After Ophelia's words, Sully's eyes turned colder. He focused his attention on the green liquid in the teacup and said calmly, "No matter how much you want to attack the Pope, we can't do what you want."

When an overly sharp gaze was cast upon him, Sully raised his chin and looked at Ophelia coldly.

"Don't get one thing wrong. Although the current situation still has the premise that everyone wants to target the Mercenary City, this targeting has been naturally delayed since the moment the current situation was formed."

Sully looked at Ophelia, the eldest princess... no, maybe it would be more appropriate to call her a princess now.

The person who had delivered the message earlier actually reminded him.

Prince, in the Western world, is mostly used to refer to the direct heir of a country.

Even when Willard was referred to before, he was simply referred to as the heir, rather than the orthodox title of prince.

Ophelia's state of mind is very obvious now.

In her opinion, if she could just deal with the Pope and sit on the throne, she would become the most noble person in the world.

Not only will they no longer be restricted from questioning, but everyone will have to obey her orders.

What do ordinary residents who believe in God look like to her?

Without a doubt, the word "fools" is enough to describe them. Ophelia doesn't care what the believers in God want to get from their faith. She only cares about how much tax those people will pay to Amiqbi and how much support they will give to her, the queen who is about to take the throne.

Commoners? Nobles?

Is Ophelia really one of those people who doesn't know their value?

I'm afraid not.

Ophelia is simply the kind of person who is only willing to enjoy tangible benefits and rights but is unwilling to take due responsibilities.

She didn't even bother pretending to be concerned about the country and the people.

It's not that I don't understand, I just don't care.

Suli was glad that he had already thought of what might happen to the city of Sadina after she took the throne, and deliberately joined forces with the Dark Church to slow down Ophelia's ascension to the throne.

Otherwise, now, Ophelia would not choose to communicate with herself when to deal with the Pope.

When she wanted to take action, she only needed to order all the people who must obey the king's orders to force the Pope towards the direction of the hotel, and everything that happened next would develop as Ophelia expected.

It was too easy to use Suli to drive those around him.

As long as the people around Sully don't want him to die, they will definitely take action when he is in danger. And as long as they take action, they will fall into Ophelia's trap...

The confrontations between the "collaborators" continued one after another, and calculations and plots were involved in all the places that would be overlooked if they were not careful. If the initiative was not taken, then everyone would only become a tool in Ophelia's eyes.

Sully's eyes were clear, and even when he saw Ophelia sneer, he said, "So what you mean is that I can no longer threaten you, so you don't want to obey me?"

He could also respond coldly: "Cooperation does not mean dog training." Su Li did not give in, "And I have no intention of falling out with you anytime soon."

"All I'm saying is that we shouldn't take action against the pope so early."

Ophelia clasped her arms around her chest and used her body to push the chair back a distance. The chair made a harsh sound as it rubbed against the ground.

She said, "You'd better give me a convincing reason."

Suli laughed instead.

"Reason?" Suli laughed. "Is losing the game a good enough reason?"

"To you, we are the strong foreign aid you brought in." Sully gestured to Egbert who was sitting at another table.

After Egbert nodded gently, Sully continued, "Before this, you might have thought that Eg was already a top-notch person in the world. Even if he couldn't defeat the Pope alone, at least he wouldn't be at a disadvantage if he joined forces with others."

Ophelia nodded as a matter of course: "Yes, that's what I think."

"But that's not right." Sully shook his head.

"And you forgot the most important point."

"If the top fighters really want to fight, they need to consider more than just a draw or victory or defeat."

"You have absolutely no regard for the damage they can cause in the process of fighting."

If they really went to war with the Pope unilaterally without being prepared, then everything in this city would be reduced to ruins.

What is the use of ruins?

What's the point of being king on a garbage dump?

Don't forget, there is a Holy See of Light in every city.

The Holy See of Light is not only a force, but also, to some extent, a universal building that symbolizes religion. It can be found in every city except Sardina.

They are silent in normal times, but once a war breaks out, the people living inside can be deployed as fighting force at any time.

Suli clenched his left hand on the table into a fist. He said in a cold voice, "You have never considered what kind of people you will face after this city has been severely damaged. You have also never thought about what kind of reputation the theocracy will bring to the church when the ruins appear and the people in the church appear as saviors to save the people."

Suli had no interest in telling others how to be a king.

But he had to think about after the war.

As long as he lives in this world, as long as the obsession with old age never ceases, Suli must think about the human heart.

Throughout history, whether a ruler was benevolent or tyrannical, no matter what kind of ruler he was, as long as he could sit on that position, he was undoubtedly a king.

But the problem is that tyrants have no sense of responsibility to ensure that ordinary people have the ability to provide for themselves in their old age.

Ophelia didn't even consider oppression as oppression. The idea that the lower class people should serve her had long been ingrained in the hearts of the nobles during the years when mercenaries served as slaves.

A dog will always eat shit.

Even if the Mercenary Alliance has existed for decades, wasn't Ophelia, as the eldest princess, still led by the environment to become such a weird person?

Ophelia had no idea that the worst possible scenario would happen without being faced with the possibility of it being recorded in history.

At least at this moment, Ophelia frowned and blurted out: "You are the one with the problem, right?"

“You don’t understand the world.”

"Why is strength supreme? Of course, it's because the strong represent authority and rules. As long as I, or the people around me, or the people I control, have the ability to kill the Pope, everyone will take the initiative to bow down to me."

Sully looked at her in disbelief.

"Is your head filled with water?!"

"The Pope is so much more powerful than you. Have you given up the idea of ​​rebelling against him?"

"Not at all!"

Sully almost pointed at Ophelia and scolded her: "Based on your own experience, you should understand this."

"If strength is truly supreme, then when you and the Holy See wanted to attack the city of Sardina together, why would the people in the city resist? Facing such a war that is almost certain to be lost, wouldn't they just choose to lie down and surrender with the city gates open?!"

"Anyway, the weak must obey the strong."

Ophelia also felt something was wrong, and her brows became more and more wrinkled.

Just one more fire to start, Sully thought.

All the previous rage, which seemed to be a bit of a show, was calmed down in an instant.

Sully looked at Ophelia, his mouth corners drooping, his brows full of gloom, and he whispered: "It is precisely because there are still things in people's consciousness that they are unwilling to face, so people will try their best not to face those things."

No matter what, you have to face it even if you don't want to...

If you are already unwilling to do something but still want to do it, it only means that there is an even greater unwillingness to do it behind the thing you are unwilling to do.

To resonate with Ophelia, you don't have to try to make her feel the same way.

The princess's living environment and social class had long since solidified her aristocratic thinking. What could really change her was not telling her what to do; that was still a form of ideological manipulation and a lack of freedom.

Therefore, the only thing that can truly change Ophelia's consciousness is to enlighten her and let her generate cognition on her own.

The air was silent for a long time.

Suli's mood remained as peaceful as ever.

When Sully purposefully takes actions to guide others, he always puts himself in an extremely calm position. Only in this way can he see clearly.

Only then could you see that Ophelia clenched her fists as she hung at her side.

"To put it bluntly, you still don't want me to kill 'Father', and you also want to postpone the time to target the Pope."

Her voice was still sharp as she said this, but without the harshness that had always tinged her tone.

"Wouldn't it be better to wake the king? Let the king know that it was the Pope who caused his serious injury, and let the king know that the son he really wanted to inherit the throne was not his own son..."

Most importantly, Sully looked at Ophelia and said after a moment: "Don't you want your mother to see you sitting in the seat that shouldn't be yours?"

The next moment, all that had been calmed down suddenly burst out.

"What do you know?!" Ophelia slammed the table with both hands and stood up. She stared at Sully who held the teacup with both hands again with eyes as sharp as knives.

In his sight, the boy's figure is more suitable to appear at the banquets of the noble young masters, playing the main role in the banquet, rather than this kind of person who can easily see through people's hearts...

monster.

Ophelia was not afraid because the monster was so weak.

So weak that it can be strangled to death at will.

Ophelia snorted coldly. She picked up the cup in her hand, which had been knocked over by her slapping of the table with both hands, and then knocked it hard into the tray containing the teapot.

Then, he left angrily.

Sully laughed quietly, and the sound stopped abruptly after it echoed throughout the hotel lobby.

Egbert then dared to come over and asked, "Lord Sully, could you not have said the last sentence just now?"

Ophelia was not the kind of person who could not understand what Sully had to say.

Therefore, when Sully said the last provocative words, it was almost like he was courting death.

"But I want her to leave with anger in her heart." Sully looked up at Egbert, "Because only in this way, after the problems she had previously thought rationally were washed away by anger, will Ophelia's mind be engraved with the thought that 'even if what I guided her to do is not good for her, it will not make her current situation worse.'"

Ophelia couldn't even think of trusting herself.

Sully has been deliberately avoiding this point because Ophelia needs to face the Pope in a "weak and helpless" manner.

As for trusting this point, Sully only needs to ask one question: "If I say that a hole is dug somewhere and the Pope will jump into it and bury himself tomorrow, do you believe it?"

Egbert nodded without any hesitation, and Crow also took the initiative to rub Suli's face. Lan Zhe said directly: "This kind of thing would seem a little unbelievable if it happened to others, but if it happened to you, it feels very normal."

Roy also nodded: "Whether in Sadina City or in Licheng now, I didn't find anything that you didn't expect."

There is no doubt that everyone has full trust in Suli.

Would Ophelia trust herself so much? If Sully intended to guide her, the result would be beyond doubt.

But it's not possible. If Ophelia shows even the slightest sign of having someone to rely on, the seemingly silent Pope will strangle Ophelia in a cradle.

If she died, the biggest impact on the existing situation would be that Suli and others would completely lose their source of intelligence within the palace.

No one knew when the Pope would take control of the court or the nobility.

No news meant that the 100,000 troops originally hanging on the top of Sadina City could fall with their swords at any time.

The most important goal now, in addition to letting Ophelia intentionally delay the confrontation with the Pope, is to find a way to wake up the king and let the king know the truth.

Of course, Sully told a few people: "Besides, we have to work with Mavis again."

…

[The nobles killed by the Dark Church, it turns out that there are still these truths hidden behind the scenes. 】

[Shocked, is it the decline of morality or the extinction of rules? It turns out that in the eyes of the nobles, ordinary people are actually like this. 】

【What did our faith bring to us and to the God we believed in during those years?】

[It turns out that these things are written in the book that has been read by 80% of the nobles in Richeng. 】

【It turns out that there are some truths hidden behind the gossips of the bards. 】

"What...are these?" Lan Zhe, confused, held a booklet in his hand, walked to Suli's side, who was writing something, and asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Suli didn't want to say anything at all, basic operations, basic operations of marketing accounts. Don't be silly, the gene of gossiping is engraved deep in human nature.

Suli coughed and told Lan Zhe: "You can regard these things as the enlightenment of wisdom, a rain on the soul, or a picture scroll of the truth of the world."

"You can use any words to describe these things as long as you want." Su Li stopped writing and looked at Lan Zhe.

But his gaze didn't last more than three seconds before he couldn't help but look away.

Lan Zhe: ???

Until Lan Zhe, with his head full of question marks, took the strange notebook and read on.

Su Li's eyes were wandering, and he would glance at Lan Zhe's expression from time to time, and found that he changed from "opening his mouth wide to show shock", to "furrowing his eyebrows to show confusion", and even to "widening his eyes in sudden realization".

In just a few minutes, Suli realized that facial expression might be something engraved in human DNA.

But at the same time, it is also confirmed again that in an era when information shock is not obvious, when marketing accounts use a large amount of news shock as a means of combination with benign guidance, it can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack on the cognition of ordinary people in the other world.

Because the viewers cannot prove that what is written in those booklets is false.

Even though there is no absolute concept of true or false in the world, when the manual uses information shock to input information into people's minds, the only thing they will think about is...

“It turns out that this is possible/it can be interpreted from this perspective/I never thought that this operation could be done.”

There are many more like this.

However, after seeing Lan Zhe's expression change so obviously, Su Li suddenly became curious about why Egbert had such a strange expression before.

On that day, when Sully told a few people in the dark that he needed to contact Mavis again, Lan Zhe and Roy didn't even ask, and went straight to find someone in the dark.

So when Sully woke up from his sleep, the first thing he saw was Mavis standing beside his bed with a resentful look on her face.

Suli: ……………………

However, there was no pressure in the subsequent negotiations for cooperation.

Sully only needs to tell Mavis what he wants to achieve and what kind of scenery he wants Mavis to see afterwards.

Therefore, Suli only needs to give the reason first: "When people face authority, they usually have two extremes. One is absolute trust, and the other is absolute doubt."

"The Holy See of Light has instilled in the public an understanding of absolute trust. Whatever they do is right, and whatever they say is right."

"When the two are combined, no one will understand why dark elementalists need to be excluded, because they have already been ingrained with the idea that dark elementalists are damned. It's like when people have nothing to do, they won't question why the natural law of sunrise and sunset is exactly this law."

Then he told Mavis the possibilities after the incident.

“When it comes to changing people’s mindsets, expressing doubts may seem reckless, but it is extremely effective.”

Just like the last words Sully told Ophelia before, Sully only needed to tell Mavis the picture she wanted to see but could not accurately describe in words.

"When people who question faith exist, don't you want to see how people will resist things they don't trust?"

Mavis laughed and said, "You are just pushing everyone in this world into the fire pit."

Mavis affirmed, “Because you can’t even be sure, what you’re doing is definitely right.”

Sully smiled, he knew that this meant cooperation had been achieved.

So before Sully discussed the details of the cooperation with Mavis, he only needed to look up at Mavis and say, "There is never absolute rightness in the adult world."

“For all questions, there may be only one answer and result for an individual. But in a group, the answers and results that people can come up with must be the relative results that can be reached after negotiation and debate, and that everyone is willing to accept.”

"You want to see the confrontation between human rights and theocracy. I want to see the birth of human rights awareness. So what we do is what we negotiate to be 'relatively correct'."

"It's terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible..." Mavis was like a repeater, "You are just like a human taking the place of God, playing with the world in your hands."

Sully just smiled and told Mavis how to proceed.

For example, using the story of the previously destroyed noble relics to spread the authority of the masses.

…

"Godfrey Kitts once said that the value of God's existence is that when people are in the dark, they can light a candle in their hearts even if there is no light in the world. If the world is bright, then the value of God's existence will only cover up the candle lit by human hands."

"I don't quite get it... But who is Godfrey Kitts?"

"I heard that he was a bard that many nobles particularly admired. The nobles who were inexplicably destroyed by the Dark Church some time ago suffered this unprovoked disaster because of Mr. Godefroy."

"Isn't Godefroy a bad guy?"

"You are wrong. It is not because Godefroy is a bad man that those nobles were destroyed. It is because Godefroy is outstanding enough that the Dark Church is afraid of what kind of glory those influenced by him will achieve in the future."

"Why else would they kill people for no apparent reason?"

"Isn't it because the people of the Dark Church are sick?"

"Why do you think so? The people of the Dark Church are also human beings. If they want to do something, they must be driven by some purpose. The news that has been circulating now is that the people of the Dark Church are more afraid of the Light Church than the Light Church, and in fact they are more afraid of the glory of Godefroi. After all, the Dark Church and the Light Church have been fighting for thousands of years, and neither side has completely fallen."

"That's true..."

"So, I'll tell you secretly, I think the people of the Dark Church are clearly afraid of Godefroi, and they are afraid that people influenced by Godefroi will truly destroy the Dark Church."

"In short, Godfrey Kitz is a highly respected person in the eyes of those nobles. So many nobles were slaughtered, and so many nobles were unwilling to reveal the news even at the cost of their lives. Just thinking about it, his brilliance is comparable to the sun and the moon."

"I really want to see with my own eyes what a bard who is respected by so many nobles looks like."

Mavis uttered the last sentence in a coquettish voice.

Then he couldn't control his laughter and fell on the table.

She wiped the tears from her eyes and looked at Suli, who looked a little puzzled, and said, "So who is this Godefroi?"

Suli looked helpless: "Didn't you see with your own eyes how this character was created out of nothing?"

There is no doubt that Godefroy is a person who does not exist at all.

The purpose of creating this person out of nothing is to cooperate with the common tactics used by previous marketing accounts.

The massive amount of information input made it impossible for people to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and when they fell into a trance, a guy representing authority suddenly appeared...

Then people will instinctively approach the strong and resilient tree that is rooted in the chaotic sea of ​​information.

Authority is born in such circumstances.

Therefore, the actions of the people in the Dark Church are not inherently sick, but rather there are various codes of conduct.

Therefore, the reason why the destroyed nobles were targeted was because they hid Mr. Godefroy, who was like a treasure.

After the comparison, even without their intervention, the public will have a new question.

Why did the people from the Dark Church want to kill Godefroy?

At this time, all it takes is for someone to say, "Of course it's because Godefroy doesn't believe in God."

Then countless problems will arise.

Why don't you believe in God? Why are people who don't believe in God respected by so many nobles? Why are they hunted by the Dark Church? Is the reason why the Pope of Light came to this city also related to Godefroi?

Do you want to protect or destroy?

What is the reason why Godfori caused the Dark Church's jealousy?

Is it what everyone guessed before, will Godefroy cause the destruction of the Dark Church?

Is the Church of Light, which has been fighting the Church of Darkness for thousands of years, also afraid of that gentleman?

Did the Pope come to this city to save the king?

All doubts that have never been discovered in consciousness will spread like radiation at an unimaginable speed.

In the information age, creating gods is the easiest thing, but dragging gods down from the pedestal is equally effective.

However, the current goal is not to achieve that kind of achievement so quickly. After all, it is obvious that this information will be widely suppressed by people in the Vatican in the future.

Sully's purpose in coming up with this method is not really to shape an illusory setting into an incredibly great person.

Besides awakening the public to wisdom, there are two other meanings to his doing this.

The fact that Ophelia cannot be defeated is not simply to show the damage that fighting will cause to the city.

That is stating a fact.

And this fact is confirmed by the ravens.

Unless Raven also joins in this dispute, all the other people in the open, even if they unite, may not be able to defeat the Pope who is so pretentious.

Who would believe that in the eyes of Crow, the Pope is more powerful than Xia Zuo?

Furthermore, Suli needed to get the information out that someone was targeting the Holy See before the king woke up.

After Ophelia knows that the king's death is not as valuable as his survival and sobriety, Ophelia will definitely find a way to wake the king up.

Therefore, the current public opinion created around the bard Mr. Godfrey will become a means for Ophelia to divert the Pope's attention before waking up the king.

When the sober king knows that there is a third party force targeting the Holy See, and that his son is not his own son but the Pope's son, then no matter how much the cuckolded king wants to strike a balance between the country and the Holy See, he will definitely have the thought that this is the only chance to kill the Pope.

After all, at this point, even if the Pope really died, it would only become...

The king said: "This is all done by third parties. It has nothing to do with me."

Ophelia wants the Pope to die, but she doesn't care about the additional things that will happen after the Pope's death.

Mavis wants the city to become more and more chaotic, and to watch the people's hearts twitch with a cold eye.

In order to prevent the two troublemakers from ruining the chess game, Suli built a western-style building from the three-legged table.

Sully also told Mavis, who was sitting by the window, letting her two-colored hair flutter in the wind, "The situation has become what it is now. You should at least consider how you will deal with it in the days ahead."

The Pope of Light would certainly wonder why his undercover agents suddenly had the intention of targeting "Godefori".

Who is Godfrey? Why is Mavis targeting him?

The Pope will definitely ask Mavis about this. What answer can Mavis give?

Sully didn't want to say anything, he would understand the madman.

But the fact is, Sully knew what Mavis would do.

Can we really be completely safe with the undercover agents sent out as long as they have been brainwashed?

Not necessarily.

What leverage did the Pope have over Mavis? Sully had no idea.

However, Suli admitted that he was a hypocrite.

Even though Mavis was destroyed and the Tros family had nothing to do with this dispute that involved countless people, Sully did not dislike her.

A person who has no choice but to do what he wants, and a person like him who has no choice but has traveled to another world inexplicably...

There are some similarities.

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