Chapter 6: The Wrong Path
Since the public prayers of the Angel Church did not allow the angels to come down, let alone receive an answer from the angels, they have gradually stopped being taken seriously by the kingdoms of the El Star.
After a major blow to the authority and influence of the Church, their actual power in the world gradually collapsed.
It's a pity that the angelic church, which is accustomed to being high and unscrupulous on the planet of El, can't get used to the kind of days when they lose the power of the angels, so that they can't be powerful.
Therefore, they are trying to recreate the glory of the past.
After that, they prayed to the altar over and over again, more often, for the angels to answer them and show their might on the planet El one more time, so that they could regain their control over the world.
But the fire seemed to defile the holy altar, and their prayers over and over again were like a stone sinking into the sea, never receiving an answer from the angels.
In the following centuries, the church established the prayer to the angels as a memorial service, and required that the prayer to the angels should be sent to the altar of God at a certain date every year.
During this period, the Angelic Church did have a few prayers, and it seemed that there were signs that the angels had answered them, such as the storm, lightning and thunder during the prayers, and they regarded this phenomenon as the angelic revelation, but the nations of the planet El had long since stopped eating them.
Unless the angelic figure does reappear on the planet El, it will be difficult for the Angelic Church to fool those who have been taught to be open-minded by the mature education system with these ethereal natural phenomena.
As time passed, the influence of the Angelic Church on the planet became less and less, and their religious authority ceased to exist.
Nowadays, the influence of the church is strictly limited to the people, and it has become a religion with only cultural symbolic significance.
But they still haven't forgotten the glory of the past.
They still dream of having the angelic faith dominate the El and their representatives dominate all things on the El planet.
But the reality has disappointed the Angel Church again and again.
With the advent of nuclear weapons, superpowers such as Francois and Seris have emerged to integrate the resources of an entire continent.
After each of these superpowers possessed nuclear weapons, they knew very well that war could no longer be fought as they had done before, but there were all kinds of contradictions and disputes between various countries, and they could not just let it go.
As a result, these superpowers have launched an arms race to compete for hegemony, and they are competing to catch up with each other in the ideological, economic, and cultural fields.
The chances of the Angel Church realizing their dreams have become smaller and smaller.
Now, the Gray Gu Company announced the birth of the Gray Gu Smart Machine, which has given the Angel Church a great sense of crisis.
Smart machinery products that can perfectly replace labor?
What is the labor force, the basis of the productive forces of society, the grassroots units in the structure of modern society!
In other words, this is a product that can replace grassroots units in society!
The people of the Angelic Church are just paranoid, but they are not stupid.
They knew very well that if the Gray Gu Intelligent Machinery became popular, it would not be long before the countries on the El Star would fully produce this product, and there would be tens of billions of Intelligent Machines on the entire planet by then.
In less than ten years, a large number of grassroots units will be replaced by intelligent machines, and the entire planet will have a new look.
The Angel Church can see at a glance that the product of the Gray Gu Wisdom Machine will represent the arrival of a new era of civilization!
They could almost have predicted that it would be an age of intelligence and machinery, an age of not giving the church roots!
It is an era that does not need angels to lead, and it does not need to be compatible with traditional justice and faith!
That time, for their ancient church, was a time of destruction.
Historically, the Church has faced such an era twice, once in the age of electric steam, and once in the atomic age when nuclear energy began to be used.
And now, it's the third time!
The first two times were just picking the skin and cramping for the church, but this time, it is digging the roots of the church.
The pope of the Angel Church has vaguely seen that this change of times is likely to completely bury the already dying Angel Church in the grave.
In order not to be completely buried by the new era of civilization, they can only do their best to prevent the advent of this new and unknown era.
They had to strangle it in the cradle.
Although their efforts to do so will most likely be futile, they still have to.
Because of the religious ideas that have long been ingrained in their hearts, they do not believe in the correctness of any other path except the path of civilization that the angels have pointed out.
Angels have guided them that as long as they enjoy the beautiful life in the countryside and the people are self-sufficient and live and work in peace and contentment, civilization can be stable for a long time and get the development and progress it deserves.
But since the fire five hundred years ago, the angels no longer guide them, and the civilization on the planet El has completely embarked on an unknown and terrible path.
Along the way, the civilization of the El Star has become more and more belligerent and terrifying......
Stealing the thunderous authority that belongs to the angels, developing nuclear weapons that can destroy the world, and now digging the foundation of the church and leaving the faith of angels on this planet gone.
What a blasphemy and what a disobedience to the guidance of the angels?!
With this anger in mind, the contemporary popes of the Church of Angels took Bishop Karenna to the altar that had been a testament to thousands of years of history, and they began to pray, as their ancestors did, to the altar about their experiences and problems.
They believe that their civilization is heading for some kind of destruction, so they make a plea for angels to come down to this planet again, to the world that was once blessed by angels.
Unbeknownst to them, the prayers they uttered, and everything they poured, were listened to by a device beneath the altar, and directly transmitted to the Angel Nebula, hundreds of thousands of light-years away from the Golden Constellation of the El system where their El star was located.
In fact, this so-called altar of divine descent is not a simple ancient relic in essence.
This is a transgalactic-level terminal communicator built by angels and using a number of advanced technologies of angelic civilization, such as wormhole corridor technology.
When someone pours out on this altar in the name of prayer, the communicator is activated and turns what the other person says and does into pure data that is transmitted to the Angel Nebula on the other side of the star.
In the Angel Civilization, there is a set of Heavenly Gate Teleportation System, which allows angels to pass through the corresponding Heavenly Gate at any time and descend to the El Star.
The database processing of the angels determined that when the civilization on the planet El encountered the kind of survival problems that they could not solve on their own, the angels in charge of the corresponding gates of heaven would come to help them through the difficulties, or provide them with solutions to solve the problems.
There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, and among the hundreds of billions of galaxies, there are countless civilizations of intelligent life, and even if these civilizations of intelligent life are divided into shapes, the civilization that belongs to the life of the Kamigawa body is an incalculable number.
The Angel Civilization, as a god-level civilization in the first echelon of the known universe, is also the most powerful Kamigawa life civilization in the known universe at present, and the righteous order they established was naturally created for the Kamigawa life.
In the database of the sacred knowledge treasury of angelic civilizations, there are tens of millions of civilizations that are considered valuable by the angels, worthy of accepting the angels' righteous beliefs, and discovered by them to guide their development.
This means that there are tens of millions of intergalactic terminal communicators disguised as altars like this in the known universe.
The civilization on the planet is one of them, a civilization that is fortunate to be guided by the angels.