Chapter 1059: Concerns about Banned Books
The entire forbidden library is divided into three floors and five areas, the largest of which is the lowest library, which mainly stores all kinds of books such as forbidden thoughts.
The Poseidon world has existed for such a long time, and it has continued to expand and swallow other worlds, absorbing a lot of knowledge and ideas from other worlds, although the Poseidon belief has always been the only faith in this world, but there will always be some deviant thoughts that will continue to emerge like weeds, and these thoughts will often be extinguished by the Poseidon Church, the Sea Clan and the Spirit Clan when they first appear, and their works have not been destroyed, but will be stored in the forbidden library.
As for why these books full of deviant and even blasphemous ideas were not destroyed, but were put away and allowed to be consulted by high-ranking clergy, this is not clear even within the Poseidon Church, but it is known that the rules were made in the first place.
Over time, this kind of books has formed a huge number, according to the squire assigned to Leo, there are as many as four million books on this level, and it is no exaggeration to say that this is the heretical core of the entire Poseidon world.
Compared to the books at the bottom that contain forbidden thoughts, there are far fewer books on the upper two floors, which are divided into four areas, corresponding to the four maelstroms.
The Poseidon World's conquest of other worlds is not to open a temporary spatial passage to conquer other worlds like the Protoss of Arnoor Lund, but to have four fixed maelstroms, through which the army of the Poseidon World can enter other worlds to carry out conquests.
It's just that the world that those maelstroms go to is not fixed, but the world that they go to at random, so unless there are beings like the sea god and the first sea king Leviathan, most of those expeditionary forces will end up failing after entering other worlds through the maelstrom.
However, there are also some expeditionary forces that can successfully conquer the world they go to, and eventually all the civilization knowledge and resources of that world will be swallowed up by the Poseidon world.
The remnants of the civilization knowledge of the annexed worlds will be filtered out, and some of the knowledge involving supernatural powers will be stored in the corresponding areas of the forbidden library according to the world to which the maelstrom leads.
Although these books are regarded as forbidden knowledge, and there are a lot of extraordinary powers involved in them, the people of the Poseidon World rarely read the books here, because for the people of the Poseidon World, their power cores are completely different, making the mysterious knowledge of these supernatural powers impossible to use at all, even if they are learned well, it is useless, and the only role is to increase their experience and know what kind of strange power other worlds have, and they can be wary of in advance, so only the senior clergy who have joined the expeditionary force will choose to come here to read it.
However, compared to the heresies below, these mystical knowledge from other worlds are more widely read, and the managers are not even willing to sweep away the dust from the heretical doctrines, as if they will be polluted by the heresies as long as they touch them.
The library attendant in charge of Leo thinks that Leo will read the mystical knowledge from different worlds just like the people who come here to read books, but Leo gives a different answer, the books he wants to read are those heretical doctrines that are numerous but not cared about.
"Are you mistaken?" the squire couldn't help but reaffirm, though he knew it was a little inappropriate.
"I know what I want to see. Leo replied in the affirmative.
Seeing Leo's attitude, the attendant didn't say anything, led Leo to a row of bookshelves full of heresies, stretched out his hand and put it on a stone platform under the bookshelf, a burst of light came out of the stone platform, followed by the bookshelves fixed on the ground slowly moved out, and was completely displayed in front of Leo.
After removing the bookshelf, the attendant hurriedly removed his hand from the stone platform, and then quickly took two steps back, away from the bookshelf, as if the bookshelf was some kind of terrifying flood beast.
The attendant said quickly: "You can look at the books on it at will, if you need to copy it, there is paper and pen there, if you have any other orders, you can go to the front and call me." ”
After speaking, without waiting for Leo to answer, he quickly ran out of the forbidden book area, and ran to the small reception room where he stayed daily before he breathed a sigh of relief, but then he seemed to think of something, hesitated slightly, and then turned around and walked towards the office where the manager of the library was, it seemed that he was planning to tell the manager that Leo wanted to consult those heresies.
Leo ignored the squire's thoughts, and after the bookshelf was released, his attention fell on the bookshelf, and he pulled out the nearest book, and did not go to the reading area not far away, just stood in front of the bookshelf and looked through it quickly.
The reason why Leo chose to read these heresies first, instead of looking at those mysterious knowledge containing extraordinary powers, is not that he will be like the people of the Poseidon World who cannot use those mysterious knowledge to obtain supernatural powers, but because he is more willing to explore some mysteries about this Poseidon World and other worlds than to master some supernatural powers, which can help him learn more things.
In fact, Leo also read a lot of books related to other worlds in the library of the Sanctuary of the Divine Descent, but because of religious reasons, most of the content related to other worlds was superficial, vague and vague, without any detailed content, so Leo couldn't get anything really useful from it, and most of the things about other worlds were speculations.
But now these deviant forbidden books are different, although these forbidden books are written around religious thoughts, and most of them are related to the Poseidon Church, but in addition, these books will also record some mysteries of other worlds, as well as secrets that Poseidon World cannot be known by others, and these secrets must hide some things that Leo wants to know.
Although these books are all tomes, they are actually not very useful, most of the content is some religious thoughts, philosophical thoughts, and one of the Poseidon Church, Leo's eyes only need to scan the pages to clearly understand the general content of the pages, so he flipped through the speed very quickly, almost a few minutes to finish a book.
Just as Leo was flipping through the books, the manager of the library led the attendants to the hall of the library, where he could see Leo, and looked at Leo with a serious expression.
He was really shocked when the attendants came to tell him that the books that Leo intended to transcend and copy turned out to be those heretics, because he had heard some things before, and knew that some curious senior clergy had consulted these books, but those clergy were in a very bad situation in the end, either the gods had fallen, or they had simply become hereticals, so since he became the administrator, no senior clergyman of the church had ever looked over these books.
Now that Leo wanted to check these heresies, he couldn't help but think of the high-ranking clergy who had become heretics, so he came to check if the situation was true, and if it was, he had to report the matter to the General Templar.
He knew very well that the power struggle between the Divine Dependents and the Divine Descendants within the Church was already surging, and it would turn into a tsunami that swept the entire Church at any time, and he did not want to be involved in this tsunami, once he reported this matter to the others, it would definitely be on the side in the eyes of others, and it would be difficult for him to remain neutral at that time, but he had to do this, because if the heretical doctrine here spread in the Divine Descendant Church, it would be the most serious damage to the Poseidon Church.
However, when he stood there and watched Leo flip through the forbidden books for a while, his previous decision to report the matter was dispelled, and at the same time, his curiosity arose.
The main reason why he changed his mind was because Leo was so fast that he could read the forbidden books so fast that he could only glance at an entire page of the book, and even the most powerful person could not remember any of them.
It seemed to him that Leo was looking for something in those forbidden books, which was why he was curious.
As for why there are things hidden in the forbidden books, this is nothing suspicious in his opinion, because he often has the idea of hiding some of his secret items in the forbidden books, after all, these forbidden books that record heresies, even high-ranking clergy will not necessarily look through them once for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is absolutely safe to hide things inside.
It was this thought that led him to guess that Leo probably saw something valuable in the private collection of a certain church ancestor, and he hoped to get it, so he came here to look through these forbidden books that normal clergy would not look at.
After watching Leo quickly flip through the entire column of books on the shelves, the library manager felt that there was no need to keep an eye on the place, turned around and ordered the waiting attendant to take care of Leo, and then turned back to his office, leaving the matter behind.
At Leo's call, the attendant ran over to open a new bookshelf for Leo, and this time he did not go back to his reception room, but waited quietly not far away, watching Leo flip through the forbidden books as quickly as if he was playing.
Although Leo is very fast at flipping through books, it is difficult for him to read all the forbidden books in his library in a short period of time.
However, he didn't need to read all the books on it, he only needed to read the books that were useful to him, and when he looked at them, he also found some patterns in the storage of these books, most of which were related to religious philosophy, thought, and the worship of the new gods, and those related to other world cultures were grouped together, while those related to other world cultures were grouped together.
Compared with the large number of heresies, the number of books related to other world cultures is obviously much less, so in less than half a day, this part of the books has been read by Leo, and Leo's main purpose of coming here has also been achieved.
After reading this part of the forbidden books, Leo didn't continue to read the mysterious knowledge from different worlds stored on the upper two floors, he found a place to sit in the reading area, and quietly sorted out the forbidden books he had written down.
The squire couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Leo didn't continue to read those heresies, although he also analyzed from Leo's reading actions that Leo was not reading those books, but looking for something, but he was so nervous about those heresies that he was nervous from the moment Leo picked up the first heretical forbidden book.
The squire's small movements, though hidden, could not escape Leo's perception, he didn't think much of it, and he didn't think that even if he read these forbidden books and others knew about them, he was more concerned about what he could get out of them.
I have to say that although Leo knew from other books that the Poseidon World had conquered many worlds, he never thought that there were so many conquered worlds, and there were more than three hundred heretical ideas involving the gods of different worlds alone, and there were more worlds without gods, and the total number of them was a thousand.
Many of these worlds have not really been completely conquered by the Poseidon World, but have only established a church, such as the Velun World.
In those books, there are church texts of several major gods in the world of Vilon, which shows that the expeditionary force of the Poseidon world once went to the world of Vilon, but in the end it ended in failure.
However, why did the gods of the Velun world not completely eliminate the outsiders of the Poseidon world, and even classified the Poseidon Church as the Church of the True God, I am afraid that it has something to do with the fact that the gods of the Velun world are all foreign gods or that the foreign gods have transformed into the ancient gods of the earth, and the sea god should be similar to the Lord of the Sky in a certain aspect, but it did not abandon everything else like the Lord of the Sky and transform into the local ancient god of the current Vilun World, the Lord of the Sky.
This also made Leo can't help but have a trace of association, thinking that the true gods in the Velun world will be those fleeing gods whose own world has been conquered by other worlds, if it is true, then the water in the Vilen world is even deeper than Leo had guessed before, after all, it can accommodate so many true gods of different beliefs at the same time, such a world is not an ordinary small world that can be compared.
At least from the forbidden books that Leo has read, he has not found that there are two true gods in the small world conquered by the Poseidon world, and all the worlds with gods are one god without exception, and that god has definitely not reached the height of omega-level high-level life forms from the perspective of its missionary texts and thoughts, and it should be a false god.
The world of Velen alone now has at least three true gods whose life forms have reached the omega-level higher lifeforms, and in the past, the number of such true gods was much higher, which is unusual no matter how you look at it.