Chapter 638: Succession

At this moment, most of the other people in the hall had already dispersed. Just as the Sword King was about to leave, he suddenly heard Du Dian's words, and couldn't help being slightly stunned. He turned around and looked at the black-haired boy sitting above him, his eyes flickered slightly, and he smiled naturally. Said: "It is his blessing that the Speaker can take a fancy to him. The subordinates are very happy to dedicate him to the Lord. I hope the Lord will not dislike him."

"Thank you."

The sword king turned to the attendant behind him and said: "Hei Ya, since the speaker thinks highly of you, you should follow the speaker and work hard, don't embarrass me, you understand?"

The black crow nodded, "I know." Turning his head to Du Dian, he said, "The black crow is willing to follow the speaker to the death."

Du Dian nodded slightly, and after the Sword King and the rest of the elders in the hall had left, he turned his head and said to Feilan Kesi who was waiting aside: "Patriarch Feilan, I have to trouble you to deal with the affairs of the military region. After this is done, I will promote you! At the beginning, Pluto harbored evil intentions and was not satisfied with the position of deputy speaker. He wanted to assassinate me. Now that he is dead, the position of deputy speaker has been vacant, causing many of our dark church Things require me to preside over them personally, and sometimes I’m too weak!”

Feilan Kesi was stunned, and his heart was beating wildly. He suppressed the excitement in his heart, bowed his head respectfully and said: "Master Speaker, the Feilan family will do their best to fulfill your orders!"

Du Dian nodded slightly, "You go down first."

"Yes." Phelan Kes nodded respectfully.

After Ferran-Kers stepped back, Du Dian glanced at the black crow who was silently bowing his head, and said abruptly: "The code name Richelieu gave you is not bad, 'Black Crow', the fastest type of letter bird, The meaning is quite good.”

The black crow, who lowered his head silently, shook his body, slowly raised his head to look at Du Dian, and said, "The black crow can't understand the words of the grown-ups, please tell the adults clearly."

"Didn't you say at the previous meeting that the Pope was hijacked by me, and he has already confessed everything, Mr. Riley." The black crow's face changed slightly, and he was silent for a moment, looking directly into Du Dian's eyes, and said: "Then, you Are you going to kill me?"

"If you want to kill you, why bother with you." Du Dian said indifferently: "Richelieu has abandoned you, your life should have ended, but I am willing to give you another life and be loyal to me, how about it? "

Riley's eyes moved slightly, staring at him, and after a while, he said: "I am willing."

"Very good." Du Dian nodded with a smile and clapped his hands gently.

Kaqi, who was serving as an attendant next to him, understood, turned around and came to the back of the hall, "Come out." After a while,

A group of footsteps sounded, followed by a group of people dressed in silk and satin behind Kaqi, men, women, young and old, wearing silk and satin clothes commonly worn by nobles, but they could not hide the dark brown scars on the face, arms, and neck, and Haggard in the eyes.

When Riley saw these people, his complexion changed drastically. His figure flickered, and he quickly went up to him, and supported a middle-aged man with a hunched back in the front. Looking at the ugly scars on his arms and neck, his eyes turned red. The whole body trembled slightly, turned his head and looked directly at Du Dian, and roared: "If you want to kill me, kill me, why do you torture my people?!"

Du Dian didn't speak, but the middle-aged man supported by Riley hurriedly said: "Riley, don't talk nonsense, we can survive thanks to the rescue of this adult, he is our great benefactor!"

Riley was taken aback, looked at him, then looked at Du Dian, and suddenly knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and broke out in cold sweat all over his body, he quickly lowered his head and said to Du Dian: "Mr Speaker, yes, I'm sorry, the black crow offended you just now, the black crow Damn it, I hope your lord has a large number of people who can forgive the Black Crow's people, they are innocent..."

Du Dian raised his hand slightly, stopped his words, and said calmly: "I will never hurt those who are loyal to me, nor will I hurt innocent people. You don't have to worry."

"Thank you, sir!" Riley said gratefully, bowing his head.

"Son, it's great to see that you're fine." The middle-aged man looked at Riley with a distressed face, and covered his face with his hands.

Riley stared at him blankly, his eyes flushed, and said, "Father, why did you get hurt? Who hurt you?"

"I don't know either." The middle-aged man shook his head slightly and sighed: "We'll talk about this when we go back. We have to thank this lord. If it wasn't for him, we would have suffered more torture!"

Riley nodded, suddenly thought of something, and glanced at the crowd behind, his face suddenly changed, and he lost all blood, "Mom, where's mother?"

The middle-aged man opened his mouth slightly, then stopped speaking, his face was ugly, he clenched his fists and lowered his head.

Du Dian opened his mouth slowly, apologetic, and said: "Sorry, we are a step late, your mother is dead."

Riley stayed on the spot as if struck by lightning.

The middle-aged man bowed his head and said, "He's right, your mother...she couldn't take it anymore and has already gone."

Riley felt that his body was shaking, he took a few steps back, tripped over the chair legs, and sat down on an elder chair, but at the moment he didn't feel it, just sat there.

Du Dian glanced at him, turned his head to the middle-aged man and said: "You guys have a good time talking about the past, I'll go first."

Seeing his voice, the middle-aged man said in awe, "Thank you, my lord!"

Du Dian immediately took Hailisha and left, followed by Kaqi.

After Du Dian and others left, after a long time, the numbness in Riley's eyes gradually recovered. He stood up immediately, rushed to his father with a stride, stared into his eyes, and said, "Father, did he send someone to kill you?" Killed you, and pretended to rescue you?!"

The middle-aged man was startled, his face changed, he frowned and said, "Shouldn't it be?"

Riley immediately asked, "When were you killed?"

"The 15th of last month is one month away from now." The middle-aged man said immediately.

Riley was slightly startled, heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "It doesn't seem to be him."

"how do you know?"

"He knows my identity, and he got it from the Pope, and he has only kidnapped the Pope for a few days." Riley narrowed his eyes slightly, and a trace of murderous intent flashed, "The one who hurt you is someone else, I will definitely We will find out who the murderer is!"

The middle-aged man came to his senses, nodded and said: "This lord has captured a person alive, and he is interrogating him for us. There should be news."

"Really?" Riley was taken aback.

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It was noon.

In the street bars in the outer wall area and the civilian area, everyone is talking about the change of pope in the Holy See, especially the origin of the new pope. Too much concern, the first is that I didn't expect it to be so deep, and the second is that even if I thought about it, I knew that with my own ability, I couldn't know the reason.

As for the established facts, everyone wants to know more, who will be the pope next, whether it is the cardinal they are familiar with, or a secret figure hidden by the Holy See?

"I heard that the new pope is very young and must be a genius."

"Being able to become Pope at a young age should be God's instruction?"

"Why doesn't the God of Light take care of me? I don't want to be the Pope, just be a Knight of Light."

"Your belief is a woman, it's fine if the God of Light doesn't purify you, you scum!"

Amidst the discussion in the tavern, a clear voice suddenly said: "As far as I know, the new pope is a once-in-a-hundred-year-old genius in the Holy See of Light. He showed extraordinary talent before he was ten years old. The dream instructions have been secretly protected by the Holy See of Light since then, and cultivated as the successor of the Pope. It is said that he is not only proficient in poetry and rhythm, but also good at swordsmanship. He has been secretly taught swordsmanship by the King of Light since he was a child. Are you able to become a teacher?"

Hearing this, the rest of the people couldn't help but look over, a strong man holding a cup and drinking with his face flushed said in a rough voice: "Who are you, how do you know this?"

The man raised his head and took a sip of his wine, laughed loudly and said, "You haven't read the special report of the Holy See of Light, it's all written on it, and today I read Master Antonia's new poem, which is full of praise for the new Pope You say, if he is not a virtuous person, why would Master Antonia praise him like this? You know, Master Antonia is notoriously arrogant, never flattering anyone, and once wrote a poem Scolding a certain general in the military region!"

Hearing his words, the others were a little surprised and looked at each other. The former strong man stared at his eyes like copper bells and said, "Did you read the special report of the Holy See of Light? Are you from the Holy See of Light?"

The man proudly said: "Although I am not, I have a friend who is. I heard about it from him. This incident has already caused a sensation in the entire Holy See of Light."

Everyone was stunned and couldn't help being a little surprised.

"Beautiful! I didn't expect a master like Antonia to write poems to praise the new Pope. I remember that when the previous Pope succeeded to the throne, Master Antonia didn't write poems?"

"Bullshit, when the last Pope Richelieu succeeded to the throne, Master Antonia was still wearing crotch pants!"

"Hahaha……"

"Who is Master Antonia you are talking about?"

"You are illiterate, you don't even know Master Antonia? You have read poetry for nothing."

"You say that people are illiterate, how can an illiterate read poetry?"

The tavern returned to the chaotic situation where you talk to each other. The person who spoke before was drinking and paying the bill, then left the tavern calmly, walked towards the end of the street, and went into another place. In a tavern.

After Du Dian left the Feilan family, he suddenly thought of the omission, and said to Kaqi: "You go to inform Hawkeye and ask him to do something." He immediately told him the matter.

Kaqi was taken aback after hearing this, then bowed his head and promised, "Yes."

On the small hill next to Wutuo Mountain, Barton and the other trainee knights were on duty together on the hill. Suddenly, a dozen fast horses came galloping down the hill, all of which were fine-bred snow-white wolf horses. They were extremely fast and had sharp teeth. , is the exclusive mount of regular light knights.

Sitting on the horseback were all bright silver armored figures. In front of these regular bright knight armored figures was a bright red robed figure, like a strong flame blooming in the snow, full of sacred feeling.

Seeing the blood-red robe, Barton and the others were stunned and couldn't help rubbing their eyes. That's right, it's the cardinal's clothes!

There is actually a cardinal here!

Everyone was stunned, and then reacted quickly, resisting the excitement and straightening their backs, standing up straight.

Ernolin came to the hill on horseback. According to the portrait, he saw familiar faces in the crowd at a glance. A trace of jealousy flashed in the depths of his eyes, but knowing that the matter had come to an end, he could not undo it. He immediately got off his horse and came to In front of this person, he bowed slightly and said, "Is your Excellency Mr. Button?"

Barton was stunned.

The other apprentice knights beside him were also dumbfounded, their eyeballs were rounded, and their jaws almost fell to the ground.

Patton... sir?

The cardinal... actually called him that?

Button came to his senses, stuttering nervously, "Yes, it's me."

Seeing such a reaction, Ernolin sighed again in his heart, thinking that in the entire Vatican of Light, people with better conditions than this can be ranked outside the golden wall. I really don't understand why Richelieu chose such a a waste.

After thinking about it, he still remained polite and said, "Mr. Button, are you free? Please come with us."

Button was stunned, and suddenly thought of what Du Dian had said before, his heart jumped suddenly, is it difficult, isn't that a joke? !

"Yes, I'm free." He responded hastily.

"Please follow me." Ernolin immediately turned and returned to the horse.

Barton followed behind him in a daze.

Seeing this scene, the other trainee knights wished they could poke their eyes blind. This dull boy from a down-and-out nobleman was actually appreciated by the bishop. It was unbearable!

They know that from now on, they will lose a free laundryman, and they will have to look up to this person.

Seeing Barton's stupid look, Ernolin pointed to a vacant horse and said, "Mr. Barton, please get on the horse." Just after finishing speaking, it suddenly occurred to him that an apprentice knight could not tame the snow wolf horse, and was about to step forward to make a move. , but suddenly saw Barton turn over, grab the horse hair and step onto the horse.

The snow wolf horse raised its head to the sky and roared twice, turned around several times, trying to throw off the person on its back. But the horse rope was tightly held by Button, and under his control, the snow wolf horse became quiet within a moment.

Seeing this, Ernolin was stunned for a moment, his eyes flickered slightly, he turned and got on his horse, and said, "Mr. Button, please follow me."

"Yes." Barton nodded honestly.

Going along the winding mountain road, after a while, Ernorlin led Barton to the top of Uto Mountain, got off the horse, and everyone walked past St. Mark's Square.

Barton came here for the first time, looking at the huge snow-white square, he felt extremely small, and his heart was full of tension, but more of it was anticipation and a little fear. Dudian had told him that he would become the new pope seven days later, At that time, he only needs to succeed to the throne, and don't care about the rest, he will take care of everything. Now it seems that this is more than a joke, it seems to be true.

Like a dream come true.

"Is this a dream? Isn't this a dream?" Barton pinched his fingers hard, and the nails pierced deeply. The pain made him feel extremely at ease and excited, but it was more of fear. In his mind, the Pope is supreme, And he is unknown, can he really be the Pope? Would others agree? Will you laugh at yourself? As the Pope, can I manage the Holy See well? How to manage it?

These thoughts flashed repeatedly in his mind.

If El Norin knew what he was thinking at this moment, he would probably feel speechless in his heart, and then two words popped out: ignorance.

Barton didn't know that the Pope's status and significance far exceeded his imagination. If anyone knew the real situation, they would never believe that an apprentice knight with no background and no merit could be the Pope.

However, the reality is moving in an unbelievable direction. Even Ernorin, who is leading the way for Barton, can't see clearly. He can't believe how the other seven cardinals would agree to such an unbelievable thing!

And the reason why he agreed was because the order was conveyed by Richelieu, and he was Richelieu's confidant, so he could not refuse, but this was not the case for others, but after the start of the bishop's meeting, the number of votes was exactly what he thought Different, everyone agrees with a high degree of unanimity!

No one objected to this trainee knight, who jumped from the bottom to the top pope!