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Chapter 20

Dean Larivier was also looking at the young king, who was eleven years old, and was as old as a new leaf. His noble blood and the gift of God destined him to have an angel-like face. He sat in an armchair, wearing a pair of sapphire blue shoes on his legs with white stockings, matching his luxurious indigo-green embroidered silver-flowered jacket. Since Louis XIII, the palace has stopped the inflated Raff collar, but has been replaced with a large and elegant lapel. Today's king is no longer the same. His lapel is decorated with three layers of hollow lace, which looks fine and elegant.

Louis smiled as soon as he saw La Rivier, not because of anything else, but the dean was very much like a respectable saint. About three hundred years later, the saint would drive a moose-pulled carriage on every Christmas night, running on the way to give gifts to every good child. Dean La Rivier had a fluffy white beard like him, shaved on his head and a small black hat. Today he wore a grand Dutch woolen robe and a pair of incense gloves (small lambskin gloves that were incense). He was not here to give gifts to the king, but it could also make the king's increasingly depressed mood slightly relaxed recently.

The king benevolently asked the dean to kiss his hand, "Please sit." He said: "Mr. Larivier."

Bontang brought a footstool to the dean. After all, his current identity is not qualified to use a seat in front of the king. La Rivier certainly would not care. He lifted up his robe as gracefully as possible and sat down slowly. Bontang brought hot tea. He could be said to have restrainedly picked it up and added about three spoonfuls of sugar to it, and then took it up and took a sip. "This is the best tea I have ever tasted," he complimented: "No more warm and sober drink than this."

Louis just smiled, "You can add some more sugar, sir." People at this time were extremely passionate about sweetness. Without that kind of food, there was no need to add sugar. Although there was sugar in cakes and bread, wine was even more indispensable. Add sugar to stew meat, and honey was indispensable for grilled fish. When boiled eggs were dipped in sugar. When you drink a glass of clean water, you had to put the sugar bowl aside... Fortunately, at this time, there was already a toothbrush, and tooth powder made of rock salt, dried iris, mint and pepper. Louis asked them to add rose oil, so that they got the simplest toothpaste.

After all, before him, there was a king who died of tooth decay. Louis was not very satisfied with his current life, but he did not want to meet the glorious God so soon. Moreover, his current medical level - although there was already a prototype of science, techniques such as bloodletting and hang still stubbornly held the first place in medical books, not to mention, some very heretical practices were popular at this time, such as using part of the human body as medicine, from the brain to blood, from Charles I, who had just been cut off to the Egyptian pharaohs a thousand years ago, were all-encompassing - it is said that it was very effective, but Louis would rather die than feel the ghoul's recipe.

Dean Larivier immediately added three spoonfuls of sugar to the cup when he heard this. Not only him, but even the king was satisfied. After he finished drinking the tea in the cup, Louis asked him to read the book in his hand. This was a book about werewolf rumors. It was used by Louis as a fantasy novel. Now he realized it was documentary literature.

"The church recognized werewolf in 1414, at the Council of Stans, and the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund forced them to admit it." President Larivier simply said that Bishop Mazaran had reminded him before, and he knew very well that what a young man like Louis hated the most was that someone regarded them as children who could deceive at will, so he planned it from the beginning, and as long as the king had a heart to ask, he would answer everything.

“But it will not take until twenty years later,” La Rivier said, “the church admits that there are vampires.”

"In fact, both werewolf and vampires have lasted for nearly a thousand years," the king asked, "Why is the church reluctant to admit it?"

"Because," said La Rivier, "because... His Majesty, the church has no way to deal with these dark creatures and the devil's apostles."

This sentence surprised Louis, "But I saw that there were indeed priests and monks fighting werewolf."

"Not only werewolf, but also vampires and wizards," said Larivier. "But that is not the church, it is another team with extraordinary power. They had been hiding in the inner world 1231 years ago and were part of the inner world. It was not until 1231 that the Father Gregory IX insisted on his own and set up a religious court in the name of the Demon Society, and they gradually turned from the backstage to the front curtain."

"Then they existed a long time ago."

"Not that, Your Majesty, among the saints you have heard of, three of them were once members of them, but they... They are all people with strange ideas. Sometimes even the most enlightened Popes cannot fully believe them - to put it simply, they are mostly ascetics, so they are all monks, so they all know the previous ones..." La Rivier made a gesture that everyone understood: "There are many dissatisfactions in the church, and Rome does not need such a group of people to come and point fingers at them. Anyway, those people always take it as their responsibility to eliminate dark creatures and wizards. Even if the church intentionally ignores and treats them coldly, they will not care much. They... Your Majesty, ask me to say that they are a group of arrogant people, and no one will be taken seriously by them except God. If I were to say from the bottom of my heart, I think there is no big difference between them and werewolf and vampires."

"So who made them decide to come out?"

"You know Honorlius III, this respectable Holy Father, who has done a lot for the church. In 1220, he crowned Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire and allowed him to combine Sicily with the Holy Roman Empire. In order to repay Honorlius III, Frederick II issued the decree "The Power of Monks and Princes", which gave the priests various privileges, exempted the church's tax obligations, gave up secular rule over the church, and promised to suppress heresy-the power of the church suddenly expanded to an unparalleled level. Although this can only be said to be the last weight, for monks who have been hesitating whether to turn from the inner world to the surface world..., this can only be said to be the will of God. Although they have always believed that they are superior to others in terms of morality and steadfast, there are always unbearable times."

"I can't stand it...what?" the king asked with a smile.
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