The nun with black stockings is actually a boy?

At this moment, the square fell into a mysterious silence.

"Flowers have descended, and are specially bestowed upon the Saintess of Flowers..."

As Ephesus loudly declared, Holy Wisdom Square once again fell into carnival and shouting.

Helen felt at a loss standing in the crowd.

Chapter 97: The Wrath of the Loyalists! [Two-in-One]

After the Patriarch finished reciting the holy commandments on the parchment, the imperial inscription officer Valorna, wearing royal robes, also walked onto the stage.

It was when this person came on the scene that Helen finally confirmed that O'Hughes was involved.

When I re-enter the palace, I will beat you to death, Prime Minister Osius!

Helen took a step forward, trying to stand in front of Valorna and stop the release.

But the people around him entangled his feet and he couldn't get free for a while.

"Saint Helen, you have received your third imperial consort letter and are already in a relationship. I have been specially ordered to enter the palace to be canonized."

Just a few words made the crowd shout excitedly.

Although it was not explicitly stated who Helen would marry, it was a foregone conclusion that she would marry into the royal family.

Since the eastward migration of Rome, the first commoner imperial concubine is about to appear.

"Fuck you."

Helen blushed.

He became the candidate saint because of the trust he received from the people, the imperial concubines and the queens...

Osius, I cannot stand against you!

Just as Helen was shouting in her heart, Prince Julian, who was standing on the platform of a high-rise building, put down the telescope in his hand.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?" An officer of the city defense army walked up to Prince Julian.

Prince Julian remained silent.

"Your Highness, do you need us to announce the rejected request to the public?" asked the secretary beside him.

"There's no need for that. Helen has already been canonized and crowned a saint. I can't marry this little girl anymore." Prince Julian waved his hand. "I really can't travel into Rome anymore."

The civil servants and city defense officers surrounding him all looked stunned.

"In the next few days, I will go out of the city to fight against the goblins. I think you should understand what I mean?"

Prince Julian turned and looked at everyone.

Those present were all nobles, and some were serving military officers. They had all received elite education and of course understood what Prince Julian meant.

Now that Prince Julian has put his words here, he is forcing them to take sides.

"Your Highness, the situation isn't necessarily urgent right now. The goblin army is still gathering, and we have other plans."

A nobleman who wanted to have it both ways knelt on one knee.

Prince Julian clapped his hands together. "There's nothing to hesitate about now, everyone."

Everyone present looked at each other.

"Do I need to explain myself?" Prince Julian said, hands behind his back, as he walked towards the crowd. "Would you like to stay and perish with Rome, or would you like to come with me and enjoy the glory of New Rome?"

Boom!

An officer of the city defense army knelt on one knee, hammering his right hand on his chest.

"In my heart, there is only one emperor in Rome!"

thump--

As the city defense officers knelt and shouted, the surrounding officers also knelt down.

The remaining nobles looked at each other, then knelt one by one, performing the etiquette of a subject meeting the emperor before Julian.

"Very good, very good. You deserve new glory." Julian's lips curled upwards, and he spread his hands and shouted, "Tonight, let us face the goblins!"

……

After Helen was canonized, she could no longer live in the monastery, not to mention that she had to go to the palace to meet three emperors and receive the canonization.

Although strictly speaking, Helen can still refuse, the current situation in Rome is very bad. If she refuses, the public opinion generated... will cause secondary damage to Rome.

Therefore, it is in his best interest not to refuse, agree, or respond, but to keep it in his mind and not send it out.

Therefore, Helen, who was sitting in the church carriage, was explaining the situation to Natalie with a helpless look on her face.

"Hmm...staying in the palace for a few days wouldn't be bad." Natalie asked Helen absentmindedly, "Are you...really going to agree to marry...into the royal family?"

She didn't care about canonization or the imperial capital or even Rome.

Her home was long gone, her beloved parents were long gone, and her only attachment was Helen.

She didn't want to lose Helen.

"No, that decree didn't specify who I should marry, nor did it specify the time." Helen took out the canonization letter given to him by the imperial official Valorna from her arms.

Natalie took it and looked at it, and found that it was similar to what Helen said, but then she found the signatures of Eudocia and Irina on it.

"What does this signature mean?" Natalie smelled a thieving cat.

Helen waved her hand and said, "I guess Osius tricked her into signing the contract."

As a player in the previous life, I know that this old guy has many tricks up his sleeve, and he can make a lot of moves even with such a hellish start.

clatter! clatter! clatter!

Suddenly, there were bursts of horse hoof sounds outside the carriage. Helen and Natalie opened the curtain and saw groups of city defense officers riding on steel steam warhorses galloping out.

"What happened?"

Natalie asked uneasily.

"There's something wrong with this group of people..." Helen noticed that the officers outside the window were carrying out large and small bags, and among them he also saw Brother Philip who was guarding the city gate.

"Philip!" Helen shouted at Philip who was galloping on his horse.

As if he heard Helen's voice, Philip drove his horse out of the team and looked around.

"Stop!" Natalie cleverly leaned out from the curtain and shouted to the royal coachman.

The royal coachman cooperated and stopped the carriage by the roadside.

Philip, who was parked on the side of the road, also noticed Helen and rode his iron steam warhorse to the carriage where Helen was. "Helen...ah no, Saint Lady, is there anything I can help you with?"

When Philip saw Helen's appearance clearly, he was happy for a moment, but then he thought of the difference in status between himself and Helen, so he immediately bowed his head and saluted, and his tone became humble.

Helen was startled and suddenly thought of Runtu, the son of Emperor Zhou Shuren.

"No, there's no need to do that. Just like usual... okay?" Helen asked softly.

Philip was startled, then nodded somewhat stiffly.

"What are you and your troops doing so late now?" Helen demanded.

Philip subconsciously wanted to answer about military secrets, but then he remembered that Helen would be the queen in the future, and might even be one of the city defense army's immediate superiors, so he scratched his head and answered:

"Our commander said we should go out of the city to fight the goblins and make a exploratory attack," Philip replied.

A tentative attack?

Helen felt like she was hearing a joke. To put it bluntly, the city defense forces could only rely on the city defense to fight, and they didn't do much training in normal times.

Now that the main force has been defeated, not to mention the weak city defense forces, wouldn’t it be courting death to leave the city?

It would be better to trust the player army to push back.

"Who gave the order?" Helen continued to ask.

"Ah? Isn't that sir?"

"I mean the top!"

"Um... I've heard from many colleagues that they want to make meritorious deeds together with His Royal Highness." Philip looked up and thought.

Are these people going to run away?

Helen's inner alarm bells rang, and she immediately shouted to Philip, "Go home, go home now!"

Philip was startled and pointed at himself.

"Yes, if you're afraid of being held accountable, just say it was... an order from His Majesty, and then let them question me."

Helen didn't care about anything at this moment and made many presumptuous moves.

Philip nodded with difficulty.

"If possible, let those you have a good relationship with go back with you. Of course, if you can't persuade them, forget it." Helen anxiously lowered the car curtain.

Philip said good-bye, turned his horse and left the street, starting his journey home.

"What's wrong with Helen?" Natalie asked anxiously.

Helen stroked her chin. "Do you think it means anything for an army to be frantically mobilized in the afternoon?"

Natalie tilted her head and said, "Military exercises?"

"I hope so. Go into the palace first. I want to see Her Majesty Eudocia." Helen shouted to the royal coachman.

"Yes." The coachman immediately restarted the mechanical carriage.

After Helen arrived at the palace, she finally met Eudocia who was reviewing documents in the study according to the procedure.

"What's wrong?" Eudocia stood up from the desk and rubbed her eyebrows.

Because there were so many things going on in the past few days, even though Osius asked her to go to Helen to relax at noon, she was still exhausted.

Natalie, who was following behind Helen, told Helen about her guesses along the way.

"I understand. I will inform Osius and Arthur immediately."

Although Eudocia had never been in charge of the garrison in the city, she knew the seriousness of the matter and immediately convened a cabinet meeting without hesitation.

Although it was a cabinet meeting, it was actually just the three majesties, Prime Minister Osius, Imperial Ink Officer Valorna, and Helen and Natalie who came to report.

"I know the situation of the city defense forces."

When Helen finished reporting the situation, Osius spoke.

Everyone was startled.

"I want to commend Helen for this. She had the guts to report it immediately when the signs started, and she wasn't worried about a false alarm." Osius looked at Helen with admiration. "Courage is exactly what a leader should have."

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I think the most urgent task is to prepare countermeasures." Helen's mouth twitched slightly.

The reason why he dared to report it was because this scene never happened in his previous life. In his previous life, there was a rebellion within the city defense army, but that was when the goblins attacked the city.

How come it’s early?

"Do you think I'll have a good ending if I stop some soldiers from getting rich?" Osius closed his eyes. "I've already exhausted all my financial resources to keep the garrison from defecting."

"Uncle, what do you mean? You can't control the city defense army?" Emperor Nero stood up and shouted with some defenselessness.

Arthur stood up and saluted the three kings. "Please allow me to lead the troops to quell the rebellion."

"Do we want to let the people who have just gained hope see the fighting within the empire?" Osius said lightly.

Arthur and Nero were speechless.

"I've already notified the garrison to try to bring back the troops not affected by Prince Julian." Osius leaned back in his chair. "As for the centrists, there's nothing we can do about them, including those ignorant soldiers under my command."

Helen hesitated to speak.

To put it bluntly, the city defense forces here are so difficult to escape as long as the commanders make a decision.

"How many city defense troops are expected to leave?" Eudocia stared at Osius.