Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 547 Avalon

With the pendant on his foot, the sad Iron Devil disappeared outside the church gate, as if a nightmare had ended. The stunned cardinals and the Inquisition finally responded and ran out of the church in panic.

It started raining outside the Sistine Chapel, and the figure of the Sad Demon disappeared in the heavy rain. No one knew where César was going, just like no one knew how he got the armor to his side.

There should have been heavy defenses here, but when the mysterious armor broke in, no one reported it, and no one in the church heard the sound of fighting outside.

It was unusually quiet outside the church. After the Inquisition took over, all nearby blocks were under martial law. Even clergy serving in the Sistine Chapel were not allowed to enter or leave, eliminating any possibility of accidents.

Now, outside the church is still very quiet, but in a mess.

Fragments of mobile armor flew everywhere, and the officers of the Inquisition who were in charge of guarding the place struggled to crawl out from under the ruins. They were not dead, but they looked so miserable.

They reported to the cardinals with difficulty that the armor attacked too quickly. Some of them reacted quickly, but it was useless to just react. By the time they realized what happened, all the Seraphim Iron Cavalry guarding here had been wiped out.

No one saw the armor's movements clearly, and by the time they came to their senses, the door of the Sistine Chapel had been kicked open. The sad demon god stepped into the church where his throne was hidden, like a king waiting to be crowned.

The cardinals who knew all this fell silent, as they recalled the boy's speech in the church. His unyielding demeanor was very much like the founder of the Roman Empire and its dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar... No, the name Césaire itself means Caesar!
When this child was born, the person who named him must have hoped that he would, like the Roman dictator, bring glory to the country to further places.

Although they had been mentally prepared that César might possess powers that they did not know about, when they really saw him fighting against an entire army alone, the shock in the hearts of the cardinals was like when they first learned about the existence of Seraphim when they were young.

As they were good at theology and political science, they did not understand the structure of mobile armor. However, they knew the foundation of the Papal State and knew that it was this kind of armor that could make the Western countries fear the Papal State again.

The Seraphim Knights had used violence to smash the Roman Empire and inherited half of the land of that huge empire. The Knight King had once killed Prometheus with a single sword with absolute power, maintaining the absolute status of the Seraphim...

The reason why the Papal State can make the West submit has nothing to do with controlling the world's largest religion, but because of the Seraphim, who possess the most powerful army in the world!
It was the Seraph that made the Papal States, which was originally located in a corner on the southern side of the Apennine Peninsula, own so much land. It was also the Seraph that made the Western countries submit to the Papal States and made almost the entire world fear the Papal States.

And now, the Seraph Knights were severely damaged, and all the cardinals who had lost the foundation of their country were terrified. However, the emergence of greater violence by César made them feel at ease.

"But such a child doesn't seem easy to control," said a cardinal, with fear in his voice.

They all saw the end of Archbishop Cicero, the cardinal who once controlled the Papal States and even the world, died in such a funny way of being frightened to death. At this moment, his body was covered with a white cloth and carried out by the executioner of the Inquisition.

Originally, the cardinals would gather around his body and hold a small memorial ceremony for him, hoping that his soul would soon return to heaven. But now, no one paid any attention to him.

At this point, no one dared to convict the boy. He knew what kind of power he possessed. He might not be able to destroy a country by himself, but it seemed not difficult for him to break through the heavily guarded Sistine Chapel and kill all the heads of the Papal States.

A country that is so powerful that it is coveted by all parties may immediately organize a leadership to take over the country after suffering such a blow... But no matter who it is, no one likes to be the one being sacrificed.

"Think about Cicero," someone answered him. "The old order is no longer useful. The country is changing."

There may still be people who are reluctant to give up their current status and want to return to the old order. Unfortunately, the country's changes will not wait for them... What's more, César is not alone.

A wild lion can bite the throat of any predator on the grassland at will. Such behavior may lead to siege by other predators. However, if there is a lion leader in his prime behind the wild lion, the situation will be different.

The pope walked out of the doorless church gate, and his eyes hidden behind the brown eyeglasses looked around the messy church indifferently. In this trial, his two children were mentioned.

But he himself acted as if his children did not exist, and was indifferent to anything that happened during the trial. He even treated the death of Archbishop Cicero as the death of an irrelevant person before his eyes.

Now, the iron-blooded Pope who often opposed the cardinal finally took action, which made the cardinal feel at ease again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Son of God has come. I think we need to talk again about the future of this country." The Pope said softly.

As the Pope who probably knows the least about religion, he may not know the meaning of "Son of God". But when he reunited with Césaire, the fateful feeling made him feel that the title of Son of God was very suitable for his son.

The father and son did not want to destroy the country, but to change it. This was a sad but acceptable fact for the cardinals. The ancient families that truly controlled the city of Florence were the Borgia families, and the Borgia family was just one of them.

Letting the Borgia family temporarily take charge of Florence was not something unacceptable to the families behind the cardinals.

In the hundred years since the founding of the Papal States, many families have held power. Some of them collapsed after a few months of glory and disappeared in the long river of history. Some of them retreated behind the scenes and continued to this day.

No matter how powerful César and Long are, they are still human beings after all. And God will not always favor the Borgia family.

……

Not interested in the power changes at the top of the Papal States, Cesare was taking the elevator down. Franco chattered behind him, just to know where he hid the devil-like armor again.

Cesar couldn't explain it to him because it was something that couldn't be understood by science.

There are super powers in this world. After the soldiers of the Templar Armored Division lost their eyepieces, they died while loudly praising God in front of Omega, which made César certain that it was one of the super powers.

The Seraph Armor was at most an imitation of that extraordinary power. The Cardinal also knew that such extraordinary power existed, so after he displayed that incredible power, he was like a duck with its throat pinched, unable to make a sound.

They needed this kind of power to make the world once again enveloped in the glory of the Papal States. The Seraph's experiments, which were almost like abusing qualified people, were designed to discover this kind of extraordinary power.

This is also one of the reasons why Franco was able to quickly accept that the armor could act autonomously without human control. It is said that in a warehouse at the bottom of the Minerva Agency, there is also an armor that is unmanned but can act autonomously.

But in fact, what César possessed was another extraordinary power... the power from the devil. César did not mention this to anyone because he could not explain what it was.

He could only vaguely feel that after he accepted this power, the rugged fate that seemed to make him experience all kinds of suffering had gone away from him.

Blocking out Franco's chatter, César whispered in his heart: "Devil, are you there?"

"I've told you I'm not a devil anymore." Lu Mingfei's voice rang in his heart.

Xizel continued, "I am now heading to the underground of Florence, where the Minerva Agency's headquarters is. If there are any important secrets in Florence, I think it would be easier to find them from here."

"Yeah, well, keep going then." Lu Mingfei's response seemed a little perfunctory.

To this day, Xizel still remembers that Lu Mingfei once said something unintentionally - Why is it Florence?
If you ask which city is the center of the Western world, even the Xia people can give the answer of Rome. As one of the oldest and largest countries in Western history, the influence brought by the Roman Empire is something that the Papal States cannot erase in a hundred years.

As the origin of that huge empire, Rome, the city on seven hills, is the real capital of Western culture. In the era when steam technology was not yet popular, it had a road system that could lead to all parts of the West. The proverb "all roads lead to Rome" is not just a saying.

Compared to Florence, which has only a hundred years of history, Rome is undoubtedly the most suitable option as the capital of the Papal States. However, the top leaders of the Papal States sneered at the cultural city.

No well-known family in Florence had ever left Florence for Rome, which was more spacious and more suitable for living. There was even a cardinal who proposed to lease this city of seven hills to the New Roman Empire in exchange for their continued support.

Therefore, César felt that there must be something in Florence that made the families that had been in charge of this country not want to leave.

He told his doubts to the Pope, but the latter said he could not help. What Césaire wanted to know was probably not something the cardinal had the right to know. The families hidden behind the cardinals were in charge of the biggest secrets of the city, and these families were also descendants of the monks who returned from Avalon, the "last paradise".

The heads of the Borgia family might know this biggest secret, but Cesare disliked those corrupt old men, just as he disliked the aggressive Archbishop Cicero.

Cesare felt that they might not tell the secret so easily, even if they knew the fate of Archbishop Cicero.

Rather than wasting time with a group of old immortals, Xizel would rather trust his intuition. This feeling became stronger after entering the orbital elevator, and his heart beat violently, as if foreshadowing that he was about to meet an ancient being.

"You don't seem to be curious about the truth of Florence?" Xizel asked with some confusion.

He remembered that the other party once said that one of the purposes of his coming to this world was to find out why Florence.

"Of course I'm curious, but that thing has to take a back seat for now." Lu Mingfei said, "I don't think you can imagine where I am now."

"Where is it?" César asked doubtfully. This devil seldom played the game of guessing where I was... If he mentioned it, would it mean that he was very close to him now?

"Avalon." Lu Mingfei said, "'The Last Paradise' Avalon, I am on this island now."

……

The glaciers showed blue cracks in the moonlight, as if they were forgotten by the world. The cold wind swept through the endless tundra, and white dust and fog rolled up. The aurora hung down from the sky, like the last message left to the world by a great civilization.

This seems to be a realm of death. The remains of the killer whale are embedded deep in the ice, biting a rotten iron anchor in its mouth, like a believer who has completed his mission and returned to the arms of the Lord.

This is what Westerners believe is the end of the world. In their legends, there is nothing on the other side of the iceberg except endless sea.

However, with the emergence of mechanical technology, more and more people began to explore the end of the sea. Then they came to a surprising conclusion - the other side of the sea is the East.

They deduced that the world was a huge circle, and the way to the East was not just across the Caucasus Mountains and the Strait of Storms. By crossing the endless ice fields at the end of the world, they would definitely reach the easternmost part of the East.

Compared to the western fortress Dragon City, which was armed to deal with Westerners, this easternmost land in the East was almost defenseless to the armored troops of the Papal States.

However, compared with the price of crossing the endless ice and facing the unknown world behind the ice, spending ten years to break through the Caucasus Mountains and enter the East seems to be extremely cost-effective.

Lu Mingfei stood on the ice ridge and looked at the dead land, silently gazing at the deserted island surrounded by ice.

He broke his promise and did not go to Florence. Instead, at the invitation of his allies, he came to the end of the world and saw the island of Avalon, which is known as the "last paradise left by the gods."

(End of this chapter)