Chapter 1115 Theocracy, Ecclesiastical Power, Kingship and Regime

The Kingdom of England will recognize the legitimacy of the Church of the Weavers of Destiny, not only because of the covert operations of the Duke of Buckingham, but also because the Council and the royal family of the Kingdom of England need another Church of the Gods to counterbalance the growing Church of Poseidon within the kingdom.

After the fog disaster, the phenomenon of the manifestation of the gods that had disappeared for many years also began to appear in various churches, even the most dull people could feel that the gods began to return to the world, everyone thought that the gods returned to save mankind, so all the church believers became extremely religious, it was difficult to select the qualified clergy from the believers in the past, and the clergy could only be cultivated from an early age, and now it is necessary to select the best from a large number of devout believers who are qualified to become clergy, and devout believers are the main reason why the church can grow rapidly in this era of calamity。

The situation in the Kingdom of England is slightly different from that of other countries, where the main churches are without exception ecclesiastical power far beyond secular power, and the functions of each government are almost exclusively churchgoers, so even if there is a conflict, it will not be serious.

But before the fog disaster in the Kingdom of England, the struggle between the church and the royal power was already a matter on the surface, in fact, it should be a struggle for two rights within the Poseidon Church, because the royal family itself is the owner of the Poseidon bloodline, and the royal family is the embodiment of the Poseidon in the world in the eyes of the people of the kingdom, so the core of the royal power of the Inge royal family is still the belief of the Poseidon, which is also the purpose of the Inge royal family to disclose that they have the Poseidon bloodline.

But after the year of the fog disaster, the gods returned, and the focus of the people's faith began to shift to the church, after all, compared to a thin-blooded god bloodline inheritor, the gods themselves are the core of the believers' faith, and the clergy of the church also began to have and master some of the divine arts that only senior clergy could master in the past after the return of the gods, such as almost all the tested clergy will be given blessing magic by the sea god, etc., which is also one of the signs of the return of the gods.

Even though the Inge royal family, which felt the crisis, still mastered the Poseidon artifact, many people believed that after the return of Poseidon, it would inevitably be able to give the royal family greater power and rights, but in the face of the growth of the Poseidon Church, the royal family still panicked, so it began to unite with the councils, nobles and scholars who were also dissatisfied with the church to suppress the Poseidon Church.

It's just that in this era when the gods can appear in church ceremonies, and the clergy can show their magic in front of the common people, any suppression of the church is futile, and only the church can fight against the church.

Thinking about this, the English royal family and the parliament want to use the support of the Lady of the Lake Church, which also has a wide range of beliefs in the English Kingdom, to fight against the Poseidon Church, but unfortunately the Lady of the Lake Church seems to have insight into the thoughts of the royal family and the council, or maybe the development focus of the Lady Lake Church has shifted to various continents, so it does not pay attention to the olive branches thrown by the royal family and the parliament, and still does its own thing at its own pace.

In this regard, the Inge royal family has no way, although the believers of the Lady of the Lake Church in the Inge Kingdom are far from being compared with the Poseidon Church, but almost all the Inge people have a very special emotion for the Lady of the Lake, this emotion is like a child for the mother, and some of the beliefs related to the Lady in the Lake have become the daily rituals of the Inge people, and the Lady in the Lake is a part of their life, which is far from being comparable to the Poseidon Church and the Lady in the Lake Church.

After the Church of the Lady of the Lake rejected the offer of cooperation, the royal family and the council had to look for another collaborator, and at first they thought of the shamanic beliefs that had been formed in the kingdom of England.

It's just that shamanism is either too primitive, with a large number of horrific blood sacrifices, and almost all cases related to supernatural powers in the Kingdom of England are related to shamanic esoteric religion.

Either the shamanic beliefs are too profound, and some of the original teachings have been transformed into shamanic philosophy, which is only circulated among some scholars in the academy and will not be accepted by the general public at all.

So when the royal family and parliament of England were having a headache for a suitable collaborator who could resist the Poseidon Church, the Duke of Buckingham appeared in front of them with his Destiny Weaver Church, plus some coercion and temptation and other operations, the underground church that originally belonged to the Dukedom of Buckingham became the legal church of the Kingdom of England, and began to build church churches all over the Kingdom of England.

Naturally, the Poseidon Church was not willing to passively accept all this, so it also put forward a request for the Dukedom of Buckingham to open up missionary restrictions later.

The Duke of Buckingham did not refuse, nor did he put forward particularly harsh additional conditions, but only asked the Poseidon Church to publicly admit that the Weaver of the Web of Fate was the Church of the True God.

Whether a church is the Church of the True God is not determined by whether a certain church recognizes it or not, but is determined by the divine revelation obtained after various rituals after discussion by the representatives of the Orthodox Church, so even if the Poseidon Church admits that the Destiny Weaver is the Church of the True God, once it leaves the Inge Kingdom, the Destiny Weaver Church is still an underground church.

The Poseidon Church knew whether it recognized it or not, and it was of no use to whether the Church of the Destiny Weaver was the Church of the True God or not, so they quickly agreed to the Duke of Buckingham's request.

And the Duke of Buckingham also knows this, he only needs a reason, not to mention that the confirmation ceremony and process of the Church of the True God are not open to the public, only the high-level of the various churches and the high-level of the Orthodox Church know, and the ordinary people do not know this, in the eyes of the common people, when a Church of the True God recognizes that another church is the Church of the True God, that church is the Church of the True God.

Because of this, when the Poseidon Church recognized the Church of the Weaver of Destiny as the Church of the True God, the mission of the Church of the Weaver of Destiny in the Kingdom of England also became much smoother, especially the manifestation of the gods in the various ceremonies held by the Church of the Weaver of Destiny was more than twice as many as that of other churches.

In the face of the pressure brought by the Church of the Weaver of Destiny, the Poseidon Church has also strengthened its missionary efforts to the people of the Duke of Buckingham's territory, but the Duke of Buckingham has already assisted the Church of the Weaver of Destiny to build the believers in the territory like iron buckets, making the mission of the Poseidon Church simply useless, which also makes the Poseidon Church have to transfer the mission direction to some of the Duke of Buckingham's emerging territories, Morlock Island is such an emerging territory.

Knowing that Morlock Island had become a central transit point for transcontinental shipping routes, the Church of the Weavers of Destiny, with the help of the Duke of Buckingham, took the lead in building a large church church in Morlock Crater, the highest mountain on Morlock Island.

The foundation of this sanctuary is larger than all the other sanctuary foundations of the Church of the Weavers of Fate, because its foundation pillars cover the entire crater of an active volcano, and the main body of the sanctuary is in the center of the crater, and the whole structure is a miracle in the eyes of ordinary people.

This is also the goal of the Church of the Weavers of Destiny, they want to let people who travel between the two continents see this miraculous structure, and spread the reputation of the Weavers of Destiny.

For various reasons, the Poseidon Church was a few steps slower than the Destiny Weaver Church, and it was not until the main body of the Destiny Weaver Church was almost finished that it was too late.

Although the Poseidon Church was a step late, they did not give up, but instead changed the arched and column-like architectural form of the church church in the past, and built the church church into a cone-shaped lighthouse church according to the current island environment and the state of the shipping route.

Because the Duke of Buckingham restricts the sale of available land on Morlock Island, the foundation of this lighthouse sanctuary of Poseidon Church is not on the island, but in the sea, and its foundation area is also very large, which is equivalent to one-sixth of the entire area of Morlock Island.

The Lighthouse Sanctuary emerged directly from the sea, extending upwards in the form of an eight-sided pointed cone, and when it reached the very top, it was just over the height of the Volcano Sanctuary of the Church of the Weavers of Destiny.

Such a huge lighthouse sanctuary can be seen clearly by ships from a long distance on the sea, and when the temple is built to prepare for the installation of the navigation light components, the sea god appears in the sanctuary and bestows a constant fire on the lighthouse in front of countless believers and non-believers, and the lights of this lighthouse sanctuary do not need any fuel, and the intensity of the light can be seen by nearby ships even in the largest storms, guiding the ships into the safe harbor of the island.

There is no doubt that both the Lighthouse Church and the Volcano Church are very successful church buildings, and after the emergence of these two church buildings, the number of church believers related to them has also begun to increase rapidly, and the Church of the Destiny Weaver is no longer limited to the internal mission of the Kingdom of England, and has begun to spread on other continents, but because it is not the Orthodox Church of the True God recognized, it is still an underground church suppressed by the churches of other continents.

However, the whimsical ideas generated by the struggle between the two churches also ushered in the present era of spectacle churches in various churches, and various spectacle churches that displayed the majesty of the gods began to appear in the headquarters of each church or in important parishes.

As the Star of Hope sailed to Morok Island, Leo, like the other passengers and crew on the ship, saw the two wonders of Morlock Island, but the lighthouse sanctuary was more spectacular, more oppressive, and had an unquenchable fire, but the crater's Tempora of Destiny caught his attention more.

In Leo's eyes, although the Lighthouse Church is more majestic and more shocking, it is not very difficult to build, with the current level of industry, coupled with the intervention of extraordinary powers, any non-church force can build a similar building if financial and human resources allow, so it is difficult to equate the Lighthouse Church with a miracle.

As for the Immortal Divine Fire at the top of the Lighthouse Sanctuary, it is not a divine fire at all, and it has nothing to do with the Sea God, it is an exit hatch guidance light that can only be found on a mothership-class battleship that can still operate.

The main material of this guide light is a special material inadvertently developed by a medium-tech civilization, this material is called eternal light metal, which can always emit a special frequency of light waves, producing a light that is not strong, but can also be clearly visible in the special environment of the universe, and almost never weakens until it destroys its atomic structure.

Almost all mothership ships built by cosmic creatures that mainly receive light vision will place this special metal in the exit hatch of the carrier-based aircraft to guide the fighters back to the cabin.

Obviously, the Poseidon Church must have found this piece of Eternal Light Metal in good condition from the wreckage of a damaged mothership ship, so it placed it on the top of the Lighthouse Sanctuary as a Poseidon miracle.

Compared with the Lighthouse Sanctuary, which is a simple building structure and a combination of industry, extraordinary power, and cosmic civilization technology, the volcanic sanctuary on the crater built purely with extraordinary power is even more attractive to Leo, because he senses that the extraordinary power of building this volcanic sanctuary is not much stronger than him, only equivalent to an eighth-level psionic person, similar to the True Eye in its heyday, which also makes Leo guess that this fate weaver supported by the Duke of Buckingham should be a demigod.

Unlike in the past, when Leo felt the power of a demigod, he would only feel that this power was very powerful, and there would be no more details, and now that he has reached the seventh level of psionic power, he can also be called a demigod, and when he feels the power of other demigods, he has been able to analyze more details, but these details often bring more questions to Leo.

In addition to Leo's own strong curiosity, these questions were also due to his knowledge of his future psionic level increase.

Because as he stepped into the seventh-level psionic powerhouse, he found that the complete set of psionic inheritance knowledge he had obtained, in addition to the conventional psionic skill knowledge that was still useful, the other knowledge related to the improvement of psionic energy level was already very small because of the differences in race, civilization, etc., and even most of the content could only be used as reference materials.

Leo felt that after the life form evolved to the level of a seventh-level psionic, the improvement of the psionic level could no longer be improved through primitive accumulation or tricky methods as before, and as for how to continue to ascend to a higher level, Leo was now at a loss.

Although he has only just entered the stage of a seventh-level psionic person, and even the power after promotion has not been fully mastered, and the life information generated by the life form is even more uncontrollable, and it is constantly emitting outwards all the time, affecting anyone who gets close, but he instinctively feels that he should prepare for the subsequent psionic level improvement, and when he thinks of going to improve, it will be too late to prepare, so when the ready-made reference object of the Fate Weaver appears in his eyes, he naturally has no reason to let it go.