Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War.

Chapter 164 Wholesale of Holy Relics

"There is indeed a story about that person. I have seen some traces he left behind, so I can be sure it is true. However, I have never met him directly. There was a gap of time between us."

In fact, there is some subtle fate between Orville and the other party. When Orville was still the leader of the Palfi rebels, he was pushed out to serve as the temporary governor of a place. To be honest, his status is quite high. He is one of the "Ten Generals" who go out to guard the holy city. The place where he served as governor and organized defense is called Meier, which is actually called Galilee in the original world.

This place is not very big, only a few thousand square kilometers, and it does not have any particularly important strategic resources, but it is quite famous because it is the legendary hometown of Jesus Christ.

The original Orville actually had a very bad impression of this man. As mentioned above, most people in Palfy regarded Christianity as a heretical religion and were very hostile to it. In the end, this prophet died because he was tried by the Palfy people and sentenced to treason. Of course, the current Orville doesn't care, and even thinks that Christianity has more enlightened aspects.

"If he was such a powerful Chosen One, why was he executed by you Romans? Can you suppress the Chosen One? I heard that he didn't seem to resist."

Apparently Astolfo didn't know about these minor details and considered the beliefs of the Palfi people and the beliefs of the Eternals in other places as one big category. Orville wasn't the kind of moralist who didn't care and continued to answer the other party's questions.

"He may be one of the most powerful chosen ones in history. I think such a person can only be killed if he is willing to be killed by others. Since he was executed by us, he must have been killed voluntarily."

To give an inappropriate example, generally speaking, the strongest gifted person is probably at the level of Captain America, who can be jokingly called the Roman Superman or the German Superman, but those chosen by God are sometimes really like Superman.

The Chosen Ones are beyond common sense and standards, which is something Orville has verified from Jeanne. The historical records of Rome and Greece are relatively mature, and naturally there are many stories about the Chosen Ones. In the original mythological era, there were even supernatural creatures such as Warcraft in the world. Those strong men and women seemed to be able to tear Warcraft apart with their bare hands and destroy cities alone. It was like a human-shaped Gundam god descending to earth, and it felt like gods fighting each other.

Considering the overwhelming popularity of Jesus Christ in later generations, as God's chosen one, he should undoubtedly be the strongest one. At least Orville is sure that some of his miracles have been truly implemented.

Healing injuries, generating food out of thin air, transforming matter, walking on water. It all sounds very powerful. Although he didn't show his own martial arts, Orville tends to think that his opponent's martial arts value is not low. After all, Jeanna, whose main ability is "X-ray", still has a good martial arts value. We can know it by using this as a substitute.

Astolfo rolled his eyes when he heard this, and was obviously planning something. "Did he leave anything behind? I'd like to see it. It is said that things touched by the Chosen Ones will also be contaminated with some spiritual power. I would like to collect some. I can exchange them with you for the money I have in the Kingdom of Frank."

Orville simply shook his head, indicating that he didn't have any.

In fact, although he did not have them in his hands, he knew where they were, lying in the treasury of the Herod family, gathering dust. The Herod family also collected the prophet's things for similar reasons, and they were well preserved. The most famous of these relics should be the legendary Spear of Longinus and the True Cross, one is the spear that stabbed Jesus to death, and the other is the True Cross that hung Jesus. In the Middle Ages, these two things became treasures like the Heshi Bi and the Imperial Seal, the difference may be that they are easier to forge.

Although the True Cross that can hang a person is very large, according to incomplete statistics, the fragments of the True Cross that various people in history claim to have are enough to be pieced together to form a ship.

The Spear of Longinus was a bit better, it was just a common character in various legends. Orville guessed that Astolfo might have asked him for the relic for a similar reason, and it might also be related to Charlemagne who did not appear.

Legend has it that the tip of Charlemagne's sword Julius was forged from the spear of Longinus. Of course, this is probably not true in history, but it has been mentioned repeatedly in many legends. For example, the Song of Roland, the culmination of medieval martial arts poetry, devotes a large section to writing about the holy sword Julius.

Although he didn't hate him, he wasn't familiar with Astolfo. The most important thing was that they had no common interests, so there was no reason for him to help him. So he just pretended to be stupid. Anyway, there were only a few people who knew the exact location of the relic. If the other party didn't find the right way, they couldn't dig it out. After the Palphic War, the Herod family's ability to hide their own treasury had reached perfection, and they were afraid of exposing the gold coins to others.
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The offensive continued in this uneventful manner for a while before Boudica's troops joined his own. Orville inspected the other side's troops with a scrutinizing eye. To be honest, they were much better than the barbaric and primitive image he had imagined.

He was not an omniscient person, there must be things he didn't know. His knowledge reserve was not that scary, and he remembered everything as clearly as if it was imprinted in his mind. The things related to the Celts here were only learned after he traveled through time, and they were all Roman records.

Obviously, the text describes the British barbarians as being a little too barbaric, saying that they would cut off people's breasts and sew them back to their mouths, and use jigsaw puzzles to make paintings and create art. Orwell was a little speechless after reading this.

Since there was no objective and fair material at all and he was influenced by biased materials, even though he knew there would be exaggerations in the text, he still couldn't help but underestimate the overall level of these British Celts. They were not that bad. At least everyone's values ​​were still those of normal human beings, and they were more or less civilized.

Of course, if Orville had a deeper understanding, he could only say that there were some, but not many. The other party was still influenced by many backward customs of ancient times, and the content could only be said to be incomprehensible to outsiders.

I don't know how the Celtic barbarians in the original world are, but at least the Celtic barbarians in this world already have cavalry and serious heavy infantry. Chariots are gradually withdrawing from the stage of history. Although light infantry is very important, it is not the only type of soldiers. Thanks to this, the combat effectiveness of these tall warriors seems to be good, at least it is enough for Orville to use. And the key point is that they all have hatred for the Germans in their hearts, and their fighting willpower can exceed their own level and reach a considerable level.

I found that there was a problem with the order of the previous chapters, but I couldn’t change the chapter names, so I used this one as the standard again.

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