After Becoming The Tyrant CH 130 Take Down The Sun
Sensing someone entering, the black dragon turned its head and stared at the person who entered with its ferocious golden eyes. The dragon's wings flapped and blew a foul-smelling gust of wind. In the wind, the flesh and bones of cattle, sheep, and animals smashed towards the white-robed monk's head and face.
The white-robed monk held the cross on his chest, and released a faint layer of light to block the filthy torrent. Holding the torch, he walked along the edge of the huge underground cave, admiring the evil dragon that was kept in captivity underground. It was originally just a stone-like egg, which was brought back from the extreme north by the Holy Court using a special method, and it was hatched with secret methods for nearly three hundred years.
It was a pity that, on the one hand, because the era of legends had come to an end, on the other hand, this was just a mixed-blood descendant of a real giant dragon, and the black dragon was far inferior to the legendary evil dragon.
A replica.
A replica that had been shrunk countless times.
"The back of the evil dragon in the legendary era was like ancient mountains when it lowered itself into a crawl." The white-robed monk sighed to himself, "I really want to see what a huge and amazing creation it was."
The black dragon had gradually calmed down. The white-robed monk approached the iron chain and put his hand on the mechanism.
"Since you are a dragon slayer, why don't you slay the evil dragon again?"
He said, with a strange smile in his voice.
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Legrand, Rose Palace.
The suggestion given by the leader of the witches to attack the "House of the Pope" was similar to the Devil's last warning before he left. The King did not express any attitude towards it at the time, but after the spring hunting was over, the Head of the Households immediately summoned Anil at the order of the King.
Or it should be "Archbishop Anil" now.
He was appointed Archbishop of St. Wyth by the King not long ago.
When the King summoned Archbishop Anil, the leader of the witches temporarily hid. Although the King gave them protection, as a witch, she was always reluctant to meet any of the clergy. Especially as to the dark world, the name of Father Anil was much louder than even the bishops of the Twelve Sanctuaries of the Holy Court.
"House of the Pope."
Hearing the King's inquiry, Archbishop Anil pondered for a while, and then explained it carefully to the King.
The so-called "House of the Pope" meant that the Pope enjoyed absolute authority over all religious issues. The Pope was the head of the family, and all believers must obey him.
"The Pope is the monarch of the spiritual world." The King said thoughtfully, and he seemed to have guessed something.
He didn't continue this topic, but instead asked Archbishop Anil about the miracles of the Holy Empire and the progress of the religious reform in Legrand today.
After the famous "Legrand jurisprudence dispute", a group of theologians and scholars gathered at the Gray Eagle Tavern in Metzl City, where they held the first discussion on Legrand's church reform. Later, when the Holy Court launched the "Hall of Truth" on the other side of the Abyss Strait, General Johan presided over the Legrand religious conference ordered by the King in an almost tit for tat manner.
In the Legrand Jurisprudence Controversy, the Legrand Church lost its judicial power, and in this first religious reform meeting, this point was further based on the "Book of Obedience to the Law of the Faculty" which was more firmly fixed by means of the Prohibition of Appeals. On the surface, the "No Appeal Order" referred to the prohibition of bypassing the royal court and directly submitting lawsuits to the Holy Court.
However, in fact it was a more radical split.
It completely separated the Legrand Church from the church that had already become the Holy Empire. Not only completely severed the judicial connection between Legrand and the Holy Court, but also canceled the tribute Legrand must pay to the Holy Court incidentally.
"It's hard to imagine that the implementation of the No Appeal Order went so smoothly."
Archbishop Anil said in a low voice. Although he was not good at political affairs, he still had some basic understanding. When the anti-appeal injunction was voted on, it was passed at an astonishing speed. Even representatives of some great lords temporarily remained neutral in front of it, and the support rate of the lower-level members was even more astonishingly high.
"I thought you knew why, Mr. Archbishop." The King chuckled in a low voice. He leaned back on the chair and reminded Archbishop Anil, "You should be very clear about the Holy Court lawsuits."
Archbishop Anil was silent for a while, with a sad expression on his face.
The King tapped the armrest with his fingertips unhurriedly, and there was also a pile of files on his desk that he had already read. If he wanted to target the enemy, he had to understand the enemy even better than himself. And the understanding of the Holy Court was the King's assurance of the success of the "No Appeal Order" proposed at the Reformation Conference.
He knew it would be supported.
Because the Holy See Pope's Court was notorious for its corruption and procrastination.
In name, the Holy See was the highest court of the entire church, but in fact, the Holy See had taken many cases into its own hands that could have been resolved in the courts of bishops and county bishops. Even the local lords who did not support the King were particularly dissatisfied with this point. To some extent, it also divided a large part of the economic income of the local lord's court. On the other hand, every lawsuit directly submitted from various countries to the Pontifical Academy needed to go through countless hands, and every time it passed through a pair of hands, a corresponding "unwritten fee" must be paid, and many more additional bribes.
Even aristocrats with considerable income could hardly bear this kind of exploitation.
Some people have done statistics, and the remuneration for the summary of the case alone was as high as dozens of times the official fee.
In addition, the cumbersome and protracted procedures of the church courts have become a well-known laughing stock.
A common joke embodied this point vividly. It spoke of a prosecutor who went to the Holy See court to file a case. His wife waited for several years, but couldn't wait for her husband to come back, so she couldn't bear it and asked the prosecutor's friend. The friend congratulated her: "God bless you! Your good husband has run through all the office rooms! He can go home after finishing the briefing next month!"
As for the second point in the "No Appeal Order", the termination of tribute to the Holy Court.
——In this world, was there really someone who would sincerely hand over their money for nothing?
It didn't matter how many people believed in Archbishop Anil's "Piety lies in faith". Although this reform was called "religion", it was actually nothing more than a redistribution of interests.
No one would refuse benefits, so long as the benefits were not taken away from them.
Archbishop Anil finished his statement about the religious conference, and at the same time he asked the King something that puzzled him: "How did you manage to make the miracles of the Holy Court have such little influence on Legrand? Your Majesty.”
It was normal for someone like him who knew the secrets of the Holy Court not to believe in the so-called "divine miracles" of the Holy Court, but the impact of the miracles of the Holy Court on ordinary people in Legrand was less than he imagined.
Archbishop Anil was prepared to face even stronger resistance from the people after the miracles, but the result was unexpected.
"Because they didn't witness it with their own eyes after all." The King replied, and after a pause, he added pointedly, "Besides, they chose to use the miracle in regards to the Black Death."
Archbishop Anil's confusion was also the confusion of the leader of the witches.
After arriving in Legrand, the witches stayed at Legrand No. 1 Pathological Research Institute, and all whom they came into contact with were lunatics in the eyes of normal people. Therefore, they subconsciously believed that the indifference of the people in the research institute to divine miracles was due to their own abnormality–—bloody hell, there were even some who were eager to study the difference between angel and human anatomy.
But in the heart of the witches, they subconsciously believed that normal people have a different attitude towards divine miracles.
On the way of escaping from the Holy Empire, they met many fanatics who were even more terrifying than the judges of the Holy Court.
However, Legrand was completely different.
There were no crosses everywhere, and people didn't kneel outside churches in groups, and indulgences were almost extinct. Walking on the street, you won't hear people proclaiming "oracles" loudly every so often. Neither the midwife nor the widow looked sad and worried that they would be dragged out at any time and be accused of being a witch. There were even a group of scholars haunting various taverns, loudly criticizing and mocking the records of the "Hall of Truth" that came back from the other side of the Abyss Strait…..
Everything here made the witch both shocked and in awe.
She felt that she had stepped into a completely different world.
In the end, after seeing a scholar giving a speech on the street and the crowd dispersed, she couldn't help walking over and asking her own questions.
The scholar glanced at her in surprise, and then replied in a natural tone: "But, what does Bressi's miracle have to do with Legrand?"
"But….." The witch was dumbfounded by this answer. She kept getting the feeling that something was wrong, but it also seemed that there was nothing wrong.
Seeing her dazed look, the scholar thought for a while, and stated his opinion carefully: "The Pope said that the Black Death is the punishment of the Holy Lord to the people. The Holy Lord forgave the world, so the angels came. However, as early as the angels came, our Majesty had expelled the Black Death in the southeast and made death bow down to him. Then, isn’t His Majesty, who solved the Black Death earlier than the Holy Court, a representative of God’s will closer than the Pope?”
The witch finally understood why.
——The Holy Court wanted to use the expanded influence of the Black Death to more smoothly establish the Holy Empire. And this just made it lose its sacred halo in the eyes of the people of Legrand, because the King of Legrand solved the Black Death earlier than the Holy Court.
She couldn't help showing a gloating smile.
The scholar rolled up his parchments and was about to leave. The witch saw dense oval trajectories and spheres drawn on the paper, and asked curiously what it was.
"Oh, this!" Mentioning his papers, the scholar's interest immediately rose, "This is the celestial orbit I simulated, those guys in the Hall of Truth are so stupid to claim that the heliocentric theory is wrong, but the truth is not like that! It's a pity, I originally wanted to visit Mr. Matthias, I had a correspondence going on with him, and his research progress in this area is much faster than mine, but no matter!"
The scholar was in high spirits.
"I believe that I can also take down the sun!"
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