Realm of Power

Hobert's embarrassment aroused the tension of everyone in the room. Everyone didn't know what was going on. "What is going on?" Someone asked nervously in the dark. Hobert's voice was like a broken bellows. It was like being squeezed by something, neither admitting nor denying, just trying hard to say "Outside...Outside...Emperor..." "Emperor...Outside..." These two words are like ten thousand volts of electricity. , touched everyone’s nerves,

"Boom!" Before Hobert could finish his words, he was stunned to see that the room was in chaos, like ants whose nest had been blown up. The people sitting in the seats began to commotion, "What should we do! We are surrounded." "Yeah!" Someone screamed in horror.

"Hobert, you traitor, did you bring the emperor here!" Someone began to curse,

"I... didn't..." Hobert looked aggrieved. He tried to speak clearly, but who cares?

At this moment, everyone's heart felt like it was being pinched by a giant hand. A sense of oppression made everyone feel that it was too peaceful outside the door. It was as calm as the brutal imperial soldiers who were ready to use it at any time. He broke into the door with a sharp sword and chopped everyone here into pieces, skinning them and cramping them!

This is a sign before the rain comes. In almost a short moment, the fear in the heart makes the hairs on the hair stand on end.

"Hell, I should have thought of that,"

Suddenly, a fat figure stood up. He was the highest-ranking presiding priest of the Ashton Branch Temple among the temple priests sitting there. His status in the temple was second only to the high priest of the Presbyterian Church. The backbone of the Southern faction in the temple was also the main planner of the Saint's plan. According to the plan, as long as the Saint came to power, the high priest Palstina happened to be assassinated. The saint can legitimately become the high priest, and the southern faction can use this opportunity to regain control of the holy religion.

Just like the predecessors who once dominated the Holy Religion hundreds of years ago, they used divine power and human hearts to reach an equal agreement with the secular royal power, so that the glory of divine power can continue.

But now, his fat body jumped up as if pressed on a spring, and he hurriedly put the priest's hat on his bald head. He said, "I'm sorry, but I have to go back to the temple right away! It's too dangerous here. I have a hunch that the Emperor will unblock us just to lure us out and kill them all." "I should have thought of it a long time ago." A catchphrase with a strong Southern accent, this sentence usually sounds full of ridiculous feeling, even more ridiculous than colleagues mockingly calling it "Kathy should have been thought of earlier." But the person who hears it now has a different feeling.

Seeing him about to leave, Archibald, the priest with equal status next to him, also stood up. He looked at the other mid-level priests with complicated eyes and said in a solemn voice, "I agree with the opinion of the senior priest Kaixi. This is the emperor's trap. Everyone should leave immediately. Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope. I wish you good luck!"

Priest Archibald tried hard to suppress his voice and wanted to look calm, but his trembling hands betrayed him. Nervously, he put his hood on backwards, exposing the white undercoat of the priest's robe. After realizing something was wrong. After fiddling with it several times, he finally put the hat on his head. If it were normal, the Archibald priest would give people a calm feeling, but now, he is like a mouse being stared at by a cat, unable to I imagined that I would jump out of the door at the back decisively,

Completely forgetting that just a few minutes ago, he was holding his wine glass high and loudly praising the arrival of the Theocratic Era, "Pa, ah!" There was a heavy sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. That was Archibald Priest knocking something over. sound,

He and the collision object almost simultaneously made a dull sound of pain, which sounded full of comic joy.

"What is this!" Seeing the two high-ranking priests presiding over the matter, performing in a panic one after another, the middle-level priests who had no other way to escape were dumbfounded.

They were all summoned by these two high-ranking priests. This place is very close to the residence of these two high-ranking priests. They only need to climb over the vine wall at the back. Even if the emperor is looking for it, the two high-ranking priests believe that there are enough Reasons leave everything clean,

But as for people like myself, it is difficult to explain that so many middle-level priests gathered here secretly.

"It's over, you're dead this time!" The minds of some of the middle-level priests who attended the meeting had already begun to flash in their minds the empire's previous cases of this matter, including arrests, executions, and the tragic scenes of erasing the entire family from this land. ,

The bloody head was hung on the wooden frame in the square for public display, and the corpse was hung on the wooden frame. When the wind blew, it swayed miserably and turned into black and terrifying holes. There were no eyeballs in the eye sockets, and a black crow mouth He pecked at his own flesh until it became No one was spared the dried mummies or the gruesome white bones, from children to the elderly. Although most of them were hearsay, everyone firmly believed that the empire could do this, just like they massacred 30,000 punks in the Black Forest. The same coldness shown by the clan,

"I don't want to die!" In the chaos, someone hugged

They were lying on the table with their heads broken and crying. Some of their faces were ashen and their whole bodies were slumped on the chairs. They seemed to have lost their souls. "Assholes, we were all deceived!" Some people were so regretful that their intestines were blue. , what a thing! If it weren't for the tempting promises made by these two guys that are enough to impress people, who would be willing to get involved in this storm? Is the tiger butt of the Vekia Falcon so easy to touch? You only need to read the Empire's History can tell that the sword of the empire has never been merciful to the rebels.

Although they are not a rebellion, what they are planning now is no different from the rebellion. If everyone had some excitement and ambition before, raising their wine glasses high to celebrate that they made the right bet, they only need to wait quietly to enjoy the divine power. benefits,

But now, they feel like thrown chess pieces, fish pressed on the chopping board, being poured down over and over again by biting ice water,

From the forehead to the tailbone on the back, every piece of it was groaning in pain.

Now who has the time to care about the era of divine authority?

"Pa" a sword light fell heavily in the secret room. The blond female Mamunuk knight pulled out her knight sword and chopped off a corner of the long table with one sword.

The cold light and sharpness of the sword temporarily stopped the panic of the priests.

The female Mamunuk knight's eyes flickered, flashing cold air, and said in a cold voice, "The situation is not clear yet, what are you doing! Hobert, what is going on?"

Until this moment, everyone remembered the forgotten Hobert.

"I'm sorry. I didn't expect it to cause such a big panic." Hobert looked at the scene in front of him blankly. He realized that he had caused a lot of trouble and trembled with fear before he apologized. "It's just that I didn't have a chance to speak just now. In fact, what I want to say is very simple, that is, the emperor has not come here, and there is nothing outside." Hobert's voice stopped, and he saw that most of the priests were angry. look at yourself,

In this look, he felt like a sinner, which made his apology fly away immediately, and he cursed in his heart, I am not the one who lied to you!

"What was the big thing you just talked about?"

At the critical moment, the female Mamunuk asked coldly. Only then did Hobert come back to his senses. With the luster of memories in his eyes, he said bleakly.

"I followed the order and went to the city of St. Nicholas at the foot of the mountain to investigate the Emperor's movements. As a result, I did not find any sight of the Emperor gathering. Instead, there were cheering crowds everywhere.

I saw a notice issued by the Empire just this morning! The announcement said that after consultation with the temple, the saint will be selected from the common people from now on. The Vekia Falcon will also attend this ceremony and will personally bless the saint! "What, the saint is chosen from common people!" "

Although they had just escaped from danger, under the impact of this news, the priests' mouths were still big enough to swallow a toad.

This news was like a heavy blow to them, and they were immediately confused. "How is this possible?" A priest muttered in a daze, "If a saint is chosen from poor commoners, how can a saint still be able to do it?" Is she a saint?"

"But there is no express rule that saints cannot be selected from civilians!" Another priest said with a frustrated look. Priests are not stupid, and they are proficient in playing word games. Otherwise, how can they win the trust of believers? ,

"How did the civilians react?" The female Mamunuk knight still held on to a trace of luck.

"Thundering cheers!" Hobert shrugged with a helpless expression. "I saw the statue of the prophet on the bulletin board in the city square.

It's the one sent by the emperor. To be honest, it's the most approachable and touching prophet I've ever seen.

Even I think that that is the true face of the prophet. The prophet's initial decision should be to choose a saint from among the common people! "Asshole, how could they do this!" "

The female Mamunuk knight's pretty eyes widened and she punched the table hard. Compared to the previous sentence, she cared about the second sentence.

What does it mean to personally bless a saint? According to convention, only the divine authority has the right to recognize secular royal authority.

When did divine power need the blessing of secular power?

This is naked tampering and the overstepping of divine authority by secular kingship.

This simple reversal is almost equivalent to directly telling everyone that the royal power of the empire is superior to the divine power!

She suddenly realized that she had made the most serious mistake. She didn't even know who her opponent was, so she was overly optimistic and believed that she had a chance to win.

What she felt was a kind of sad and angry frustration, and all her efforts were in vain at this moment. She had imagined the empire's reaction to this saintly ceremony, and had even made various plans to deal with it, but only Didn't expect that,

The enemy commander who was undefeated on the battlefield with the Vekia Falcon would be so shameless that he would directly overthrow everything, completely giving him no chance to make a comeback! To be continued