total war rise of empire

Chapter 60 Pope
Located in the center of the territory directly under the church in the middle of the Roman Peninsula, a huge city covering an area of ​​several tens of miles is located in it. The magic is that it is not protected by any walls or moats around it!

In a foreign world dominated by cold weapons, this is simply the king of death...

However, when this city belongs to the rumored residence of the Pope who is closest to the Lord of Radiance, it becomes reasonable to be undefended!

City of Glory, an easy-to-understand name is the name of this densely populated city where the core of the spiritual belief of the Church of the Lord of Glory is located. So far, the man with the greatest power in the human world lives in the center of the City of Glory. In a meter-high spire-like building!

On the top floor of the Tower of Glory, a middle-aged man wearing a dark purple robe held a pair of high-quality chalcedony that was rare in this world: "A humble gentleman, as gentle as jade."

The pope, with long and neutral hair, raised his slightly tapering chin, with a hint of fanaticism in his cold eyes, looking at the two red archbishops standing below him: "The glory of the Lord of God is about to come to the world, before the light comes. It will be a time when darkness is rampant, and the great and holy Lord of Radiance has sent down an oracle. The Greek peninsula, which has been stained by ignorance and ignorance, needs to be purified by radiance! It is time for those clamoring mortal lords to move their muscles."

The two red-clothed archbishops looked at each other solemnly, then lowered their heads cautiously and asked, "Do you need to dispatch the Holy Knights?"

The pope admired the priceless chalcedony in his hand, as if he saw some interesting omen from it, and shouted nervously: "Before the radiance shines on the earth, the world will inevitably experience the cleansing of sins. We must guide it, not pinch it." To destroy it, the Holy Knights don't need to go to the Greek Peninsula, they have more important tasks, the power of the Orc Empire is fading, and the half-orc legion in the Slavic region has been beaten to death by the nomadic cavalry swept from the east. It's time for the Knights of Dunton to feel the call of the Lord of Radiance and return to the embrace of the Lord!
The three major knight commanders of the Holy Knights were all dispatched, making the entire Teutonic Knights kneel before the glory of the Lord of Radiance! "

The two red-clothed archbishops knelt down piously, as if the neurotic pope was really bowed down by the gods at this time. No matter how illogical his words were, these two high-ranking red-clothed archbishops would resolutely carry out the Pope's decree. make!
This is the Church. Since the destruction of the Knights Legion in ancient times, every generation of Pope, like the help of God, has walked on the key points step by step, allowing the power of the Church to overwhelm the secular power of mankind little by little, until Today, there is no lord or king in the entire human world who can compete with the church!
Of course, these are all publicity efforts made by the church that believes in the Lord of Radiance. It is the sole ruler of the great world—the Lord of Radiance, who leads the entire human world to be bathed in the "sacred light" of the church.

As for the specific reason, only the devil knows...

As long as the human world is a wise lord, or a great knight commander who is not affiliated with the church, he will doubt the existence of the Lord of Radiance. There is no so-called true body of the god in the place of worship and prayer in the church that believes in the Lord of Radiance. , whether it is a portrait or a statue of the Lord of Radiance, the church has never had one!

Not even in the abstract!

The ones that are actually placed as decorations next to the altar or around the prayer room are mostly handsome men and women with white wings, as beautiful as elves, or handsome men and women wearing very revealing clothes!

The church claims that they are god warriors under the Lord of Radiance, commonly known as angels...

Of course, all of this is mentioned in the official scriptures of the church. No one has ever seen a real angel...

However, if you believe in religion, you must at least have someone to worship. Even if you don't create an incarnation like a statue, you must at least have something to entrust to you. Angels do look good, and they are in line with human beings' desire to mate. But after all, they are just a group of divine warriors, not the Lord of Glory used to pray for blessings!
However, the church has a way. They directly use their cross-shaped flag as the symbol of the Lord of Radiance!

In the church's propaganda, the image of the only Lord in the world cannot be seen by mortals. It is enough for everyone to remember the cross-shaped symbol of the Lord of Glory!

Worshiping the cross, the Lord of Radiance can feel the piety of mortals...

These things are the truth in the absolute sense among the civilians in the human world. Those foolish people have been fooled by the cross of the Lord of Radiance and can't find the north. This is also the reason why the church can truly override the secular rights of the human world!
Even many fat-headed noble lords who have received basic education still believe in the illusory Lord of Glory!
In the whole world, apart from those alien races who are not human beings, I am afraid that the one who despises the belief in the Lord of Radiance the most is the Pope who has been orthodoxly inherited!
However, the Pope does not believe in the fictional Lord of Glory, but has a fanaticism that is different from ordinary people for another mysterious place that brought the church to its current position of power!
The whole church, and only the pope knows its true meaning and existence!

After dismissing the two red-clothed archbishops who were in charge of foreign affairs, the morbid and nervous Pope returned to his indifferent and cold expression. In the spacious and slightly dark hall, only the Pope was breathing. How the middle-aged pope endured this emptiness and loneliness all by himself!
Obviously, the pope enjoyed the silent scene in the hall very much. Otherwise, with the unique supreme power of the pope in the church, a single sentence could make the entire hall full of people, or attract a group of people who could satisfy his preferences. He serves alone!

It's a pity that the Pope, who has such great power, only likes this kind of quiet and empty environment...

"Your Excellency Gregory Guanghui Akaski, although this is not the first time we have met, I still cannot understand why your temperament and hobbies are so different from those of ordinary human lords." A clear and charming female voice came from Came from the shadow of the main hall, and accompanied by the voice appeared a woman covered in a black robe and hood.

When she came to the place illuminated by the torch, she casually took off the hood above, revealing a head of silvery white hair and a pair of pointed, long and delicate ears different from human beings, indicating the woman's racial identity!
"Antolia Sinthorn, didn't your mother tell you that it is very impolite to call a noble human being by his full name?!" The Pope stared directly at the sudden appearance with cold and sharp eyes Night elves!

(End of this chapter)