Saint Claire Dorothea, who is sacred, lived her faith all her life. She has the ability to see the future and to talk to God.

She used to say.

I never thought I wanted to be a saint, and I never thought that one day I would become someone else's faith. But I suddenly had the idea that if I became a saint and became the faith of people, maybe I could give my children a peaceful future full of hope. In the end, I still appeared in front of everyone as a saint, and even the world conferences of the major kingdoms called out to me, and when I listened to the opinions of those kingdoms, I wondered in my heart, shouldn't this be the case, they all put forward those plans in the interests of their own kingdoms, and stood on the position of the kingdom, which may not be wrong. However, some interests are built on the suffering of other kingdoms. If there is any disagreement, perhaps on that day, the two kingdoms will meet each other.

What would I do if it were me, and a lot of ideas came to mind. At this point, I finally realized that I thought that I didn't care about the affairs between kingdoms at all, but I just hoped that no matter what kingdom people should be equal, regardless of whether they are high or low, and help each other. There is a common peace, and there will be no more wars in the world. Before I knew it, I had a blueprint in my heart that I wanted to change the world in a certain direction with my own power.

Although I can see something to come, I can even pray to the earth with a song and call for nectar in the dry land. This may be where the Twelve Kingdoms recognize me and want to take advantage of it.

When my wishes coincide with those kingdoms, I am more than willing to do so, even if it curtails limited life, and I want to bring life to a dry place.

It wasn't until one day, when the Twelve Kingdoms wanted to use my power to summon a heavy rain to drown the empire that had taken the lead in invading the other kingdoms, that I realized that the future I wanted was not here, and the peace I wanted would not exist here.

Even if it is the empire that is doing the wrong, why should the civilians of the entire empire bear it?

Why can't people in the world understand each other and live peacefully?

I escaped the control of the kingdom while leaving behind a future that I saw as the empire would be crushed by the coalition forces of the Twelve Kingdoms in ten years.

My power is small and I can't change anything.

Maybe it's because this message worked, the Twelve Kingdoms formed a coalition army, or maybe I didn't need to do anything, and the Twelve Kingdoms would unite against the ambitious hegemonic empire.

In the end, everything turned out as I had foreseen, and the combined forces of the Twelve Kingdoms were victorious ten years later.

The empire perished.

This is self-defeating driven by ambition.

Those who start wars deserve it.

The war was brutal, the decade-long war was over, but nothing was over, as if everything had just begun.

The legacy of the war is many, many.

The people of the empire were taken prisoner, encircled, and in order to prevent their resistance, they were put in heavy anklets, handcuffs, and imprisoned as sinners.

There were innocent people in the empire who were branded as 'sinners' and sent to the mines to work as coolies.

The royal heirs of the empire were also ready to be publicly executed after being arrested, completely breaking their delusions of recovering the country, and their oldest was only ten years old!

More innocent people cannot be sacrificed like this.

If we don't stop it, there will be more victims.

Claire Dorothea made a decision and rushed to the execution ground to tell the first lie in her life.

If they were to be executed, hatred would breed new hatred, and wars would continue for millennia.

It was also because of Claire Dorothea's lies that the children who were supposed to be executed were forgiven.

Claire Dorothea took them away and took care of them.

The only requirement of the Alliance is that they must accept the arrangement of the Alliance when they reach adulthood...... In fact, it is surveillance, for fear that they will be used by the exiled remnants of the empire.

The imaginary accident did not happen, they were very peaceful, and even obeyed all the arrangements of the alliance.

The pain of losing the country, the life of the fugitive...... Caught and almost executed in public, they cast a huge shadow on their young age, but they let go of Claire Dorothea's teachings and mother-like care.

Later, Claire Dorothea was changed from the title of Holy Maiden to Our Lady.

Regardless of identity, race, ......

Wherever she goes, she takes in homeless children.

And with the support of the local kingdom and principality, an orphanage was opened, which was named Guiyeyuan.

With her feet, she walked all over the starry land.

A copy of Claire Dorothea's notes was found in the first Guiye Courtyard she founded, decades after her death.

She writes:

I have the same eyes as everyone else, and I see the evils of the twelve kingdoms that rule the world, and I want to correct them.

I have the same ears as everyone else, listening carefully to the voices of the disadvantaged and trying to do everything I can to help them.

I have the same feet as everyone else, rushing to the place where the problem is occurring, and with the same hands as everyone else, helping those in need and pointing the right way forward in this world. Even if I become a saint or a virgin in people's mouths, I have never forgotten that I am actually looking forward to peace like everyone else, and that there will be no more wars in the world.

I'm just an ordinary person, and I'm going to grow old like everyone else, and I'm going to leave this world one day.

My power is really very small, and what I can do in my limited life is very limited.

I'm just there to support me and have high hopes for me...... Those who believe in me and work hard.

Until the last ......

However, it was not the end of the matter, and Claire Dorothea's notes still had a copy of the second half.

At the end of this second half it is written:

I'm about to leave this world.

I communicated with God and wanted to stay in this world and continue to guard the people of this world.

God agreed to my request and turned me into a tree that would continue to exist in the world, praying for and protecting the suffering people in the world.

The name of this tree is - the Eternal Tree.

I hope that the Eternal Tree will continue to guard the world and the peace and stability of this world in my place.

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No one knows where the Tree of Eternity is.

It is not even known if it ever existed.

Because more than 1,000 years ago, from biochemical civilization to today's scientific and technological civilization, there was a blank history.

In that period of history, no one knew what really happened to the world.

If the Tree of Eternity ever existed, it must have existed in that blank part of history.

There are only legends about the Eternal Tree......

Legend has it that the Tree of Eternity, made from the body left behind by Claire Dorothea's death, is the power to turn people's prayers into reality, and is known as the foundation of this world, and its strength comes from the supply of the whole world, and even when the world is in danger, it bears the brunt of feedback. It is located at the center of the world and causes all kinds of miracles.

Clea Dorothea may be dead, but the Eternal Tree she became into still exists......

Some people even call it the tree of salvation and worship it as a 'savior god'.

As long as you sincerely pray to it and make a wish, it will be fulfilled by sending light.

In that legend, there is a saying, 'Believe in the Light!' ’

As long as you believe in the Light, you will be blessed by the Light.

The most direct thing is that the blind person miraculously regains his sight under the holy light.

Those who could not walk on their feet believed in the light and stood up again.

……

Many miracles happened one after another.

Therefore, according to legend, there is a group of people who believe in the Holy Light ,—— the Holy Light Cult!

As for the disappearance of the Eternal Tree, it is also mentioned in the lore.

Because of the appearance of 'ghosts'.

The Tree of Eternity has fended all of humanity against a devastating attack from the Spirits.

Because of this attack, countless scorched black scars burned on the thick trunk of the Eternal Tree, and pieces of rough bark fell off, the largest of which were simply like small mountains, falling to the ground and shaking for a while. The Eternal Tree once obscured the sky, and the crown hidden above the clouds was also burned by fire, and the fallen leaves that burned on fire poured down like a torrential rain, and the twigs at the end of the canopy quickly scorched until they turned into gray powder and disappeared with the wind.

The destruction of the Eternal Tree struck the hearts of tens of millions of Holy Light cultists, followed by boundless panic, who had lived around the Eternal Tree for generations, guarding it. They built their cities around the vast body of trees. The Eternal Tree also shelters them, with a vast canopy that shelters them from the wind and rain, and provides them with abundant resources. And even if the Tree of Eternity withstood the devastating blow of the ghosts and gods, saved all the human beings and perished, the cities around the Tree of Eternity were not implicated in any way, which is definitely the blessing of the Tree of Eternity......

The falling leaves that poured down like a torrent of fire and the thick branches that broke and fell from them were enough to destroy the city that had been built under the canopy around the Eternal Tree...... But it burned out before it hit the ground, turning into ashes and carrying away with the wind.

The people of the Light Cult know that this is the last time the Tree of Eternity will watch over them.

In order not to hurt them, the Eternal Tree that Claire Dorothea turned into after her death chose to spontaneously combust! Turned into ashes and scattered in the wind, as if they had never appeared in the world.

With the complete disappearance of the Tree of Eternity, so did the faith of the Cultists of the Light......

Believe in the Light, where is the Light?

From now on, there will be no light, and no faith!

How did the 'ghosts' and gods, who had destroyed thousands of lives and made the living live in boundless fear, disappear?

Blank history, no one knows.

But one thing is certain, there were indeed 'ghosts' at that time, and the 'ghosts' created by "Twenty-one People" at the top of the "Twenty-one Persons" were originally intended to deal with that ghost.

The emergence of the Awakened is also a product of that blank history.

Noah's Ark is immortal for 10,000 years, and there are even 'apostles' with active cells......

In the blank history, there are many, many things that we can't know today.

The reason why legends become legends is because, as a rule, legends are unreliable, untrustworthy, and untestable.

For those who live in the present, there is no way to know about that blank history.

Maybe one day in the future, they will be excavated by the world one by one.

Who knows whether it is a legend or the truth that can be unearthed......

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In the cubicle on the second floor of the orphanage, Lovina took out her communicator and dialed a number.

The communication was connected.

Rottweina's first words were, "Believe in the Light, and may the Light be with us." ”

A man's voice came from the other end of the communicator, saying, "Believe in the Light, may the Light be with us." This is their slogan, in order to make sure that the other party is their own person.

"Rottweiler, what are you contacting me about?" The man asked.

"Archbishop, I have been training some highly qualified children for the Holy Light Cult for more than 50 years, when will I become a priest, be baptized by the Light, and restore my eyes......

"Rottweiler, you seem to have forgotten that in our Holy Light Cult, there is no hierarchy between people, regardless of power, social status, knowledge, wealth or poverty...... Nothing can be a criterion for classifying a crowd. As long as you believe in the Light with all your heart, the Light will respond to you...... If you have not been baptized by the Light, your faith is not enough. ”

There was a magic in the archbishop's words, as if she was brainwashing Rottweina, and it instantly soothed her turbulent heart," the archbishop said. Among this group of orphans, I found a few people with good qualifications, who can enter our Holy Light Sect for further training. ”

"I know about this matter, will the priest Matthew who came to pick you up come to you in a month, if there is nothing to do......"

Hearing that the other party was about to cut off the communication, Rotweina immediately interrupted: "Archbishop, please wait a minute, this time I am talking to you for something else. ”

There was obvious impatience on the other end of the communication, "Oh? What's the matter? If it's not a very urgent matter, you can just contact Priest Matthew, I'm very busy, and I will have to consecrate the 'new blood' of the Holy Light Cult later, so that they can feel the power of the Light. ”

"Archbishop, this matter is very important! Because, today I met two children......"

"Two children? What child? The archbishop was suddenly in a state of interest.

"A kid with black hair...... Rowena replied.

"Brunette? Could it be that ...... "What the archbishop said was also very insightful, and immediately understood what Rotweina wanted to express, brunette ...... There are very few and far between, barely visible, however, there is one race that is dark-haired......

(End of chapter)