42 Locke Street.
Luo Ya and Nuo Aier were sitting opposite each other at the low table where the children usually ate in the small convent. They were both silent.
They had just finished listening to a story about the prince of this country.
Vader Heathcliff, one of the twins of the Royal Family, was born intelligent. He had shown a strong learning ability from a young age. His extraordinary talent was one of the best even in the Angel Family, where there were many abnormal geniuses.
According to the standard plot of the story, this prince, who was the first in line to the throne, was so awesome that he was either a typical Dragon Proud Heaven novel, using the Church's Fist to beat up Austin and kicking the mutants, or he had realized the limits of humanity and turned completely evil, just like what was recorded in the history books of later generations.
However, the reality was that neither was the case.
The first twelve years of Prince Vader's life had started out as a novel. His life was stable and happy, but all of this changed when he was thirteen years old. It had become a torturous story.
The reason for all of this was because of Vader and Wei Duoliya's mother, Princess Mary.
Princess Mary was born in a viscount's family in the North Sea Territory. Her family wasn't rich, but she met Prince Leon at his sixteenth birthday party. The two quickly fell in love, and not long after, Leon married Mary against all opposition. They gave birth to a pair of twins, Vader and Wei Duoliya.
Princess Mary was born into a humble family, so she could understand the hardships of the people. She liked children and was aloof from worldly affairs. She loved to visit the various orphanages and small convents in the Holy Capital and donated money. Sometimes, she would even teach in person. She was highly regarded by the people and was deeply loved by them.
However, such a good person had a secret that couldn't be revealed to others. She was actually an Extraordinary, and her source substance wasn't one of the three main sources. Instead, it belonged to a pagan religion.
When Vader and Wei Duoliya were thirteen years old, this secret was exposed due to an accident. The wife of the Holy See's Holy See was actually a pagan. This news shook the entire upper echelons of the Holy See, and for a time, all kinds of conspiracy theories emerged. Princess Mary became the target of everyone's attacks.
In this storm, Saint Leon was also involved, and Mary became the weakness of the royal family. No one knew the details of the power struggle. In the end, Mary faded out of the sight of the world and was sent to a monastery in the Holy Capital to live in seclusion.
Since then, the two children had been separated from their mother even though they lived in the same city. They had never seen each other again. Originally, this situation could have been changed when Vader ascended the throne. Unfortunately, time did not give him the chance.
When Prince Vader was fifteen years old, an epidemic broke out in the Holy Capital. Naturally, the heavily guarded palace was not affected, but Vader's mother's monastery was in the epidemic zone.
In March of Year 814, Mary died of an illness. This princess who had been loved by the world all her life passed away silently. There was no mourning, no funeral. It was as if she had never existed in this world. Only Vader and Wei Duoliya were the signs of her existence.
This incident deeply affected the young Vader.
No one knew how the fifteen-year-old child felt when he heard that his mother had died outside the palace. No one knew what he was thinking at that time. All people could see was his actions. He studied diligently and trained hard. Compared to Wei Duoliya, who washed his face with tears, it was as if he did not know about his mother's death.
The nobles who had once besieged the royal family and the opportunists who had taken advantage of the situation heaved a sigh of relief. They praised him for being able to distinguish right from wrong and for being righteous. However, what they did not know was that the more repressed the silence, the more ferocious and difficult to resist when it erupted.
Vader did not lose his memory. He was just sharpening his blade.
He sharpened all his anger and sorrow into a sharp blade. He sharpened it for four years. In March of Year 818, on the anniversary of his mother's death, he drew his blade and cut down half of the Theocracy.
None of the nobles who had attacked the royal family or the bishops who had insulted Mary had escaped his butcher's blade. He did not give anyone a chance to defend themselves, just like how they had not given Mary a chance back then.
If all he did was kill people, then no matter how reasonable it was, Vader would be nothing more than a murderous demon immersed in vengeance. However, the reality was the complete opposite. Not only did Vader act, but he also had thoughts.
The Reformist Party was the name of the faction that Vader led. Most of them were hot-blooded youths who advocated revising many of the doctrines regarding heretics in order to unite the heretics within the Theocracy. As a representative, Vader had taken a huge risk to change the origin substance.
After losing the origin substance, Vader, who had become a heretic, had voluntarily given up his inheritance rights. As the saying went, "Fight with your back to the river. If you don't succeed, you die trying." Such a resolute attitude moved the hesitant heretics and they all joined Vader's camp. Even three of the five great nobles had been roped in by him through some unknown method.
After Leon had left the Theocracy, Vader, who had endured patiently for four years, had built up his power. The following outcome could be foreseen. The Reformist Party launched a coup d 'état with an unstoppable momentum and hammered the heads of the Conservatives.
Wei Duoliya and Ponte were the last strongholds of the Conservatives. As long as they were defeated and Wei Duoliya was captured, Vader could force Leon to acknowledge the Reformist Party's views. If Leon did not wish to pass the throne to the other families, then he could only agree to the doctrines reform.
After hearing the cause and process of the war, Luo Ya and Nuo Aier were in such a state. There was no other reason other than the fact that this was too different from the history that they had seen in their later generations.
Luo Ya could not find anything wrong with Vader's actions, at least in the first half. In fact, he was happy to hear and applauded. Even a passerby could feel the injustice of Mary's story, let alone a socialist youth like Luo Ya who did not have any religious conservative ideology.
Good kill! Don't talk to me about forgiveness. If you want to forgive someone, your mother will die first. Only after she dies will you have the right and position to forgive someone else.
Avenging one's mother was an action that most people would accept. Even if it was against the law, it would still be tolerated by many. This was because such actions were in line with the most primitive morals of humans.
However, Luo Ya did not dare to make any assertions about Prince Vader's Reformist Party. There were no descriptions of this faction in history. He was not in this era and did not understand the social situation. However, according to Friar Klaus, although the Reformist Party's views were radical, they were also reasonable.
In the past decade or so, the stable environment of the Theocracy had attracted more and more heretics. They had gradually become a force that could not be underestimated.
On the bright side, many heretics could help improve the lives of the people. They were also members of the productive forces of society. There was no lack of experts among them. As long as they were used well, they would be a huge resource.
But from a bad perspective, since Origin Substances were unstable, there was a chance that they would fall into depravity due to the price they had to pay for their advancement. They would become evil cultists who would commit all sorts of crimes. In reality, the boundaries between cultists and cultists were quite blurry. It was difficult for many people to determine who they were. In addition, the security of the Holy Capital had indeed been deteriorating over the past ten years.
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