Phoenix Grand Lord

In the more than one thousand years since the founding of the Soladin Empire, the empire has experienced hundreds of civil strife, more than a dozen of which were quite serious, almost to the point of changing dynasties, and in the end, the Angel Crusaders of the Church came forward to clean up the mess.

Every time there is a civil strife, the Angel Church is the beneficiary.

The power of the Church is getting bigger and bigger, the Church's weapons are getting stronger and stronger, and the number of monks/priests/warlocks in the Church is increasing.

The Church has always had the power to wage war against any lord, and this right to declare war is still legitimate.

In other words, as long as the Church thinks that a lord should be beaten, the Church can fight, and even His Majesty the Emperor can't control it.

When the first generation of human emperor Bain Soladin founded the country, there were a total of 88 meritorious people around him, but most of these 88 hereditary noble families have fallen in the long river of more than a thousand years, and some of them are because they do not obey the control of the Church and want to maintain the royal power and the interests of the great lords and conflict with the Church, and they were eliminated one by one by the Angel Crusaders.

Today, there are only eight noble families with meritorious hereditary nobles who are still in high positions above the earl.

These eight noble families have all gained their positions through compromise and submission.

The great lords of the Soladin Empire all agree that the church has jurisdiction over them.

But the great lords are very resistant to the church.

This is also a contradiction among the interest groups.

It is only because of the existence of the Angel Crusaders that the great lords never dare to break out.

In terms of the number of troops, the "Light of Dawn" Legion, the direct legion of Emperor Soladin, is the largest regular army.

The number of troops of the Light of Dawn is basically maintained between 9,000 and 10,000.

The number of Angel Crusaders in the hands of the Pope is only 1,500.

But these 1,500 people are all awakened elite monks/priests/warlocks.

In comparison, the Light of Dawn is more like a proton group and a gilded group of the descendants of the great nobles.

Although most of the Dawn Light Legion are awakened, including awakened knights and awakened magicians, their levels are very low.

The lowest level of the Angel Crusaders is the initial level 3, while many of the Dawn Light Legion are the initial level 1.

The combat effectiveness of the New God Sequence is one level higher than that of the Original God Sequence. The difference of 3 levels between individual soldiers is obvious.

The combat effectiveness of the Angel Crusaders is much higher than that of the Dawn Light, the first legion of the Empire.

How many divisions does the Pope have?

One regiment is enough.

A regiment is full of New God Sequence awakened above the initial level 3, so it is easy to purge the court.

In such an environment, even His Majesty the Emperor and the great lords are submissive to the church, so a small lord like Baron Edmund dare not neglect the handwritten letter of Bishop Hong Fei.

The content of this letter is actually very simple, and Baron Edmund doesn't even need to read it to know the general content of the letter.

In the letter, the Red Emerald Pope asked Baron Edmund to immediately end the meaningless confrontation with Viscount Miranden so that he could go all out to eliminate the curse believers in the Marigold Territory, especially the guy who claimed to be the Oracle Nathanos.

This letter also made Baron Edmund feel relieved.

After such a long standoff on the border, a big man finally stood up to mediate.

As for why the church came out to mediate, it is also easy to understand.

The curse believers are not just thugs who kill noble lords in the superficial sense, but more importantly, the curse believers have their own set of belief systems.

This belief system is completely contrary to the beliefs that the Angel Church has preached for more than a thousand years.

In the preaching of the Angel Church, dragons are evil, so the Human Emperor Baine Thoradin was inspired by the new god to kill all the dragons and established the Thoradin Empire in the place where the last dragon died.

The believers of the curse believe that dragons are not evil. They are even willing to share advanced magic with excellent humans. The rule of dragons is not cruel, at least better than human rule.

It's just that a mad dragon appeared among the dragons, which resulted in a magic explosion, which triggered the protracted dragon faction war.

But history is often like this. The party that loses the war is often evil.

Otherwise, it is not justice that will win, but whoever is awesome will win, regardless of justice and evil.

Historians don't like such arguments. They prefer winners take all. As long as they are winners, they are all considered just.

In fact, where is justice? It's just a comparison of who is tougher.

There are many wise men among the believers of the curse. They always adhere to the view that dragons are not evil, but the evil ones are the gods of the outside world.

As the believers of the curse become more and more violent, this concept spreads more and more widely.

This is equivalent to denying the legitimacy of the establishment of the Soladin Empire.

The believers of the curse believe that the dragon is good, but it is just out of place in this era, especially after the new gods from outside the domain took advantage of the opportunity to intervene, everything was built on false lies, but this kind of error of the times will eventually be corrected.

The last prophecy of the last dragon mother, Phonyxia, is:

[When the sign of the sky descends, He will be reborn from the ashes, and the empire of the false god will be destroyed under His wings of fire. ]

The false god in this prophecy refers to the Angel Church.

The empire of the false god refers to the Soladin Empire.

As for who "He" is, Phonyxia left a huge suspense to the world.

As the Curse believers turned from lurking in secret to fighting head-on, more and more people began to join the ranks of the Curse believers. They really believed in the prophecy about the sky hanging signs, and they were extremely eager for the dragon to come again to wash away all the injustices in the world.

This terrible trend of thought also made the Angel Church feel extremely uneasy.

The Pope was not worried at all if the emperor was disobedient, and he would just change him to an obedient one.

But what can be done if the people are disobedient?

Can 1,500 Angel Crusaders kill all the disobedient people in the world?

No.

To rule the people, you cannot achieve rule by killing the people.

But it is still very necessary to nip the dangerous beliefs in the bud and prevent them from spreading like wildfire.

Therefore, for the Angel Church, the friction between the lords is just a matter of a few frictions, and the most important thing is to eliminate the Curse believers.

This is also consistent with the interests of the imperial power, the interests of the big lords, and even the interests of the small lords.

In the letter from Bishop Hong Fei, the bishop also stated that in order to ensure the end of the friction between the two lords, he had asked the clergy of the two regions to supervise. If the two lords dared not to withdraw their troops, they would be enemies of the New God Church.

These words were already very serious.

Even if Baron Edmund wanted to withdraw his troops, he couldn't.

What's more, Baron Edmund really wanted to withdraw his troops. It was too painful to waste time on the border like this.

It was naturally a good thing that Bishop Hong Fei wrote a letter to smooth things over, but what made Baron Edmund unhappy was that Bishop Hong Fei obviously wanted to place a monk next to him as a supervisor.

In this way, it would be difficult for Baron Edmund to openly target Rowe. He could only focus his energy on the dense forests and valleys of the Marigold Territory and search for the Oracle Nathanos with all his strength.

This is really, every step is not under the control of Baron Edmund.

He felt like a flag, being waved back and forth by a pair of invisible big hands.

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