Lennon City.

If placed in other areas, it would be considered a prosperous medium-sized city.

But placed in the core area of ​​the Asia Minor plain, near the royal capital of Valesta, it can only serve as a foil to this bright pearl, an insignificant satellite city.

Therefore, it is also called the west gate of Valesta.

Once you cross it from the west, it means you have officially entered the boundaries of the royal capital, not far from Valesta.

This spring, this little-known city became extremely lively because a group of people stayed here.

This group of people is none other than His Majesty St. George, the new Pope of the Holy See of Ethera who has just embarked on a missionary tour throughout the Alliance.

Five consecutive large-scale sermons delivered by St. George in person have already transformed most of the citizens of this medium-sized city, which originally had a foundation of faith, into believers in the Holy See and loyal supporters of His Majesty St. George.

For His Majesty St. George, who has ambitious goals, this is obviously too extravagant.

According to the evangelistic plan his devout believers helped him draw up, a city of this size only needs one or two large evangelistic meetings, not three at most.

Only the royal capital of Valesta is worthy of His Majesty St. George's investment of so much energy.

It was not His Majesty St. George's initiative to invest so much energy in Lennon City, but he was forced to stay here.

Those who can influence his formation are naturally the ruling class of the Byron Alliance, represented by the royal power represented by the regent Princess Sophilia.

In order to prevent him from entering the inner circle of Lancelot's royal family and preaching, the regent princess Sophilia did not hesitate to mobilize her own Knights of the Iron Rose, and put on a posture of not willing to fight to the death.

If Saint George dared to lead his preaching team to approach the royal capital of Valesta, she would lead a brazen attack.

No one dared to question whether the Princess Regent had the courage, including St. George.

The Princess Regent's behavior in recent years has been somewhat gentle, causing people to forget her former nickname, Iron Princess, intentionally or unintentionally.

Not long after he took power, in order to revitalize the royal family and establish his own name, he did not hesitate to launch a challenge to the Holy See of Saint Ether. If Pope Delt had not taken long-term and comprehensive considerations at that time, the battle between royal power and theocratic power would have started as early as

It broke out twenty years ago.

Before Pope St. George took office, he scorned Pope Delta's moderate behavior.

He believed that it was his style that fueled Princess Sophia's arrogance and allowed her to push herself further. Over the years, she has been eroding the interests of the Holy See and using the Holy See as a stepping stone to elevate herself even higher.

If the Holy See launches a full-scale counterattack before the Princess Regent has grown up, the entire Valesta will become their core parish. If there are millions of devout believers, the influence of the Saint Ether Holy See will not only increase by one degree.

double?

Therefore, the moment he took over the oracle's scepter, Pope St. George secretly decided in his heart that he would never repeat the mistakes of Pope Delta and never compromise easily.

But when things really came to pass, he discovered that things were far from as simple as he thought.

The timing of Princess Regent Sophia's activation is very fatal.

Less than three months before and after Pope St. George ascended the throne, his preaching tour had just begun.

Even though he holds the true messenger of God and the holy power in his hands, two unprecedented trump cards, most of the Vatican believers have never even heard of his name, and the information still remains at the stage where the pope is a Delt, so what's the use?

Once a full-scale war breaks out with the royal family, it will be difficult for the Holy See to seek benefits. After all, the Holy See has fatal flaws in its administrative system.

They rely on appeal, but it is unknown how many believers will respond to them.

The royal family has the ability to enforce enforcement, and its efficiency is far higher than that of the Holy See.

What's more, the regent princess Sophilia is not here on her own behalf.

The actions taken by the Holy Ether Church this time were so great that everyone felt threatened.

Grand Duke Buck of the Kingsley family, the Twin Peninsulas under the control of the Witch Conclave, and Countess Anjibeina led by the Manyu Army all sided with Sophia Liya.

Not to mention Archduke Cedric of Broken Blood Castle and Earl Sean of Eternal Night Army. One is Sophilia’s biggest backer, and the other is her most loyal ally. Recently, there are rumors that the relationship between the two will

Go one step further.

When the time came for the Holy See to be unable to withstand the pressure from the royal family, the Regent Princess Sophilia pointed the finger again, not to uproot the Holy See of Saint Ether, but to target St. George.

At that time, it was still unknown whether the senior officials of St. George's Curia would be on his side.

After comprehensive consideration, Pope St. George had to accept the Princess Regent's proposal to hold a comprehensive meeting in Lennon City.

For this meeting, Pope St. George specially held three more large-scale sermons in Lennon City, turning this place into his home stadium.

Therefore, when Sophia Liya's princess motorcade arrived in Lennon City, although there was a huge crowd of people, they were not greeted by people lined up in the streets. Instead, they were protesting and resisting. Some people even threw rotten vegetables at the princess motorcade.

"You are not welcome here. This is already the land of the true God."

"Heresy! Heretics who resist the glory of the true God. The God of Truth is the only true God in the world. You actually try to shut out the glory of the true God."

"The true God is watching you! Only by believing in the true God can your souls be saved!"

"How dare blasphemers set foot on this sacred land? Desecrate our sight, hearing and soul?"

"Accepting the true God is the only way to salvation, in order to avoid divine punishment and avoid the end of the world."

"Sinner, I pray for you and ask God to forgive your sins."

All kinds of impassioned insults and curses were poured into the princess carriage.

Black Rose Wendy's little face was full of anger, and she said indignantly: "Have these guys made a mistake? Whose subjects are they? Who has protected them for so many years?

Ten years ago, when the great plague killed one-third of the city's population, where was their true god? It was not with the princess's free assistance that they survived that disaster, and they were actually like this

Ungrateful, just a few appearances of true messengers of God who don’t know whether they are true or false, just to make them forget about it?

No, you can bear it, but I can't. Let me go out, and I have to wake up these bastards."

White Rose Biluo and Red Rose Amelia were on the left and right, holding her shoulders firmly, not giving her a chance to rush out of the carriage.

Bi Luo said with a straight face: "Don't mess around. If you really go out and make a big fuss, you will fall into the opponent's trick and make Her Royal Highness the Princess passive in the subsequent negotiations."

Amelia comforted her softly: "Although they are devout believers of the Holy See now, they are still subjects of the royal family. If we kill them, it will put us in a dilemma. They are only temporarily bewitched. As long as we pass

Over time, they will understand that the God of truth is not as omnipotent as they imagined."

"I just don't understand how people can be so stupid and believe whatever others say." Wendy was still angry.

"There is nothing wrong with people believing in beautiful things. What is wrong are those who use the beautiful things they believe in to make profits for themselves." Princess Sophia was tepid, because before this, she knew very well that she was fighting against

What is.

While they were discussing, bursts of cheers came from outside.

"Your Majesty is here. Your Majesty St. George is here."

"It's really your Majesty. Your Majesty is more energetic than the legend says."

"Look, look, His Majesty is waving to me and smiling at me."

On the street, there was another motorcade going in the opposite direction to Princess Sophia's motorcade. The atmosphere caused by the place it passed was completely opposite to that caused by the princess motorcade, forming the most striking contrast.

The person who owns this motorcade is none other than Saint George, the new Pope of the Holy See.

In just three months, Pope St. George's body has undergone new changes. There are no traces of burns on his whole body. On the contrary, his skin is as smooth and delicate as a baby, which is enough to make countless women go crazy with jealousy.

This kind of negative aura seems to be impossible in front of the new pope, because his whole body is filled with a holy and peaceful aura, which even ordinary people can clearly feel, and will unconsciously

Being put into that peaceful atmosphere, a strong sense of happiness arises spontaneously.

Even the Princess Regent and her entourage who came with vigilance were unknowingly caught in the trap. Wendy, who looked anxious and angry along the way, her anger disappeared unconsciously.

"Stop your tricks of fooling people, otherwise there is no need for us to continue." Princess Sophia scolded angrily.

Pope St. George said with a peaceful smile: "Your Highness, there seems to be a deep misunderstanding and prejudice about the Holy See and me..."

"Let's go!" Princess Sophia turned around and walked towards her princess motorcade without saying a word.

"Wait a minute!" Pope St. George hurriedly called out, "Your Highness has misunderstood. I really didn't do it deliberately. The power given to me by the true God is too huge. I haven't fully controlled it yet. Do you think I can do it now?"

Pope St. George took a deep breath. The power called the Holy Power that permeated his body had obviously become much weaker and could no longer affect people's emotions as before.

Amelia and Bi Luo looked enlightened, while Wendy was a little confused. Then her temper completely exploded. She took out her scythe and said with bared teeth and claws: "Asshole, how dare you

Use evil magic on me..."

"Protect Your Majesty!" The papal guards around Saint George also drew their swords and blocked Saint George.

"Wendy, step back."

"Stop, step back."

Princess Sophia and Pope St. George scolded at the same time.

"Your Highness, they bullied people too much." Wendy's anger was still lingering.

"Stand down." Princess Sophia's voice rose several decibels, and there was not much blame in it. It was obvious that she was also very dissatisfied with Pope St. George's actions. She just suppressed the anger in her heart for the sake of the overall situation.

"As ordered." Wendy reluctantly responded, still glaring at Pope St. George with a fierce look. She really didn't like the feeling of being manipulated emotionally before.

Wendy restrained her aggressive stance, and the papal guards beside Pope St. George naturally retreated.

Regent Princess Sofilia said expressionlessly: "This is just this time, if this happens again, I will regard it as a provocation for you and will not engage in any form of negotiation with you again. The royal family will regard the Holy See as an enemy.

Carry out all-round extermination.”

"I already know His Highness's will." Pope St. George's expression did not change much from beginning to end, as if there was a gentle mask on his face, "But now His Highness seems not qualified to make such an important decision on behalf of the royal family."

"Do you have the guts to try it?" Princess Sophia asked.
To be continued...