Age of Adventure

Ariana look at the old guard nodded while flashing a smile.

The old guard only nodded, as he does not dare to show any sign of disrespect to the holy maiden.

The young guard is new so he probably did not know that the Holy Maiden could enter without announcing anything to the Office of the Pope.

Arianna then smoothed the crease around her robe and then alighted from her carriage as she takes in the view of this holiest structure in the holy city.

Her carriage went to the stable escorted by that young guard.

’This place never failed to amaze me’ she thought.

Even though she had been here countless time, she could not help but be taken by it beauty

The Apostolic palace among other things other than its architectural beauty it also possesses all kinds of divine magic that strips away any and all forms of disguise and impersonation.

That is why no assassin had never had the chance to assassinate the Pope around the Apostolic Palace.

And that is why the guards did not do any more checkup on her like using some items to identify whether she is really who she says she is

Because the Apostolic Palace itself is very magical in nature.

As long as the Pope is inside the Apostolic Palace, he is safe. The magic is a blessing and as such it is also linked up to the Gubernatorial

She went quickly to the Office of the Pope. No one had obstructed her and she enter the room and close it.

Inside the room, she saw Alex.

Alex is no longer that little kid.

He had grown to be a tall and handsome teenager. His voice is deeper and the papal robe look more fitting to him than a couple of years ago

But she still treated him like a kid when they were with each other.

Every time she enters this place she could not help but think that Alex really like the luxuries of the world.

The office is luxurious and grand with white marble floors and the wall is adorned with priceless painting and life like frescoes.

A huge chandelier hung overhead while the arched windows, beautiful designs of colors offered a stunning view of St Alex Square.

The view would be very beautiful. Alex is sitting on the Holy Throne and he finally register that Ariana had arrived

’Big Sister’ he said and Arianna smiles. It is only when they are alone with each other that they speak like this. In front of the people, she is the Holy Maiden and he is the Pope.

Ariana come closer and even though she had known Alex most of his life, she could never get used to the Holy aura that surround him.

The Holy Aura is not an invincible aura.

If not, he could lead army and win wars everywhere. It is an aura of luck and fortune. Any injury on the Pope body is an injury toward the fortune and luck of the Church.

Alex sighed as he pushes away his tall folded hat and sighed loudly. Arianna chuckles at this

’I have been gone a week. There couldn’t be any momentous events that would trouble you this much for you to sigh so loudly’ She said

Alex shakes his head and then he said

’There is more bad news than good news’

Ariana was intrigued.

’What good news that you have?’

Alex look around his office table and then checking some of the letter, he found the letter that as buried under many documents.

He gives the letter to Ariana. The letter was already unsealed so Ariana brought the letter out from the envelop and read it. Finished reading it she laughed

’There is a New World!’ she exclaimed.

Alex nodded. Then he said

’There is all kinds of resources there from magical herbs and all kinds of new minerals that could be used to make weapons and shield and many other things. It is quite interesting. Some of the people in the expedition had even spoke of a legend among the native of the land about a city of gold’

Ariana felt amused. Is there really a city of gold there in the New World? She only chuckles but then she notices Alex did not look that happy

’You don’t look happy’

Alex nodded.

’I am not happy because we have a competitor there. Vanheim had also sent a fleet there. We are not the only one that had found the New World. From what I discovered the Chancellor had long sent many fleets scouring the sea for other continent a few years ago before the exodus. That effort was continued by the Emperor when the Chancellor was not there’

Ariana was shocked to know that Vanheim had also been searching the New World. But she was also shocked that Alex really did finance that Lady expedition.

The expedition to the new world for the church was something that is in the making years ago. A few years ago, long before the exodus happen, Lord Vasco had sent a lady to the office of the Pope.

She talks about sailing the Dark Sea and seek a new trade route and other continents around the world

She asks for the title of grand admiral, three percent of commerce for the found lands and the office of viceroy over the lands that she found under the church

That was her demands.

It was their first meeting at the time but the Pope was quiet impressed by the Lady and always remember that encounter.

It is the sky high price that she had demanded and her confidence that leave lasting impression in Alex mind about Lady Leliana.

One of the things that Alex had done when he returns to power was to once again seek that woman.

Vasco and Lady Leliana once again faced him and this time, he approves the lady request giving her support to sail the sea and seek new continents

One of the reason was that he wanted to fund the expedition is because he wanted a new avenues of faith.

The native of that world could probably be persuaded in converting the faith of light

And there is something else that he was interested in.

The Elixir of Life. That is one of the things that drew him the most toward the New World right now.

Everyone now knowns that if they died this time, there is no coming back. But there is an exception. That is the Revival Potion or the Revival Pill.

But these things are rare and hard to find.

Even the Church only have three.

In all of the Lucelliandom, the weakest person was the Pope. It is quite ironic considering he is the most influential person in the Lucelliandom.

But that was the truth.

He was the weakest person. He could not even compare to the guards outside his room.

He could easily be killed. By taking the position of the Pope, he had to abandon all personal skill and power.

He derives his power from the faith of the beliefs and from this faith he could create miracles. But that is the only thing he could. Do.

He could pray for rain, pray for sunny day, pray for fortune and luck and many other things, but he himself was weak in personal defense and strength.

All it takes is a stray arrow, a slash toward him, a stab toward his heart and he would die.

And even though he had the revival potion in the secret chamber of the Apostolic Palace, that would only work if he had a body to return to.

Someone had to fed him the potions and he had to have his body at least intact, for example he must not have his head separated from the body.

It is fine if the other limbs were cut off since the revival pill would regenerate those. But for some reason it could not regenerate another head.

If for some reason he was killed by some brute, burned his corpse or throws his body into the sea, then he would return to the stars.

It was not like before where it is easy to revive.

That is why when he read the reports about the native saying that there is a myth about Elixir of Life that would bring eternal youth and could bring back the death to life, his enthusiasm to control the New World become even stronger.

If he could mas produce it, Holy Zun would be very powerful. An undying army would be quite a terrifying to the other kingdoms especially if they were the one that is controlling this method of reviving.

He was quite happy with that discovery.

But suddenly the expedition found out that Vanheim had also sent fleet to seek new trade routes and new continents.

And by coincidence or by machinations of the divines, they both found the new World.

Fortunately, there is no open conflict between them and since both of them wanted to keep this discovery a secret top the other kingdoms in the Vilajeri Continent they seem to be treading carefully with each other.

Both the Church and Vanheim Empire don’t want more competitors vying for this land. The land is large, but the greed of both Empire is larger.

It is already annoying enough to share the resources, if they have to share more resources with others, how could they bear it?

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