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Divine Radiance Empire! Church of the Holy Radiance!

As an empire that has been religiously ruling the upper and lower classes for thousands of years, there is no doubt that in the course of a thousand years, the empire and the ruling Holy Radiance Church have begun to show signs of decay in both the upper and lower classes.

It is no longer news that there are any such things as the looting of places, and it is not an isolated or small phenomenon that the local administrators and faith-oriented church officials in various places have semi-openly oppressed the believers or turned the believers' land into their own private property, and even had any special relations with the nuns and devout believers in the temple.

Even in the dark, it is said that those priests and bishops have even more terrifying and even scalp-tingling dark things

Of course, it wouldn't be too surprising if it were the well-informed people on the planet.

After all, on the earth, not to mention all kinds of bullshit things in the name of xx god, the largest Christian black history on the earth alone has the three sides of this religion that all those in the know know!

For example, in the Christianity of the Middle World, there was a great campaign to burn witches, and any woman who had a black cat or was favored by church personnel could be put on the hat of a witch and put in the Inquisition, where she was subjected to all kinds of inhumane torture, and then had to be burned alive in the square!

For example, at the time of the Crusades, there were Christian high-ups who launched an unprecedented massacre against those hapless Green Cultists - the words "heretics deserve to die" are not empty words!

And in addition to the more famous black history, what priests and nuns have to say about Christianity, what priests are very amiable to the little boy with clear eyebrows, etc., all fully prove that religion, especially monotheism, will have some destructive appearance under the long-term corruption.

Of course, it is not much better in the magical world, the Holy Radiance Church, which is in charge of the entire Holy Radiance Empire, is said to be very competitive during the Dawning War and the war that has just ended, and the vast majority of the entire class sincerely believe in the God of Holy Radiance, and even send missionaries to other places from time to time to try to preach.

However, after the end of the Dawning War and the disintegration of the Glorious Alliance of mankind due to various problems, the Church of the Divine Radiance, which founded the Divine Radiance Empire, fully confirmed the famous saying "Born in sorrow, die in peace" or the summary of "Poverty and single life are fertile soil for religion" (as if a post said, the Exquisite Party does not need to delve into it).

Before the Dawn War, the overall situation of human beings, whether it was the Elven Empire or the Orc Empire, was treated as a second-class citizen, and it was probably a little exaggerated to use "struggling on the death line", but the adjective "most humans are on the food and clothing line and may encounter danger to their lives at any time" is probably absolutely nothing.

Especially for the people of the Elven Empire and the Orc Empire, there is no need to bear any responsibility for accidentally or simply intentionally killing a human being, and human beings are completely in the position of the ruled class.

In this case, the Holy Radiance Church was the only faith among the human race at that time, and if it weren't for the lack of time and the vague resistance of other human forces, it would have been a sure thing for the Holy Radiance Church to control the faith of the human race.

However, in less than a hundred years, the situation of the Holy Radiance Church, which controlled the Holy Radiance Empire, began to decay. Whether it's the pleasure of the church at the top, or the pastors below are starting to show signs of corruption.

This situation has not been seen or opposed by no one in the millennium, but after several civil strife in the Holy Radiance Empire have been quelled by strong means by vested interests, even if the newly appointed Patriarch can use some means to curb the progress of the overall corruption, these actions are only a means to cure the symptoms of the entire Holy Radiance Empire!

Even Magnus Claudius, the legendary powerhouse and sword of judgment, is helpless about this situation!

"That's right! That's it! If you serve me well, you will be greatly rewarded."

"Woohoo"

"Lord Pastor"

When Magnus Claudius walked out of the prayer room, the strength of the legendary powerhouse allowed him to hear some of the ambiguous voices of men and women in the building next to the altar that housed the priest on duty.

But Magnus Claudius, who had been in the town for almost a year, looked at the building and did nothing, but sighed and turned to the hut where he was resting.

Magnus Claudius didn't know what was going on inside, and even he knew that the priest and a few apprentices at the altar in the town were not very clean, not only showed signs of corruption, but also had a close relationship with several women in the town, and sometimes even threatened the girl he liked to have sex with him with his management authority.

For example, according to the regulations of the Divine Radiance Empire and the Holy Radiance Church, 30% of all the harvest in this town is a normal tax, and 10% is a tithe dedicated to the God of Divine Radiance and the Holy Radiance Church.

Among the forty percent of the taxes, it is impossible for everyone in the town to share them fairly, and it is really simple and easy for the priest who is in charge of the town's administration and faith to do something, like the ancient landlords of the Celestial Empire or the nobles of the Middle Ages, it is a trivial matter to let an ordinary family die!

As for the revolt or the peasant uprising, you say

Well, the low-level peasants in this magical world really don't have this ability, and the Holy Radiance Church still has fifty altar guards and two hundred garrison soldiers in this town, and it is really extremely difficult or impossible to rely on peasants or individuals to resist!

Magnus Claudius, who knew about this kind of thing, now has no anger and disbelief when he first learned about it? He also understood now that this kind of thing of using power to benefit himself was a very common situation in the Holy Radiance Empire and even in other countries.

And what if Magnus Claudius could punish or even kill the priest and the priest's apprentice?

The death of a priest has no effect on the Holy Radiance Empire, and when Magnus Claudius killed hundreds of priests, bishops and even a cardinal of a very high status because of a terrible event, the result was that Magnus Claudius was refrigerated by the Holy Radiance Church.

As a result, when Magnus Claudius went to check after a few months, he found that the people involved in the incident and the victims in the provincial town where he shot were all burned at the stake in the name of heretics, and the incident that had caused a big stir in the local area became no one dared to mention it.

The devastated Magnus Claudius found that some of the things he had rescued and the victims had never done anything reckless after enjoying a brief period of peace and becoming even more miserable and even the death of his entire family.

For example, the pastor who is fooling around now, if Magnus Claudius reveals his identity, he can easily suppress the other party and even make the other party lose his position here with a word.

But isn't that a good thing for the town?

Magnus Claudius understands how rotten the Divine Empire is now, although this altar priest is a little lustful and greedy for money, but compared to those priests and bishops who even broke the other party's family because they saw the beauty of their believers, this priest only used the power at hand to force and give some compensation afterwards. If a new priest comes up, only the God of Radiance will know what his conduct will be.

Anyway, according to what Magnus Claudius has seen over the years, those who can do things and oppress those civilians in the Divine Radiance Empire are already at a good level, and those clergy who are completely incapable of doing things and even loot enough to force believers to abandon their family business and run away are not uncommon.

In this case, Magnus Claudius, perceiving the situation of the priest stationed in that town, could only smile helplessly and do nothing.

"God, why is that?" Magnus Claudius, who had stopped, looked at the surrounding town, and then prayed to his god of radiance in confusion.

In the eyes of the legendary powerhouse, the town in the dark of night is no different from the day. The town, which was mostly made of old mud, grass, and wood, looked unusually poor, and with the exception of a few neat-looking houses, it was almost as poor as the slums.

In the eyes of Magnus Claudius, who has traveled all over the continent, although such a town is not uncommon among other human countries on the continent, most of the other human countries are full of hope. For example, in the Southern Principality Alliance, the magic equipment popularized in the past three hundred years has accounted for nearly sixty percent of the human countries on the continent, and even the low-level magic equipment of the Holy Radiance Empire has begun to purchase the goods of the Southern Principality Alliance, not to mention the civilian version of the magic equipment.

Others, such as the Eastern Dragon Empire, the Northwest Autonomous Alliance, and the Five Northern Kingdoms, at least the domestic competitive atmosphere and active Cheng Dù are not the same as the Shenghui Empire, and the gap between the two is not at all on the same level.

After seeing a lot of knowledge, the appearance of the Radiant Empire, which is quite glamorous, gives Magnus Claudius the feeling of decay!

The huge empire, the large army, and the large number of masters did not hide the fact that after a thousand years of religious rule, the Holy Radiance Empire had begun to decay from its roots!

Seeing this, Magnus Claudius was powerless to do anything but ask the gods in confusion (to be continued...... R1292