After leaving the St. Bruno Pass, the three Buchen and the Pop caravan did not stop for a minute to rest, and then went on the road without stopping.

There are only two decent cities in the Kingdom of Al-Quds, one of which is the Holy City of Stat, (the ruling religion is called Grada. One was St. Bruno, who they had left behind. The rest of the vast land is dotted with just a few dock forts.

These forts were small, about the size of a village of Seris, with high walls of earth and stone, and hundreds of families living inside, usually ruled by knight lords who served under the King of the Holy City.

Due to the tragic thousand-year war and excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the territory of the Holy City Kingdom is sparsely populated, and commerce cannot develop at all.

Walking on the avenue, you can occasionally see one or two dry bones in the weeds beside the road. Witnessing this situation, the excitement in the hearts of the three Buchen who had just arrived in the Western Continent disappeared, but they were filled with a depressed and heavy feeling.

At this time, the sun was setting, and wisps of cooking smoke were wafting from a dock fort in the distance, and he couldn't help but ask Ai Ai when he looked at the desolate and rough scenery:

"Sister Ai Ai, you said that it has come to this point, why don't they give up?"

Ai Ai seemed to have forgotten how "dangerous" he was at this time, but he also looked at the small dock fort standing in the vast wilderness, and his beautiful face was full of sadness: "Because some people cling to the teachings and don't want to stop!" ”

Buchen frowned, it wasn't the first time he had heard Ai Ai say this, "Isn't their doctrine really the will of the goddess?" ”

"How so?" Ai Ai shook her head without hesitation, and said sadly: "Our goddess is the creator god, the only god who created this world. Everything on the whole earth belongs to her. For her, we elves and humans are just borrowers, so how could she instigate one group of tenants to plunder the place of another? ”

But the former believed in her, and the latter did not believe in her! Doesn't it matter? ”

"It doesn't matter." Ai Ai said firmly, "For the goddess who has the power to create the world, the belief of human beings is meaningless. It doesn't matter if they love her or hate her, she doesn't care. It's as if she never answers their prayers. ”

Buchen nodded, he had killed so many devout Templars, and if the goddess really took them seriously, he would have been wiped out by now.

But in this way, it is a bit of a "heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs". It seems that the gods of this world are really laissez-faire to all things in the world.

As for the question of whether gods exist or not, after hearing how the elves were born, he no longer doubted it. For if it were not God, what power could cause a living being to be born in the form of fruit?

This place is different from his original world, it's a magical world!

Of course, he wasn't denying that there was a god in his original world.

Rather, if God is referring to the superconscious that created the universe, then he may really exist. It's just that he definitely won't recognize the names that humans have put on him.

But when he said that, he was somewhat similar to the goddess of this world. In the same way, he treats all things as dogs, and does not answer any prayers. Of course, he certainly didn't go to Earth, plant a tree, make a family of gods, and then give them a death order to live forever in a certain mountain range.

Well, the topic is a bit further off.

"Hehe, our Lord is much stronger than her, and he will answer our prayers." At this time, Mr. Pope licked his face and came up.

Buchen pursed his lips, "Then when you were attacked by the bandits of the Holy City Kingdom, why didn't he show up to help?" ”

"Isn't he Pine, you?"

"Shit! Didn't I tell you? Master acts completely according to his own will! ”

However, Master Pope was very unimpressed, at this time he had already figured it out, Buchen would definitely not kill himself before getting his own property, so he was much bolder: "The master is omniscient and omnipotent, Engong said that you act by your own will, but I think that you must have been guided by the master unconsciously!" ”

Buchen suddenly became angry, and found that he had no idea what to do with this kind of guy who was full of religious thoughts, so he simply changed the topic: "Pop, do you like war?" ”

Pop knew what he meant, the Millennium War could not be fought by one side alone, and both of them had a reason.

"Of course I don't like it!" Pope replied without hesitation, this is from the bottom of his heart. He is a businessman, and what he hates most is that he is fierce and dangerous.

"What about the people of your country?"

"Most of them, like me, don't like it."

"Then why do you fight for so long?" Buchen asked incomprehensibly.

Pop smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "Because the power is in the hands of the person who wants to fight!" In fact, the situation of the Creation God Cult Alliance is the same, the people above want to realize their ambitions, and the ordinary people are unlucky. ”

Buchen turned his gaze to Ai Ai for verification.

Ai Ai also nodded, "The Holy See and several great powers in the Western Continent are the source of war. There has always been a saying in our elven kingdom that the current creation god cult scripture "Creation Sacred Codex" was written by their first pope in the name of the goddess in order to get an excuse to start a war. Later generations of fanatical believers believed that it was really the goddess who wanted them to take over the whole world. ”

"Then why don't you resist?" Buchen asked Pop again.

As if he had heard some funny joke, Master Pope laughed: "Engong, don't ask this kind of question in the future." Don't ask, either as a creator or as a Dominant, because they will surely take you for a psychopath. Revolt? Whoever is the first to rebel will be accused of being an apostate, and not only will the congregation be betrayed, but the congregation will lose everything they have, which we cannot afford. ”

Not silently.

But no matter how chaotic and devastated the Western Continent is, it has nothing to do with him, he can't worry about irrelevant people and things.

"Pope, do you know a good vindictive teacher and a good blacksmith?"

Pope was stunned for a moment, "Engong, do you want to learn fighting spirit?" ”

Buchen nodded.

Pop's expression was a little embarrassed, "The vindictive teacher is easy to find, as long as you spend money to find a high-level mercenary, it's just the blood of a magician......"

The magicians in this world are all rare breeds, once a child is found to have a magical talent, they will immediately be forcibly recruited by the governments of various countries, and the strong children will be trained to become war mages in the future, and the fragile ones will become ordinary magicians, but no matter what they become, they will only serve the church and the royal family, and ordinary people rarely even see them, let alone get their blood. (It is precisely because these mages have been brainwashed since childhood, allegiance to the royal family, allegiance to the Church, especially war mages, that there are very few betrayers.) That's why war mages like Alvin Moon who transform themselves into lichs are so notorious. Broken Army Press)

Buchen interrupted him directly: "I have already drunk the blood of the magician. ”

"That's going to be easy." Pop breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile. If he really wants to get the blood of a magician, maybe he will lose his head.

"You still want to find a good blacksmith? Is it to build something? Pope asked again.

"Hmm." Buchen confirmed, but did not give him a detailed description of what he wanted to build. "Do you have the right person?"

Pop nodded heavily, "Yes!" I happen to know a blacksmith with excellent skills, and he's still a native of your Seris! ”

Hearing this, Buchen's cheeks twitched, "Seris? Do I have to go to the Eastern Continent to find him? ”

Pope hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no, he lives in a coastal city in our brown empire." ”

As soon as he said this, he became interested, "He obviously has such a good craft, why did he go to your country?" Isn't it good to stay in the East Soil? ”

Pope smiled bitterly: "You don't know, he originally served the court of the Cyris Empire, and served in a yamen called 'Jiang Zuo Prison', but no matter how good his skills and ability are, he is not taken seriously. Seris's magistrates often mocked him, saying that his life's work was nothing more than a trick to be desired. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he resigned and didn't do it, and flew across the sea to our brown-clothed empire to pan for gold. ”

"Will you be a prisoner?" Buchen's eyes widened, he had heard of this official workshop anyway, "So his craftsmanship is not ordinarily good, but mastery?" ”

"It's just a little expensive." Pop replied.

Buchen waved his hand, expensive? Is that a thing? Anyway, you don't have to pay for it yourself.

Pope quickly thought of this as well, and his face was suddenly filled with depression.

At this time, it was already dark, and it was time to reach the Holy City in about a hundred miles.

Buchen and Pope discussed it, and they hurried tonight to reach the Holy City by noon tomorrow, and anyway, the sooner they left the territory of the garrison at St. Bruno's Pass, the better.

After a night of silence, they arrived outside the holy city at about 11 o'clock the next morning.

Because Pop is a pagan, he can't enter this holy city, which is now controlled by the Creation God Cult and is common to the two religions in the Western Continent.

No matter how poor the Holy City Kingdom is, it will not allow heretics to enter this holy city to do business.

So they had to rest in the dock fort outside the city.

The knight lord of the dock fort was quite enthusiastic, opened the gate of the fort, and personally brought them into the fort.

"What's going on with this?" Buchen pointed to the knight lord and whispered to Pop. "Will there be fraud?"

Pope hurriedly shook his head and motioned him not to think about it: "The taxes in the Holy City Kingdom are very heavy, and even the lords are not having a good time, so they are especially enthusiastic about the business trips that come to consume. ”

Buchen nodded, and looked at the lord carefully, and found that it was indeed as Pop said, although this lord looked only in his thirties, he already had a lot of gray hair on his head, and in addition to the silk robe in the style of Seris worn outside, he could see the patches of the linen robe inside through the sleeves. ”

Buchen pursed his lips, what kind of lord, it feels like he is still very awesome, in fact, he is the head of a poor village.

After resting for a day in this dock fort, they set out on their journey again.

Although the Holy City is very important, it is actually already the frontier of the Creation God Cult Alliance, and if you cross the Holy City and walk another sixty or seventy miles to the south, you can enter the territory of the Brown Empire.

However, not long after they entered the territory of the Brown Empire, several knights wearing scale armor and a pointed helmet similar to the Persian style of Buchen's previous life came up to greet them.

Seeing them, Pop's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"What's wrong?" Buchen had a weed in his mouth, sat in the cart, and asked Pope Dao beside him.

"Scorn Army......" Pop replied through gritted teeth, "where they are, there is war." ”

There is no doubt that another battle for the Holy City of the Brown Empire is about to begin.