Lord of the Continent [Western Fantasy]

At the beginning of the new year, Vientiane is renewed, and Yiteniti, located in the southern region, ushers in its spring. The lavender national flower, Eternal Kiss, blooms all over the mountains and plains, bringing new hope to the country.

Since the abdication of the old king, under the leadership of the new regime headed by Firmia, Itiniti has been implementing reforms since the late winter of last year, promulgating new laws and regulations, banning all casinos in the country, similar to paying debts from fathers to sons, etc. Unequal agreements were also completely abolished.

All the land lords and manor owners were exempted from various exorbitant taxes, and they were required to treat their servants and slaves well. The common people were given more rights and freedoms. The whole country seemed to start a new chapter in human history.

The reform also touched the interests of many nobles, especially those ancient plutocratic families, but Firmia had already controlled the centralization of power, including the most important weapon - military power, so after collecting enough evidence, she For corruption, bribery, and even treason, several family leaders were beheaded.

The tough tactics frightened the nobles of Itenity, and they finally understood that the newly appointed queen regent was no longer the weak little princess, but a cold-blooded politician who killed people without blinking an eye.

After such a revolution, the aristocratic circle has been reshuffled, and young upstarts are rising. For example, the Viscount family headed by Salinger, they have a more grand worldview, and they are more compassionate than those decadent families.

Of course, the reform cannot be achieved overnight. A small number of excluded old families hugged each other to keep warm. Although they dared not speak out, they still refused to admit that the Iron Queen stood behind the little king Sarenld.

What made them collapse even more was that Firmia actually publicly announced that she denied that the Church of Light cared about Teniti's religious authority, and instead established a brand new religion.

With the order of the royal family, the whole country began to remove the strongholds of the Church of Light. The bishops were expelled back to the Holy Land, and the priests were dismissed and became ordinary people.

New statues of gods were built in various places. At the same time, Firmia appeared outside the palace, proclaiming her beliefs to all the people——

A god named Lord of Dreams.

But different from the Church of Light, the new religion does not interfere with the running of the country, and there is no longer the so-called divine right of kings, and it does not even need to pay heavy taxes every year.

Firmia first cultivated hundreds of believers, and then appointed them to spread the teachings in various regions. The new religion's ideas were more suitable for the people, so they were quickly accepted by many civilians.

This move caused an uproar in the Western Fantasy Continent, which was not only unexpected by the royal families of other human countries, but also within their expectations.

As early as after Red Thorpe, the archbishop in red, and several important church officials were stabbed to death, the surrounding royal family was sure that the whole incident was secretly carried out by the Italian royal family.

Since the birth of the Bright Church, it has been above the monarchy. After thousands of years of development, it has the supreme theocracy, and even the king who enjoys the autocratic power must bow to it.

The Pope of the Holy Land is known as the King of Kings, and he has the right to judge all kinds of right and wrong of the royal family. Even the establishment of the crown prince and the enthronement of the throne must be crowned by the Pope himself before he can be officially recognized, otherwise it is a felony. To be sentenced by the Holy Land.

Every year, the royal families of various countries have to pay huge taxes and donate treasures to the holy places. Because of this, the existence of the church has seriously interfered with the development of the country. The royal families are miserable, but under the power of the Holy Light, they can only Suffer in silence.

However, what they didn't expect was that Firmia dared to stand up and directly declare war on the Illuminati Church, and Yiteniti became the first country in the West Fantasy Continent to implement absolute monarchy.

This gave other royal families a glimpse of a glimmer of light. Maybe they can really do it and completely get rid of the shackles of the church?

However, as the king of a country, it is naturally impossible to be an impulsive fool who overthrows the Church of Light?Many royal families only feel that the future is bleak and there are many difficulties.

Therefore, everyone stood still for the time being, neither openly opposing nor expressing support, but secretly waiting for the reaction of the Holy Land.

But among the many countries that watch theaters, there is an exception, that is Opas, the poorest and most declining country in all human countries.

After Opas successfully resolved the crisis in the ancient town of Eternal Night, the Demon Hunters Association took control of the country's discourse power. The president of the association, Herax, began to actively promote the new religion and wantonly built statues. Exactly the same, it is the sculpture of the Lord of Dreamland.

King Opas is incompetent and cowardly. Even if he doesn't want to offend the Pope of the Holy Land, he doesn't want to offend his terrifying lady witcher. According to rumors, she has powerful dark spells and can transform into As a monster, killing people in an instant.

Although this information came from the public, King Opas firmly believed in it. If Herax was just an ordinary witch hunter, how could it be possible to wipe out all the dark monsters overnight, even the little one who has been in the polar night for thousands of years? Town reborn?

Therefore, he had no choice but to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and as long as Hercules didn't come in front of him and forced him to say such treasonous words of "overthrowing the Church of Light", he would simply let her go.

In this way, in just one short winter, the structure of religious power in the entire human kingdom changed drastically, and finally Pope Zechariah of the Holy Land couldn't sit still.

After the accident happened in the Eternity Church, Zacharias quickly sent people to investigate the cause, and at the same time considered which priest would succeed Red Thorpe as the new Cardinal Archbishop.

But before he could make a decision, the royal family of Itenity suddenly became turbulent, and the second princess came to power immediately. Zacharias had to change his original plan and wanted to use his own people to go deep into the royal family and take the opportunity to seize the power of Itenity, but he did not Unexpectedly, the accident happened again during this period.

Xuefu Town was suddenly invaded by a large number of dark monsters. Bishop Bishop used the ultimate summoning technique. The Pope had to urgently send the Templar Cavanat to deal with it. Angels K and Q also followed.

With Seraphim's help, Zechariah breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that everything would be fine, but to his surprise, this heresy incident finally got completely out of control.

Templar Cavanat, Saint Asna, and Bishop Sartre soon lost their breath of life after following Seraph into the scene of the incident, and in the end even the two Seraphs were nowhere to be found.

All this happened in an instant, and the transmitted image was fixed at the moment when the thunder and lightning crisscrossed over Xuefu Town. No one knew what happened after that. The surviving priests all lost their memory of that night, and they didn’t even remember it. I once participated in the task of eliminating demons.

Afterwards, by praying to the God of Light, Zacharias learned that Seraph K and Q had not returned to the heaven, and whether they were dead or alive was still uncertain. The heaven also sent many holy spirits to search the entire Western Fantasy continent. To no avail.

The disappearance of the high-ranking Seraphim in his own territory is a top priority for Pope Zacharias. He had to temporarily let go of Itenity and began to cooperate with the heavens to find K and Q.

But now, in the name of the royal family, Firmia has publicly announced that the entire country has left the Church of Light. Zacharias can no longer tolerate it. It is important to find Seraphim, but the right to teach has become precarious in the human kingdom. It is a serious crime of malfeasance.

So a few days ago, Zacharias decisively sent Cardinal Morihot to Itiniti to take over Redthorpe's position, and started a tough negotiation with Firmia.

In the afternoon of this day, a priest rushed to report that Cardinal Morihot returned to the Holy Land and urgently asked the Pope to summon him.

Above the temple, Zechariah sat on the throne, constantly rubbing the golden cross in his hand, with a gloomy face, waiting for Molihot's arrival.

After a while, Morihot entered the hall and performed the sacrament to the Pope. Zacharias waved his hand and motioned him to sit down, and then asked, "Why are you back? Didn't I tell you to enter the Temple of the Italian Society immediately ?"

"Your Majesty," Morihot said, "please forgive my incompetence for not being able to complete your order as scheduled."

"What exactly happened?" Zechariah said blankly.

Morihot replied: "Firmia rejected your request for a double-camera queen, and her attitude was very tough. She said, she said..."

Zechariah: "What did she say?"

After a brief hesitation, Morihot said: "She said that the Church of Light is no longer the state religion of Itenity, and she does not recognize our religious authority in the country, and her sister, Mishulia, has long been abolished. The female title is now just an ordinary countess."

"That's unreasonable!" Zecharia sternly said, "She dared to blaspheme the saint, this is simply absurd! What does the noble family say?"

"The aristocratic circle has undergone a major change." Morihot explained: "Itiniti is now in power, and the old forces have been eliminated by the second princess. Only a few families dare not rebel, but they occasionally Secretly gathering here, she also told me a lot of secrets about the second princess."

"What are the details?" Zechariah asked.

"A lot of things are insignificant." Morihot said, "but one thing is very important, that is, they once heard a member of the Royal Knights reveal that the second princess is proficient in dark witchcraft, and she was on the night of the Knights riot. It has been used, and this is also the main factor for her to be able to control Itenity smoothly."

"Dark witchcraft?" Zacharias frowned thoughtfully, and immediately mocked: "No wonder you dare to openly oppose the church, and promote new religions on a large scale. It turns out that you have fallen in love with the dark evil god!"

"Your Majesty the Pope," Morihot said, "shall we arrange an assassination to kill Firmia as a warning to others?"

"Assassination...?"

Zacharias was silent for a long time, and said after a long time: "Nowadays, many countries are quite critical of the church, especially after seeing the actions of Itenity, they all have evil intentions. Killing Firmia can only Alleviating a temporary crisis cannot solve all problems."

Morihot was startled, and then said: "Then what His Majesty means..."

"Call the knight commander Heinrich." Zacharias ordered.

Not long after, Heinrich, the first knight in the Knights Templar Order, entered the hall, made a knight's homage to Zacharias, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, what do you want me to do?"

"Heinrich," Zechariah said slowly, "I want to know, how many troops can be summoned in the entire Holy Land?"

Heinrich thought for a while, and replied: "The Knights Templar has more than [-] knights, plus other knights guarding the Holy Land, the number of people that can be summoned is about [-]."

"It's not enough." Zechariah said, "Heinrich, next I need you to take the Cavaliers and go to various countries to negotiate and ask them to send troops to help us attack Itenity."

Morihot and Heinrich: "!!!"

"Your Majesty, with all due respect," Morihot said hastily, "After Eternity's trip, I learned that the current attitude of the other royal families towards the church is not clear, and they have not done anything about Firmia's rebellion. There was strong resistance, and even a backcountry like Opus blatantly promotes dual religions, so I worry..."

"I understand what you mean." Zechariah said, "You are worried that they will find many excuses and refuse to send troops."

Morihot: "Your Majesty is wise."

"It doesn't matter." Zacharias smiled and said, "We only need to persuade one person. As for other countries, if they insist on playing the role of fools, I will deal with the big trouble of Itenity before I talk to them." Settle accounts after autumn!"

"Heinrich," Zechariah ordered, "go to the mercenary country Iklia at the first stop, and tell their king Agas for me that as long as he is willing to borrow [-] troops, I am willing to promise, In the future, he can exercise his privileges in the church, and he will be given a mountain of jewels."

"I know Agas very well. He has always advocated the supremacy of interests and has no political stance at all. As long as whoever pays more money and promises more rights, he is willing to stand behind whoever!"

"I am fully confident that Ikelia will support the church." Finally, Zechariah said: "Heinrich, you must gather an army of [-] knights for me, the sooner the better!"

Heinrich knelt on one knee and said seriously: "Your Majesty, I pledge my soul to complete your mission!"

"very good……"

As he spoke, Pope Zacharias stood up slowly, looked at the tall statue of light outside the temple, his body exuded a pale golden light, his face showed killing intent, and said coldly: "I want to launch a holy war!!"

"I must let those in power in the entire West Fantasy Continent understand that if you betray the Lord God of Light and the Church of Light, you will be trampled by the rolling iron hooves of the Templar army and crushed into a pile of carrion!!"