Section 5 Statue of Light
Harry was not interested in the three items at the beginning of the auction, and the asking price was not high, and in the end, they all ended up being 'delivered' for less than 10,000 gold coins. However, the fourth item that aroused great interest was a pendant of the god of light.
"Ladies, gentlemen, look!" the auctioneer held the ornament high in his hand so that everyone could see it clearly. "The origin of this ornament is not small, everyone knows that ten years ago, the God of Light once performed a miracle in the Northern Holy Light Empire and gave the Holy Light blessing. After that, the popes and archbishops of the Holy Light Empire sealed some of the Holy Light blessings in such light statues, a total of 251 pieces. And most of them are collected in the Holy Light Empire, and as far as I know, there are no more than 5 pieces that have been passed down to our Free Empire, so this pendant is very rare and very precious. The blessing of the God of Light, hehe, whether you believe it or not, at least it has something to do with God. ”
The Liberal Empire, which occupies 70% of the land area of the mainland, is vast and materially rich, and since the founding emperor unified the central and southern continents 400 years ago, the situation of the continent is over. At present, the north is ruled by the Holy Light Empire, which is a theocratic empire, and everyone in the country believes in the God of Light, and the only condition for becoming a citizen of the Holy Light Empire is to become a believer in the God. Anyone who believes in the god of light can get citizenship, and those who do not believe in it will be considered a heretic and will be assigned or even killed. The Empire of Freedom, which is in the south of the Empire of Light, advocates freedom, and anyone can live within the empire as long as they abide by the laws and norms of the empire. After the death of the first generation of free emperors, the empire has never expanded its territory, but the Holy Light Empire in the north believes that all human beings should believe in the god of light, and all generations have tried to bring the free empire into the arms of the gods, so the two countries are often at war.
The masters of the Holy Light Empire have received the gift of God because of their belief in the God of Light, and have been given the ability to use the Holy Light, so the masters of the Holy Light Empire of the same level are often superior; 。
The Free Empire occupies the vast majority of the rich land, and encourages the development of agriculture and commerce from the system, although it is inferior to the Holy Light Empire in terms of combat effectiveness, but the powerful supply and a large number of troops and a large number of masters, it is not without resistance, and the long-term war experience makes the Free Empire smart. In the northern fortified wilderness, no supplies were left, and only symbolic resistance was carried out in the early stage, and the counteroffensive was only started when the supply line of the Holy Light Empire was stretched and there was no way to continue. After hundreds of years of fighting, the two sides still maintain the original border line unchanged.
Although the Holy Light Empire often waged wars of aggression against the Freedom Empire, there was no deep hatred between the two countries. First, because the invasion of the Holy Light Empire was for the spread of religious beliefs, it did not brutally persecute the residents of the Free Empire, on the contrary, it was very gentle. Second, every time the Holy Light Empire invaded in vain, it did not cause much harm to the Free Empire, especially the free residents in the interior, and they did not have any antipathy to the Holy Light Empire at all.
Moreover, in the entire continent, only the Holy Light Empire has miracles coming from time to time, so although everyone does not believe in the God of Light, they believe that the God of Light exists. The reason is also due to the standard of living, the common people of the Holy Light Empire are living in poverty, and the status of the nobility is not high, and the highest status is only the clergy of the Holy See. Therefore, believing in the God of Light and going to the Holy Light Empire is obviously not attractive to most people. However, every year, there are still some people who defect to the Holy Light Empire, most of them are poor people who have no place to live and idle ruffians. Counting on the belief in the God of Light will bring them hope and **.
There is another reason why the Free Empire does not believe in the God of Light (to be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in.,Mobile phone users log in to ap.,More chapters,Please log on to 16k Literature Network to read!)) Another reason, that is, they have another faith!It is rumored that thousands of years ago, there were not only the gods of light on the continent, but also the gods of war and elemental gods, and most of the southern lands of the continent were believers who believed in the gods of war and elemental gods. At that time, the god of light, the god of war, and the elemental god were distinct and competed with each other. But the god of war and the elemental god form an alliance between each other, and they do not distinguish each other. Before the founding of the Free Empire, samurai and knights believed in the god of war, while magicians all believed in elemental gods, and this idea has continued to this day. At that time, God existed on the continent, and countless historical records can prove that God lived on the continent once and now.
However, thousands of years ago, for some reason, the elemental god and the god of war suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and never appeared in front of mortals again, but although the god of light also disappeared from the eyes of mortals, the miracles of the Holy Light Empire were 'revealed' from time to time, declaring that the God of Light was still concerned about the Holy Light Empire, and the successive popes also claimed that they could directly talk to the God of Light, and there was a statue of the God of Light in the Temple of Light of the Holy See, and the miracles were initiated from there.
Therefore, for the inhabitants of the Free Empire, the Statue of Light still has a certain attraction, even if it is not blessed by him because they do not believe in the God of Light, but the rarity and preciousness of the objects alone are worth collecting. Moreover, the doctrine of God of Light is that God loves the world, and who says that he cannot be blessed?
The bidding soon began, starting at 12,000 gold coins and immediately being shouted to 30,000 gold coins, and it is still going on.
"Hmph, what's there to grab from the ornament of the Statue of Light!" Kiru snorted.
"You seem to be disgusted with the God of Light?" asked Harry curiously.
"It is clear from the teachings preached by the God of Light that He is a hypocritical, cunning, and shameless deity who is not worthy of our worship at all. It was rare for Kiru to take the initiative to speak, and Harry was taken aback as soon as he spoke.
"Why do you say that?" said Harry, intrigued.
"He said that God loves the world, but has he taken care of so many injustices and misery in the world? He said that he believed that he could be redeemed, but the life of the people of the Holy Light Empire was much more difficult than that of the inhabitants of the Free Empire;
"That's right, so religion. It's all used to fool people, you don't have to take it too seriously!" Harry didn't expect Kiru to see it so thoroughly, for gods, although there may really be gods in this world, but according to Harry's analysis, they should have been human beings, but they were stronger. Anything? joke!
"I think the God of War and the Elemental God are much greater than the God of Light, the God of Light must believe in Him to give you power, while the Elemental God and the God of War teach you their skills, whether you really believe in Him or not. This also illustrates the hypocrisy of the God of Light, so there were far fewer believers in the God of Light than the Elemental God and the God of War. This is one of the reasons why the Holy Light Empire can only be trapped in the north. Kiru continued.
"According to you, you believe in the god of war, right?"
But after the gods of war and elemental gods disappeared thousands of years ago, although everyone still believed in them on the surface, not many people actually respected them from the heart. "But we still use the skills they have taught us to fight." If one day the God of Light also disappears, I don't know what else will be left of the Holy Light Empire. ”
The unprovoked disappearance of the elemental god and the god of war has always been an unsolved mystery in human history, it is rumored that 10,000 years ago, there were 4 gods on the continent, but the other god disappeared from the field of vision of humans very early, leaving no information, only that he can control lightning. Therefore, the lightning of thunderstorm weather is also called divine punishment by mainlanders. Divine punishment ignores any magical and physical defenses, and basically in human cognition, divine punishment is indestructible.
In the end, the ornament of the statue of the god of light was auctioned for 33,000 gold coins, and it was bought by a person who looked like a big nobleman.
After a small ** at the auction, the following items tend to be flat again. This is also a common trick at auctions, and while Prontera's auction house sells items of great value, not everything is coveted. Therefore, how to arrange the items in the order of the auction to maintain the lively atmosphere of the auction is also a 'door' knowledge.
This next auction item was a bit special, and there were no items on display, only to hear the auctioneer announce there: "The following auction item is provided by Master 'Gate' Deleev, a senior alchemist of Prontera." ”
The auctioneer paused for a while, this 'door' Deleev is not small, as a level 9 magic mage, he loves alchemy all his life, but the things he studies are a little strange and unpopular with people, and often creates some 'messy' inexplicable substances. Although his union subsidy is very high, it is not enough for him to study the 'waste' fee, so he often falls into a state of financial constraints. Many nobles and officials wanted to ask him for help in refining some 'medicine' and goods, and the prices were very high, but he never gave a damn, preferring to sell his inexplicable things at low prices, but often no one patronized them.
For the first time, this 'door' Teleev sent something to the auction house for auction, because although his things were strange, they were so strange that even he didn't know what they could do, so the price was generally not very high, and it did not meet the bidding requirements of the auction house. This time, I don't know what new things he came up with, but he actually passed the appraisal of the auction house and can be auctioned.
"I don't need to introduce the alchemy level of Master Deleev 'Gate', this time, the things he brought to auction are amazing......" Everyone was aroused and looked at the auctioneer in unison and waited for him to announce the results, "He decided to sell all the unknown substances in his warehouse at a time, with a reserve price of 8,000 gold coins and 500 gold coins plus one, please bid!"