Chapter 15: Helplessness and Abandonment
Eventually, Rococo walked around the outer sanctum twice, but was never able to find a way to enter the inner sanctum.
All entrances are guarded by powerful Knights Templar. It is completely impossible for an "unrelated person" like Rococo to enter the inner sanctum without permission.
According to these Templars, only those in mid-level positions of authority within the Cult of Genesis were entitled to free access to the Inner Sanctum, while those below the middle level of authority or ordinary believers were also eligible to enter the Inner Sanctum once to worship or to hear the teachings of bishops or archbishops or even saints of the Pope rank if they were able to obtain a certificate of faith from several high-ranking priests in the Outer Temple.
Rococo's current identity is not even a believer, at most he can only be regarded as an ordinary pan-believer, and it is naturally impossible to get the opportunity to enter the inner temple and get close to the statue of the goddess of creation in the inner temple.
If you want to become a believer, you must first be baptized in the Holy Church or in the Church of the Goddess of Creation in various parts of the continent. Baptism of faith originally didn't need to pay anything on the original continent of Emissia, at most, it was just to talk to the priest or nun in charge of the baptism in the church about topics such as life beliefs, showing your devotion to the goddess's faith, and in today's game, there is no cost, as long as you say to the NPC priest in charge of the baptism inside the church that you want to be baptized, you can get the title of [Believer of the Goddess of Creation].
It is easy to become a believer, but after that, it is not so easy to obtain the faith certification of a high-ranking priest. After becoming a goddess believer, you can accumulate faith points (a kind of function points similar to the battlefield honor value of national forces on the side of the sect organization) by killing criminals or red players, heretics and chaos monsters, and as long as there is a certain accumulation of faith points, then you can obtain faith certification as long as you consume the corresponding faith points, and if you don't have enough faith points and are in a hurry to get certification, then you can only complete the test tasks assigned by the senior priest, And these test tasks generally require at least 40 or more strength to be able to cope with them.
According to the previous game records of the NPC system, in the late game, for players whose average level has already reached eighty or ninety, whether it is hunting the faith accumulated by high-level Chaos monsters during leveling up or completing those simple test tasks, it is easy to do, and it is not much more difficult to enter the inner sanctum of the Sanctuary than to enter their own home. However, in the early stage of the game, it is very difficult to enter the inner sanctum of the Holy City, after all, when the main plot of the Holy City is opened to players, the average level of players is only about 20, and it is difficult to encounter any powerful pagan monsters or chaos monsters that can accumulate a large number of faith points when leveling up or going down to the dungeon.
If you can meet some bigwigs within the sect here in the outer temple, maybe Rococo can still think of a way, after all, the gamification of this world is the result of Mira's forced Inca copy from the outside through the laws of time and space of the earth, and it is not a change in the origin of the plane world of the Emissia continent.
Even if the high-ranking personnel within those sects only have so much more self-will than these knights guarding the door, Rococo may have the hope of moving them to take them in, but unfortunately, perhaps because the game has just begun, the main plot of the Holy City has not yet been unfolded, so the pope and the archbishop, the bigwigs within the sect, are still in the inner sanctum of the temple every day according to the plot setting, and Rococo can't meet them.
Eventually, after staying in the outer sanctum until the afternoon, after trying all else to get his wish, Rococo walked out of the sanctuary somewhat dejectedly.
"Alas...... There is no way, unless we can trigger some special story quests, we will not be able to enter the inner sanctum of the sanctum in the normal way, and we will not be able to approach the statue of the goddess in the inner sanctum that is likely to be fused with the fragments of your godhead. ”
Beside Rococo, Arya herself, the goddess of creation herself, who couldn't hide because of her shyness, couldn't care about being shy at this time, and apologized for the figure that only Rococo could see.
"I'm sorry, Xiao Ke, it's all for me...... Thank you for your hard work. ”
"You're still saying that......"
Because there are only low-intelligence NPCs around, Rococo doesn't have to worry about stretching a lazy waist that is not too ladylike, but the beautiful face that is a little lazy but not concealed is quite cute with her village girl costume.
"All said, this is a deal, or pact, between me and your sister, that I will help your sister save you, and that your sister will give me access to what I have always dreamed of. You don't need to thank me or apologize, it's not so much to help you, but to work for myself. ”
"But, I'm the one who gets helped, isn't it?"
Rococo looked away from Arya.
"Well...... Whatever you want. ”
After sorting out his mood, Rococo immediately began to reimagine the next plan.
With Rococo's village girl strength, it is impossible to brush up on faith or challenge test tasks, as for special plot missions, there are a few in Rococo's own NPC system that may trigger the opportunity to directly meet the Pope or an archbishop, so that you can definitely enter the inner sanctum.
Unfortunately, these quests are not real-time refreshed daily quests like the quests in the Adventurer's Guild, but are all very special side story quests. There are few task restrictions on daily quests, and even NPCs can receive and accept them, but side story quests are only triggered when NPCs encounter eligible "adventurers", that is, after meeting players, and Rococo as an NPC has no way to trigger it.
Of course, as one of the few perks that Mira left to Rococo, Rococo was able to switch freely between NPC mode and player mode, but it could not be used here at this time.
Because of the ability given by Mira, Rococo can freely switch between the two identities of NPC and player, generally speaking, only Rococo's own character state changes before and after the process of changing identity, and the game coordinate position where Rococo is located will not change, except that it is a little different when she first transforms from NPC to player.
In player mode, Rococo has almost no peculiarities compared to other players. The first time she was transformed from an NPC to a player, because she didn't have her own corresponding player identity at this time, she wouldn't change in place, but would initially start building and selecting her own character basic information from the interface where she created the character like the players, and then then as a rookie of LV1, she was born into a novice village in the country of her own power and began to adventure like other ordinary players.
Therefore, even if Rococo wants to trigger the special quest to enter the inner sanctum on the Holy City side as a player, she will automatically leave the Holy City and run to the novice village of the Radiant Empire or the Free Federation when she changes her identity.
But other than that, there really is no better way for Rococo at the moment. Fortunately, according to the records of the game progress in the previous life, the special NPC plague mage Bekaz with self-intelligence who fused the godhead fragments and then caused trouble in the early game seems to have been defeated in the main story when the player's average level reached about 40, and the godhead fragment was lost and became an ordinary dungeon boss, while the opening of the Holy City side was around the player's level 20, and she did not have the opportunity to recover the Godhead fragments on the Holy City side to enhance her strength before the final battle against Bekaz.
Fortunately, no matter what, Rococo finally left the territory of the empire first and came to such a neutral area as the Holy City. If she was accidentally left in the empire before, her faction will automatically default to the empire faction player when she creates the character when she transforms into a player, and now when she converts in the Holy City, since this is a neutral zone, her faction will not be forced to default and can be chosen by herself.
Although her NPC identity - of course, is the identity of the village girl before the original elf memory is decided, after all, the Radiant Empire is the largest empire of mankind, and does not have the ability or qualification to make the existence of the original elf "belong" to them - it belongs to the Radiant Empire forces, but if it becomes a player, Rococo is still more inclined to choose the free federation forces.
After all, there are many places in the main plot of the game of the Imperial Forces and the Federal Forces that are separate and independent, according to the game records of the previous life, in the main plot of the Glorious Empire Forces until the mid-term full-scale war with the Beast Spirit Clan, there are no high-intelligence NPCs suspected of fusing Godhead fragments in the main plot of the Imperial Forces, but on the side of the Free Federation, there is a plague mage in the early plot of the guy who keeps making trouble, and according to the game of the previous life, The high-level of the Free Federation is obviously just a group of NPCs, but in the game plot, it has repeatedly shown that players are confused by the decision-making full of political wisdom, and it is obvious that among the high-level of the Free Federation, there is also a possibility that there is a high-intelligence NPC fused with Godhead fragments.
Although in the middle of the game, even the hostile Free Federation and the Radiant Empire have opened a non-war exotic teleportation array that allows players to travel freely between the two factions, but in order to make it easier to gather information about the owner of the Godhead Shard, it is much more advantageous to be born as a player of the Free Federation.
After making this decision, Rococo glanced back at the holy and majestic sanctuary behind him, and then spoke to Arya floating in front of him.
"Arya, mode shift, I'm going to switch to player mode."