Chapter 708: St. Phosis
In Leo's impression and cognition, the church of the King of the Hill is a magnificent building made of huge stones, which makes people stand in front of the church and feel awe from the heart, as if the gods are in front of them, but the church of the King of the Hill in front of him is just an ordinary red brick house, not much different from the other houses around, and the only thing that can identify it as a church is the emblem of the King of the Hill at the top of the church.
"Although I already knew that the Church of the Hill Kings was very strongly suppressed by the Blood Clan and Werewolves in Yasha County, I didn't expect it to be so suppressed. Leo looked at the Church of the King of the Hill in front of him in amazement, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "The King of the Hill allows such a church to exist?"
"Of course not, the king of this church hill has never admitted it. Sylvia chuckled, "Their external name is the Self-Order of the Hill King." ”
"Religious Order?" Leo smiled at the retro name, and walked into the humble church.
Just like the humble exterior of this church, the interior of the church is very simple, with nothing ornate except for a few emblems representing the king of the hill and the idol of the king of the hill.
The interior of the church is quite empty, rows of chairs are neatly arranged, and below the statue of the king on the hill at the very front is a pulpit, around which several braziers are hung, on which some wood with a special fragrance is lit, and the fire in the basin is reflected through the copper mirror around the basin into the church, making the church appear less dim.
At this moment, there is a routine sermon meeting in the church every night, and there are not many people who come to the sermon meeting, only a dozen people are roughly counted, sitting loosely all over the church, and most of these dozen people are sleeping, and only a few people are listening carefully to the sermon on the stage.
Although few people listened, the white-haired clergy who was preaching on the stage did not disdain it, but told the teachings and stories of the canon of the king of the hill affectionately as if he were in a cathedral that could accommodate thousands of people.
Leo and Sylvia didn't disturb each other's sermons, and after entering the door, they found a relatively remote seat and sat down before turning their attention to the preacher.
When seeing the preacher clearly, Leo and Sylvia invariably let out a low cry full of surprise, although both voices have the same meaning, but the cause is different, Sylvia is because of the other party's identity, and Leo is because of the other party's state.
"He is St. Phosis. Sylvia leaned over to Leo and whispered the identity of the preacher.
"St. Phosis?" Leo, who had been reminded, had a look on his face that was no longer so surprised by the strange state he had just seen from the preacher.
Just now, Leo felt a strong sense of threat from the preacher, obviously the other party has the power to threaten his life, but the strange thing is that Leo scanned his situation through the spirit network, and the result was that this person was just an ordinary person, and even because of his age, his physical function was not as good as that of ordinary people.
But such a person made Leo feel a strong sense of danger, and even made him feel the idea of standing up and leaving immediately.
Leo didn't know who St. Phosis really was and what status he had in the Church of the Hill Kings, but he knew that anyone who had a holy word in his name was definitely the very top of the church.
For the clergy of the Church, canonization and non-canonization are completely different things, the non-canonized clergy is just the lamb of the gods, and the higher level is the shepherds of the gods, and the canonized clergy are the embodiment of the gods, and their status is even above the Pope, so for a long time the church will only canonize the dead, not the living.
But the change of identity is only secondary, the real change is the inner power, according to the handwriting of the wizard of the tower, the canonized clergy can summon the power of the gods at any time, and the power of the gods he summons is complete and not weakened, and the canonized clergy during that time is equivalent to the gods.
Sylvia seemed to see that Leo did not know what St. Phosis was saying, "St. Phosis is a well-known ascetic preacher of the Church of the Hill King, and he is also the best herbalist in the world, he has found fifty-nine very precious herbs, and based on these fifty-nine herbs, he has developed more than three hundred kinds of remedies with different effects, all of which are very common, even the poor in the slums can afford to use them. ”
"That's why he was canonized?" asked Leo.
"Of course not. Sylvia smiled, looked serious, and said, "He was able to be canonized because he is the only clergyman in the Church of the Hill Kings who can get a response from the Hill Kings in every prayer. As she spoke, she added: "It stands to reason that he is the first candidate for the next pope of the Church of the King of the Hill, and he should stay on the holy mountain of the Church of the King of the Hill, and he should not appear here, the environment here is very strange, even a saint like him, when he prays for the power of the gods, he will also be greatly affected." ”
Although the two of them did not speak loudly, the room in this relatively empty and silent room was still able to be heard clearly by some people with keen hearing.
St. Phosis, who had been preoccupied with preaching, turned his head to look at Leo and them, nodded at them, and then turned his attention back to the sermon, continuing to state the teachings of the Church of the Hill Kings, and answering the questions raised by the believers below.
At this moment Sherf walked in from the side of the room, bowed to St. Phosis who was on the podium, then glanced around the church, walked over to the chair next to Leo and Sylvia against the wall, lowered his voice, and said, "You came earlier than scheduled." ”
"The agreed time?" Leo was stunned for a moment, when he saw the invitation, he only saw the address on it, not the time written on it.
"Do you have anything to do with us?" asked Sylvia Tireo.
Sylphi looked at Sylvia, and then at Leo, and found that Leo did not refuse Sylvia's use of the hint in our word, and couldn't help frowning, but he quickly returned to his normal expression and said to the two: "There is indeed something I want to ask you for help with, but it's not me, it's Lord St. Phosis." ”
At this time, St. Phosis on the podium began to recite the prayer, Sherf clasped his hands together to make a prayer dress, and Sylvia, although not a believer in the King of the Hill, still performed the same prayer as Sherf.
In the entire church, Leo was the only one who did not pray under the leadership of St. Phosis, he leaned back in his chair, quietly looking in the direction of the pulpit, and at the same time his eyes inspired the power of the True Eye.
In his eyes, St. Phosis, who was just an ordinary person a moment ago, has erupted with strong energy fluctuations on his body at this moment, and not only energy fluctuations, but also energy itself, which is a more advanced life energy, the eyes of the abyss serpent completely shrank in this energy fluctuation, and the chaotic stomach pouch exudes a sense of hunger, as if it regards this energy as some kind of dessert.
Leo resisted the desire to rush forward and devour this energy, and calmly watched the changes in St. Phosis through the True Eye, it was clear that at this moment St. Phosis was communicating with the King of the Hill and obtaining energy blessings from him, and this energy could help him show the majesty of the gods in front of the believers.
At the same time, Leo's spiritual network suddenly felt an unfamiliar energy body outside the church, the energy fluctuation on this energy body was the energy of the blood clan, and his energy fluctuation was very strong, and he had reached the strength of a sixth-level psionic person, but compared to the Dawson that Leo had seen before, the energy on the strange blood clan outside was obviously more vain and scattered, which undoubtedly showed that the power of this mysterious blood clan was obtained by taking shortcuts.
However, even if it is the power obtained by taking a shortcut, but strength is power, with its power equivalent to that of a sixth-level psionic person, plus the additional blessing of this strange place in Yasha County, I believe that from the perspective of the transcendent people of the dark world of the Cash Velon, there should be few people who can compete with it.
The mysterious bloodline did not enter the church, but stood outside the church, the edge of the hill king's energy radiation, looking like he was watching and watching.
Because Leo didn't hide the energy fluctuations of the spirit network, the blood clan also sensed the existence of the spirit network, but he didn't seem to know what the role of the spirit network was, and just regarded it as another energy fluctuation and didn't care.
After St. Phosis's prayer ended, the energy in his body quickly disappeared, everyone recovered from the state of prayer, and the blood clan outside the church also turned into a cloud of blood mist, rising into the sky and disappearing into the night sky.
"Huh, this is a windfall" Leo muttered in his heart at this time, because the mysterious blood clan knew nothing about Leo's spiritual network, so he used their blood clan's origin power to turn into blood mist and fly away, without dispelling Leo's spiritual network at all, which made Leo easily obtain the process of using this blood mist method, as well as the process and details of the use of blood power.
With these things, Leo can be sure that he will definitely be able to mimic the same power and perform the same abilities through the power of Nightmares.
Just as Leo was carefully remembering all the information he had gathered, the believers in the church had already stood up, walked to the podium, received a sacrament from St. Phosis, and then respectfully bowed to St. Phosis and left the church one after another, and soon only St. Phosis and Leo were left in the church.
"Hello, Mr. Leo Dodd, I have long wanted to meet Your Excellency," St. Phosis walked up to Leo's side and said very kindly, "Your wizarding potion has stumped me, and I have not yet found any way to crack it, but even this has allowed me to find some useful potions, which just solved one of my earlier problems." ”
"Hello, Lord Forcis. Leo wasn't used to dealing with such clergy, and he didn't know what to call them, so he could only use the most commonly used address, but judging by the looks of the people around him, he seemed to have used the wrong name.
St. Phosis raised his hand to stop Sylvia and Sherf from trying to correct the title, and then said to Leo with a smile: "It's been a long time since anyone has called me Your Excellency, this title makes me feel like an ordinary person, I like this title very much, Mr. Leo will call me that." With that, he turned to Sylvia and said, "Lord Count, can you allow me to talk to Mr. Leo alone?"
"Of course. "Don't look at how relaxed and casual Sylvia seemed when she talked about St. Phosis just now, but when she actually came face to face with St. Phosis, she was still a little nervous.
When Leo heard this, he looked at Sylvia and smiled, as if he was laughing at the way she was a close lover just now, but as soon as he turned around, he bought himself.
Sylvia could naturally see Leo's thoughts, and turned her head to the side in some embarrassment, looking out of sight and not distracted.
Leo turned to St. Phosis and asked, "Shall we talk here, or ......?"
"Go upstairs to my office!" St. Phosis suggested, and after seeing Leo nod his head in agreement, he asked Shelf to entertain Sylvia, and then led Leo through the small door next to the church, and ascended the spiral staircase to a compartment next to the small door, and came to the office on the top floor.
After St. Phosis opened the office and led Leo in, he motioned Leo to be casual, and then took off the complicated clothes worn by religious ceremonies on his body, changed into a simple priest's black robe, and then sat opposite Leo, and said with a somewhat serious expression: "Actually, I didn't know your whereabouts in advance Mr. Leo, after the arrival of the Sherf Knight, when I mentioned you, I knew that you had also come to this city, so I invited you to come in such a simple way." ”
Leo also asked with some curiosity, "May I ask why Your Excellency invited me over?"
St. Phosis was silent for a moment, and said, "This invitation is not because of the affairs of the church, but because of a private invitation of mine. ”
"Is it for Your Excellency's personal affairs?" Leo was stunned.
"So to speak. St. Phosis thought for a moment and said, "I mainly want to inquire about Mr. Leo's Nine Golden Oak Street. ”
"Nine Golden Oak Street?" Leo had a slightly puzzled look on his face, after all, it was a little puzzling that a religious saint of high status in the Kingdom of Maris would be interested in a murderous mansion on another continent.
At this time, Leo's eyes suddenly fell on an oil painting on the wall, which looked very old, depicting a young ascetic walking on the moor with an old ascetic supporting him, and the young ascetic looked vaguely similar to St. Phosis in front of him, but this was not the most surprising to Leo, because she found that this young ascetic was more like another person, Peter Alcott, a genius mechanical in Lake Town.