The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Chapter 1871: pope's resistance

"You shouldn't just take him back to the Holy City." The Pope looked at the Great Library of the Goddess of Civilization in the distance, and said to Melina in a rather complaining tone.

"He is the savior in the oracle, and you have seen his appearance, and the miraculous light that swept the whole world before is also the best proof," Melina stared at the Pope in front of her solemnly, her tone Full of warning, he said: "Do you still want to deny his identity now? You must know that disobedience to the oracle is the greatest blasphemy. Even if you are the Pope, you will be punished."

"I didn't deny his identity as the savior, but he is not suitable to appear in the Holy City right now." The Pope turned his head and looked at Melina and said, "The Holy City is very dangerous now, and I don't know how many heresies and evils there are." The believers are hiding here. Although the previous miraculous light dug out some of those hidden bugs, you and I should be very clear that this part that was exposed is only a small part, and there are many that are hidden deep, Savior His appearance will definitely become the target of their attacks." She was silent for a while, and said: "Think about it, even Ferdinand, a family of divinely favored people, hides a large number of heretics. How good the situation could be, to be honest, if it wasn't for the sudden appearance of the miraculous light this time, so that those cultists exposed to the light had nowhere to hide, how could we have imagined that there would be so many..."

The Pope did not continue to speak, but sighed heavily, and looked at the noisy holy city below the mountain with a melancholy expression.

Melina didn't know what to say. Just as the Pope said, there were even cultists in the family of the ordained who had produced many ordained persons with extraordinary status in the Order of Redemption. Then How could other families and forces remain completely pure.

"Don't worry about the Savior. He has power beyond your imagination. You must know that the miraculous light was produced by him." However, she didn't care about the Pope's worries, because getting along with Leo During this period of time, she could vaguely feel that Leo, an ordinary-looking man, was not simple at all. If those cultists and heretics targeted Leo, they would most likely seek their own death.

"Did the miraculous light be made by the Savior?" Melina blocked the news about the Savior before, so the Pope didn't know the details, and now he was very surprised when he heard her.

However, the Pope soon calmed down, and the topic shifted to the main topic, saying, "I hope you can return to the Inquisition Chamber and take over this large-scale search operation targeting the Holy City and the congregation."

Melina was taken aback when she heard this, but she soon realized why the Pope made such a request.

It has been almost a day since the mass arrest of heretics and heretics. Tens of thousands of people have been arrested in the holy city, many of them are high-ranking officials and dignitaries. Even the priests inside the congregation have been arrested. It is wrong, but what is certain is that heretics, blasphemers and heretics still account for the vast majority of those arrested, and it is precisely because there are many dignitaries among those arrested, and these dignitaries occupy some key positions. As a result, many functional departments in the Order of Redemption could not function normally, which in turn affected the government agencies of the Order of Redemption.

This is not the biggest negative image, the negative image that really makes the Pope of the Religion a headache is the distrust that has spread in the Holy City and the Religion, because the fact that there are cultists in the family of the God-favored is rumored in the Holy City After opening, all the people who heard the news could not help but feel distrust towards other people around them, and this distrust

This is just a bad effect caused by one day. If this big cleansing continues for a while, then the social structure established by the Order of Redemption for decades may show signs of collapse. If you are in danger, everyone will suspect that the people around you are heretics and heretics.

However, it is impossible for the Pope to stop this great cleansing now. It’s fine if he didn’t discover these heresies before, but now he discovers them but doesn’t clear them up. This is definitely the greatest blasphemy against the Lord of Redemption. She will never allow it Such things exist.

What's more, it is the Tribunal that is leading the purge now. Although she has a certain influence on the Tribunal, this influence is very limited. At best, she can only make some suggestions. It's left and right, so after Melina came back, she didn't go to meet the savior in the oracle at the first time, but met with Melina alone, trying to persuade Melina to use Melina In terms of the influence of the Tribunal, some restrictions should be placed on the purges of the Tribunal to prevent the purge from expanding infinitely.

"I can take over the search operation." Melina did not reject the pope's proposal, she nodded, and then added: "However, I need you to grant the privilege of the trial court, because I will definitely start with the high-level members of the congregation first." From the beginning of the investigation, it will gradually expand outwards, which will definitely involve forces like the family of the gods, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I need you and the three holy priests to give me the highest privilege of the court."

The Pope thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Yes, but there is only one month. You must complete the cleansing of the Holy City within one month."

Melina was obviously not satisfied, and said, "Is it just inside the Holy City? What about the other sanctuary cities outside?"

The Pope replied: "Those are taken over by the monks of the church, and the court cooperates with the investigation."

Melina frowned and stared at the Pope for a long time, but she didn't argue any more. Don't look at the dissatisfaction on her face. In fact, she liked the Pope's proposal even more in her heart, because with her character, If it hadn't been for the fact that the purges had affected the stability of the congregation, she would certainly not have accepted the pope's proposal, and now the pope's restriction of the scope and time of the purges because she was worried that her power would be too great fits perfectly Her intention was just that even if it was in line with her intention, she still needed to disguise it so as not to be seen by the Pope.

Seeing that Melina did not object to his proposal, the Pope breathed a sigh of relief, and then handed over the transfer order he had prepared to Melina, and said that when Melina went to the trial court to take up her post, the Pope would give her privileges Order sent to her.

After dealing with this difficult matter, the Pope turned around and wanted to return to the sanctuary, but Melina stopped her and asked in a deep voice, "Aren't you going to see the Savior?"

The Pope turned to look at Melina, and said, "I believe in the Lord of Redemption, not the Savior in the oracle."

After speaking, she turned and left, not intending to waste any more time on this issue.

Melina was not surprised by the performance of the Pope. Although the Pope was very resistant to the arrival of the Savior, she was not just because she did not want to share the power in her hands, but more because in her mind Only St. Maria Maria is the Savior appointed by the Redeemer, the one who will bring this world out of disaster.

The Pope is not the only one who thinks this way, there are a large number of senior clergymen in the Redemption Order who have similar ideas, and they believe that St. Mary Ann is not dead, but went to the Lord of Redemption, waiting for the opportunity When the time comes, they will return to the world and complete the final redemption of the world for the Lord of Redemption, and these people with similar thoughts have established a rebirth faction within the Redemption Order. In addition to the highest belief, the myth of St. Mary's Leah is also considered to be equivalent to the existence of the three goddesses, and St. Mary's is bound to be reborn to complete redemption.

But now, the Holy Priest of the Three Goddesses somehow got the oracle, and a savior came along with the oracle, which obviously goes against the idea of ​​the rebirth faction. If you have any good feelings for this sudden savior, it’s good enough if you don’t refuse the savior to enter the holy city. As for the pope to meet the savior and recognize the identity of the savior, it’s probably very difficult to do, and the pope is looking for The reason is also very good. After all, it is the three goddesses who gave the oracle, not the Lord of Redemption. As the Pope of the Redemption Order, she has every reason to question the identity of the Savior.

After watching the pope leave, Melina set off for the Great Library of the Goddess of Civilization. Although on the way back to the holy city, she felt that Leo didn't seem to be particularly concerned about saving the whole world, but she still felt that Leo was very interested in saving the whole world. Redemption of this world plays a very important role. After all, the lost cities in the Miral Plain that were cleaned up by the book are the best manifestation of her ability. She hopes that her cleansing operation against heretics, blasphemers and heretics can be rewarded by Lei Ou's assistance, and at the same time, it can also take this opportunity to let the members of the congregation understand the ability of the Savior, and prepare for the Savior to lead the congregation to redeem the entire world in the future.

With thoughts, Melina came to the Great Library of the Goddess of Civilization, and soon, led by the priests of the library, she came to the room prepared by the priest of the Goddess of Civilization for Leo.

At this moment, Leo is not the only one in the room. The priests of the three goddesses have all come to the room at this moment to meet the savior in the oracle.

Different from the indifference and rejection shown by the Pope, the three priestesses fully accepted Leo. Before the airship landed, they were already waiting at the docking point. When they saw Leo, they were also the first to save Leo. In front of the senior priests of the order, the highest courtesy to Leo was to treat Leo as the incarnation of the gods.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Leo expressed at that time that he would take over all the power and resources in the hands of the three priestesses, he would never object with the attitude of the three priestesses.

However, Leo didn't make any excessive demands on the three priestesses, he just wanted to read the books collected by the monks of the goddess of civilization.

Ever since, Leo did not go to the Sanctuary of St. Marian Peak to meet the Pope and formally obtain the identity of his savior, as most of the forces in the Holy City thought, but went to the Great Hall of the Goddess of Civilization in the Holy City. Reading books in the library made many people and forces on the sidelines feel a little puzzled.

As for the three female priests, they naturally complied with Leo's request, and they personally led Leo to the Great Library of the Goddess of Civilization, and then helped Leo find and carry various books like three maids.

This scene also surprised the priests of the convent and other officials of the holy city, perhaps because they felt that doing so would be detrimental to the reputation of the three holy priestesses. For the ordinary people in the holy city, they only know that the big library open to all people will be closed for a few days, and they speculate that it may be related to the big move of the trial court in the city.

After Melina entered the room, she saw Leo sitting next to a stove, flipping through the books in his hands. There were other books piled up beside Leo, and the three goddesses were sitting at the table next to Leo. It looked like he was writing something.

Later, Melina found that Leo's movements of flipping through the books were really random. It only took about ten seconds to quickly flip through a book from beginning to end. It is impossible for a normal person to remember everything in the book in such a short period of time. content, but Leo is not a normal person and cannot be deduced according to common sense. Perhaps this is the way he reads.

"This book mentions a kind of grafting planting technology, which can graft the characteristics of cold-resistant plants to other food crops. Although the technology is not very mature, but the direction is right," Leo said after reading the book. Handed it to the priestess of civilization, then took a stack of paper from the table, shook it casually, and then saw some words on the surface of the white paper, and saw Leo put the stack of papers on the priestess of the three goddesses. Sitting on the table, he said: "I have improved the grafting method. These are the materials of the improved technology. You can experiment and see if it is effective."

The priestess of the goddess of civilization hurriedly picked up the information on the table and quickly looked through it. She could become the priestess of the goddess of civilization not only because of her beliefs, but more importantly, she was smart enough and accumulated a lot of information, so she After reading the technical information provided by Leo, I finished reading it easily, and there was no obstacle in reading it. I also understood in my heart that the importance of this information is enough to solve the biggest problem that the congregation is currently facing. .

After explaining to the other two colleagues ~lightnovelpub.net~ they reaffirmed Leo's identity as the savior.

"What's the matter?" Leo picked up another science and technology book piled up beside him, but he didn't read it right away, but asked Melina who just came in.

Melina hesitated for a moment, and then narrated the meeting with the Pope just now. This scene was a bit like a subordinate reporting work to a superior, but neither the parties nor the bystanders violated it at all. feel.

After listening to Melina's story, the three priestesses were very dissatisfied with the fact that the Pope still did not officially recognize Leo's identity as Savior, but they did not plan to confront the Pope, because doing so would only make things worse. It's too bad, they can only express their attitude to the clergy and believers of other religious orders, and it doesn't matter much if the Pope doesn't officially recognize it.

After hearing Melina's words here, Leo quickly saw through Melina's thoughts, so he asked, "How do you want me to help you?"

(end of this chapter)

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