Chapter 0212: Three Divine True Bodies
The Isle of the Gods is huge, and Aldington knows through some book information that it is at least the size of a province in the Plantagenet Kingdom, and probably larger than Australia.
The vast and sparsely populated land is the norm in the Rafah Continent, and the Island of the Gods is even more sparsely populated.
This is not a state, but an "organization" outside the transcendent, similar to the Vatican in Europe. However, the Vatican has become a sovereign state recognized by the United Nations, but the Island of the Gods is still transcendent and does not belong to any sequence of empires, kingdoms, principalities, or countdoms.
"The port of festival, the snake festival of Hermes, the god of animal husbandry, is one of the three ports of the island of the gods, and the envoys of Plantagenet, Macedonia, Vandal-Alain and other countries have landed from the port of festival, and we have an embassy in the port of festival." It wasn't the first time Dumbledore had made a pilgrimage to the Isle of the Gods.
Leaving the sea ship Cell, the pilgrim delegation soon arrived at the Plantagenet Embassy.
It is a small castle with an ambassador and several staff members who are responsible for the day-to-day communication with the sacred mountain of the island of the gods, as well as for receiving people coming and going from the country.
"Count the time, it's time for the emissaries to come, Lord Dumbledore, Lord Aldington!" The ambassador performs aristocratic etiquette.
"Baron Cesa, you've worked hard for this time."
Baron Cesa is not an Imperial Baron, but an ordinary Baron under the Duke of Windsor, belonging to the non-military nobles promoted within the royal family - without enough military merit, even the king does not have the right to canonize the Imperial Baron, and can only operate through the Duchy of Windsor.
Baron Cesar was very happy to see his compatriots in China and enthusiastically arranged for the embassy to prepare a banquet.
"The Island of the Gods belongs to the Holy Land and has a noble status, but life is relatively hard, so the banquet is relatively shabby, please Lord Gongbo, Lord Aldington, don't mind."
Aldington replied: "Ambassador Sesa doesn't care, I don't pay much attention to appetite, but please prepare more fresh monster roast, my contract partner and my mount, the taste is more tricky, ordinary raw meat and old meat, they can't eat." ”
"Clearly, Lord Nidhogg's food, I will definitely arrange for someone to serve it carefully." Baron Cesa hurriedly said.
"In addition to Nidhogg, there is also my contract phantom beast Neptulon, and my mount Pandora, who are also accustomed to cooked meat."
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it." After Baron Cesa agreed, he asked, "Does Lord Gong have any requests?" ”
"It's not like I haven't been to the Island of the Gods, I can eat whatever I want, haha, but the wine brewed in the sweet springs on the Island of the Gods must be there."
"Of course, every month on the Holy Mountain's open purchase day, I will go to stock up on Ganquan wine, just to entertain the envoy group."
Dumbledore's palace uncle, who had just tasted the black pearl wine, sighed with satisfaction: "This pilgrimage, the wine continues, it's really good." ”
There was still some time before the banquet began, and Aldington took the knights with him and walked around the harbor. This port city is small, with an estimated population of less than 10,000 people, and most of the buildings on the streets are occupied by embassies of various countries, flying different flags.
The most conspicuous building is a temple, and in the square in front of the temple, there is a statue more than ten meters high, sculpting Hermes, the god of animal husbandry.
Hermes held two snakes in his hand, and looked into the distance, looking very sacred.
A group of knights patrolled along the streets, they were all knights under the command of the Great Hall of Manifestation, but they did not belong to the sequence of Knights of Divine Grace, Knights of Divine Punishment, and Knights of the Templars, just ordinary knights. But even these ordinary knights are the children of nobles sent by various countries and are trained here.
When they finish their studies, they will return to their realms, and then a new group of noble children will send them over.
"Big cat, you wait in the square, I'm going to the temple to pray." Aldington took the knight and entered the temple of Harbor.
Many believers were praying in the temple, and after the priest saw Aldington, he did not speak, and directly motioned to the three of Aldington to find a place to pray by themselves. But Aldington didn't come to pray at all, he just wanted to visit the temple and see the classic poems on the walls.
I didn't see my work "Haiyan", it should be on the pillar of the Manifestation Hall of the Holy Mountain.
After all, it's just a small temple, and the walls are carved into some obscure classic poems – and classic poems are also famous and not.
Then, a fake prayer was made.
His level of faith was still discipleship, providing a thin layer of holy water in the priest's chalice.
Back at the embassy, Dumbledore asked, "How do you feel?" ”
"It's too small, just two steps away, but the atmosphere here is very peaceful, as if it were out of the world. No one cared who I was here, even the big cat Hogg, they looked at it twice at most, and didn't look any further. ”
"Yes, that's the way it is, after all, there are only three kinds of people who live here."
"Three kinds of people?"
"One, envoys like you and me, and envoys like Baron Césa; One is the children of nobles from all over the world, who come to practice knights, magic, and priests; There is also a kind of monks, from the Pope to the ordinary priests, who serve the three gods all their lives and rarely leave the island of the gods. ”
"Understood, by the way, Lord Gongbo, do you know where the Leviathan Whale Dragon is?"
"Guardian Dragon, I don't know, it almost never shows up, and only when a king hits the Isle of the Gods will come forward to put it to the test. In the past thousand years, there has not been a kingdom that has the strength to hit the island of the gods through the obstruction of the Holy Baierlan Empire and the Gallic Empire. ”
There are only two empires on the continent of Rafa, both of which passed the test of the Isle of the Gods and the Leviathan whale dragon, and finally the king was crowned the Great.
There were too many emperors, so the two empires fought each other for many years.
But as soon as a third nation wanted to challenge the status of the two empires, the two emperors joined forces to erase this possibility, so the island of the gods enjoyed nearly a thousand years of tranquility.
"Both empires have guardian dragons, and unless another guardian dragon is born, no kingdom can hit the Isle of the Gods."
Following.
The weather was fine.
The pilgrimage envoys officially began to climb the pilgrimage, all the way to the holy mountain on foot, the holy mountain is not very tall, the altitude is more than 4,000 meters high. Along the way, there are smooth and huge staircases, but you can't ride a horse, and it takes at least four days to complete them.
These four days are the pilgrimage route.
Aldington had come to receive the canonization, and he had to take this part of the pilgrimage as well. After four days, the Great Hall of the Manifestations finally came into view.
It was a not-so-grand palace, surrounded by rows of low houses, and it even looked a little shabby.
But there are three statues, like the peaks of the three mountain peaks, towering behind the Great Hall of the Manifestation, shrouded in clouds and mist, and it is impossible to see the true face, which is even more magnificent and mysterious.
"This is the true body of the three gods, they are not artificially sculpted, but the long prayer journey of human civilization, condensed and piled up little by little with the power of faith!" Dumbledore's palace uncle said seriously and reverently, "The footsteps of knightly civilization, conquer all evil gods, just to wake up from a nightmare and believe in the three gods!" ”