Text Volume 1 Admission Chapter 3 The Beginning
When the Teres first arrived at the church, it was already completely dark. Towering and sharp Gothic buildings are hidden in the surrounding school buildings, and the bright churches shine brightly in the darkness.
St. Gilles' Cathedral was built 100 years ago, and the blueprints came from the School of Theology and the School of Magic of McGill University, which is the oldest building in McGill University, but in the eyes of Winterfell, it is only a child of just over 100 years old. As one of the centers of the city's magical energy convergence, St. Gilles' Cathedral plays the role of a cog in the city's great array, the key to connecting and purifying the restless magical energy outside the city, and one of the manifestations of the sincere cooperation between the seminary and the magic academy.
Unless there is a special circumstance, the church is not allowed to enter the church, and generally speaking, the front hall is only open for people's use, and today's Winter Veil Festival celebration is held in the front hall. Teres took her sister Kia's arm and stood at the bottom of the hall to watch. When those who had come before ate the bread and wine they had received, they said, "The Lord is with us at this time."
It was also a pleasure to listen to the uniform but not ungraceful voice of Teres, who only heard the celebrant in front of him sing, "May the Lord be with you." The parishioners responded: "Be with your soul too". The celebrant also sang, "May the Almighty Lord, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit bless you", marking the holy name on his chest, and in the dark ages, people's awe and yearning for the unknown are fully reflected here.
Something was coming out, that was Tris's first feeling.
Terex, who is extremely sensitive to spatial fluctuations, found that a hole of unknown size appeared above the church, and in Terex's perception, it seemed as if something had come out of it, and time and space became a little unfamiliar, and there was a general behavior similar to stress, a strong sense of rejection, and a strong resistance to an outsider.
Terre felt very wrong, in this era of demons, the change of events is often unpredictable, one moment it is calm, the next moment it may fall into a desperate situation, but the people in the school present did not notice this problem, it is too late to warn others. Teres knew what he had to do, and silently, the interference force of space was infiltrated into this space, dispersed into it, and the interference force diffused into threads, and the threads shuttled and weaved in the air, weaving and cutting the nearby space, and finally formed a cage around the front hall of this church.
Although the cage is a magic that imprisons people, it can also be used to protect oneself in times of emergency.
The church suddenly became very bright and dazzling, not the usual candle flames, nor the usual magic lights, but a flood-like bright light, which suddenly appeared in the church, and there was no light source in sight. But it doesn't prevent people from perceiving it. If you look at this area from a distance, you will find that the nearby magic elements are very chaotic, but under the protection of the large array in the city, there is no greater movement. Although the Great Array prevented things from deteriorating further, it could not prevent the fact that it had already happened.
The sound of "pop" is the feeling of space cracking, and in Terres's perception, that thing finally entered this space under the inspiration of people, opening up a passage in space, and something went down the stream.
The first to be impacted was Terex, the impact of space was originally moisturizing and silent, but the open cage became some kind of obstacle, and Terres's mind was affected by the impact of a small explosion from the space, but only at that moment, the holy light flowed towards the depression in the space of Teris like flowing water, and the warm holy light repaired this space, even with a shocked Terex.
Perception is certainly not one-sided, it is always two-sided. When Teris felt the spatial abnormality, the will above also reacted, and along this narrow path, there was a white holy light flowing downstream, shining on the people in the hall, warming people, while most of the attention of the holy light was still on Terres, and the bright and dazzling light was concentrated on one person. The feeling was familiar, warming his chest as Teris felt his eyes slightly wet, as warm as he had been ten years ago.
While Teris was still immersed in the infinite joy of finding the relevant clues, the people around him were not so calm. Historically, there have been many people who have been favored by the Lord, but only relatively. That's a very small percentage of the hundreds of millions of believers.
The Holy Book reads, "The Lord is all-knowing and all-powerful, and the Lord is omnipresent and omniscient." When you believe in the Lord, the Lord is with you." Theoretically, as long as you believe in the Lord and ask for something, then the Lord will respond accordingly. If an ordinary person's belief in the Lord is compared to light, then it must be the intensity of fireflies. When thousands of fireflies lit up the continent of Elren. No matter how the Lord responds to these needs, there is always a solution.
There are two more reasonable explanations, one is the doctrine of "randomness" and the other is the doctrine of "priority", the so-called "randomness" doctrine refers to a process of randomness to necessity, which is the result of necessity for believers, but random behavior for the Lord. No matter what random action leads to the inevitable result, the direction of the result is the will of the Lord, and the Lord's action will achieve the desired goal, or "fate", this view is supported by many people, especially those who say that they know their fate.
The other is to consider people's subjective initiative more, there is a difference between pure belief and shallow belief, and there is also a difference between unbelief and belief. There are also disparities between people, and these disparities are reflected in the differences in the "Lord" response to believers. So more people are putting these two interpretations together. Now, regardless of the method or interpretation, the 'Enlightenment' has happened, and the result is a happy thing, at least for Terex.
This is indeed a cause for joy, and Konstanz, as the main priest of this time, thinks so. As one of the main leaders of the Protestant Church in Winterfall, Konstanz paid more attention to the discovery of talent than the heads of other dioceses. It is also under his strong advocacy that the annual Winter Veil Festival celebration can be successfully held. He believed that young people were the core of the church's reform and revival, and that the reform of the church should not only be carried out in terms of system and doctrine, but also in the selection of personnel not only in seminaries. Since its implementation, the results have been unsatisfactory, but I don't want to finally see the seeds of hope today.
After collecting his emotions, Constance smiled and said, "This classmate hasn't seen you before, is it a freshman who just entered this year?" said and glanced at Kia beside Teres.
After being popularized by Kia for a while, Teres also knew that the above was not an ordinary priest, as the sharpest and most enterprising person in charge of Protestantism in Winterfell, Constance was quite famous, and immediately replied to this priest respectfully and seriously, "Yes, Professor Constance, the student Teres is studying astrophysics, under the guidance of Teacher Illian Mitzel."
"Is it Illion from the Academy of Astronomy?" Teris felt the priest's voice much louder than before.
"Yes, Professor Konstanz. Teres replied.
"Are you interested in joining the seminary to study the occult? If you wish, I would like to help you with the formalities. ”
Very direct invitation, Terres, who lacks religious knowledge, only then realized that he did not attach enough importance to "Holy Revelation", and the enrollment of the seminary every year was as hot as the magic academy, because the magic academy had extremely high magical talent for students, the threshold for the seminary was relatively low, and in addition to the convenience of the seminary in politics, the seminary was more difficult to enter than the magic academy.
Teris was willing to enter the seminary for research, but he was reluctant to study on the "maelstrom", and he swayed left and right for a while.
"Constance, it's past the time for the school transfer, and now you want to poach my excellent students, isn't it very decent?" A voice interrupted the awkward situation, and a thin middle-aged man stood in the front hall at some point, his tone was lazy and calm. He was dressed in a dark suit, and his hair was neatly trimmed, as if he had gone to some kind of party. But Terres seldom saw the mentor dressed so formally.
"Long time no see, old friend". Constance greeted.
"Good evening, Bishop," Illian replied casually.
It sounds like the two are old friends who haven't seen each other in years.
"Who is this Teres?"
"That's not the point, the point is that does anyone know this Professor Ilian?"
"I don't know, does anyone know about this person?", someone said.
"Check again, check again, wait a minute, okay... Found it". The man hurriedly said: "This Ilian teacher was transferred from the south, he has only been in the school for a year, his research direction is in the field of space, and he does not teach many students, so he is not very famous. By the way, he is still Andina's mentor's rumored boyfriend, the man he never sees. ”
Listening to the conversation between the two professors, the nearby students were whispering. As the continent of Elren dominated by magic and divine power. Everyone got used to the habit of dominating the Divine Academy and the Academy of Magic, and suddenly two masters and apprentices from the Academy of Astronomy popped up, one was enlightened by the 'Lord', and the other had a great friendship with the Bishop. The common sense that I usually learn is thrown into a mess, which inevitably makes people both headache and a little curious, and the desire of people around me to explore is getting stronger and stronger.
Looking at this scene, Constance proposed: "It's a bit noisy here, do you want to go up to my attic for tea?"
Illian glanced at Tris, "I haven't talked in a while, let's go" said and tugged at Tris.
The rest of the crowd watched as they walked out of the front hall and disappeared into the snowflakes, which grew bigger and bigger.
"Maybe we're witnessing a new era," someone whispered.
"Yes, may the Lord bless Winterfell." Someone chimed in.