Chapter 10: The First Encounter with the Evil God
The captain held the wine glass in his hand, did not care about the eyes of the people around him, and walked briskly towards the Betty Cathedral, which was originally half an hour away in the captain's hurried footsteps, and it only took fifteen minutes to arrive.
Betty is the center of the border province of Betty and the castle of its lords. The Betty Cathedral is also the largest church in the province of Betty. The parish bishop is the parish bishop, the third highest rank in the ecclesiastical system after the papal and cardinal ranks, and the same rank as the Grand Knight Commander of the Templar Order. It's two levels higher than the knight captain who is now rushing over with a wine glass.
However, at this time, Captain Randall had no energy to calculate these things, and after pushing open the door, he took the cup and walked directly to the prayer room.
In the prayer room, Bishop Pansy Cham Ravin was performing a prayer service after sunset, when he heard the door of the prayer room behind him be pushed open near the end of the prayer room. But Pansy didn't stop praying.
Captain Randall saw Bishop Pansy praying, and hastily stopped. In the Eternal Sunshine Sect, or in the entire belief system, prayer is a very serious and solemn ritual, and it cannot be interrupted unless it is absolutely necessary, and you cannot interrupt the prayer of your superiors because of a new one.
When Bishop Pansy had pronounced his final prayer, he turned around with displeasure on his face, ready to teach the reckless fellow a lesson. However, Bishop Pansy's attention, who turned around, was immediately attracted by the sun-scented one in front of him.
After listening to the scene described by Captain Randall, Bishop Pansy took the cup, closed his eyes, and slowly transferred a trace of the holy power in his body into the cup. Suddenly, the cup flickered with a dazzling glow, and soon disappeared again, but neither Bishop Pansy nor Randall felt dazzled.
Randall spoke first: "Bishop, you are superior to me in your understanding of doctrine, and even Knight Hayes will not know more than you. Do you think of this, is he a follower of the Sun God? If so, is he a compatriot of our Eternal Radiant Sun Sect, or is he another follower of the gods who claim to be the Sun God?"
Pansy slowly wiped her glass in her hand, thought for a moment, and said, "This is a disciple of the Sun God. "Well, he's ......," Randall's words weren't finished, when Bishop Pansy raised his cup, looked at it carefully, and said, "He's not a follower of the sun god in any of the gods, he's a follower of the sun god." "What?" Randall asked, a little confused, as he didn't understand what Bishop Pansy meant.
Bishop Pansy had a solemn expression: "He is not a believer in any sun god, if anything, he believes in the sun." He's a believer in the Old Gods of the Sun!" "What!" Randall was no less surprised than Bishop Pansy after understanding what Bishop Pansy meant: "This can't be! The Sun has never been an Old God!" "I know it's hard to believe, but what I feel in this glass isn't a patchwork of laws, similar to the feeling of the sun. What I felt when I got Shen Yun was the sun! It was the sun that hung high in the sky and remained unchanged for eternity! But how could this be possible, now that our sect has confirmed the existence of the ancient gods, there are only the goddesses of wealth and money, Dai Liya, and the god of contracts, Sawyer, and the only ones who have not yet been confirmed are the gods of the night, when did the ancient gods of the sun appear!"
Bishop Pansy was still thinking about the shocking news, and suddenly felt that the charm on the cup in his hand seemed to be a little less than when he first held it, although it was a little, but Bishop Pansy still noticed. Hurriedly pulled Randall and walked out: "Hurry up, let's quickly bring this wine cup to the Pope, if we sacrifice this item stained with the purest sun breath to my god, maybe it can make my god go further in the way of rules, and the possibility of breaking through the middle god to become a superior god will also increase!"
Due to the preciousness of the goods transported this time, Bishop Pansy sent two of the three knight squads still stationed in Betty Cathedral as escorts to Nimitz City, the capital of the Kingdom of Nimitz and the headquarters of the Eternal Sun Cult.
Don't think that Pansy, as a bishop, is old and a civil woman, and is not good at such strong physical activity. With the blessing of the Holy Force, whether it is strength or endurance, the Bishop of the Diocese, who has been called Pansy Granny by many children in Betty's City, is not comparable to the young commoners without the Holy Force. Twenty people galloped on the official road, just to be able to hand over their belongings to the Pope as soon as possible.
But John didn't know any of these things. After eating, John went straight to the hotel next door and asked for a room to stay in. Speaking of John's luck, when John took the key upstairs, he saw a group of people coming in to book a room, originally they were thinking that two people would book five rooms, but they didn't expect that there were only three rooms.
John glanced down the hall, walked to his room, put his gear within reach of the bed, and fell asleep on the bed.
At dawn the next day, John woke up. Armed with his weapon and shield and going downstairs, John prepared to go to the bazaar again to see if there was anything to eat. After all, there are braised boiled meats and coarse pastries in the border towns, and there should be a lot of delicious food here, at least the bread baked by the uncle who ate yesterday and the meat pies and thick soup in the hotel are very good. John didn't know that he had set sail on the foodie road, and thought to himself, walking to the counter and asking the store where the market was.
When John left the inn, the knights who had stayed with John yesterday also came out. The knights were divided into two groups, one group of three people also walked towards the market after inquiring about John's whereabouts, apparently preparing to follow John, and the other group of six people went directly to the tavern last night, found the boss Barrow to discuss something, and then walked to the mission bulletin board and posted the mission they had brought on the bulletin board.
After a day of wandering around the city, or rather looking for something to eat, John returned to the hotel with a pile full of food. However, as soon as he arrived at the door, John saw that the Gray Forest Tavern opposite was crowded, many people coming in and out of the gray forest, and many people gathered in groups to discuss something.
John was also a little curious, and returned to the room with the realization, sorted the food in his hand into the space according to meat, bread, bread, fruits and vegetables, and got up to go to the gray forest to see the situation, and had dinner by the way.
The gray forest was crowded with people at this time, and the boss Barrow carried away all the extra tables and chairs, just to let more people in.
John managed to squeeze through the door and heard a lot of people talking about something. Several key words can be heard from their words: "evil gods", "Templars", and "crusade".
Finally squeezed to the bar, John leaned against the bar and looked at the people surrounded by the bulletin board, first ordered a kebab with onion soup, and while waiting, he recalled the knowledge about the evil god in his head.
In the common sense that Ann and Tel gave John, evil gods are beings who contradict God: like gods, evil gods need faith. However, the source of belief in evil gods is not obtained by the simple worship of believers, but by the new believers through some sacrificial rituals and sacrifices. Most of these sacrifices were very cruel, such as certain internal organs of intelligent species, or some inhuman abuse of the sacrifices, and so on. There are many ways to become an evil god, one of which is to absorb a lot of negative emotions, such as deformed souls born in wails before death, or various desires, which can change the essence of a god.
The reason why God formulates some doctrines and punishes those who violate the doctrine is that after the believer's ideas are transmitted to God, they will also have a reciprocal impact on the God they believe in.
This is determined by the nature of God. As mentioned earlier, since God cannot sustain the continuous burning of the divine fire on his own, he needs the faith provided by the believers as fuel to keep the divine fire burning. Beyond the divine fire is the divine crystal, which is the embodiment of the rules. There is no good or evil in the rules, and what distinguishes between gods and evil gods is the divine fire that burns itself. If the divine fire burned by a god is above board, and the divine light released from the burning of the divine fire shines on the divine crystal, what is displayed is beautiful, and this space covered by divine light after the divine fire burns on the divine crystal is the divine kingdom of God, and the appearance of the divine kingdom is the portrayal of the law of this god and its own divine fire.
Therefore, when a believer of God conveys faith and sacrifices that are different from his own laws, it will also have an impact on the divine fire. For example, the median god Il, known as the eternal sun, preached the doctrine of allowing his followers to worship themselves as the sun, not just the fire and light that they now possess. If all believers convey the belief that they are the sun god, the divine light produced by burning will also transform the divine crystal to a certain extent when it shines on the divine crystal, so that the divine crystal will change in the direction that the divine light is in line with, so that Yir can completely change the laws in his divine crystal, integrate the law of fire with the law of light, and at the same time, it is also possible to comprehend some laws related to the sun from the believer's understanding of the sun, such as the law of life, such as the law of nature, and so on. This is the reason why Randall was so out of shape when he discovered that John's wine glass contained the sun-related verve, and it was also the reason why he and Bishop Pansy went to the headquarters cathedral overnight.
In general, the birth of evil gods is caused by their own teachings, but this is not the case for all evil gods. Some evil gods were defeated and fled in the war of the gods, and after their teachings were tampered with by hostile forces, they became evil gods due to the curses they had on their part by many enemy believers.
And the evil god will become violent and vicious due to his own divine fire, and it is difficult to have a chance to change, so once he becomes an evil god, there is basically no chance to turn back. In the gods, even if each god is hostile to each other, there is a tacit agreement to prohibit their followers from cursing the enemy god, and in addition to forming a sense of the supremacy of the gods and making it easier to manage, there are also reasons to prevent the gods from using this curse to degenerate each other into evil gods.