Chapter 237: The Divine Punisher
"The Divine Punisher Alliance? Or is it formed with other churches and forces?"
"Your Majesty, it's not a joke, is it?"
In the imperial city of the Sranso Empire, when the daily morning church prayer service ended, a burst of surprised doubts suddenly sounded in the side hall of the church.
"Her Majesty the Holy Goddess will not allow evil to defile our simple believers, how is it possible to cooperate with the believers of evil gods!"
"But no, Your Majesty, you must have misunderstood the oracle of the Goddess's Crown, right?"
It belongs to the Holy See on earth where the Lord of Radiance is located, and at this time the nobles of the Sranso Empire and the bishops of various regions are gathering here.
When the Pope summoned them and convened a conclave, these people gathered from all over the world in the Imperial City, Holy See Fort Archon, behind the Secured Space Gate.
In the quaint hall of the Holy See Council, Smedley Ferguson, as the Pope, looked at the crowd of bishops and nobles below and the whispering was unacceptable.
"The oracle is so, don't be presumptuous."
Pope Smedley Ferguson, with gray sideburns, stretched out his hand to the side amid the suspicion of the crowd, and then a church member stepped onto the stage from the backstage under the watchful eyes of hundreds of people.
When the church personnel stood beside Smedley Ferguson, Smedley Ferguson, as Pope, took a scroll and bundled it in front of him, and continued to look at the countless people below, and said in a soft tone:
"Since this is the oracle of our lord, then it must be the divine grace agreed upon and coordinated by the gods, and after the catastrophe of the destruction of the world, we mortals should rest and recuperate."
"With the blessing of our Lord, all of us have escaped the destruction of the world, and we are grateful rather than questioning our Lord."
Speaking of this, Pope Smedley Ferguson, who was wearing a clerical uniform and a papal crown on the stage, immediately looked calmly at Langdon Adams, who was present on behalf of the royal family.
"Your Excellency, what do you think?"
Langdon Adams, who is 1.8 meters tall and has blonde hair and is dressed in a gorgeous jazz suit, calmly stands up from the stool in the prayer seat below.
Standing with a smile on his face, he held an ornate blue-and-white scepter in his left hand, while the thumb of his right hand touched the silver gem on the red ring on his index finger.
Slightly looking around at the gaze of everyone present, the corners of Langdon Adams' mouth curled up with a well-proportioned and mature face.
Bending slightly to Pope Smedley Ferguson, he immediately raised his head and said with a smile:
"I thought His Holiness the Pope was right."
"It is because of the blessing of the goddess that our Sranso Empire can continue to survive in this new land and have a chance to become strong again."
"Therefore, this is the love of the goddess for the people of the world and us and the people of the Sranso Empire, and the content of the oracle is nothing more than to let me wait for a better rest, so I am in favor of the formation of the Divine Punisher mentioned by His Majesty the Pope."
"In addition, this time, His Majesty specially arranged for me and His Majesty's beloved daughter Nina and the Second Imperial Daughter to join the formation of the Divine Punisher, in order to express our royal family's sincerity to the Goddess."
With that, Nina Adams, who was behind Landon Adams as the twelfth princess of the Sranso Empire, immediately stepped forward from Langdon's side.
And, under everyone's gaze, Nina, who was only twenty-seven years old dressed as a knight. Adams immediately saluted the Pope and everyone in the audience.
Looking at this somewhat maverick royal woman, the clergy of the Holy See and the nobles who were of the same heart as the Holy See all nodded slightly.
"In that case, thank you, Your Majesty."
Smedley Ferguson on the stage smiled at Landon Adams and Queen Nina Adams and bent down in return, and quickly withdrew his gaze.
Even the pope did not pay attention to whether Prince Langdon and the Empress Nina had answered and expressed their position.
Landon Adams seemed to be accustomed to this, his face seemed very calm, and he automatically retreated to his place and closed his eyes slightly, as if the rudeness and contempt of the other party just now did not exist.
However, as the prince of legendary peak strength, the sapphire on the index finger ring pressed by the thumb of Langdon's right hand quietly turned into powder.
It is not difficult to see that Landon Adams at this time is not as calm as he seems, and only his niece, the twelfth princess, Nina, noticed his subtle movements.
However, the princess Nina just glanced at Langdon calmly, and then stood beside Langdon quietly, quite like the Grand Commander of the Imperial City.
It is worth mentioning that in the Slanso Empire, the Holy See and the royal family have always been conflicting parties.
The divine right of the monarch in the Sranso Empire is enough to make the power and prestige of the royal family fall under the church, so the royal family is still very jealous and courteous to the powerful power of the church with living gods.
You know, when the church was strong, there was a precedent for directly abolishing emperors who deviated from the goddess beliefs.
Perhaps in the eyes of Pope Smedley Ferguson, the royal family is nothing more than a dispensable existence? Maybe it's just because of the neutral stance inherited by the church that he hasn't made this country a real **** country, right?
In short, in the Sranso Empire, the royal government was an absolutely vulnerable group.
"According to the oracle, this time, the spokesmen of the gods, that is, the alliance of the divine punishers, will hold the first meeting of the alliance and the constitution ceremony of the formation in this country called the country of the forest."
"So, the next ones to be chosen will stay behind to agree on the specifics of your trip to represent the Church."
Immediately after the church on the stage finished speaking, it opened the scroll that had just been taken from the clergy, and began to announce the names of those who had participated in the punishment this time.
As for the real reason for the formation of the Divine Punisher this time, the Pope certainly knows.
Because the oracle he received was the result of the deliberation of the gods, and the idea of an exotic invasion was used to give a plausible hint to the people below.
In short, the formation of the Divine Punisher is generally to integrate all the high-level mortal 'people' to fight against the foreign invasion that may arise at any time in the future.
At the same time, in order to create a basis for mutual trust and cooperation among all people during this period, the formation of the Divine Punisher must of course also have the work content of supervising and stopping internal war frictions.
As for why the formation of the Divine Punisher is in the 'weak' native forest country, the hint between the gods is probably to win over the new gods, and at the same time express enough goodwill.
The gods love face, so of course He Shu has no opinion on this statement, and the comprehensive strength of the forest country is indeed not suitable as the leader of the alliance at present.
As for why He Shu knew about this and asked all the demigods and legends to come to the forest country, it was actually nothing more than to show his existence.
At least let these humans, sub-humans, and non-humans from other lands know that Shui Lanxing has its own first-class boss.