Chapter 80: A Shadow in the Light
The Hodstar King City is the political center of the entire Hod Empire, and the people living in the prosperous Hod Star City are either rich or expensive, and the land is also expensive, but unlike the high-rise buildings on other planets, the Royal City rarely has more than three floors, but each building covers a large area.
Every city has prosperous places, and naturally there are dilapidated places, and King Hod City can't escape this law, all the houses at the edge of the city look relatively dilapidated, the roads are not well maintained, and there are cracks like cobwebs, and an inconspicuous hovercar is slowly driving on such a road, and the windows are tightly covered so that people can't see the situation inside.
After driving for more than an hour, the hovercar came to a stoppage in front of a sharp, long, stone-made house.
The door of this house is inlaid with a large white cross, the cross is cut from an unknown white stone, one left and one right are symmetrically inlaid on the door, and the top of the gate is also inlaid with a pair of small wings made of gold, the white cross and gold wings make the whole gate appear sacred and magnificent.
A man in a cloak stepped down from the hovercart, and as soon as he reached the gate, the door of the house was opened from the inside, and an old man of a foreign nationality wearing a white robe with a golden robe came out of the door, bowed to the visitor, and said, "Your honor, the messenger of my lord has been waiting for a long time. ”
The cloaked man asked in surprise, "You know I'm coming?"
"My lord is omnipotent, omniscient, my honorable guest, please inside. The old man opened the door and invited the cloaked man in. The cloaked man hesitated for a moment, then walked into the house.
The interior of the house is spacious, and the high dome is covered with frescoes. The rows of benches are flanked by white candles burning, and it is unknown what they are made of. The smell of burning is not unpleasant at all, but has a faint fragrance, and the fire is also very bright.
The cloaked man looked at the end of the house, there were figures depicted on the stained glass windows on all sides, and on the wall at the end stood a statue, this statue was made of the same material as the cross of the gate, all white, the face of the statue was blurred, the face was blurred, but the expression was compassionate, wearing a robe, and his hands were spread left and right as if to embrace the world. Behind him, the twelve snow-white wings spread out symmetrically, and the momentum was extraordinary.
The cloaked man looked at the statue for a moment and was about to speak to the old man, but found that the old man had disappeared for some time, and was replaced by a young alien woman with blond hair and blue eyes, beautiful appearance, wearing golden tight armor, and the three pairs of white wings behind this woman flapped slowly, indicating that these wings were not decorations, but genuine goods.
The young woman bowed slightly to the cloaked man and said, "Welcome to the preaching hall of my Lord, Your Majesty King Hod, may the Lord bless you with your glory." ”
The cloaked man removed the hood from his head, revealing his true face. It was none other than the current emperor of the supreme Hodder Empire, King Hodder, who looked at the young woman and asked, "Who are you?"
The young woman said with a blank face, "I am my lord's faithful servant, the archangel Michael who is in charge of the legion of billions of angels. ”
"Michael?" King Hodder had never heard of the name, but he was not the leader of the other party as an emperor. This made him very unhappy, "Why didn't your master come himself?"
"Our Lord is the only and supreme God of the world, and is believed by countless people. In the kingdom of heaven and God, although you are a noble king, you are still an ordinary man. How can my lord appear in front of mortals lightly. ”
"You ......!" Michael's words made King Hodder's anger smoot, and King Hodder, who had been revered and admired since childhood, was said today that you were not qualified to meet someone. How could he bear this, if it weren't for the need for the help of the other party, King Hod would definitely leave immediately, and then mobilize the army and order the destruction of this woman named Michael along with this house called the church.
King Hod took a few big breaths of air and tried his best to calm his anger, and only after a long time did he speak: "I have now agreed to the conditions you put forward before, and it will not be a problem for your Cult of Light to become the state religion of the Hod Empire, but how can you guarantee that my throne will not be threatened by others or you?"
Michael's expression was still sad and joyless, and he said lightly: "My lord doesn't care about the power of the mortal world, and he doesn't need the power of the mortal world, as long as His Majesty agrees to teach me to become the state religion, so that the glory of my lord will spread all over the empire, and all the people will become the lambs of my lord and believe in my lord, His Majesty's throne will never waver, and when the time comes, His Majesty will have a great merit to my lord, and my lord is likely to grant His majesty eternal life and immortality, so that His Majesty will rule your empire forever." ”
"Immortality, is there really a way to live and die in this world?" King Hodder looked straight at Michael, hoping to say something affirmative from her mouth.
Michael, on the other hand, lived up to King Hod's expectations and affirmed: "My lord is omnipotent, and immortality is easy for my lord." ”
"Okay!" King Hod said happily and loudly, "If the cooperation is reached, I will go back now and declare your Cult of Light the state religion of the empire!"
Michael drew a cross on his chest and said, "Lamb of faith in my Lord, may my Lord bless you." After she finished speaking, a large number of white light particles appeared out of thin air and submerged into King Huode's body, King Huode only felt a burst of refreshment and refreshment, and the depression of the past few days was swept away, and Michael's hand was even more sure of King Huode's intention to cooperate with the Cult of Light.
King Hod left in a hurry, and Michael looked at his back as he left, and his eyes fluctuated strangely, and then the whole person turned into light particles and disappeared.
A few days later, King Hod released a message that made everyone baffled, announcing that the Cult of Light was the state religion of the Hod Empire, and the priests of the Cult of Light enjoyed the treatment and benefits of pure-blooded Hod people, and they could freely establish churches without application, just report to the local government afterwards, the Hod Empire only had religion in ancient times, and religion gradually declined after entering the interstellar era, and now King Hod actually announced that a religion that no one knew about became the state religion, which made many people scratch their heads, which drama did this emperor Xi à play, but no matter what, King Hod didn't mess around with other things, so let him go。
The negotiation between the Senate and Ouyang Yu was very smooth, after all, the two sides had secret ulterior cooperation, and the Senate was also very clear about Ouyang Yu's bottom line, seeking independence, it was best not to have anything to do with the Hod Empire, and slowly develop science and technology behind closed doors, so the conditions proposed by Ouyang Yu were not harsh, and in the eyes of other Hode people, they were simply a typical representative of easy talk.
Ouyang Yu's condition is that the home planet is independent, with the ten light years centered on the home planet as her territory, establish consul-level diplomatic relations with the Hod Empire, no longer pursue the losses of both sides during the war, and sign a treaty of trade and friendship.
The Senate agreed to the independence of Ouyang Yu's home planet, and also agreed to divide the range of ten light years into her territory, and it was naturally good to establish diplomatic relations, but asked Ouyang Yu to compensate for the losses of the Hod Empire during the war, but the amount was not large, but the amount of 10 billion imperial gold pesos was symbolically proposed, otherwise if there was nothing, the Senate would not be easy to explain in front of the citizens of Hod, and at the same time proposed that the government established by Ouyang Yu in the future should become a vassal state of the Hod Empire, but Ouyang Yu did not agree but proposed that it could become a vassal state, and the vassal state was different from the vassal state, and the suzerainty did not have the substantive content of ruling and being ruled by the vassal state in internal affairs, military, diplomatic, etc., vassal states are completely independent, and only nominally accept the rule of the suzerain.
After a month of talks, Ouyang Yu and the negotiators of the Senate finally determined all the terms, the Huode Empire recognized the independence of Ouyang Yu's home planet, and the surrounding ten light years were the territory of Ouyang Yu's new government in the future, ending the state of war with Ouyang Yu, signing a treaty of trade and friendship, giving the most favored nation treatment, and providing scientific and technological assistance to Ouyang Yu's government.
Ouyang Yu announced that he would become a vassal state under the Hod Empire to end the state of war between the two sides, and his army accepted the employment of the Hod Empire to fight for him, compensated the Hod Empire for its losses during the war of 10 billion imperial gold pesos, and paid tribute to the Hod Empire every ten years.
The results of the negotiations between Ouyang Yu and the Senate spread throughout the entire Hod Empire through the media for the first time, and the citizens of the Hod Empire, who had eliminated half of the shadow of the war, cheered, although there was still a war with the Tyranid Zerg, at least ordinary Hod people would no longer worry about it, one day their Emperor Xi à would destroy Ouyang Yu's home planet on a whim, and really let Ouyang Yu use Genesis to launch a crazy revenge.
However, although Ouyang Yu negotiated with the Senate, the peace treaty still needs to be signed by King Huo De before it can officially take effect, when the Senate sent the treaty to King Huo De for him to sign, King Huo De agreed to sign, but it will take three months to do so, and Ouyang Yu will personally come to Huo De Star King City to sign a peace treaty with him in person.
The members of the Senate don't know what King Hodder is up to, but as long as he agrees to sign it, the other possible moths will be dismantled when the time comes.
Hearing that King Huo was willing to sign after three months, Ouyang Yu said that there was no problem, in fact, after the two sides reached a unified opinion, they had already entered a state of ceasefire, Ouyang Yu's home planet Huo army was evacuating, Ouyang Yu also returned to the home planet under the supervision of Huo De's military representatives, only waiting for the signature after three months, when everyone was silent in celebration, the churches of the Cult of Light sprung up on various planets of the Ward Empire, and the missionaries of the Cult of Light stepped out of the church. (To be continued......)