I was regarded as a demon god by a witch

Chapter 473 Jie Long is at the end of his rope
Ivita raised her eyebrows, understanding Enola's identity.

He has no interest in claiming the Eastern Empire. Enola's parents have long sold their titles to kings of various countries in exchange for living supplies to maintain their relatively wealthy life. This title has become rampant.

Secondly, the imperial lineage of the Eastern Empire was complex, which was completely different from the disconnected royal families of Western Europe. Some of them came from civilians, slaves, and warlord families through coups, and the value of their bloodline was relatively not that great.

As for the claims to the Eastern Empire?
That is not important, at least not that important to Ivita. In this time period, who in this world can confront the Roma-Seljuk Empire who is about to create universal laws?

What's more, a person can only concentrate on one thing to complete that thing. If he greedily touches the claim to the crown of the Eastern Empire, his enemies and heretics will unite, which will change things. Got to be complicated.

Ivita knew that she had a slight upper hand now, and at this moment, she needed to be more cautious.

It's easy to offend someone by simply refusing directly. Although the other party is just a defenseless woman, her identity is enough to gain some benefits by committing herself to others.

Ivita rarely offends people, so she just said to Princess Enola tactfully: "Are you born under the purple cloth? I am very interested in the inheritance law of purple cloth in the Eastern Empire. I heard that It is an extremely complex law, enough to make even the best jurists argue about it.”

Princess Enola suddenly looked embarrassed and moved farther away from Ivita.

Ivita was teasing her, but there were many noble people at this banquet, and it was difficult for Ivita to speak out.

In the Eastern Empire, the once chaotic inheritance issue led to continuous legal chaos, and even the final destruction of the country was directly related to the inheritance issue.

Therefore, the inheritance laws of the Eastern Empire are very complicated and have strict requirements. Of course, this is the same as the stationery of poor students.

The Purple Clothes Inheritance Law, simply put, means that a person with royal blood must be born in a room covered with purple curtains in the palace in the capital of the Eastern Empire to have the right to inherit.

Princess Enola was just a subjugated princess who was taken in by Innocent II. How could she be born in that room?

This turned her so-called legal principles into a joke.

She was so embarrassed that she stayed away from Ivita, because she knew that she did not have enough chips to win over Ivita, and her personal charm was like the light of a firefly in front of Ivita.

Enola could only give up this rare opportunity.

All this was seen by Innocent II. He nodded slightly secretly. From this detail, he could see that Ivita had a clear goal. While full of ambition and positive motivation, she also had enough sense. to assess the situation.

At the banquet, the noble princes and princesses began to discuss the recent war between the royal family and the Principality of Hussite, a principality in the empire.

At the dinner table, Ivita summarized their discussion. It seemed that the emperor's conquest was not favorable. Oyo III, who was eager to solve the problem, was too anxious and let all the troops swarm to attack the militia of the Hussite Principality.

Since the number of the emperor's army was more than five times that of the Hussite army, and the quality was far greater. There were unknown number of professionals among them, and there were also a lot of accompanying witch groups.

But they suffered a disastrous defeat.

The troops composed of Hussite peasants were defeated one after another, leading them into the extremely low-lying paddy field area, and then they exploded the dam of the reservoir on the hillside.

Suddenly, the emperor's army was flooded.

The emperor's army suffered heavy losses, and the Hussite army was fearless, so Oyo III suffered a big loss.

Johannes Proudmoore, an illegitimate son from the Archdiocese of Trier in the Empire and the adopted son of the Pope, argued at the dinner table, "Don't you mean that those witch groups can't stop the flood? Can't high-level knights do the same? Are you safe in the flood?"

"Speaking of which, Ivita, it seems that you are also a wizard. Do you know why this is?"

Ivita said. "It's hard to say the specific situation, but magic always has weaknesses. This is a law that has appeared since the beginning of magic. It should be that someone in the Principality of Hook successfully discovered the weakness of the witch group. As for the senior knights..."

“There are also senior knights in the Hussite Principality, and since it is a war, not a fight, we must pay attention to the problems of the army and supply lines. The flood destroyed the morale and supply lines of most of their troops, and Oyo III’s army could only retreat. "

Ivita asked him in return: "The Principality of Hussite is an independent country. How did the emperor suppress the laws of Hussite?"

Johannes Proudmoore was a little embarrassed and waved his hand. Strictly speaking, he was just a young man with no title. He talked about law in front of three lords of law like Ivita. It might put you in an embarrassing situation.

The same goes for everyone else at the table.

Innocent II answered for Ivita to prevent silence at the table. "The emperor used the universal law to force the Hussite law. The Hussite law was part of the universal law and could not fight against the universal law. However, the universal law in the emperor's hands was not complete. This gave them the chance to win. Space. That part of the Hussite Principality, embracing evil heretical beliefs, that land, I feel pity for the people above it."

Since Innocent II had finalized this matter, it was difficult for everyone to express their personal opinions, so they all followed the Pope's wishes and started discussing.

Ivita chatted casually with them and made friends with her eyes twinkling. These people were all the Pope's potential sphere of influence.

Even if he made friends with them, he could not break away from the framework set by Innocent II.

It is said that Innocent II recently forced the king of the Northern Kingdom of Champagne and Brandy to kneel down and apologize to the Pope, just because the king wanted a divorce.

The concept of divorce cannot be recognized in the church system. Therefore, the only way to get a legitimate divorce is to find the problem in the marriage, seize the problem, and declare the marriage invalid.

Innocent II was too strong.

But there is a drawback to his approach, that is, after he and these adopted sons and daughters stay for a long time, the two sides will really have a layer of affection.

He could not force these adopted children too much in the future, so he decided to be gentle.

‘All persons in the Church are ministers of God of all things. ’ Ivita thought: ‘These priests cannot extend their lifespan. Innocent II is already old, and he will die in a few years at most. ’

‘So he will not be my enemy, but will be a friend who helped me in the early stage. ’

At the dinner table, Pope Innocent II suddenly interrupted the conversation and asked everyone: "What do you think of the relationship between the empire and the church?"

Ivita knew that although Innocent II did not look at her, he was asking this question for herself.

Everyone began to boast that the church had maintained the spiritual beliefs of the people in the empire. The church was the sacred cause of the God of all things. The empire was a loyal guard who protected the church. The pope's sacred rights were above those of secular monarchs. Even above the emperor.

Innocent II had a smile on his face. He had been working hard to improve the status of the church and fight against church corruption all his life. Only then did he reach the current situation.

He has now accumulated enough political wealth to keep the church extremely powerful for decades after his death.

Innocent II reminded everyone softly. "The pope and the emperor are equal. The God of all things entrusts people's spirits and bodies to the pope and the emperor respectively to protect and maintain their purity. The title of the emperor has a sacred meaning, which is different from that of the secular king. You have to remember.”

At the banquet, the young princesses and princes nodded.

Innocent II changed his words. "But the spirit is more important to mankind than the body. Therefore the spirit is better than the body, and the church is better than the empire by half a level."

"Your Excellency Ivita, look at it."

Ivita had little interest in theological debates. "My Majesty is the person closest to the Lord of All Things in this world."

"You're certainly right about that."

Ivita might as well give Pope Innocent II a good deal and said: "According to some historical knowledge I know, I found that the empire is protecting the church. The church and the empire are two-faced and protecting each other."

"In the early days of the empire, when the tribal principalities and various princes were unable to listen to the emperor's orders, it was the church bishops and abbots who assumed the responsibilities of local administrative officials and acted as temporary officials under the emperor's crown."

"For example, in the early days of the Frankish Kingdom, if the church had not protected the king and declared that the Frankish king was superior to the princes, the Frankish king would have been torn apart by the princes. At that time, the Frankish feudal states had not yet treated them. The king generates no respect, and the so-called king is more like an empty title."

After Ivita finished speaking, she silently thought that it was precisely because the Holy Empire was so dependent on the church and allowed the church to serve as local administrators that the Holy Empire was basically a conjoined baby with the church, just one body and two sides.

In the final analysis, the priestly class, who were technically unable to marry, were equivalent to eunuchs. They were unable to have children anyway. For the rulers, they were indeed the best tools.

Pagan countries are accustomed to using pagan slaves as core armies and administrative region governors, because the kings of pagan countries need a slave group that is loyal to them, and it is best for this slave group to have nothing to do with their local nobles and sects.

The deep integration of the Holy Empire and the Church is very similar to this process.

Innocent II looked at Ivita with eyes full of admiration and excitement. What Ivita said was indeed true. More importantly, he valued Ivita's thoughts.

……

Two days later, Ivita's pilgrimage came to a successful conclusion.

He was crowned with the Iron Crown in Hagia Sophia, an act that gave him immense legitimacy, causing the Iron Crown Law to quickly repair itself.

At the same time, Ivita also continuously received applications from some micro-small city-states near Lombardy to join the Principality of Lombardy. They were countries that were once separated from Lombardy.

These measures restored the Iron Crown Law to the greatest extent and increased its strength.

Unfortunately, it is more difficult to completely restore the Iron Crown Law.

After the pilgrimage, Ivita also quickly asked Poseidon to stop harassing Alsace with subspace power, because she no longer needed her to use subspace invasion to attract Alsace's attention.

Moreover, the church had declared itself the legitimate king of Alsace.

Ivita returned to Lombardy, met with everyone in the capital of Lombardy, and began to discuss launching a final attack on the Kingdom of Alsace.

Now the church is on their side, the three major republics are on their side, the three undead kingdoms in the north are on their side, and the Pearl Tooth Kingdom is on their side.

On the other hand, in the Kingdom of Alsace, due to successive defeats, the commander of the Forbidden Army has died. Now there is no leader of the Forbidden Army, and the Forbidden Army is in disarray.

Moreover, Henry VII was still paralyzed. Geron took over at the critical moment, but before he could stabilize the situation, the Pope and the Church questioned his legal status, and his biggest ally, Emperor Oyo III , but now they are caught in the war against the Hussite Principality. In less than a year, it is impossible to escape from the war.

Jeron originally wanted to put his hope in the Kingdom of Politau in the east, but who knew that he was really unlucky. The Kingdom of Politau was actually invaded by the Grand Duchy of Tver at this time.

The king of the Kingdom of Bolitao fell from his horse and died during the war. The law of king selection requires that a noble be selected as the king immediately.

The death of the king represented a change in the political tendency of the Kingdom of Politau.

In the palace of Alsace, Geron looked extremely ugly when he heard that several countries on the Iveta side had begun to gather troops and supplies. Then he heard the ministers tell him that the three armies on the border had begun to disobey orders. At this time, Jie Long clenched his fists even more.

Now, he and Ivita's offense and defense have changed.

He can only defend now.

Geron sneered as he looked at the ministers with different expressions in the palace meeting and said with a sneer: "Most of the people present were involved in the plan to betray Ivita's father."

"If you want to change your stance now, then I feel really sorry for you. It's too late."

"You guys, it's better to follow my path and die."

The various ministers quickly expressed their loyalty to him, regardless of whether they had different intentions, at least they couldn't show it directly yet.

Geron continued to sneer and said: "Because the church recognizes Ivita as the legitimate king, I heard that the great nobles everywhere have begun to refuse to pay taxes and provide military service."

"This is not good. Call on the nobles from all over the country to enter the royal capital, hold a meeting of all nobles, and at the same time mobilize the army to enter the royal capital."

All the ministers were shocked.

Alsace does have a tradition of summoning a meeting of all nobles in times of crisis, but at this time, they still need to mobilize troops to enter the royal capital?

What is this going to do?
(End of this chapter)