Alien Knights

Unlike the Eastern and Western Dioceses, which are composed of many secular states, the Central Diocese of the Church of the Heavenly Father has only one country—the Papal State, and the heart of the Papal State is located in the former capital of the ancient Tyro Empire—Taylor.

In the 5th century, the Western Tyro Empire was constantly harassed by the northern barbarians and was finally destroyed. Its original territory fell into a state of no owner, and the Sityro people were enslaved and slaughtered wantonly by the barbarians. At such a critical juncture, the Church of the Heavenly Father has gradually transformed from a religious force into a political force.

They organized the retreating legion and the fleeing civilians, occupied the castle to resist the aggression; sent a mission of monks to the Eastern Tyro Empire to ask for reinforcements;

In such an era of turmoil and disputes, the Church of the Heavenly Father suddenly became the vanguard and leader of spreading the gospel and resisting foreign enemies.

In the 6th century, the war that lasted for nearly a hundred years gradually came to an end. Under the resistance of the church and the secular, the barbarians retreated to the north in defeat. On the original territory of the Western Tyro Empire, there were only three military forces left: the barbarian kingdom converted to the Church of the Heavenly Father, which occupied the western region; the old army and people of Western Tyro led by the Church of the Heavenly Father, occupied the central part; the army of the Eastern Taylor Empire and its church, the Orthodox Church, occupied the west.

At the beginning of the 7th century, the Church of the Heavenly Father re-elected the emperor on the site of the former capital of the empire, Tairo, with the aim of recreating the glory of West Tyro. However, the Orthodox Church pointed out that Sitello's blood had been cut off and did not recognize the legitimacy of the new emperor. After that, the most serious conflict between the two factions occurred since the separation of the two churches.

The Orthodox Church of East Tyro no longer recognizes the Church of the Father as the pope alongside it. The Heavenly Father Church directly and unilaterally expelled the emperor of the Eastern Tailuo Empire. The two factions of churches that once had the same roots have since embarked on the road of splitting.

In the 8th century, the Church of the Heavenly Father used land and wealth as bait to unite the converted barbarian kingdoms in the west, and engaged in a series of territorial disputes, contests for believers, and ideological struggles with the Orthodox Church in the East, and finally regained a large area of ​​the parish.

With the gradual retreat of the eastern forces, the Church of the Heavenly Father, on the one hand, fulfilled the agreement and ceded part of the land and delivered property to the western kingdom; on the other hand, it used diplomatic means and political strategies to divide, instigate, and instigate the western kingdom, causing it to fall into long-term division and war.

At the end of the 8th century and the beginning of the 9th century, the Pope of the Church of the Heavenly Father crowned the then secular emperor of the Papal State as "the great emperor entrusted by God to rule the Tyrolean Empire".

Unlike Eastern emperors who can intervene in church affairs, the secular emperors of the Papal States have no right to interfere with the church and are only responsible for the management of secular affairs. The power to mobilize the army and appoint and remove personnel belongs entirely to the Pope of the Church of the Heavenly Father, who can even directly depose the secular emperor by excommunication. Therefore, in the Papal States, the Pope is the out-and-out king.

However, the good times didn't last long.

From the 10th century onwards, the prestige of the Papal States declined through a series of events. Among them, the most famous event is that several women among the nobles of Tailuo City took control of the power of the Holy See by becoming the Pope's mistress, and their sons, and their son's sons, were all made Pope. The period from 903 to 963 is known as the "Pornocracy" period.

During this period, the prestige of the Church of the Heavenly Father was greatly affected, the power of the Orthodox Church was faintly rising, the Western Kingdom got a little respite, and the war gradually ended.

In the middle of the 11th century, the reformers gradually gained a firm foothold in the Church of the Heavenly Father, and launched a church reform movement that lasted for decades, revived the increasingly corrupt church morality, opposed laymen's control of theocracy, and opposed the church's clergy trading. The movement greatly enhanced the prestige of the Church and the Pope.

The movement also marked the resurgence of the Church of the Heavenly Father, and the further strengthening of the pope's secular power.

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Time flies, and the time has come to May 25, 1170 in the religious calendar...

The capital of the Papal State, Tyro City, the Cardinal Council Hall.

"My lord Abel, you seem to be in a good mood." The young man in a black deacon robe sat on a metasequoia chair by the fireside of the Cardinal Hall, leaning against a cashmere cushion, looking at the sixty-year-old man in a cardinal's robe sitting on the desk, and said with a smile.

There were only these two people in the room, and the old man had no intention of hiding his emotions. While looking at the manuscript in his hand, he patted the table and laughed loudly: "Tristan, it's not because of these things you gave me! This little guy, Todd! It's so interesting!"

The man named Tristan closed the book in his hand, nodded and said in agreement: "Those troublesome things in the east have taken up too much of our energy. I never thought that such a guy would appear in the west."

"Manufacturing equipment to refine silver, rectifying the name of alchemy at the trial meeting, and the crystal relics that have been making a fuss recently..." Abel scratched his ear canals with his knuckles, shook his head and smiled, "The little guy is only fifteen years old, and he can already make such a fuss. No wonder the Pope has mentioned him several times."

"However, there are two things we should thank him for. One is alchemy. Because of his performance at the trial meeting, those in the Holy See who originally had a strong opposition to alchemy have loosened up; the other is the crystal relic. Because of the relics engraved with the ancient Tyro script he sent, we will not be at a disadvantage in the "Shuoyuan debate" with the "Orthodox Church."

Abel took out a document from the drawer under the table, and shook it at the deacon: "Regarding the crystal relic, the Public Opinion Institute doesn't think so. They did an investigation, and that little guy may have mastered the manufacturing process of the relic. The so-called excavation of ancient relics is just an excuse."

The man put the book on his lap and straightened his body: "What is the reason for doing this? For profit?"

"Probably not, there is no evidence of any sacred objects being sold." Abel leaned his body on the backrest, relaxed his body, and suddenly changed the subject: "In the past few years, the life of the church has been stable, and many people think that the danger has gone away. They don't know that the church is now in the most dangerous time. We have a self-proclaimed orthodox "orthodox church" in the east, barbarians ready to move in the north, kings in the west are getting more and more restless, south... those pagans in the south..."

Tristan lowered his head and said, "I heard that that guy named Todd wants to establish a knight order in a town on the west coast..."

The cardinal laughed: "I've heard about it, but it's too funny, establishing a knight order on the coast of the Silver Ring Kingdom? Does he want to go fishing?"

"My lord, I don't know if you have heard that the barbarians and pirates in the north have signed a peace agreement."

Abel's smile stopped abruptly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he remained silent.

Tristan took out a document from his sleeve and said calmly: "By the way, I have a report I just got, which is about a recent evangelistic meeting in Muxi Town..."