Three months before my father died, when the last medicine of the oracle was consumed, he had already begun to predict his fate.

He called Prince Elise over and told him a lot of things.

This includes the current situation in the kingdom and what he can do.

Before hearing his father talk about this, Prince Elise felt that his situation might not be very bad, because the royal family of Elise was now the spokesperson of the oracles, which the oracles had publicly admitted!

But his father's words made Prince Elise fall into an ice cave.

"I will not be the first to starve to death in the kingdom of Elise," said King Elise, "if the messengers do not come...... Within half a year, you will all follow in my footsteps. ”

Prince Elise was stupid at the time.

"So I have nothing else to expect from you," said the kingdom of Elis, "and do you know what is the most important thing you are going to do after your succession?" ”

"Hurry up and grow mushrooms?"

"Mushrooms can only bear fruit on relatively fertile ground, and such a land is now full of mushrooms, is there enough to eat? Our food stocks are still declining rapidly......"

King Elise was hungry for a long time, and his voice was already very small, but at this time, he still grabbed the prince's hand violently, and the prince felt that his wrist was about to be cut off by his father: "The most important thing is to be pious, keep preaching your piety, the hope for the kingdom of Elise to live now is not food, but faith." ”

"Faith?"

"Yes!" King Elise exclaimed, "What will you do if the stock continues to fall?" ”

"Continue to reduce quotas?" This was what King Elise had always done, just as he cut his own food, and cut the amount of food that the entire kingdom ate.

"If we reduce it, we'll starve to death, and now there's enough for them to lie still in the cave! Remember, that's not less right now! ”、

"What then?" Prince Elise felt a little blindfolded in his head.

"Increase the quota first."

"Increase the quota?"

"Yes, let them eat a little bit first, so that they have the energy to move."

And then what?

"Then in the name of the oracle of the gods, you will lead them in their activities...... "and King Elise said, "and if there is no food to eat, you will starve to death, and you should understand that." ”

Prince Elise felt as if he understood something, but the subtext of the understanding made him feel chills, and he suddenly felt that the simple crown on his father's head was like a noose forged from gold.

"As for how to move...... You believed in evil gods at the beginning, and you should know this. It's not the right way to be king, but right now, it's the only way you can go. Remember, the more people you kill, the longer the rest will live......"

Prince Elise had already prepared for this, and did what his father had asked before he died.

But then, as the rumor began to spread, he realized that he had lost the opportunity to do so.

One of the biggest loopholes in this is that the oracle only recognized the sacredness of the king, and this divine property cannot be inherited, but it was not explicitly stated. And judging from the fact that the prince had believed in evil gods before, this article is indeed debatable.

If the prince succeeds to the throne, it would be good if the divine messenger came.

If he hadn't come, Prince Elise would have been in an awkward position in terms of legitimacy - no one would have said that he had no money to change his money, and those who were so hungry that they would only remember that the prince had believed in a cult, and that a cultist had become their king, so the oracle would not come again......

And the ones who really have the right to speak are actually the officers of all sizes who participated in the battle and divided the cake for God in the process of the holy war.

Many of them had been in contact with Wu Xiaoqing for a long time, had heard them speak, watched them eat, killed people according to their orders, and sacrificed for them.

In the refuge life here, they told all the deeds of Wu Xiaoqing one by one, and it has become the only spiritual sustenance for everyone.

In a more realistic sense, in this casual narration, they have actually completed the priest's core work - to praise the light and greatness of God to the Lambs living in darkness.

The enthronement ceremony was chosen on a fairly warm noon.

The sun had been shining all day, and the temperature had finally allowed the people of Elis, who were not well fed, to come out of their caves and stand outside for a while, and to see their new king.

Elise I's royal ceremony is said to have been the crown of a nobleman who was said to be a prince who was still a prince after capturing the original royal castle of Elis, and then the soldiers who followed below collectively shouted, King Elis, this is done.

The ceremonies of Elise II were less barbaric and somewhat more civilized.

The body of the deceased king was laid aside, and several of the assistant ministers took turns to speak to the effect that the king had gone to the oracle and was now passing the throne to Elis II, the only son of Elise I, in the name of the great new god.

Because the prince had delayed for nearly a week, the king's body had been kept out in the open air in the coldest weather, but the stench inevitably appeared on the corpse. Far away viewers may not be able to see it clearly, because the king's face is covered with makeup, and it seems as if he is still alive, red and fluttering.

But only a few recent ministers, and Prince Elise, knew how strong the smell of this corpse, covered in countless spices, was at this moment. It's like using countless spices to make a pot of rotten meat......

After the chief of the guard who was in charge of holding the crown picked up the crown, his steps involuntarily began to speed up, and he came to the front of Prince Elis.

The prince reluctantly fell to one knee.

The crown was pure gold, a large piece of gold, and Prince Elise had not felt its weight before, but he felt that his father was very majestic when it came to him, and when this thing came to his head, he immediately rejected in his heart the idea of adding precious stones to the crown.

I don't know if it's because of psychological factors, in short, this crown is too heavy for Prince Elis.

But it's too late for him to regret it now, and by the time he gets up, he's already a rightful prince.

What he was facing now was the hundreds of thousands of hungry and panicked Elisians hiding in front of him and in the countless caves around him.

Their greatest hope for themselves to be kings may be to eat more on the day they ascend the throne.

In fact, Prince Elise intended to do the same, and he began to address his people according to the prepared script.

"My father, Elise I, has fulfilled his most important mission as king, which is to save all the people of Elis, who are loyal to him, from purgatory. Now that he has been called by the grace of God, I, as his son, will continue to lead every Elise man forward.

Now, as the king of the kingdom of Elis, I have decreed my first decree that today, every Elise man may receive a piece of holy bread by virtue of his identification plate and eat it according to the rites of God.

May the new gods bless us. ”

On the whole, Prince Elise's plan for the loaf of bread worked, and by evening everyone had received it, though it looked much more unsightly than the holy bread they had eaten along the way, and not only did it not smell freshly baked, but many of the loaves looked suspiciously moldy. But no one cared about this anymore - after eating mushrooms for several months in a row, it was already a great relief to be able to eat such a cake again.

The people of Elis, who had received the bread, would not have known that the last reserve of flour left by the king of Elise had been exhausted to make them, and that the prince of Elise had almost commanded the guards to clean the storehouse before he could barely scrape together the flour, and the worse ones had to be supplemented with grated mushrooms and some air-dried rat meat.

At the appointed time in the evening, everyone began to gather in the cave in accordance with the rules before the departure of the new gods, and gathered into one square after another to eat bread.

In such a phalanx, many people could not hold back their tears, and they led the leading soldiers to sing hymns and praise every piece of bread that God had given them.

In the midst of the singing, many people even felt that they had already smelled the fragrance of the real holy bread in a trance.

After the ceremony, everyone ate very slowly, and as they ate, many people made a bitter cry again-thinking that after today, they would have to return to their daily life of catching mice and eating mushrooms...... Everyone began to feel like they were almost going to break down.

It is true that SBC has led them out of purgatory, but the life it has brought them is also a hardship that they cannot imagine.

In such a bitter cold, there are hardly any crops that can be grown in the barren mountains, and the creatures that can be hunted are getting smaller and fewer, and now even the rats are on the verge of stunning, and there are still some bats, but they don't live more than a few months.

In the end, they will be the only ones left here, and many people can't help but start imagining what they will be able to eat when they are really the only ones left......

For a short period of time, the kingdom of Elise returned to peace, and although everyone returned to eating mushrooms, perhaps because everyone was touched by the sacrament that day, or perhaps because Prince Elise had never complained as the king had ordered.

But Elis II did not feel any sense of security.

Because of the many spies he sent out, the reason why everyone didn't take action was because everyone was still investigating.

This is what the Bread-Splitters, who are now the most central members of SBC, have made clear in countless accounts.

They will give the prince two months.

In two months, if the new gods have not yet come......

Then they had to think about using their own way of expressing their devotion to the new gods.