Chapter 522: Turin Theological Academy
Like the seminaries of other countries, the seminary of the Kingdom of England is also built by the Orthodox Church, but the seminary of the Kingdom of England is also divided into two campuses because of the relocation of the capital, and the seminary in Turin is wholly funded by the royal family, and even the administrators and clergy teachers of the seminary are also appointed by the royal family, and the theology taught here is mainly based on the doctrine of the Anglo-Anglican Poseidon Church, and has nothing to do with the Orthodox Church.
Although the Orthodox Church has protested more than once on the site of the construction of the Turin Theological Seminary, and even recalled all the clergy stationed at the Saran Theological Seminary, as if it wanted to close the Saran Theological Seminary, the Orthodox Church finally compromised. Compared to the kingdom of Inge, which is in full swing, the Orthodox Church, which has sunset, naturally has no way to compete, not to mention that the sea has never been within the influence of the Orthodox Church.
Because of this, the seminary in Turin is also known as the royal seminary, and the people studying there are mainly members of the English royal family, and other countries that are friendly with the English kingdom will also send their own powerful children to study in the seminary here, so as to get closer to the English kingdom.
Originally, the site of the construction of the Turin Theological Seminary was in the center of the city, but the Parliament tried to meddle in the construction of the seminary under the pretext of the previous decree on the construction of the national capital, so the royal family had to abandon the location of the city center that had been selected and chose to build the seminary on the outskirts of the city.
It's just that what people didn't expect was that this helpless choice made Durin Theological Seminary one of the most important city landmarks in Durin.
Perhaps because of anger or other reasons, when the royal family built the Turin Theological Seminary, it was completely built in accordance with the appearance of the legendary sea god living in the submarine megalithic city, and invited several of the best architects in the world at that time to remove some things that were too unsuitable for ordinary people's aesthetics in the city, and added some special gardens and sculptures, and finally completed this unique seminary.
However, what really made Turin Theological Seminary famous was not the bizarre architectural style that could be found everywhere in the seminary, but the strange things that happened during and after the construction of the seminary.
In the process of building the seminary, more than one construction worker saw an extremely strange huge figure appear in the unfinished seminary in the middle of the night, and these people were all sick afterwards without exception, and had a high fever, many people died directly, and the recovered people also burned out their brains because of the high fever, and the whole person became confused and crazy.
At that time, it was rumored that the construction workers saw the incarnation of the sea god, but people couldn't look directly at the gods, so their souls were hurt the moment they saw the incarnation of the gods, and then they got sick.
For this kind of rumor, the royal family immediately reacted at the same time as it appeared, refuting the rumor, but the effect is not very good, compared to the series of boring official statements announced by the royal family, this mysterious rumor is more likely to attract people's attention.
The strange thing is that the royal family's response to such rumors that may affect the progress of the seminary is only to issue some clarification statements, and then there is no action, and there is no trace of the source of the rumors, etc., which also makes some people speculate that these rumors may have been spread by the royal family itself, in order to re-establish the belief in the sea god in this era when the gods have disappeared.
However, this strange thing that happened to construction workers was not widely circulated, and it was only circulated in the Kingdom of England, and many people regarded it as some urban legend or other anecdote.
What really made Turin Seminary's reputation spread around the world was the architects and engineers who were involved in the construction of the city.
According to statistics, not counting the Kingdom of England, the Turin Theological Seminary has invited more than 30 architects and engineers from all over the world to participate in the construction of the seminary, and these architects and engineers are mainly responsible for the renovation of the buildings in the city.
Because the seminary was built in imitation of the underwater city where the legendary god of the sea lived, those buildings were very majestic and tall, and only giants could live in such buildings, which were not suitable for ordinary humans at all, so all the interiors of the buildings needed to be remodeled to fit ordinary people. In addition, there are too many reliefs and ornaments on the exterior of these buildings that do not conform to human aesthetics, so these things also need to be transformed.
These more than 30 architects are all very famous architects in the world of Velon, and it is very easy for them to renovate buildings, in fact, it is true, they have completed the renovation of all the buildings of the seminary in less than half a year.
After receiving a handsome commission from the royal family, the more than thirty architects left the Kingdom of England one after another and returned to their respective countries.
Three months later, it was reported that the architects involved in the renovation of the Turin Theological Seminary had suddenly gone crazy, and that there was not just one madness, but all thirty or so architects, and all of them had auditory and visual hallucinations before they went crazy.
All of them had mentioned to those around them more than once in the previous three months that they had heard a murmur that accompanied the waves, and that they had seen a huge figure towering over the city in the middle of the night, and then all of them had become neurotic and eventually completely insane.
Later, someone investigated and found that each of these architects had written their notes, books, and even walls in a twisted and weird-looking text before they went crazy, making anyone feel a little mad when they saw it.
At that time, some people speculated that those architects who had offended the gods by renovating the Poseidon City without authorization, and were cursed by the gods, but the problem was that the only architects who encountered the accident were people from the non-Inge Kingdom, and the other architects of the Ingee Kingdom who participated in the renovation project were not affected in any way.
And then again, if it is really cursed by the Poseidon, then isn't it the royal family that asked these architects to transform the architectural style of the Poseidon City the most damned?
This incident caused a lot of trouble in the world of Veron at that time, and the Turin Theological Seminary was also known as the cursed place, and these rumors even affected the English Congress, and some congressmen began to propose to stop the construction of the Turin Theological Seminary, and even completely overturn the previous part of the construction.
As the center of the whirlpool, the royal family seemed very calm, neither came out to refute the rumors, nor did they send people to investigate the source of the rumors, but just went their own way to complete the construction of the Turin Theological Seminary little by little, and tried their best to let the crown prince and other royal children at that time live in the Turin Theological Seminary under the leadership of the Poseidon Church.
After these people stayed at the Turin Theological Seminary, they did not have any abnormalities, but because the environment of the Turin Theological Seminary was very comfortable and beautiful, they lived very comfortably.
This move of the English royal family virtually shattered the rumor, and a storm soon passed, and the reputation of the Turin Theological Seminary spread to the countries of the Velon.
It was supposed to have passed with time, but soon after, the homes and studios of more than thirty architects were burglarized and vandalized, all of which were the designers' work notes, and the walls of the houses were damaged with distorted text.
The police of various countries investigating this matter felt that this matter should be related to the Kingdom of England, but for various reasons they did not continue to investigate, and finally the matter was completely calmed down, and only the reputation of Turin Theological Seminary was preserved.
Turin Theological Seminary has always been in Leo's plan, even if there is no such thing as Panier's deputy envoy, after Leo comes to Turin, he will go to Turin Theological Seminary, not for anything else, just to see what the city where the sea god lives is like.
When Turin was built, the road was built with the problem of driving in mind, so under the design of the engineer, the road was widened a lot, and the original plan only required four carriages in parallel, but after three modifications, the road was finally shaped to a width that could accommodate twelve carriages in parallel.
The carriage traveled extremely fast on such roads, and in less than half an hour it had crossed the city of Turin and reached the outskirts.
After entering the suburbs, the road not only did not become narrower, the road condition did not get worse, but became wider, and it was already possible to run twenty taels of cars in parallel, and there were more statues on both sides of the road, and these statues were all statues of some gods without exception, which also reminded people to enter the scope of the seminary in disguise.
Turin Theological Seminary is more of a school city than a college, and the college also sensed this, so they began to submit a proposal to Congress to make Turin Theological Seminary separate from Turin and become a separate administrative district.
After entering the seminary, Leo didn't feel anything unusual, but thinking about it, if it was so easy to sense the abnormal situation, then the Special Bureau would have already settled here, and it would not allow the children of the royal family and the powerful of various countries to enter and study here like now.
Although it was during the holidays, there were not many people in the college, and the children of the powerful from other countries did not go back, but chose to stay in the seminary, most of these powerful children brought a large number of servants and servants, plus some other people who specialized in serving the children of these elites, so that the outer city of the seminary still seemed very lively.
The carriage stopped at the main entrance of the seminary, and Leo got out of the car and paid the fare, and walked directly to the seminary.
Unlike the Royal Academy, which requires a pass to enter, the seminary is much more liberal in this regard, as long as it is not a troublemaker, even civilians can enter the seminary to observe various courses, and even attend the monthly Poseidon Church's Great Mass, which also makes the seminary very popular with the poor people of Turin.
After entering the seminary, Leo did not immediately go to the specific area where the children of the powerful people of various countries lived, but walked towards the temple of gods directly opposite the gate.
The Temple of the Gods of the Turin Theological Seminary is definitely the most eye-catching building in the entire seminary, and even in the entire Turin, this building is directly hollowed out of a hill, with the mountain as the main structure of the building, step by step this nearly 100-meter hill transformed into the Temple of the Gods.
There are more than 700 statues of gods here, almost including all kinds of gods and goddesses in the entire world of Velun from ancient times to the present, some of these gods are real, and some are just legends. In addition, it is rumored that there is an underground palace similar to the one above below the temple of gods, where the statues are all evil gods who have not been recognized by the Orthodox Church.
Leo came to the gate of the Temple of the Gods, the nearly six-meter-high gate and the bronze cast door panel made Leo think of the giant's house on the island of Yam, as if this temple was no worse than the giant's house in terms of size alone.
On either side of the gate are two giant statues that support the eaves of the gate, these two giants represent two legendary gods, and there is a legend in the kingdom of Maris that mentions that the whole world is carried by two giant gods on their shoulders and carried in the air to prevent the world from being flooded by the endless sea below.
These two gods are only the local legends of the Mares Kingdom, and they are not recognized by the Orthodox Church, and even the Mares Kingdom does not have a related church of these two gods, but even so, these two legendary gods are still carved here, and become the first gods that can be seen in the Temple of the Gods, which makes some people speculate that the Inge royal family designed the placement of the gods in this way is actually deliberately demonstrating to the Orthodox Church.
The relationship between the English royal family and the Orthodox Church is not good, because when the English royal family claimed to be the patron of the sea god in the early days, the Orthodox Church did not admit the existence of the sea god in this world, but it did not say that the sea god believed by the English royal family was an evil god.
It's just that even if the Orthodox Church did not classify the sea god as an evil god, there were many people at that time who deliberately distorted the statement of the Orthodox court and classified the English royal family as a believer in the evil god, so as to hit the prestige of the English royal family, and the sea god's scepter of the English royal family was lost at that time.
Later, through a series of negotiations, the royal family of England agreed to the construction of a seminary in Saran by the Orthodox Church, which in turn recognized the belief in the god of the sea.
Although the matter seems to be resolved, in fact, the royal family's resentment towards the Orthodox Church has never decreased, and it has always wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge on the Orthodox Church, until the appearance of this Turin Theological Seminary, the royal family simply put all their dissatisfaction with the Orthodox Court on the surface.
Although the parliament was a little worried about such a drastic move by the royal family, it did not say anything, after all, the parliament of the Kingdom of England was also very dissatisfied with the Orthodox Church, and when the Orthodox Church was strong, it did not criticize the internal affairs of the Kingdom of England.
Leo paused for a moment in front of the temple of the gods, which was filled with royal resentment against the Orthodox Church, and then stepped inside.
The interior of the temple is very large, consisting of fifteen temples, each of which is cone-shaped, surrounded by spiral-shaped successions, extending to the top, and on the stone wall next to the staircase, there are shrines, each of which has a statue of a god, some of which have gathered in front of many people praying, while some of them are empty and deserted.