The Kingdom of Dawn.

Shepard was on the throne, and the ministers, bishops, cardinals, and other dignitaries of the kingdom and the church below sat in their seats, looking together at His Majesty the Pope, who was holding a letter of paper.

The second doppelganger smiled slightly, the body has now achieved medium divine power, and has established a divine kingdom in Heaven Mountain, there is no need to worry about security, the strength and power are all greatly advanced, and his own momentum has changed a lot, and at this moment he said majestically: "The Ptolemaic royal family has handed over the official paperwork, requesting to be allies with us, and I have given permission, so since the date the document is returned, the [Light Alliance] has been officially established!" ”

The crowd below said in unison: "Follow Your Majesty's will, the light is everywhere!" ”

Shepard smiled and stretched out his hand to silence everyone before continuing: "The Knight of Artha is about to return from Longor, he will bring back the goodwill of the Sylvan Kingdom, and the power of my lord is even stronger, this is the kindness of His Highness the gods of the elven race, we should accept it with gratitude, and remind ourselves to remember that this is because of my lord, not my work." ”

Someone below joked: "Your Majesty, the three elven kingdoms have now been merged into one, I wonder what His Highness the elves sent to the Sylfan Kingdom?" ”

Shepard smiled: "I have only known about this matter for a short time, and you will know about it when the official documents are sent everywhere, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it first, the congratulatory gifts of the Sylvan Kingdom include five sets of exquisite light armor forged by the elven master himself, twenty sets of fine heavy armor forged by the elven blacksmith, twenty elven swords, and ten elven longbows." ”

Everyone below heard the words with fiery eyes, elf products, are all good things that a daughter can't buy, especially the elves are very serious about the manufacturing process, any elf product will take a long time, such as the five sets of exquisite light armor forged by the elf master, although it may not be from the hands of one person, but it will take at least a few decades, if it is a human to do it, the thing may go to the underworld before it is made, and only the elves have this time consumption.

Even those elven heavy armor were a few points lighter than ordinary armor, and they were also priceless treasures in the Old World, and everyone was thinking about how to ask for one or two pieces from His Majesty.

Shepard watched their small movements with each other, but he just smiled and said nothing, if it was possible to ask for a sword and a longbow, he already had a draft of the usefulness of twenty-five sets of armor, and saying it was just to boost morale, and at most one or two pieces of heavy armor would be given away, which would be the grace of the heavens.

The scepter lightly knocked the ground, this thing is almost the symbol of the Pope, Shepard's body is not needed to sit firmly in the kingdom of God, and the doppelganger is used to using long swords and longbows, unless it is to attack from a distance to suppress people, otherwise it is really never a scepter that is actually a melee weapon, so it remains in the main plane.

The group then fell silent, respectfully waiting for the Pope to speak, and Shepard glanced at the crowd, very satisfied with this reaction: "Cardinal Mandoloni has gone to the Olbia Peninsula to preside over the diocese, which is close to the Endless Sea, and there are two natural deep-water ice-free ports, so I have decided to move the shipbuilding industry of the kingdom there, and those invaders from other continents have come to Draeno by ship and destroyed our peaceful life, and under the blessing of my Lord, I believe that one day in the future, We can also take a sea boat and go to their mainland. ”

There was silence below, whether it was the municipal ministers or the cardinals, they were speechless for a while, after all these years, the people's wisdom was opened, and they were not ignorant of the strength of the expeditionary force, although Shepard only said that he was going to go by boat, and when he heard it, he would inevitably think that he was going to fight it, and suddenly no one dared to take it.

Shepard was amused when he saw this, and he was still dissatisfied on the surface: "Why don't you say a word? Are you afraid of your enemies? ”

Othello, as the cardinal, had the highest status, and he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty! We are just imagining such a scene, and everything will be as Your Majesty said. ”

Only then did the others react, and Shepard pretended not to see the expressions on the faces of those people, the changes in their eyes, and after deciding on a few things that were not too big or small, he ended the discussion.

When he returned to the study, a knight walked in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Your Majesty, the three cardinals Othello, Haku, and Rook have asked to see you. ”

"Heh, they're all here, let them in." Shepard chuckled, but he didn't feel surprised.

The knight nodded and withdrew, and after a while, the three cardinals walked into the study together, but they all seemed a little nervous when they looked at it.

"You three are here? Sit down and tell me what's going on with me. With a casual finger, Shepard let the three of them sit on the sofa in front of the desk, but the three of them all had something on their minds, even as a close minister of the Pope, they didn't dare to be too presumptuous, they all sat on the sofa, looked at each other, and didn't want to be the first to speak.

Shepard didn't pay attention to them, he lowered his head and looked at the official documents on the table, occasionally picking up a pen to review, and the rustling sound of writing was clearly audible in the study.

After a while, it was Othello who had the closest relationship, and he was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, Mandoloni has been released to preside over the parish, and the three of us ......."

"Heh, I'll just say why are you so calm." Shepard chuckled out unexpectedly, and after signing another official document with the hand holding the pen, he raised his head to look at the three of them, and his tone was a little teasing: "Are you panicking?" Seeing that Mandoloni, who is later than you, is out of the field, so you don't want to stay in the Cardinal's Hall? ”

"I can't wait!" The majesty of the founding king is so great that the peaceful kings of later generations cannot imagine, not to mention that the Dawn Kingdom is a **** system, even if the pope's tone is ridiculous and relaxed, it makes the three cardinals look shocked and almost stand up and ask for guilt.

Shepard didn't tease them, he still said easily: "The kingdom of Olbia seems to be quite rich and comfortable, but compared to the kingdom and Ptolemy, it can be regarded as poor and backward, the population of the whole country is only a little more than the church city, better than when the kingdom was first established, but it is also limited, so I want to rearrange the Olbia Peninsula to become a support for the kingdom rather than a drag, Mandoloni has worked hard in Arnollund for so many years, he is good at this, and it is also to give him some compensation, after all, the matter of moving the capital, Now it exists in name only. ”

"And you guys, don't worry, it's just that the time hasn't come yet, and sooner or later I'll have to use you, by the way, since you're here, I'll ask, how did I arrange for the Cardinal Hall to compile the "Bright Annals"?"

Haku replied: "Your Majesty, the compilation has begun, and the twenty clerical priests of the church have spent half a year transcribing a small number of books collected by the elves, as well as a large number of poems and mythological epics, and with the help of the elves translating them, they have all been converted into lingua franca, and these priests will go to Longor with the books and return with the knights of Arsa. ”

Shepard nodded slightly: "Very good, I can answer casually, it shows that you are concerned, although knowledge and wisdom do not belong to the authority of my lord, but the importance of books and words is recognized by my lord, and we compile the annals of history to record how the people struggled to survive surrounded by suffering and the dead from the time of ignorance to the future, until my lord sent down grace, and I formed a church and established a kingdom, and how many changes have changed, and many of these things do not need to be hidden, although to say it directly." ”

"After a few hundred years, if there is this historical book to be inherited before and after, and the words are clear, there is no fear of tampering with history in a small way, and when the historical book is compiled, it will be left in the church, and some parts of the content can be copied and handed over to various temples and sanctuaries to teach to the schoolchildren."

"Let the ministers learn these things, so that they may be justified, for the people are ignorant, and they fear only power, but power can only bring them to their knees, and faith alone can make them obedient, and it is reasonable to teach them after obedience, so that they may be firm, and remember this, whether it is a believer or a knight or a priest, remember this: Indeed, our Lord is the true God who saves all nations from suffering, and without the mercy and greatness of our Lord, the spirits of the dead still reverberate outside the city, and all nations are still hungry and clothed, in the face of aggression. There will be no way to fight back. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The three cardinals complied.

"Stand down." Shepard waved his hand and watched as the three of them exited the study.

When the room was quiet, Shepard took a sip of the milk tea he had brewed and said to himself: "It's not impossible to do the policy of fooling the people, the witch action in the Middle Ages is not also a cross religion, burning, smashing, looting and killing everything, but I really can't be interested in blind and stupid terrorists, and high-quality believers who are conscious, ambitious, purposeful, and educated, and capable of literature and martial arts are more interesting." ”

……

The sea off the Olbia Peninsula.

Beneath the rough sea, there is a deep sea that is as calm as it has been for thousands of years, and no matter how high the waves are or calm on the sea, there is silence under the sea surface like another world.

The nine-headed black shadow moved silently and rapidly in the deep water, and the nine-headed sea serpent, which was as big as a calf at birth, was now larger than the size of the Apche, and it was obvious that it would be the largest of the three beasts, especially as it continued to grow.

The Endless Sea is the main body of the main plane, and the goddess of the sea nominally has the title of the ocean, but in fact, if she can really control the entire water, even if there are no believers, she can achieve powerful divine power, comparable to any ancient existence.

And yet she couldn't.

The waters that she can actually control are only the sea areas within thousands of miles around the western part of the Old Continent, and then she must consume divine power to control it, and in fact, even if it is nominally her territory, it is constantly being eroded and stolen by others, which is one of the important reasons for her moodiness, and the influence of the priesthood is only a part, so Amberly's divine name has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is still only a medium divine power.

Although the continent of Drano is connected to the old continent by a shipping channel, it is beyond the control of the goddess of the sea, and her priests have not been able to make the goddess's faith occupy a dominant proportion in the mixed expeditionary force, in order to continue to contribute, the leading churches such as the Church of Fortune decided to hang her like this.

Therefore, the hydra sea snake is almost unrestrained in this sea area, as long as it does not enter the dark and cold extremely deep sea, with its magic power and size, it is almost invincible.

The ocean was always so quiet, and millions of fish swam not far from the hydra, but the giant monster was dismissive of them, not the large sea creature at the bottom of the predatory power, but the predator at the top of the food chain, and all the food that was not enough to stuff its teeth did not interest it.

The sound in the deep water cannot be heard by humans, but it can sense that there is a big thing approaching, and the spiritual nine-headed sea snake has a joyful emotion in its heart, which must be a gluttonous guest attracted by the fish, only this huge school of fish can supply the appetite of some predatory sea creatures, and whether it is a large or small school of fish, or a large appetite and a large eater, it is a basic link in the marine food chain.

Approaching the underwater with a dark shadow nearly twenty meters long, it was a right whale, it was a long-lived whale with a huge size, but it had no magical powers, and occasionally a ship could see its back on a clear day, and considered it a kind of luck.

The nine-headed sea serpent swam silently to its prey, it didn't even need to spend much effort, the sheer strength of the right whale was not worth mentioning in its eyes, the nine heads could release similar spells of different natures, it only used three of them, and it quickly made this sea giant its own meal.

The whale barely left much wreckage, the amazing swallowing ability and digestion ability of the nine-headed sea snake can even corrode the pure gold, not to mention just the bones of ordinary creatures, after a full meal, the sea snake plans to find a deep water cave to sleep for a while, it can last a long time after eating, and like this kind of high-level magical beast, it can absorb the elemental power in the air to supply part of its own consumption, otherwise if they are left open to eat, no species can survive from ancient times, and all the main planes will be a dead silence.

The hydra-headed sea serpent's dive stopped suddenly, and it changed directions and swam up, a distance of hundreds of meters did not take too long for it, and when it reached the near surface of the water, it stuck one of its heads out of the water.

Winds and rainstorms are a common sight on the sea, such weather does not scare the sea snake, only makes it feel comfortable, and in the sound of the sea breeze and rainstorm, it seems that there is a human cry coming, it turns its head curiously, and its body under the surface of the water gently shakes, pushing it to swim in the direction from which the sound came.

Although it enters the endless sea from the mouth of the long river, near the Olbia Peninsula, in fact, the entire coastline can be its hunting ground, although the monster does not have the concept of geography and coordinates, but its spirituality and wisdom allow it to realize that it has been swimming north for a long time under the reminder of its own biofield.

That is, it is now not near the Olbia Peninsula, but on the west coast of the Makere people. [.]