over by the kings of successive generations."

Initially, the king could regard the Templar as one of his subordinates, and the Templar's position was no different from that of the nobles under the king.

But if the new king wants to come to power, the nobles left behind by the old king will become an obstacle to the new king.

In order to find a supporting partner, the new king could only seek support from the temple.

"That's how it is. With each new king, each one gave some of their power to the Holy Temple. The Holy Temple gradually participated in the succession of royal power and even slowly gained the right to appoint the king!"

After listening to Li recount the process of the growth of the power of the Temple in such ancient times, the old king and Edward's eyes lit up.

Li's clear understanding of the development of things is rare in this era.

"Your Majesty, it was the same when our King nominated the Archbishop to power. The power held by the Holy Cathedral is too great, and Your Majesty wants to take some back from them."

It is not easy for one of our own people to take back power from the church when he becomes the archbishop.

In fact, it’s not easy!

"The operation of a large organization is like a machine in a factory. At the beginning, it can be stopped by just a stick, but when the machine runs at full speed, it will crush everything that gets close to it!"

The machine that Li mentioned is spreading rapidly from north to south.

Nowadays, in several large cities close to the royal capital, some people have built factories in the suburbs.

The king naturally understood the principles of the machine and also understood Li's description.

"If you want to stop a machine like this, you can only cut off its source and its power!"

The machines in the factory can be stopped simply by cutting off the energy supply.

Remove the wood and coal from the boiler and break the transmission chain.

"But an organization like the Holy Temple does not have a basic source of power. If we must say, the source of power is all the subjects of the kingdom."

The people of the kingdom support such a huge belief system as the Temple. It is obviously undesirable and impossible to wipe out the people in order to deal with the Temple.

"Moreover, forcing the temple to stop operating is unacceptable to the kingdom at the moment!"

Just like when the machinery in a factory stops functioning, the product stops as well.

Once the temple is destroyed, the kingdom will be doomed.

"So, the king came up with a good idea, which is to throw dirty water on the church, so that people will know that the church is no longer the same as it used to be. They have committed evil deeds and have long been corrupt and degenerate!"

Edward's eyes widened and he looked at the old king in disbelief.

It turns out that the king knew everything. There were many evil deeds committed in the temple, but the king allowed them to be carried out!

If everything goes according to the old king's plan, the influence of the temple will gradually decrease, and people's faith will gradually return to the kingdom itself.

"But! In order to accomplish this, someone must cooperate with the king to fall into hell, and the kingdom must also make corresponding sacrifices!"

The person chosen by the old king to fall into hell was Bishop West Germany.

Those who were abandoned and sacrificed by the old king were the children of the nobles, especially Lian from the Freyr family!

"What a pity, everything was ruined by me ~ hehehe ~"