Law of the Devil
Chapter 387 [Layout, Trigger!
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Chapter 364 [Layout, Trigger!
I'm afraid nothing in this world, like "time," is irretrievable.
Although every day is now valuable to Rolanders, Dewey has done everything in her power to prepare as much as possible for all the “wars” that the future will have to deal with.
The 963rd year of the Empire has passed.
At the end of the year, the last major event affecting the future of the Roland Empire took place.
At a huge prayer ceremony in the Temple of Light at the end of the year, Pope Paul XVI finally publicly announced Maximus, the future temple heir he had designated.
This designation did not come as any surprise, after all, that Maximus, as the chief cardinal, had long since become the future pope in people's minds - only a matter of time.
And during the year, Maximus-led mosas, too, fought hard against the Yenni. Throughout the year, the archbishops of the three parishes - all from the Jenies to the Mossads - were replaced in accordance with the resolutions of the Presbyterians in the Temple and with the Pope's own consent.
And this Archbishop Maximus did something that surprised and amazed everyone.
The empire's most famous character, most appreciated by the Regent, has many legendary stories and many glorious titles. “Genius Juvenile Mage," “Court Scholar," “Duke of Tulips," and so on… just after his almost insane and generous donation of almost the equivalent of the Empire's annual financial revenues in support of Imperial military spending, people gave him a new nickname, "The Richest Man on the Continent."
The Duke of Tulip, Dewey Dolph… As deeply as his loud name goes, almost everyone knows that this noble gentleman is not a devout believer, that he has not been baptized, that he does not believe in the Goddess of Light - and that even in his territory, he has been treated unfairly by the priests of the Temple for their teaching.
According to some trail news, even from the Duchess, the Duchess is said to have little respect for the Goddess. He even accidentally used less polite words on private occasions to describe the clergymen - the "priests," as the Duchess put it.
Such a lost lamb, a wild horse, who had been free from the glory of the Goddess, was finally tamed by the great Bishop Maximus.
Just on January 1 of this year, in the former square of the Governor's Palace in Lancheng, the capital of Dessardines Province, the Duke of Tulips held his own Induction Ceremony, receiving the Baptism Ceremony of the Bishop of Maximus in the presence of tens of thousands of surrounding citizens, the Bishop of Maximus himself completed the Induction Ceremony to receive the Duke of Tulips, and also awarded a "Medal of Distinguished Contribution” to the new Duke. Generally, such badges are awarded only to those who have made outstanding contributions to the Church.
And the Duchess won the medal less than five minutes before he was a believer.
Just after Dewey officially announced his conversion to the Spiritual Divinity of Light, Dewey publicly announced that he would make such a choice solely because of the personal charm of the Cardinal Maximus, who highly praised the Cardinal's personality charm and how charming he was an old man, and how devout he was in his faith, how much he taught himself, and finally moved himself, persuaded himself to fall into the arms of the Goddess.
There is no doubt that such an approach has enlivened the reputation of the Cardinal of Maximus.
The Duvi high profile then announced that its territory, Dessardines, had officially become a new parish of the Church. And Bishop Maximus' close friend, former Deputy Bishop Ramses of the North-Central Diocese, was the archbishop of the Diocese of Dessarong.
Moreover, Dewey expressed his full support for the building of religious institutions in the diocese and his willingness to provide a good training ground for the Holy Knights of the Diocese of Desarrollo, and he generously donated 500 excellent horses.
On behalf of the Church, Maximus announced a resolution expressing its sincere gratitude to the Duchess of Tulip, in which the Church decided to waive all religious taxes in Dessardines for the next five years. Meanwhile, in accordance with the enormous expectations of Dewey in Dewey, the Presbyterian Church issued a resolution stating that the title of "Bishop emeritus” would be conferred on a parish in Dewey.
The title of Bishop Emeritus was not merely an "honor”, but, legally speaking, because of his ecclesiastical status, Dewey could have immunity in the future when faced with any law of the Empire. Though Dewey does not care much about this “legal immunity" because he already has the status of a magician and is also a legal privileged class.
But the title of Bishop Emeritus has some more role than a magician:
First and foremost, any hostile acts against the Honorary Bishop will be considered hostile to the Church! In other words, from the first minute Dewey received the title of Bishop Emeritus, Dewey's enemy was the enemy of the Church.
The second point… Dewey has the privilege of asking to see the Pope at any time. And he also had his own seat at the Bishops' Conference within the Church - just a bystander, of course, and he didn't have the right to vote.
And number three, that's what Dewey wants most. To show respect for the Bishop of Honour, the Church made a resolution that Dewey could draw himself out of a cavalry of 500 men, which the Church would grant the Cavalry “Holy Knights" status! Moreover, the cavalry was not dispatched from the parish and was ordered only by an honorary bishop. The premise, of course, is that this cavalry must ensure that each of them is a follower of the Goddess.
Moreover, according to some legal voids, an official knight may have a maximum of four followers, which are not counted as numerical figures. So, Dewey can expand the number of this “Holy Knight" to 2500! Five hundred of them are full knights, while 2,000 exist in the name of "obedience”, all of which are legal.
“Killing a divine knight will soon be seen as a comprehensive declaration of war against the Light God Temple. ”
According to the law of this Diocese, Dewey has a “Holy Knights" squad of his own, so that in the future Northwest War, when faced with the Northwest Legion, it will be a very effective weapon.
No matter how arrogant the Northwest Regiment may be, declaring war on the Continental Temple of Light is not an easy task. Not to mention the fact that a number of generals in the Northwest Legion are themselves members of the Church. It is difficult to imagine how much morale these soldiers have left when the enemy they face is the Holy Knights.
Having received these favourable terms, Dewey paid the price of his private signing of an agreement expressing his willingness to make a commitment to the future Pope's heir, Archbishop Maximus Cardinal, who would become a close comrade of the Archbishop of Maximus and give him strong support in the face of any difficulties.
It is worth mentioning that Dewey handed over this “Holy Knights" of his own to Hussein for reign. Hussein comes from a true Holy Knight, who is familiar with the rigorous methods of training all Holy Knights and knows how to lead such a Knights regiment.
Soon afterwards, Dewey announced his decision to build a military fortress on his territory, the eastern part of Desarrollo Province, at the border with Nurin Province, as the seat of the Holy Knights of this parish, which is a complete military fortress - but there is only one more religious place in which the knights can pray.
Thereafter, there were three military fortresses at the border between Desa and Nurin provinces.
The first was a new military camp built two years ago by Dewey in conjunction with Governor Bohan of Nurin Province, where, after two years, Dewey had been stationed at two-thirds of his strength.
And the second, which was built last year to house the Tulip Family Private Army.
Now, there's a third more.
Thus, from the layout, Dewey has stacked more than 70,000 troops on his territory and along the border in Nurin province. Together with 30,000 troops under Governor Bohan, a total of 100,000 troops, there is a siege on the territory of the Northwest Army.
To make Dewey slightly strange, the Northwest Army seems to have been quiet for a year...
Lugo, what the hell was that guy thinking?
Dewey is waiting, and now the situation is at its most critical moment, he is waiting for a signal, a signal from Dido, and the coming of that signal will mark the end of the period of peace on the continent!!
The footsteps of war?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
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