Roland took a deep breath, put his slightly sweaty hands on Tyr's lost light, and his heart beat fiercely.
"I hope I can successfully mislead them..."
Roland whispered.
Unlike what the cardinals imagined, Roland simply did not have enough capital to become the Pope.
He is still at the silver level, not the gold level. In other words, it is simply impossible for him to use the papal ring to deprive the cardinals of their charisma.
To Roland, those were eleven real gold-level priests. As long as three of them jumped out and blew themselves up, Roland would have to kneel inside without being able to escape.
Of course, now that they have reached this position, it is difficult for them to have the confidence to self-destruct.
Simply put, Roland's strategy is to bluff.
Baskerville was forcibly influenced by the baptismal chant, and then relied on this miracle to gather the first group of people. Then, after the number of people reached a certain level, Gaharad was asked to imitate the Holy Spirit and blow the horn to artificially perform the magic.
The miracle caused the believers who witnessed the "miracle" to become fanatical.
Then, Gahalad led them in shouting short and powerful slogans.
This kind of behavior itself has a strong appeal. Once it unfolds, it will snowball and get bigger and bigger, and the momentum will become more and more powerful.
In the end, after the Great Master ￡∷长￡∷风￡∷文￡ was deprived of his divine grace by Roland, Roland's identity as "Pope" was finally recognized by these believers, and they voluntarily included themselves in Roland's family.
The ranks of the people.
Of course, Roland's halo worked.
In addition to the second item dropped by Tyr at that time, Roland used the effect of the legendary item that he had treasured for a long time. Roland finally transformed these thousands of people into disciples of the mentor.
That is Roland's only legendary item currently. Compared to weapons, its attributes are more suitable for Roland at this moment.
【Prayer's Salvation.Holy Crown】
Crown of Relics
golden legendary
Indestructible. Weight 0.1
Wearing requirements: Perception 25 or above, Willpower 10 or above. Believe in a certain god or saint, have a bloodline level of bronze or above, and master at least one elemental cornerstone.
+x(14) Will (one-half of the perception attribute, rounded down)
Special effects: Holy Master (you gain +6 advantage in all checks of persuasion, speech, intimidation, deception, etc.), Voice of the Revelation (you will be able to release Holy Word at will, just like using your own supernatural abilities), Sun
Walker (you will not fall into any negative state under the sun), Psychic Avatar (you can consume the power of origin to make the Psychic Embodiment come, and the Psychic Embodiment will get all your supernatural abilities, characteristics and talents. The power and duration of the Psychic Embodiment are the same as
The consumed origin power is proportional, but the maximum does not exceed the highest power level of the god you believe in)
Penalty: Will Dissolution (When used: Your control over your thoughts is secondary to the deity you believe in)
Listen. Believe. Sacrifice. Eternity.
This was the source of Roland's extremely powerful appeal and persuasiveness. The rumbling voice was also released by the Holy Word spell it gave Roland.
Otherwise, with Roland's bishop-level magical cultivation, it would be absolutely impossible to release the Pope-level Holy Word spell.
The same goes for the looming incarnation behind Roland and the crown on his head. Roland did not dare to activate the crown for a long time not because Roland was afraid that his mentor would control his thoughts, but whenever Roland came into contact with the boundless depths of his mentor's mind.
When I walked into the sea of tranquility, I felt the urge to sleep forever.
Exposure to dusk is something only a madman would do, but exposure to death itself is not something a wise man would do.
When he defeated Bernard, Roland's will had already begun to dissolve. At the moment of his speech, Roland was also lost for a moment.
Although the mentor immediately put Roland's will back into his body, even at that moment, Roland felt that some changes had occurred in his soul, whether for good or bad.
And after Roland entered the dome cathedral, he was bluffing the whole time.
Of course he knew what these cardinals were going to do. They had already held a ring ceremony. How could Roland still understand what they were going to do? Combined with what Xiela told Roland the night before yesterday, Roland had basically understood their characters thoroughly.
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Of course, when Roland led thousands of people into the square in front of the Dome Cathedral, they must have made some urgent choices and new resolutions. But Roland vaguely noticed that Xi La nodded gently at him.
He nodded and knew that these cardinals had no murderous intention towards him.
In other words, they did not have the courage to decide to assassinate Roland. The only one who had the courage was Xiela, who was taken away by Roland first.
After that, Roland asked them to leave the Dome Cathedral because of three considerations.
First, Roland did not dare to let them contact him for too long. The longer the contact, the greater the possibility of arousing suspicion.
The pressure Roland gave them was purely due to their perception of the phantom of the sleeping mentor beside Roland. As long as they realized that Roland had never deprived any gold-level believer of his divine grace, they would begin to doubt whether Roland was at all.
Not yet at the gold level.
By then, Roland would be in serious trouble. As soon as they started to test Roland, Roland would have to start killing people on a large scale. If nothing else happened, Roland would have to kill at least eight of the twelve cardinals to get rid of them.
Let's settle down for now.
However, Roland has no experience in managing a religion at all. What's more, Roland will leave for Elcat soon and has no time to manage various matters of believers and temples. Each of the twelve bishops has his or her own field, and Shao
Everyone will be in big trouble.
Except for three of them, who could be replaced by Lilia, Gahalad and An Ruosi by Roland, Roland could not move the rest. If he moved, he would cause trouble. Roland didn't know who had the talent in this area.
Second, it was because Roland really wanted to know whether those cardinals had the talent to be a cardinal.
As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked. Jupiter IV's own method of obtaining the position of pope was disgraceful. Naturally, he did not suppress the atmosphere of the College of Cardinals. Rather, it is precisely because the cardinals had their own agenda.
Only Jupiter IV could hold everyone firmly in the palm of his hand.
But Roland is different. With the aura of personal worship, Roland doesn't have to worry about their loyalty to him. To this extent, correcting the atmosphere will greatly increase the initial reputation of the Everlasting Sect.
The last reason why Roland sent them away was that Roland really had something to do.
At this moment, there was a crisp knock on the door behind Roland.
"Come in, Shiraz."
Roland said briskly without even turning his head.
Sure enough, the door opened and it was Sila who came in.
"I hope I haven't disturbed you, Your Majesty Roland." Xiela said seriously.
"There is no need to be so polite between you and me," Roland turned back, put his hand on Silla's shoulder, and showed a gentle smile, "You can tell me the contents of your meeting before I come in later on the way."
"Are we going out too?"
Shira asked doubtfully.
"Yes. But you don't have to wear casual clothes, and the journey is not very far... You can pick up two people with me later."
Roland showed a gentle smile: "Let's go kill a few people and be back soon." (To be continued.)