522. The Way to Ascension
According to the general understanding, Canningus, the city of mages, should not have anything to do with religion, Master Rosser is very proud, and denounces religion as a country scam, so is the same with Mage Mancello, who has been emulating Rother, but the actual result is that the country scammer has successfully taken root in this city of mages that should be extremely repulsive to religion, and has spawned a huge church organization that will dominate the world in later generations?
Doesn't it seem sufficient to explain this strange process with Mancello's policy tilt? And Mancello was transformed into a vengeful bandit group because he was destroyed by Rosser, and he did not leave enough history books for Bai Yi to refer to.
What's more, the strategic location of Canningus was completely destroyed by Rosser, and the holy city of Canning was rebuilt on a ruin, which shows the devotion of its faith.
On the other hand, such an important process of how the Charismatic Church came to be, whether it is in the history books or the records of the church itself, are not clear, and do not mention much about this past, as if the believers were automatically gathering in the past, but you must know that after the destruction of Rother, the greatest resistance to resisting religion disappeared, and at the same time, the entire continent also fell into a period of considerable secession and hegemony, and all kinds of religious cults naturally multiplied wildly in this extremely favorable environment. How did Charismaticism, with its relatively peaceful and innocuous teachings, stand out from the crowd of religions and establish its dominance? This in itself is also an intriguing thing.
You know, wars between religions are often bloodier and more brutal than wars between nations...
"Is there anything unusual about this Canningus?" Bai Yi couldn't help but ask at the emperor.
"You've probably heard of Mancello's ascension, right?" The Emperor asked rhetorically.
"Does this thing really exist?" Bai Yi was a little surprised, his historical knowledge about the East plane mainly came from the knowledge inheritance of scholars, explorers and others, especially the explorer, as an outstanding tomb robber, his historical attainments far surpassed ordinary historians, but about this so-called ascension to heaven, he thought it was just a legend.
According to some wild historical rumors, the king of Mancello once spared no expense of manpower and material resources, and built a huge tower towering into the sky somewhere, called the way of ascension, the ascension here is not the kind of ascension that climbs to a high place and falls freely, but it has 100,000 steps made of white marble, as long as the heart is firm and strong, after walking through these 100,000 steps, you can reach the kingdom of the gods where the gods live, and talk and laugh with the supreme true god.
Explorers think that this legend is too absurd and mysterious, and there are too many unreasonable places in it, such as Mancello at that time, facing great pressure from Rosser, and actually ran to grab the spectacle instead of developing troops? Even if you really want to grab the spectacle, with the hard conditions of the construction technology of that era, how can you build such a tall tower? White marble, a mid-to-high-end building material, began to be widely used more than a thousand years after the demise of Mancello, when there was no way to mine and carve this material.
He even went to several places where the legendary path to heaven was located, but naturally found nothing, so he thought that the way to ascend to heaven was purely a joke made up of nonsense, but it was also reasonable and well-founded.
"But I haven't found any memories of this thing in your memory?" Bai Yi asked a little strangely.
"There are some trivial memories that I didn't share with you, and of course you won't." The Emperor replied.
"Wow! Is a tower of this size just a trifle in your opinion? Bai also asked with a little crying and laughing.
"Because it's not a tower, it's a large dimensional passage." The Emperor spoke in a calm tone about a great archaeological discovery, "I carefully retraced the memories of the afterlife, and when the army set foot on Canningus, I found a strange large-scale magic circle, and at that time the war was tense, no one cared about this thing, let alone had the time to completely erase it, but only destroyed some key nodes and buried it. ”
Bai Yi was slightly stunned, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked, "Large Plane Passage?" Could it be that ..."
"If nothing else, this thing should be the Angel Summoning Array that has made you anxious." As he spoke, the emperor took out a piece of parchment from his bosom, threw it to Bai Yi, and opened it to see that it was a complete diagram of the magic circle.
Bai Yi took a closer look at it again, this was indeed a magic circle that he had never seen before, there were some similarities with the plane teleportation array in later generations, but there were many differences, and in some places he could even vaguely feel the charm similar to the ghost painting talisman...
If this thing can really summon the angel to the nether, then all the questions can be answered, why did the Church of Charism rebuild the holy city on the ruins? Why does Charismatic Church stand firm and stand out from other religions? can be explained.
"Let's make good use of it, it's just to buy time to draw this thing, and I've lost so many people." There was a sudden hint of melancholy in the emperor's tone, "It's a pity that there were fewer people this time, and I couldn't destroy this thing." ”
After all, Canningus is a gathering place for the enemy's high-end combat power, and with the emperor's strength that has not yet reached the peak, it is not easy to be able to fight in and draw down the magic circle and then retreat with his whole body, and I am afraid that he has encountered a lot of dangers during this period...
"Why be in such a hurry? This kind of thing, you should call me..."Bai Yi replied in a low voice.
"I just wanted to give you a meeting gift, by the way, as a reward for helping me with chores during this time." The emperor still said very calmly, since it was a gift that was about to be given, how could he ask Bai Yi to help?
"This is really a heavy gift..."Bai Yi replied, the gift in hand that had been exchanged for sacrificing hundreds of Rosser's elites seemed extremely heavy for a while.
"Don't thank me, besides, you are still stupid, I left you so much power for nothing, and you actually shrank in the study every day to review documents? Haven't you ever thought about doing something meaningful? The emperor said in a tone of hatred for iron, then shook his head again, and said, "Well, sign an order for me to let the best painters in the country come to the imperial city to gather." ”
Bai Yi seemed to understand his intentions, and asked with some hesitation, "Uh... Don't you think..."
"I see how you burned it this time?" The emperor said proudly, patted Xiao Miya's head, and wanted to take her away, but the little guy shook his head uncharacteristically, revealing a pitiful and cute expression, and begged in a soft tone: "Grandpa Emperor, I want to accompany Mr. Hope today, okay?" ”
Seeing this, the emperor pouted, and left alone with some unhappiness.
As soon as he left, Bai Yidang even called Xiao Miya to his side quite proudly, played with it, and muttered: "It seems that I still don't hurt you little Nizi in vain..."
Who knew that Miya broke free from his clutches with all his might, and said in that cute tone: "Mr. Hope, Miya is homesick..."
Now it's Bai Yi's turn to make trouble...
"So... Looks like we're going to have to hurry up and get rid of something meaningful. Bai Yi said, swept away the documents on the table that did not require him to do it himself, took out the parchment, and drafted two orders.
A summoning order for painters, which was naturally needed by the emperor; The other is to convene a series of academic seminars with more authoritative mages in China, just like he had planned before, to form an academic team to help study the way back.
In fact, the reason why the emperor gave him power was to allow him to use some national resources, but Bai Yi was overwhelmed by those documents for a while, and he didn't think about this meaningful aspect, and he didn't even have the idea of taking evil slaves to the street to tease a beautiful girl...
It can be seen that it is not possible to have the knowledge to govern the country without a corresponding mentality.
With the order, he spread out the parchment on the table where the circle was recorded again, and motioned for Mia to come and study it together.
Mia's gaze was not on the parchment, but continued to stare at him, and asked in a low voice something that didn't seem like she could ask, "Mr. Hope, are you planning to destroy this circle?" ”
Canningus is heavily defended and can cause a lot of trouble to the current emperor, but if he goes alone, as long as he changes into the power increase suit in advance, and then uses the assassin's skills to sneak in, or even transform into black rice balls, it should be easy to completely destroy this future angel summoning array, and Xiao Miya can naturally think of this, so he asked him like this.
This question made Bai Yi hesitate for a while, but finally shook his head.
It's not that he's afraid of the butterfly effect, but that he recognizes the value and existence of the opponent of the church, if there is no such thing as a lich king, then no one will carry these pots in the later religious strife or demon invasion, including the medical standard will drop significantly... At the end of the day, even though he and the church were on the same page at the right time, they never thought of destroying him completely.
There is no right or wrong between him and the church, just a difference.
As for the angel summoning array or something, now that he has this magic array diagram, he is quite confident in his heart.
Seeing Bai Yi's attitude, Miya showed a relieved expression, and said with a smile: "In this way, after we leave, the history here can continue to reproduce and develop normally." ”
Bai Yi silently looked at Xiao Miya, who consciously changed into the conservative dress, her figure was still petite, her face was still childish, and she seemed to be no different from when she was a child, but the words she said and the problems she considered made him feel that his little daughter had really grown up for the first time.