Chapter 289

No one expected that the catastrophe that destroyed half of eboden would end overnight; Just as no one could have imagined that this sudden disaster would evolve to this extent.

The forced troops rushed to the imperial legion with only 3000 people in eboden and controlled the urban defense of eboden at an incredible speed. All the patrol guards who had sworn allegiance to the Bellini family were disarmed and detained, the mercenary Corps was dissolved in place, and the blockade line in the south of the city was demolished.

Overnight, the autonomous city-state with the strongest city defense of the Empire, more than 3000 patrol guards, and the ability to summon no less than 5000 elite and several times the mercenary corps at any time was completely controlled, and immediately entered a state of martial law. Legion soldiers patrolling the streets can be seen everywhere, and the sound of iron boots can be seen all over the streets.

Of course, there are "bursts of thunder" - the giant dragon milassis, which symbolizes the authority of the "Dragon King family", standing on the top of the highest spire in the whole city.

Under the winged magic dragon, eboden trembled in the strong wind like a ruin

After a quick discussion, the neutral free nobility, the mercenary leader who controls the mercenary regiment, and the nine pointed star wizard tower reached a compromise with each other under the "Persuasion" of Prince Brandon de saleon, established a new freedom parliament, and elected the elderly corona family master, Lorenz corona, the elder wizard tower, as the new consul.

After unifying the caliber, they put all the blame on the Bellini family... Or alto Bellini.

"Because Alto Bellini deliberately concealed the true efficacy of the" Holy Blood potion ", bishop Francis distributed the potion to half of eboden without knowing it, resulting in the mutation of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and finally triggered a terrible ceremony to summon the blasphemous demon from hell to the real world.

Fortunately, due to the timely discovery of the nine pointed star wizard tower, the imperial Legion and his highness Brandon de saleon, the second prince, prevented the further spread of the tragedy, and the demon also died under the Dragon inflammation of the giant dragon mirassis.

In this terrible catastrophe, alto Bellini died in his own experiment. The whole Bellini family and other parties were killed. They were collectively beheaded in the square in the East District, and all their property was transferred to the free Parliament.

The only misfortune is that bishop eboden and devout Francis died bravely to remedy their mistakes, and most of the eboden church was occupied and on the verge of collapse "- this is the" official version "of the free Parliament and Brandon's external publicity.

As for the true cause of the Bishop's death, no one knows or wants to know. Neither Brandon de sallion, the imperial prince, nor corona, the spokesman of the wizard tower, hopes that this matter will lead to a war between the wizard tower and the church.

Just that night, corona wrote a secret letter in the name of the wizard tower, sent it to the imperial capital and handed it to the archbishop, implicitly suggesting that the other party had the "evidence" of fascism - if the Holy Cross Church was ready to make trouble, the wizard tower did not mind letting the Empire know that fascism was the real culprit of the whole "Holy Blood potion" incident.

A pious bishop of the Holy Cross turned thousands of civilians into monsters and tried to summon evil gods... This will be an unimaginable heavy blow to the church!

But corona doesn't really want to use this to attack the Holy Cross Church. Except that the wizard tower has just taken control of eboden and most of the wizard world has not fought against the Holy Cross Church, Brandon de sallion, his supporter, also doesn't want to see such a result

"In fact, compared with wizards, some crazy believers and priests obsessed with power are really a headache; as a member of the de sallion family, it is my duty to defend my faith, but no one can make me like them."

In the empty parliament hall, sitting on the chairman's seat, Brandon de sallion, with his legs crossed, kept nagging at the black haired wizard on the side:

"But these... Are not enough reasons to declare war on the church, because the Holy Cross Church... Or the belief in the Holy Cross is the only way to keep the whole empire from falling apart!"

"Even in the 13th generation of the Empire, she is still not a real whole - loters, saxorians, Baines, ebodens... In addition to common beliefs and painstaking efforts, the words and languages gradually unified by the thirteen generations are completely different nationalities."

"Apart from the faith in the Holy Cross and a crown representing commitment and authority, what kept us from splitting for 13 generations?"

This is also something that once puzzled Loren - such a feudal system, with many different nationalities and customs, and even a huge empire divided geographically, can not be maintained by relying on common beliefs alone.

"Threat?"

"Yes, it's a threat." Brandon's smile looked very helpless: "those from the North who destroyed the ancient dragon Kingdom, once forced the sakran kingdom to move west, the old enemies of the Holy Cross, the demons from the abyss; those from the East who rode across the green sea on iron horses;"

"From the west, across the misty sea, and with the same root and origin as the Ancient Wood Forest Elves, it is an elf country that calls itself the eagle king of the Assur people; from the southeast, it borders the Principality of Bain, and now the sons of the mountains who have formed an alliance with the Empire, many mountain city states we collectively call 'dwarves'!"

"Their troops have all set foot in the territory of the Empire and destroyed several ancient countries - the fallen northern dragon Kingdom, which has long been destroyed; the roaring warriors of Centaur Khan once drank outside the horse emperor capital; now the loterians in the north still have the blood of ancient elves in their bodies; the dwarfs in the mountains have also burned, killed and looted in Bain Half the territory has become their colony, and all humans can only be cattle and horses for them. "

"If you don't unite, you will perish!" Brandon pouted and spread his hand. "I want to say that this reason is more than the Holy Cross's protection of the de sallion family."

The thoughtful black haired wizard nodded like approval, but what he thought was another thing.

The integration of language and characters, the increasingly centralized and powerful Royal family, threats from the outside... What does it mean when these overlap?

From feudalism to centralization, the birth of a real... Empire?

At that moment, Loren suddenly remembered what corona had said——

"They represent the past, and we represent the future!"

Loren once thought that he meant to say that the wizard class represented the thirst for knowledge and the exploration of the world, which would gradually replace people's blind obedience to doctrines; Now it seems that he may expect much more.

For example... When the whole empire is really integrated and no longer needs the church to maintain, can it still have such an unshakable position today?

"As it should be, the past should make way for the future!"

This is corona's... No, he should not be alone, but the ultimate ambition of the whole nine pointed star wizard tower - to completely replace the status of the Holy Cross Church and let wizards have an absolute voice and place in the saxophone empire!

It's really... Big.

The dark haired wizard couldn't help laughing.

"Well, that's the end of the boring history class. I guess you're probably not the type who likes to listen to people." Brandon shrugged his shoulders and raised a sly smile: "let's talk about something practical, such as... Your reward, how about it?"

"Of course." Loren stood up quietly and smiled. "Everything is up to you, your highness Brandon de sallion."

"I've been thinking about this for a long time - as you can see, I'm the second prince, and I still have a lot of things to take, even some things that are not in kind, such as titles and positions. It's not impossible to make you a Duke of a country in power!"

Brandon's voice slowed down, and his Ruby eyes suddenly became deep: "but before that, tell me another thing... Where is the nine pointed star Holy Grail now?"

"I destroyed it," Lauren replied without changing his face. "At that time, fascism was right behind me and would appear at any time. There was no time to take it away."

In an instant of silence, two pairs of twinkling eyes looked at each other, as if they had experienced countless exchanges in a moment, trying to find out the evidence of each other's lying from each eyelash tremor and diffuse pupil!

"So it is..."

Brandon was the first to speak, with a bright and sincere smile on his handsome face:

"I believe you!"