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Accompanied by Mulder Fan, Saint Simon walked into the venue. In order to show his respect, the mages stood up and paid attention to him.

The old man looked a bit unkempt, but no one dared to underestimate him because of this. Once the title of Dharma Saint was presented, even Alfonso VIII had to be more polite.

"I didn't want to come today, but now I'm glad I'm here." Simon used the staff as a crutch, but his steps were as vigorous as a young man's, which didn't match his age. "Otherwise, I will also miss a scene that may make me regret for the rest of my life. Your Excellency Hill, your speech and answers are wonderful, which moved me and made me think deeply. Please allow me to express my admiration to you as a mage."

Simon raised his staff and performed a formal mage ceremony to Yannick.

Yannick smiled back: "You are too polite, I just said what my conscience told me to say and did what my conscience told me to do."

"That's exactly what I admire about you." Simon chuckled, and suddenly raised his voice: "Shouldn't we applaud His Excellency Hill's remarks just now?"

Standing next to him, Mude Fan applauded first, while smiling meaningfully at Yannick.

With Mu De Fan taking the lead and the words of Fa Sheng, the venue began to burst into sparse applause, and then the applause became louder and louder, and finally lasted for a long time, echoing in the venue.

Aphra has mixed feelings.

She never expected that Yannick's speech would have such a twists and turns. Not only was the latter not driven out by the angry mages, but he was supported by the saints of the law, which made her both guilty and regretful.

"Aphra, what's wrong with you, I think you have been out of spirit since just now?" The instructor noticed her abnormality.

"It's nothing, teacher. The first mage who stood up and applauded just now is my friend. I want to go find him later." Aphra forced a smile.

Besephone was a little surprised, but she didn't say anything, her face was very pleasant, and what she said surprised Aphra even more: "Your friend is very courageous, I think you should be able to learn something from him , Aphra, sometimes you think too much, and you will miss the most precious things instead."

She had lost, from the moment she moved out of Yannick's house, she had lost a friend.Aphra didn't speak, but thought sadly.

Simon didn't chat with Yannick for too long, he quickly moved to greet the president of the magic guild, the morning meeting ended, the mages walked out of the venue one after another, and some stayed where they were looking for opportunities and admiration His Excellency the Dharma Sage had struck up a conversation for a long time, and some mages who wanted to go up and continue to provoke had no choice but to give up such thoughts when they saw the silver-haired bishop and the students of the Dharma Sage walking out of the venue side by side.

"You should thank me for bringing the teacher here." Master Mude Fan smiled, "I haven't seen you for a while, and it's surprising that you have been directly promoted from a low-level priest to the position of a bishop, Your Excellency Hill. "

"Yes, thank you very much." Even though Mulder Fan had imprisoned him in La Serena, Yannick was still very grateful to the opponent for letting Fa Sheng come to support the field today, no matter what his motives were.

Yannick smiled bitterly: "But don't make fun of me. With your well-informed level, you should know that my current position is precarious, like a star that may turn into a shooting star at any time!"

Mu De Fan said: "It seems that you understand your situation very well, but you still provoke the Pope so much, maybe the decree of resignation will be sent to you tomorrow."

Yannick said: "That shouldn't be possible, maybe you will see me wearing the bishop's robe next week!"

The friendship between the two people was not deep. Even if Yannick owed him a big favor now, he didn't intend to have a shallow conversation with him. In addition, it looked as if he had known Master Mulder Fan before, which allowed Yannick to finally walk out of the venue safely without any violence.

Avery and the others did not follow Yannick to the meeting place, because to stimulate the mages, one person is enough, and if they bring too many people, it is a demonstration, not a release of goodwill.

The news of the speech could not be delivered immediately, so they could only wait in the post house. After waiting all morning, they were finally relieved when they saw Yannick came back intact, with no bruises, no arms and legs missing, but Everyone's face is still full of worry.

"Your Excellency Hill, I think there are some things that must be said to you now." Augustine looked serious, even with a trace of anger on his face.

Fearing that this overly serious companion might say something that would offend Yannick, Avery hurriedly smoothed things over: "Your Excellency Hill is already very tired, so let's talk about it in the afternoon or evening if you have anything to say."

"No," Augustine shook his head, "I think it's necessary to say it now."

Avery: "Augustin!"

Yannick is not angry, although he is indeed tired. "Augustin, go ahead, Avery, it's okay."

Augustine looked around and saw that Priest Darwin was also present: "I hope I can talk to you alone, and Avery can also stay."

When the others left, Yannick left Bart and Beck behind. The little elf who couldn't see him all morning was babbling, stretching out his fat palm to grab his hand, as if he wanted to play with him, Yannick I had no choice but to hand him my hand and let the elf baby "ravage" while saying, "Okay, Augustine, you can speak now."

"Your Excellency, I really don't understand, why did you attend the magic seminar?! You should know that the Holy See didn't want you to be the bishop, but at that time, because of your merits, you couldn't immediately break the contract, and you still have to do it now." Clearly hand over your own weaknesses to them. No matter what you said at that conference, you attended, in the eyes of the Holy See, this in itself means getting closer to the mages and showing their favor, which is absolutely not allowed by the Holy See Forbearance, do you want the pope's decree to be dismissed immediately on your table!"

The more Augustine said, the more excited he became: "We were left out in the cold for a long time when we were in the Holy See, and we saw all kinds of people. Most of them were for their own selfish desires. The divine appearance of the Goddess of Light could not conceal their Dirty, but you are different, at least I have seen with my own eyes that you are indeed doing something in your own way, whether it is donating gold coins to civilians, or letting us go to Reed Flute City to experience the frontline situation, we all admire you, I hope that I can always follow you, and I don’t want you to be dismissed for some inexplicable reasons! I hope you can think more about us and this team, and love yourself!"

"Augustin..." Avery stared at him blankly, and it took him a while to react, and explained to Yannick: "I'm sorry, sir, Augustin may be too excited..."

"No, it's okay, Augustine, I'm actually very happy. You are willing to tell the truth in front of me, which at least means that I am a successful bishop, but are you willing to spare a little time to listen to my explanation now? ?” Yannick looked at him gently.

"...Yes." Augustine pursed his lips.

"Let's analyze it together. First of all, we all know that the Holy See doesn't like me, not only because of my junior qualifications, but most importantly, I was not cultivated by the Pope, so he doesn't trust me. Maybe I haven't treated me well. You said that before I took office, the Pope had a private conversation with me and gave me some veiled warnings. From then on, I knew that my appointment as bishop was actually just a temporary Sexual arrangement, rather, as a pawn that, having done what the Pope wanted me to do, I could be honorably removed."

Facing the expressions of Avery and others, Yannick smiled: "I didn't tell you this before, because I didn't want you to have a huge psychological shadow at the beginning, which would affect your performance, my dear."

"Well, you don't need to be too shocked. You already had a hunch, didn't you? Let's continue the previous topic. You have been in the Central Vatican for so long, and you should have a better understanding of His Majesty's character. He is not the kind of person who said or did something. People who change their minds about anything, to put it nicely, this is called sticking to one’s own opinion, and to put it bluntly, it’s called stubbornness and paranoia. Then such a majesty, he will change his attitude towards me just because I participate in or not to participate in the magic seminar. opinion? Obviously not."

"If the Pope really trusted me, there wouldn't be a so-called one-year observation period at the beginning. Before me, no bishop had to go through this process when he took office. It was special because I was promoted from a low-level priest to a bishop." This kind of reason does not make sense at all, because if I really violated the regulations, then he can completely stop me from being the bishop."

The deeper Yannick's analysis became, the more frightened everyone felt. Even Bart, although he was not as flexible as Avery and Augustin, was after all a person who had been in the Central Holy See for a long time. He even I felt as if I saw a huge chess game from Yannick's words, and the pope was the one who played chess!

"If you think about it, you will know that before I adopted the child of His Majesty Francis II of the Garter Empire as godson, dueled with Richard Dilkin, and donated gold coins to civilians. These things are not trivial, but the Holy See How did you react? The Holy See didn’t respond at all, no matter what I did, there was no praise, let alone reprimand, don’t you find it strange?”

Augustine murmured, "What does the Pope want?"

Yannick said: "That's what I want to know too. No matter how smart I am, I can't guess what His Majesty the Pope is thinking. So if I guessed correctly, the result will be the same this time, regardless of whether I am among the mages or not." What was said at the meeting, the Holy See will also not have any response."

He paused and continued: "To be honest, I have always had a strong sense of crisis. Since we can't figure out the motives of the Holy See, then we simply don't have to guess and do what we want. Now there are so many opportunities. Of course, I want to make good use of it. The magic seminar is an excellent opportunity. I want to accumulate as much capital as possible to make my reputation as big as possible. Even if the Holy See wants to do something to us in the future, it will not be good tomorrow. It will be more beneficial for us to do it face-to-face.”

There was silence in the room, only the elf didn't know the dangers in the world, and he giggled innocently. Yannick lowered his head and kissed his soft face, which made the latter more excited, and soon returned the silver-haired bishop's slobber.

"I understand, Your Excellency." Augustine's voice was a little dry, "I'm sorry, I was too excited just now, and I didn't fully understand your intentions, so..."

"Augustin, we are a team. You have the right to question my actions. You don't need to blame yourself. I am also happy to explain to you, because that way we will not leave any grudges between us." Ya Nick showed a wry smile: "But I'm really a little tired now, if you don't mind, let me have a good sleep first?"

Only then did they notice that the exhaustion in Yannick's eyes was almost pouring out, and the beautiful silver hair on his head became dull.

Needless to say, the Bishop was under a lot of pressure.This was quickly realized by Avery et al.

Even though what he explained to them makes sense, Yannick still needs to think twice every time he makes a decision, facing the wisdom of the Pope. He is not sure that he can win at all. Intention, so I can only increase my chips as much as possible, hoping to make the Pope more scruples.

"Sorry, Your Excellency, you should rest first, we will come again at night, do I need to order some lunch for you?" Ai Fuli and others immediately stood up and said apologetically.

"No, you don't need it, just close the door for me when you go out, thank you."

As soon as they left, Yannick came up almost immediately, his straight spine bent down immediately, he put the elf on the bed with strength, covered the quilt, took off his shoes and lay down on the bed, and closed his eyes with a frown. Eyes, soon unable to resist drowsiness, fell asleep with all kinds of worries.

As soon as night fell, Yannick opened his eyes amidst the elf's laughter, and then he saw Illus crawling around on the big bed enjoying himself, hugging him for a while. Yannick's thigh rubbed against his face, and after a while he grabbed the quilt and stuffed it in his mouth, with the most carefree and innocent smile in the world on his face.

"Honestly, baby, I really envy you." Yannick sighed with his jaw propped up. "It is also a kind of happiness to be carefree!"

Hearing his voice, the little elf immediately turned around and crawled over, hugged his neck affectionately, smeared his saliva on his face, and made a sound that only he could understand.

"Okay, okay, I know you like me, but don't rush to wash my face." Yannick said with a gentle smile, "You have to tell me, when will your Majesty the Queen come to pick you up? My current situation It's getting more and more dangerous, I didn't expect to lose you and be hunted down by your people!"

"I didn't know His Excellency Hill would miss me so much."

An abrupt female voice sounded in the room, and Yannick turned his head in surprise: "Your Majesty the Queen?"