The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

Lee didn't know if the temple could be saved, but if anyone asked, then it was hopeless.

Li interacted with the old king and Edward for a long time, but his purpose was not to explain to them how to revive the kingdom.

Li is here to sow discord. What he hopes most is that the Kingdom and the Temple can fight directly!

In this way, the North can gain sufficient time for development.

"Your Majesty, do you still want to play chess?"

How can we play chess when the chessboard has been blown up by the King and Edward?

But Li Jianxi concentrated his magic power and carved a chessboard pattern directly on the table.

"As long as the chess pieces are still there, the game can still be played~"

Li's words were a double entendre. When one player doesn't want to stop playing chess, what can the other player do even if he smashes the chessboard?

As long as both sides still want to determine the winner, they can just draw a few squares on the ground and play chess.

The king was so angry that he watched Li arrange the chess pieces for both sides.

This time, the white chess pieces on the king's side were not only missing the bishop piece representing the temple, but also half of the soldiers, a knight and a wizard tower.

The White chess piece's military strength was directly halved. The old king didn't want to pay attention to Li, but he still asked about the doubts in his heart.

"What do you mean this time?"

"It's very simple. This time I took into account external interference. In order to fight against the demons, most of the kingdom's forces cannot be mobilized at will. Therefore, it is already a stretch for His Majesty the King to mobilize half of the military forces to deal with the rebellion in the North~"

Why didn't the king suppress the chaos in the North from the beginning?

Putting aside other concerns, the demons alone involve too much of the kingdom's power.

All the king can mobilize now are the royal guards and some private armies maintained by the nobles.

"If the North really dares to march towards the capital, do you think I will still station the Kingdom's army on the coast?"

If his life is really threatened, the king will immediately withdraw the garrison troops to the front line and destroy the North first.

Li heard what the king said, but he didn't care at all.

"You can't do that. If you allow foreign enemies to invade your country just for the sake of internal strife, even if you quell the internal strife, you will still be a sinner. You will lose your entire kingdom and even be hanged at the city gate by the people."

History has proven many times that no matter how fierce the internal strife, the forces defending the border cannot be easily withdrawn.

Even if you can't save your own life, as long as you defend the territory and prevent foreign enemies from invading the interior, you will be remembered after your death.

But if one disregards the lives of others in order to save his own life, even if he survives in the chaos, he will still be cursed and nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

If the old king dared to give the order to withdraw troops from the front line, everything he had spent all his energy to maintain would disappear in an instant.

"Your Majesty, you are a king, not a bandit. Protecting your people from the threat of demons is your mission as you sit on the throne."

The king was silent again. He found that he could not see through this young man Li.

According to Li's description, the old king seemed powerful and majestic, but a careful analysis revealed that the king had already fallen into a dead end.

“…Is there really no way to reverse this?”

The king used his life to prove that what Li said was right.

As a young man, the king personally took action to try to reverse the corruption and decline of the kingdom.

Until now, the king found that everything he had done was in vain.

“There is no way to completely reverse the situation, because the development of the kingdom is like pushing a boulder up a mountain. The process of pushing it up is full of hardships, and many people may even be injured or sacrificed. But with every step forward, people can see hope.”

Li gave an easy-to-understand example.

"But once the kingdom goes downhill, it will be like a boulder sliding down a slope. This trend cannot be stopped by human power. No matter how much effort is exerted or how many methods are devised, the kingdom will eventually only roll further down until it falls into the abyss."

Seeing that the old king didn't want to play chess, Li threw away the chess piece in his hand.

Li is going to give the old king an idea. It is a bad idea, but the king must accept the bad idea given by Li.

"However, the trend of decline is unstoppable, but we can find a way to pause this trend and create a last gasp effect~"

Li lit the flame magic in his hand, and the small fireball shook quietly, illuminating the space in the room.

"A fireball can have the effect of the sun, but a fireball is not the sun. Similarly, it is difficult to make a kingdom powerful, but it is possible to make the kingdom appear powerful~"

Lee's twists and turns revealed strong malice, and neither the king nor Edward wanted to pay any attention to this guy.

But their position prevented them from rejecting Li's temptation.

"Tell me."

"It's very simple. The biggest problem facing the kingdom right now is that the power of the Holy Temple is too strong. It is so strong that it is competing with the kingdom and forming a country within a country."

The temple has its own rules and its own knightly orders, and can indeed be called a country within a country.

"Then, as long as we make peace between the Holy Temple and the Kingdom, and seemingly unify their forces, people will mistakenly believe that the Kingdom has become stronger~"

“How to do it!”

The king no longer expected to be able to reverse the downward trend. He now only wanted to get what Li called "false prosperity".

"Of course, put the highest position in the temple in the hands of the king!"

"Hahaha! I thought you were going to say something. Don't you know that the dead archbishop is my man..."

The king thought Li would have some brilliant idea, but he didn't expect it to be something he had played with before.

But the next moment, the old king felt two dazzling gazes.

Both Lee and Edward looked at the king as if he had dementia.

It was no secret that the Archbishop was the King's man.

"Your Majesty, I mean that you personally sit on the highest seat in the temple."

"In person... How is that possible? The temple will not allow the king to get close. I couldn't even enter the door of the temple before..."

"That's because you are stupid. You treat the temple as an enemy. You naturally can't enter the gate of the temple!"

Li is the first one in these years who dares to call the king stupid in front of him.

Edward imitated what Li had done before and started clapping his hands.

The old king stood up angrily and kicked Edward, who was applauding, to the ground.

"If you don't explain it to me today, I will kill you now!"

The king spit in Li's face. Li took out a handkerchief from his pocket and slapped his face hard.

"The highest position in the cathedral was previously called the Archbishop, which means the head of the bishops who serve God, also known as the Patriarch. I think that taking advantage of the absence of the Archbishop of the Cathedral, the king can change the title to the Pope. How about calling him the Pope? He is both the master of the Church and the king of a country!"

He is both the leader of the church and the king, so he is called the Pope!