Chapter 22: The Temple of the Gods
This is the heart of the world of Pavatiga, the dual core of geography and psychology.
The rolling Doyns Mountains block the cold winds blowing from the northern ice fields, the Susokalu River flowing on the soul plateau in the east brings moist air and abundant aquatic products, and the fertile soil of the Mukasen Plains in the south is rich and warm every year, and the four seasons are like spring.
This is the Temple of the Gods, the sacred capital of the gods.
There was no shortage of war in Pavatiga.
Not counting the age of mythology, 12,000 years of formal history is a bloody history of war, killing, and death.
Between intelligent beings and nature, between demonic beasts, between different races within intelligent beings, between different countries, and even between different forces, one war after another has destroyed countless countries and created countless deaths.
The gods did not stop the war, or rather, they were the ones who started it. In order to compete for beliefs, for the sake of clash of ideas, they encouraged believers to wage war, conquer countries of different faiths, kill all the staunch infidels, and force the people to convert.
All this lasted until the end of the Age of Chaos.
Enough blood has flowed, the battle is tired, and most importantly, for some unknown reason, the gods are finally tired of war.
Almost all the gods have sent oracles one after another, preventing those meaningless wars, and the major races, all countries, everyone can finally sit down and have a good talk.
Not only intelligent beings, but also gods.
After nearly 100 years of negotiations, the end result was very ideal, especially for the gods.
All true gods, strong or weak, have made an oath to the void with their godhead, no longer fighting for faith by war, and no longer settling differences by killing.
Thus, with the two impersonal gods of contract and justice as arbiters, the Temple of the Gods was established.
The nine hundred and twenty-seven true gods, each with a trace of divinity, are concentrated to form a huge sacred place at the center of Pavatiga, that is, the sacred capital of the gods, a city between the real and the unreal, the Temple of the Gods.
The original temple of the gods is composed of nine hundred and twenty-seven sacred halls, no one has built them, and it is completely automatically generated by the divine power of the true gods, because this is the closest position to the gods in the sense, in order to make it more convenient for the worshippers to worship, the deepest part of each sacred hall has a door to the sacred area of the gods, that is, the door of the main hall of the church, and the high-ranking priests can let themselves or extremely devout believers go directly between the two places through this door, saving a lot of travel time and avoiding risks during the journey.
At that time, the Temple of the Gods was only open to the clergy, and could only be accessed through the Pilgrimage Gate, and although it was there, it always existed in an illusory space, and its existence could not even be observed from the mortal world.
However, most of the sacred halls of the gods need to be taken care of every day, but it takes a lot of spiritual power to pass through the pilgrimage gate, and even the high-ranking priests cannot support these people to enter and exit the pilgrimage gate every day, they can only stay in the temple of the gods. Thus, as the number of resident clergymen increased, problems arose.
Where there are people, there is a need, and the clergy are also human beings, so naturally there will be no exception.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, daily needs, all kinds of needs come one after another. It's not that you can't carry a lot of daily necessities with you when you enter and leave, but if you use the pilgrimage gate as a freight channel, even if you are really not afraid of divine punishment, the clergy who open the gate can't afford it, you know, every time the person who enters and exits adds some weight, the burden on the person who opens the door increases exponentially.
Therefore, at the behest of the priests, the gods made changes, and the temple of gods simply appeared directly in this world.
With the approval of the gods, various secular buildings were erected around the sacred halls, libraries, shops, inns, taverns, workshops, and even several unspeakable special places where the devotees of the goddess of desire and desire, one of the three goddesses of love, were located.
There are constantly devout believers entering this city without lords and without laws. Even though everything here is ruled by the impersonal, divine union of nine hundred and twenty-seven gods, even if the entry qualifications are strict and the number is strictly limited, the scale is still increasing, and now it is like a real city.
"Praise be to our Lord, praise to the gods, praise to the temple of gods. "Inside the Temple of the Gods, out of the empty Hall of the Dark Moon, Shure and Lisa, like every other priest who had just arrived, shouted the praises of the founders of the Temple of the Gods, which was already a regular routine for the priesthood. This compliment was not contrary to his intentions at all, because for the High Priests, the existence of the Temple of the Gods was so convenient that it could be reached in an instant, even if it was thousands of kilometers away.
As soon as you go out, you can see that the Temple of the Gods is clearly different from other cities.
Seventy percent of the people walking on the street were clergy in strange robes, perhaps one second they heard someone in the distance shouting in the distance in praise of Ofregan in the dwarven language, and the next second they could hear the sea elves behind them singing the praises of the storm goddess Fura in a unique voice like the sound of the tide.
The most common scene on the street is that clergy of different races, ages, and genders, wearing different colors and styles of holy robes, comparing different prayer gestures, using different languages, and praising different gods as the opening words. Everything is very different, but what happens here creates a very subtle sense of harmony.
Those who have not been here may not even be able to imagine the gathering of so many clergy, after all, all this is only possible in the Temple of the Gods, the most unique city of Pavatiga.
However, Shul and Lisa didn't pay attention to the special sights that were enough to make the newcomers stupid on the spot, not only because they had become accustomed to it, but also because their view was blocked.
Blocking their view was a tree.
Well, it grows at the entrance of the Hall of the Dark Moon, and the roots of the tree divide into two sides and dig into the dirt on both sides of the road, and the trunk of the tree blocks the gate squarely, and people who enter and exit will hit a tree head-on if they are not careful.
An oak tree.
As soon as she saw the tree, Lisa's already gloomy face darkened completely, and she turned her head and walked back.
"I'll go back and get an axe. The girl gritted her teeth and said viciously, "I just learned the skill of logging in the past two days, and I haven't practiced it yet." ”
"So, when I'm not around, play some language adventure games with those boring guys, where are you going to learn that logging skill? Shuer dragged the girl back with a smile and touched her head soothingly, "Okay, okay, calm down." ”
"I don't want to be calm, this idiot blocked the door of our house again, it's not the first time, last time he blocked the door of the temple, this time he actually blocked the door of the Holy Hall, where will he block next time? Is it going to block outside the crescent moon arch in the kingdom of Lord Darkmoon?" Lisa, who has always been polite and sensible, trotted a few steps angrily, and kicked at the oak tree at the door, "I knew that brother, you came to the Temple of the Gods for an impure purpose, and sure enough, you made an appointment with this wood that was specifically blocking the way." Hey, how long are you going to pretend to be that stupid tree, get out of the way with me. ”
"Hul and Sally, you're here. The oak tree trembled, and said in a slow voice unique to the forest spirit in the form of a plant, "The soil at the door of the Sacred Hall is so good, so comfortable, I accidentally fell asleep." ”
"Hey, my name is Sally, no, my name is Lisa, you stupid deer did it on purpose. The great Lord Lisa was almost confused, and stared at her with her round face bulging, "And if you want to take root, go to the door of your forest temple, where there are often more than twenty stupid tree spirits lined up? ”
"Is that so? So your name is Lisa today (I'm always called Lisa!), well, it doesn't matter what you call it (it's important to me, okay?). The entrance to the forest temple is too crowded, it's better to be here, no one is grabbing a place with me. ”
"That's because you're stealing space with us!" "Every time she meets this hateful forest spirit, Lisa feels like she will be, really, how can my brother put up with such a bad guy!
"Haha, don't be angry, she deliberately makes you angry, who makes you so cute even when you're angry, of course she likes to tease you. And I didn't ask her out, she came by herself. Shuer watched the excitement for a long time with a wicked taste, and then said with a smile, "And Moria, why did you come here, you didn't come here specifically to bully Lisa." ”
"Eh, didn't you ask me to come?" Lin Jing shook the branches and said slowly, "On the day the shadow chase ended, you said you wanted to ...... with me."
"Stop, I know if you keep talking, you're going to have a pollen head again, and I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything that day, and it's useless for you to play stupid. ”
"Hehe, okay, I came to wait for you. I guess you're going to come and bully Sasa, so I'm going to wait for you a little earlier. ”
"Well, I'm going to go to the library first, but it's just to return the books, and bullying Sasa is just a stop. But how long are you talking about? I'm not sure when I'm going to come. ”
"It's about half a month, and I've slept too comfortably here, I can't remember clearly. ”
"Hehe, hehe. Shure wasn't going to discuss common sense with this guy whose mind was obviously not in harmony with normal creatures, "It's the first time you've come to the Temple of the Gods to find me, no, you shouldn't be able to use the Pilgrimage Gate, so how did you get here?"
"Someone wants to see you. Moria suddenly became serious.
Shul paused, and pointed his finger upward.
"Well, Mother wants to have a trip with the past. ”
There is only one being who will be called a mother by a creature like a forest spirit, the goddess of the forest.