Chapter 195: Pigs in captivity
"Those people...... Can't you guess? Ares asked rhetorically.
"They, too?" It was no accident that Dovic appeared here waiting for him, Chen Fenghua suddenly flashed this thought after Ares's rhetorical question.
"They obviously don't want you to find anything," Ares paused, raised his hand, and swept around, "Actually, the old man only learned about the appearance of the light network at the end of the god and ghost war not long ago, and later, the ruins of the ancient battlefield began to loosen, and the old man noticed that someone had entered the ruins, so he followed.
That's right, it's the same people under Our Lady who, as soon as they enter the ruins, are looking for something and start destroying it. The old man killed a few people and wanted to know what they were doing, but they didn't say anything until they died, and then the old man found the place and disguised it as if it had been destroyed.
Nadovic soon found the place, but he didn't know that the old man was there, and when he saw the ruined ruins, he thought someone had come, and walked out. However, when everyone had left the ruins, but he did not, the old man knew that he must have something to do, so he waited until now.
It wasn't until you showed up and Dovic's reaction that the old man understood something. ”
Ares may be the only NPC who has seen him Chen Fenghua at first sight but doesn't know his identity as a lightbringer among so many NPCs above the quasi-god level he has encountered so far, which gives Chen Fenghua a question for no reason, why everyone else knows it, but Ares doesn't.
Being alone may be a reason, but whether there is any other reason, Chen Fenghua does not know.
"What do you understand?" Chen Fenghua asked
"Do you remember what the old man reminded you about - those who stay away from the temple?" Ares glanced at Chen Fenghua.
"Yes."
"The old man still missed a little, I remember reminding you at the time that it was because of the divine power that appeared in you, for the Holy Mother camp, once its believers derived divine power, they will soon become the focus of cultivation, for example, the current cardinal archbishop, is such a deposit. Once they become the object of key training, they will officially become the spokesperson for Our Lady.
At first glance, it doesn't sound bad, but there is a big hidden danger inside. ”
Chen Fenghua pricked up his ears.
"In a short period of time, these subjects are able to gain great strength, and the expansion of their divine power is amazing, but their lifespan is not very long. Theoretically speaking, as long as you reach the strength of the quasi-god level, you can survive forever, and the reason for this is precisely because of divine power. As long as you can skillfully control your divine power, it is not difficult to obtain the continuation of life.
But not all quasi-gods can control their divine powers, so they are either consumed by the inflated divine power, or they are wasted by the flow of divine power. For those cultivated by the temple, they can obtain a large amount of divine power in a short period of time, and they must use some methods to vent their expanding power in order not to consume their lives quickly.
This method is called [Faith Transmission], and the object of cultivation is definitely the faithful believers of the Temple, and they can transmit their divine power to their belief object through guò faith transmission, so that the divine power has a place to go, and they themselves will be relieved of the torture caused by the excess divine power.
After all, this is not long-lasting, and the ability to use the divine power generated by their bodies in this way will gradually lose the ability to use the power for themselves, just like a young man's soul into the body of a crippled person, no matter how endless his thoughts are, but the reality is that it is difficult to even move.
Therefore, these objects of cultivation are, to put it mildly, sacrifices of the gods in which they believe! They are the equivalent of the pigs raised by the gods, fattened and killed! ”
Chen Fenghua's mind suddenly flashed through his mind, every time he entered Stephenson's room and saw the picture of Stephenson praying in front of the circular altar, he felt flustered for no reason, could it be that what Stephenson was doing was ...... Sacrifice?
"Are you exaggerating?" Chen Fenghua couldn't believe that Stephenson was joking with his life, and at the same time felt skeptical of what Ares was telling.
In the past, the old man would have thought it was very exaggerated, but since the old man awakened the divine pattern and was promoted to the god, he could feel the existence of the power of faith. As long as one person wants to use the power of the old man, the old man will be able to feel the existence of faith and gain greater power from their faith.
This feeling makes people very nostalgic and addictive, but it's a pity that the old man kills too much, there are few believers, and the power gained from them is very small, and what they pass on to me is not divine power, so it is even more negligible.
In the old man's opinion, like the daily prayer of the archbishop of the temple now, that is the real [faith transmission] with great energy, because those are the true beings closest to the power of the gods! A hint of madness flashed in Ares's eyes, and the energy in it could be imagined that he was attracted to the god of war.
Chen Fenghua also somewhat believed Ares's words, so what Stephenson was doing every day was actually making a wedding dress for the god he believed in, that is, the Virgin!
As if seeing Chen Fenghua's thoughts, Ares' face turned straight: "That's right, all the faith transmission points to Our Lady, and all the faith power of the light camp also points to Our Lady." The old man never denied his ambitions, but if there was anyone in the dream world who had greater ambitions than the old man, there were only two-
Virgin! Beelzebub!
After the war, the Holy Mother and the Demon King were both injured and fell into a deep sleep, and they needed a huge amount of faith transmission to restore their physical body, spirit, and strength, but what ordinary people could provide was very limited, so they had to cultivate a large number of objects, and cultivate archbishop-level believers to provide them with divine power,
And you, you are a good seedling. ”
Chen Fenghua was shocked, if this was the case, wouldn't it mean that the temple also regarded itself as a captive...... Pig? Suddenly, he realized that Ares had "missed a bit" before saying this, and that he had only understood something after seeing him and Dovic's reaction.
Obviously, then, the transmission of faith that I just mentioned was not the main reason why Ares kept him away from the temple.
So what could it be?
If Stephenson's high hopes for himself were to make himself one day a being like him, and then to channel divine power for the Virgin, then now that he has left the temple, he is obviously dissociating himself from it, and Stephenson's plan has been ruined.
However, upon returning from another world, he found that Stephenson was not angry at his refusal to join the Templar Legion, but was still helping him with something as always.
"Didn't Stephenson know all along?" Such a thought suddenly popped out of Chen Fenghua's head, so isn't this a typical example of being sold and helping people to count money?
He knew that Stephenson was a faithful believer in the Virgin, and if he went back to tell Stephenson the truth at this time, he probably wouldn't listen to him, but would try his best to restrain himself and let himself grow in another way.
Chen Fenghua asked Ares for an answer in confusion.
Ares is not his mentor, but Ares at this moment is more like he is interpreting something for him, and Ares's serious appearance makes Chen Fenghua feel once again that this god-level NPC with a killing nature and feared by everyone is not so unbearable.
"The real reason is that the old man noticed it from the moment Dovic appeared in front of you.
With your current strength, if you are slowly cultivated through the temple, you may one day really be able to become a being like the Cardinal Archbishop, providing strength to Our Lady. But if you don't join the temple, they won't do anything to you, let alone arrest you.
But just now, Dovic, one of the twelve spatial gods under the command of Our Lady, came directly to arrest you and told you the identity of your light messenger, and the old man found out what the problem was.
As far as the old man knew, the Lightbringer was once indeed under the command of the Virgin, but unfortunately fell in the war. If you are really a Lightbringer, then what you represent is the Lightbringer Resurgence. Recovery is not a rare thing, but it is indeed rare, so the old man thinks that the reason is here!
Because, after the resurrection, the gods are often more powerful than before the fall! ”