Chapter 192: Meeting
Actually, it's not just the church. As the wars of religion continued, the scheming King of Anta Silver Shield also began a quiet purge and rectification of the entire kingdom of West Harrant.
There is no better way to justify the Great Purge than war, and with a god of moderate divine power as his backstage, King Anta Silver Shield is full of confidence and is not afraid of any aristocratic challenge.
The nascent kingdom of Hartland adopted a strict system of feudal vassals and attacked the church of Shirek under the pretext of religious jihad. The Grand Duke of Anta Silver Shield ruthlessly rectified many independent towns and lords outside the main body of the kingdom, and the major city-states that were originally relatively independent also began to formally connect the kingdom in all aspects of the administrative, military, and religious systems, and the principle was very simple, that is, the lord formally gave the king a vassal salute, and its sovereignty remained unchanged, but the level of the territory needed to be abolished, so that the economy of the entire territory could be integrated into a whole.
Although this step may seem like a small concession, it greatly concentrates the power of the kingdom. The nascent kingdom of West Hartland increasingly resembled a true feudal state.
Although the Anta Silver Shield King did not directly determine that the Church of the Killers was the state religion of the Kingdom of West Hartland due to the balance of power, with the support of a kingdom, the Church of the Lords of Slaughter developed rapidly.
Moreover, the brutal religious struggles, the frequent killings, are themselves spreading the influence of the Lord of Killing.
This war may be a terrible thing for ordinary people, but it is a very favorable opportunity for the whole church, and indeed for the entire kingdom.
Having lost the priesthood of killing, Ciric's strength and influence have greatly decreased, and although the mortal church is still constantly fighting back, assassinations confined to the shadows can never determine the overall situation of the war. So, slowly but surely, the war is pouring in the direction of the victory of the Church of the Lord of Slaughter.
The mortal war continues!
In a secret temple belonging to the Church of Shirek, a bald man armed with two knives, like a butcher, slaughters one enemy after another.
"I love it!"
The bald man named Kakus looked obsessively at the throat that had been severed by the double knives, and at the large amount of blood spurting out of the carotid artery. His eyes were full of a kind of sane madness, a terrifying madman who was really obsessed with killing, who was really intoxicated with killing.
If you look at the spells of the detection camp, the evil red light of this bald man is even comparable to those demon lords in the abyss.
Killing has no distinction between good and evil, and Dugu Feng, as the master of killing, will not reject the killer who is lost in evil. Whether it is good, evil, order, or chaos, all camps, all those who insist on picking up the sword, and all those who embark on the road of killing, Dugufeng will be waiting for them in the kingdom of God.
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The Throne of Truth, the kingdom of God of Annene, Lord of War.
Unlike the realm of the god of war that most people imagine, the Throne of Truth also has a vast training ground, a strong fortress, and an army of invokers who fight each other. But more than that, there are rolling hills, verdant forests, verdant wilderness, tranquil valleys, beautiful lakes dotted around, and vast oceans.
The kingdom of the Lord of War, like the reflection of the main material world, contains almost all the terrain and natural environments that can appear in the main material world, and there are wind and snow, appropriate natural disasters, and the cycle of the four seasons, making this ideal country full of a realistic and real feeling.
If there is any difference between this kingdom of the gods and the main material world, it is that the light is brighter, the colors are richer, and the environment is more ethereal and pure. In this country, there is no noise of the main material world, as if it is a gem washed away of impurities, and the beauty of the ideal kingdom belonging to the gods is displayed crystal clear.
Dugu Feng walked in this country, the verdant forests stretched down from the mountains, the gurgling streams flowed out of the river valleys, and the deep and lonely valleys, occasionally echoing with the harp of the elves, adding a bit of silence to these forests.
Brilliant as summer flowers and as delicate as autumn leaves, this is the ideal country for Anne, the Lord of War.
However, from Dugu Feng's gaze, behind this quiet and beautiful country, there is layer after layer, as dense as a spider's web, as deep as an abyss, that is the law of the kingdom of God woven by divine power and realm, is a war fortress involving time, space, energy, elements, etc., hidden behind the brilliant summer flowers and the refined beauty of autumn leaves, is an incomparably complex, huge and magnificent war machine.
The kingdom of the Lord of War, with its strict laws and complete system, is almost superior to all other kingdoms of the gods.
"Your Highness Alita, what is the Kingdom of God to you?"
The cool breeze was gentle, and the drizzle was as scheduled.
Above the sky, the raindrops continued to fall unhurriedly, and in the misty rain curtain, a goddess with black hair and black eyes walked out.
It's raining freely.
The water flows freely.
On the green meadows by the stream, flowers bloom splendidly. The fragrance is permeated, and in the sky, on the ground, and in the water, countless white flowers are also blooming, forming a quiet and peaceful sea of flowers in the raindrops.
Annene, the Lord of War, is as beautiful as her kingdom, with long black hair, like a forest that surrounds the whole kingdom, lush and quiet. Her hands, slender and white, without the calluses of a warrior, are yet the same hands that hold half of the world's war power.
"The kingdom of God is an ideal kingdom far from the world, an ideal kingdom born of the ideals of the gods and the dreams of all beings! It is from fantasy to come out of reality! ”
Dugu Feng raised his head slightly, staring at those deep and calm dark eyes. The gods are born in response to the forces of the world and the beliefs of all beings, and are the embodiment of the highly abstract forces of the world and natural phenomena, so the gods are all half-godheads and half-personified beings, and they all have ideals and paranoia after being influenced by the law and the force.
So, in general, the character and temperament of a deity will reflect the characteristics of his priesthood to a greater or lesser extent. But a deity like Annene, who is able to transcend the belligerent nature of war, and exhibit another kind of serenity and depth, undoubtedly shows that she is no longer bound by the Force and faith, and can initially transcend the limitations of war.
"The kingdom of God is the kingdom of the gods, and everything in this kingdom should fulfill the ideas and dreams of the gods!"
Dugu Feng said this, while looking down at the entire kingdom of the Lord of War, and smiled: "Such a quiet and distant country, you can't even see the noise and cruelty of war, but isn't this the embodiment of your dream?" ”
"Is God a dream?"
Anniene, the Lord of War, stared at Dugu Feng and suddenly smiled: "Welcome, Your Highness Aelita, welcome to my kingdom!" ”
The temple where the Lord of War entertains the new Lord of Slaughter is a bloody temple of swords and blood, where the pillars are made of snow-white marble, while the floor and throne are pure black stones, but the altar is not blood, but a beautiful lotus rooted in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses.
The eyes of the gods can travel through the kingdoms, Dugu Feng can appreciate the quiet kingdom of the Lord of War, Anien, and the Lord of War, Anien, can naturally see the Lotus Kingdom of the Lord of Killing, Alita, who is out of the mud and unstained. Therefore, this temple that entertains the newborn Lord of Slaughter is very much in the style of the Lord of Slaughter.
"Your Highness Annien, I heard that you are from a different plane, so what does red mean in your eyes?"
Dugu Feng walked in the temple with Annie, the Lord of War, and asked lightly as he looked through the heavy kingdom and looked at the believers and churches who were constantly killing and fighting in the main material world.
"Red? In my eyes, it was the color of blood. The living flow of fresh blood, and the dead flow of black blood. Therefore, the meaning of red can be either boiling blood, the revolutionary spirit of changing the world, or the dark red dead blood, and the persistence of sacrificing everything to achieve the goal! ”
Anne said lightly, when she reached this realm, she was already doing what she wanted, and any question had her own answer, and she would not follow the crowd.
"Quite a war-like answer!"
Dugu Feng smiled slightly and said so.
"Your Highness Aelita, please explain your intentions! As gods, we don't need to be as subtle as mortals! ”
The war between the Church of the Lord of Mortal Killing and the Church of the Prince of Lies not only greatly stimulated the activity of the Killing Force, but also stimulated the Force of War, and little by little pushed the Lord of War to march towards a higher priesthood.
However, adhering to the nature of the god of war, Annien still bluntly asked about Dugufeng's intentions.
"Isn't the union of war and killing a matter of course?"
Dugu Feng smiled and said, war brings killing, killing promotes war, in many cases, war and killing are almost inseparable, so at some point, the position of the lord of war and the lord of killing will be highly consistent.
"If it is the other Killing Lords who win, then the union of war and killing is a matter of course!"
Anniene also stared at Dugu Feng, the newborn Lord of Killing, in her field of vision, the majestic Killing Force surrounded the newborn Lord of Killing, and the Killing Force that was already wrapped in war even faintly began to diverge back to the Lord of Killing. In all of this, you can see how the Killing Force favors the nascent Lord of Slaughter, just as she is favored by the Force of War.
War is an orderly killing, and as the master of war, Anniene herself attracts a vast killing force. An important reason why the Lord of Slaughter in this world is only a medium divine power is that too many Killing Forces are attracted to the Lord of War, and Baal, who only masters the priesthood of murder and assassination, can obtain too little Force and faith, which is simply not enough to support a Lord of Killing with powerful divine power.