129 Past, Present, Future

He knew the place, though.

In Dando Mitterrand's memory, the place where that kingdom now stands, thousands of miles to the northeast of Reims, was a very beautiful mountain town, surrounded by mountains and covered with snow all year round.

Ratria, that's the name of that beautiful little city, it's located in the west-central part of the continent of Noah, between the Franco-Empire and the Bernese Empire.

Where the original kingdom is now.

He knew a lot about the city.

As far as he knew, it had nothing to do with the kingdom of Montero that Dando Mitterrand remembered.

When he was a child, Ryan listened to Reitlia at his mother's place, and Ryan's biological father once took his mother to that small town for vacation, where the architecture, where the music, where the clocks, where the snow-capped ski resorts ...... All of these are beautiful memories for Ryan's mother, and it was there that her mother became pregnant with Ryan, so Ryan actually has a relationship with that small town.

This is the reason why the child was born and named Ryan Shire.

In his few memories, Ryan knew that Retria was a city of immigrants, inhabited by Franks and Birnes, as well as immigrants from other places, but it was about half and half with people from these two countries.

More than a thousand years ago, as a result of the war, a part of the Franks and Bernes crossed the snow-capped Albis Mountains and entered the valley floor surrounded by mountains, where they discovered an ancient ruin.

In the Bernese language, Retria means a city built on ruins.

Legend has it that the ruins were a kingdom that was destroyed in a natural disaster, and as for what natural disasters were, they may be recorded in secret libraries in some places, and it is impossible for ordinary people like Ryan to know.

Now, Ryan understands why that kingdom has fallen.

It's because of this trickery.

More than a thousand years ago, the Realm of Darkness suddenly descended on the capital of that kingdom.

This is a natural disaster.

More than a thousand years ago, most cities did not have a large protective array like Reims City, at that time, the extraordinary power was still a mysterious miracle for the people, basically in the hands of the Holy Temple, in order to consolidate the faith, consolidate the power, the Holy Temple naturally did not want to let the extraordinary power spread, therefore, a lot of hidden work was carried out.

Now, although the supernatural power is still hidden behind the scenes of the real world, many ordinary people may not have the opportunity to contact the supernatural power in their lifetime, but for the educated middle class in the city, they actually have a perception of the supernatural power, after all, because of the existence and expansion of the magic stone technology, the supernatural power wants to continue to hide behind the scenes and maintain a mysterious deterrence, there is a certain degree of difficulty.

At that time, there was no magic stone technology, and the supernatural power outside the Templar was heresy.

At that time, it was called the Dark Ages by some transcendents.

In the eyes of a red-robed bishop like Dando Mitterrand, transcendents who do not belong to the Templar are also monsters, uncontrollable sources of pollution, and like those creatures of the Templar world, they are enemies that must be killed and killed.

Without the Holy Light of the Templar, it is difficult for the transcendent not to be polluted.

After all, the source of supernatural power is the Realm of Darkness.

Dando Mitterrand was celebrating Mass in the church to bless the princess of the kingdom who was about to marry in a foreign country, and the church at the highest point in the capital of the kingdom was attended by many dignitaries and queens.

At that time, it was noon.

The time of day when the light is at its strongest.

It was then that a sudden darkness engulfed the canopy, and the capital of the kingdom fell into eternal night.

The capital of the small kingdom of more than a thousand years, that is, a small castle, and the market around the castle, speaking of which, is not as big as a district of Reims City, and there are not so many people, in the memory of Dando Mitterrand, the entire capital is only more than 10,000 people, and the area is only a few miles away, and it is not even as big as the current small city of Retria.

When darkness appears, it also represents the invasion of natural disasters.

As a cardinal of the Templar, he is naturally the leader of the resistance to the enemy.

Dando Mitterrand led the transcendents of the Templars, using the blessings of the holy relics, casting all kinds of magic to launch a charge towards the Secret Realm, and in Ryan's view, Father Dando at that time was obviously moved by himself, and in his memory, he and his subordinates of the Templar behaved very well in the battle with the Secret Realm.

However, in Ryan's opinion, such a fight is pointless.

Pure futility.

Basically, it's like a small ant charging at an elephant with its pincers.

Finally, Dando Mitterrand is here.

Of course, before that, he had been living in a city shrouded in eternal night, and the inhabitants of the city remained immortal, and all along, they had the same appearance as they were at that time, and time had become meaningless.

Eventually, everyone in the city became strangers.

Even the subordinates that Father Dando was familiar with looked very strange, and gradually, in them, Dando could not feel the breath of people, and only he had been resisting the erosion of something unknown, and still had his own will.

Still pray regularly every day.

Perhaps because of his faith, he resisted the aura of the Evil Realm.

After that, he was also pulled into the Tower of Babel, locked in a stone house, and entered the inner world of the Mysterious Realm.

Life also became repeated, like the legend of Sisyphus, when it never stopped, he kept pushing the stone uphill, reaching the top of the hill and falling again, and then, starting from the bottom of the mountain, pushing the stone up the mountain.

I know it's meaningless, but I can't do anything about it.

Time doesn't mean anything here.

I don't know how long it has been, Father Dando slowly lost his faith, after all, in order to live, he had to devour the souls of other humans, and he was infected by those gods, and he lost himself.

Originally, the color of the divine soul was a holy white light, but when he appeared in front of Ryan, the color of the divine soul became pitch black as ink.

This is the color of the soul of the believer after he has lost his faith and fallen.

Myself, and to repeat the experience of Father Dando?

Will you always be stuck here?

Ryan couldn't help but think so.

However, he did not despair.

He still has something to rely on.

After devouring Dando's spiritual power, the fourth page of the Golden Book also had a new content, which was a curtain of water, with a misty water curtain flowing slowly on the page.

At the same time, Ryan discovers that this thing can be converted into faith.

Maybe?

What can I do......