There are two religious institutions in Morningstar.

One is the Church of the Word, which is a combination of church and state, and the king can even directly interfere with it, and it is also a training institution for the priesthood profession in the game.

Most of his followers are good at the superior element of fire, the "light" spell, and are proficient in pharmacological knowledge and some superficial magic skills. As a result, the original Priest player was nicknamed the Civil Servant of the Morning Star, and their initial reputation for Morning Star was friendliness, making it easier for them to obtain titles and properties than other players, but they also had to take on many obligations (such as more daily tasks).

It is worth mentioning that the initial reputation of the thief class in Morning Star is negative, and if you don't pass the stealth level, you can't even enter the city, and if you do, you have to mix around the cesspool in the slums for a while.

The second is the Elemental Tower, which often reveals miracles.

Compared to it, the so-called official religion of the former is like a liar. Throughout the game's more than forty years of history, the Word of the Word has never appeared, let alone miraculously. Second, they didn't even have a pope, and the only three archbishops were just to bless the king at the annual celebrations, brush their faces for a whole year and then disappear.

Look next door, the goddess Ikali has blessed more than once, and secondary gods such as Isu have even appeared in CG, compared to the two, the "Church of the Holy Word" is simply not left with the scum, and even the most important main city of the entire level 70 version of "Will of the Dead" - the Holy Light Wish Stronghold in the Kansa region was led by the people of the Elemental Tower.

The only contribution that the people of the Church of the Word did to it was to provide the name "Wish of Light".

As a result, in the second half of the game, almost everyone who talks about church and faith only has the Elemental Tower in their minds.

The Cult of Heteropyro, a sub-religion formed by the followers of Garton in the Elemental Tower.

At the beginning of this story (about 50 words ago), we briefly mentioned the Cult of the Alien Fire once. But at that time, it was from Mu Yan's point of view: he and Sulia stayed in Yeju Town for one night before going to Nighttown, and stayed at Martin's house. The latter's father was a priest in the town, but on the bookshelf was a copy of Mora's "Theory of Faith".

As the leader of the Cult of the Alien Fire, the spokesperson of Garden in the human world, and the creator of the brainwashing masterpiece "Theory of Faith", before the battle of beliefs broke out, Mora did not let the Cult show any weakness. This sub-religion lurking in the Elemental Tower, with an ambiguous relationship with it, has a bit of the flavor of Yang Xiuqing, the dominant Eastern King in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, to the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. Even more blatant than that.

From God's point of view, Mu Yan, who is familiar with the history of the game, has a deep understanding of what this madman has done, and before he tore his face with the old gods, he did many things that the gods were angry about, such as human experiments, human sacrifices, etc., and threw the black cauldron to the Elemental Tower.

After the battle of faith broke out between Garden and Ikali, the Cult of Alien Fire sprung up, and their flames erupted as they do today, burning with flesh and blood and life as the flames.

The dead then rose from the embers, the dead crawled out of the charred underground, the bone-chilling cold spread from the Kansa region to the entire plain of the horses, and the will of the dead descended on the world, ending in the fallen palace of the Savage Lands.

But that's God's perspective after all.

In this era when the battle of beliefs had not yet broken out, and the gods were still in harmony on the surface, except for a few people inside the Elemental Tower who had already noticed the signs (Chris was obviously not among them), most people couldn't tell the difference between the Xenopyrus and the Elemental Tower, and even didn't know about the existence of the former.

But fortunately, this turmoil occurred in the hinterland of the morning star, Mu Yan is like a butterfly flapping its wings desperately, although the person is no longer there, but the interference with this world still continues to play a role, and history has also corrected this series of disturbances with its own strong inertia.

……

"Get out of the way and retreat into the mage's barrier—"

Brando's figure flashed as he shouted, scattering four groups of wraiths in a row.

"All the men stand up for me! Let the old man and the child go ahead—"

He shouted as he crushed a mass of wraiths again, saving a child from its hands.

"Thanks, thanks—"

"Thank you, let's go!"

The child took off his hat tremblingly and was about to thank him, but he pushed him away.

Gentle power allows the child to land firmly beside the adult.

Temporarily freeing up a small space, a continuous explosion suddenly appeared, and a strange temperature change caught his attention.

As a cultivator of Yan Attack, he has always been very sensitive to temperature.

The source is a corpse. He flipped the body over with his feet, just in time to see a flame rise.

"I'm—"

"Bell—"

An invisible barrier suddenly appeared around the corpse, and the explosion was confined to a small space, and the violent impact distorted the small barrier with a dull sound that interrupted his foul mouth.

"It's good that I'm sensitive enough."

With a flash of white light, Wynne appeared beside him, and although the latter's tone was frivolous, his face was equally solemn.

Brando pursed his lips and used his sword to remove the debris left behind by the explosion.

Because the explosion occurred in a confined space, the remaining black char was exceptionally intact.

"It's the Alien Fire Sect, you asked me to keep an eye on them before, I asked people to check, there are several cases in the remote area of Morning Star that are very similar to this one." He explained: "These ordinary people have a fire buried in their bodies that explodes when they receive the command. This is something that only the beasts of the Alien Fire Cult can do. ”

"You mean Mora?"

Wynne's heart sank.

Wynne knew this because he knew Mora.

The latter was his former student, a mage with limited talent but very hard work, who only broke through the four rings in middle age, but he was not discouraged.

It's a pity that God seems to want to play a joke with this middle-aged man who craves power, and in an accident he injured his body and said goodbye to the road of magic completely, and Wynne sighed for a long time. But what he never expected was that it wasn't long before Mora was active in the caster's circle again, and brought new spell skills with him.

A spell that allows you to manipulate the fire as you please, as long as you pay a price.

He called it Fire Control, claiming to be a pyromancer, saying that it was all a blessing from the gods, but it was completely different from the stupid donkeys in the Elemental Tower, who didn't know what faith was, and it was a blessing from Lord Gardon to mankind, and he also tricked some mages who were just as unwilling as him to join the Cult of Alien Fire together.

Later, he did incite a group of people who were not very talented, and was banished from the circle of mages of the Morning Star by Wynne. Because the price of this spell is life, or soul. Warlocks like Mora, who cherish life, often sacrifice the lives of others, which is not allowed in the eyes of a mage.

Wynne also had murderous intentions to completely strangle this force in the cradle, but Mora somehow infiltrated the Elemental Tower and infiltrated the Alien Fire Cult, making it impossible for him to do so. After knocking on Chris a few times, he asked Brando about it, hoping that he could secretly investigate it.

Then, today, the Alien Fire Cult, which had been silent for a long time, reappeared, and brought a more gorgeous fireworks display than before.

"The people of the Alien Fire Sect have the Safron insignia on the back of their necks, you go and inform the royal family, I will command the mercenaries."

"And who's going to help Mr. Shans?"

Wynne asked rhetorically, both he and Brando knew who the golden barrier was that blocked the gray qi.

"Don't worry about it for now, first-"

"Bang!"

Half of the corpse fell heavily in front of the two of them, and the wound was black and breathy, and there was no strange blood flowing.

"Wood?"

Brando was taken aback, then looked in the direction he had been thrown.

It was near the arena, and a figure holding two swords slowly walked towards Surya, who was slumped next to the barrier.

From the beginning of the chaos just now to the enchantment being shattered by Yunero's sword, to the sudden appearance of the Alien Fire Cultists, everything happened between lightning and flint, and the two of them didn't even have time to pay attention to what was happening on the martial arts arena.

What's more, there was Mr. Shans standing behind Surya, and she was the safest in the whole square.

However, reality gave the two of them a slap in the face.

"Protection, protection, Your Highness...... No, fiancée ......"

Wood struggled to finish his last sentence before he lost his resistance, and his body was quickly consumed by the black gas, quickly becoming dry and rotten.

This faithful servant did not forget his duty until his death.

It was as if the well-fed black gas bounced up from the shriveled corpse, eroded through the barrier beneath Wynne's cloth, and flew straight back into the cantusha in Yunero's left hand.

"Damn it!"

Although there is a gap between him and Wood on weekdays, Brando still can't help but have hot eyes at this moment, and he is about to go up to save people with the elven sword, but he is stopped by Wynne.

"You stay, I'll go."

"You-"

"Morningstar can live without Legendary Mages, but it can't do without Legendary Swordsmen."

Wynne quickly tore open a scroll, and the gold-rimmed white robe on his body was windless and automatic, and his momentum was stronger than before.

"That day, Lord Shansi asked me why the long sword on the sword flower flag disappeared, I don't know how to answer, maybe you can."

The white light flashed, and the figure of Headmaster Morrowind disappeared in front of him, but the voice reached his ears.

Brando gritted his teeth, turned his head and jumped into the crowd, smashing the body that was about to explode with a sword, and shouted, "Swordsmen of the Morning Star, this is Brando." ”

"The enemy has a gold and red insignia on the back of his neck, be sure to keep this in mind and check on the people around you!"

"Be sure to prioritize those spellcasters who suddenly become stronger."

As soon as the words fell, the sound of the long sword unsheathed became one.

A scar-faced swordsman kicks his companion flying and refuses to be examined, and his skin glows with fire. This is the three-ring mage who was just summoned yesterday, and the commission is very expensive.

"What if he refuses, chief?" He asked, looking up. As a member of the Swordsman Guild, he still remembers Brando's voice.

As soon as the mage's body with a "ho-ho" gasping sound from his throat and eyes took off, a sword light flashed, as if the figure of the black-skinned candy egg was broken into two.

"Boom-"

A firework blooms in the air, and the debris falls in a stagger.

"Then you don't have to check."

The aftermath is still there, but the person has flown away, and the familiar sword light is constantly brightening.

……

On the martial arts arena, from the first second of the conflict, the two stopped fighting.

Lina opened her eyes and stared at the enchantment-wrapped room, from where she felt a great power.

She had the privilege of listening to the oracle of the Lord of the Elements, and the self-proclaimed "truth" of Ikali's crown felt like the boundless waters of the water. Although the power in front of me is not so majestic, it is just as profound.

At this time, Surya and the phoenix were far away after a blow, and she issued a summons, and the phoenix flew back with a chirp.

"Miss Surya, shall we make a truce first?" She asked.

Surya nodded, she also noticed the strangeness outside the field, the resentful spirits flying back and forth in the sky, even the mage who controlled the enchantment went to the rescue, and the two were trapped inside for a while.

Others may not know who the golden barrier is that shrouded in gray gas, but she knows it.

That's Mr. Shans.

She couldn't help but clench the wooden sword in her hand, the warm power on the sword body continued to surge, restoring her strength, Lina also sat on the ground and meditated, the fiery bird hovered back and forth, watching Surya vigilantly.

At this moment, there was a loud "bang" overhead, and the two people in the center were really frightened by this shock.

The barrier shattered like glass, and a black shadow galloped in, brandishing two swords, one black and one white, and stabbed at Surya.

It was Yunero who had been ordered to come.

Although the girl sensed that something was wrong, she didn't have time to react at all, and in a hurry, she could only raise her long sword to block.

"Boom!"

The tip of the pale golden long sword was pointed at the wooden sword as thin as a cicada's wings, and a circle of ripples was waved, and Yunero took two steps back, his dull eyes seemed to have a little more agility.

On the other side, Surya was knocked out by the force and slammed into Lancelot's field.

It all happened between lightning and flint, and when Lina reacted, Surya had already flown upside down, and under her command, the phoenix screamed, and once again turned into a golden thread and stabbed Yunero's back.

The latter didn't even twist his head, as if he had eyes behind him, and he had already seen all this. His steps were slightly wrong, and the black-filled cantusha swung out lightly, landing precisely on the phoenix's flapping wings, and accelerating abruptly.

The phoenix let out a wail of pain, like a kite with a broken string smashed into the floor of the martial arts arena, and the blazing heat melted the stone slab, scalding a blackened path.

Easily defusing the attack, Yunero frowned slightly, looked around, and seemed to be a little confused in his smart eyes.

"My minions, watch out for your mission!"

Trapped in the realm, Leoric noticed the strangeness and immediately tightened his grip on him.

When Yunero's gaze touched Surya, the supreme command in his mind took the place of reason.

He rushed to the girl with his sword up and down, and the hand holding the royal blue hilt was raised high, swinging diagonally downward, and a dazzling golden light suddenly pierced the air.

Even as a heroic spirit, he was a little uncomfortable facing such a strong light again after being familiar with the gloomy sky of Heru, and he couldn't help but close his eyes slightly.

The touch from the sword was a few minutes earlier than expected, and the thing it touched was a little hard.

But it didn't matter, though he couldn't think, but the chaotic memories swirled back and forth in his mind, and he realized that he had cut off many things outside of the enemy's body—armor, flagpoles, chariots, and even city walls.

This time, there are more enchantments.

The light vanished, and he opened his indifferent eyes, but instead of the blonde girl he had told him to do, he saw a man shrouded in black robes.

The other man held his sword and made a gesture to block, but now only half of the sword was left, and the other half slid down with half of his body.

Yunero was slightly surprised for a moment, and kicked away the half of his body in front of him without any fluctuation in his heart.

The living who are beyond their means.