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Chapter 583 The Emperor’s Humiliation

Constantine VI never thought that things would one day become so difficult and troublesome.

A priest offended him in public. Normally, he would have been dealt with long ago along with his relatives and friends. Who would have thought that an ecumenical council would be convened for this priest, and who would have thought that it would be difficult to rule on him. For the crime, a priest actually rushed out and shouted in the name of the prophet that Iden should not be executed.

Constantine VI was furious.

He glanced at Verdo and Iden angrily, and then thought about the dwarf priest's words.

As an emperor, although he can get angry, he rarely loses his reason.

Verdo brought a letter from the prophet, requesting a general meeting to publicly judge Iden. After the results of the trial came out, he suddenly declared that Iden was a person valued by the prophet and should not be killed.

This series of events seems so suspicious.

Constantine VI's intuition told him that Verdor was lying. The heretic priest Eden was not valued by the prophet at all, and the prophet's letter was a complete lie.

He raised his hand and was about to shout for someone to drag the priest down.

But at this moment,
His Majesty the Emperor noticed that in the venue, along with Verdo's words, the priests began to make noise again.

People were intensely discussing Verdo's words, which had been suppressed before. The priests who expressed sympathy for Iden now became louder, and in the name of the prophet, they said many words to defend Iden.

There was even a small commotion in the royal family's seats.

"Merciful Lord, have mercy on me."

The queen whispered.

"That man is like Doriath..."

Althea said subconsciously.

After the queen heard this, she raised her eyes and glanced at Althea with complicated eyes.

"Don't say that, Althea!"

Although she sympathized with Eden, didn't Althea's words just mean that her father was the ignorant King Dorian?
Althea knew she had said the wrong thing, so she immediately closed her mouth and looked directly at Eden.

Even if the princess stopped speaking, these voices still fell into the ears of the Osenko envoys. These foreign envoys inevitably began to chatter, and the co-emperor Philip had to stand up and try to appease this group of people who had come from afar. Messengers.

Noticing the noisy scene at the venue, Constantine VI had to stop his movements and fell into deep thought.

Regardless of whether what Verdo said was true or false, after all, he was a person who had seen the prophet, and handling the priest roughly in public would not have any good consequences.

What's more, that heretic priest has caused enough trouble to him.

The emperor began to feel that his intuition might not be trustworthy, and it was not impossible for people to be deceived by intuition.

After weighing the pros and cons, Constantine VI put down his hands and couldn't help but start thinking about countermeasures.

Even though what Verdo said was full of doubts, it still had a certain degree of credibility because of his identity.

If it were someone else who rushed out, I would never be so hesitant.

Although Constantine VI believed that Iden would not be someone valued by the prophet, even if there was only one tenth chance, he could not afford the consequences.

After careful consideration, Constantine VI waved his hand and declared a temporary adjournment. He asked Archbishop Deschanel to bring Verdo over. At the same time, he also ordered several patriarchs to come over to verify whether Verdo's words were true. .

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Verdot endured nearly two hours of questioning, so much so that he missed Vespers.

He himself knew that both the prophet's letters and the so-called people whom the prophet valued were all lies.

But he had already given up, and there was no turning back.

In order to fulfill a lie, you can only tell more lies.

Thanks to his experience as a wanderer, lying is not difficult for Verdo. On the contrary, when he was young, Verdo was very good at deception.

In front of all the patriarchs, Verdo held on to the name of the prophet Sealand and explained how much Sealand valued Eden. Apart from that, he would not talk about anything else. As for how the prophet contacted him, Verdo said , there is no sign of the prophet's connection, it comes suddenly like a miracle and cannot be repeated.

Due to the warnings in the scriptures, no one dared to take the risk of prophesying the prophet or people related to the prophet. They could only judge the truth from Verdo’s words, and upon further questioning, Verdo, who was good at lying, did not No ponytail exposed.

In addition to Verdo's performance, the most critical person in this inquiry is Patriarch Casas.

As one of the patriarchs of the church, Patriarch Casas has always been respected as a good old man, and his words are very influential among the patriarchs.

Of course, more importantly, he is the only one who knows Verdo's lies.

Patriarch Casas not only hid it for Verdo, but also cooperated with him, saying that Verdo was one of the most honest people to God among the people he had ever met.

After this, even if there were still doubts about the matter, the emperor and the patriarchs did not dare to conclude that it was a lie.

After the inquiry, Constantine VI let out a deep breath. He came to the end of the corridor alone, his expression became ferocious.

"This heresy...shameful heresy..."

Constantine VI felt humiliated.Eden has really brought him too many troubles. He feels that if he continues to deal with it, the troubles will not only not decrease, but will become more and more intense. Even if it can be solved by then, it will still take a long time. Pay a huge price.

Reason told Constantine that it was time to call it a day.

And Constantine chose to listen to his own reason.

He gripped the marble railing of the corridor and kept cursing Eden in a low voice. For the first time, Deschanel's Emperor felt a little helpless humiliation.

A moment later, when he appeared at the venue again, his ferocious look was gone, with a calm smile on his face.

Patriarch Deschanel walked to the court and announced the latest decision for the emperor.

"Confirmed by the Holy Ecumenical Council..."

The ruling that Eden was regarded as a heretic was not overturned, because it was decided by a vote of the clergy and no one could tamper with it at will. However, Eden's punishment was changed. The ecumenical council gave him two months to reform, but His personal freedom is not restricted, he is simply deported.

In short, execution became exile.

After getting this result, Verdo finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and his tense nerves finally relaxed, and he almost fell to the ground.

After questioning, the emperor and the patriarchs did not dare to assert that what they said was a lie, nor did they believe that it was the truth. In a compromise, they decided to expel Iden and impose a minor excommunication that would not deprive him of his priesthood.

This is already the best result.

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Eden was released that night.

Verdo quickly accepted him and led him to his place.

When Eden met with Verdo, the first thing he said besides his blessing was to excitedly ask what the prophet valued.

If it were other people, they might be caught off guard by this question and hesitate, but Verdo was already prepared for this.

"The Prophet is waiting for me to lead you to him, but beyond that I know nothing."

Verdo understood the principle of saying too much and making many mistakes, so he gave such a mysterious answer.

There is no doubt that Eden believed these words and praised the prophet and Verdo in person.

"Next, do I want to go with you?"

Eden asked,

"I have nowhere to go. I'm going to be expelled from this empire, but what about you? Aren't you going to stay here?"

Before answering Eden's question, Verdo corrected him:
"Eden, there is no need to use the honorific title for me, just use 'you'. We are just servants of God."

Then, Verdo lowered his head, as if thinking about something.

He asked Eden to follow him, not because he really wanted to take him to see the prophet, but because he was worried about Eden's safety.

Everyone knew that Iden had offended the ruler of the empire.

Verdo was not particularly worried about the emperor's methods. In his opinion, in the name of the prophet, the emperor would not openly break the contract or violate the results of the sentence, but the same could not be said for those who were loyal to the emperor and wanted to please the emperor.

Because of this, although in the name of the prophet, not many people would be eyeing Verdot, there was no guarantee that no individual emperor's supporters would take the risk and attack Iden.

After all, for individual supporters, this is a high-risk and high-yield gamble. If Iden is really someone whom the prophet values, then admit defeat. If Iden is not, it means flattering and getting close to the emperor. Opportunities for power.

Just as Verdo was thinking about where to go, there was a sudden knock on the door.

The dwarf priest opened the door and saw that it was the queen's maid.

"Father, Her Royal Highness the Queen invites you to go to the palace and explain the scriptures to Her Royal Highness the Princess..."

Verdo knew immediately that the so-called explanation of scriptures was just an excuse, and Her Royal Highness the Queen might have other desires.

So he asked Eden to follow him, and they went to the palace together.

It was late at night, and the streets near the palace were full of patrolling guards.

Eden followed Verdo and, under the leadership of the maid, walked into the palace for the first time.

In the past, I could only see it from a distance, but now I walked into it in person. Eden couldn't help but sigh at the splendor of the palace.

"God, this is so majestic. It's like a cornucopia on earth."

Eden murmured in his heart,

"But a group of sinners actually live in a place like this..."

This palace, together with Deschanel, the capital of the empire, is both powerful and sinful. It is like the capital of the entire world. It is like a dazzling gem set in the center of the earth. It... seems to be eternal.

(End of this chapter)