Chapter 148 The combination of religion and secularity, and departure to the Petrified Witches Coven
Because of the ongoing political turmoil, the Achaean Pastoral Church of Storms used a temporary election system for bishops. It took two weeks to discuss and select, and finally confirmed Borgia Frederick as the local bishop.
Also on the same day, Borgia Frederick was particularly grateful to Sunan Peter for helping him, and immediately wrote to Archbishop Mossilini, the archbishop of Stormcastle, the capital in the northeast, and the current patriarch of the Orthodox Church, recommending He promoted Baron Peter's family to counts and promoted Maple Leaf Town to the central commercial city of the Storm Kingdom.
In this way, Borgia Frederick is no longer what he used to be, and even the archbishop would give him face.
Generally speaking, as long as the bishop nominates secular nobles to upgrade their titles, they can basically be promoted successfully.
After all, there are currently 21 military districts in the Kingdom of Storms, but only 7 pastoral districts.
Borgia is the bishop of one of the seven pastoral dioceses, and is the absolute top executive in the Church of Storms.
The military district was that part of the feudal system, while the pastoral district was the ecclesiastical system.
In this era, when both the church and the nobility were in power, there had always been two systems of regional division.
One set is the territory of the feudal lord, and the other is the territory of the church.
The Church of Storms is also a member of the Great Church of Order.
The Orthodox Church originally considered itself to be the Eastern Orthodox Church, as opposed to the Great Church of Order led by the Papal State, as equals.
It is even believed that only the Eastern Orthodox Church can represent the commanding responsibility of the celestial order gods to the churches of all order gods.
However, as the Eastern Human Empire was usurped and replaced by the Kingdom of Storms, the Archbishop of the Church of Storms also took over as the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church and formally surrendered to the Papal State on behalf of the Orthodox Church.
The Archbishop of the Church of Storms and the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church are both subject to the Pope of the Papal State.
And the current Pope Innocent III also wants to use this method to make up for the great schism in the Church of Order Theology caused by historical reasons, and to reunite the Great Church of Order Theology.
In order to strengthen his religious power as pope and suppress the kings and emperors of various countries.
Soon, the archbishop's approval letter reached the Borgia and Peter territories at the same time. Similarly, the Archbishop and the Storm Kingdom also approved the improvement of Maple Leaf Town's positioning.
Of course, this decision will hurt some people.
For example, harming the interests of the Southern Thrace Military District, the only Storm Countland, and the Samori family.
But Borgia didn't care, because he knew that in his most difficult moment, it was Sunan and the Peter family who came to his aid.
And Borgia also knew that after he became a bishop, he would need the protection of secular allies even more.
Only now, belatedly, did he discover how deep the water was hidden in Peterland.
How 'lucky' he was that he had such a powerful ally who took the initiative to find him.
At the Lion's Port on the Achaean Peninsula, Borgia took a hundred church soldiers and five knights on an Achaean pastoral ship and prepared to go to Peter's territory.
But his mood was different from the first time, when his father went to Peter to show off his power.
Borgia went to Peter's territory this time, firstly because he wanted to thank Sunan, and secondly, he wanted to strengthen his relationship with Sunan.
He just realized it now. I'm afraid that Peter's family has some unknown secrets, but he doesn't care. The most important thing for him now is his own position as bishop, and even... one step further.
Therefore, the more powerful his allies are, the better it is for him.
On the ship, Borgia and Blom were chatting and laughing. In fact, he was mainly talking and Blom was listening.
It's not that Blom doesn't want to talk, but he is a veteran with a serious lack of education. How can he compete with Borgia, a man who was specially trained by the Frederick family and is now a bishop?
At most, he could compete with Borgia in swordsmanship, but he didn't know who would win and who would lose.
On the deck, Borgia said to Blom enthusiastically: "Mr. Blom, I originally thought you were just a solid and reliable guard. You blocked countless assassinations for me along the way."
"But I really didn't expect that you are also an orator. The last time you defended me in front of the Benedictine elders, you were just like the orators in the city-states in this land thousands of years ago."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Blom."
Blom opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say, so he could only say: "Oh."
Borgia continued to ramble. "Now that I have become a bishop, I will go to the Barony of Peter, no... the Earl of Peter, to bring glory to the Peter family."
"I gave the Archbishop advice to ask him to make all the baronies near Peter's family legally loyal to Earl Peter."
"Anyway, the Peter family has deep control over them now. I don't think anyone will object."
"As for those who are in the way...the Earl of Samori family, I don't care about their life or death, let alone that they are currently in the midst of serious riots and famine."
Borgia now regards himself as an iron ally on the side of the Peter family, and also fantasizes that he can get the full support of the Peter family.
Therefore, he thought completely from the perspective of Sunan's interests, regardless of how much damage his already somewhat willful behavior would bring to the interests of the Earl of Samori family.
Borgia was about to continue talking to Blom. On the deck of the ship, a laborer who was helping the church carry goods suddenly had a ferocious expression on his face. Then he took out a dagger from his trousers and pointed it at Borgia Philip. Terry stabbed over.
The church soldiers and church knights stood in the middle of the ship's deck, while Borgia and Blom stood on the bow deck, so the expressions of the soldiers and knights suddenly changed.
"There is an assassin!"
"Master Bishop, be careful..." Borgia belatedly turned around and looked at the assassin who was coming towards him to kill him with a sinister look in his eyes. "I have become a bishop, and there are still damn guys who want to kill me to make room for others."
"Are they those idiots from the Platinum Republic!"
The next moment, a noble sword lay in front of Borgia, and the dagger of the assassin disguised as a dock sailor could only be inserted into the back of the famous sword of the Kingdom of Storms, unable to make an inch.
The assassin's pupils suddenly shrank. He was a knight carefully trained by the Platinum Republic, a knight of the ocean, and his direction was assassination, so his sword speed was very fast.
He finally found the opportunity to get close to Borgia, and even used Ocean Prayer: Wave of Waves, which increased his burst speed and hand reaction nerve speed. At this opportunity that he finally waited for, he issued a killing blow. One blow.
However, a veteran beside Borgia who looked ordinary, with not very good martial arts skills, sloppy clothes, and a lazy look, predicted his position in advance and blocked the attack.
Blom's pupils were partially transformed into golden-ringed werewolf pupils, and he held a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth. "Oh, you assassin is hiding like a monster. You have been lurking on the ship for three days, and you are only now taking action."
The assassin's pupils dilated. "What?"
So, is the person really responsible for the safety of Bishop Borgia the veteran of the Peter family who always follows him?
This is why Bishop Borgia dares to stay away from the protection of the church army!
Blom chopped off his head with a backhand sword. At the same time, part of the corners of Blom's eyes transformed into the pupils of a bloodthirsty mutant werewolf, but they disappeared in a flash.
The werewolf's super hearing can easily hear the heartbeat of the other person's body and identify the other person's identity.
Even if the Werewolf Warrior's hearing is not as perverted as that of the Werewolf Deacon, how could this little official Ocean Knight Assassin who has just started to become a three-sublimated mutated werewolf warrior equivalent to a first-class wizard's apprentice not be able to detect his abnormality? .
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Even without transforming into a werewolf, Blom in a partially transformed state can still crush and easily kill the Ocean Knight.
Moreover, Blom, following Sunan's orders, deliberately and unintentionally tested Borgia's attitude, such as not hiding the mutated werewolf's fleeting pupils in front of him.
The result satisfied Sunan, who had been observing secretly. Borgia simply ignored these abnormalities and pretended not to notice them at all.
Borgia checked the corpse on the ground, and at the same time glanced dissatisfiedly at the belated church soldiers and knights, and then said to Blom in an admiring tone: "This is actually an official marine knight."
"Mr. Blom, the noble sword is really suitable for you. You killed a sea knight with one sword. It is so reassuring to have you by my side to protect me."
At this time, Sunan, who was thousands of miles away, directly controlled Blom's body, smiled and said to Borgia: "Of course."
"You just need to concentrate on your job of praying for Peter's family."
"Military-wise, the Peter family will ensure your safety."
Borgia, who only wanted to climb to the top in the church, smiled with satisfaction. This was what he wanted.
He has no interest in worldly power.
He just wants to become the most distinguished priest among a group of priests and a spiritual mentor for the world.
……
At the same time, Peter took the lead, and Sunan took Lang Da and Lang Er, and sat in a carriage driven by Vasilian. Two white-fronted horses pulled the carriage to the Earl of Samori. .
As for the werewolves whose territory was converted from the seventy-two hounds, there are Pella and the old butler Warwick, as well as Mario Stone, Gagui Gargoyle and Alexander Stone, as well as Jinx from the underground world. Swarms exist.
Even if they are not in the territory, even if a warlock group dares to attack, they will suffer a big loss.
Similarly, those idiots in the underground world seem to be making some big moves, gathering slaves on a large scale in an underground passage.
Sunan didn't pay much attention and just let the insect swarm attack.
I just want to limit the number of insects to prevent the experiment from getting out of control.
Moreover, only by continuing to use war to experiment with scarab swarms can we cultivate a more powerful scarab swarm.
I am different from the group in the Insect Curse Valley who just like to work behind closed doors and use a bunch of magic at home to cultivate scarabs in the direction they want.
The idea of cultivating insect swarms yourself is to use strong reproductive power to continuously generate new insect swarms, and with a large number of insect swarms, through high-intensity wars, find the appropriate direction of the scarab beetle's mutation.
Sunan said to Vasilian who was driving the carriage: "Vasilian, the speed can be faster. Don't worry that I am uncomfortable sitting."
"I want to go to the coven of petrified witches as soon as possible."
"After all, we don't know their specific attitude. If we get there in advance, we can make more preparations."
Vasilian said: "Yes."
As a result, the carriage sped up.
At the same time, underground in the Peter Territory, on the Drow Warrior Mountain, he and his lover, the fire dragon lizardman Molly Wood, had led the upper race army to ambush on the other side of the underground passage in advance, and deliberately gathered a large number of dwarves. , lizardmen, cavemen and other slaves.
The drow warriors on the mountain looked expectantly at the loud sound coming from the other side of the underground. "It doesn't sound like the march of an army, so what is it?"
"But we can finally find them."
"Salamanders, you are all a semi-arcane race that can use dragon fire to vomit. You are one of the upper-level races in the dungeon."
"Now is the time for our underworld creatures to strike back!"
(End of chapter)