Chapter 5: The Wrath of Angels
"The holy angel had three wraths, the first of which was when the devil came to earth......"
"The second time is when mortals steal the thunderous authority that belongs to the angels......"
"The third time is when the nations do not heed the advice and insist on developing weapons to destroy the world......"
"Now, the holy angel is about to wrath for the fourth time!"
The Pope's wrinkled palms clenched fiercely, his eyes full of helplessness and a hint of nameless anger.
He was extremely annoyed by the Gray Gu Company's rude behavior.
But he couldn't come up with an effective way to sanction the Gray Gu Company, because the Gray Gu Company was a large technology company, and its source of funds was not the slightest bit tainted by the church, and they had no way to use the church's capital to suppress the other party.
The Angel Church has stood on the planet El for thousands of years, and the wealth they hold is naturally rich and rivaled, and many capital enterprises on the six continents have ties and interests with them, especially those continents where the angel faith is widely spread.
This is the fundamental reason why the Angelic Church can still interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, even if it does not hold secular power on the planet El.
But of the six continents on the El Star, only the Seris Kingdom of the Southern Continent is the least of the Angel Church, and the main industries and foundations of the Gray Gu Company are all standing on the Southern Continent.
Therefore, their Angel Church wanted to sanction the Gray Gu Company, but they could only sigh and be powerless.
Hearing the Pope's sigh, Karena couldn't help but show a fanatical expression:
"Your Majesty, can you pray to the Holy Court through that altar and invite the great angel to come to this world again!"
"Nowadays, there are too many ignorant people in this world, who have forgotten the justice and stability that angels have brought and blindly sought the so-called strength and development, but they have never seen the many depravities and ugliness caused by the pursuit of strength and development, they should be judged and purified by the flames of angels!"
Karenna's suggestion made the Pope think deeply for a while, and he shook his head helplessly again, and said with a distant gaze:
"Since the holiness of the altar was defiled after that fire five hundred years ago, the angels have rarely answered the prayers of those of us believers......"
"But now, all we can do is pray to the angels, hoping that this time the angels will hear our voices."
With that, the Pope led Karenna through the church to the altar to which they had mentioned.
It is an ancient altar with many primitive and barbaric era styles, and there are some modern facilities around it to maintain the surrounding area.
When the Pope and Karena arrived at the altar, there was a little more awe in their eyes.
This altar has a history of thousands of years, it is closely related to the fate of the Angelic Church, and it has a special name - the Altar of God.
This altar was left behind 3,000 years ago when the divine angels first descended on the western continent of this planet to give their ancestors the guidance of civilization.
But it's a pity that the angel who originally came to this planet only stayed on the planet for a short time, and after some primitive tribes on the western continent worshipped angels as objects of worship, he left in a hurry because of some things.
According to the records of the ancestors of the Angel Church, the reason why the angel left was because in the outer world, the sacred heavenly court where the angels lived was invaded by a group of evil beings called demons.
The angel was urgently summoned back by the King of Angels to join in the war against the demons, and has not been heard from since.
The angel had never returned to the star of El, except for the altar she had left behind on the Western Continent.
Later, after the changes of time, the civilization on the western continent entered the feudal era, and those primitive tribes that believed in angels gradually developed and grew, established city-states, created kingdoms, and formed angel churches.
Later generations followed the legend of their ancestors, enshrined this altar of divine descent remembering the moment of the first arrival of the angels, and frequently prayed to the angels for some religious reasons.
On one occasion, a prayer from the altar was answered, and an angel with the power of thunder answered the prayer and descended on the star of El, and resolved a natural disaster for the people of the time.
The appearance of angels greatly shocked the people who had been civilized at that time, and the angelic faith that lasted for thousands of years entered a feverish period.
Slowly, the Angel Church relied on this fanaticism to expand the influence of the church to the entire Western continent.
And after the appearance of the thunder angel, the angelic church regarded the natural gas image of thunder and lightning as the divine power of the angel, and worshiped and worshiped it.
It was also after that that the angelic church prayed to the angels more frequently through the altar of God's descending, hoping to continue to gain the favor of the angels in this way.
Sometimes it's really just a few useless prayers.
But more often than not, the Angelic Church is to pass on some complex problems within civilization to the angels through prayer, hoping to find solutions.
Obviously, the angels seem to be happy to help the civilization on the planet El, so whenever the development of civilization encounters setbacks and internal problems, the angelic church can get solutions from the angels.
Because of this, the influence of the Angelic Church has grown, and their power has become more and more entrenched in the Western continent.
Over time, the civilization of the Western continent developed rapidly, and soon moved towards the Age of Discovery, where they gradually discovered other continents on the planet and began to colonize those continents that were discovered.
Civilization changes, people change.
More than 2,000 years after the angel descended, the first steam engine appeared on the planet El, and the era of industrialization began.
At that time, there were countless races and countries on the six continents, countless wars were born because of this, the tide of the Age of Discovery was still continuing, and disputes and contradictions between the colonists and the colonized were constantly occurring.
The Church, baptized by the faith of angels, played the role of colonizer on the one hand, and savior on the other.
They took the initiative to preach the righteous faith of angels to the world, hoping to redeem countless suffering people, but at the same time, they greedily and insatiably collected wealth from the whole world to build churches and expand their faith.
Because the Angel Church held the right to interpret the angelic belief and relied on the divine power of the angels behind it, the countries at that time dared to be angry with the Angel Church's behavior.
After a few hundred years, with the continuous progress of science and technology, there are scholars on the planet El who invented electricity and built the first power plant, and civilization entered the age of electric steam.
As a result, the social productive forces were further improved, the education system was optimized, cultural ideas were popularized and opened, and the new thinkers began to be extremely dissatisfied with the old angelic church.
There are also doubts about the authenticity of angels, because angels have not appeared in the eyes of the world for hundreds of years, and 500 years is enough time to change many things, including faith in angels.
But at that time, the angelic church did not think so, and they persecuted the scholars who invented electricity on the grounds that thunder and lightning were the authority of the holy angels and that mortals should not refer to them, and organized the followers to smash the power plant.
They intended to prevent the development of the social productive forces at that time, and even more so, to prevent people's ideological enlightenment and progress.
Because they think that these things affect the world's belief in angels, then these things will naturally be destroyed.
This absurd act also triggered a series of social problems and backlash, leading to an attack on the authority of the church and angels at that time.
It was 500 years ago, when a group of radical anti-church activists stormed the Holy Land and set a fire on the altar of the Divine Descent, burning it for seven days and seven nights, and almost burning the entire altar to a bare white ground.
For the first time, the authority of the Church and the angels in this world was shaken.
For the Angel Church, the fire was like an earthquake, which shook the faith of countless believers, and even many church insiders questioned the authenticity of the angels after the fire.
In order to calm the internal and external doubts, the Angelic Church was forced to helplessly, like its predecessors, to publicly pray to the angels on the altar of God's descending, hoping that the angels would come down or respond to them and help them calm down the turmoil.
Sadly, the prayer did not result in an angel coming down, and the church personnel did not receive an answer from any angel.
The authenticity of the angels was further questioned, and the authority and influence of the church were further weakened.
Since then, the Church's control and shackles on the minds of the nations have been gradually broken, and the development of civilization on the planet has ushered in a new era.