Chapter 26: The Struggle for Theocracy

The Pals Empire, Minks Harbor, the Naval Governor's Palace.

"Your Excellency! You have to trust us! We really met the sea monster! ”

"It is also true that Saint Mister sacrificed his life to protect us, and we dare not lie about such a thing."

"If it weren't for the fact that we had come back to report the appearance of the Empire's evil god clan on the Imperial route, we would have followed the saint to fight the sea monster a long time ago."

In the Governor's Palace, at this time, the Admiral Governor and Duke Armando of the Third Fleet of Pars was listening to the nervous remarks of the merchant in front of him, and his face was solemn.

"Why do you think I can't control it, and I don't want to care, I just want to know if you are really sure, or if you saw Saint Mister fall into the hands of the giant octopus sea monster?"

"And the sea monster, are you sure that Saint Mister said that he is the heir of the evil god or the family?"

"You must know that you can still be saved by telling me the truth now, but if you lie, those saints will not be as good at talking as I am in the face of the Silver Temple's next questioning."

Armando looked at the merchant ship owner and his second mate in front of him with a solemn expression, his eyes full of sharpness as if he were looking directly at people's hearts.

"This ......."

The ship's owner trembled nervously when he heard this, and his tone hesitated.

He looked at Governor Armando, and then said cautiously: "We didn't see the Saint fall, but the situation was really very dangerous at that time, because the Saint had been swept away by the sea monster's tentacles at that time, so..." ”

"As for the evil gods...... At that time, the saint was only suspicious before he went to check on the vision caused by the sea monster......"

Saying this, the shipowner's feet immediately became weak and he knelt directly on the ground.

The same goes for the second mate behind him.

Seeing all this, Governor Armando understood everything thoroughly.

And it was at this time that a Navy soldier's report suddenly came from outside the door.

"Report! Your Excellency the Governor, the report on the interrogation of the crew has been completed! ”

"Well, come in!"

"Yes!"

The Navy soldiers came up to Armando and delivered the report directly.

Armando looked at the contents of the written report, only a few quick glances, and then it was completely confirmed.

Then, amid the cries of the ship's owner and second mate, they were soon carried out by the naval soldiers.

The Doge's palace soon fell silent, and in the midst of that silence, suddenly Armando spoke as if to himself.

"The situation is not too bad, the holy stone has been measured, and there is no pollution on these people who have returned, so the situation of the sea monster is a little less tricky."

"I wonder what you're going to do next, our saint, Lord Cailliaud, what are you going to do?"

Armando's voice fell, and soon, on Armando's side, on a vacant seat, an old man in a white robe slowly seemed to turn into a physical entity from the transparent and completely appeared in the room.

The white-robed old man walked up to Armando, he took the report handed over by Armando, looked at it, and then smiled calmly.

"Since the situation is not too bad, then we naturally have more time."

"However, there are still too many doubts about this matter."

"If the core of this sea monster incident is that the holy relics left in the sea have spawned the holy beast, then Saint Mist should not have been killed."

"Although Mister's strength is not strong, he is also the elite of my temple, and he can survive in dealing with many pollution incidents, so he should not be unable to stabilize, or even recklessly take the initiative to anger a holy beast that has just obtained the inheritance."

"So, in the event that Saint Mistre might be killed, there will only be two possibilities!"

"The giant octopus born in the sea is not a holy beast, but a disguise of an evil god's heir."

"Of course, in addition to this possibility, it is also possible that the holy relics obtained by the holy beast may not belong to the gods of our human faith in the first place!"

"Your Excellency the Governor must have heard of it more or less, right? There were still many non-human races in our world before the thousand-year holy war of the gods, and the divine power of the sea was always vacant before the appearance of the gods of the four seas. ”

Saint Cayo looked at Governor Armando with a faint smile.

Armando nodded with some interest when he heard this.

"I've naturally heard some of this, but the royal family and the big nobles just take these as stories, after all, the churches of various countries, and even your temples will not take the initiative to say this, and of course it is impossible to admit it on a crowded occasion."

"So, Cayo, you're trying to say that the newborn sea beast is likely to have acquired a relic from an inhuman race?"

Saint Cayo was noncommittal.

"Nine times out of ten, and I think this incident may have something to do with the incident a few days ago, after all, depending on the situation, the scope of the sea area is not too far apart."

When Armando heard this, his face froze for a moment, and then his expression became solemn again.

"Resurrection of the slain! Flesh and blood remodeling, a regional time lapse! ”

"Cayo, are you sure this is something that a holy beast can do?"

The story of an official fleet of the Pars Empire being robbed by pirates in the Gulf, and then resurrected by the slain, and escaping in the gap of going back in time, has been making a lot of noise in the hierarchy lately.

Governor Armando knew about it, of course, and he had been in charge of it in the first place.

Therefore, when he talked about this, he showed a dignified expression.

Cayo smiled when he heard this.

"Ordinary holy beasts can't do it! But Your Excellency, you wouldn't have thought of it, would you? ”

"As those two people said just now, the giant octopus's holy beast has caused very exaggerated celestial changes in the awakening and sanctification."

"So, Your Excellency the Governor, do you think it will still be an ordinary holy beast?"

"This !!"

Armando finally reacted at this point.

He stood up suddenly, looked at Cailliaud with a somewhat shocked expression, and said:

"Artifact !!"

Saint Cailliaud and Governor Armando looked at each other, and neither of them spoke for a moment.

But Governor Armando understood, and sat down slowly.

At this time, the shock on Armando's face was gone, but there was more caution and complexity.

"There is no owner, and it may not be the artifact of any human god, and this artifact can also turn back time to a certain extent."

"Hehe, it seems that the sea area under the jurisdiction of my Governor's Mansion is lively, I don't think the Silver Temple can be handled alone, right?"

"And Cayo, you came for the possible artifact in the first place, right?"

Governor Armando finally figured out what was going on.

Cailliaud smiled without saying a word, he looked at the harbor outside the window of the Doge's Palace, and after a few steps, he sighed:

"The earthly world has rarely prospered for a thousand years, and the changes of the evil gods' relatives and the appearance of the artifacts of the alien gods may all symbolize that the curtain of chaos is approaching the beginning."

"In the final analysis, the Silver Temple is just a loose theocratic union on the mainland, and there are still differences between churches."

"The current royal family of the Pars Empire has deviated from its devout faith in our lord and is wandering among the major churches, which is a blasphemy that my lord will surely not forgive."

Saint Cailliaud, after almost explicitly implicating it, suddenly turned his head to look at Governor Armando again, his eyes full of indescribable calm.

"Lord Duke, this time the battle for the artifact, or the holy beast, will be carried out by the major churches, and you, as a believer in the god of dawn and freedom, I wonder if you can give everything to my lord this time?"

When Armando heard this, a gleam flashed on the old man's face, and then he immediately stroked Cayo's chest and saluted.

"I, Armando, am willing to give everything for my Lord!"

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