This "courtship" farce in Muxi Town took a full week to slowly come to an end.
People slowly regained their senses from the frenzy. Some people were embarrassed by their strange words and deeds during this period. Although some people gave up their pursuit, they declared to the outside world that the past few days were a "beautiful" experience;
Some men and women are still blocking the door of the arbitration tribunal, just to see Dieng again.
When Todd successfully captured the North Rock Fortress and returned to Muxi Town, the first urgent document placed on his desk was the treatment and punishment recommendations for Knight Dion.
Acting wildly in public places, wantonly slandering the Church and the Holy Son; provoking duels without authorization, disrupting social order; causing riots among residents, and destroying holy marriages.
Looking at this long list of charges, Todd felt dizzy. He recalled Tristan's unnatural expression when he introduced the knight Dion, which always made him feel that something was wrong.
Todd spent ten minutes carefully watching the duel process, and then found Alfonso and asked: "Where is the person involved?"
"In order to avoid hindering the normal work of the arbitral tribunal, Knight Dieng has taken the initiative to apply for suspension and transferred the matter at hand to others. By the way, he hopes to see you."
Todd nodded and said: "Temporarily remove him from his post and prepare for review. As for the meeting, let's wait for now."
Putting this matter behind him for the time being, Todd began to deal with other backlogged government affairs.
Regarding the reconstruction of the church, Queen Mary submitted a very professional engineering design drawing. This design is completely different from the ancient Roman style of religious buildings in the current era. This is a cathedral that is more Gothic-style.
Todd specially found Mary and discussed with her while pointing to the drawings. This woman was obsessed with luxurious and noble senses. With her photographic memory and excellent artistic sense, she integrated the culture of the northern highlands and the culture of the ancient Taylor country.
And the characteristics of the silver ring royal decoration created a precedent for Gothic religious architecture.
Todd pointed to the religious patterns on the stained glass in the drawing, frowned and asked, "Can I buy these in Muxi Town?"
Mary lifted up the hair hanging in front of her forehead with her hands, propped up her upper body with her elbows, looked at the drawings and said, "Are you talking about colored crystals? There was a craftsman in the town who once used a "fire gas bottle"
』When burning the iron material, he accidentally burned out a kind of light red crystal. Later, he tried using silver and copper materials and burned out silver crystal and brown crystal. Although these crystals are not the crystal holy objects sold by the church,
Clear enough to be used as a church window."
Todd listened to Mary's introduction and shrugged helplessly. At first, he thought someone had leaked the formula for the glass. It seemed that with the advancement of technology, the manufacturing of glass was only a matter of time.
Agreeing to the cathedral's construction, Todd turned his attention to his next report.
Southern scholar Kendi, led his students, monks and heterogeneous assistants, used electron microscopes to examine the water sources, soil and fossils brought from the North Island ruins. It was discovered that there were some strange mineral powders in the samples under the North Island ruins.
Minerals can glow in the dark and can also affect current beams in the air.
When Todd saw this, his heart tightened. This sounded a bit like radioactive elements.
Fortunately, Kendi was cautious enough about unknown things and just sealed the mineral powder and did not conduct research.
Todd immediately wrote a warrant requiring the laboratory to stop research on the mineral powder and conduct radiation cleanup.
Watching the messenger take away the warrant, Todd breathed a sigh of relief. While he was glad that the radioactive material did not cause a serious accident, he also became more and more curious about the truth about the Beidao ruins.
After a brief lunch in the head office, Todd asked Alfonso to bring Dion over.
Half an hour later, while flipping through Muxi Town's recent financial and population reports, Todd heard a knock on the door and motioned for the person outside to come in directly.
Dion, who was wearing a hunting suit, walked into the room. Alfonso saluted Todd, then turned back and closed the door. He stood in the corner of the room and looked at the former with caution.
Todd felt the tense atmosphere in the room, shook his head helplessly, and said to Dion: "I just heard about the heresy trial in the Papal State. I am deeply sorry for this tragedy."
Dion pursed his lips and raised his head: "Lord Todd! Their sacrifice is not meaningless. At least it allows the world to see the true face of the church! What I am really worried about is you. You are greedy for the power given by the church.
Or are you willing to stand by the truth?!"
Todd glanced at Alfonso who was not squinting, sighed, and smiled bitterly at Dion: "Don't my actions explain everything? If I really choose to stand with the church, why should I accept those people?
Why should students who are taking refuge provide shelter for aliens?"
Dion looked directly into Todd's eyes, and the latter was surprised by the look in his eyes. He had never thought that such a "frail" looking person would bring such great pressure to him.
"Sir Todd, have you ever thought that sooner or later the church will discover the secret of Muxi Town? If these despicable bastards use religious legitimacy and deprivation of membership to force you to expel or even arrest heretics, you are here
Will you make such a choice then?!"
After hearing Dion's words, Todd was stunned.
This was indeed an issue that he had selectively ignored in the past.
The ownership of the territory of Muxi Town, the legal status of the Muxi Knights, and the doctrinal proof of Holy Son Todd are all based on one foundation - the recognition of the Pope of the Church of Heavenly Father.
If the church uses this to threaten itself and hand over students and alien species, can it do it? If not, are you ready to compete with the church? Is it possible that the church already knows about Mu
Everything that happened in West Town was just forced by the offensive of the barbarians and the kingdom, so why did they choose to let themselves go and let the Muxi Knights continue to exist as pawns in the charge?
Looking at the uncertain face of the head of the regiment, Dion continued: "Sir Todd, you are betting on both sides now. But have you ever thought that sooner or later you will have to make a choice and lose the value of your use?
You should be able to think of how the church will deal with the Muxi Knights and you."
Todd looked at Dion, a smile slowly appeared on his face: "Who said these words to you?"
Dion was stunned and his voice lowered: "No one..."
Todd smiled and shook his head: "No, these shouldn't be what you thought of."
Dion added: "It's Tristan..."
Todd shook his head again: "No, it doesn't look like him."
Dion glanced at the other party and finally said: "It's Tristan's master, Lord Yarbrough. He wrote a letter and asked Tristan to hand it over to me, and asked me to advise you at the right time...
"
Lord Yarbrough? Tristan's master? The master alchemist? The builder of the monastery's underground laboratory?
Dion seemed not to have finished his words: "Lord Yarborough has a proposal in his letter regarding the future of the Muxi Knights and you."
Todd leaned forward a little: "Proposal?"
"Reformation!"
Todd repeated the word.
Dion pointed his finger at the cross in the room and said impassionedly: "The church should not have the pope and cardinals as its core, but all the elects of God. The only leader of the church should be Christ, not the pope!"
The Pope should accept the examination of the church leadership standards required in the Bible. In other words, the Pope must be as simple, pious and hard-working as a saint, rather than being keen on power and wealth!"
Todd's eyes widened, and he understood what these people wanted to do, because he seemed to have heard these words in his previous life: "Do you want to establish a new sect outside of the Church of Heavenly Father and the Orthodox Church?!
"
Dion nodded and said: "Sir Todd, that's right! Lord Yarbrough hopes to return the interpretation of the Bible to the origins of the Gutero era. I start from legal rationality and Tristan starts from religious philosophy.
I think this idea makes sense.”
"Now is not the time..."
When Dion heard Todd's excuse, he rushed to the table and asked loudly: "Sir Todd, why is it not the time now? The Knights of Muxi already have enough strength to challenge this dark age! Are you in
Are you afraid? Are you afraid? Do you want to sit back and watch more innocent people die on the stake?"
"Don't be rude to the commander in chief!" Alfonso drew out his sword and pressed it against Dion's chest.
Todd signaled Alfonso to put away his weapon, looked at the angry Dion, and said calmly: "I only ask you one thing, if I choose to break with the church now and carry out religious reform, how many kingdoms will support me?
How many troops will support the church?"
Dion was silent.
"I admit that the Muxi Knights may have some strength now, but they are definitely not invincible in the world." Todd looked at the "Umbrella" flag on the wall: "Maybe there is no need for the church's army to take action to hide it.
The habits and obedience deep in people's hearts will plunge the Muxi Knights into despair. That's why I say now is not the time."
Dion's hands tightly grasped the edge of the table: "So when is the time?!"
Todd leaned back, looked at the ceiling and said: "Wait, wait, wait for the conflict between the secular kingdom and the church to become irreconcilable; wait for the church's army to be weakened to the point where it is unable to fight; wait for the inner recognition of the world.
When you clear yourself up and give up your ignorance..."
Todd rubbed his forehead with his hand, watched as tears gradually gathered in Dion's eyes, and sighed deeply: "Let's change the topic, Dion, according to my guess, you should be a heterogeneous species, right? You can tell me
Am I your superpower?"
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