Act I. Four years
“...... That's all I have to say, and I hope you will think about it, Your Majesty. ”
A man dressed in an aristocratic dress said, his attitude was sincere and moving.
The bishop, dressed in the white clergyman's robes, who sat across from him, pondered for a moment before nodding slightly.
"My lord, I know what you said, and the Holy Church will definitely support your construction. ”
Hearing the other party's words, the man immediately showed a surprised expression, nodded again and again, and looked grateful to Dade.
The two discussed some more details before sending the noble man away.
The bishop sighed softly as he looked at the other's departing back.
Walking to the window, the young bishop looked into the distance, above a lake, several boulders formed a low hill, moss-covered with rocks, and blended in with the surroundings, without the slightest hint of what the boulders were originally.
"It's been four years. ”
The bishop sighed and muttered to himself.
Yes, those irregular monoliths, which were the foundation stone of Arashigaoka Ramirez, the religious center of this world, and the Great Chapel of Ramirez, which sits on it, have long since been destroyed in the catastrophe of that day.
On that day, the people of the Holy City of Ramirez clearly remembered that first, countless flying swords swirled in the sky, and then, a huge force hit the floating island, and none of the hundreds of divine prohibitions all over the Ramirez Grand Sanctum could stop it, and in an instant, the temple collapsed.
In the ruins, many people saw a figure, for most people, it was a strange existence, but a few recognized the identity of that one.
The Sword Saint of the Firmament, Greysius.
No one knew why Greyios was there, no one knew why he destroyed the Great Sanctuary of Ramirez, and no one knew how the saint, who was supposed to be dead, could be resurrected again.
But Greyius only appeared for a moment, then stepped through the void and left, and he was never found again.
At the same time, the ensuing changes have made everyone have no time to take care of anything else.
After that day, the Templar split.
A part of the priesthood, led by the Night's Watch, claimed that the people of chaos were the former saints, and the goal of all the saints was to kill the sleeping goddess, only in that way could the world be saved from the cycle of destruction, and for this reason, the advent of the people of chaos was necessary, and only destruction could create new hope.
Such statements were no different from those of the cultists who believed in the people of Chaos, and they were quickly resisted, and this part of the clergy was also the backbone of the Templar's fighting power, so a great war began.
The battle lasted for half a year, and the other part of the Templars, who stood with the Alliance of Order, won with great difficulty with the help of various forces, until now, four years later, although the Templars have suffered a great loss of vitality and most of them, those opposition forces have finally disappeared from the world in the open.
In the past four years, the world has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
First of all, the Templar and the Rainbow Tower reached a historic cooperation, the opening of magic and magic to production, in the past four years, the annual grain production of the mainland has increased more than ten times compared with the most abundant year in the past, and due to the development of logistics, the commodity economy that was originally in the embryonic stage has developed rapidly, and now it has formed several huge commercial cities.
Now, in most countries on the continent of Atlas, if a family forbids their children to receive an education from the Sanctuary or the Rainbow Tower, then the lord has the right to deprive the parents of custody, and the lord and the state will also give rich rewards to those who excel in school.
Eventually, many countries have formed parliaments and cabinets to serve as assistants to the king and assume the role of supervision and enforcement, and the vast majority of countries have become strict and prosperous.
Of course, all this is based on the gradual expansion of that black hole in the sky.
The bishop looked up at the sky, and the black hole next to the sun was the size of a ring, hanging high above everyone's heads, giving people a wordless oppressive force.
In the first year, news of the invasion of Chaos monsters could be heard from time to time, but in the last two years, there have been few such sightings.
But this situation is actually not optimistic, because there is a high probability that the people of chaos have completed their testing and are gathering forces to launch a final general attack.
"The future you've talked about is now here, but where are you?"
The bishop muttered, her long silver hair curled up at the back of her head, and her crimson eyes rippled with water, and although four years had passed, her appearance was still the same as it had been, and she had not grown in the slightest, causing many nobles who had seen her for the first time to be surprised, but they did not expect that the Holy Church was now in the hands of this little girl.
Yes, the current supreme ruler of the Templar is Irandall Scarlett.
In fact, in the battle of the Templars, even the Inquisitors split into two and were almost all killed in the battle, and Irandall became the archbishop of the Templars at that time, because of his prestige and political views, which continues to this day.
On that day, she witnessed the scene of Greysius pulling a sword from Rosen's chest and leaving, and Rosen then fell downward, being swept away by a ray of light and vanishing.
In the final moments, Irandall could feel Rosen's near-vanishing aura and was almost about to leave her.
Over the years, Irandall has also united various forces to search, but they have never been able to find Rosen's whereabouts, and some people even believe that he was killed by Graysius at that time.
But Irandall was convinced that Rosen was not dead and was still waiting somewhere.
The reason for this is mobile terminals.
This thing dominated by Rosen is still functioning normally, which proves that Rosen is not dead, but may be hiding somewhere for unexplained reasons to recuperate.
Edlander opened the mobile terminal in the pendant on his chest, swiping through the list of contacts, his slender fingertips resting on an avatar that had long since faded and had not lit up in four years.
She opened the dialog box, typed a sentence into it, then deleted it, shook her head, and closed the mobile terminal.
Edlander touched the silver earrings on his earlobes, stunned, and on the side, the clergy who came to report looked at their archbishop and did not dare to approach.
"When you come back, you'll have to explain where you've been all these years. ”
The archbishop said softly, his eyes full of loneliness.