Chapter 58 - His majesty the pope who spreads the holy light (1) (2/2)

Except for the small principalities, there was the Vatican, which could not be ignored by anyone despite covering the smallest area. The Vatican was small but important. Whether it was the coronation of the emperor or the swearing in of the Prime Minister of the Republic, the necessary procedure was to visit the Vatican and receive the Holy Light from the Pope.

Apart from these human countries, there were Elves who used to live in the Elven Forest on the Continental Border. But that was a long time ago. Now the white elves have stepped out of the elven forests and gradually integrated into the human society.

There also were dwarfs living in the Stonehenge Mountains, who also traded with human beings. Since they needed frequent contact, it was not unusual to see dwarves in the major human cities.

There were the Goblins who lived with the dwarfs in the Stonehenge Mountains. It’s just that the goblins had always lived underground, and their relationship with the dwarves was like fire and water.

The only race which didn’t communicate with humans at all were the Giant dragon race who lived on Dragon Island. Dragon Island was suspended over the mainland, and there was no way for human beings to go up. The dragons were proud and lazy, and they never bothered to communicate with the humans at all.

The last time a dragon was heard of was two hundred years ago. If it hadn’t been for the floating island, no one would have remembered them. The ancient legends of the Dragon race could only be heard in the songs of the bards.

At the northernmost end of the mainland lived the enemy of the human race and it was the territory of the orcs. Because of the humiliating history of being treated as slaves by the humans, the orcs had always regarded the humans as their mortal enemies. Humans were not allowed to enter the territory of orcs.

At the border between the Territory of the Orcs and the Territory of humans, there was a makeshift barrier constructed with dead branches. The barrier constructed by dead branches naturally had no defensive effect. This was just a barrier casually constructed by the Orcs in order to deter the humans who dared to break into the Territory of the Orcs. Every tall branch had a human head impaled in it. They were all human beings who had entered the orc territory by mistake or deliberately.

Orcs, goblins and the dark elves who were said to have remained deep in the elven forest, had been classified as evil by the humans.

Joseph Belgorio VI was the first and only Pope in history to be publicly executed. He was charged with conspiring with the races of the evil camp, betraying the humans and attempting to disrupt the Vatican.

After the Pope was executed, the faith in Light quickly declined. In the mainland, there were soldiers who practiced battle spirit 1, magicians who had mastered the mystical elements, and priests who believed in the power of light and divinity. After the fall of the Pope of Light, the priests who believed in the power of light gradually disappeared from this continent.

People thought there would be no difference, since there was battle spirit and magic to practice anyway. Nevertheless, the nightmare was approaching.

The Undead legion tore through the boundary between life and death and invaded this continent from the dark portal. Without the natural power of light to restrain the undead, the creatures on the mainland could not stop their insurmountable momentum and faced defeat again and again.

Almost the entire continent had become an endless abyss of death, and the surviving creatures retreated to the original pope’s territory, relying on the remnants of the power of light to protect the sparks of life. Hundreds of years later, there was an opportunity, and the creatures sounded the trumpet of the counter-attack.

After the extermination of the undead legion and the re-establishment of order, that dark period was called the Scourge Era. The revelation of Joseph Belgorio VI’s collaboration with the evil camp became the opening point of the era of natural disasters. The arrival of the Undead Legion has historically been described as being something planned by Pope Joseph Belgorio, an ambitious man.

Naturally, Joseph did not do it. On the contrary, the opportune moment for the mainland creatures to blow the trumpet of counter-attack was the chess piece Joseph had originally laid down. The arrival of the Undead Legion has long been handed down by oracles in the Vatican. But Joseph was publicly sentenced before his arrangement could have been completed.

“My wish is to find a way to finish my arrangement, and before the arrival of the Undead Legion, to not let the Pope of Light fall, and have the power of light protect the living beings on the continent until the moment when my arrangement is completed.”

Lu Heng nodded: “Your commission has been taken over by me. Task executor No. 666 of the Underworld’s Soul Purification Department, is here to serve you.

After the client left, Lu Heng routinely asked his assistant to find useful information in the database.

“In such a large world, there are traces of the son of fate.” The assistant looked it up and said.

“Who is it?”

“His Majesty, the emperor of the Bega Empire is an ambitious man. The public execution of the Pope has traces of his involvement in it. “The assistant was amazed when he read the materials.

“Why, then, did he kill the Pope?” The little assistant was a little puzzled. The Pope of Light was noble and unpretentious, and he never interfered in the internal affairs of the human territories. He shouldn’t be in the way of the Emperor.

“For an extremely ambitious person like him, it is absolutely intolerable for theocracy to be higher than Imperial power.” This mentality, of course, was incomprehensible to the AI little assistant. Lu Heng could answer one or two questions for it. “Well, what exactly is the arrangement that His Majesty wants to lay down?”

“I regret to inform you that your authority is insufficient. Insufficient.” 2

“Little assistant, why do I feel that after my promotion, my authority has become smaller?” In the first two commissions, the plot of the World Line was presented in detail. Lu Heng felt it to be very strange.

“That’s novice welfare.” The assistant replied.

Lu Heng feels that it was not a novice welfare, but a trap to deceive new people into working as cows and horses, giving them a delusion that commissions were easy. But there are still some ways to do it. He could only advance forward and take it one step at a time.

He wondered what role his man will play in this plane. Lu Heng has some expectations. As for whether that person would appear or not, Lu Heng had no doubts.

He had said that as long as he waited for him, he would certainly appear.