[Notre Dame de Paris] Papal Way

The matter is more serious than Ace imagined, but it is not difficult to solve.Although this virus called the Black Death is very tenacious, it is not an opponent of light magic. A simple elementary magic "blessing of light" can solve it.If Ace had the forbidden curse specially developed by the Holy See for the plague in his hands, I am afraid that these Black Deaths, which are regarded as the wings of death, will be resolved before a full-scale outbreak.

The only thing that bothered him and felt urgent was the circumstances of this world.Indeed, any priest of the Holy See of Light can easily heal thousands of people with the blessing of light, but on this continent where there is no magical power, medical conditions are backward, and sanitary conditions are dirty and messy, the incubation period is short and the onset is rapid The lethality of the Black Death without effective preventive measures is too great.

After expelling the virus, Ace "gently" woke up the comatose emissary and asked him a few questions.The envoy should have been explained by the local chief before he came. On the way, he met the Marseille envoy who fell ill and died halfway. He knew everything about Ace's problems.

After discovering the outbreak of the virus and finding out that the source was several merchant ships from Messina, the Bordeaux officials decisively detained their sailors and questioned the main ports of arrival of the merchant ships departing from the same batch.In fact, even without cross-examination, everyone knows the result well.Businessmen are always a group of people chasing profit. Wherever there is business, merchant ships will sail there.As long as the goods in Sicily can be sold, I am afraid they will go there.In other words, the current navigation technology is greatly improved than before, and the merchant ships carrying the virus are likely to have reached various ports in Europe.Maybe only some of the ships were hit, but no one can guarantee the speed of the spread of the virus.

The culprit in spreading the virus now appears to be clearly not the sailors on board.The Black Death once broke out a hundred years ago, and one of the sources at that time was Messina.If some rats gnawed on the patient's body, they would probably carry the virus, and by chance, they would sneak into the merchant ship and follow the ship to Bordeaux. It would be easy to spread the virus.The reproductive ability of mice has always been outstanding, who can guarantee that there is only one mouse carrying the virus, not a litter?

From a certain point of view, the outbreak of the epidemic is good for Ace.He is the only person who has the means to contain the virus and even recover the patients. Even if he raises the price and makes all kinds of ridiculous demands, I am afraid that the cardinals, kings, and nobles whose lives are threatened will eagerly agree.And the plague is a good time to restrain your beliefs. Regardless of the gods on the continent of Maris, in the Bible, Yahweh used the plague to make Egypt fall into mourning, and at the same time showed his power to the Hebrews.Although in the Black Death frenzy a hundred years ago, the authority of the Catholic Church declined because the devout God failed to respond to the pleas of the faithful believers, but by this opportunity, if Ace can show that he is beyond the people It is not out of the question that the faculty of imagination is fanatically revered in the name of "Metatron".

If you can get fanatical faith, it will of course be of great benefit to Ace's plan to confer the gods.The strength of divine fire depends on the purity of belief, and it is not hindered by time and space.In other words, even if Ace returns to the continent of Maris, the beliefs of this world will still be continuously provided to him through the connection of God Fire...

It was a lucrative business, and one that seemed risk-free.It would be a lie to say that Ace is not tempted by this.However, he restrained his desire and did not continue to weigh the gains and losses of interests, but began to think calmly from another angle.

It is true that this idea is very tempting, but Ace does not intend to do this kind of evil thing in the name of justice.Ace, who once aspired to become a water god, has a very clear position.Besides, as a qualified nobleman, the first thing he has to learn is how to abide by the order, and only then can he learn how to be successful under the constraints of the order.

If this is a war, and the plague is an important factor in the war, Ace doesn't mind getting all the benefits he can get in this war.But unfortunately, this is not a man-made battle.If you really want to say it, you can only say it is a tug-of-war between life and death.The death of a large number of people will not be the god of death; the beneficiary will not be Yahweh or other gods who have long since disappeared in the world if the people change their beliefs.

Ace's attitude is simple.He has the ability to save these people who are troubled by the plague, and only he has this ability.This is within his reach, no matter what he does, he will only gain but not lose, so why doesn't he do it?

Even if the benefits obtained in this way will be less, it is better than suddenly finding that he is judged to be a god of the abyss camp when he ignites the divine fire.A deity with the power of light, but accidentally possesses an evil heart, I am afraid that within a few hundred years, he will disappear due to the collapse of the godhead.

How easy is it to prepare two hundred pieces of gold in two hours?However, Louis XI keenly sensed some kind of breath from it, and decisively ordered to collect enough utensils from the people.The unlucky imperial archers first searched each other's property, then knocked on the doors of nobles and merchants from door to door, and finally collected two hundred containers that could hold things within two hours. Some are too small, and some are doped with a lot of impurities.

Ace also had his own considerations for asking to use goldware.He was alone, and there was no suitable spell in the stick of Moses. Obviously, he couldn't solve the problem quickly by himself in a short period of time, so it was very important to find a relatively convenient solution.Ace doesn't know whether gold is transformed by sunlight, but it is undoubtedly excellent to use this kind of material to store the magic power of the light system.

Magical elements cannot exist alone, but complement each other.The elements of each system have spells that cooperate with other systems, and the light system is no exception.Ace is a water-type magister. He doesn't know much about light-type magic, but he just knows about a high-level light magic that can be used in conjunction with water-type magic, called "Light Breeding".The effect of this magic is also very peculiar. After casting it, a "seed" will be formed with the magic power as the core. Not only will it not disappear as time goes by, but it will attract a large amount of light magic power to supplement itself, just like the gestation of a fetus.

And after putting this seed that has attracted a lot of magic power into the water, the light element that was originally insoluble in water will be intimately combined with the water.The birth of light itself cannot be reabsorbed by the magician, but the large amount of light elements released after dissolving in water can be easily absorbed. Therefore, on the mainland of Maris, priests often put the seeds of "birth of light" in the water. In the bowl, baptize the newborn.

The experiments on the messengers in Bordeaux confirmed Ace's conjecture that light elements can suppress the Black Death, and whether it can be expelled depends only on the amount of elements.As long as the seeds stored in these golden utensils are put into local wells, it can ensure that the Black Death will not spread further, at least it can delay part of the time.While procrastinating for time, Ace will personally travel to various places where the plague broke out, gather people with severe symptoms, and cure them again.

The loss that can be reduced by doing so is the greatest and the safest way.But Ace needs enough cooperation, the cooperation of national and local officials, and enough cooperation of the Holy See.No one would refuse such a move, because everyone knew that driving away the plague would only bring benefits.So after the envoys set off, Ace had to go to the Holy See to meet the Pope and tell him his intentions straightforwardly.

The divine power remaining in the staff of Moses has completely dissipated after a battle, and this staff, which is called an artifact, has been completely owned by Ace.It is also very easy to use, and the increase in magic power is very powerful.In less than two hours, Ace filled up the collected gold items one by one, and at the same time consumed all his magic power.The next step is to carry out long-distance teleportation. He expanded the law of using the domain to fill a large amount of magic power of the light system, and meditation supplemented himself.

While meditating, someone knocked on the door of Ace's room.The mental power was released and then withdrawn. After seeing Jeanna standing outside the door, Ace stopped the meditation with a thought, got up and opened the door.

Jeanne was wearing rather homely clothes, with rosy cheeks and disheveled hair, apparently she ran out secretly.She looked up at Ace and said with concern, "I... I heard that the Black Death broke out outside..."

Ace raised his eyebrows slightly, and let her in sideways: "Who told you?"

Jeanna shyly said: "Yes...it was Kang Si who brought me a bottle and asked me to drink the contents...but after drinking it, I felt very uncomfortable." Her eyes were wet, and she looked as if she was about to cry at any time Come out like, "My head hurts...so I came to you."

Ace: "..." Could it be that Kang Si gave the birth of light that he dispersed for ordinary people to drink for Jeanna?For ordinary people, of course, the more you drink, the better it is; but for Jeanna whose magic power is inexplicably stagnated in the sea of ​​spirits, the more she drinks, the faster she will die!

He knew that Kang Si must have good intentions, but this kind of thing is too... Ace put his hand on Jeanna's forehead, and slowly penetrated his spiritual power.Sure enough, the elements contained in those "breeding of light" are gradually gathering together, silting up towards the spiritual sea.Rangna's spiritual sea was already packed to the brim, wouldn't she be made a fool if she continued like this?

Jeanna looked like she was about to cry, and Ace could only comfort her, "Good girl, you did the right thing."

In desperation, he had no choice but to take Jeanna back to the Miracle Palace first.He hasn't been back to this house for dozens of days, but the members of the Gossip Kingdom seem to plan to treat it as a "sacred place"｜manage it and clean it very carefully.Because her mental power was so compressed that it was almost impossible to think, Jeanna didn't even wonder why she suddenly changed places, she just glanced to the side curiously.

Ace took her straight to Paddy Amon's house next door. Paddy Amon seemed to have expected this day, and was sitting at the table.Seeing them coming, he smiled and greeted them to sit down.

Ace frowned again.He looked at Paddy Ammon carefully, and stretched out his hand to give him some magic power: "Paddy Ammon..."

The priest smiled serenely: "This is the arrangement of fate, my time has come."

Feeling that the magical power could not stay in the priest's body at all, Ace also withdrew his hand: "...I thought there was at least a year left..."

"Who can stop the arrangement of fate?" the priest said to himself, "maybe you can. Remember that amulet? I thought it could turn your life around, but after you arrived, the turnaround will come soon." No longer exists, because the source of the turnaround has disappeared by fate."

Ace frowned: "I'm not here to hear you say these incomprehensible words, Paddy Amon."

"I understand, so I sat here at the last moment of my life." Paddy Amon still had a serene smile on his face, he was ready enough to face death, "Good girl, little princess, now Please close your eyes and don't think about anything. When you open your eyes again, all pain will be gone."

As an Egyptian priest with sufficient understanding of the soul, Padiamon really had a way to deal with Jeanna's dilemma.He carefully peeled off Jeanna's talent crystal, and handed it to Ace.As soon as this group of golden crystals fell into Ace's palm, the staff of Moses hidden on his right arm poked out and turned into a snake head to swallow the light.Immediately afterwards, a warm current began to surge in Ace's body, and the magic power gave birth to a vortex, and the magic power that had been condensed to the extreme began to further break through.

The barrier of the Dharma Saint seems to have become thinner, and he is only a little bit short of stepping into this world that many magicians dream of.However, Ace felt that the opportunity to break through the Holy Spirit has not come yet...

Paddy Amon closed his eyes at some point, and waved his hands lightly, motioning for them to leave.After seeing the rod of Moses, he seemed to have settled his last worry and decided to face death alone.

Ace carried the sleeping Jeanne back to the palace.The magic power lost before has been fully replenished, and the messengers summoned by Louis XI are waiting in the palace.

Soon, he will be able to meet Sixtus IV.