Saint Granburg.
Da da da da da da...
The orderly and majestic Knights of Light sounded their hooves, walking on the cobbled streets of Fort St. Grann.
The sun shines on the light golden armor of these knights, revealing fortitude, loyalty and determination.
The arrival of Clare, the great priest in red, once again excited countless believers. The believers cheered on both sides of the street, admiring the majesty of the Knights of Light and the glory of the great priest in red.
"It's the Great Hierarch in Red!"
"The Great Red Clothes Hierarch!"
The great priest in red from the distant Great Empire of Aurora, from the Cathedral of Aurora, where miracles of the creator of light descended most frequently, finally came to St. Granburg again after 17 years!
Bathed in the divine light of the Creator of Light for a long time, in the eyes of believers, Claire seems to be one step closer to heaven as long as she can look up at his glory, and the sin of opening the magic box of desire will also be redeemed.
"The holy power of the church seems to be much weaker than it was ten years ago."
At the forefront of the Knights of Light, Claire stared at the Cathedral of Light in St. Granburg, with a slight frown on her gray eyebrows.
The holy light of the church has the most direct relationship with the number of believers and the degree of piety, and this is also an important criterion for the promotion of all clergy. After more than ten years, the power of faith in this country's highest church has weakened so much
Well, there are only two possibilities.
A god rises up and gains the faith of the people.
The population has dropped sharply due to the war, resulting in insufficient power of faith.
As for people having given up their belief in the Creator of Light, Claire never thought that such a thing would happen. After all, the Creator of Light is the only true God in the world!
"Ahem."
Claire couldn't help coughing lightly.
This was the result of the two night wars that he participated in over the years. He summoned the divine power of light again and again to release the great power that did not belong to the mortal world, which seriously consumed the vitality in his body, and he was already in his twilight years.
"Grand Hierarch, according to the usual practice, we have to go to St. Granburg Cathedral to bless the believers and listen to the bishop's report here. The king will take the initiative to come to see him later."
The judge on the side reminded him under the golden mask.
"Um."
Claire responded in a low voice.
Although his body was already very weak, and the wrinkles on his face looked like old bark that was about to wither, he had to maintain sufficient majesty in front of believers, and maintained a calm face while countless believers were watching.
"Great Lord, please accept my confession!"
"The light is with you."
A devout believer stood with his hands on his chest in excitement, bowed his head in prayer, and even shed tears of excitement.
soon.
The Knights of Light came to St. Granburg Church.
The bishop and many clergymen had been waiting in front of the church for a long time. After the brief ceremony, Claire looked at the many believers gathered in front of the church. Those who could gather here were not ordinary civilians, but almost all nobles of the Principality.
According to the tradition, he needs to give a bright blessing to the people here on the first day of his arrival.
It seemed that he could see Claire's physical condition. The bishop seemed to be calmly smiling at many believers, but internally he was communicating with Claire with mental fluctuations.
"If it's inconvenient, why don't you let me do it for you?"
Claire glanced at the bishop and slowly shook her head.
He opened his arms, like embracing the sky, calling out to the great Creator of Light.
hum...
The warm light spread down from the sky, bathing the people nearby. People were excited to witness the miracle and contributed their devout beliefs.
After a long time, the ceremony ended.
Bathed in the light, the trees and vegetation are more lush, people's skin is younger, the pain disappears and cuts, and even the scars of the wounds are restored.
Only Claire gasped slightly.
For him, the blessing ceremony was almost like breathing, but now it has become an incomparably heavy burden for his body whose vitality is almost exhausted.
In order to maintain enough solemnity, he brought the Knights of Light to the church almost immediately after the blessing ceremony was completed.
A group of people passed through the prayer room and came to the back room.
Claire leaned weakly on the animal skin chair, looking at Bishop St. Granburg and several senior clergy.
He said slowly: "I came here once more than ten years ago. I remember that at that time, the faith here was sufficient, at least twice as much as it is now. Why is the Holy Light here declining so quickly? "
Cough cough cough cough.
He coughed violently a few times, panted slightly, and looked extremely tired and sleepy.
"Forgive me for ignoring this place because of the invasion of the night heresy over the years. Are the believers here converted to Goddess of Wisdom?"
Originally, according to the plan, after the new pope ascended the throne, he would start a new round of crusades to the land of darkness, but he did not expect that because of the changes in the dark world and the invasion of the land of darkness, this led to the eradication of heresy and evil gods for more than ten consecutive years. war.
Also because of the continuous wars over the years, the Holy See's financial resources are empty, so it is necessary to encourage believers to dedicate themselves time and time again, and even sell the places of clergy.
It also exacerbates some of the contradictions that were once hidden.
But fortunately, the invasion of the night heresy was finally beaten back, and the land of stars returned to tranquility again.
"To be precise, it has been seventeen years, nine months and twenty-one years since you last visited St. Granburg and presided over the ceremony of burning heresy books at the Gran Academy of Natural Sciences. As for the decline of the power of the Holy Light here, Not because of the goddess of wisdom."
The bishop said slowly.
Under Claire's gaze, he continued: "Because of her failure to participate in the battle for the new king's throne, the Goddess of Wisdom has withdrawn from the scope of the Duchy of Gran and turned to the territory of several small duchies, and has been in contact with the former godly forces in those small duchies." , a war broke out, and although she is now stable, her godhead has fallen to a low level due to the loss of faith."
Um
Claire was surprised: "Then why is the holy light here weakened so much?"
"It's because of the three-year compulsory education launched by the new king! This was originally a good thing, but the king seems to be very dissatisfied with the Holy See's support for Prince Ping. Therefore, in the compulsory education, he did not introduce the "Bright Grand Ceremony", but added " "Laws of Nature", "Evolutionary Mystery", "Alchemy" and other scholarly works, which also lead to many children, not as devout as their parents for the Creator of Light."
The bishop's face was a little stiff.
He said slowly: "I'm afraid that if this continues, Gran will become another Sealand in a few years. By then, the holy light here will probably fall to the bottom."
"Becoming another Zealand? No way."
Claire shook her head and denied it.
The bishop doesn't know the secrets of the Principality of Sealand, but he knows that there is no second golden sword seat in the Star Curtain Land.
"Tell me about the new king, what he has done all these years."
In the eyes of the Aurora Guangming Empire, the Principality is a barren and remote place far away from the Central Plains, a place of faith for the gods.
Scholars were born in the era of the Black Death plague, which was the weakest era of the Holy See, and defeated the dark world together with the Holy See, so the attitude of the Holy See towards scholars has always been the same as that of the dead swamp, the deep forest of thorns, and the Hengduan Mountains. Those heresies are godlike, and although they are not close, they can be used as tools.
As for the atheism preached by scholars.
In the eyes of the Holy See, this is not even a heresy, but... ignorance!
In less than half an hourglass, the bishop mainly explained to Claire the achievements of King Granthen over the years from the principality's high-level perspective.
Claire frowned slightly thinking.
There was a brief silence in the room, and after the bishop hesitated to speak several times, he finally couldn't help it, and said slowly: "Also... there is one more thing, because there is no clear evidence over the years, I haven't been able to report it to Aurora in time. , and ask the High Hierarch to investigate secretly."
"What?"
Claire asked.
Bishop St. Granburg said slowly: "When His Majesty King Chen escaped from St. Granburg during the prince's dispute and faced Prince Ping's pursuit, it seems that there is an elite Holy See force who secretly helped him through Difficulty!"
He took a deep breath.
"But before that, the Holy See's will is very clear, it is to support Prince Ping."