Chapter 261: The Holy Light Empire

In the year 1112 of the imperial calendar, the historical line was deflected in the winter of that year.

The Holy Light has mercy on the world, the Holy Light has protected mankind, and the Way of the Holy Light has been brought to the world by the Divine People, and in this era of plague and catastrophe, it has become the only divine power to save lives and save the Empire.

In later canonical accounts, Bach von Leebwitz is described as a figure resembling Prometheus in Greek mythology on Earth, with a chapel dedicated to relief frescoes of his mission.

For example, the first one, the theme: Breaking the Darkness.

Shortly after Bach and the Knights of the Holy Seal left Fort Worcesterberg, which was later renamed the Holy Light Castle, they were blocked by a dozen Chaos Monsters that followed the magical wind, and the Chaos feared that humans would get the Holy Light, and they wanted to seize the Holy Seal and extinguish the Holy Light in the cradle.

However, Bach and the Knights of the Holy Seal, chanting the name of the Holy Light, were covered in light, and charged valiantly, cutting through the bloody path and leaving the dust.

The truth is that on the road, I met a gang of bandits who had just joined forces and ransacked a small manor nearby, this gang of bandits is a typical bully of the soft and afraid of the hard, and when they saw Bach and his party were freshly dressed and angry, and their armor was shining, they immediately planned to avoid it, but how could people be fast, they were a little unable to dodge.

Bach did not know that this was a bandit, thinking that he was fleeing, and instead of shouting the name of the Holy Light, he shouted: "Get out of the way!"

So the horse team roared past, and only one unlucky man was in too much haste, and he fell.

Another example is the second relief, the theme: the beginning of the grand road.

Later, Bach, who had been given a holy name, confronted the Count of the White Lion in Meissen, and the eldest son of the Count of the White Lion, Andreas, put the people first and fought against the old guys with outdated and old-fashioned ideas, and supported Bach, so that the Holy Light could spread quickly in the White Lion City.

The truth is that the real stubborn and frivolous is the young and inexperienced Andreas. He laughed at Bach for bringing back the old things to fool people and make a name for himself.

Andreas was reluctant to even give Bach the opportunity to show the power of the Light, one of the important reasons was that the guard at the city gate had an argument with Bach over letting his party into the city, and later said bad things about Bach to Andreas in private, and Andreas was fighting with the sister of the guard officer because his wife died of illness......

Jiang is still old and spicy, the old Count Eldred realized the extraordinary situation, and after verifying it on the spot, he was even more cheeky to ask Bach in front of everyone to give the Eldred family a place to protect the light, and dragged the son who was still dissatisfied and angry to the backstage and beat him, and gave a death order to lose the inheritance if he did not execute it well, and the stubborn donkey Andreas became the first light protector.

Andreas was ultimately unable to inherit the title of Marquis of Elector, and he was later killed in battle at a young age. However, from the perspective of reputation, he is not a loss, he got a title of 'saint' for himself, and the death in battle is indeed because of the protection of the light, so it was exaggerated by later generations and widely circulated, his historical status is almost Lancelot next to King Arthur, cheating with the sister of the duty officer, and later described as a romantic love story.

In general, with the widespread spread of the Holy Light Faith in later generations, the people who participated in the event were also praised on the altar one after another.

Just like the earth's modern good-looking people praise her for being beautiful, and the long ones praise her for her good temperament. The people of the Holy Light Sect also do the same, those who were cunning and camping at that time have become smart and far-sighted, and those stubborn donkeys who behave like turtles have become old and steady and sensitive doers.

And the route of transmitting the light has also become the route of the Holy Light Pilgrimage in the future, and the route is similar to the route of the Dakar Rally, which is quite a work.

In fact, the most convenient way at that time was to go directly to the capital of the empire, or any of the four major cities (similar to municipalities directly under the central government), which were all hard-hit areas, and at the same time political and economic centers, some of which were influential and wealthy.

Single-handedly, then blossoming on all sides, radiating to the periphery, this will soon complete the spread of the Holy Light Healing Method. Of course, if that were the case, the glory would be divided in large quantities.

Werner, Lord of Worcesterburg, had this to say before his son Bach set out:

"My son, as the one who brought the Light, your merits are indelible. But if you don't know how to share, you will gain glory and many enemies at the same time. And if you don't know how to choose and be too generous, you may lose the opportunity to climb to the top of glory, and you will be ridiculed for stupidity. Choose your future allies carefully. ”

Bach also agreed with this statement, but at the first stop, he was humiliated by Andreas, which had a great impact on him. Bach, who had to accede to the request of the Count of the White Lion, remembered the humiliation of his swagger every time he saw Andreas, the protector of the light. He felt that the wealthy families in those big places were afraid that they would be even more domineering, so he came to a rural area to surround the city, and the entire territory of the empire was about to go around, and the four major cities had not yet been there.

Later, the public resentment in the four major cities boiled, and the people in power really had no way, so they ceremoniously invited St. Bach into the imperial capital, and the people welcomed them, such as the relief of the triumphant emperor.

This naturally violated the taboo of those in power, and at the same time laid the groundwork for the subsequent dispute between church and state.

Many people, as well as the lords of the remote lands, were on the side of the Holy Cult, while the wealthy magnates, mainly the rulers of the four major cities, were on the side of the emperor.

Of course, the real conflict is still the struggle for power and interests. The border lords generally support the Holy Sect, because they use it, and they can't afford to fight against foreign races, especially the increasingly rampant chaotic forces, without the Holy Light.

As for those blessings of the Sigma Sect, hehe......

As the saying goes, practice is the only criterion for testing truth. What did the gods do in the face of the death of three-quarters of the Empire's population, and what role did the church in Sigma play? They couldn't even save their own clergy, or even save them, and what could others count on?

In fact, the plague catastrophe is a relatively prolonged, even slow, rotten thing.

There is more than one main factor contributing to this.

For example, the Plague Clan's plague delivery ability.

This is not a bomber dropping chemical weapons, a city is enveloped by VX in a minute, and the nezumi do not have that kind of delivery ability.

As mentioned before, the original motive for this plague was a virus experiment. Experiments require careful observation and data collection. Not once, do it again.

Moreover, the base camp of the Plague Clan is in Luszia, similar to South America, and not many people come to the Old World (another name for the region where the Imperial Territory is located).

Also, it is the Middle Ages, the population is mainly distributed in villages and towns, the citizen class has only been emerging for a few years, the real urban population is not much, and there are not many big cities.

Against this backdrop, it is not easy to kill three-quarters of the population.

In fact, although history records that the plague began in 1111 and ended in 1115, in reality this was only the end of the peak. That is, the plague clan of the rat people ended the experiment with satisfaction.

Until 1124, when Mandred, the 'Nezumi Slayer', launched the Battle of the Roaring Hills, the plague was not completely eradicated in the Empire, but was like a difficult chronic disease, and it often recurred.

Later generations counted the number of people who died from 1111 to 1115, and even more in the years that followed. There was a so-called catastrophe that killed three-quarters of the total population. If only the plague had killed so many, and the aliens took advantage of the fire to rob, the empire would have collapsed.

However, despite this background, Bach's route and approach to spreading the light still became the main excuse for the royal faction to attack in the future, believing that Bach had used his fame and reputation to blackmail the saints, resulting in the death of more than a million more people in the empire.

Of course, the Holy Religion is sprayed back, and one of the more popular sentences is: It seems that you cherish the people of the empire so much, from that year to the present, come, give an example, which of the things you have done for the people of the empire?

Whenever this happens, the royal power will say, "We built the city sewer system."

This has happened in history. After the plague, the people of the empire paid attention to the health of the city, and the urban sewer system was born after the people of the empire learned from the pain. And later it also gave birth to the unique class of the medieval Warhammer world, the Sewer Patrol.

Cruise through the dirty, dark, pungent smelly sewers and occasionally confront the nezumi who are hiding within...... Thrillers, horror films, and a lot of singing and crying stories and sewer heroes were born.

After the arrival of Kane and his entourage, the city health and citizen health were no longer slowly perfected by the original historical line, but were popularized with the spread of Bach. The parchment scroll, which originally recorded a series of practical hygienic and epidemic prevention methods, has been preserved by the Holy Church and is one of the holy relics.

So the Holy Church can immediately go back: you have built sewers, which is not yet the guidance of the Light, and the people have made great efforts......

In short, Bach's transmission of light was successful, but it also left a lot of trouble. However, in the era when he was alive, the royal power faction did not wake up, or rather, at this time, the Holy Religion had not yet been established, and the focus of the royal power faction was mainly how to save the population, after all, the people were the foundation of power. And this time the losses were too great.

Therefore, they were mainly dissatisfied with Bach's approach, they felt that they had been despised and humiliated, and that they had not been able to participate in the event in time to share in the glory, and this resentment grew with the increasing influence of the Light, and then the Leebowitz family spent nearly seventy years of bleak years, and the two generations were gone, and the opposition from the shadows gradually decreased.

The glory of St. Bach also created two famous knightly orders in later generations.

The first is the Knights of the Holy Seal, who have several unique honors.

They were the first to believe in the Light.

In fact, it is not, including Bach, at the beginning of the transmission of the light, they were not believers in the holy light, but they were later passed on and passed on, experienced redemption scenes again and again, and were moved, and they fooled themselves and became lame, and then they believed it.

However, Kane did give them some special protection in order to ensure that they could pass the light smoothly.

For example, war horses.

This is also the glory of the Knights of the Holy Seal in the future, but it is not unique, because the Holy Light Horse has been sown very widely at that time, and it is not only equipped by the Knights of the Holy Seal.

In fact, it was blessed with some occult things to increase its transformation limit, and then it was genetically modified by magic, making it not only strong, but also easy to absorb the holy light.

The Light is a positive energy that is beneficial to all non-negative beings. So in addition to the advantages of relieving fatigue and stronger endurance by ingesting holy light, horses that are good at absorbing holy light are also equivalent to continuous optimization, and if they are optimized from generation to generation, they will naturally be powerful.

The medieval Warhammer world had Pegasus, and one of the main production characteristics of the Wieson Province, which inherited more than half of the land of the Sol Province from the original historical line, was to raise Pegasus in the horse breeding ground near the Gray Mountains.

Pegasus was once considered the best warhorse, but was later replaced by the Holy Light Horse, at least for the Empire. There have also been attempts to mate with Holy Light Horses and Pegasus. But no, the Light Horse is too powerful to impregnate any horse other than the Light Horse.

As for the griffons, who love to feed on horses, the Holy Light Horse can even argue with them, and the prancing horse will raise its hooves, and the griffin will be trampled to death if he is not careful, which shows the strength and intelligence of the Holy Light Horse.

The treasures of the Knights of the Holy Seal also include 22 sets of Holy Light Armor.

This is Kane's work, he has a multiverse endorsement, and the armor designed is naturally a vivid interpretation of the aesthetics of violence, and the tricks are not repeated.

These armors are mainly made to support the Bach platform, and human beings look at their faces, fresh clothes and angry horses, and only when they look at them can they stretch their heads, which is easy to enhance the awe and confidence of others.

The second is the protective effect, and Kane is also afraid that these people will die before they can get out of school.

The common characteristic of these armors is that under the action of the Holy Light, they can absorb free mysterious particles and gradually strengthen themselves.

The mysterious particles are mainly scattered in this world by the magic of the eight winds and the power of chaos, and are the main culprits for the many mutant creatures in this world.

The Holy Light Armor lasts for a long time, and after the years of precipitation, each piece is upgraded to a holy relic, and like the holy clothes of the Saint Seiya, it can be adjusted according to the user's body shape.

However, in the process of inheritance, three were destroyed in the early battles and no one has been able to repair them, and two were stolen, and one was taken away with the renegades, so after becoming a holy relic, only 16 pieces remained. There are many stories born from it, and each inheritance will have a grand ceremony and be extremely glorious.