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"Isn't that a big shot who can't be beaten up? A cardinal?"

Herbie shook his head, then nodded, and said with a smile that could be described as innocent.

"It's the Pope."

"Hahahaha...you really love to joke."

Herbie spread his hands, as if he had known Blaze's reaction, and Herbie's reaction made Blaze's laughter gradually subside.

"This is troublesome."

Now the Pope has really become the BOSS.

Chapter 788: Only Strangers Will Be Happy

The Pope has become the boss, and the only people who will be happy about it are foreigners.

The actual power of the Holy Cross Empire is basically in the hands of the cardinals and families that have accumulated huge wealth. The Pope is just a symbol.

But the Pope symbolizes the faith of the Holy Cross itself.

He has no power, but he can lead the masses with just one word.

With such appeal, it doesn't matter whether you have actual power or not. Without the support of the people, even the king is just a nominal position.

If the Pope really becomes the BOSS, there will generally be only two situations.

The people successfully broke free from their deep-rooted trust in the Pope and saw through the Pope's true face. Then the wealthy families lurking in the Holy Cross Kingdom took advantage of the situation to rise up, declared themselves kings, and began a period of chaos and hegemony, in which the people suffered.

This is a good situation.

The terrible ending refers to what the devil Paine did to the Holy Cross Kingdom. The entire huge, ancient Holy Cross Kingdom was turned into a terrible cult nest occupying one-third of the continent.

No matter which situation it is, the problem cannot be solved by simply rushing in and killing the Pope.

"The current Pope is 105 years old. In the Holy Cross Church where the average age is 65, he is a real ancestor." Hebi spread his hands, his tone full of helplessness.

"He became the Pope when he was 60 years old. Now the backbone of the Holy Cross Church can be said to have grown up under the glory of the Pope."

"Even Anderson and Ryan, two extremely talented characters, chose to abandon their faith only after being greatly stimulated. Normal believers of the Holy Cross would usually collapse and give up thinking."

"Is it so exaggerated?" For Blaze, a native of the Giant Kingdom, he did not understand the value of faith.

"Do you know why the Holy Cross tolerates the existence of wealthy families who only pay lip service to the faith but actually have no faith at all, and even use it to exploit believers?"

"..." Blaze was silent for a while and placed his hand on the luminous magic tool. His hand cast a huge shadow in the room, and only where Herby was there was still a little light.

He is not that silly boy anymore, so he knows why.

Those wealthy families took advantage of people's faith and took away their wealth like harvesting the wool of sheep, but without harming their lives.

The poor life just now forced people to pursue the illusory candlelight and spiritual wealth, and gradually they got used to it.

The wealthy families and the Holy Cross Church demand wealth and status on one hand and the firm faith of the believers on the other.

At first glance, the Holy Cross Theocracy seems to be at a complete disadvantage, but considering Theresa, a remnant of the Age of Gods behind it, it is different. They maintain a mutually beneficial and win-win relationship.

Are the people caught in between the two victims? Not really, they were born and raised in such a living environment.

In the eyes of people from other regions, the custom of the Gaians being with their childhood sweethearts is also a bad habit and not free at all.

"This matter...can't be solved by assassinating the Pope."

"The pope's appeal is enough to allow believers to continue to carry out his words and deeds after his death."

"Then we can't tell strangers, at least not before we know the Pope's true identity."

The strangers were not very patient, so it would be fine to let them find the final boss step by step. But if they were told directly where the final boss was, the only thing they would think about was rushing over and killing the final boss.

If foreigners knew that the final boss was the much-anticipated Pope, a large number of foreigners would openly launch assassinations against the Holy City.

Fortunately, strangers are sometimes very slow-witted, not sensitive to some unusual events, and are easily diverted.

"Actually, I just happened to want to discuss something with you. Hermes's Traveling Hat is short of money."

[Hermes' Travel Cap] is following a straight line that will rise up the world's light wall, buying up towns, villages, and even castles along the way.

The amount of money required to do this is probably several times more than the mountains of gold and silver that Blazer dreamed of when he fell asleep. And this is actually a loss-making business. It is likely that [Hermes's Traveling Hat] will not be able to receive a direct return for decades.

"Then do you want me to take on some monster-killing commissions?" Blaze replied. The only way he could help was to kill the legendary monsters that were on the bounty list.

"Stupid! The bounty you got for defeating those monsters was paid by our guild. Even if you sold those materials, our guild would still be the one capable of purchasing them." Herbie sighed helplessly. The predicament encountered by [Hermes' Traveling Cap] was quite speechless.

As the largest chamber of commerce in the world, it controls the flow of almost every gold coin. Even the three major kingdoms are not richer than [Hermes's Traveling Hat].

But becoming the world's richest man also means maintaining the world's economic system. The seemingly astonishing wealth is mostly real estate that cannot be easily used.

Although the liquidity that can be deployed at will is still huge, it cannot withstand the current extravagant behavior.

"So... cough cough cough, we are in urgent need of some kind-hearted people, cough cough, those who are willing to work for free cough cough, or even for money... Oh, where can we find those great heroes... I'm so distressed, such good people can only come from another world..."

Herbie's big eyes moved quickly, and the smile on his face was a bright hint.

[Hermes's Traveling Hat] can withstand the burden of buying a city, but buying a city alone is not enough.

After the upheaval, on the one hand, the terrible environment brought monsters to invade the top world, and on the other hand, part of the top world entered the terrible environment and had to face attacks from monsters in an area twice its own size.

Therefore, [Hermes's Traveling Hat] not only bought the land, but also tried to build a defense project, which would cost dozens of times more than buying the land, and was almost impossible to complete.

It took several years for the Giant Kingdom to build the wall surrounding the Nemean Forest. Now, [Hermes's Traveling Hat] plans to directly build two walls across the world, and more walls will be built in the future in the face of large-scale monster invasions.

This horrifying project, which cannot even be described in the Arabian Nights or the dreams of fools, can be said to be left to future generations hundreds of years later, because it cannot be completed in hundreds of years.

Even the [Hermes' Traveling Hat] does not have such manpower and resources, unless the people doing these are strangers.

Chapter 789 Lighthouse

What is the biggest characteristic of strangers?

If you ask this question to a hundred people, as long as those hundred people have enough understanding of strangers, their answers will be highly consistent.

idle.

They are almost the most energetic yet laziest people in the world. They will only do things that interest them, and will never get tired of doing them, and will become more and more courageous in doing certain things.

The stranger is the best executor to complete the project named "World Barrier" by Herbi, and Herbi thought of asking the stranger for help from the beginning.

But the problem is that one or two foreigners are not enough, and hundreds or thousands of foreigners are not enough. At least they need foreigners of the same scale as during the Nemean Giant Front period.

"To mobilize so many foreigners, I can't just post a notice and expect them to join in by saying 'OK, I'll do it.'" Hebie crossed his feet one by one, the distress on his face genuine.

"The most troublesome thing is that we can't offer the rewards we offered during the Nemean Giant Front to attract foreigners. This is a project that gives back to the future, and there is no immediate benefit to attract foreigners."

"This... is so difficult." Blaze also started to have a headache. Even Herbie couldn't think of any solution. He knew that this would only cause one more person to have a headache.

"Right~ Finally someone who can understand my current headache." Herby sat on the chair with a smirk on his face and patted another empty chair.

"Come sit down, we have one night to think of a solution. You are responsible for having a headache and saying useless things, and I am responsible for thinking."

The goblin village is brightly lit tonight. Downstairs, goblins are cooking dragons, while upstairs, there are two swaying shadows, one big and one small.

It turned out that Blaze's role throughout the evening was just to say stupid things to entertain Herbie, and one night he actually came up with a good way to deal with the situation.

That is to take advantage of the blind obedience of strangers.

Although Blaze sincerely hated the word "exploitation", he couldn't think of a better description.

Although strangers show a strong sense of freedom, strangers will also learn from stronger strangers.

Career matching, skill combination, and [behavior].

It is common knowledge among strangers that powerful strangers can know more special tasks. So in order to get these special tasks from powerful strangers, strangers will repeatedly imitate the behavior of powerful strangers.

Herbie's idea was to let Blaze inform powerful and prestigious guilds such as the Fairy Kingdom to let them take the lead in accepting the construction commission of the Hermes Travel Cap and start building the World Barrier.

In this way, many small guilds will follow suit, and eventually more and more will gather together to form a huge wave.

From the perspective of a stranger's thinking process, seemingly ordinary commissions often hide special tasks. It depends on whether you can seize the opportunity.

The most convenient thing about this process is that they only need to start it, and then the plan will work automatically, and Blaze can free up time to investigate the Pope's affairs.

Blaze picked up Herbie, who was sleeping while sitting, and placed him on the bed. He then breathed a sigh of relief after covering him with a blanket.

"call--"

The world is really turning, literally. As everyone looks toward the infinitely broad future, Herbie's tiny body supports the places that everyone ignores.

"Thank you."

"Hmm~" Herbie's mumbling in his sleep seemed to be a response.

……

It took Blazer a lot of effort to overcome the urge to go to the Sun Arena, but it would be a great pity to miss the exciting showdown between top foreigners.

So Blaze sent Gomorrah to sit in the Sun Arena and use a magic ball that could record images to record the battles between top strangers.

Although he can't watch it live, Blazer will never miss any opportunity to improve.

In fact, many viewers brought or bought recording crystals on the spot. The battles between the top foreigners were so fast that even Blaze would sometimes miss them.

Gomorrah took the job very honestly, which involved issues related to the devil's contract.

The contract between Blaze and Gomorrah is [concealment], and Blaze will investigate the reasons in the Holy Cross that will invalidate the contract, but if Blaze decides to sit in the Sun Arena and watch the foreigners' battle all day, then such a day may cause the contract to become invalid.

In order to execute the contract, Gomorrah must replace Blaze at the Sun Arena and record the video.

And Blaze naturally rode on the chicken and flew to the center of the Holy Cross Kingdom - the Holy City.

This place, jokingly called the final copy of the Holy Cross Kingdom by foreigners, is heavily guarded, with knights in pure white armor patrolling the city walls in a solemn and orderly manner.

It is said that the Holy City was built according to the specifications of humanity's final line of defense.

However, according to strangers, in order to highlight the horror of the disaster, this last line of defense is usually sacrificed first.

The indestructible defense measures inside are usually used against good guys, and when facing bad guys they basically become a mob.

"The defense is quite good." Blaze stood high in the sky and looked down at the entire holy city. He was observing the entire holy city by sharing the vision with the chicken.

The time now is exactly the time when believers used to have morning prayers. People gathered at the foot of the huge statue of the Virgin Mary, singing hymns in unison. The strong faith made the statue of the Virgin Mary shine like a beacon.

What happened in the Holy City was no different from usual. It was obvious that the Pope did not spread his ideas in a big way.

If mortal eyes cannot see the problem, then use God’s perspective.

Blaze closed his eyes, the world fell into darkness, and his vision became infinitely broad.

He could see the singing.

Sound is a kind of energy, and the songs filled with faith make the huge holy city look like a beautiful lake, sparkling with ripples.

But there was something slightly dissonant.

Although the lyrics are the same, the objects of praise have been replaced. These discordant places are spreading and gradually polluting the entire lake.

After the hymn ended, the Pope appeared in the spotlight, and spoke the same words as usual amid the devout cheers of the crowd.

Everything seemed normal until the Pope raised his trembling hand and pointed to the sky.

"God is always watching us, he will respond to us, save our souls, and heaven will eventually come to us."

"Let us call upon the One God!"

"Oh oh oh-"

Led by the Pope, the believers' cheering faith gathered in the statue of the Virgin Mary, and Blaze's expression changed.

The Pope is using faith and the statue of the Virgin Mary as a beacon to summon the perfect man Adam.

Chapter 790 Summoning Heaven in Deep Space

From the perspective of [Blind Eyes], the sound became visible, allowing Blaze to see the drawbacks.

For example, if the singer sings the same line of lyrics, "Praise the great and almighty One God", with a different image of the One God in his mind, then the sound of "One God" in the song will be expressed in different ways.

Simply put, the color is wrong.

During the previous chorus, a few people sang "Only Lord" differently. Apparently, not many people knew the Pope's purpose, and most believers still maintained their original beliefs.

But here is the problem, when all the believers followed the Pope and cheered "One Lord", the color of the sound they shouted also followed the Pope.

The Pope is the symbol of the Holy Cross's faith and the shepherd. The believers, as sheep, will blindly follow the Pope's voice, and their faith in the "One God" will also change instantly without realizing it.