Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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As Luo Mi followed Reinhardt to the room where Bishop Mona was imprisoned, Reinhardt said to Luo Mi with some dissatisfaction: “Why did you instigate His Highness to collide with Count Sheen? You will end up pleasing neither side.”
Luo Mi glanced at him and said, “Do you think His Highness can’t handle that count?”
“Count Balk Sheen is very much favored by Grand Duke Krenzo Sheen, otherwise he wouldn’t be the lord of Reed County.” Reinhardt knew everything. “So this matter may turn into a major conflict between the Church and the anti-church forces in the empire…”
Luo Mi already understood this cunning knight: “After all this talk, you still didn’t persuade Anos not to go.”
“How can we, as subordinates, interfere with what His Highness wants to do?” Reinhardt said tactfully, then lowered his voice and said with a smile, “But His Highness should indeed get involved in some worldly affairs.”
Luo Mi raised his eyebrows in confusion: “What’s the connection between them?”
Reinhardt said something that seemed completely unrelated: “Your Holiness is not young anymore.”
Luo Mi pondered over this sentence, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Reinhardt became a little strange.
Reinhardt’s face was full of integrity and sincerity: “I am loyal to Your Highness.”
Luo Mi was skeptical about the loyalty of this knight who sold Anos’s things – he even thought that Reinhardt was loyal to Anos in order to change from “reselling items blessed by the Son of God” to “reselling items blessed by the Pope”.
However, he did not point it out. He rolled his eyes and said to Reinhardt, “The baron named so-and-so at the banquet had a problem with his attitude towards Your Highness.”
Reinhardt didn’t understand: “Disrespectful to His Highness?”
Luo Mi bit his finger and said, “Your Highness is so handsome.”
Reinhardt understood immediately, his face darkened for a moment, then returned to normal, smiling, “I’ll find a way to take care of him before I leave.”
Luo Mi looked at him, and the two of them miraculously developed a tacit understanding based on a plastic relationship.
As the two of them talked, they walked to the door of the confessional. Reinhardt glanced at Luo Mi and said with a chuckle, “I’ve taken off your magic-suppressing ring for you. You can put it on yourself later.”
Luo Mi touched the magic-suppressing ring on his neck and said with a smile, “Thank you so much.”
….
Bishop Mona was imprisoned in the confessional of the church, with divinely engraved shackles on his wrists and ankles.
In order to prevent accidents, before Luo Mi came over, Anos ordered someone to make Bishop Mona fall asleep to make it easier for Luo Mi to try.
Luo Mi reluctantly cast his charm on Bishop Mona’s old face, allowing his mental power to spread into the bishop’s brain.
He didn’t know before how to condense magic power into seeds of charm and then plant them in other people’s minds, but this time he had a template to refer to, and he really got the hang of it.
The Seed of Charm was actually not the crystallization of the succubus’s magic power, but was made by mixing the emotions, memories, etc. of the object of the cast into the succubus’s own mental power. It was itself a part of the object’s spirit, so it was difficult for the Holy See’s divine magic to separate the Seed of Charm.
Once it was stripped off, it was equivalent to destroying part of the spirit of the target, which could easily turn the target into an idiot.
Luo Mi let his mental power carefully touch the seed of charm left by Susan, for fear of being counterattacked by the seed of charm.
What he didn’t expect was that as soon as his mental power touched the Charm Seed, the Charm Seed dispersed on its own as if it had found its master. Susan’s mental power inside conveyed a feeling of respect to Luo Mi, and then gradually dissipated.
If Luo Mi was willing, he could now use the seeds of charm left by Susan to condense his own seeds of charm.
Luo Mi pondered for a long time and accepted the gift.
It was the first time that Luo Mi tried to condense the seed of charm, and he also had to change the direction of Bishop Mona’s charm from “lust” to “obedience”, which took a lot of effort.
When he was completely done, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and felt extremely exhausted: “I am so tired just following the template, how did those succubi complete it?”
[Those who can use the Seed of Charm are certainly not low-level succubi.]
“What about Susan?” Luo Mi thought of the enchanting succubus, “I don’t seem to be attacked by her mental power.”
[This shows that Susan really obeys you sincerely.]
Luo Mi touched his chin: “Am I so charming?”
[The host is not, but the demon lord behind the host surely is.]
“There’s no one behind me…” Luo Mi was about to refute, but then he remembered that Susan actually obeyed the Black Wing Lord’s words, and said guiltily, “This time I am really taking advantage of the tiger’s power.”
At this time, Bishop Mona’s eyelids moved and he woke up from his coma.
When he saw Luo Mi in front of him, his eyes suddenly became extremely respectful: “What do you want?”
Luo Mi felt goose bumps all over his body and waved his hands quickly: “Be more normal with me in the future, so as not to be discovered.”
Bishop Mona, who had been planted with the seed of enchantment, was very obedient: “Yes.”
Luo Mi thought for a moment and ordered, “Next, whatever the Vatican asks you about Count Sheen, you must tell them the real information in detail.”
“Yes.”
“When asked, tell the truth about what you have done over the years.”
“Yes.”
After making sure that Bishop Mona understood and would obey his orders, Luo Mi breathed a sigh of relief, let Bishop Mona fall asleep again, and then left the confessional.
As soon as he left the confession room, Luo Mi couldn’t wait to ask the system: “Does this count as completing my mission?”
[Of course not, Bishop Mona’s rank is not high enough. Unless the host intends to promote him to the position of archbishop.]
“How can I have that ability?” Luo Mi curled his lips, but he was not particularly disappointed. “Go back and try to see if the Charm Seed can work!”
….
After wasting so long in Pigli Town, Anos finally set off.
The original plan was to return directly to the Holy City to report to the Pope, but Anos decided to go to Losa City, the center of Reed County, where Count Sheen was located.
On the eve of departure, Luo Mi saw Anos standing under the cross sculpture in the church, talking to someone through the glowing gloves.
After Anos finished speaking, Luo Mi realized that Anos had dialed the Pope’s “special line” to ask the Pope whether the decision to go to Losa City was correct.
Luo Mi just mentioned it, when he heard Anos say with a relaxed expression: “His Holiness the Pope supports my decision, saying that everything is arranged by God, and asked me to do it without worry.”
Luo Mi found that sometimes the thought processes of clergymen were really hard to understand. What kinds of things required one to exercise subjective initiative to judge, and what kinds of things were simply attributed to the illusory “arrangement of God”?
Anyway, a week later, they finally arrived at the city of Losa.
….
The city of Losa was located in the southeast of Reed County and had a pleasant climate. On the way from the city of Ionion to the city of Losa, Luo Mi could feel the temperature gradually getting warmer and the plants on the roadside becoming lusher.
At the same time, the towns and pedestrians along the way had become visibly more developed.
Whether in the town of Larry or Pigli, most of the civilians and nobles were similar to the medieval nobles that Luo Mi knew; when they arrived in the city of Losa, the clockwork pocket watches in the hands of pedestrians, the lighter and more stable mechanical carriages, the “toll stations” with bearings that could be raised and lowered at road checkpoints, etc., all brought out a more civilized atmosphere.
Luo Mi even saw someone speeding on the road on a bicycle, and then being chased by the police in a bulky and clumsy car, shouting and yelling.
Luo Mi looked at the convertible car emitting black smoke and exclaimed: “What is the kinetic energy used for this?”
Didn’t they all have internal combustion engines?
“Coal.” Anos put down the Bible. “To be exact, it is the coal that drives the steam.”
Luo Mi: “…”
A steam car? No wonder it looks so clunky.
But the speed was not slow. The man who was riding the bicycle at full speed was caught soon, and he was scolded with some words like “I told you not to steal things.”
Luo Mi compared the speed of the steam car with the horse-drawn carriage they were riding in, and couldn’t help but feel confused: “Such a convenient means of transportation, doesn’t the Holy See use it?”
Anos shook his head: “The mainstream voice within the Church believes that only divine devices driven by the power of holy light are technologies that God allows humans to use. Other mechanisms, steam engines, etc. are disrespectful to God. In addition, some people believe that the smoke produced by the burning of steam engines will damage the environment, and hope that the empire can restrict or even ban related technologies.”
It sounds so nice, but you actually feel the threat of technology to the Church’s promotion of faith, right? Luo Mi muttered to himself.
Of course, he didn’t tell Anos, but asked curiously: “Anos, what do you think?”
Anos pondered for a moment: “In fact, I think that the Church, as a servant of God, should guide the world to live a better life, so that they can pray to God more attentively and devoutly, and understand God’s mercy. In this regard, I think divine arts should be combined with the technology of the empire to better serve the Church and the world.”
Luo Mi looked at Anos with a new respect: “Isn’t this considered a heretical idea in the Church?”
Anos smiled and did not deny it.
Luo Mi found Anos more and more pleasing to the eye and encouraged him: “I also think what you said makes sense. If we use holy light as energy, many problems of steam engines can be solved.”
A smile flashed across Anos’s blue eyes: “Do you know a lot about steam engines?”
Luo Mi blinked: “I don’t understand steam engines, but I understand you!”
Anos paused, and the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously: “Thank you.”
He could clearly see the inner color of the little devil in front of him and knew that the other party’s words were not deliberate compliments, but genuine approval. This made Anos happy and sad: some of his ideas were denounced as heresy in the church, and even his closest people warned him not to speak them out.
He had never expected that the only other person in the world who would identify with him like this was actually a demon.
Or maybe Lian really was someone sent by God to strengthen his will.
Precisely because Lian was a devil, he needed to overcome racial barriers and suspicions. The more the will and friendship were tempered by obstacles, the more precious it would be.
Thinking of this, Anos looked at Luo Mi with softer eyes.
Luo Mi had already seen the city wall of Losa from the car window and thought for a moment: “Anos, I have a suggestion for you.”
Anos smiled and said, “What?”
“I know you must be full of dissatisfaction with Count Balk Sheen now, but you can’t show it when you really meet Count Sheen.”
When it comes to business, Anos’s expression straightened up, and his light golden eyebrows frowned: “Why?”
“We are here to look for evidence, not to judge after we have the evidence.” Luo Mi nodded at his face. “If we show hostility from the beginning, don’t you think that Count Sheen will hide his flaws very well, which will be totally detrimental to our search.”
Anos certainly understood this and nodded: “I will remain calm.”
“Not only should you remain calm, you should also blend in.” Luo Mi revealed his true intention. “To put it bluntly, it means you should act like you are in cahoots with the crowd. If the Count invites you to enjoy something, you should pretend to enjoy it wholeheartedly. If he bribes you, you should pretend to accept it…”
Anos frowned again reluctantly: “There’s no need for this.”
“Yes, there is. Have you forgotten that Bishop Mona thought you were a ‘fellow traveler’ just because you have a succubus by your side, so he openly brought out other succubi at the banquet? Since it was possible last time, why not this time?”
Seeing that Anos did not object immediately, Luo Mi added, “Count Sheen is knowledgeable and experienced, not comparable to Bishop Mona who is ignorant. Only if you devote yourself seriously can you make him believe that the top leaders of the Holy See are corrupt, and then he will be more willing to show his back.”
Anos pursed his lips, and after a while he said, “What if what he wants me to do is against the teachings?”
What Luo Mi wanted was for him to violate the doctrine. But he still said with concern: “Well, we will act according to the circumstances – you are not alone, don’t you have me?”
The last sentence slowly wiped away the resistance on Anos’s face. After a long silence, he said, “I’ll try my best.”
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