Chapter 10: Holy Order: Skepticism

Ignorance is a clear-cut reformist.

In other words, at least sixty percent or more of the angels can only be reformists.

This is because of their origins, which means that they chose the power of the Church in the battle of the Shariah, decided to side with the Church, and voluntarily sacrificed their personality and consciousness just to end the war.

As a thank you for helping her to assemble her prosthetic eye, and also to help Russell "pursue the truth of history", Ignorance finally opened his mouth and told the history that perhaps only those who witnessed it know.

Because in the Second Shariah War, the Church was the one who was suddenly attacked.

The original church was originally born in 452. At that time, they were not a unified church, but they existed as different churches, different denominations...... People revere the saints who possess the power of all kinds of miracles to heal the flesh and bones of the dead, and around them organizations are established to imitate their actions, follow their teachings, and receive divine power from various good deeds.

That is the primitive church.

But even saints with the same virtue have conflicting philosophies. And unlike the morally flexible wicked, the righteous will never waver in their path. As a result, there was conflict between the various denominations.

Until the First Mage War, when the elves gained world domination and the giants, who were also immortals, were exterminated. All the mage factions, all the sects, participated in this war, and countless people were forced to abandon their revered virtues in the war and troubled times, and the Holy Order no longer recognized them.

Nearly all of the sects lost the power of the Holy Order in that decade. The Church calls it the "Decade Without Light."

It was only later that the Church finally understood the logic of the power of the Holy Order—that when they violated the precepts they believed in, the power of the Holy Order would inevitably be stripped away. As a result, they formulated a unified canon, began to unify religious histories, and compiled common teachings, and the scattered sects gradually converged and formed a force to be reckoned with.

Compared with the solitary masters, the Church has a broader mass base based on the principle of "good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and good deeds". And the mages are still hostile to each other, while the Church has been united and will be further united.

So the mages took the initiative to provoke the war - their demand was that the church must limit the size of its congregation and disarm. Candidates for the priesthood of bishop and above must report to the local lord. And only with the consent of the lord can the church make appointments, promotions, transfers, and demotions involving the local clergy, and the income from the operation of the church must pay a high "church tax" to the local lord.

And everyone knows that those lords seem to be the courtiers of the "dragon" as the monarch, but in fact they are all mages.

Because the "mage" is the military power controlled by the lords. At that time, almost all high-ranking elves were high-ranking mages at the same time—that was a time when half of the ministers were elves. And the few human lords and human ministers who also want themselves or their children to become mages, with extraordinary power and a long lifespan, means that they must show favor to the elves—they have what they want.

And the best of them will be sublimated into elves and become true immortals.

"It's just the same as it is now."

Ignorance sneered, "Whether it's a company tower or a mage tower, a director or a lord, it's not that different in nature. It's nothing more than spells that have turned into money and power."

The Church could not accept this request. This is where the Second War of the Mages, the Sharia War, came in.

At the beginning of the war, the mages had an absolute advantage. The power of the Holy Rank lacks aggressiveness, and except for a very small number of living saints in the church, none of them have the power of the high-ranking Holy Rank, and the high-end combat power is less than one-tenth of that of the mages. The reason why the war has been going on for three years and has not completely defeated the church is entirely because the mages themselves are also infighting.

"They didn't take us seriously in the first place. It is intended to use this war to eradicate dissidents."

In fact, if Father Andrew hadn't invented the Divine Descent Device, the end result would have been exactly that.

In this case, those who are willing to participate in the "divine experiment" and become the first generation of mechanical angels are those who have dreams and dreams and have seen the most suffering generations. At that time, there was no Internet, no mess of information, and no universal psionic chips, so they couldn't understand what it meant to "potentially cover personality", and they all died with the determination to die. That is, all angels are necessarily idealists.

Because only a willing and pure experimenter can complete the divine descent. The slightest doubt and reluctance in my heart cannot complete the integration of personality. They had seen the most bitter and difficult time, and the pain that people endure now is a bit pretentious to them.

And those "current sufferings", they will immediately try to change when they see them, and they can usually do it, and the effect can be said to be immediate - this kind of action and ability, which means that they only need to treat the symptoms, and do not think of curing the root cause, if the suffering has not been eliminated, it will only be because their work efficiency is not high enough, there are not enough people, and they are not industrious enough.

Just as in tropical rainforests, where food is inexhaustible, farming techniques are not easy to develop. It is only when human beings encounter obstacles that they think and seek the essence.

The mages have participated in all kinds of deceit in the dream world, but the ranks of the angels are absolutely pure. Normally, they would be easy to be exploited – but before they could be used, they were frozen for a hundred years.

By the time they woke up, the world had become strange.

The real demand of ignorance is to "make the angels independent from the Church and become a truly neutral force." Among the upper echelons of the church, there are only a few who have awakened the power of the Holy Order, let alone living saints whose strength is comparable to that of angels. Not counting the birds of paradise, there are only ten such people, and all of them are elves.

After a hundred years of ice, the angels have generally become unable to admit the control and jurisdiction of the now-secular cyber church, which is ostensibly parallel to the Big Seven, but in fact they also admit and condone some of their sins. The angels are still willing to obey the Church today, only because the eleven saints are still willing to obey the Pope; It is also because the Pope himself is a supreme angel.

The eleven saints plus the Pope, the 12 saints, are the last link between the Church and most of the angels. In contrast to the other "good guys" they recognize, they usually unconditionally respect the wishes of the twelve and obey their command.

But there is one difference between ignorance and the other angels.

He was invited by the first Tower of Babel during the Sharia Wars. And he was not a civil volunteer, but a bishop of the Church - he had read the history of the church.

Therefore, he knew that the church itself was not a good thing either. The name-raiding elves at the top of the church are the same as those name-raiding elves at the top of the mage.

Director Amirus is himself a "living saint" who can be respected by angels; Chairman Sailun is the living saint with the strongest power of holy rank in the world today. During the Sharia Wars, they were the main supporters of the Church. If he were a normal angel, then he must have had a lot of respect and trust for these two men—ignorance does not exist in the "brotherly and sisterly trust" that is condensed by the power of holy ranks.

He had always been suspicious of the elven directors at the top of these churches. He also did not trust the Pope, who was also an angel.

Because the power of the holy order carried by ignorance is "skepticism."

Just as ignorance understands the power of the Holy Order, he believes that the power of the Holy Order is not for those who are "good in nature," but for those who are "good or evil." He did not see the power of the Holy Order as an inviolable sacredness, but as a "blessing that can be obtained after doing good."

This is in line with the underlying theory of the Brokers, which is that good people and good deeds should be encouraged.

The Brokers were more worthy of his dedication than the church; Compared to the twelve saints, the words of the ultramarines were more worthy of his obedience.

And his act of questioning Director Amirus for the sake of outsiders is undoubtedly a "betrayal" within the mechanical angels. So so

It is impossible to understand the heavy cost, but it does touch the bottom line of the angels – a more radical move than rebellion against the Church, which is basically tantamount to denying the sanctity of the Pope.

It can even be said that at the moment when he went directly to Director Amirus without submitting an application for a meeting through the channel of the church

It can be regarded as ignorance having betrayed the angels – an act that is no different from an attempt to assassinate the Pope.

The heavy feeling in his heart was beyond Ah Zhan's comprehension.

The reason why he didn't wait for the bird of paradise or the horn was that he did it alone. On the one hand, it is to avoid fighting with these two people; On the other hand, it is also so that they do not betray together for the sake of friendship with themselves. No matter which side they are on, it will be unacceptable to ignorance.

- I am the only one who bears the sin.

From this point of view, perhaps I would have joined the Tower of Babel a long time ago.

Since the sin I bear is equivalent to the assassination of the Pope, if the result on Russell's side is bad, should I really assassinate Amirus?

Late at night.

Like a dark snake, the ignorance that quietly swam to the door of Director Amirus's house fell into the last thought.

And just as he reached out and was about to knock on the door.

Behind him, a warm hand suddenly pressed against his shoulder.

Ignorance was startled for he was completely unaware of the approach, and when he looked back, he realized that it was a tall, plump woman with a sun-like beauty.

The woman smiled cheerfully and kindly, and asked with a grin, "What are you doing here, Ignorance?"

「…… Registrar Seron."

Ignorance immediately recognized the identity of the other party, who was only lower than the Pope's permanent registrar, the highest authority within the Cyber Church.

At the moment when he intended to assassinate Director Amirus, he appeared behind his back.

What this means is self-evident.

Sure enough, my actions and intentions have been completely exposed. Ah Zhan is really being watched by the board of directors at all times......

When Ignorance bowed his head to say hello, he felt the bitterness at the corners of his mouth and the fear in his heart.

But......

As the intention of death gradually floated, another determination in his heart became clearer.

"I'll ...... Ask Director Amirus something important."

Ignorance, humility, and arrogance.

"Coincidentally, so did I."

Chairman Sailun nodded happily: "Then together."

With that, she opened the door of Amirus's room without knocking and stepped inside.

Ignorance was silent for a while, and slowly but surely swam in.