quicksilver blood

Chapter 469 bluff
Roland took a deep breath, and put his slightly sweaty hand on the icon that had lost its light, and his heart was beating violently.

"I hope I can successfully mislead them..."

Roland whispered.

It was different from what those cardinals had imagined—Roland simply didn't have enough capital to become Pope.

He is still at the silver rank, not the gold rank.In other words, it is impossible for him to use the Pope's ring to deprive the cardinals of their charism.

For Roland, those were eleven golden-rank priests.As long as three of them jumped out and blew themselves up, Roland would kneel inside if he couldn't even run out.

Of course, since they have reached this position, it is very difficult for them to make up their minds to blew themselves up.

Simply put, Roland's strategy is bluffing.

Use the baptism chant to forcibly influence Baskerville, and then rely on this miracle to gather the first batch of people.Immediately afterwards, after the number of people reached a certain level, Gaharad was asked to imitate the Holy Spirit and blow the horn to perform miracles artificially, making the believers who had witnessed the "miracle" fanatic.

Then, let Gahalad lead them in shouting short and powerful slogans.

This kind of behavior itself has a strong appeal, a little bit of expansion, it will grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, and the momentum will become more and more powerful.

In the end, after the archbishop was deprived of the divine favor by Roland, Roland's "Pope" status was finally recognized by these believers, and they voluntarily included themselves among Roland's people.

Of course, Roland's aura worked.

In addition to the effect of Tire's second drop, Roland's long-cherished legendary item, Roland finally transformed these thousands of people into disciples of the mentor
That is Roland's only legendary item currently.Compared with weapons, its attributes are more suitable for Roland at this moment.

【Prayer's Salvation. Holy Crown】

Holy Relic - Crown

golden legendary

Indestructible, weight 0.1
Wearing requirements: Perception 25 or above, Willpower 10 or above, belief in a certain god or saint, bloodline level bronze or above, mastering at least one element cornerstone

+X(14) Will (half of Perception attribute, rounded down)
Special Effects: Holy Teacher (you gain +6 favor on all rolls of Persuasion, Speech, Intimidation, Deception, etc. skills), Voice of Revelation (you will be able to cast Holy Word at will, as if using your own supernatural ability), Sun Walker (you will not fall into any negative state under the sun), Psychic Avatar (you can consume the power of origin to make the Psychic Avatar descend, and the Psychic Avatar will get all your supernatural abilities, characteristics and talents, the power and duration of the Psychic Avatar and It is proportional to the origin power consumed, but the maximum does not exceed the highest power level of the god you believe in)
Punishment: Dissolved Mind (When used: Your control over thoughts is second to that of your deity)
— listen.believe.sacrifice.eternal.

This is the source of Roland's strong appeal and persuasiveness.The rumbling voice was also released with the help of the holy word technique it gave Roland.

Otherwise, with Roland's bishop-level divine arts, it is absolutely impossible to release the pope-level holy words.

The same is true of the looming avatar behind Roland and the crown on his head.Roland didn't dare to activate the crown for a long time—it wasn't that Roland was afraid that the mentor would control his thoughts, but that whenever Roland came into contact with the boundless sea of ​​tranquility in the depths of the mentor's heart, he would feel a desire to The urge to sleep forever.

Touching twilight is something a madman would do, but touching death itself is not something a wise man would do.

When Bernard was defeated, Roland's dissolution of will had already begun.At the moment of the speech just now, Roland was also absent-minded for a moment.

Although the mentor immediately put Roland's will back into his body, even at that moment, Roland felt some changes in his soul that he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

And after Roland entered the dome cathedral, he even bluffed throughout the process.

Of course he knew what these cardinals were going to do—they had all held ring ceremonies, how could Roland not understand what they were going to do?Combined with what Xi La told Roland the night before, Roland basically had a clear understanding of their characters.

Of course, when Roland led thousands of people into the square in front of the domed cathedral, they must have made urgent choices and new resolutions.But Roland faintly noticed that Xi La nodded slightly at him, and he knew that these cardinals had no intention of killing him.

In other words, they didn't have the courage to decide to assassinate Roland.Xi La, the only one with that courage, was taken away by Roland first.

After that, Roland let them leave the dome cathedral because of three considerations.

First, Roland didn't dare to let them contact him for too long.The longer the contact, the greater the possibility of incurring suspicion.

The oppressive force Roland gave them was purely because their perception realized the phantom of the long-sleeping mentor beside Roland.As long as they realize that Roland has never deprived any of the golden rank believers of their divine favor, they will begin to wonder whether Roland has not reached the golden rank at all.

At that time, Roland will be in serious trouble - even as long as they start to test Roland, Roland will have to start killing people on a large scale.If nothing else happened, Roland would have to kill at least eight of the twelve cardinals before they could settle down temporarily.

However, Roland has no experience in managing a religion at all.What's more, Roland will leave for Elcate soon, so he has no time to manage the affairs of the believers and the temple.Each of the twelve bishops has their own domain, and if anyone is missing, there will be great trouble.

Except for three of them who could be replaced by Roland with Lilia, Gaharad, and An Ruosi, Roland could not move the rest of them.It's going to cause trouble when it moves - Roland doesn't know anyone who has the talent in this area.

Second, because Roland really wanted to know whether those cardinals had the talent to be cardinals.

As the saying goes, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.The way Jupiter IV himself got the Pope was disgraceful, so he naturally did not suppress the ethos of the Cardinal Council.Rather, it is precisely because the cardinals have plans that Jupiter IV can hold everyone firmly in his hands.

But Roland was different.With the aura of personality cult, Roland didn't have to worry about their loyalty to him at all.At this level, rectifying the atmosphere will greatly increase the initial reputation of the Eternal Sleep Sect.

And the last reason why Roland sent them away was that Roland really had something to do.

At this moment, there was a crisp knock on the door behind Roland.

"Come in, Sira."

Roland said briskly without even turning his head.

as expected.The door opened, and it was Xi La who came in.

"I hope I didn't disturb you, Your Majesty Roland." Xi La said seriously.

"There is no need to be so polite between you and me." Roland turned his head and put his hand on Xi La's shoulder, showing a gentle smile, "Tell me about the content of your meeting before I enter the door on the way later."

"Are we going out too?"

Sira asked suspiciously.

"En. But you don't need to wear casual clothes, and the road is not very far... You can pick up two people with me later."

Roland showed a gentle smile: "Let's go kill a few people and be back in a while."

(End of this chapter)