Chapter 357: Undercurrent

"Has the Templar been pushed to this point?"

When I learned of the shameless behavior of some people, I was not only not angry, but on the contrary, I was very happy.

Sometimes, the leader is also equal to the winner, and for the leader, such as the monopolist with a market occupancy rate of more than eighty percent, as long as it does not take the risk of being radical or make a big mistake, it is difficult for the latecomer to catch up.

For a behemoth like the Templar Church, the pressure that can be given from the outside is really limited, and if there are no internal disagreements, I am afraid that even if we are united, we will be able to eat even if we eat the old book for hundreds of years.

And this time, it finally made a mistake, or a big mistake.

I can understand that it made a choice, which was not necessarily a wrong choice in the current situation, but on the contrary, it was a very good decision because of the very strong foundation of the Church church.

Everyone understands the truth of the accumulation of gold and ruined bones, and the Templar Church occupies the advantage of public opinion, of course, they can play as much as they want, from this it can be seen that they have been smooth sailing for too long, and they feel that their position will not be challenged at all, and even look down on Ayer's side.

What their top leaders expect is probably just to use this war report to stabilize the situation for a period of time, and after this period of time, once the holy war enters a stalemate period, I am afraid that not to mention that the countries still remember this matter, and maybe they will need it because of the unfavorable war.

And even if it really comes to the future, this matter has been turned out to provoke trouble, and the original battle merit announcement is ambiguous, and the main thing it says is "victory under the guidance of the Holy Light", when most of the human beings in this world believe in the Holy Light, this statement really cannot be said to be wrong, and it can be denied to the end by mistake.

And if you take 10,000 steps back. In case the Church is in a state of weakness. This is simply being chased to the end as a handle. When the time comes, it is enough to use explanations such as "Cardinal Stephen was worried that the war would adversely affect his future, lied about the military situation, deceived the upper echelons of the church, and first deprived himself of his teaching position and committed suicide in XX Mountain", anyway, the person is already dead, and the black cauldron has already been carried.

In fact, this kind of thing has happened a lot before, as long as someone takes the blame in the end. Then the tree doesn't fall, and in the end it has to be stopped.

What the Templar Church needs now is only to eliminate the negative effects of the initial battle as much as possible, and to boost the fighting spirit of the entire Holy Light side, of course, it would be better if it could eliminate the sense of existence on one of the Iyah sides.

But there is one point, I am afraid that the Pope himself did not see it, and this is the biggest mistake.

He underestimated those contract braves, and even completely ignored their existence!

In the midst of this event. The biggest victim isn't me, the Wood Spirit of Oak Town, or even the Ayer's side, and we don't need to prove our abilities to the world. There are also opportunities to come out, and you can ignore the glory of this battle.

But for the contract brave men who risked their lives and desperately wanted to break out of their fame and glory, this epic battle has changed their lives, and the shining military medal is still on their chests, but the duck that has been in their hands has been robbed, and if they brag to others in the future, they will be regarded as liars.

This is a fatal pain for those young people who "honor is higher than life", I am afraid, they will remember these hypocritical evildoers for the rest of their lives, at least, these days the clergy have been hostile to other adventurers, and even a few young priests have once again chosen the gods they should serve.

The popes and cardinals have become accustomed to their superiority, but they have forgotten that the most terrible thing about human beings is their growth.

Perhaps, they are just low-level rookies now, but when the "Justice Points" promote their growth, when these first crab tasters become the veterans of this industry, when they emerge everywhere with the power they gain from this military merit system, these hidden bombs and lingering evil feelings will really be effective.

In fact, in the near future, the third rule in the workbook given to the young rookies by the old-timers who have already made their way is that "the clergy who truly believe in the Light may be trusted, but the Templar Church is a bunch of old bastards, never give their backs to them, or else he will take the honor that rightfully belongs to you and burn you alive as a heretic." You don't believe it? Think of Oaktown. ”

And once the bad feeling is established at the very beginning, I am afraid that no matter how much you do, it will be difficult to undo it.

Of course, for the Templar Church, their own "Holy Favor System" is enough, how can they think about what kind of impact this competing "Contract Hero System" will have on the world, and whether those seedlings will become real heroes.

Of course, even if we know in our hearts and are satisfied with such an outcome, it is not okay to do nothing.

Even if it is true that our Aye's side is inferior to the opponent's Holy Light side, since we have been beaten, if we don't retaliate, wouldn't it seem that we are too weak, and in this world, weakness itself is a kind of original sin, and he will make the wolves around him let down their guard and really start to raid.

"What is Ayer going to do? Or what has already been done? ”

At this time, it is natural for the boss to make a decision, and in my mind, Aye is not a person who is used to swallowing his anger.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ In the past few days, two meteors have fallen. Although the Templar Church did not issue a public announcement, the small churches of the God of Discipline and the God of Punishment did not receive a response from the true God, and the priests lost their divine powers. Although these two gods have no sense of zΓ i, they are just quasi-gods among mortals, but they are both subordinate gods of the ascetic god Tremat, and you should understand this silent fall. ”

In ancient mythology, the starfall is also the expression of the godfall, but in fact, the meteor is not necessarily a godfall, but the godfall must cause a meteor...... Well, in fact, it is the scene of the Kingdom of God and the Divine Seat burning and falling into the heavenly realm, and when witnessing that scene, all beings will instinctively know that God is dead, just like once someone ascends to God, the whole world will know.

I have never heard of these two gods, but after looking for information, I found out that they are both demigods who have successfully become messengers of God in the Templar Church in the past, and then pledge allegiance to the true God and share the priesthood and divine power, and their churches are all within the Templar Church. The God of Discipline will give the Inquisitor some magic to track down heresy. And the god of punishment is the master of extorting confessions by punishment. Both gods are super-weak gods, and they are completely the doglegs of Trimat, who in turn is the doglegs of the god of light.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I've heard that it seems, well, at least on the face of it, that this matter was the work of the ascetic god of great power, whose teachings advocated an almost masochistic lifestyle, that everyone was thrifty and that there was no dispute in the poor world. Wear single clothes in winter to forge your bones, eat rice grains and drink cold water in summer, and improve yourself in asceticism. Although this guy has a high reputation among the warrior monks, this doctrine is naturally the sworn enemy of Beyana, who seeks wealth to improve her life. Of course, this explanation that he did it was originally from the group of bastards on the Holy Light side, and I don't think the other bastards can get out of it, probably pushing an unlucky person who is most suitable for the blame. ”

Solo, the god of music and dance, was very open, and the bard was talking to me as a messenger.

He has been in touch with me since that incident...... I certainly don't want to deal with gods. But it is true that it is necessary to get news from the upper realm, and you can't go directly to Aye for everything.

And the other candidate gods are even more unreliable. I don't know many gods now, Mary is a dwarf god after all and spends most of her time in a state of confusion (drunkenness), Beyana...... I'm not stupid enough to deliver to my door, it seems like she's been in a manic state as soon as she hears my name lately.

"Ayah killed him?"

"Directly broke into the kingdom of God, severely injured Cui Matt, and killed two of the obstructed gods, even taking away the soul and the priesthood."

"The other main gods didn't react? The Source of Order didn't react either? A civil war before the Holy War began? Iyer crossed the line this time. ”

"No, if you want to cross the line, the Holy Light side will cross the line first, and the other main gods are also very unhappy with this kind of behavior, but since the other party is dead, and Cui Matt is seriously injured, even if this matter ends here, both sides will not continue to publicize it."

In a sense, this is a compromise, a mediation under the attention of other main gods and the source of order, from the bright side, it seems that the Aye side has suffered a little loss, after all, the Aye side has lost a rare start and prestige, although the Holy Light side is dead, but it is two weak and not many people know about the gods, and they can be completely ignored in the eyes of the big guy.

But only I know that we actually made a lot of money this time!

"Punishment and precepts? Ayer really worked hard this time. ”

Neither of these priesthoods is nothing, and in the current world, the precepts are only pursued by a few ascetics and devout believers, and the punishment is a lowly concept that does not have a faΓ§ade, and both seem to be priesthoods with little potential to be tapped.

While these two concepts are not taken seriously, because the religious concept of "asceticism to atone for original sin so that pure souls can be introduced into the kingdom of God by the gods" is recognized by the Church of the Gods, the ascetic priesthood is very remarkable in this theocratic world, and the ascetic god is even much more powerful than the goddess of wealth.

And because ascetics and warrior monks were able to gain great combat power through asceticism, and there was a church composed of elite and warlike strongmen, this "god of masochists" became the embodiment of powerful divine power, and the result was that the two priesthoods of "punishment" and "precepts" became an extension of the concept of asceticism, and they were even more unpopular.

And it is precisely because he feels that there is no potential to be tapped, so Trematt will hand over the two priesthoods to his servants.

"Did Aye take away the priesthood directly?"

But only Iyer and a few others know that the "punishment" and the "precepts" are the priesthoods that we cannot obtain in the plan to "rebuild the underworld".

"Penalty" and "precepts" are only second-rate if they are derived concepts of religious asceticism, but if they are derived concepts of "law", such as "punishment" is the punishment for violating the law, "precepts" are the subordinate concepts of the law itself, and even the concepts of "judicial self-discipline" and "moral self-discipline" can be deduced, which are necessary nutrients for the next step of the throne of the law, and are also necessary for the creation of Hades and hells.

Of course, the aftermath of this matter is not over yet, or the gods at the top have come to an agreement, but we, as mortals, also need to find a place from the Templar Church, which is also mortal, and this depends on the opportunity.

As for the two priesthoods who were already destined to "disappear suddenly", even if there should be a lot of people who knew about it, they faced Solo's doubts. I just nodded and didn't say much. Some things are too important. Even if Solo is a god on our side, I don't want anyone else to know.

"Looks like I'm going to have to hurry...... Of course, let's deal with the important matter at hand, Ainslow, the Great Stone Sculptor, what else do you have to say? ”

Isn't it the extremely ugly Mother of Ten Thousand Stones?

When the battle reached a stalemate, I did not hesitate to summon the ambush soldiers. And since Einslow, the Great Stone Sculptor, has already settled in the Forest of Dreams, in a sense, it is equivalent to taking refuge in me, and of course he will not forget to pull her into the battlefield as a top combat force.

But the result was that the "Seven Great Sages", who were composed of the seven Earth Elemental Plane's combat power above the Holy Rank, only came to the old man Sorrowful Wind. Ero, but the result was miraculous....... is it true that among the seven saints, they are all the smallest and the most difficult to deal with?

cough, to get back to the point, if you lose, there is naturally nothing to say, but now that you have won, you will naturally have to count the old accounts of not listening to the order to retreat. Otherwise, everyone is like this, and then people's hearts will be scattered. It's really hard to lead the team.

"My lord, I was really wronged! You know, we're all Earth Lords, but the Titans are the children of the earth, and we can't move in front of them! ”

Two lines of tears fell from her cheeks, snapping into diamonds, it seems that there is a lot of carbon in this girl's body...... I suddenly remembered the fairy tale of the mermaid who fell into tears, the main component of pearls is calcium carbonate, and the mermaid can become tears into beads, whether it is because her tear glands contain too much gypsum, or she is simply a strange creature that feeds on stones.

It seems that only crocodiles eat stones in nature, although they are to help digestion, but crocodiles are also both water and land, is the real identity of mermaids is to become a fine crocodile?

Ahem, it seems that I accidentally ruined my childhood again, back to business, about the elderly fossil mermaid...... I'll talk about Shi Mu's academic research next time.

I've taken all the diamonds she dropped, and I'll see if I can sell them for some money...... It's not that I'm too stingy, it's that I've been looted too cleanly lately, and I'll be ...... when I find that bastard who stole my money What? Off topic again? Well, let's talk about the recent livelihood issues next time, and keep trying to get down to business.

This guy's tears can't stop flowing, but I directly treat them as crocodile tears, and I'm not a fool, although the Titan is known as the son of the earth, but the winged man is also known as the son of the sky, the elf is still the child of nature, the son of the forest, in fact, it's not all about putting gold on the face, what does it matter.

The Titans are not elemental creatures, they just admit that the earth gave birth to them and are natural creatures, not some god who created them, and if they really have anything to do with the earth element, it will not be the turn of Omdi Roken to be the god of the earth element.

"Immobile in front of the Titans? Hmph, I think you know that your opponent is a Titan, so you don't dare to go to the battlefield at all. ”

Einslow didn't answer, and her tears stopped, and it seemed that she herself found the play very boring.

This seems to be an ugly elemental lord with a short body, but Om Diroken's peers are much older than most of the true gods, maybe she has seen the Titan in its full form, so her frightened fear of war is completely understandable, even if she and the Titan incarnation can compete, but she is also worried that the Titan in its full form will come to the door, and with her obstruction, how can other "Great Sages" go to the battlefield.

Thinking of this, I looked at this short and fat ancient stone mother with amusement, her strength may not be anything in the top combat power, but her ancient and ancient information may not be more important than herself.

Of course, it is difficult to get these things directly, but in a sense, Shi Mu, who has lost my trust, is also losing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"I can't talk to her about that until something is figured out."

I was going to talk to her about repairing the Earth Elemental Throne and re-establishing an Earth Elemental Lord as the Earth Elemental God, but it wasn't a good thing for us that such a cunning ego guy had ascended to that position.

As long as the Earth Elemental God is newly generated, it will naturally be able to greatly slow down the recovery of the Titan, and the generation of the Earth Elemental God must be strong enough Earth Elemental Power and Earth Elemental Throne, and as far as I know, the Great Stone Shaper in front of him, Einslow, is the closest Earth Elemental Lord to the position of the Earth Elemental God, and the fragments of the Earth Elemental Throne were taken away by two people, one is me, and the other is ......

"Sad wind, what do you say? Your brothers and sisters are so unkind, I didn't treat them badly, so I usually eat and drink spicy food, and run away when I need to come in handy, isn't it a bit too much. ”

At that time, the Sand Worm King tamed by the Sorrowful Wind destroyed the Earth Elemental Throne, and some of the fragments must have fallen into his hands, which were originally his trophies, but I am afraid that they will have to be exchanged with him later.

And this question is not easy to answer, the benefits of the Dream Forest to the Earth Elemental Lord are obvious, I am not talking nonsense, I am now asking Grief Wind, but my eyes are fixed on Einslow, just to force her to give me an answer.

Sad Wind also knew it, but he just teased the white lion and didn't say anything, while Einslow himself has been silent.

But she also knows that she can't be fooled if she goes on like this, and in the end, she still has to make a decision. (To be continued......)