Chapter 38: The Monastery
Mo Chen didn't have any good feelings about the Academy, in his heart, this religious organization was a cult in the absolute sense, and there was no kind of cleansing at all.
For example, it is said that the rites of wanting to join the Monastery are complicated, and the emergence of a new Overseer requires a selection process, one of which is about the qualification trial.
The meaning of "qualification" has no special direction in this world, and it also refers to people's talents, qualities and other abilities, not acquired efforts, but innate potential, things that are determined at birth.
The word "judgment" has no additional glorifying effect in the meaning of this world, which means to judge something and to judge it.
The combination of these two words represents a ritual that makes people's hearts chill -
Once a child exhibits a "special gift" for the position of Overseer, they are "marked" by the Abbey and observed for several months to "determine whether this talent meets the conditions and other signs of cosmology that have been uninterrupted throughout the year."
Immediately afterward, the eligible children would be forcibly abducted from their homes and, after months of mental preparation, taken on a pilgrimage to the city of White Cliffs.
There, the children will go through a trial of qualifications to determine who of them is qualified to serve as Overseer and join the Abbey, and who will ......
Because he didn't pass, he was directly executed and died.
To be honest, if this is placed in the modern society of the 21 st century, it is purely a cult style in the absolute sense, and even the country of hope of mankind will never dare to say that it supports such a religious organization.
At least they don't dare to show their support on the surface.
But in this advanced and backward feudal society, where technology and magic coexist, the monastery was actually a religious organization that was officially chosen as the state religion......
Mo Chen couldn't figure out what he was meowing about—whether the decision-makers and nobles of the archipelago empire at that time were all in the of their brains.
Otherwise, how can they explain that they would choose such a thing as the state religion?
Moreover, the monastery is not only keen to use its power to persecute the common class, but they have even begun to point fingers at the aristocracy as a matter of course, and they naturally want to control the nobility and further strengthen the power of the church.
So whether it was a commoner or a nobleman, everyone was afraid of them.
However, just like the Regent's Rebellion fifteen years ago, the empress of the previous generation, who had a high reputation among the people, was in a sense assassinated because she had offended the overall interests of the aristocracy.
It can be said that the Abbey has swelled to an even more terrifying extent than that of Empress Kaldwin.
In the back, they will even attack the Danvol Tower...... Although it was during Delila's reign, the reason they attacked the Tower was not because Delilah was not right.
It's because Delilah uses witches a lot to maintain her rule, so she is classified by the Abbey as a heretic and needs to be crusaded...... Otherwise, they wouldn't have been silent until now, turning a blind eye to Delila's superiority.
Maybe some people don't understand what kind of concept this is, so let's put it this way, Delilah staged a coup d'état and seized the throne, and the Abbey did not react.
- Until she used the witch, the Abbey directly attacked the capital and prepared to bathe the palace in blood.
The former Monastery was only one of the many religious organizations in the Empire of the Islands, and there was nothing special until they struggled for hundreds of years before they finally won the battle against other religions and were recognized by the Empire.
Now, this monastery that once fought for the recognition of the empire and the right to obtain legal rights is no longer satisfied with the simple power of the state religion.
They do not allow other religious beliefs to emerge among the people.
They persecuted the nobles who dared not obey their commandments.
Now, even the rulers of the empire, whether they are emperors or empresses. As long as they do something inconsistent with the teachings of their faith, they dare to attack the capital of the empire directly, and bloodied the supreme throne of power in the tower of the Danwall king.
They went from wanting to win the recognition of the Empire, to being recognized by the Empire, to wanting to be above the entire Empire and manipulating the whole world......
This kind of behavior is already crazy to the point of self-destruction, whether Delilah can continue to be in power, or Emily can reclaim the throne later, as long as their minds can still think normally.
- Then you will certainly not turn a blind eye.
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"Do you go to the black market or do I go to the black market? The other way around, another person is going to the Overseer outpost. ”
Mo Chen followed the spirit of ladies first, and let Her Majesty Emily pick first.
"I'd better go to the black market...... I don't have the confidence to handle it on the Overseer's side for a while. Her Majesty thought for a moment and said, then made a choice unceremoniously.
After all, there is a choice, she naturally has to be a little safer, if she doesn't have a choice, then she really has to grit her teeth. But now it's different, this guy in front of him is a much more powerful outsider mark holder than himself-
Maybe it's a legendary assassin of his father's level, but it's definitely safer for him to go out.
Probably because Mo Chen's ability to pretend is really good, or because he knows too much about the game, so he has always behaved calmly.
So until now, Empress Emily still thinks that this guy in front of her is at the level of a legendary assassin.
"Then I'll go to the Overseer outpost, and I'm going in the direction of Canal Square...... I don't know about black market shops, but they're usually in remote places, so you need to find them yourself, no problem, Your Majesty? ”
Mo Chen nodded and agreed.
"No problem, whoever finishes it first, go to Admire Station and wait."
Emily replied calmly.
Then, she saw the young man opposite raise his hand and make a wave of his hand, and the next moment he disappeared in place, leaving only one sentence:
"Then it's settled, see you later."
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Her pupils constricted slightly, and she looked up to see that the pedestrians around her were just not paying attention, and the figure of the guy appeared on the top floor of a building almost at the end of her vision.
- It is at least seven or eight hundred meters away from here.
Sure enough, Her Majesty bit her lower lip lightly, feeling that her thoughts had been confirmed again.
On the night she had escaped from Danwall, she had met the Outsider in her sleep and accepted a gift from him, thus mastering the most basic magical abilities of perception and movement.
They are "Dark Vision" and "Far Climbing".
The former is not mentioned, the latter is a magical ability that quickly pulls itself over a certain distance, not directly from one place to another like a flickering teleportation, but pulls itself from one place to another.
Although not stealthy enough to move, like a shadow passing by, it is not as silent as teleporting, so it may alert some sentient enemies.
But in other aspects, the convenience is enough to make up for it, for example, you can directly grab some items that are lighter than your own weight in the air, and quietly complete the theft.
However, it can't change the fact that Emily's distance is only about a few tens of meters.
Therefore, being able to teleport out such a long distance in an instant, this guy is definitely much, much stronger than himself.
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Mo Chen appeared on the tall building, then identified the direction, and then went directly to the direction of the Canal Square.
While discussing the course of action aboard the Dreadprint, he had looked at the intel gathered by Megan Foster, which focused on the layout of Karnaca.
The Overseers of the Abbey have many strongholds in Karnaca, and near the docks is an outpost, but even the outpost manages a sizable area, with an unimaginably large number of Overseers and immense power.
Even the real army, which had the right to manage the city, could only back down.
The road to Canal Square is blocked by a light curtain generator, which is a nuisance in the game, but in reality it doesn't make any sense at all.
To be honest, even if the light curtain has a blocking effect on direct teleportation, its interception range is still too narrow.
You can only block the gateway to one main road, but as a superpowered assassin, who dictates where you want to go, you must only be able to take these "paths"?
If you have the ability to enclose the heavens and the earth, even hundreds of kilometers in all directions, then you can cause obstacles.
After several flashes of teleportation, Mo Chen quickly and covertly approached the Overseer outpost next to Canal Square, and there was a chaotic scene on the square:
There were many wooden stakes erected, many civilians were hanged on them, and the city police members of the Davidians were patrolling fiercely, searching for the next target with fierce eyes.
Civilians were forcibly gathered in panic and listened to the two Overseers making impassioned speeches on the other side of the square.
The Overseers of the Monastery were all the same, wearing brass masks with a trident horizontally passing through a crescent moon. The same mark is embroidered on the cuffs of their dark blue jackets, which look like the standard of the day.
It's just that, no matter how passionate they are, the people who are forced to listen to them are trembling.
"Everywhere the Overseers went, the civilians trembled and their brothers turned against each other."
Mo Chen also listened carefully, in fact, he didn't need to be very careful, the voices of the two Overseers who were giving speeches were extremely loud, shaking the entire square.
They were to the effect that they were boasting about their exploits or atrocities, saying that they had just captured a girl who worshipped the Outsider and dragged her out of her home and drowned her in the river, next to the girl's "unforgivable crimes".
- It was a bone rune and two ancient runes, and they were a little wet, as if they had just been fished out of the water.
Mo Chen frowned, but he could only resist some impulses and nausea.
He continued to lean over the roof, listening condescendingly to the triumphant recounting of how they had drowned the girl, and to warn the people to never try to violate their teachings.
This process lasted about ten minutes before the curtain came down on the terrible speech.
The panicked crowd slowly dispersed, the canal square was empty, and the two Overseers began to pack up their belongings—mostly illegal magical items such as bone talismans or ancient runes.
"Well, these guys have at least learned a lesson, and they will definitely not dare to fight us again...... We're going to burn that girl's body tonight, this damned fallen soul! ”
"Burn it! Never question the Monastery...... Anyway, if you kill this, my merits will be promoted. ”
"Damn, you're showing off...... I'm still a few short, do you want to make up for it? ”
"Whatever you want, if you don't like it anyway, just drag him out and hang him - hurry up, move these things upstairs and lock them upstairs, and by the end of the year they will be transported back to the headquarters over there in Glisto to be destroyed."
The two of them were casually talking and talking while packing their things.
And Mo Chen, who had quietly come to the balcony on the second floor of their upstairs, narrowed his eyes slightly.