Salin destroyed churches in more than ten cities along the way. Unlike last time when he destroyed Iron Wall City, this time, Salin only targeted the churches and the believers of the churches.
The little girl, who wanted to protect the cardinal, did not try to persuade Salin after they boarded the floating city. Instead, she just watched from the sidelines. She watched how Salin destroyed the churches with her own eyes.
Instead, Salin couldn't help but ask the girl, "Why don't you try to persuade me to give up on attacking these churches?"
The little girl's face was full of piety. She said to Salin, "It's God who used your hands to clean the filth of this world. Those who don't believe in God, those whose faith isn't pure, will all go to hell. "
"Is your faith pure?"
"Of course, I believe that God will come to save me. Otherwise, why am I still alive?" The little girl's words made Salin laugh and cry.
Was this the logic of believers? The only way for him to refute the little girl was to kill her.
But he promised the cardinal that he wouldn't kill her …
"How old are you?"
"Twelve."
Salin thought, I don't need to kill a twelve-year-old just to find out something. However, unless she was thrown into purgatory, this little girl would firmly believe in the God of Light and provide the purest power of faith to the God of Light.
Even without divine spells, this little girl was close to a saint.
Salin didn't try to persuade anyone. This time, he came to Tanggulas to destroy the network of faith in this country with violence. He wouldn't let go of any churches.
More importantly, those who saw the floating city and still defended the churches were the ones with the purest faith. This was the kind of person Salin wanted to destroy. A noble believer could provide hundreds of times more power of faith than a false believer.
What was the most important thing for a religion? Not the code, but devout believers.
The floating city gradually approached the Tanggulas Empire. There was a relatively large city between the Tanggulas Empire and the Duchy of Divine Grace. This city belonged to the Vatican.
Calon City, a city with only a hundred thousand people, but more than a million believers came to worship every year. This was a place second only to the Holy City, and in the hearts of believers, it was also a holy land.
Salin's speed was not fast, so when he gradually approached Calon City, more believers of the Vatican were marching towards Calon City, preparing to defend the Vatican.
Back at the headquarter of the Holy Church, the young pope sat at the end of the round table and listened to the reports of the red-robed bishops while wearing a holy robe.
Behind him was a young mage in a white robe. He was the new Pope. In reality, the Pope had a very special status. Normally, he was just a servant of the Pope.
Gegs was getting impatient. His hands were tucked into his sleeves, holding something.
He did not have Pope Dinicio's three divine artifacts, but around his neck was a crystal skull. The young man behind him had a cold expression on his face, and there was an obvious divine mark on his forehead.
It was a sign that he had submitted to Geiges. A powerful young mage was forced by the divine emissary to sign a contract with the young Pope.
This kind of contract could be said to be extremely unfair. However, when the Oracle was around, the Cardinal Institution was in complete chaos. Only the Oracle's orders could be carried out.
He gave up his freedom, but he got the power from the divine emissary.
"Pope, why didn't you see the people from the Oracle Group?" a cardinal questioned Geiges.
Everyone knew that the Oracle Group was missing; it was no longer a secret. At this moment, the people from the Oracle Group came to Calon City, and this young Pope refused to let them in.
The elders of the Cardinal Institution were getting restless. When the Oracle Group was around, they could suppress them. However, now that the Oracle Group was gone, these people were all qualified to become the next Pope.
Geiges was only the Pope appointed by the Oracle Group, and he didn't have the three divine artifacts. Therefore, he didn't follow the rules of the law.
"Should we send this kid to the Heavenly Kingdom to receive the light of God?" The elders of the Cardinal Institution looked at each other. None of them wanted to be the first to make a move since they didn't want to lose the opportunity to become the next Pope.
In history, there were indeed cases where the Pope was deposed by his own people. Of course, it was accompanied by blood. All the people who killed the Pope would lose the right to become the next Pope.
Geiges sneered. "You all want me to leave here as soon as possible, so why ask me why I don't see the people from the Oracle Group? If I reach a tacit understanding with the people from the Oracle Group and secretly make a deal, will you get nothing? "
Geiges said sarcastically in a tone that didn't match his age at all. The cardinal bishops were wearing red robes, so the color of their faces couldn't be seen.
Perhaps this was the will of God. Otherwise, why would the people from the Oracle Group wear white robes?
Seeing that the cardinals didn't answer, Geiges waved his hand and said, "Go and tell the people from the Oracle Group that unless Faka comes to see me, let them go."
"Pope, that blasphemous mage is flying to Calon City." A cardinal couldn't make Geiges give up on the matter of seeing the Oracle Group, so he had to talk about something else.
If Geiges refused to see the people from the Oracle Group, the Cardinal Institution was willing to pay a huge price to let the people from the Oracle Group kill Geiges.
Everything had to be done through fixed procedures. Now that the Pope was killed for no reason, no one would get any benefits.
Unlike the Oracle Group, the Oracle Group could directly receive orders from God. If the people from the Oracle Group killed Geiges, they could write an oracle, and everyone would benefit.
If the Pope didn't go out of Nick Cathedral, no one could do anything to him.
No one knew where the Oracle Group got this kid named Geiges from, but he was cold and couldn't be persuaded.
"Calon City, the city of the Holy Apostles." Geiges smiled, and it was a mocking smile.
"Yes, Your Holiness, please issue your orders." A cardinal continued to blabber on.
Geiges turned around and asked his Pope, "Uya, is it like this?"
This priest named Uya replied, "Pope, you are the Patriarch of the Holy Church, and all the mages have to act under your light. This time, that mage is coming aggressively, and he is targeting all the churches of the Holy Church. We can't defend them one by one, but he will definitely go to Calon City. You should indeed issue an order and let the believers protect that city. "
"Ok, I will temporarily transfer this power to you. After all, I am still young. Uya, you can decide how to mobilize the people."
Geiges' words were a bit out of line, but he was right. He was still young, and if he were to issue an order, it would cause a lot of trouble.
However, the people of the Cardinal Council were all disappointed, especially the cardinal who asked the question. He wanted Geiges to transfer the power, but Geiges gave the power to Uya.
Uya wasn't on the same side as them.
After hearing Geiges' words, Uya was delighted. Then, he saw the hateful looks on the elders of the Cardinal Council.
It seemed like this position was hard to take.
However, he and Geiges were bound by the contract, and he couldn't disobey Geiges' order. However, he hated this kid for being so smart. When he first came to the Holy Church, he was only the descendant of a farmer and a descendant of a farmer. He didn't know what godly spell God used to inject a lot of knowledge into Geiges, but this kid's intelligence was very high.
None of the old men in the house could fool him.
"Ahem … Did you hear what His Holiness said?" Wuya didn't care anymore. Those fellows from the College could do whatever they wanted. She wasn't the young Pope. With her abilities as a tenth-level mage, if they wanted to kill her, the elders would have to think twice before doing so.
"Uya, then we'll listen to you." The elders replied coldly.
Gegels laughed. The God's Emissary was right. God's believers were also filthy and full of desires. This room, which was supposed to be the most sacred place in the Empire, now seemed so dirty.
The Holy Church hadn't produced a Saint for five hundred years, right?
"Then I'll say it." Uya didn't care. He took a step forward and said to the elders around the round table, "The defense of Calon City is only above average among the many cities of the Holy Church. Even if it's a sacred city, it's impossible to rely on ordinary people to deal with that sorcerer. It's a city that flies in the sky.
The messengers have reported that the blasphemer called Salin can make the city fly tens of thousands of meters in the sky and throw stones down. Think about it, if he doesn't do anything but collect boulders and throw them into Calon City, what can the knights of the Cardinal Council do to fight back? "
"What do you mean?"
"Doesn't the Cardinal Council have the last bit of power?"
The elders glared at Uya. The so-called last bit of power of the Cardinal Council was the ten thousand knights of the Divine Kingdom, a truly powerful army. This was the highest fighting force on the Holy Plains.
If the knights of the Divine Kingdom were destroyed, then the Cardinal Council's trump card would be pretty much used up.
"Combat units that can't fly are meaningless to that city. If you think I'm wrong, you can refute me. "Uya smiled. His thoughts could be described as vicious.
In fact, everyone knew that in the end, they could only defend the sacred city to the death. The other way was to mobilize all the mages who could fly to intercept the floating city.
If they didn't take the initiative to fight, the floating city would fly everywhere, and the power of the Holy Church wouldn't be able to stop it.
"Since no one objects, then let's do it this way. Send the knights of the Divine Kingdom, contact Black Prison Island, and ask the warden to send more prison guards who can fly. I know that there are at least a million of these soldiers in the deepest part of Black Prison. It would be good to borrow ten thousand of them."
This was Uya's plan. Black Prison Island wouldn't covet the position of the Pope, and the borrowed soldiers would be handed over to Pope Geiges. This way, it would be equivalent to moving away the knights of the Divine Kingdom, and bringing in powerful flying prison guards.
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