Blue Sword

After the Council of Cardinals, Bishop Varian found Innocent again on the balcony of the Lateran Palace.

"I feel like Bishop Kino is planning something." Varian said seriously, "Your Majesty, do you still remember the cardinal meeting before the ectoplasmic tree appeared?"

"Bishop Kino claimed that he could hire extraordinary people to solve the problem of polluters in the urban area. As a result, we got rid of a large number of extraordinary people, but instead introduced the ectoplasmic tree itself in advance, causing the mutation to suddenly come... Now he proposes Let my sister’s mercenary group resist the Normans.”

"Your Majesty, I suspect he may be planning something."

"You are worried that he and Bishop Langdon are in the same group." Innocent said leisurely, "I suspect that he is also a member of the human purists."

"I can only say that this possibility cannot be ruled out, Your Majesty." Varian corrected. He certainly refused to admit that he would accuse a fellow cardinal without evidence.

Innocent stared at him thoughtfully for a long time. It wasn't until Varian started to flinch that the old pope calmly said again:

"If so, what do you want to do with him?"

"As for his proposal, we should not agree easily, but we should not directly veto it to warn him. We can delay it for various reasons for the time being." Varian talked eloquently, "At the same time, send people to search his residence, as well as the usual social trajectory.”

"Then what?" Innocent asked, "So that we can arrest all the extreme purists who come into contact with him?"

"It may not be possible to catch them all, but if it works properly, it may be possible to catch most of them." Bishop Varian said.

"But there will definitely be fish that slip through the net."

"There is nothing we can do about it, Your Majesty."

"From the Fifth Age to the present, there have been three similar purges within the Holy See. The purpose is to remove those extremists, capitulationists and degenerates, and to purify our ranks of clergy." Innocent shook his head, "Each purge On the surface it was very successful, and it greatly dealt a blow to the heretical forces within us, but it didn't take long for them to come back again."

"Why? Your Excellency Bishop Varian, please answer me: Those who can reach the position of cardinal are basically the smartest people in the world. Why are there so many people embarking on the path of heresy?"

"Because..." Bishop Varian pondered, "because they don't believe that we are on the right path."

"Then why do we say that our route is correct?" Innocent laughed.

Varian:………………

Every time His Majesty the Holy See makes heretical remarks, he is always frightened to the point where he doesn't know what to say.

"In the final analysis, human beings are intelligent creatures who are always pursuing the truth. Of course we will take the wrong path in the process, because no one knows what the correct future will look like and what path we need to take to reach it."

Innocent said calmly: "The only way to verify it is to take a small tentative step in the direction you think is right."

"If there is no problem with the feedback, continue taking a small step. Those who take the wrong path will soon encounter a broken head. But we walked a long distance without encountering obstacles, so more and more people will start joining us."

"Your Majesty." Varian understood what he meant.

"Do you know what they call you and my path behind your back?" Innocent picked up the cross on his chest and waved it in front of Varian, "Revisionism."

"To say that we have introduced extraordinary powers is to distort and tamper with the path of the scientific camp."

"So you see, we think they are heretics, and they also think we are heretics. If I, a revisionist pope, come to power, declare the cardinals of other lines to be heretics and purge them, and their people come to power decades later, In turn, purging our people...is it necessary?”

"Can the Holy See gain any benefits from this long-term and repeated internal purge? I can't see it."

"Your Majesty!" Varian suddenly realized that his previous thoughts were short-sighted, selfish and superficial.

"Since we have chosen our path, we must have confidence in it." Innocent said at last, patting Varian on the shoulder encouragingly, "They doubt and they object, let them make such voices. We just have to do what we think is right.”

"The most powerful counterattack and persuasion is that we have achieved visible success and made no mistakes."

"I understand, Your Majesty." Bishop Varian said solemnly, "I will go to the Blue Sword and the others to communicate."

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Licinius Building.

"So, the current situation is like this." Bishop Varian finished describing the current difficulties faced by the Holy See and looked at Ask and others expectantly. "We are currently unable to recruit an army with technical strength, so we can only ask you. Delay the speed of the Normans moving north. When our production capacity increases, we will go over to support you immediately."

Girls:………………

Why do these words sound so familiar?

Oh, Eleanor and her brother seemed to have said the same thing at the beginning: Because the Emperor's coalition forces are being held back in Franconia, I ask you to hold off the invasion of Wolfe's army. When we are ready, we will provide support to you soon.

As a result, everyone stayed in Innsbruck until Christmas, and no support from the Weisbach family came. In the end, the city fell, and everyone ran away and returned to Mingxing City. As a result, they were sent to the Principality of Swabia to cooperate with the Falcon family and let them stab the Griffin family in the anus...

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that several important events in pacifying the Shinra Civil War were all completed by our Blue Sword Mercenary Group!

"Ahem, so you want us to fight the Otterville family?" Ask confirmed.

"It's not 'hit'." Varian corrected his wording, "It's 'delay'."

"In this regard, we have studied your case against the Wolf family last year and confirmed that you have rich and sufficient experience."

"That's different." Asik said, "At that time, the upper limit of the level of the magic tide was only Lv. 10, and now it is Lv. 20. How can a small mercenary group like ours deal with a demigod who can freely open the field? Yes?"

"So I didn't ask you to deal with the demigods!" Varian continued patiently, "The Holy See just hopes that you can hold back the Norman army."

"As for how to delay, you can give full play to your intelligence. If you are really unfortunate enough to encounter a demigod, you can still run!"

Nora:………………

"Brother!" She pulled Varian over angrily, "Don't you understand what Asik means?"

"This is simply unlucky. As long as we are facing the Norman army, there will definitely be a risk of being exposed to the demigods, and the longer we delay, the greater the risk."

"The Holy See can't just say 'You can run' and send us to the battlefield in the south!" She said seriously, "You must explain clearly how long we need to hold them back and what we can provide." support?"

"There is also information." Medea added, "All the information about the Otterville family, especially the demigod. What is his bloodline? What sequences does it contain? What are the major laws and fields?"

"And the current battlefield situation." Sheila also said, "Where have the Norman troops attacked? How many remaining defensive forces are there in the Holy See? What is the distribution situation? Where is the logistics?"

"Also, we need to pay more!" Mia yelled from behind.

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