Chapter 389: Southern Sect
If you bargain with a shop in the street, you say, "Give me this ring for a hundred." And the seller knew that the ring was worth at least 1,000, and said, "Okay, I'll give it to you, and it will come with a gift." How would you feel?
I think that if it is a normal situation, you either think that there is something wrong with the ring itself, or that the seller is either a traitor or a thief, or even has some conspiracy against you.
And I feel like this now, in addition, there is also the feeling of swinging a heavy stick but hitting the cotton with a hammer, I obviously have prepared a lot of moves, how can it be so easy.
The dragon wrestlers are the pinnacle of alchemy and dragon science, they are artificially created dragon veins, and without the accumulation of thousands of years of Bayer and the unusual relationship between the dragon clan, it is impossible to exist as a super soldier.
It is said that these guys are born with infinite strength (strength 18+), can wear super heavy armor that is impossible for mortals to equip, and are also equipped with giant dragon spears and axe blades more than three meters long, once they are put into the battlefield, they are irresistible killing machines, and the innate defensive scale armor and regeneration ability of the dragon vein give the killing machine a powerful battlefield continuity and recovery ability, and once in a crisis, the request for power from the dragon vein will often bring it endless potential, and continuing to dragonize will bring it new strength and stronger basic attributes.
Of course, the forcibly added dragon veins also have some irresistible weaknesses, and the madness of this "wild dragon" is to remind these fierce warriors that if they are obsessed with killing, they will forever lose the possibility of returning to human form and human hearts, and the dragon berserkers who return on the most brutal battlefield will either be turned into monsters by the unstoppable dragon, or they will become madmen who have lost their minds.
The Dragon Shield Defenders, on the other hand, are a completely different category from them. Dragonwright is the sharpest spear of flames. Then the Dragon Shield Defender is the strongest shield of ice.
However, it is different from the dragon wrestler with unusually obvious body characteristics. There is not much information about these heavily armored and shielded defenders who are shrouded in armor, but as long as they appear, they are often able to achieve amazing results, and these warriors who are good at group combat even have the record of successfully slaughtering giants in a squad of only three or five people.
And their wall shield is two meters high, and as long as it is erected, it can form a magical defense barrier, and only a small team can provide a wall-like defense. It is said to be "the wall of the event".
But you get what you pay for, it is said that the armor and enchanted shields are the top goods, and the full armament and training of each warrior will be the top of the silver of the highest height, and the entire kingdom of Baier will probably have 20 warbands and 80,000 people.
Looks like a lot? But if you consider the status of Bayer's superpower, these 80,000 people are probably less than the private soldiers of a local lord.
Therefore, even Bayer did not dare to invest these expensive soldiers in ordinary battles, and such a great treasure of the country could not even be handed over to any prince other than the crown prince.
And now. When I flipped through the thick training materials and alchemy recipes in my hands, I heard that Heloise "should be true." If it weren't for the research results of the same level", I would have felt like I was in a dream, and the one who just yelled "Give it to him, I said, give it to him." "The tyrant, who had reprimanded the persuasion of his ministers, sat at the table and looked at me with a smile.
"Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief."
The inconsequential idlers had been banished, and now there were five people at the table, all of whom I knew well, myself, Grena, Oros, and Hayrant, an old butler of the court.
Looking at Oros who was smiling and seemed to be a profiteer who had just made a lot of money, I subconsciously raised my vigilance, I didn't think that a "gift from Esso" would make him lose ground and obediently obey my blackmail.
"No compromise with terrorists" is the norm in that world, not because the big powers are reluctant to exchange those chips, but because greed is endless, no one knows whether they will raise prices, whether they will be motivated by short-term success for the next action, and once this kind of compromise is declared, it is also a direct blow to the prestige of the country, and it exposes the weakness and inadequacy of the country.
And in the international world of jungle rules, the wolf of fortune attracted by the weakness exposed will not be an ordinary terrorist next time.
And judging from "I will spread Resident Evil if I don't give money", my actions this time can be completely classified into it, so Oros's compromise is also very puzzling, it's not that he shouldn't have compromised, but at least he won't hand over this kind of obviously blackmail treasure so lightly.
If it were me, even if I would eventually compromise, I would try all kinds of ways to make the threat disappear, and even if I accepted the conditions, I would make additional requests that no other additional conditions be made, and understand the matter at once.
"I know you're incomprehensible, but actually I've always been grateful to you. I know that you have a lot of research results in alchemy research, and you also have a lot of dragon allies, so I should consider this information as a small gift. ”
Oros opened with such words, but I already knew it, after all, Evenley had mentioned to me that he seemed to be grateful to me for freeing Oros from Esso's threat, but the next words were completely unexpected.
"I'm not just grateful for the undead. I was surprised to learn from Miss Evenley that you had lost your memory, or maybe I should tell you about the seeds I left behind. Emoyer. ”
The old butler in the palace dress had a wrinkled face and looked drooping and decrepit, but he reached out his hand, and the little golden light in it condensed, and finally turned into a ball of holy light, illuminating the room.
"It's... No way! ”
Pure light does not deceive people, and this is indeed a brilliant paladin, but what surprised me was that this Emoeye not only did not recite the name of the Holy Light, but also did not have the emblem of the Holy Light on his body, which was clearly contrary to the teachings of the Holy Light.
In the past, before using the light, I would praise the light twice, or pretend to move the corners of my mouth. Just to make me look no different from other paladins. And the one in front of you. In a sense, very similar to the way I used the Light, he did not recite the Light's name.
"Your Excellency the First Pope, you guessed it right, our Southern Sect does not believe in the God of Light, but in the Light itself. In the eyes of the Templar church, we are the most heretic that should be eradicated. ”
While I was surprised by the content, I was even more surprised by the weird title.
"Mistress Evenly also mentioned that you have lost your memories of your past in Bair. Perhaps, as the sixth generation of the Southern Sect and your successor, I should recall the great deeds you did back then."
So, in the old man's sigh, the dusty past was gradually revealed.
The Southern Sect, whose official name should be the "Pure Light Church", is probably a disagreement with the Templar Church's teachings in the eyes of the Templar Church's higher-ups, but only the core personnel of this Church. Only then will they know that the difference is not one or two points, and they do not believe in the God of Light. It is pure light.
Their birthplace is the royal capital of Baier, and its founder is the pseudonym Roland. The establishment of the "Black Hand Baron", and the establishment of the church, which was strongly supported by the royal family of Bayer, was given a unique mission by its founder from the day of its birth - to spread the true teachings of the Holy Light and replace the increasingly decaying Templar Church.
"Today, the Southern Sect has more than 200,000 followers, distributed in Bair and other corners of the country. They walked through time in the name of the Templar Church, but they preached the doctrine of the Light in its purest form, and in fact apart from the understanding of the Light, we were not significantly different from ordinary priests of the Light, and I myself was even the former Archbishop of the Templar Church in the diocese of Bayer. And it is precisely because of this that the old pope will not wage a holy war at any cost. After all, in their eyes, evil must die, but heresy must die even more. ”
If one recognizes that the God of Light is an omnipotent personal God as stated in his teachings, then the Templar Church will naturally be recognized by him, and if he only recognizes the existence of the Holy Light, and believes that the Holy Light is the power of the root, and is an impersonal existence, then the Templar Church will naturally lose all theocratic orthodoxy, and will become a group of deceptive and name-stealing thieves, and even have the existence of the God of Light as the ontology of the personal God. There is the possibility of questioning.
This is also the source of heresy, which is far more dangerous than evil, and it is also the root cause of Roland's display in the north that has shaken the faith of countless clergy.
This was a more terrible threat to the Templar Church than the holy war itself, so after the emergency council of the cardinal archbishops, the whole country of Baier was regarded as a heretical country, and in the face of such serious doctrinal differences, the only option was to launch a holy war to fight.
And there is no doubt that Bayer, who has been judged as a heretic, is the origin of this heretical church, and it is their natural ally, and after a complete break with the Templar church, when a large number of priests were expelled, those who seemed to be "left for personal reasons" priesthood have formed a new Southern Church, and the pure Holy Light doctrine has begun to spread openly, and the seeds sown by Roland that year have begun to germinate.
Even though I don't have any memories of those years, but after thinking about it, I feel that this is completely like Roland's handwriting.
That year, Roland was a betrayer of the Light, an avenger full of hatred, an evil one who had been stripped of his reputation, but he still retained the power of a paladin, and this alone could be used to shake the authority of the Templar Church.
And to really destroy a sect, it is extremely difficult to force it from the outside, but internal disagreements and heresies are the most deadly, so he sowed the seeds in Bayer, although he didn't know if it could sprout, but there was no loss in doing it.
"The prophecies you left behind have been all confirmed, and when the great events of the holy book of Revelation have been verified one after another, our faith has become more religious, and the skeptics have returned to piety. When evil prevails over good, we lurk at your behest. Thankfully, as you said in your prophecy, the prophesied doom could have been avoided by our own efforts, at least we have avoided the desperate situation where the gates of the undead are open in the land of Bair. ”
Since it is necessary to spread doctrines, how can someone miss the best "prophet" identity and write a string of prophecies casually, and the sect that regards the prophecy book as a holy book will naturally gain trust and gradually become stronger, which is also within the range of Roland's expectations at that time, otherwise he would not have had to pretend to be a god and play prophecy.
In fact, Roland is still doing the same thing, sowing seeds everywhere, and even he doesn't know if he can sprout.
But now what we are facing is not the green seed of the past, but a towering tree that has experienced two hundred years of wind and rain and gradually matured.
When the undead rage, this southern sect became the hole card and the most trustworthy object in the hands of Oros, and those paladins and priests of the Holy Light were the last spearheads in the face of the undead, which was the source of Oros's gratitude to me.
At this time, Glena and Helent at the table looked at me like they were looking at monsters, after all, hundreds of years of layout and prophecy were beyond their comprehension, and the examples of this were enough to be regarded as a mythical epic in the legend, but the person concerned was in front of him.
"We are sure that the Prophet will be able to defeat the evils in the shadows, and in fact the most important one is missing from the title that Her Majesty has announced—the founder of the Southern Sect, our most devout prophet and guide, and what you did in the North the day before yesterday has made our faith even more pious, and we have begun to preach openly on the mainland. Perhaps, it is this that makes the False God Church who steals the authority of the Holy Light angry. ”
Well, the old Pope's eyes were full of piety, believing that it was part of fate, agreeing that the day of the final judgment in the prophecy would come, and that it was possible to reverse a fortune with the efforts of Guò, but I am sure that for Oros it was not the same thing.
From the point of view that a good knife only needs one master, just the relationship with the Southern Sect, my existence seems to be a bit of an eyesore, perhaps, the gift he is now expressing is indeed an apology, if I can't pass this "test", or today is my death.
And at this time, Oros, as the master, smiled.
"Okay, let's not mention those who don't have for the time being, but let's reintroduce them in order to show the sincerity of the alliance. This Archduke Helent should actually be called Helent. Milan is my own nephew and the only legitimate heir of my country, the future Barre the Great. (To be continued......)