"Impossible, absolutely fake!" Rudick, the Scepter Priest, who was discussing matters with Archbishop Chrissy Divine Descendant, immediately affirmed.

This scepter priest is an extremely rare sea tribe on land, although there is not much difference between the sea tribe and the ordinary land people whose bodies have been sea tribes, on the surface, almost they are half human, half fish, and covered with scales, but the fish characteristics on the sea people will be more obvious, more prominent, and the appearance will be more exaggerated, as long as you observe a little, you can easily distinguish each other.

For example, the current scepter priest has eyes that protrude much more outwards than normal people, and the gill area behind his ears is also very large, covering almost the entire back of his neck, and there is a fin on the top of his head, which grows from the center of his eyebrows to the back of his neck, which looks very eye-catching.

For physical and religious reasons, the Sea People are very disgusted with the land, and they do not like to go up to the land.

At the beginning, the Spirit Clan split from the Sea Clan, and with the domineering character of the Sea Clan, he would definitely send a large number of pursuers to hunt down the Spirit Clan and completely eliminate the group of rebels of the Spirit Clan, and he would never forgive the split behavior of the Spirit Clan from the beginning as the story said

But the Sea Clan did not do that in the end, but allowed the Spirit Clan to develop on the ground, in addition to the Spirit Clan gaining the approval of the Sea God, more because after they went to the land, their physical strength and combat skills would be severely limited, and the dry air of the land would directly damage the Sea Clan's scales and skin, causing the Sea Clan to produce a fatal disease called Rift Disease.

There are very few Hai people who are willing to live on land for a long time, and even fewer are willing to hold positions in the Poseidon Church, although the object of Poseidon Church is the Poseidon Church, but in the eyes of the Sea Tribe, this church is the church of the land people, and the Sea people have their own Poseidon Temple.

As the only Sea Tribesman in the Poseidon Church who serves as the Priest of the Scepter, Rudick's reputation is very big, almost to the point of becoming a household name, but compared to his reputation, his position is a little embarrassing, the Sea Tribesmen think that he is a traitor to the Poseidon Temple, and the Poseidon Church is also difficult to trust a Sea Tribe, and in the end he can still get the real power position of the Scepter Priest, which shows that his ability is only outstanding.

When Chrissy's Divine Templar was allowed to be formed, she had recruited many high-ranking clergy from the Poseidon Church, and Rudick, the Scepter Priestess, was one of the few high-ranking clergy she had personally gone to, and these high-ranking clergy she valued were now also entrusted with important tasks by her.

For example, although Rudic's position is still a scepter priest, his authority has crossed two levels, and he has become a senior clergyman at the bishop level, and he is now mainly responsible for the connection between the Divine Descent Templar and the Sea Clan, from commercial trade to armed cooperation.

As the only Sea Clan person present, Rudick was the most powerful to speak about the golden scales, and when he heard about the golden scales, he immediately denied the authenticity of the scales.

However, not everyone present agreed with Rudick's judgment, and another clergyman who had some hostile relations with Rudick retorted: "Don't make such an arbitrary judgment first, the news has already spread here, and it may not be true." ”

"If I say impossible, it's absolutely impossible. Rudick still maintained his previous judgment and said: "Back then, the sea king Okla asked the sea god for help because of the golden scales, and the sea god gave an answer, telling him that there are only thirty-nine golden scales in this world, and now those thirty-nine have been recovered by the sea clan, so the golden scales that appear now are absolutely fake." ”

As Rudick's words fell, the clergy in the other rooms also whispered, but most of the people present believed Rudick's words now, because they also remembered about the number of golden scales.

The Sea Clan is a race that respects promises very much, and they value them even more than their own lives, and stories like the Sea Tribes who lost their lives in order to keep their promises abound in this world.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, maritime merchants will do business with the sea tribe, even if there is a transaction between two maritime merchants, they will also like to find a sea tribe merchant to be a middleman or guarantor.

It is precisely because of the importance that the Sea Clan attaches to commitments, so the Sea Clan people rarely make any promises to the outside world, and even if they want to make promises, they will be cautious to impose some restrictions on the promises made, and will not make promises that they cannot fulfill.

And the promise of the golden scales is one of the out-of-control promises made by the sea tribe, because the conditions made by this promise are very few, so that anyone who comes to the sea tribe with the golden scales must make a big promise, and several times the sea tribe has to go out together and suffer countless casualties to complete the promise represented by the golden scales.

Because of this, the sea clan is very concerned about how many golden scales are left outside, and the royal family specially found the great priest of the sea god temple, and did not hesitate to use some forbidden methods to calculate how many golden scales there are, and where are the remaining golden scales, and then all the sea tribes went out to find the remaining golden scales around the world, and finally collected all the golden scales back.

This incident caused quite a stir at the time, because at that time, the Sea Clan was the whole clan, and even did not hesitate to block the sea area, and it was sweeping towards all directions, looking like they wanted to have a world conqueror, and the Spirit Clan was even more frightened by this movement, so that the royal family of the Spirit Clan hid in the Sanctum sanctorum of the Poseidon Church for a while, and it was not until the final truth was revealed that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It was because of this incident that the people of the whole world knew how powerful the strength of the Sea Clan was, and it also made the people of the whole world notice the value of the golden scales.

As a result, many people later regarded finding a piece of golden scales as their lifelong goal, and the thirty-nine golden scales that the Sea Clan said were regarded as a lie by them, in order to prevent others from looking for the golden scales, and even more, some daring people would forge the golden scales to deceive the Sea Clan's promise, and the result was naturally easily debunked, and the liar did not end well.

Now that someone has taken out a golden scale, it is natural that everyone will involuntarily think of the liar.

One of the clergy proposed: "Since he is a liar, let the people below deal with him, after all, this incident happened on our construction site, and if it makes a big fuss, it will not be good for our reputation." ”

The proposal was approved by the vast majority, but the people who approved it were only ordinary clergy, and the real rulers of the Divine Descent Templar had not yet taken a stand.

At this time, Archbishop Chrissy, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke, and said: "I remember that after the golden scales appeared in the past, the Sea Clan would still send people to confirm the authenticity of the golden scales, which is why others think that the Sea Clan's statement that there are only thirty-nine golden scales is a lie, is there a reason why we don't know about this?"

Rudick opened his mouth to explain, but as if he was constrained in some way, he couldn't speak.

The priest of the Holy Rite, who was of Rudick's stature next to him, said, "Let me explain! As he spoke, he paused, motioned for the people around him to calm down, and then continued: "Actually, the statement that there are only thirty-nine golden scales in this world that came out of the Sea Clan is not wrong, and there are indeed only thirty-nine golden scales in this world at that time. But there is another sentence that has not come out of the Sea Clan, and that is that the total number of golden scales is forty. ”

As soon as the priest of the Holy Rite finished speaking, a voice of doubt rang out in the room, and he said, "How is this possible? This sounds so strange, thirty-nine for a while, forty for a while, how can there be two answers. ”

Others chimed in.

On the contrary, some people have thoughtful looks on their faces.

At this time, the person who understood the meaning of the priest's words asked in a confirmed manner, "You mean that the other golden scale is not in our world, but in other worlds. ”

"Yes. The priest nodded, then turned to Chrissy and said, "My lord, remember what we found during our investigation in the Desperate Mountains? There were traces of a hilltop holy arch not far from where the stone was found, and some of the traces also showed some fighting in that vicinity. ”

Someone immediately understood what the other party meant, and said, "You mean that people from other worlds have come here from the Holy Arch?"

"Yes, I wonder if someone came to our world from the Holy Arch with that golden scale, and then wanted the Sea Clan to keep their promise. The priest of the Holy Rite carefully recounted his thoughts: "Actually, when I heard about this just now, I felt a little strange, because if it were a person from our own world, we would probably hide the whereabouts of the golden scales, and then find a Sea Clan to display the golden scales, because the people here understand that the Sea Clan people attach great importance to their promises, and they will not do anything that violates their promises because of the value of the golden scales." In addition, if the scales are real, only the Sea Clan can immediately distinguish them. And now that person is revealing the golden scales in this way, it makes me feel that the person doesn't seem to know much about the situation here and the Sea Clan, so he made this somewhat inexplicable move. ”

Indeed, he should not be from this world. Archbishop Chrissy said in a deep voice: "He should want to disclose his mastery of the golden scales, and use the power of public opinion to force the Sea Clan not to break their promises." ”

Some people don't understand this and say, "Is this useful? If you don't want to keep your promises, you won't keep them even if other people say anything." ”

"It's really useless, at least in this world. Chrissy said meaningfully.

"I have one more question?" said another of them, full of doubts, "if they are from other worlds, then they shouldn't have come out of the maelstrom? ”

The people of this world know very well that there are other worlds, and if there are people who believe in the god of the sea who want to enter this world, they need to connect to the Holy Arch through rituals to enter, otherwise they can only enter this world by trying their luck to encounter the maelstrom connected to the ocean of this world.

However, the Holy Arch is not eternal, and every once in a while the Holy Arch will become unusable, and then it will be necessary to recreate the Holy Arch through some rituals, and the broken Holy Arch will be sent into the Mountains of Despair.

Over the years, there has never been a broken Holy Arch that has been usable.

"I don't know about that, but ......," Chrissy smiled and said, "Why don't we just ask the owner of the golden scales." With that, she turned to look at Rudick, the priest of the scepter, and said, "Lord Rudick, please take a trip, first to tell if the golden scale is real, and then whether it is true or not, bring the bearer of the golden scale, I have something to ask him." ”

When Rudick heard this, Rudick, the priest of the scepter, did not object, and nodded directly: "Yes, my lord, I will obey your orders." ”

After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the conference room, and the people in the conference room did not leave, but put the matter of the golden scales aside for the time being, and continued to discuss the construction of other divine sanctuary churches.

At the same time, the other forces in the Lingdu also heard the rumors about the golden scales, and they behaved with similar attitudes to Rudick, the priest of the scepter, and they did not believe that the golden scales were real, including the Sea Clan ambassador and others.

It's just that when they heard that the Divine Descent Sanctuary had actually sent Rudic, the Scepter Priest, to check the truth of the matter, the original attitude of total denial turned into doubt, among which the Spirit Race and the Divine Favor Sanctuary of the Poseidon Church were a little worried, because if the golden scales were real, and finally the golden scales fell into Chrissy's hands, then the construction progress of the Divine Descent Sanctuary would be ten times more and a hundred times faster, and it would be unstoppable.

Thinking of this, they couldn't help but send someone to check the situation, they didn't think about stopping this matter, and they knew that they couldn't stop it, they just hoped to get the news in advance and make corresponding preparations.

However, the attitude of the Sea Clan remained the same, believing that the golden scales were fake, so they did not send anyone at all.

It's just that to everyone's surprise, the Scepter Priest Rudick went to the dock construction site of the Divine Descent Sanctuary and didn't take long for him to take people back to the Spirit Capital, and compared to only a few people when he went back, he not only added some Temple guards when he went back, but even brought back a lot more ordinary recruiters to the Spirit Capital, and those recruiters were also faintly under the protection of the Temple guards.

People who know a little bit about the situation will not understand when they see this situation, the previous rumors about the golden scales should be true, Rudick should be worried that someone will attack the holder of the golden scales, so he added a lot of bait used as a decoy to confuse the eyes, and this news immediately spread back to the Sea Clan Manor in Lingdu and Silvermoon Lake, and the Sea Clan also changed their previous disbelief attitude towards this, and immediately sent people to the Divine Descent Sanctuary to investigate the situation.