The witch Greira brings good news to the king.
After such a long time, she has completed the preparations for other parts of the ceremony. As long as she waits for the help of the king, she will be able to summon the Volway pirates who died from the Black Death to the Jenny in a ghostly way. She hoped that the king would allow the pirates of Volway to leave the river of the dead in hell.
When he saw this, the king looked up at the devil.
The devil smiled and said, "Your Majesty, hell is the place where all the sins in people's mouths finally converge, and this is the end of death. However, before the opening of the Millennium Kingdom, the river of undead was stagnant, and the souls were just stuck layer by layer. Inside, it is impossible to enter the last abyss fountain... Of course, it will be different in the future."
The king also knew what he meant by "different".
Today's river of undead has gradually begun to flow, and some new undead have also begun to appear. However, the number is still very small, and it does not match the mortality rate of this era... It can be seen that hell has just recovered, and there is still a long way to go before it reaches its peak.
In the letter, Grela Witch also mentioned another thing:
The witches in Blasey's kingdom hope to be accepted by the king.
"The wizard..."
The king thought.
In the letter, Greila briefly introduced some things about witches for the king.
In fact, the original residence of witches should be in the extreme Arctic. In "The Cloth of the World", the draughtsmen filled the blanks of the ice field with snakes, and in the beliefs of witches, "snake" is a very important reference, they think it is a symbol of women and sin, darkness. After the era of legends ended, the witches were weakened, unable to endure the icy cold as before, and left their original settlements.
In the witches' own history, the first century at the beginning of AD is known as the "hundred-year migration."
Witches gradually mixed with ordinary people, but the good times did not last long. With the development of the Holy Court, the life of witches became more and more difficult. Until the Holy Empire was established, it became increasingly impossible for them to survive in the kingdom ruled by the Holy See. The Holy See could allow astrologers to survive under their own eyes, but there seemed to be a line between them and witches that would never allow forgiveness.
A group of witches contacted Greila, and through her they expressed their hope to the king.
If there is any other place in this world that could be a place for these heretics, then Legrand is the only one left.
"Now, let's talk about the so-called surprise."
After the king read the letter, he knew in his heart that the witches asked for help, but he didn't show any sign on his face.
"The ghost ships sailed by your pirate gentlemen are products of forbidden alchemy that shocked the gods," said the devil. "Do you know what they were designed as?"
"Battleship?"
The king had a guess.
"Yes, they were originally intended as battleships to conquer the gods." The devil replied, and then he proposed to the king, "You can let your pirate gentlemen drive it to hell, where they can recover to some extent. Well. … just so, we were able to surprise the lords with them.”
The king thought about it and agreed with his suggestion.
…
Southeast of Legrand, Port of Cossoaia.
As the Black Death on the other side of the Abyss Strait receded after the "God's descent", the blockade of the southeastern coastline of Legrand was also lifted. The chambers of commerce that suffered heavy losses left the port almost immediately on the hour, hoping to make up for the loss of more than half a year of blockade as soon as possible.
Free Chamber Headquarters.
The heads of the Royal Chamber of Commerce previously appointed by the king, Mrs. Spider Spider and the Patriarch of the Dawson Family, have been busy non-stop after the lifting of the Southeast Coast Emergency Blockade Regulations. The king's order reached them before the blockade was lifted.
The core content of the order is only one: to strengthen the royal family's control over the business of the southeast after the blockade is lifted.
The king's meaning is obvious. He clearly wants to use this Black Death's blow to Legrand's southeast business to establish the royal family's economic business position. The "uncrowned king of the sea" like the Five-Port Alliance will not have a second chance. During the blockade period, due to the requirements of the "Southeast Port Ship Register", the royal family's understanding of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce has reached an unprecedented level.
Affected by the Black Death's blockade of the coast, almost all the small chambers of commerce in the southeastern coastal areas went bankrupt, and the large chambers of commerce were also greatly affected.
It was at this time that Mrs. Spider and Patriarch Dawson received the "Temporary Chamber of Commerce Protection Law" drawn up by the king.
Nominally a "protection law", but it is actually a codification bill. According to this bill, bankrupt small chambers of commerce can obtain royal assistance at the expense of the direct incorporation of the royal family. The large chamber of commerce can also obtain tariff concessions after further concessions. But no matter which one it is, they are destined to do more responsibility to the king from now on.
After the bill was promulgated, the large chamber of commerce scolded in private.
Because just before the appearance of the gods on the other side of the Abyss Strait, the blockade in the southeast of Legrand is far from being lifted. Merchants looked at the countless backlogs of goods with impatience.
Just before the Holy See God descended, the king issued the "Temporary Commodity Supplementary Law", in the name of "relief", with a lower price, so that merchants scrambled to sell the goods to the state.
As a result, now, the Black Death is over.
The big chamber of commerce that sold the goods to the royal family with the idea of trying to save the loss almost wanted to spit out a mouthful of blood. What made them even more angry was that the king's aid to the bankrupt small chambers of commerce was to provide them with the goods purchased from them at low prices.
—Oh, they too, they have to pinch their noses and sign a series of treaties with the royal family before they can receive the first batch of goods from the headquarters of the Free Chamber of Commerce.
Shameless, despicable.
During this time, the principals of the large chamber of commerce in the southeast did not know how many times they scolded the king.
However, the other small chambers of commerce accepted it well - they did not have the deep capital of the big chambers of commerce, and if the king had not bought their backlog of goods, they would have starved to death this winter and spring. And there is nothing wrong with accepting the complete incorporation of the royal family. Anyway, under the exclusion of the big chamber of commerce in the past, their life was not very good.
"very nice."
The witch Greila leaned on the railing and watched the merchant ships leave the port one by one.
After the contact blockade, the Walway Pirates did not rush to leave the southeast - they are also now part of the Royal Navy - but continued to patrol the coastline on the Legrand frontier.
This is the king's order.
On the one hand, they had to hunt down other pirates who wanted to take the opportunity to kill merchant ships after the blockade was lifted. The battered business after the Black Death could no longer afford the harassment of pirates. And you must know that the merchant ships that have been incorporated are now the king's property. Of course, the king will not sit idly by and watch the situation that pirates hinder the trade routes continue to develop.
On the other hand, they were ordered by the king to be on alert for any possible attack from the other side of the Abyss Strait.
"are you ready?"
The chief mate Charles had a worried look on his face, but he stopped talking.
"Are you… sure?"
When Greila turned around, she saw some pirates shrinking their heads and pretending to be okay, wiping the deck, wiping the deck, pulling the cable... She laughed a little: "You don't trust me and Jenny so much, Jenny will be angry."
As soon as she finished speaking, a guy who was pretending to sort out the cable tripped over the rope immediately, and a "pop" wiping the deck fell from the hole that suddenly appeared on the deck.
Charles also smiled slightly.
The sky gradually dimmed, and after night fell, all the ghost ships of the Volway pirates - plus a hell ship, have all returned from the place where they were cruising to arrive here. Charles, who needed to stay and deal with things, stood on an ordinary fast boat and watched the ghost ships stay away from each other.
Grela stood on deck with Hawkins in her black pointed bonnet.
Charles waved at them as a farewell.
These special ships quietly left the port under the cover of night and sailed to the vast sea. When they were out of sight, the storm was overwhelming.
Jenny has sailed into the uninhabited open sea.
During the storm, Hawkins turned on his gold watch to confirm his direction. After they gradually arrived at the coordinates mentioned in the king's letter, Grela saw that the sea gradually turned black as ink, and in the frenzy of the storm, a huge whirlpool appeared on the sea not far from them.
The vortex was so deep and dark, the thick black mist rose from it, and the storm roared out from it, making people feel chills at a glance.
It seems to go straight to hell.
"arrive."
Hawkins said he closed his gold watch and stood motionless on the undulating deck amid the storm.
"Come on, Jenny."
said the witch.
Without blinking, they even led the boat into the vortex that devoured everything.
…
Hell, Blackrock King City.
The devil knocked softly on the king's door. There is no day or night in hell, and the devil plays the role of a thoughtful servant and seems to enjoy it.
After getting the promise to push the door and enter, the devil found with some regret that his majesty had stood up and was reviewing documents at the table—even if the king was in hell, he still had to continue to take care of the affairs of the world.
"Your battleship is about to arrive, but there is a little problem..." said the devil, "the castle's dock has not yet awakened, and you need to go and awaken it yourself."
The king put down his pen. He had some doubts that the devil told him about the ghost ship, in fact, he wanted him to further awaken the castle.
"His Majesty?"
The devil removed his cloak from his arm and looked at the king inquiringly.
"Let's go."
The king stood up.
When the devil stepped forward to put the cloak on the king, the king asked a question seemingly at random: "If hell exists, what about the kingdom of God?"
He has thought about this question for a long time.
"There has never been a kingdom of God."
After the devil put the cloak on the king, he took a step back and gave an unexpected answer.
"At least... there is no Divine Kingdom as those guys said."
"what is that?"
"The kingdom of the gods," the devil whispered. "However, after dusk, everything has changed. Since then, the eternal night has resounded, and the sky has been cut off... What a pity."
The kingdom of the gods
The king subconsciously thought of something else.
The Holy See was not the spiritual master of the world from the beginning.
Taking the end of the legendary era as the demarcation line before and after the AD, the king can infer from the history of the alchemists, at least in the legendary era, there was more than one god that people believed in.
The Age of Legends can also be called the "Age of the Gods".
The establishment of the Holy Court should have been in the 1st century AD, and at that time the gods had gradually withdrawn from people's sight, and from that time onwards, the number of representatives of the Holy Lord in the world began to gradually increase. In the memory of the king, the earliest and clearest record of the display of the power of the Holy Court is the history of Blasey.
217 AD.
The predecessor of the Blasey Kingdom, the Crow Kingdom, surrendered to the Holy Court. With the help of angels, it unified many states on the east coast of the Abyss Strait, established the Blasey Kingdom with a vast border, and took the Holy Court as the state religion. "...The priests drew crosses on the chests of the heroes, and the brave knights were invincible from then on." It was from here that the view that the outcome of the war was decided by the Holy Lord gradually took root in people's minds.
This is the more objective origin of the Holy See.
A noteworthy thing...
The origin and development of the Holy Court have always been hidden in the mist. For more than a thousand years, the Holy See has spared no effort to combine the holy books with history, which has rooted in people's hearts an impression that the omniscient and omnipotent Holy Lord opened up this world, and the will of the gods runs through the history of mankind The development history of the Holy See is the evolution history of human civilization.
I have to say that in this part, the Holy See has done a great job. Countless theologians in the School of Classics have developed theology to an extreme generation after generation, and have found a corresponding theological explanation for every major historical event known to mankind. Eventually it evolved to the present situation: belief in God permeates all aspects of people's lives.
Earlier, the era of polytheistic beliefs had been subtly forgotten. All polytheisms have become "heretics".
The king raised his hand and pressed his forehead, feeling that he had touched some hidden truth.
"The age of the gods, what is it like?"
he asks.
"Age of the gods..." The devil looked at the king, "the gods were worshipped under different names, and each of their names pointed to different attributes and different authorities. Who wouldn't want to hold the ultimate supreme authority? It was an age of conquest. , the wolves are fighting."
"What is your name?" the king asked suddenly.
"I?"
The devil seemed to be stunned for a moment, but soon he answered in his usual frivolous tone.
"It's a name that's not on the table, and I don't think you'd want to know it. Your Majesty."
The king did not speak, and silently watched his contractor, the devil who always wore a smiling mask and was surrounded by black butterflies. In his icy blue pupils, the devil finally stopped smiling, becoming gloomy and cold, like a blood-quenched blade unsheathed.
for a long time.
"I don't have a name," said the devil. "I lost it long ago."
The king was slightly taken aback. The devil's voice was calm, but the king clearly felt the blood in his words. The moonlight deflected, the figure of the devil disappeared in the darkness, the king could not see his expression, only felt him standing there silently, silent and full of anger.
The room suddenly became silent.
"What's that," the king said lightly. "It's just a name. What do you want?"
The devil looked at him, realized that the king was not joking, and burst into laughter.
The solidification and silence in the air were suddenly broken, and the devil returned to his graceful appearance. He smiled and bowed to the king: "Then please help me get my name back when that day comes. Well, my dear majesty."
"it is good."