XIX. Forest Church
The days on the airship are boring, after all, Krent is just to make extra money, this airship is supposed to be his channel for transporting goods, let them hitchhike and don't think about any special entertainment facilities.
It's nothing for the guests of Meklosto, they don't get into trouble, they don't socialize, they don't even go out, they just wait for someone to bring them their meal every day.
Xiu also spent all day in the room studying runes, and after his unremitting efforts, the strength of runes did not increase at all.
"Knock knock..."Xiu opened the door, and it was Xi Liwei knocking on his door.
"What's wrong?" Xiu asked suspiciously, it's okay, Xi Liwei shouldn't take the initiative to find him.
"I met a guy I know, you're here to meet?" Ciliway glanced at her room.
Xiu raised an eyebrow and followed her to the next room.
As soon as he opened the door, Xiu was startled, five black-robed people crowded into Xi Liwei's room, and the already small room was full.
"Princess! Her Royal Highness ...... "An old woman with sparse gray hair squeezed out of it.
"Who is this?" Xiu stood at the door and didn't go in...... There's no room for him to get in.
Xi Liwei sighed, "Let's go to the rooftop and talk about it." ”
A few people had just started class on the rooftop garden, and Xiu took out a green apple and shook it in the unicorn's mouth.
Xi Liwei snatched it up, wiped it with her sleeve, and gnawed it herself, "The Snow King eats meat." ”
"Eating meat? But didn't I last time I saw you feed it berries? Xiu looked surprised.
"It depends on who feeds it." Ciliway shrugged her shoulders to show her innocence.
"Her Royal Highness Princess...... Then this is His Royal Highness the Paladin? The old woman asked cautiously, and the other four black-robed men also lowered their hoods, all of them old men with yellow faces and thin muscles.
"He's worthy?" Cilivi rolled her eyes.
"So these people are?" Xiu ignored her taunts.
"Forest Church, have you heard of it?" Xi Liwei ate half of the apple, didn't want to eat it, and stuffed it into the unicorn's mouth, and the unicorn, who had no reason to fix it, could only reluctantly eat the apple in the face of Xi Liwei.
Xiu thought about it for a moment, then shook his head, "I haven't heard of it at all." ”
"This is also normal, the Forest Church was originally a small church loyal to the Horen Kingdom, and their popes were all designated by the royal family, and they did not escape the fate of destruction after the Horen Kingdom was over." Xi Liwei clapped her hands and sighed.
The relationship between the church and the royal family has always been that the water of the well does not interfere with the water of the river, and there is no situation where the divine power of the monarch is here, after all, everyone has a god behind them, and they will not do anything to each other.
In the old days, the kingdom could even be regarded as running the church, after all, if any church was defined as a cult, the royal family had to send troops.
But never to the extent of interfering with the administration of the church.
The popes of the forest church are all designated by the royal family, which shows how far this small church has become dependent on the royal family.
This is also very normal, in those days, as long as there was a god of faith, he could call himself a church, and others did not dare to deny it, because there were really so many gods in the starry sky.
There are countless such small churches, and the most powerful of them must be the Cult of Creation God.
As the name suggests, the Cult of Creation God believes in the God of Creation, but this is a God of Rules, but the personality is unimaginably high, and any god has to bow down to this Creation.
This church is spread to all corners of the continent, and at its strongest, it can even compete with the Kingdom of Horen, when the Seven Small Kingdoms were like small fishing boats in the sea, caught between two behemoths and did not dare to move.
Even in the new era, although the Cult of Creation God has been much more restrained, no longer requiring believers to pray at a fixed time, and the church has even become a park-like existence, it still retains its huge size.
Don't you see that there is a sect called the Three Wisdom Sect, which was destroyed by the Federation because it was too jumpy?
In today's new era, most of the magic remnants have been defined by the Federation as feudal superstitions, and even if everyone knows that it is true, it will not be extinguished.
Now there is only one officially certified church left, the Cult of Creation God, and the others can only be regarded as illegal gatherings, but even if it is the Cult of Creation God, it is just a place left by the Federation to advocate people to go for a walk and visit in their leisure time after dinner.
"Okay, Forest Church, now you know, so what are these guys doing?" Xiu didn't mean to respect the elders at all, and he didn't even look at the old men, but just asked Xi Liwei.
"They said they wanted to pass on the papal throne to the next generation of the Forest Church, and they said they wanted to restore the glory of the kingdom." Xi Liwei said expressionlessly.
"Poof...... Hahaha...... Excuse me...... Ha ha...... I couldn't hold back, I didn't hold back, I'm sorry...... Ha ha. Xiu couldn't help but laughed directly.
"Laugh, laugh, laugh to death." Xi Liwei was still expressionless.
"But...... But you're the princess. The old woman ignored Xiu's ridicule, and just looked at Xi Liwei intently.
"The kingdom is gone, where am I a princess." Xi Liwei shook her head.
"Ahem...... Excuse me, what do you call this one? Corrected the positive look and looked at the old woman.
"Your Excellency just call me Sen, the name of every generation of the Pope of the Forest Church is the same." The old woman's expression was a little gloomy.
"Pope Sen, how many people are left in your church? How long have you been in Meclos? Xiu asked.
"It's been more than a year and three months, and we received the news of the evacuation before the start of the war, so we can flee wherever we can. Later, churches other than the Cult of Creation God were no longer legal, and we wandered from city to city, and only the five of us remained. The old woman's figure seemed to be getting more and more rickety.
"Then you also said that there are only five of you left in the Forest Church, how are you going to restore the glory of the kingdom?" Xiu spread out his hands.
"But we ...... There's no way around it. The old woman stared at Xiu, and the belief in her eyes made Xiu touch her nose uncomfortably.
She didn't know who Xiu was, she only cared about Xi Liwei alone.
"In this world, there is no way to do many things." Cilivia pursed her lips, but still didn't say anything encouraging to the old woman.
The faces of several old men were equally gloomy.
As Pope Sen said, they have no choice, the world is so big, the times are changing so fast, what else can they do? Turning your back on your beliefs and waiting for the end of your life?
You can do this, but can you give up on such a thing as faith and belief? There are always such fools in the world.
The old woman bowed her head and was silent for a moment, "Then where is Her Royal Highness the princess going?" ”
"Perhaps...... It's revenge, right? Xi Liwei was also a little dazed in her words, she was going to kill Stone Hope, and she also wanted to become the Knight King, communicate with Brugg's heroic spirit, and see him again. It's just that Xi Liwei can't tell which is more important.
"I see, that thing wants Her Royal Highness the princess to follow." The old woman held a wooden stick in both hands and sent it to Xi Liwei.
"What is this?" Xi Liwei didn't take it.
"This is the last legacy of the Forest Church, and there is a hint of divinity in it." The old woman bowed respectfully, looking like I wouldn't get up if you didn't take it.
"I can't take it." Xi Liwei frowned and directly refused.
"Take it, Your Highness Princess." An old man spoke, bending down as well, followed by four old men bending down one after another.
Xiu didn't speak, just watched quietly. Well, he admits that he was a little rude to laugh at them just now, and seems to be someone who deserves respect.
At this time, Xiu suddenly shouted: "What a big guts! He stretched out his hand, which shimmered like mercury, and grabbed something directly beside the old woman.
"Phenomenal Magic: True Vision." Invisible fluctuations swept by, and a young man in dark brown linen appeared there, and Xiu grabbed the knife he had stabbed.
Xi Liwei reacted instantly, protected the old woman behind her, and Brugg's knightly spear appeared in her hand, and the old men were also surprised, but they all stood up straight silently, and took a few steps back to faintly surround this place.
"Damn it!" The young man's face was hideous, and he wanted to withdraw his short knife but found that it did not move.
"Boy, your stealth magic isn't good enough." Xiu smiled, and the space shook a few times and buckled him.
The level of a mage is actually not clear, and it can be roughly divided into trainee mage, junior mage, senior mage, mage, and grand mage.
Xiu, Amparadin, and Brugg used to be great magicians, but the difference in this level is also very huge, there are top magician killers like Xiu who no one in the world can assassinate, and there are also guys who give people a curse spell that takes three days to take effect.
In many cases, the magic level does not mean anything, after all, the magic factions are very mixed, and everyone does not practice the same kind of magic.
This youth and the Forest Church are all at the level of a magister, and Xi Liwei is the archmage.
Of course, in the new era, the magician level is even more useless, an ordinary person holding a rune gun, and the great magician has to die if he doesn't react.
"Let him go!" Another young man came out from not far away, holding a rune gun in his hand and pointing at Xiu.
"Accomplices?" Xiu raised his eyebrows, he wasn't too scared of a rune gun, but if that guy shot casually, he might not be able to protect everyone.
"Who are you?" Xi Liwei frowned and spoke.
"My friend has an impulse in his brain, everyone give a face to get together and disperse." The young man with the gun had a hideous scar on his face, and it was extremely vicious just by looking at it.
"Oh, it looks like it's on you." Xiu glanced at the old woman.
And the old woman's face was also ugly, they were already very careful in Meklos, but after living for so long, it was inevitable that there would be some omissions.
"What are you, and you deserve to save face?" Xi Liwei said with a cold face, if it weren't for Youxiu here, that guy might have really succeeded in sneak attacking!
Recently, she has been studying the magic faction of the Rose School and the cultivation of knights, and she has spent a lot of energy, and she really hasn't found anyone sneak attacking.
"Don't say that, people have guns, we can't afford to mess with them." Xiu pressed one hand on Xi Liwei's knight's spear, signaling her not to act rashly.
"Everyone, let's get together and disperse, nothing happened anyway, so forget it." Xiu snapped his fingers, and the invisible space that bound the youth dissipated.
"Even if you know each other, don't worry, if you don't do it, I won't do it." Scarface pointed a gun at Xiu.
The young man glared at Xiu viciously and walked towards Scarface.
When he stood next to Scarface, he suddenly said to Scarface, "Big brother, those few people are indeed from the Forest Church, and they still have divine items in their hands!" ”
Originally, they all put away their guns, and Scarface, who really planned to calm down, stared!