Chapter 32: The Eternal Fortress
As the King's Guard of the World, the Emperor's Order of Magicians has always been Elizabeth's sharpest weapon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Almost everyone believes that the King of the World is willing to do anything for this army, which is made up entirely of women and whose average age is a few years younger than the Great, and vice versa.
This "everything" includes the establishment of stable personal relationships for absolute loyalty.
During Elizabeth's tenure as Governor of Emanquet, the Order of Wizards had already gained fame. dared to enter the emperor's "harem" against rumors, that mage was indeed courageous.
However, it was too rude to talk about the rumors in front of the countess, and Magellan quickly changed the subject: "Who is the person who has dealings with the Pope, and now there is a clue?"
After spending a month on the airship, the two were already very sure that there must be some people in Arafa who were friends with the Pope, otherwise the knights of the Holy See would not dare to go to Elizabeth the Great, but they had no idea who they were.
"I don't know if the mages have found anything, they haven't told me, you know. ”
Magellan was a little embarrassed, but fortunately he was thick-skinned enough: "I hope they can find something, even if it is to divert the attention of the people of the Holy See." ”
"We know so little about Arafa that we don't have much to do but trust our allies. ”
"Why do I think it's okay if I don't come here?"
The countess smiled: "We." ”
"You have a reason to come. ”
Magellan knew that the countess was talking about the strange dream.
"Rest well, we only have three days, and then we won't have a chance. ”
Magellan nodded and left the tent.
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During the month on the airship, Magellan thought a lot about it and understood how strange the countess's operation was, but he did not regret it after all, because from the very beginning, he wanted to know everything.
To him, the Holy Grail was just a joke, a disgusting sludge, but the history that surrounds the Holy Grail is not.
Magellan wanted to know what the mage's vault would look like, and what the holy place where the Holy Grail was located would look like.
Staying in his tent, Magellan looked at the longsword glory jade and recalled his strange dreams.
If it had something to do with the so-called "destined journey", perhaps the dream scenario was Reinhardt's experience.
A temple flooded.
But there is one thing that always struck Magellan as strange, that the Holy Grail in that dream was fake.
During the month on the airship, Magellan and the Countess consulted all the information that the latter had brought with them, and came to a basic conclusion about the Holy Grail. The chalice is actually a stonemason's usual cup of water, not to mention silver and jewelry, not even a handle or color, it is a wooden cup, maybe it is also stained with the powder of marble from the Loren Empire.
As we all know, Scientology is a monotheistic religion that worships the only supreme God, "Science", who personally descended to earth and performed miracles, and his disciple St. John recorded the experiences and thoughts of the great God, and enshrined them as teachings, and established Scientology.
The Holy Grail is the drinking cup that science commonly uses in earthly life, but after science returns to heaven, it has become a supernatural power that can make people immortal, which is also one of the important proofs that science is worshiped as a god.
After the death of Pope Martin II, although Martin III succeeded to the Pope after the unification of the Church, the remnants of the "Sun Crown" Luther and the "Golden Radiance" Vic still existed, and they either took refuge in Cardinal Richelieu or crossed the channel to hide in Brittany, taking away a lot of precious historical materials, some of which fell into the hands of the Brittan royal family.
All this information related to the Holy Grail was brought to the airship by the countess, and Magellan flipped through it from beginning to end, and came up with several more important inferences. One is that during the barbarian invasion, a certain cardinal headed to the east with the Holy Grail, and his purpose was to make the new nobles there worship science as much as the West, and then the Pope would be the only king of the world. On the other hand, the chalice is a rough cylindrical cup, which was chiseled into by science himself from a piece of wood that he had picked up, and later the Pope prepared an ornate box for the cup, but the appearance of the holy object has never changed.
And the clearest image in Magellan's dream is the Holy Grail, whether it is the texture of silver or the brilliance of diamonds, it is like reality.
The cardinal who marched to the east failed, and the barbarians did not believe in science, but his order still had the support of many local forces, so in the cardinal's later years, he concentrated all his resources to build the Basilica of St. John, known as the "Eternal Fortress", leaving the Holy Grail in the center of this complex building, and setting up a mechanism on the periphery, so that only knights with strong faith and superhuman prowess could reach the altar where the Holy Grail was located.
Time passed, the location of the cathedral disappeared into history, and the Holy Grail became a legend.
Magellan had figured out that before leaving the Black Forest, he used the Emerald of Glory to fight the knights of the Holy See, so that oath worked, and the scene in the dream was the place where he was reminded. But there's something wrong with that. If Reinhardt has already received the Holy Grail, why does his sword ask the new owner to "continue" the journey to find the Holy Grail? If Reinhardt does not find the Holy Grail, what does the dream scene represent? Reinhardt has found the Holy Grail and is immortal, why does his sword accept a new master?
This faintly points to the possibility that Reinhardt is suspicious and wants to attract new knights to find the Holy Grail to strengthen the defense of the "Eternal Fortress".
But the question is, why is the Count now approaching the Holy See to take the Holy Grail away?
The Holy Grail has the power to make people immortal, this is a very powerful force, in short, people who have been at the top of the world in wisdom and courage for thousands of years have gathered in the Eternal Fortress, they are eternally young, and they are religiously guarding the Holy Grail, this power is definitely much more reliable than the now declining Holy See and the sinister King of the World.
Maybe in the hundreds of years since Count Reinhardt found the Holy Grail, some changes have happened in the Eternal Fortress, and his strength has weakened to the extreme, so he has to make this decision, then there is a new question, whether this change has anything to do with Magellan.
Magellan entered the Black Forest and was attacked by knights there, not to mention how the Holy See knew that he was there, and why did the Holy See want him to die?
Magellan and the Countess had already made a guess about the trials in the Eternal Fortress, and if something happened there, what would happen to their plans?