Chapter 20: The Choice of the Past

Voss didn't answer Joel's question right away, so Joel continued: "It was hundreds of years ago that the [pastists] led the church, and it really struck me as strange to me that the question of a young man like you was not 'do you know' but 'do you remember?'" Of course, it can also be interpreted as this kind of history education was carried out when you were very young, and he was afraid that you, a person in your early twenties, would forget to remind him. ”

Joel spoke in a weird way, but Voss didn't say anything, just hesitated.

Or are you talking to other people in some particular way?

Joel didn't care too much anymore, he could have asked more technically, but now he didn't have the mood and patience.

Voss hesitated for a long time before finally answering Joel, "This involves some secrets of the church, can you keep them a secret, Lord Joel?"

Joel said indifferently, "You don't have to tell me, and I don't have to know. ”

“...... Lord Joel, what's going on?" Voss had thought that Joel was just throwing a tantrum because of being calculated by the people of the church, but now it felt as if it was more than that.

Joel laughed self-deprecatingly, "It's nothing, it's just a little upset to find that I don't care about some things as I thought." ”

Voss did not dwell on the question, and Joel still had to make up his mind about their plans, and he replied, "The reason why Imam Enronos asks me if I remember is because those years are not knowledge but memories for us. ”

"Sure enough?" Joel confirmed his suspicions, but he wasn't really happy.

"It's useless to hide it, the church has a lot of clues in this regard. The total number of church members has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, and the members of the church have always been orphans who have not been able to find their biological parents, and so on. It's okay if you don't think in that direction, if you have doubts about it, you can all strand it together......" Voss pressed his heart and said, "We priests have been reincarnated for hundreds of years, and although our mental age and state are impressed by the body, our memories have never been lost. ”

Joel wondered, "Is there anything to hide from this? Spreading it out will strengthen people's faith, right? And hundreds of years have not made you all legends, why is it that the United Kingdom is now stretched thin when it has only recovered the territory of one country?"

Voss shook his head and sighed, "Because the beliefs of ordinary people are too superficial. At first, we priests who have inherited the most divinity from the true God did not hide the truth that our souls are still as immortal as angels, but as time went on, the people began to forget the true God and turned to believe in us!"

"Isn't that bad?" asked Joel.

"This is unspeakable blasphemy!" Voss's divine power was slightly out of control due to the excitement of emotion, "At that time, if the situation is allowed to deteriorate, the true god will completely disappear, and we will become the greatest blasphemers! After that, we cooperated with the royal family and staged a revolution on our own, disguising the truth about the immortality of the priest's soul as a lie, making the people believe that the priests who had taken away their faith before were actually traitors who tried to usurp the throne, and finally retained the faith in the true God...... Since then, we have been hiding the truth, constantly reincarnating and changing identities, secretly supporting and guiding the country. ”

Joel frowned.

If the priests had done this, it would have been possible for humanity to be led not by a royal council of intrigues, but by a group of angels, and the filth might have been completely cleansed!

Although Joel didn't say it, Voss was aware of his thoughts, or rather almost everyone who had the opportunity to know the truth had similar questions.

Voss held the idol in his hand and said, "Perhaps it will be difficult for you, Lord Joel, to understand our thoughts, but the reason why we inherited the most divinity from the true God in the first place is because we have the deepest faith in Him!

Joel tried to replace the true god in his mouth with his own master, and suddenly found that he really seemed to be able to understand a little, the difference was that he would never hesitate to surpass his master.

If he can't be better than the blue, the master will be angry with himself.

Joel reacted to something and said to Voss, "Wait a minute, aren't you also an old man who has lived for hundreds of years...... Old fellow, can you stop mouthing me as an adult?"

Maybe he felt that he couldn't be Joel's companion anyway, and Voss picked up the honorific title that he had so lost so hard after the incident in that village, and Joel was too lazy to care about it before, but now that he knows the truth, he can't ignore it.

"Lord Joel...... "Voss is not going to back down here.

Joel tapped the hilt of his sword and said, "There is only one reason I can think of right now that you must use honorifics on me, and that is the new heavenly realm that the old man mentioned. Why, what else do I have in this plan?"

Voss didn't answer, and Joel acquiesced, and said strangely, "Are you planning to create a new god?"

"The New Celestial Realm is not as simple as creating new gods!" Voss argued, "Unlike us, who have inherited too much divinity, the divinity you have inherited can only be used to purify the filth and protect yourselves. If you can become gods, it must be that you have tempered your own goodness to the extreme, and you will not replace the position of the true god, but will make the world more divinity! As long as the divinity in this world is generally improved, the chance of the resurrection of the true god will also increase!"

Joel didn't know what to say about these people.

It's more efficient to let these priests who have inherited more divinity than to let mortals ascend to gods, right?

And since Voss came to his side three months ago, it means that at least since then, he has become one of the pre-candidates of the new gods in their eyes, so it is understandable that the [pastorists] who oppose the new heavenly realm will yin themselves before tearing their faces.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the population of the United Kingdom has increased many times, but everyone still has the same divine blessings, which means that the divinity of the true God to mankind has not been diminished by the increase in the number of people, but strengthened by the increase in population.

In this way, the true purpose of the true God should be to give his weakened divinity to mankind, and let it be cultivated and strengthened to defeat the filth.

But because these priests are making trouble there, the increase in divinity in the world so far is almost entirely dependent on population reproduction, and the mortal ascension to the gods that should have happened a long time ago has been suppressed, no wonder it took hundreds of years for the United Kingdom to recover a Wicken Kingdom.

If the true God is one ten-thousandth of the greatness that these pastors proclaim, then He should have been prepared to never wake up again at the time of self-sacrifice.

From this point of view, what the church is doing now is the real blasphemy, right?

"Then why did the old man run away?" and Joel was unfazed by Vos's confession.

“...... They just can't accept the fact that the true God has fallen back in the face of filth. Voss forced the words.

Joel admires them a little now, which means that they have accepted the fact that their "all-powerful" god has been defeated, but their faith in their hearts has not changed for hundreds of years.

No matter how contradictory and contradictory they are, the faith itself is respectable.

But in Joel's opinion, the plan of the New Heavenly Realm is simply a north-to-the bottom, and he admires the stupidity of wanting to break through the wall of the world and penetrate to the south.

"Isn't that the end now?" said Joel, "[the past] has thrown itself into filth, that is to say, the divinity of the true God has been lost a lot, and will the United Kingdom still hold on?"

Their real purpose is to restore the divinity of the true God from the past that has been consumed by the filth, but ...... But the fact that they betrayed humanity is not going to change, and we don't know what they will do next. Voss tangled.

On the one hand, he hated their departure, and on the other hand, he absolutely did not want to deny their piety, after all, they were all companions who had persevered in their faith during the centuries when the true God had been asleep.

"What happened to the explosion in the north, and it was said that it was caused by a village similar to the trap used against me, so is that also a conspiracy of the [Pastists]?"

Voss also showed a puzzled look at this time and said: "It is because of that incident that we are so confused now, what good is it for them to violently eliminate the filth and create a pollution-free zone about the size of the kingdom's current territory? What help is it to attract the true God from the past that has been grasped by the filthy? If it is just an accident, then what kind of coincidence can create such a large-scale accident?"

"Is it possible, to bring in the true God from the past?" Joel couldn't help but wonder, "Since those people chose this way, it at least means that they think this is reasonable, at least more reasonable than your plan for the New Celestial Realm." ”

"If they hadn't been polluted by filth in the past, their thinking would have been more reasonable. Voss sighed, "I remember that Yoel was commissioned to crusade against cultists who had been bewitched by the evil gods of the extraterrestrial, right?"

Joel was surprised, "Are you going to tell me that there is a comparison between the summoning of the evil god and the induction of the true god?"

This is knowledge that must be sealed for mortals, but it is knowledge that must be known to Joel, who must become a sword god in the church's plans, and Voss doesn't mind taking the opportunity to tell him here.

"Not all beings are qualified to be called evil gods, Joel. The evil gods are evil because what happens to our world has nothing to do with them, they don't care at all!

Since the other party doesn't care, then it can't be said that it must be a bad outcome?

"Mortals like us can't change the past, we can't fully grasp the present, we can't know the future, all we can do is get infinitely closer to that state. We can summon the spirits of the past, control the present as much as possible, and predict the future by all means, but these are also mortal means after all. Past, present, and future, at least one of them must be thoroughly mastered to be qualified to be called a god. Voss took the opportunity to explain, "The true God is great because He controls all three planes at the same time! Bringing the true God who chose to sacrifice in the past to the present means changing the past, but the ability to defile the past has defeated the true God, that kind of thinking is really ...... It's so unrealistic!"

So the true god who has mastered the three planes and planes will be deflated when he encounters the filth that can erode the past?

Joel's heart was (for some reason) full of disrespectful thoughts, and he said: "Isn't this a contradiction, that old man can't change the past if he doesn't become a god, and if he chooses to become a god himself, then he is not as good as you, he shouldn't have lived too long and his brain is not good, right?"

Voss denied: "It can't be so, even if our bodies are destroyed, our souls will remain immortal, but we can't observe and interfere with the world until we are reborn or gain a new body. It's hard to describe the feeling, and after losing your body, you can't even think because you don't have a brain, it's just ...... exists. We don't really remember that time, we just realized that there was a process. But Imam Enronos, his current body is indeed seriously aged...... We're sure he'll be lost someday, so we'll just have to wait until then. ”

Voss explained, happily noticing the change in Joel.

Maybe Joel didn't even notice it himself, but just knowing these secrets has changed his supernatural powers.

It's really a genius that is rare in 10,000 years!

Joel said, "Hmph, that's a lot of negative thinking!" But his mind had already turned to his master.

The priest who caused the explosion may have really died in the second self-explosion, but his soul still existed, and the summoning of the Heroic Spirit did not end, so the Heroic Spirit called [Telxiu] blew itself up to the limit of its rebirth.

So what's going on with that [Telxiu] now? It's that after reaching the limit, the summoning was forced to stop, and it said that it was already ...... Completely gone?

If it's the latter, then does that change the past?