Armed Enlightenment Book 1 (Practice Story [My other stories are better])

Fear no Evil

"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."
                                    -Sun Tzu

Heavy footsteps echoed across the long hallways. The sight of an angry obese man wearing holy clothing was a refreshing sight to see, Bishop Anthony Borjia, the 46-year-old finance minister of the Orthodoxy, never in his life was he ever made such a fool by just a few commanders that he once thought were below his status.

With his health concerned, he was not easy to falter quickly. In his years as the finance minister, he was able to form his different crafts of manipulation and obtaining interesting items without getting caught. Forgery, blackmail, and extortion was no problem for him. Why bribe and let the other party talk in the future than blackmail them and hold them, hostage, forever?

He was well out of his "jurisdiction" when personally traveling to Weissenheer during a civil war. But why did he come there in the first place you ask?

After the thirty years, the current Pope has been isolated from the outside due to a "devil's curse". The curse was said to start when he isolated himself. He started to lose interest during his mass and people that he befriended before. He also began to display less emotion or sometimes inappropriate emotion in the convent.

It remained like that for two years until his actions became more apparent when he began seeing people or things no one else does, paranoid delusions, confused and disorganized thoughts, and disordered speech. All of this was thought to be a devil's curse as his sanity crumbles down each following day and exorcism not working. He was later isolated and their followers mourning the suffering to their eminence from the work of demons.

But with such great tragedy that has befallen to their Pope, an opportunity once again appeared after a few decades. With his state not seeing any recovery, the position of the Papacy was now up for grabs. Bishop Anthony's main goal but even he knew he couldn't buy his way with money so here he was in Kanzlerhaven with a force of 50,000 powerful holy warriors.

(Archbishops, Cardinals, Popes... they're only positions and they are just Bishops at the end capisce?)

He had a charm that could prevent the pressure of people's aura from reaching him. A very high-quality version that was most sought out of many government officials in domestic and overseas but those four from the Federation... those brats dared to! He, a candidate for the Papacy was able to break through his charm with no effort and had the gall to show such lethal aura at him!

Thinking about it made his mood worsened as he continued to walk along with his winged guards, the strongest mercenaries of a neighboring country that was formalized and sanctified by the orthodoxy to protect the Pope and sometimes the ordained.

He suddenly found a lone beautiful woman leisurely walking parallel to his direction and minding her own business.