When the Saintess Arrives, No King Exist

Chapter 1361: Chapter 1279: New Offspring

As the new year begins, heavy snow falls.

Along with the snowflakes, the Advisory Council Gazettes are flying like snowflakes into thousands of households.

This is the brightest day for the Advisory Council Gazette.

The Truth Newspaper will not report on the Pope’s private life, and other newspapers cannot access the Pope’s private life.

Only the Advisory Council Gazette can access the Pope’s private life without so many restrictions.

From the newspaper, the believers of the Holy Alliance have received good news.

Holy Father blesses, finally a Saintess is pregnant!

Both in the army and among civilians, there is great excitement because the Saint’s Grandson is over thirty, married but still without children, causing the simple believers to worry.

They always had a pure and simple concern, could it be that the Saint’s Grandson... is incapable?

Now knowing Saintess Jia Li is pregnant, this doubt is finally cleared, the Saint’s Grandson is capable!

Yet as this joy gradually recedes, people feel both happiness and worry.

Because the pregnant Saintess is none other than Jia Li.

Although Jia Li always claims to be a Black Snake Bay person, everyone knows it’s just self-deception.

She is Moliat, the former Duke Hemashi, a possessor of the bloodline of the three kings, a conservative of the iron-blood Thousand River Valley.

For those believers of the Mountain Faction, they only feel that in the end, it must be a Pope from the Thousand River Valley.

Thinking carefully, the bloodline of the three royal families of the empire and the bloodline of the chosen Saint Sun Pope combined suddenly gains claims of the three kingdoms.

The Hemashi Clan’s blood is just too suitable!

Yet for the believers of the more reformist Plain Faction, especially the immigrant groups, there is inevitable anxiety.

If Jia Li, a conservative’s child comes to power, what will happen to these groups with different cultures?

Will they be forcibly assimilated or expelled?

Especially the reformist clergy, they are anxious due to the merging of the Pope’s position and the bloodline of the three kings.

They fear the Holy Alliance will become the Holy Alliance Empire.

Despite Horn’s repeated statements that the Pope will still be elected in accordance with the basic law,

The fact is, after Horn, people will only firmly choose Horn’s descendants over other candidates.

What if an outsider of the Gallar Family is elected and disrupts the Holy Alliance’s momentum?

After all, having just emerged from the feudal era, while martial virtue is abundant among the people, old thoughts still lurk beneath their consciousness.

The belief in heroic ancestry and bloodline will lead people to make irrational behaviors.

Especially since the child’s mother is Jia Li, making Horn inevitably worried.

Regarding the issue of inheritance, Horn’s plan is to be Pope for fifty or eighty years, then return power.

His long tenure isn’t due to his reluctance to leave, but to safeguard the Holy Alliance and prevent his offspring from promoting a family dynasty.

Most importantly, Horn knows he cannot endure the burdens for so many years.

He often feels fatigued now; let alone fifty years from now.

Frankly, Horn has always considered his current position as temporary, necessary for national unity and defense against foreign enemies.

He understands that historically, family monarchies are destined to be replaced, republics will eventually replace monarchies.

He doesn’t want his family to become enemies of the believers.

Once the Holy Alliance is on the right track, and the Pope becomes a formal state leader, decoupling from the Gallar Family will normalize the family smoothly.

Due to Horn and the presence of four Saintesses, it’s conceivable that the Gallar Family will become the top political family of the Holy Alliance.

At this point, denying this is unrealistic, but it is not Horn’s concern.

In the Holy Alliance system, not climbing ranks leads to downstream flow, with grandchildren’s fortunes being their own, Horn is uninterested.

However, to prevent certain ambitious individuals from causing trouble, and to partially liberate himself from politics, Horn decided to return some power early.

Soon, a new announcement spreads from the Truth Newspaper.

Due to busy battlefield affairs, the Saint’s Grandson sometimes has to be away.

Thus His Holiness the Pope decided to appoint a chief cardinal separately, who won’t serve as any department head, solely to assist Horn and handle some government affairs when Horn is absent.

This decision has now entered the Cardinal Group for study and vote.

The intention of this political statement is clear, which is to separate the Gallar Family from the binding of the Pope and power.

Obviously, the Mountain Faction believers are wailing in dissatisfaction, while the Plain Faction believers are much relieved.

This means the Saint’s Grandson himself does not wish for the Pope’s position to be handed down hereditary like emperors and kings.

Knowing this point is very important for the believers.

Amidst this celebration, it seems no one senses the southern army is moving significantly towards the new five counties.

Just after the new year, Horn arranged for the southern army to head to the new five counties.

Under such circumstances, the soldiers are naturally dissatisfied, but the Holy Alliance’s Senior Pastors quickly dispel this discontent.

The method of dispelling is simple, starting with two layers.

The first layer is obviously awarding bonuses and subsidies, shopping vouchers for grain, oil, and other goods, with sufficient food supplies on the way, including a daily soft white bread, apple wine, smoked meat, and sausages.

Moreover, female stars from the theater or football stars will perform or visit for comfort.

The second layer is the Senior Pastors describing the current situation to them.

"...which means, so far, except for Crow County and Wolf Bridge County, seventy percent of the Thorn Garden territories are already fallen..."

"...in case you didn’t know, Duke Omes father and son announced their surrender after initial resistance, but vampires did not accept and hung the two..."

"...in the south, Storm Cape was subject to a sea landing raid by vampire clan forces, under the command of Konyaz, defeated the expedition of Charles VIII, enclosing and surrounding the capital city Griffin City of Storm Cape..."

"...based on current intelligence, the Garnier Family in Griffin City is likely preparing to lead most of Storm Cape to surrender to vampires..."

"I don’t know if you can understand what it means for Falan Storm Cape to surrender to vampires? Falan Storm Cape surrendering to vampires is equivalent to the Holy Alliance’s new five counties surrendering to vampires."

"...Meanwhile, nearly the second day after the New Year Festival, Changge City, after holding out for six months, was shelled by blasphemous cannons, collapsing its walls..."

Indeed, Horn guessed correctly, as the royal court expanded troops, the Norn direction was fine, but the Falan direction immediately had problems.

Charles, inspired by the Battle of Bin River, believes that Horn is a Pope; he is also an Emperor, if Horn can do it, why can’t Falan?

Thus, following his subordinates’ advice, he created a so-called layered defense, layered enticement, besiege and destroy plan at Storm Cape.

The first two steps were completed well, achieving quite a few striking victories, even surrounding thirty thousand vampire troops with fifty thousand soldiers.

Just missing the last step, this engagement could succeed.

However, unfortunately, the vampires showed unprecedented tenacity, fighting bloodily for ten days.

Finally, the siege turned into a breakthrough at the center, blossoming everywhere.

If not for the Royal Cavalry’s assault, nearly reaching Konyaz, Charles would’ve lost even more miserably.

The Storm Cape battle led to the Garnier Family being besieged in Griffin City, though they haven’t truly surrendered yet, but are negotiating.

Unknown whether to surrender, that means surrendering.

This news for Charles is almost a huge thunderbolt on a clear day.

Because Storm Cape is a major source of soldiers, rich in sailors, merchants, and soldiers, and nearly one of the top three loyal among all territories.

No matter how one looks at it, the current situation is not optimistic, one could say it’s disadvantageous for us.

The Holy Alliance used to say that military reform and gathering troops were necessary, with Falan and Norn holding the line first.

Now Falan is shipping money on a large scale to the Holy Alliance for building battle groups, Norn is shipping people on a large scale to build railways for the Holy Alliance.

Both now use depth to obstruct the royal court’s attack, already three years.

Leia Kingdom is almost entirely fallen now, vampire armies have reached the front of the Dawn Federation and New Gemstone Federation.

The Holy Alliance no longer has the need to lay low, southern battles must commence.

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