This was the first time that Talos had set foot on the land of the Rhine, albeit in exile.

The human camp has three powerful gods, the god of order and knights, the god of agriculture and harvest, and the goddess of love, and the headquarters of the three temples are located in the Golden Empire of Saraphos, the Rhine Kingdom, and the Faro Kingdom, so they have also achieved the name of the three kingdoms.

The Kingdom of the Rhine was the stronghold of the Agrarian Church, and it was a quiet, beautiful and harmonious idyllic landscape in front of Talos's eyes.

The well-planned, well-organized land is thriving with crops and flowers that Talos can name and cannot name—even now that winter is in the northern hemisphere—farms and pastures abound, and it looks so prosperous that it doesn't at all look like "a little place in the middle of nowhere, suitable for seclusion," as Annistola puts it.

As if seeing the confusion in Talos's eyes, the bishop introduced: "This is Yorkshire, so you can still see relatively backward large-scale farms and ranches. If you are in the city, what you see is a three-dimensional agriculture that is very different from that of traditional agricultural priests, and it is said that it can produce better quality and more abundant crops with minimal manpower and capital - from a pastor of an agricultural church. ”

Talos nodded, knowing that it was all thanks to the Agricultural Church.

In the main material plane, there are many professionals, who do not work in agriculture at all, and they are more willing to chase power, power, money, fame, and beautiful women (handsome men) than to work, and in this environment, the agricultural church unites the greatest number of peasants to support the foundation of the whole Sainz.

From the most basic farming to animal husbandry, forestry, fishing and sideline industries, all of them are the domain of the agricultural church, and the Kingdom of Faroe has won the reputation of "the granary of the world", "the country of gastronomy", "the kingdom of flowers", and "the land of sweet wine".

Speaking of which, Richard, who is still sleeping in the cabin of the watch world, is a native of the Rhine, and his Parker family was originally engaged in the wine business, and started out from it, but he believes in the goddess of order and knighthood and the goddess of wealth.

After admiring the scenery outside the carriage for a while, Talos suddenly remembered the members of the Illuminati that Annistola had mentioned earlier, and to be honest, he hadn't seen those two members in the bureau until now.

"An old man and a girl. ”

"Girl?"

"Well—" said Annistola, who had long thought for a moment, "it might be a female dwarf, and I was a little far away for fear of being discovered." ”

"By the way, the old man of the Illuminati is operating a huge arm to grab me, the right hand of the gods, it should be this name, the high priest of the Sea Temple, Fenrod, what other evil pact, do you know what's going on?"

After walking for about two hours, Talos finally couldn't resist asking for news.

"How many class systems are there on the main physical plane?" the bishop didn't answer Talos's question directly, instead asking a fairly usual question.

"The three major professional systems, the clergy, the bloodline, and the spellcaster, but when you ask me this, it seems to imply that the truth is not that simple. ”

"That's right, in fact, there are a total of 3.5 class systems, the clergy, bloodlines, and spellcasters are widely known, and the last 0.5 class systems are known only to some clergy. ”

It was the first time Talos had heard of the term 3.5 class system, and he was immediately interested: "I guess the extra 0.5 class system refers to the Evil Pact?"

"Yes and no. Annistola explained, "The Evil Covenanter is a scornful and ironic term for the Illuminati and the Spider Cult, and within our church we call it the Covenant One. ”

The covenant, the evil contract, the contract, the unity of the two is the contractor, and Talos suddenly realized who is good and who is evil, who is good and who is evil, and it is really clear at a glance.

"Is there anything that restricts the mass birth of the Covenant Ones?"

Otherwise, the Church's consistent approach would have been to vigorously promote the Covenant Covenant Maker in order to increase the influence of the Church, and it would not have been a half-career system until now.

You must know that the current pattern of the main physical plane is that the clergy are exclusive to the church, and some bloodline people join the church to become Templars, and only the caster is independent.

"Yes, you can understand that the Covenant Beings exist on the basis of the Clergy or the Templars, which is one thing. Annistola went on to explain, "On the other hand, the Covenant One doesn't use its own powers—"

The power of the clergy was not itself, it came from the gods, Talos silently complained in his heart, and then remembered the words of the old voice before, and a flash of light flashed in his mind: "I understand, the covenant person needs to borrow the divine power of the gods!"

The so-called God's Right Hand is made by the members of the Illuminati using the divine power of Hercules, and is not part of the body of some powerful creature, but is very likely to be a divine power in itself.

Although Talos doesn't know what kind of priesthood Hercules of his own universe holds, since he uses the name of "Mighty", he must be indispensable to the priesthood related to [power], so it is no wonder that the first feeling given to him by the right hand of God is "absolute power", which can smash the deep sea cube of the high divine art with one punch and pinch Maeve to death in one fell swoop.

Similarly, because the contractor needs to borrow divine power, or the basis of the contractor is divine power, no matter how powerful the bloodline family, the royal family, or the Nine Rings Council, which inherits the knowledge of the ancient arcane empire, cannot give birth to their own contractor, and there is no god behind them.

There are gods in the major temples, there will be evil gods in the light, and there are death spider queens in the spider sect, so there are covenant people and evil covenant people.

Annistola nodded: "The Covenant One borrowed the exclusive power of the gods, so it is extremely powerful, just like just now, that member of the Illuminati is just a great knight, but the right hand of the god who borrowed the divine power of Hercules has a fifth-order combat power, and can compete with the epic knight in a short time." ”

If he had used the slap as soon as he came up, Talos might have been brought back to the Illuminati headquarters to the Black Star in a faint by now.

"Fifth-order combat power, ah......"

Talos was thoughtful, he could also temporarily raise his strength to the fifth order in a short period of time, burning the divine power of the ancient giant gods, but he didn't know how the evil pact and the covenant person borrowed divine power, if he could refer to one or two, maybe he could get enlightenment, his utilization rate of divine power was too low.

"Isn't it envious?"

Talos admits very dryly, "yes, who doesn't envy it?"

"Maybe I'm one. ”

Talos looked at Annistola in surprise, he couldn't figure it out.

"After all, the divine power is not the power of the main material plane, and the more times it is used, it is easy to get lost in the false power, once the mind is lost, it is no longer the covenant person who uses the divine power, but the divine power that dominates the covenant person. ”

Although Annistola did not say it explicitly, it was obvious that the people who could make a covenant with the gods were at least the archbishops or temple knights who had reached the fourth order, and they were all core figures of the church.

Talos was shocked, it didn't seem to be the case with him so far, but then again, he had only used the Elder Titan Divine Power three times in his dreams, so he should be fine.

"I don't know how the Illuminati and the Spider Cult's Evil Covenanters avoid the risks of divine power, but within our Church, the covenant system has been gradually improved over the years to minimize the risks. Annistola had a hint of ostentation, like one partner in a relationship showing power and wealth to the other, "If I want to borrow the power of the goddess, it must be after being promoted to cardinal." ”

The bishop's words reminded Talos very well that the fourth-order borrowing divine power can temporarily exert the fifth-order combat power, so how powerful the cardinal should be after borrowing the divine power!

The Church of the Gods has this kind of hole card, and the essence of the main material plane is impossible to change.

Talos asked, "Can you reveal how the Church of Love avoids the risk of divine power, I'm really, really curious." ”

Of course, it's not a big deal, and the answer is the sacred oath. Annistola replied, "Actually, it's not just our Love Church, it's basically all the Church of the Gods. ”

The so-called sacred oath is to make a covenant with the gods of faith, to give up a part of worldly life, to pursue lofty ideals to restrain and protect the heart, and to prevent it from getting lost in the vast divine power.

"One of the most sacred vows of our pleasureists is the abstinence vow to abstain from all alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, narcotics, stimulants, unique products, and all kinds of drinks and drugs that stimulate the brain and spirit. ”

"The most famous of the chastity keepers is the vow of chastity, which is that the person who makes the covenant must be a virgin/male, and after the covenant is no longer entangled with love, abandon love, and are not allowed to marry, nor are they allowed to have a caste relationship in any way, including self-desecration. ”

"What happens if I break my vows?"

"This is a joint oath with the gods, and once broken, it will naturally be punished by the divine powers. ”

"Suppose an archbishop who has made an oath of abstinence is forcibly poured a glass of rum, is it considered a breach of the oath?"

"Count. ”

But subjectively, he didn't do it on purpose, it was artificially forced. ”

"So he won't be punished too severely, and, if he can perform an atonement ritual in the temple, he can continue to make a covenant with the gods. ”

Over the next half-hour, Talos learns through Annistora's about several oaths that are currently relatively popular in the Church of the Gods:

a peace oath, which does not allow any initiative to provoke a battle in any way;

The oath of mercy does not allow harm to any living intelligent being;

The Pledge of Poverty, which does not allow the retention of any possessions other than normal life;

Sincere vows and no lying is allowed;

Ordinary oaths are not allowed to chase fame and fortune, and must be incognito......

The stronger the restraint of these sacred oaths, the more it can protect the mind from being lost, and if multiple vows can be made at the same time, the more divine power the covenant holder himself can borrow from the gods.

"Last question, is Paphos V a Covenant Being?"

Paphos V is the current pope of the Church of Love, from the Liberalists.

"It's not. The restrictions on covenant holders are too great, and those who make sacred vows are usually ascetics, and we Pleasure factions have only two covenant people in total. ”

Annistora's words made Talos mouth pause, how he had forgotten the ascetic.

The ascetic principle adhered to by the ascetic was extended and developed from the teachings of the god of suffering, and the most conventional operation was to contribute wealth to the church and then go incognito, almost instantaneously, you can make a vow of poverty and ordinariness at the same time, and if you can give up your love jade, maybe you can make another vow of chastity.