I was regarded as a demon god by a witch

Chapter 421 The empire that is about to condense universal laws

In the castle, Archbishop Anko and Ivita were talking in the corridor on the second floor, with many people following behind them.

The archbishop is just an ordinary old man, over 80 years old, with no professional rank and only a few years to live.

But he still holds a high position, holds great power, and has the advantage of moral authority that no one else can match. Even if Ivita communicates with him, she has to speak more carefully out of consideration for his own moral authority. .

Ivita thanked the church for its support, while Archbishop Anke said with a smile: "This is what we should do. The church will select monarchs for every Lord of All Creation and help them obtain and consolidate It’s their responsibility.”

"Lord Ivita, every independent country will have more than one metropolitan church."

"But looking at your current situation, you may not be able to help the church establish a diocese in Lombardy."

"It doesn't matter. The Pope specifically activated the Holy Gold to allow us to establish a diocese here at our own expense."

Ivita was stunned and looked at the appointment document of Grand Viscount Ambrose given to her by the Pope in her hand, as well as the golden seal on the document.

No wonder the church would give itself such a great gift.

It turns out that I want something from myself.

Indeed, the church will have branch churches in every independent country, and will establish a parish system in each country that is completely independent from the administrative region, and can rely on this parish system to collect taxes.

In fact, only the use of force can protect sacred status.

And force requires wealth to support it.

One of the great wealth of the church comes from tithes.

Although the Holy Church only has a corner of the Papal State, it can rely on its huge papal system to spread throughout the Magic Black Forest countries, divide it into parishes, and start collecting taxes.

This is why the church is so strong and yet so gentle.

The church is already a behemoth.

There is no need for it to swing its claws at subsequent challengers.

Ivita weighed it up. First of all, every independent country will have branches of the church, so on her side, this is not a special situation.

Secondly, although the church can receive some tax revenue from itself, it can also receive support from the church.

Before the monarch's power reached its maximum and the aristocracy was eliminated, the church and the king were generally in the same camp.

After the aristocracy was cleared by the king, the clergy would become a class opposed to the king.

This means that in the early and mid-term, I can completely rely on the church to centralize power.

Therefore, there is really no need to break up with the church because of this kind of thing.

Besides, there was something wrong with the way Ivita glanced at Cardinal Archbishop Anke. Generally speaking, the head of a branch church of the church has a lifelong term and handles the entire branch church independently.

This means that if you can control Cardinal Anke, you can turn the entire branch church into your own centralized authority.

I have already asked Tartax.

Now the church in the Frankish country can no longer control the Franks. They have become independent and only obey the orders of the Holy See in name.

After all, branch churches also have conflicts with the Holy See.

The Holy See wants to collect tax revenue from branch churches, but the branch churches will definitely not be convinced. Why should the Holy See give the tax revenue that was finally collected to the Holy See?

The tithes paid to the Holy See by branch churches in various places have their own concealment and deductions. However, the Frankish church simply stated that it could not make ends meet. Not only did it not pay taxes, it even tried to ask the Holy See for taxes every year.

As long as you grasp the contradiction between the branch church and the Holy See, you can turn the branch church into the church of your own country.

After Ivita realized this, she tested Archbishop Anke and said, "It's just Archbishop Anke. I originally wanted to give the suffering people of Lombardy a tax exemption for ten years. Besides, now they are redeveloping the land, which is a waste of resources." when."

Archbishop Anko laughed, understanding Ivita's hint. "This country has suffered such a huge disaster, and it is normal to be tax-free for a few years. Moreover, the usual rule is not to tax farmers who reclaim wasteland. People cannot afford to pay taxes, so the branch church I manage here will follow If you follow your footsteps, they will be tax-free."

“On top of that, branch churches can bring you a huge population.”

Archbishop Anke's face turned serious. "The Seljuk-Roman Empire, a pagan empire, conquered the Kingdom of Raven, and even the Grand Duchy of Wallachia, the hometown of vampires, entered the sphere of influence of the Seljuq-Roman Empire."

"Those vampires can no longer be trusted. They were already in a gray state, and now we don't even know where they stand."

"After the Raven Law was taken away by the Seljuk-Roma Empire, many Raven people lost their homes. I can use the name of the church to let them come to your land."

Iveta could also feel the feeling of an approaching storm.

"Thank you Archbishop." Ivita thanked Archbishop Anke. He had already found out that Archbishop Anke was not a stubborn fanatic, and he even had his own ideas.

The fact that this old man came to his own kingdom and wanted to start a branch church speaks for itself.

To yourself, territory and population are equally valuable.

Although territory is the most valuable, when the population is sparse, population becomes also important.

Archbishop Anke could still give himself such a big benefit even though he knew that he would not give their branch church a penny, which showed that he had his own ideas.

Ivita and Archbishop Anko were in front of the window on the second floor of the castle, overlooking the guards training in the courtyard.

Seeing Ivita's silence, Archbishop Anke took the initiative and said to him: "What a pity. If you had conquered so many territories in other eras, you would have become the focus of all countries."

"But the Seljuk-Roma Empire's forceful destruction of two kingdoms with a history of more than 500 years and the discovery of the New World Continent have dimmed your bright light."

Iveta was speechless in her heart. She hoped most that no one would pay attention to her.

Ivita looked at Archbishop Anke and asked curiously: "Two kingdoms?"

“What other kingdom was swallowed up by a pagan empire?”

"One kingdom is the kingdom of the Raven King." Archbishop Anke said in a calm voice: "The other kingdom is not a kingdom that believes in the god of all things. On the contrary, it is the kingdom of the pagans themselves - Mamuru, who believes in the god of all beasts. Ke Kingdom.”

"The Mamluk kingdom was a pagan country that was less extreme towards us and therefore did business with us and was also located in the center of commercial trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. However, this country was now in the hands of the Seljuk-Roman Empire .My lord, in other words, the commercial trade of the Mediterranean has been interrupted."

Ivita frowned.

That would certainly affect Cross Island trade.No wonder those pirates are fleeing, I'm afraid this is also the main reason.

Most of the Mediterranean now fell into the hands of the Seljuk-Roman Empire.

Archbishop Anke looked at Ivita, then turned to look at the blue sky outside the window and sighed. "Perhaps we did something to anger the God of All Things, which actually made God no longer favor us. Since ten years ago, the Seljuk-Roma Empire took away the most fertile land from the distant site of the Fire Civilization. After the New Moon Land, that country became even more powerful.”

"None of us thought before that it could actually grow to be the closest to an ancient civilization..."

"It has plundered more than a hundred independent country-level laws. The kingdom that once had a long history was only a province or even a district under its jurisdiction."

"Now it seems that the great voyage is our only way out, and everyone is full of hope for the continent of the New World. Far from it, Lord Ivita, at least our country does not need to worry about these things for the time being."

Ivita knew that although there were some coastal waters east of Lombardy that were the same as the coastal waters of the Seljuk-Roman Empire, that country did not seem to attach importance to the navy, but only to the army.

This is also a common feature of pagan countries.

Likes to use slave armies, appoint slave bureaucrats, and only values ​​the army.Even if there is naval reform, it is just a personal act on the whim of a certain monarch, and the next generation of monarchs cannot inherit their ideas.

Facts have proved that no matter how powerful a dictator is, if he cannot win the support of the next generation, his policies will only end when people die.

Ivita nodded and said nothing.

Because I don’t need to think about this for the time being, I’d better get Ambrose first.

……

Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch sorted out their current knowledge of making Dark Soul, and found that making Dark Soul requires a key point, which is one's own past.

And it’s not my own personal past, it’s my family’s past.

Then you need the help of your ancestors.

Only then did Ivita realize that if he wanted to create the Dark Soul, he would not be able to bypass the Kingdom of Alsace. It was as if fate had destined him to return to that kingdom and regain everything he had lost.

Although Ivita now wanted to go to that kingdom and get back his things, he still suppressed his impulse.

Because the Kingdom of Alsace should be able to mobilize at least the power of the Witch Marquis level. I don’t know how much such power is left in the country, but at least it will exist.

Secondly, he also had to worry about whether the other party would have allies if he declared war on the Kingdom of Alsace.

In other words, if you declare war on the Kingdom of Alsace, will you be able to gain allies, allies from other countries, or even allies from within the Kingdom of Alsace?

Ivita knew that she needed to be patient now, and he wanted to understand the current situation, so Ivita sent a group of four Robinson Knights to secretly go to the Kingdom of Alsace to investigate the situation and contact any friends who could help her.

Ivita, on the other hand, found the Hearthstone Witch and wanted to test her own changes after mastering the laws of the Iron Crown.

……

The open space outside Iron Crown Castle.

The Hearthstone Witch said to Ivita: "Your Majesty, I also want to try what will happen after you control the law."

Ivita said to the Hearthstone Witch: "It's just that within the scope of this country, I seem to have a certain degree of immunity to damage."

"Try attacking me with fire magic. I don't need light soul to protect myself."

"Okay, be careful." A fireball appeared in the Hearthstone Witch's hand and threw it towards Ivita.

The fireball disappeared the moment it touched Ivita.

The Hearthstone Witch looked at Ivita strangely.

The fire magic just now was not suppressed and extinguished by Ivita with more powerful magic, but it was extinguished by itself after getting close to Ivita.

It was as if Ivita was an insulator of magic.

Ivita raised her hands and looked at them. "Low-level magic is of no use to me."

"Change to a higher level magic."

The Hearthstone Witch was stunned. "No wonder not many witches would hex the Lord of the Law."

She raised her right hand, and suddenly a concentric circle composed of mysterious words appeared at Ivita's feet. Strong power erupted from the concentric circles, and then a whirlwind of flames swept up from Ivita's feet.

But not long after the flame magic appeared, it was like a flame that extinguished and emitted black smoke, and then quickly extinguished.

Iveta looked at her hand that felt the abnormal temperature and said: "It's starting to work. It requires at least a magic of the level of a great witch to have an effect on me now."

"There is no need to do the next magic test. I have already predicted it with the light soul. The magic of the great witch is just a trick on me. Only the high witch will start to really threaten me."

"Just starting from the magic of the high-level witch, the power of all magic will be reduced by half to me, and it will be exempt from mind control and curse magic."

Ivita raised her brows and said to the Hearthstone Witch: "I estimate that the knights will be more severely weakened. Monarchs who master the law, even just an ordinary person, can easily kill a professional at the level of a great witch. "

"Also, it has almost no immunity from being controlled by magic."

blurted the Hearthstone Witch. "Then how did the witch queens control those kings with magic?"

"The Witch Queen once controlled her idiot king husband."

Evita pursed her lips.

He didn't know either.

Maybe when they reach the level of Witch Queen, their magic is not just magic.

Ivita said to the Hearthstone Witch: "The knowledge to create the Dark Soul is still not enough, even with the knowledge you learned in Hearthstone Castle. Are there any magic institutions with Dark Soul knowledge in Ambrose? ?Is there a witch cemetery?"

The Hearthstone Witch immediately said: "The level of the Witch Cemetery is not enough, and there is no way to create a Dark Soul. Ambrose is a magical wasteland, there... wait a minute."

"As the current holder of the Snow Mountain Law, the Ice Witch may have relevant knowledge. The Snow Mountain Law has always been controlled by the witch lineage and is closely related to magic. There may not be anything we want there."

(End of this chapter)