I was regarded as a demon god by a witch

Chapter 504 A war that cannot be delayed

Ivita quickly ordered the Hearthstone Witch to return to the fortress group on the eastern border of Alsace [Roy County] and ordered the army to prepare for defense.

At the same time, he was still lingering near Oyo III's military camp, waiting for unrest in the military camp here.

In fact, not only was he unable to fight Oyo III's army head-on, but he also couldn't afford to delay. Oyo III's resources were more than his own, and when the army gathered together, they were burning resources every moment.

This is why Oyo III stationed his army in the Principality of Lorraine but delayed sending troops.

He knew that the Kingdom of Alsace and he could not afford it.

He knew that if the delay continued for a few months, either Ivita would directly let her troops take action, losing the moral high ground, and let the matter turn into Alsace actively invading the Principality of Lorraine, and the emperor sending troops to protect the Principality of Lorraine.

Either disband most of the troops in [Roy County], and then the army of Hoyo III invades Alsace.

But Oyo III also did not expect that Ivita would dare to bring a witch directly to the vicinity of his military camp and use methods to cause division within his military camp.

At this moment, the face of Oyo III in the military camp tent was extremely ugly, because he was caught in a moral dilemma. He knew that a large number of soldiers in his army had the same beliefs as him and believed that holy objects, saints, and even the so-called Virgin Mary were nothing more than idols. Worship, the Virgin is just a poor mortal, and the saints and saints are just a group of pioneers who died for their faith.

These people do deserve respect, but that is no reason for them to confuse their true faith.

But there are still many people in the army who are accustomed to worshiping holy objects and saints.

The actions of Oyo III will determine the direction of this army.

He summoned two of his generals and asked them: "A so-called holy object appeared inexplicably in the military camp. What do you think we should do?"

The two generals looked at each other, and then they all said to Oyo III: "Your Majesty, we support your choice. Your choice is our choice."

The two of them had just experienced Oyo III brazenly killing a noble general, so they naturally understood how much Oyo III valued this decisive battle.

In order to win this war, he even did not hesitate to offend the nobles.

Naturally, they don't want to leave any clues at this time.

So, they keep their opinions, be deaf-mute and just follow the decision of Oyo III.

Oyo III glanced at them coldly, but he knew that the three generals in his army were all three noble forces loyal to the emperor. It was not a big problem if he killed one before.

Because there is a reason, and these generals are just family representatives promoted by the great nobles, as the emperor, if he has sufficient reasons, he will kill them.

The emperor and the great nobles had a cooperative relationship.

Whether it is the Frankish nobility or the Alsace nobility, they have actually been suppressed by the king's power for a long time.

The real nobles are the great nobles in the Holy Empire.

The most powerful nobles have already established an independent feudal country. However, the real heads of the three nobles who cooperated with the emperor and were directly under the imperial territory did not join the court of Oyo III at all, or they only stayed in the court of Oyo III. Consultant, such an inconsequential position.

These great nobles are truly powerful.

If Oyo III wanted to appoint talents, he could only choose from his family and families related to their family by marriage.

This is true feudal aristocracy.

The way to select talents is not to observe their talents, but to select people who are barely useful among the nobles.

Oyo III said: "I understand."

"That……"

Suddenly, there was a noise outside the military camp, and soldiers rushed to report to Oyo III. It turned out that Duke Gugel, the younger brother of Oyo III, was here.

Gugel is a powerful principality in the middle of the empire. It is the most powerful country in these years besides the three kingdoms in the empire. Oyo III seized the title of duke of this country for his younger brother.

Now, it’s Oyo III who demands something in return.

Seeing the arrival of Duke Gugel, Oyo III breathed a sigh of relief. He laughed heartily, walked out of the tent, and went to meet Duke Gugel who came on horseback.

"Good brother, you are finally here."

Duke Gugel asked the stable boy to stay away from him, jumped off his horse, and embraced Oyo III. "I heard that the brat from that family has made a comeback and received your summons again. How could I not come?"

"Why not issue an order to all the princes within the empire to allow these countries to serve in the military?"

"Even if those powerful kingdoms are unwilling, you can use universal laws to force them to do so. The laws of these countries are still under your universal laws."

Oyo III snorted coldly. "These idiots are waiting to see what happens. Until the end, I don't want to use this last trump card."

"After all, doing so will seriously damage universal law."

"I don't want to make the situation of the empire worse. If I have a choice, I will try my best to use the power of my own empire and allies to solve this matter."

Duke Gugel was tall and thick, even bigger than Oyo III, and he had actually lit the divine fire and was a demigod.

He waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, brother. I came here this time and got something else on the way. Look, these are the three-headed banshees I accidentally met on the way. It is said that they have the ability to foresee. With them Predicting for you will definitely increase your winning rate."

King Oyo III saw two knights escorting an iron cage carriage. Inside the carriage was a very strange-looking woman with three heads.

Oyo III waved his hand. "This...I don't need your kindness. When I was about to get the throne of the emperor, I asked a witch to predict for me. She said that I would definitely fail in a way that I couldn't think of. I immediately chopped her to show that I If you don’t believe in prophecies, everything depends on man. Later, I really got the throne."

"It can be seen that it may not be a good thing for a person to know the future, and these predictions may not be true. In short, I don't like doing these things. My good brother, I have other things at the moment, and I am ready to discuss it with you."

Immediately, Oyo III told Duke Gugel about the problems he was encountering now.

Duke Gugel's face paused when he heard this. "Damn Ivita, so cunning. No wonder I sensed something was wrong as soon as I entered your military camp."

"Brother, since you are asking me, it means you already have an idea in your heart."

"I think your elder brother is getting older. When you were young, you would have followed your original wishes. Are you the kind of person who can compromise? If it was for compromise, would you have wanted the throne in the first place?"

Oyo III was shaken. yes.

The reason why he wanted to get the throne in the first place was because there were problems with the inheritance of the throne, which aroused his ambition.

What's more, he noticed that the struggle between imperial power and divine power had repeatedly failed, and he was determined to obtain the most powerful secular power in the magical black forest and have a fight with that divine power.

He gave up a lot of power when he came to the throne because he knew that it was temporary and he would have the opportunity to take it back in the future.

Now he is slowly regaining his rights as emperor, but the Alsace family is back and want to take back his throne.

Of course he didn't want to.

"I understand." Oyo III said to the two generals beside him: "Convey my order to the entire army and tell them that the Creator is originally immortal, but ignorant people want to use corruptible mortal things to Symbolizing the Creator.”

“There are no saints or Marys in this world, only the invisible Creator.”

"The Creator is invisible. He represents order, civilization, truth, goodness and beauty. All beautiful things are the Creator. Even if you pray every day, people who are not beautiful in their hearts are just praying to the devil and evil."

"But as long as his heart is good, even if the terms he verbally prays to every day are devil and the Lord of the Void, he is actually praying to the Creator."

"Faith is all about sincerity and idealism."

"Holy objects are just a temptation that interferes with our pious beliefs. Now we have to return to the pious path of ancient beliefs. We want to destroy all idolatry. Is it true that the people of the Lord of All Things in the past suffered as a result of worshiping the Golden Bull? , isn’t it enough to make us understand in our hearts that any idolatry is blasphemy against the Lord?”

"So, call on all soldiers to burn the so-called sacred objects in public."

Both generals were dumbfounded.

Of course they know that what His Majesty Oyo III said is indeed the classic theory of fundamentalism. However, after thousands of years of development, it is hard to say whether these theories are still applicable or whether everyone can still believe them.

Even the church is not strict enough to prohibit the worship of saints and holy objects.

Duke Gugel praised loudly: "This is the emperor in my mind. The emperor is the supreme authority. The emperor's spirituality should be under the pope. The election of all bishops should be reviewed by the emperor. The emperor is God on earth. The highest representative in the world. Just go ahead and do it. If there is any traitor who dares to disobey your ideas, then let me tear him alive with my hands."

"The ancient idol worship just can't be stopped, so let me kill to stop it!"

……

Ivita, who noticed this scene on the top of the mountain, frowned. He did not expect that because of Duke Gugel, the effect was now better than he imagined.

Duke Gugel’s beliefs are even more extreme and crazy than those of Oyo III.

Faith is susceptible to division.

And the split in front of her happened right in front of Ivita.

"The Duke of Gugel Principality, the younger brother of Oyo III..." Ivita said: "He has a problem."

Ivita used the Twilight Realm to penetrate into the past and destiny of Duke Gugel, hoping to find out who Duke Gugel was from the connection between past time and destiny.

But his eyes were stopped by Universal Law: Holiness and another force that he was somewhat familiar with.

"I see, this is just asking for it." Ivita took back the twilight realm, and he noticed a similar power in Pinocchio. Now it seems that it is also similar to Frank's law. "The master behind Pinocchio is deliberately trying to spread nationalism."

"From the perspective of Duke Gugel's life values, Duke Gugel may not be his, but he is definitely his pawn and is helping him do certain things unintentionally."

Ivita said with a headache: "Who is this person? The Druid is still recovering recently. Forget it, I have a lot of troubles myself, so why bother thinking about other things."

……

In the military camp, as a bonfire burning sacred objects appeared, the soldiers had different attitudes. Some felt that this should be the case, but some soldiers felt uncomfortable.

If the worship of holy relics is wrong, then the holy relics in the churches in their hometown and the indulgences sold by the church are also wrong?

Some of them began to doubt life, while others felt that the emperor's actions were excessive.

There were even some people who publicly expressed doubts about the emperor and were mercilessly beheaded by Duke Gugel.

The entire military camp was once again filled with an abnormal atmosphere.

Moreover, this time Oyo III could no longer use killing to quell the dissatisfaction of the army, because this time, it was their behavior of killing heretics that made the army soldiers begin to waver.

Duke Gugel, who observed this scene, said to Oyo III: "Your Majesty, it seems that the evil trend of worshiping holy objects is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it has nothing to do with the wrong guidance of the popes of the church in the past."

"But it doesn't matter. You are going to use this unprecedented victory over the Kingdom of Alsace to build your prestige and kill this idolatry."

Oyo III said: "There is no need to say more about things that you have not obtained."

"I originally wanted to delay it here until Iveta can't sit still, but now it seems that I can't sit still anymore."

Duke Gugel licked his tongue, his eyes shining. "Then let's start a war immediately."

Oyo III shook his head. "There is still something missing. Before starting a war, you must first have a reason to start a war. Take the moral high ground."

"In this way... send ten soldiers to patrol the disputed area between the Principality of Lorraine and the Kingdom of Alsace. If they patrol for a few more days, the Alsace soldiers will definitely not be able to help but take action. As long as they kill my soldiers, I will There is a reason to send troops, and the reason is so solid that others can't fault it."

"Those ten soldiers can choose, those heretics who like to worship idols. Hum, these heretics who deserve to go to hell, it would be better if they died."

Duke Gugel laughed. "Brother, I haven't seen you for a few years. You are a little different from what I imagined. Okay, just do as you say."

……

Ivita observed that many soldiers in the military camp were already dissatisfied with the emperor. If she could use the complete transformation technique to enter the military camp, she was afraid that there would be another rebellion in a few days.

It's a pity that Oyo III has already strengthened the vigilance, and the soldiers on patrol are very strict. Any strange soldiers entering will cause abnormalities.

"Oyo III doesn't seem to want to wait any longer. He wants to prevent later changes. It should be me who makes him feel that I may not be dragged into the quagmire of war with the Frankish Kingdom as he expected." Ivey Ta turned and left.

(End of this chapter)