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The fictitious barrier on Fenerport's borders was quickly breached by visiting demigods, and in just a few minutes, the priests of the Church of Thunder, dressed in dark blue and dark black robes embroidered with silver thread, entered Fenerport's land.

Someone tried to wield a weapon to resist, but was already knocked down by lightning when they raised their hand.

The archbishop made a gesture, and the "substitutes" who remained in the country rushed out and took over the checkpoint. With the usual speed and efficiency of the Church of Thunder, they gathered all the inhabitants of this level and the border city behind them into the square, whether they were crying or delirious, clutching the relics of their loved ones in a delirious and confused way, chanting the name of the Mother Goddess.

"From now on."

The archbishop walked up to the high platform made of three wooden boxes, looked down at the hundreds of people below, and said loudly: "The kingdom of Fenerport will be annexed to the territory of the Rune Empire, and you will all become the people protected by the great god of thunder!" ”

When it comes to the question of national sovereignty and faith, the inhabitants below reacted immediately. More than one person raised his head and looked with astonishment and anger at the archbishop standing on the top, and a young man in the crowd rebuked:

"You're lying! How could our kingdom suddenly become part of your land! ”

"Didn't you Rune just annex Lenburg and Segall by despicable means? It's an invasion! It is now you who are going to extend your claws to the fertile land that the Mother Goddess guards! ”

His words were echoed by many people, and there was a small commotion in the crowd.

Someone tried to touch the weapon, but it was immediately controlled by the Extraordinary Beings of the surrounding Thunder Church. After being suppressed, the vast majority of them stared at the lightning that appeared on the bodies of these priests, and became fearful and uneasy about the unknown divine power.

The archbishop easily found the young man who was talking from the crowd, and when he was discovered, he was not afraid, but puffed out his chest. The corners of the archbishop's mouth were slightly hooked, he needed such a person to oppose him, so that the conversation would be fruitful.

Besides, this time the Church gave the policy of appeasement and tenderness, but the means of thunder were indispensable. To put it simply, to be gentle with these new people, to show their benevolence as those in power, and not to be stingy to use fear and strength to bring these people to their knees - as an extraordinary person who has jumped from the "storm" to the "reader" for the sake of position, and who has made great sacrifices to attract white eyes, the archbishop certainly wants to do things beautifully, this is a new land, and the better it is cultivated, the higher he will climb in the future.

"No, you're wrong, young man."

The archbishop smiled, and said with the most kind smile and the gentlest tone: "You have been defeated, and now, you are accepted by us as a defeated country, and you will soon become the two new counties of the Rune Empire, just like the countries of Lenburg and Segar. ”

"Impossible!"

This time, not only the young man, but even the rest of the crowd couldn't help but let out a roar.

"Our army has not yet been dispatched!"

"Our king will not sit still! Mother loves us and will not let us surrender to a country like yours like this! ”

The archbishop suddenly grabbed a key word from the middle, and he repeated the phrase just now:

"Surrender? No, as I said, you have already been defeated. ”

"Is there a thunderbolt that rains down from the sky and scorches everything around it?"

"That's the proof that you've been defeated!" The archbishop could not suppress a smile in his heart, he scanned the expressions of fear or anger on the faces of the crowd below, recorded their emotions one by one, and then, he slowed his tone and said softly:

"That is the consequence of your disrespect for the God of Thunder and Truth."

"Ladies and gentlemen of the Rune Empire, please remember that your current survival was bought by your dead family and friends. Your life is not yours, it belongs to Fenerport, it belongs to Rune. ”

A young woman's voice came, and she stepped out of the crowd and said angrily, "Sir, the god of thunder has killed my fiancé, my mother and his father. And even without faith in the god of thunder, we have never acted in a way that disrespects the gods. Sir, if the god you believe in talks about defeat and death, why do we need to believe in such a brutal god? ”

"For He is the most powerful, and He will protect you and me." The archbishop said with a pleasant face.

"And you have not lost your faith."

The archbishop answered every question fluently, and he sneered in his heart, for nothing had happened so far beyond his imagination—that the people had only thought about so much, that life, family, and wealth, and that as long as each one was promised, the grievances of the vast majority of the people would be settled—"Mother Earth will still be the faith of Fenerport, except that the emblem of the god of thunder will be added to your churches, and the hymn of the god of thunder will be added to your weekly services." ”

"It's unimaginably good to be favored by a powerful deity."

The archbishop said in a meaningful tone.

At this moment, he felt something.

When I looked up, I saw that an airship had taken off in the distance.

……

"You should have thought it would be like this." Bethel said.

"You're right, I should have thought of it." Crane humbly accepted, immediately admitted his mistake, and then ran out of the fog of history by grabbing the spirit thread that he had almost taken away, and a long wolf howl came from the closed door.

"Looks like your plan to ask Antigonus to help suck Kotal over has failed." Bethel was always blocked by the attitude of a good boy like Klein and couldn't say anything more provocative, but I have to say that it was very comfortable to get along with this kind of junior, "But don't worry, judging from the degree of aggregation just now, Kotal is estimated to have already come over, or the 'curtain' has been out of Kotal." ”

Klein thought for a moment, smoothed out his spirit thread, and said:

"The results of the divination show that Antigonus did not contain a Sequence One in the short term, which means that he is now strengthening himself with a historical projection of the past."

After all, everyone is an adjacent path, and "astrology" and "divination" are not much different in nature, both are through various means or information, only the medium and method of obtaining information are different, and Klein has also mastered this skill at present.

Bethel is noncommittal:

"When he woke up, he was no longer the Antigonus I knew, and instead of trying to help him now, you should accept the reality, lower your moral bottom line a little bit, and wait for him to be beaten to death by the god of war."

He wouldn't say anything like "this is also the end of Antigonus' suffering", "Let Him be free", "This is to protect the earth and humanity", these words are all nonsense,. As long as it is not requested by the other party himself, no matter how fanciful the murder is, it is just a righteous and awe-inspiring deception of himself.

This is completely unnecessary for the high sequence, because the opposition of adjacent paths and their ambitions to become gods have prepared the best reason for them to fight, even if they were strangers, friends, teachers, and brothers, they can challenge each other for their own goals.

"I want to be a god, and you want to be a god, so we have to have a fight." - And it couldn't be more correct.

"I'll be a good god, and you're not a good person, you'll only be a bad god, so it's only natural for me to kill you......" - if the Quaternary and previous beings heard it, the laughter of the gods and angels would shake the astral realm a little.

If you fight, you fight, you live and die, and you will say anything after you fight, but it is not necessary to show that you are more "right".

Or, to put it another way, modern human beings are able to have the desire to pursue morality in the midst of struggling to survive, which proves that society is also progressing. So if we really follow this view that "the position of the true god is occupied by the virtuous and talented", the above seven will all have to come down, and then the human race itself will elect seven of the most moral and responsible people to sit on it—well, it is also a wonderful world worth reverie.

"I thought I could still work with Him." Klein said.

"You still want to be promoted in this pathway." Bethel directly said what was in Crane's heart, "You don't want me to be ...... right now My body becomes a two-way true god, right? Either you are jealous of me, or you don't want to occupy my body and merge with my spiritual imprint. ”

After a moment of silence, Crane let out a relieved laugh.

Although there is no opening, such a reaction speaks for itself.

"Well done."

Bethel said.

"That's how it should be, Klein Moretti, that's what you should do."

The King of Angels from the Quaternary Age:

"You should be jealous of me, afraid of me, and not give me any further chance, so that you can ensure that you will go smoothly on your future path to godhood. No matter how much I show affection and approval of your dreams, you must remember that I am your enemy, and the most dangerous of all, before you become a god, and the Lord of Mysteries, for I know everything about you, and you know your family and your weaknesses, and I am closer to you than Amun, and you are not guarding against me—and you think so now, but at last there is something to look like. ”

With that said, Bethel asked, "So what are you going to do next?" ”

……

Beckland.

It was past eight o'clock in the evening, but Starlene Summerer was still sitting by the window, unable to sleep.

During the day, she wears a veil as always, constantly running back and forth at the nearby food distribution point, queuing in order to bring back some more bread for her two children. She no longer bows her head as often as she did in previous months, afraid that others will recognize her. Now, she just looks anxiously ahead, worrying that the free food will be distributed before it is her turn.

She found nothing during the day today, and her husband, Luke, found nothing as well.

The daily relief bread is their latest source of food, and only when they get new bread that day will they eat the bread that they have left, which has become dry and hard. At the dinner table, two children who are not familiar with the world always ask their parents, "Why is there no beef to eat?" "Why is there no juice to drink?" "Why is there only a little bit of jam?" Although they will always be able to eat more because of the love of their parents, their problems are always sad. Parents can only force a smile and find all kinds of reasons to prevaricate their children.

Luke walked over, his face thinned a lot:

"Sleep, dear."

Tomorrow morning, I have to get up very early to grab bread.

Starling sighed: "Luke, I can't sleep, I haven't eaten for a day, I can't even drink water. ”

Luke also sighed and didn't say anything, just silently sat down on the sofa next to his wife.

Not long after Coim was taken over by the military due to wartime laws, her husband, Luke Summer, a former manager, lost his job and had to rely on past savings and government handouts to support the family.

Seeing his wife's hopeful gaze, the burly, unkempt man lowered his head in shame.

As the night wore on, and she didn't know whether she was sleepy or hungry, Starlene's consciousness slowly blurred, and she leaned on her husband's shoulder and fell asleep in a daze. But before she could fall asleep, she seemed to hear gunshots echoing in the distance, and she didn't know if it was a hungry man or a policeman dealing with a food snatcher.

Let's wrap it up...... Let's end this nightmare soon...... Starlene, who had run three relief sites today, prayed silently.

She tried to escape the gunshot, and she forced her eyes to close.

At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from outside the window:

"The Church of the God of Thunder has purchased a large amount of food!"

"Please go to the snack distribution point as soon as possible!"

"Bread, corn and potatoes according to the population!"

The loud shout was enough to wake everyone up, and more importantly, the sound followed the wind far, far away.

Starling suddenly woke up, her eyes burst into unprecedented brilliance, she looked up at the starless sky, and then looked at her husband's face, and found that the other party was also looking at her, and the thin face was an incredible surprise.

"Luke! Luke! Did you hear that! ”

Starlene jumped up, ran to the drying rack like the wind, and hurriedly began to get dressed, in flat boots that were easy to run:

"The church brought food!"

Luke hesitated: "But we are believers in the goddess......"

"Nope! No matter which church it is, God is willing to give me food! Starine exclaimed, leaving her husband, who was still a little hesitant, draped her coat over her nightdress, and walked out of the bedroom quickly.

As soon as she opened the door, two children from the house rushed over, dressed in pajamas, with innocent faces and said:

"Mom, I just heard the bread being handed out outside?"

"Mom, I'm hungry ......"

They are twins, a boy and a girl, and they are both cute.

Starlene's nose was sour, and she forcibly squeezed out a smile and said:

"Yes!"

"Mom, I'm going to get it for you."

She then went into the house, dug out a small amount of bread from a hidden place, and divided it equally among the two children.

Watching the two children eat bread in complete disregard of etiquette, Starling's face changed constantly, sometimes sad, sometimes painful.

Eventually, these emotions turned into seriousness and anticipation, and she hurriedly put on her hat, and as soon as she pushed open the door, she found that the neighbors around her had also pushed open the door and walked out into the street, as if they were about to run towards the food delivery point.

"Why is the church giving out a lot of bread all of a sudden?!"

Starling ran after the others, blending into the stream-like crowd and shouting at her acquaintances.

"I don't know!" The lady was carrying her skirt and looked like she had just come out of the bed, but her voice was smiling, "I heard that it was bread from abroad—who knows!" Praise be to the god of thunder! ”

"Praise be to the god of thunder!"

TBC

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Today is ten thousand days, and I am tired to death.

(End of chapter)