Chapter 280 The mastermind behind this?
After listening to Alice's words, Gervis realized that the church had once played with the principalities of the entire continent in its hands. At the same time, Gervis thought of a terrible thing. He remembered the consequences of faith being above the kingdom in the Western world in his previous life. Will this world become like this in the future?
"So, the kingdom and the church have been in a state of hostility over the years. Can the three principalities still compete with the church now?"
"That's true. Although on the surface the church and the kingdom do not interfere with each other, ever since the church cut off the supply of spiritual fluid, it still requires the kingdom to pay taxes and other requirements that were originally agreed upon. This caused all the nobles to reject it, but because the church is so powerful, the nobles' opposition is useless!"
"The former king of the kingdom, Emperor Trede Gene, originally planned to wait until the kingdom recovered before destroying the church. However, Emperor Trede suddenly passed away in 205 AD, and the entire kingdom split into the three principalities today. The church is now the strongest in Eurasia, and the three principalities no longer have the power to resist and can only survive under the control of the church."
"But fortunately, there are still many gold knights and peak gold knights in the three principalities, which maintains the stability of the principalities."
Alice nodded and spoke slowly.
As the heir to the earldom, although Alice is a woman, the old earl told Alice all these secrets without reservation.
"Could the old earl's disappearance be blamed on the church?"
The Golden Knights and the Golden Peak Knights are deterrents, especially the Golden Peak Knights. Gervis is very clear about this.
But in a flash, Gervis thought of the disappearance of the old earl.
The old earl was a knight at the peak of gold. If the old earl's disappearance was man-made, then the most likely motive was the church. Gervis asked Alice for confirmation with some uncertainty.
"Grevith, please don't leak out what I'm talking about next, or you'll be killed!"
Alice told Gervis solemnly that she was not going to hide anything.
The biggest contributor to the Rose Castle's ability to survive the crisis tonight was Gervis. In order to prevent Gervis from being ambushed by the mastermind behind all this, Alice told Gervis these secrets that only the great nobles knew.
"Do you know where this bottle of spiritual energy liquid I gave you came from? I found it from Luo Er. Because the church stopped supplying spiritual energy liquid decades ago, there is only one bottle of spiritual energy liquid in the entire Rose Castle."
"Although Luo Er has been a top knight for five years, my father did not give the remaining spiritual energy liquid to Luo Er. Instead, he kept the bottle of spiritual energy liquid for me to use!"
"I guess the mastermind behind this is using the spiritual energy liquid as a lure to persuade Roll to betray the Jones family."
"In addition, when Luo Er kidnapped me tonight, he also admitted that he was indeed involved in my father's disappearance, so I can conclude that the person who caused my father's disappearance and the person behind the Rose Castle tonight are most likely the same person behind the scenes!"
"This mastermind not only has so many purple elf bugs and elves, but he also offers spiritual energy liquid as a reward. I think there is no other person like him on this continent except the church."
Hearing this, Gervis felt his scalp tingling. If the mastermind behind this was really the church, then the conversation that Gervis heard in the corridor also belonged to people from the church. You know, the language used by those two people in the conversation was exactly the same as the language of the orcs.
Gervis didn't dare to think any further. Where did the church come from? Who founded it? What was their purpose? Was it related to the orcs? All these questions popped up in Gervis' mind, making him feel overwhelmed.
However, if the mastermind behind this is really the church, then everything they did tonight was most likely an attempt to overthrow the regime of the Principality of Zeon.
The church took out the spiritual essence to lure Commander Rawl, planning to have Commander Rawl force Alice and Carl to marry.
Of course, this is not the real purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes. After all, if the plan succeeds, the biggest beneficiary will be Roll.
Their real target in persuading Roll to rebel was actually the Order of the Rose and the nobles of all sizes who were attending the banquet.
If Roll wanted to carry out his rebellion plan without any hindrance, he had to transfer the Rose Knights loyal to Alice far away. At the same time, Roll also put bellflower poison in the food provided for the banquet, making all the titled knights present lose their fighting spirit.
And these two points are what the church really wants. Roll is just a mantis whose mind has been bewitched by the spiritual liquid. The purple elf bugs and the beasts in the elf space are the real orioles.
The Rose Knights were transferred away, and the defense of the entire Rose Castle became empty. All the guests attending the banquet were poisoned by the bellflowers, so the entire Rose Castle became a piece of fish on a sticky chopping board.
When thousands of orcs appear in Rose Castle, the entire Rose Castle will become a living hell, and everyone will be slaughtered by the orcs without any resistance.
As long as this happens, the entire Principality of Zeon will fall into turmoil.
All the vassals of the Jones family have died, and it is possible that even Alice, the only bloodline of the Jones family, will die.
By then, the Jones family's land and wealth will be truly ownerless. This is a huge piece of cake, and no one can resist coveting it.
At the same time, representatives of the seven earls all died in Rose Castle, which gave them a legitimate excuse to seize benefits.
There were huge benefits and legitimate excuses, and even the king could not stop it from happening.
By then, everyone will want to reap more benefits, and what was originally just a small private conflict between the Jones family and other families may very likely evolve into a war between several major nobles in the Principality of Jean.
Who benefits from the principality falling into chaos?
Apart from the other two principalities, there is only the church. Anyway, the church is the strongest, and it will be them who have the final say on how to control the Principality of Jean!
"Alice, what are you going to do next? Do you have any clues about the search for the old earl?"
After thinking it through, Gervis raised his head and looked at Alice. Now the church has set its sights on the Jones family, and wants to use the Jones family as an opportunity to mobilize internal strife in the duchy.
However, if the old earl could return, then with the deterrent power of the old earl's golden peak knight, the Jones family would be as stable as a rock.
Gervis is now on the big ship of the Jones family. If the Jones family falls, Gervis will definitely suffer.
"The only way is to quickly improve my strength. If I become a golden knight, all these conspiracies and calculations will be far away from the Jones family!"
"As for my father, there is still no news. Currently, I can only confirm that my father is still alive through the elf bugs in the castle!"
When talking about the old earl, Alice's eyes dimmed again.
"Alice, everything will be fine! The old earl is a golden peak knight, and he will come back to find you one day!"
After the elf worm signs a contract with its master, no matter how far apart they are, as long as the master is not dead, the elf worm will not disappear. This is why Alice is sure that the old earl is only missing, not dead.
Seeing that Alice was in a low mood, Gervis immediately comforted her and prepared to change the subject to talk about other things.
(End of this chapter)
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