In the year 1224 of the glorious calendar, midsummer, the month of mowing grass.

When the shade of the trees covers the forest path covered with rotting leaves, the sunlight from above is reflected in the flecks.

On the leisurely forest road, a group of more than 30 elite knights in shining plate armor are slowly moving towards the north.

At the head of the line was a richly dressed brown-haired young man,

At this moment he was riding a chestnut mare, holding the reins, his waist swaying as the horse advanced, and his expression was full of seriousness.

"I still don't think I'm going to be the so-called God-favored person, so Bishop Rhodes, if anything goes wrong next, please don't be surprised by your church."

Walking side by side with him was a middle-aged man in a white robe and blond hair dressed as a clergyman, who smiled faintly after hearing the young man's words.

"Of course not, but again, if you can prove your identity conclusively, you can't go back on it."

The middle-aged man looks like a doer, with tough facial features and a calm voice.

It's just that when he looks sideways at the young man, his gaze is very hot, as if he has found a bright treasure in the sand.

"In the past 17 years of my life, I have never reversed the decisions I made."

The young man replied, "But I'm not sure if you'll be able to keep the promise." I'm sorry, Bishop, but I'm not questioning your character, but I've tried no less than a hundred ways, none of which have made me a true transcendent. ”

"The world beyond the Land of Radiance may be colorful, but it is filled with an endless number of false gods and demons who may be able to use their tricks to blind some ignorant people who have left civilization, but they will never be able to perform real miracles."

The bishop named Rhodes replied meaningfully: "And in the Land of Radiance you will soon learn the truth, that the great Lennon is both the creator and the only god in the world." You should know, Bernie, that unlike those false gods, the Creator is omnipotent. ”

The young man shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal.

But Bishop Rhodes didn't care, his face was still smiling, and the whole person was quite interested.

He certainly had plenty of reason to get excited.

The Bishop of Rhodes was originally there to investigate a monastery massacre, an important but unsuccessful task.

But now, or this morning, when he had just stepped into this realm by boat, he stumbled upon a young man named Bernie beside him.

As a bishop, Rhodes held a noble position in the kingdom known as Pharos, comparable to that of a marquis.

Looking at the whole glorious land, he is also an otherworldly and noble man, and he is a key member of the church that the church relies on.

Therefore, ordinary people naturally cannot be valued by him, and even if something unusual, he generally does not care much.

However, this young man named Bernie Alik, who came by boat from the outer continent to travel, was really unusual to the extreme—

He's a god!

Although the young man himself denied this, Bishop Rhodes, who was at the top of the church, thought he could not be wrong.

And before being at the scene, he had actually verified it with special means, and the identity of the other party was basically confirmed!

Therefore, Bishop Rhodes was very excited, and even directly forgot about the original task-

The Shining Lands under the control of the Covenant Church are the largest landmasses in the known world, with a vast territory, numerous kingdoms, and hundreds of millions of people.

However, among the current population, there are only twelve gods who have been discovered, and each of them is a new star of the church, with the appearance of a pope, and can be robbed of the head!

"So, Bernie, what do you know about us?"

Bishop Rhodes asked with great interest, his voice extremely cordial.

"I know that you are the only religion in the Continent of Laiya, and the Land of Radiance, another name of the Continent of Laya, is named after your existence. And in the thirty-two kingdoms of Raia, all the kings and their people believe in the Creator of your mouth, Lennon. ”

"To be more specific?"

"I have read three holy texts, four apostolic gospels, two religious laws, and a number of related philosophical texts."

The brown-haired young man said, "To put it simply, I only know some basic common sense. ”

"It is indeed common sense, and the classics need to be read through to gradually gain a deeper understanding."

Bishop Rhodes nodded, but his heart was happy.

In fact, because the continent of Leia is so large, church practitioners have never been able to achieve high education.

Some village clergy could even read and write only basic words, and were often limited to the names they had heard of in esoteric and complex books.

In the eyes of Bishop Rhodes, it was no different from illiteracy.

Everyone is like this, not to mention the heretics in the outer continent who are full of blasphemous thoughts about the glorious land.

So before he asked this question, he was ready to know nothing about the young man in front of him, but he didn't expect that the other party had read many important classics.

He is worthy of being favored by God, and this is a natural inclination to my religion......

Secretly sighed, his face was straight, and his expression was serious.

"I know you have some doubts, Bernie, but sooner or later you'll identify with you. My job is currently investigating a massacre at the monastery of Amos, and meeting you was a complete accident, so I don't have any preparations......"

He paused, and then said, "But it doesn't matter, you stay with me during this time, and when my investigation is over, we will go to the nearest Yarman Sanctuary, and then you will naturally know how sacred your identity is, and what your real name is." ”

"I just hope you didn't lie to me."

The young man replied, "I can accept to be a servant of God as a bargain, but the bride of God is absolutely unwilling." ”

The Covenant Church often prides itself on being the bride of God and loving Him with all their hearts, so clergy forbid marriage.

However, the Covenant Church stipulates that they can only have sex with the person they are marrying, so they are abstinent.

"The love of a man and a woman in the world is insignificant love, and only the love of God is eternal."

Bishop Rhodes said this, but seeing that the other party did not take the stubble, he still sighed regretfully.

"Well, I know what you're thinking, there are also some non-forbidden factions in my sect, you can choose to join them, but then you will be treated much worse......"

"Aside from being able to be a transcendent, I don't think I'll be able to enjoy anything I haven't enjoyed after joining you."

The young man smiled when he heard this.

"In contrast, I think the environment outside of the Land of Radiance is more suitable for me. It's just that this world is a world dominated by transcendental beings after all, and I always regret that I can't be extraordinary. ”

Bishop Rhodes was dumbfounded, but he couldn't refute anything.

The person in front of me is indeed qualified to say so.

Although the contact time was not long, he still learned the true identity of the other party through urgent information.

Bernie Alik, one of the 72 Kings of the dominant Continent of Newcastle, is a direct descendant of the Alik family.

The fourth son of García Alik, the Governor of the Black Isle, was a gifted businessman, and at the age of eighteen, he had already monopolized the spice trade in the Broken Isles.

Across the sea, Newcastle is different from the continent of Leia, where the social environment is dark, and some city-states even openly train slaves of various specialties and then auction them.

In other words, Newcastle is a paradise for the fallen, imaginable, unthinkable, and has all kinds of entertainment, but it is much more abundant than the Land of Glory.

So under normal circumstances, it is really impossible for someone like the one in front of me to come and join their church.

Not to mention the hard days, there are still a lot of rules and regulations.

Bishop Rhodes even thought that if it weren't for the fact that the Divine Favor had not naturally had a favorable opinion and inclination towards the Covenant Religion, and that the Divine Favored Person could not become a transcendent person before awakening, the person in front of him probably would not have agreed to join the Church.

Compared to being a freewheeling slave owner, the treatment of joining the Covenant Church is really ......

Bishop Rhodes, who was born in the aristocracy, was actually well-informed in his early years, so he clearly knew the gap.

And thinking about it this way, he was even a little excited to be able to pull this into the church, and he faintly felt a wonderful sense of accomplishment in purifying the devil believers who had sunk into the sea of sin into decent people.

However, Bishop Rhodes did not dare to take too much credit for this.

To the young man's words, the middle-aged priest spoke with sincerity: "It is your destiny, Bernie, and no matter what, sooner or later, you will return to the bosom of my Lord, because you are a man favored by God, a natural child of my Lord." ”

The young man smiled when he heard this, and was about to say something, but his expression suddenly froze.

"What's wrong?"

Bishop Rhodes sensed that the other man's face was wrong, and followed his gaze.

I found a tree in front of the forest path, and a yellow-haired earth dog was squatting there watching them stick out their tongues.

"Don't you think there's something wrong with that dog, Lord Bishop?"

"It was just an ordinary dog, probably raised by a nearby farmer to take care of the barn."

Bishop Rhodes replied, then looked sideways at the young man, "You've rarely seen this kind of dog before?" ”

The young man's eyes flickered for a moment, and finally shook his head.

"Maybe I'm dazzled, sorry."