The prayer hall fell silent for a moment.

Perro was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "I find that the exiles led by Randall are not as religious in their faith in the Supreme Lord as before, especially the children of the exiles......"

Faith is the source of the Sacred Power Pool, the foundation of the Church, and it cannot be missed! The Pope and the First Paladin looked indifferent, as if Perot's worries were not worth mentioning.

Clement said slowly, "Tournans and I also noticed this change, and Severin of the Marcy family gave up the Holy Light to pray for the sake of making paper, and almost died. What about that?"

Miller cast a magic spell and saved the lives of three people. Randall's congregation went to the church to pray and donate money. "They are very religious. ”

Perrault argued, "However, not all priests abuse magic like Miller......"

"We have mastered divine arts, this is the gift of the Supreme Lord, it is true and undeniable!" Clement interrupted his disciple's words and said firmly: "Where there is divine art, there is faith!"

There seemed to be a light in Pei Luo's heart, but he couldn't see anything clearly, and his two gray eyebrows were sometimes dilated and sometimes wrinkled, and he muttered: "I seem to understand, but I seem to be a little bit close......"

"You've been promoted too quickly, and you don't understand the doctrine well enough. ”

Clement shook his head and asked, "Does the Supreme Lord need the faith of mortals?"

Pero Zhengse said: "The Supreme Lord is the true God, incarnated as the sun, without beginning and end, and eternal existence. When the Most High illuminates the world, humanity has not yet been born. He doesn't need human faith, it's human beings who need faith. ”

"So, why aren't the outcasts of Randall's lead less religious?"

"They consider themselves subjects and aspire to be vassals...... "Pero thought for a moment, and his voice grew lower, "They now live in peace and are becoming more and more prosperous, far from poverty, sickness, pain, and calamity......"

"Isn't that what we're working towards? Or do we need believers to struggle to survive and struggle?"

Pei Luo stood up and solemnly saluted: "Teacher, please relieve my confusion." ”

"We don't need to, we just have to!"

Clement thought for a moment and said slowly, "When the legendary priest Arya inaugurated the vassal system, he said, 'This may be a bad thing, but it must be a good thing, and the important thing is that we have no choice!'....... Many thought that the Church had to compromise with the knightly aristocracy and make some of the faithful vassals of the lord. In fact, on the contrary, the knightly aristocracy fell victim to the vassal system, and the church was the greatest beneficiary. ”

"The root of it all lies in the Radiant Codex!"

"Article 1 of the Code: knightly protection, church salvation, popular consecration. It stipulates the responsibilities of the three, and the responsibilities correspond to the rights. So, the knights hold the secular power, the church holds the divine power, and the people seem to have only obligations but no rights. Is that really the case?"

"The Code does not prescribe the punishment for the failure of the knight to protect the people, nor the punishment for the inability of the church to redeem. The Code doesn't even require the clergy to completely eliminate the wizards, because they can't do it! If they can't, they will collapse. It is impossible for a knight to protect all the people, but he must protect himself, the church cannot redeem all believers, but it must redeem itself, and the people do not necessarily have to give to the lord and the church, they can dedicate to themselves, protect themselves, and redeem themselves. That's what protection, redemption and devotion all about!"

Perro cautiously asked, "What is the meaning of the establishment ......of the code?"

"You're right, the Codex is a trap. Clement smiled and said, "A trap set by His Majesty Enoch for knights. ”

"In the time of the Chosen One, wizards considered themselves noble souls and knightly bloodlines. Both the council and the pantheon are consciously protecting the knights, and the crazy wizards blood sacrifice orcs, blood sacrifice barbarians, blood sacrifice elves, blood sacrifice people, they have never had blood sacrifice knights...... This is a historical mystery that has remained unsolved, and perhaps His Majesty the Pope knows the secret. ”

Clement paused for a moment and continued: "It's just that the wizarding war has led to a large number of knight sacrifices, and the knight family has turned to support His Majesty Enoch and end the tyranny of the Chosen One. ”

"His Majesty Enoch established the Code of Radiance, ascribed the secular to the knightly aristocracy and the theocracy to the Church, which was certainly a compromise of reality. But I suspect that the Pope was probably coerced by the knights...... Although His Majesty Enoch is extremely powerful, he is still unable to protect himself in front of the Divine Knight. His Majesty Enoch had to back down, but he had set up a number of obscure provisions in the Radiant Code to restrain the knights. For example, the clergy could not persecute the knights without reason or lose their divine blessings, and the knights and nobles could not arbitrarily slaughter civilians or sacrifice more than 50,000 soldiers, otherwise the clergy had the right to sanction the knights. ”

"The power to sanction means that sanctions can be imposed or not, and they can be executed or fined...... The initiative is in the hands of the church. ”

"In the first year of the glorious calendar, the goblin king Omi led an army of orcs, enslaved 14 white apes, and attacked the northern cities, and the black emperor Galdmel gathered the northern knight family to forcibly recruit 800,000 city-state soldiers to fight a decisive battle in the plain of sorrow. Although they successfully defeated the Goblin King, the Northern Knights suffered heavy casualties, and 530,000 city-state soldiers died on the battlefield. His Majesty Pope Berto led the Knights of Radiance and the Templar Army to attack and completely annihilate the orc army. His Majesty Berto took advantage of the great victory to usher in the Glorious Age, and then executed the Black Emperor Gardemel for sacrificing soldiers. This heralded the end of the Golden Age and the beginning of the Silver Age. ”

Clement said with a cold face: "No matter how the monastery whitewashes history, in my opinion, Berto is a sinner of history, and he started the disaster of the human world!"

"Since then, the relationship between the knightly family and the clergy has fallen to a freezing point, and the citizens of the city-state, protected by the church, have fled danger and become outcasts. The northern city-states continued to fall, and the human kingdom was in danger, until in 2973, the noble lady Arya proposed a vassal system in the Ivory Sacred Castle. ”

"The vassal system ostensibly strengthened the power of the knightly family and weakened the influence of the church......"

Tournans shouted, "We humans are going to be finished, and we still have so much to do?!"

Clement nodded with a smile and said, "The core of the vassal system is to allow knights to open their bloodlines to commoners, and the knight bloodline has also spread to the church, and many noble priests have appeared, such as me. The vassal system strengthened the knights' ties to the church, but it also led to the decline of the knightly bloodline, and the Bronze Horseman became the mainstream of society. Also known as the Bronze Age. ”

"Arya is a noblewoman and a priest, and she said, 'Maybe it's not a good thing,' it refers to the knights, and 'certainly a good thing' refers to the church, but the knights and the church really don't have a choice, and the orcs don't care who is noble and who is low...... The result is not bad, the ancestors have guarded the human world. ”

Clement asked Perot: "My student, are vassal soldiers considered soldiers? Should their sacrifices be held accountable to the knights? If vassal soldiers can sacrifice to themselves, protect themselves, and redeem themselves, can the outcast mercenary group do the same? The answer is yes, they have already done so! In fact, we are not good to the homeless, the church now has almost no homeless priests, the Holy Power Pool is not open to the homeless, and the children of the vassal families have the opportunity to become clergy. In that case, what's the problem with Lord Randall's recruiting a group of outcast mercenaries?"

Perro shook his head and said, "No problem. ”

"There's a problem! It's a problem if the outcasts mercenary corps work!" shouted Tournans.

"That's right!" Clement patted Turnans on the shoulder, stood up, and said with his hands in his hands: "Sylvia and I are both thinking about whether we can open up the southern continent by relying on vassal soldiers? The answer is no, the defeat of the Sassan Empire and the Borui Kingdom is proof! Viscount Randall's grand army strategy gives us hope, but neither Sylvia nor I can be sure that the mercenary will work...... But I make one thing clear, we master the divine arts, and the more the population, the more the holy power pool will be abundant, and this is our fundamental interest. Randall's transformation is in the fundamental interests of the Church!"

"Arya has transformed the church, and what kind of changes should we make to adapt to this new era?"

Pei Luo's eyes lit up, and he said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you mean ......"

"Yes. Clement said: "Pioneering is only the appearance, and whoever can lead the change of the church is the protagonist of the times." So I am reluctant to let the monasteries and the Inquisition into Randall, the land of hope for us Benedictines. ”

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?" asked Perro excitedly.

Clement took two steps back and forth, looked up and said, "I persuaded His Majesty Resker to recruit 300,000 displaced people to build a large water conservancy project, so that the Kingdom of Neville would follow Viscount Randall's development measures. However......" The Pope frowned again: "His Excellency Randall seems to be hesitant, the school he set up is only for the families of the vassals, and the families of the vagabonds and hired workers are excluded, which indicates that when he reaches a certain stage of development, he will close the door to the vassals and concentrate on cultivating the next generation of vassals and vassals." Otherwise, twenty years later, Randall would not have had 400,000 people, but 800,000 people. We have to push him. ”

"Work with Lord Randall to establish a church school and enroll the children of both the Lords and the Merchant Families!"

"Church school?"

Clement's eyes burned and he said: "Church schools and public carriages are the direction of church change! The new farmers and herdsmen will fully exploit the potential of their territories, and will only lead to one result—the population of the registered people will increase, and the displaced groups will gradually disappear." This means that the secular influence of the lords expands, and if we do not adjust our missionary methods in time, the church is very likely to lose its dominance over the human world. ”

"Church schools can extend our influence into vassals, vassals, and freedmen. The public carriage will allow our change to spread quickly. ”

"But...... We don't have so many priests? How can we promote the church schools? Do we want to give Ivory Castle and Ograth Abbey a piece of the pie?"

Clement smiled, smiling like an old fox, "There are people in the Kingdom of El without priests. ”

It dawned on Pero that he now understood Clement's layout thoroughly.

Clement relinquished the dioceses of Gambis and Bore. Ostensibly, the Benedictines relinquished pioneering dominance and took charge of the logistics of the Church, allowing the Ivory Castle and the Glorious Knights to let down their guard and focus on exploration. Secretly, the Benedictines quietly led a change in the way they preached.

The people of the El Sect are the descendants of the clergy, who are steadfast in their beliefs, diligent in their martial arts, proficient in religious affairs, and belong to the pre-clergy. The Knights of Radiance and the Ivory Castle are busy exploring, and they must draw the priests and paladins of the El. The Benedictines were understaffed and had to call in the pre-clergy, but they were unable to carry out the teaching work on their own, so they had to do missionary work—to establish church schools and to help convert the exiles in the kingdom of Neville and the Centaur Hills.

Mastering the public carriage and the parish of the savannah was to guide the migration of the displaced people of the Sassanian Empire and strengthen the power of Neville and the centaur hills.

Neville and the Centaur Hills have skyrocketed in strength and succeeded in expanding their territory, and the other lords must have followed suit and asked for the establishment of a church school. As the population grew, the Sacred Power Pool expanded, and these pre-clergy were promoted to priests and holy warriors, who would become staunch supporters of the Benedictine sect and bring new ways of preaching to the rest of the world.

By the time the Radiant Knight and the Ivory Fortress reacted, the position of the Benedictines was unshakable!

Now the most critical question is whether Viscount Randall's mercenary corps is combat-ready?

Clement said almost to himself: "Tomorrow, Randall will hold a military parade, hoping that His Excellency Randall will be able to conquer the Queen of the Rose." ”

"May our Lord bless Lord Randall. Perro whispered.

Clement saw the parchment scroll on the table, frowned, and said, "This file records that Miller was once an exile of Seuss, and he reported that his son was a wizard and watched him be purified. The priest who presided over the purification ceremony considered that Miller was a devout believer, and left him to do chores in the church, and finally became a god favored by our lord...... This is not fully informative and I need a more detailed report. You send someone to the Holy Radiance Cathedral to retrieve all the files about that purification ceremony, and send them to me as soon as possible!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The priest's bedroom in the left courtyard of the church.

The boar lay quietly on the floor with its eyes closed. He was over 2.2 meters tall and weighed 450 pounds, and his humble wooden bed could not hold such a tall, fat fool.

Miller's thin fingers condensed a cloud of white-gold light, and inside were countless tiny platinum runes, slowly turning in an esoteric way.

"Child, I open your wisdom and give you divine power. You will be immune to toxin damage, immune to soul damage, wind with holy power, light and agile, water with holy power, let you heal wounds and diseases, holy power to control earth, make you strong and powerful, let holy power control fire, make your mind complete and intuitive sharp. You are the glorious god of war, and the holy angels accompany you. You are my eyes, my ears, my shell. It is your mission to protect your master, and it is your destiny to save him from death. Child, I pray that my Lord may have mercy on you, that angels may not come upon you. ”

The white-gold light was buried in the boar's forehead, and the phantom of a four-winged angel appeared on his body, like a pair of armor covering his body, and in an instant, the angel shrank into a point and disappeared without a trace.

Miller gazed at the ugly face of the boar, sighed, knelt on one knee, and recited: "I say, there will be nine companions by your side, they are your sword, your shield, your armor, your hands, and your legs, and they will accompany you into the endless forest, and they will overcome the thorns and thorns for you, and face the mother of the ant tribe, and five of them will cross the river with you to see the truth of the world." You will not die, and the Radiant God of War will take over your fate. You will return, and you will start a new era. ”

With that, Miller stood up with a trembling body, and the wrinkles on his face became more and more profound.

The wooden door of the bedroom was pushed open from the outside, and a small head poked in, with a round face and a pair of big eyes as clear as a baby.

She bit her white and tender fingers and said softly, "Grandpa Miller, you seem to be old again." Didn't you eat well and sleep well?"

Miller's old face smiled into a flower, and beckoned, "Bell, come on, I'll introduce you to a new friend." ”

Bertina jumped up to the bed, stared at the boar, and exclaimed: "He is so fat, he must eat more than Bell, I don't want to be friends with him, he will rob me of my snacks, my moire ham, my roasted salmon....... and my ......"

Miller had a black line in his head, and said dryly: "Actually, the boar is easy to eat, and he won't rob your ham......."

The boar suddenly opened his eyes and muttered indistinctly, "Hungry...... I want to eat ham. ”