Blood of Mercury

Ra declared war on Tyre—

When people heard the news at first, they almost thought the God of Contract was crazy.

The gap between Ra and Tyre is as huge as that of a warrior who is good at fighting and a general of Yum. Not to mention that Banza was originally Tyre's home court, and there was a strong reinforcement from Sivir behind him. If it was placed on the throne of Jupiter IV, before the news spread, Ra's army would have been directly crippled by the Knights Templar of Tyre.

But thinking about it carefully, this timing does seem to have been carefully considered.

First, a considerable number of Tyr's Templars were sent out, and are still trapped in Farraro and have not returned. After getting the news, several regiment leaders worried about the safety of their colleagues and led the army to rush out.

Because Jupiter IV disappeared, and Cyla, who was in charge of the Ring of Killing, was imprisoned, it could be said that no one could rule over this group of knights. Even the other cardinals, at most, let the heads of the regiments be a little more polite and have no right to order them.

Today's Banza, Tyre's strength is in an unprecedented state of emptiness.

And Thiel's new Pope was also suspended because of the ring ceremony, and there was no way to lead the cardinals to make any preparations for this.

In some people's eyes, even the absence of the ring is useless. The new Pope is certainly not as prestige as his predecessor, Jupiter IV. After Roland slowly changed the blood of the entire group of cardinals, and beat his own people in to replace those dishonest guys, he could say that he truly enjoyed the rights that the Pope should have.

The power of the Holy See is perfectly divided by the College of Cardinals, and the Pope is also a mortal. He can't do everything by himself, otherwise sooner or later, he will be similar and go back to the gods in advance.

In the Farnes world, the power of the Pope is exercised by binding cardinals.

After all, the Pope has the big killer of reformation. He can make any bishop lose all charism at once - but the problem is, he wants to rule, to unite, not to ruin and power.

Too strong a rule is bound to make believers dissatisfied. Even with them, they will begin to doubt the gods. Therefore, in any Holy See, the Pope cannot simply use his own prerogative to enforce the implementation of every decree.

As a pope, the most important thing is to have charisma. A pope who cannot be worshipped by the faithful is disqualified. When his name is mentioned, people should immediately realize that it is taboo.

The Holy See without the Pope is like losing the shepherd's lamb, completely without direction and discipline.

As long as any cardinal of the Council of Cardinals is deliberately disturbing, nothing can be accomplished. Without the Pope's management and decision-making, what kind of troubles could a dozen people in different fields of equal rights make when they quarreled. It's scary just thinking about it.

The ring ceremony will end in six days. During these six days, the cardinals could not even leave the Dome Cathedral, and their entourage could not get the right to enter the Dome Cathedral.

This is the best time.

In other words, for a whole week, the Tyre sect was completely without command and was in chaos. If the mercenaries of the God of Contract make good use of it, it is still possible to occupy all the cities outside the Holy City within a week. If they can occupy all the parts outside the dome cathedral. Even if the Pope was elected in the end, it would have been of no avail.

Whether it is killing believers, persecuting them to convert, or even persecuting them not to pray. A **** without followers is fragile. With the support of only a dozen bishops, even the Pope can't play a big role in letting the gods descend on him directly.

But if it was just that, people wouldn't be very optimistic about the God of Contract. After all, Tyre's background is there, and with the assistance of Sivir, who is known for being good at fighting, it is no problem to only last five or six days.

But at this time, there were two things that shocked people's jaws - Banza's Mad Dog Queen announced to revoke the special status of the two sects of Tyre and Sivir in the country, and to change the Lord of Violence Elsax as the state religion. And cancel the right of all priests to be exempted from military service.

In other words. Banza officially has the power to recruit priests of any rank—even the Pope, theoretically, could be forcibly conscripted into the army. If you do not agree, it is undoubtedly treason and will be directly punished by capital punishment.

This is utterly blasphemous.

But what is even more incomprehensible is that Sivir remained neutral in this incident. By default the law was in force, and it did not assist Tyr in resisting Ra's attack.

Yes, that's right - she's neutral!

You know, Tyre is her father!

But those who knew more understood why she refused to rescue Tyre.

It can only be said that the problems that were hidden in the previous canonization event were exposed again.

It is true that Jupiter IV was very prestigious, but he was only a mortal after all.

A mere mortal dares to threaten the gods.

Since then, about Sivir has realized that Tyre's threat is now too large to ignore.

Now is about the last chance. If he doesn't fight back now, I'm afraid Sivir will completely become Tyre's subordinate.

Moreover, in fact, even if Queen Banza cancels Sivir's state religion status, the final impact is not very big.

Sivir's apologists themselves belong to the battlefield profession. Her power is battle and war, and in Banza, a country that is quite fanatical about war, her status will definitely not drop too much.

Check it out - the **** of pact with mercenaries, the lord of violence with his humanoid city-smashing machine, and the goddess of war born for the battlefield environment, each of them is better suited to this increasingly manic nation than Tyre.

Sivir's apologists did not engage in any conflict with the followers of the God of Covenant. When the mercenaries gathered to persecute the priest of Tyre, they kept silent from top to bottom; when the priest of Tyre asked them for help, they remained silent.

Finally, UU reading www. uukanshu. The believers of com Tyre were completely desperate.

Overnight, their status plummeted to the bottom.

The Bansa military sent people to hunt them down, smashing their shrines, snatching their gold jewelry, pinning their followers to the ground, and robbing them of their money and jewelry. The priests and priests were pulled out of the crowd by the mercenaries who followed them and smashed their heads.

On the first day alone, a quarter of Banza's churches fell. The occupied church was divided in half by the Lord of Violence and the God of Covenant, and the military personally sent people to guard it.

By the time the pope began rushing to flatter the king, his authority had vanished.

However, at this time, in the east of Banza, a group of people silently crossed the border and were warmly received by the cities near the border.

"Excuse me, are you suing the crow for death?"

A little boy raised his face and looked at Kakarite expectantly.

His silver-gray pupils shone brightly. (To be continued.)