To Four Thousand Years Later

In the early morning of the next day, when Leonardo came out of the Pope's Palace safe and sound, the spies of the big man who were watching the night at the gate finally breathed a sigh of relief. At any rate, His Excellency Leonardo was fine. The College of Cardinals had performed a collective performance yesterday morning and died on the spot. If there was another "dawn, Mr. Leonardo died last night" this morning, these people would probably go crazy.

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Speaking up. Can His Excellency Leonardo... Can barely be regarded as a cardinal Lai Ruo? Only a cardinal can preside over the Council of Tiberius. This sacred ceremony requiring a vote by all citizens of a city dates back to the time of Augustus.

Disciple of the great god-killer **** Augustus, adopted son of Augustus the Elder, founder of the Commonwealth of St. Augustus, Tiberius the "Wise Man", was once killed by the Elder A Naro framed and killed his bodyguards, attempted to arrest him by force and executed him in secret.

At that time, His Majesty Tiberius was only a general, a consul and a tribune, and he had not yet learned from Jesus, but he also had his extraordinary wisdom.

At that time, Tiberius, before rushing into his home to arrest his own soldiers, very decisively applied for a public trial. The so-called public trial is to put all the evidence on the square and win people's votes by taking turns to debate. This was the only appeal mechanism in Rome at that time, and it was also called the "Advocate Arena", because no matter what crime the prisoner himself was charged or arrested, as long as he could not win the anonymous vote of innocence cast by two-thirds of the people in the city , will be added to the charges of "framing officials" and "maliciously acting", which are basically a death penalty.

And if he can get the support of the people, then he will be acquitted. The officials who were supposed to issue the verdict will be charged with different grades of crimes ranging from "incompetence" to "murder" depending on the situation. At least it is to the extent of taking off the official position, and even a little more serious is the death penalty.

In other words, at the end of the public trial, only one person must be able to step down without guilt, and the other person will at least be sentenced to exile. Under the witness of the whole city. Being able to take the initiative to initiate this bloodless and deadly fight with Anaro is enough to prove that the great Tiberius is upright and calm in his heart. Therefore, in the face of the senate's planting and blaming, the suspicion of the citizens, and the magic of "detecting lies" and "sensing blood" of the priest presiding over the trial, he can still speak up for himself. , For justice. In the end, the citizens were persuaded by him, and the consul with "intentional murder" on his back was beheaded for public display. ;mac Later, after **** Augustus was assassinated by the traitor Judas and Tiberius I ascended the throne, he changed the name of this public judgment to "Citizens' Sacred Council". Because the original purpose should be to clear up the unlucky...so the word "judgment" cannot be used to affirm someone's guilt in advance. Today this ritual is largely obsolete. There are only a few countries that have a similar tradition...one of them is the State of Solomon. But no matter which version of the ceremony, there is a tradition that exists—guaranteeing the two speakers, supervising and eliminating the lies of the speakers, and examining and processing evidence. The status of this clergyman must be higher than that of the speaker, at least there cannot be a situation where the bishop just judges the head of the district, or the bishop of the district judges the minister.

But no one has ever dared to judge the Pope. For there is no higher clergyman than the pope. Then oversize, you also need a cardinal to get the ceremony going-"Okay, I'll do it.

Facing the urgent and sincere eyes of several archbishops, Leonardo nodded calmly, and agreed: "I know the rules. I guarantee my name and my life. At the Tiberius Council, there will be no Lies and untruths of any kind appear.

"So, very grateful...the archbishops respectfully saluted Leonardo.

The bishop smiled wryly: "Master Leonardo, we are not trying to give you a problem. The main reason is that we really can't step down... To be honest, His Majesty the Pope can be innocent. But the Holy Conference must be held.

"If we don't convene a holy meeting, it is an excuse for those who have ulterior motives. If we don't, they will force it for us and judge our pope." Someone concluded: "They wanted to interfere with the church a long time ago." domestic affairs. This will be one. borrow…

The old bishop sighed

"I understand.

Leonardo nodded again. He understood what these people were worried about.

Now that the cardinals are all dead, the pope can already be innocent.

But regardless of guilt or innocence, a trial must take place. Then let the citizens of the Theocracy determine the nature of this matter, and this matter is over.

If the matter is left hanging, sooner or later it will become an excuse. Now that the cardinals are all dead, this means that the multi-national forces that restrain each other within the Theocracy have disintegrated. When everyone's chess pieces disappear, the checks and balances from other people also disappear. It's like a group of people staring at a piece of fat, and whoever makes the first move will be blocked by others. But now they suddenly had something to do, and they were all called out. Then whoever can rush back first can eat this piece of fat in one bite. At this time, Mr. Fat Meat will feel very uneasy.

Especially now that the status of the clergy in most countries is no longer so lofty. Even the magic users in many countries are no longer from the Holy See, but cultivated by each country.

After the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire that year, those clergy who did not follow Leo III to the Church. In order to save his life and maintain his status, he did something that instantly collapsed the thousands of years of religious tradition...and completed the work that even **** and Charlemagne did not fully do. They leaked the principles of magic and sold them to the kings of various countries at a high price.

People also finally understood that divine arts are not rewards obtained through devoutly serving the gods or the Holy Spirit... but are just psionic skills passed down by the gods in the past and concealed by them.

From then on, the skill of "Divine Art" was introduced. It completely loses its sanctity.

The skills acquired through proper teaching are just ordinary knowledge. This backstab caused the Theocracy's status to collapse instantly.

After cultivating magic users for the country by themselves, they no longer need to look at the face of the Holy See... Although they don't understand why, the efficiency will be lower than that of the Holy See training themselves. But this makes people understand that it is because the Holy See has other secret techniques that have not been made public. People have concealed it for more than a thousand years?

They even put pressure on the Theocracy. I hope they can make the rest of the secrets public and disclose this level of secrets, which is already tantamount to cutting off people's lives. But to be clear, this does not prevent them from yelling along with the general trend and driving away the political influence of the Holy See in their own country.

In fact, if they knew, the reason why the Theocracy could cultivate divine magic users faster was only because of the large number of sacred objects inside the holy coffin and inside the sanctuaries. If the dead bodies of many psykers in Theocracy accelerate the natural awakening of psykers in Theocracy... I am afraid that Theocracy will usher in a looting war at the level of extermination.

The Theocracy's reserve of sacred objects is enough to allow them to train nearly four-figure psykers every year. And these psykers will be buried in the Theocracy after they die of old age. Their corpses can continue to serve as new sacred objects.

As one after another large-scale, solemn and sacred cemetery is established and filled, the number of newly awakened people in the Theocracy of Solomon is still increasing every year. But once this secret is revealed...it will not be as simple as looting the sanctuary. Even grave digging, genocide, and burning of corpses to extract crystals can be done.

Leonardo believed in the inferiority of man. They will.

But he doesn't need to make all people saints, he doesn't need to make them all sinless...he just needs to make them sinless. The law is born for this, and public opinion must live for this.

No one is perfect. Even Leonardo himself had the seeds of arrogance, greed, laziness and **** in his heart. How can he ask others to be saints without desires? This secret is known only to the cardinals and popes of all ages. This is why only a cardinal can succeed the pope, and only the pope can appoint a cardinal. One evidence of Hector III's deliberate isolation is that he remained ignorant of it. It was Leonardo who finally told him. That's why he didn't understand at the time why Pope Borgia wanted to strengthen the country so much, and why these cardinals were always so radical. Paper cannot contain fire. Sooner or later, the secret that "the corpse of a psyker can slightly speed up the awakening of the surrounding psyker" will be discovered by others.

Although it is not very useful for the awakened... But it can be used as an energy source after all, and it can also make people who have not awakened psychics become psychics faster.

After all, who would think that there are too many psykers in their own country? Every psyker is a talent reserve for elite workers, researchers and excellent bureaucrats. At that time, the Theocracy will face catastrophe. With the occurrence of genocide, the "no hatred" characteristic that Leonardo wanted was shattered.

Or... this is the real face of Leonardo's main mission. Try to eliminate the hatred between people and disintegrate the source of large-scale hatred. For this reason, Leonardo has a way. That's his mission mission: Shinzong Rosicrucian.

The technology from Aleister can make it easier for people to become psykers. There is no need to dig graves, and there is no need to draw a large number of sacred objects. Just use his psychic fire to carve a groove on someone else... the first psychic energy can be poured in, and the most difficult and basic one can be completed. As long as this technology can be perfected and promoted, it means that all spiritual powers will be destroyed. The age of the capable is coming. The crisis facing the Theocracy was easily resolved. So... will it be a mission task?

"I see." Leonardo nodded slowly and repeated again: "I will do it.