On the main peak of the Roland Temple, the main hall was still solemn and solemn, with huge candles swaying. The shadow of the firelight swayed on the wall, and the entire hall was filled with a mysterious atmosphere.
Prometheus, Pope of the Temple of Roland. Still wearing his silver mask. He was the only one in the hall at this moment.
Prometheus slowly walked up a spiral staircase, with an open-air platform above. Standing on the platform, you can fully feel the cold wind on the top of the mountain.
Looking down, under the steps of the main building of the temple, there are still a number of ascetics kneeling and praying in front of the main hall of the temple.
Prometheus stared for a moment, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Ridiculous guys.
The war has begun for many days, and the Holy Knights are fighting bloody battles. Although they have lost the existence of the Holy Knights, the Holy Knights are still much stronger than the armies of the kingdoms in Roland continent. But the commander-in-chief of the Roland Kingdom was not a fool. He actually led a huge army to fight a war of attrition with the temple.
Smart approach, but the result is still stupid!
Prometheus sneered.
No one knew that he, the Pope of the temple, had never thought of winning this war - it was a joke, how could the great demon Kara care about the position of a mere human Pope
The only purpose of starting this war is to destroy the temple! Destroy the agent of that guy in the sky on earth!
Who wins and who loses the war, for Kara. There is no difference at all.
If the Roland Kingdom wins, the temple will be destroyed, which is undoubtedly the best.
If the temple wins, then the Roland Kingdom will be unified into a huge religious empire—but the leader will still be himself!
Hahahaha, what a wonderful situation!
"Your Highness, what are you laughing at?" A cold voice sounded from behind.
Prometheus turned. Looking calmly at the man behind him, he sighed softly: "Fielding, have you come out yet?"
Fielding was wearing an almost broken armor, and his eyes were terrifyingly calm, with an inhuman aura flowing inside them. But ice!
He bowed slightly and whispered: "Yes, Your Majesty, my practice is over. The person you sent just now told me that you want to see me."
Although he was bending down, there was no trace of respect in his voice.
Prometheus narrowed his eyes and looked at Fielding. His eyes swept from Fielding's face to his hand. His right hand was always pressed on the hilt of the sword. Those thick knuckles seemed full of strength.
"Well, very good. I can see that you must have made great progress in your practice this time!" Prometheus nodded: "Now the Holy Knights are fighting bloody battles. As the only Holy Knight left in the temple, , I hope you can go to the front line! Do you want to?"
Fielding was silent for a moment, then he raised his head. There was a mocking smile on his face, and then the paladin said in a small but firm voice: "I'm sorry. I refuse!"
"Oh?" Prometheus didn't have any dissatisfaction or anger, he still had a smile on his lips: "Why?"
The smile on Fielding's face disappeared, and his face was full of solemn expression: "Prometheus, there is no one else here. Let's talk frankly. You must have understood it from the first day I returned to the temple. You should understand that my only purpose in returning to the temple is to kill you! You already know this, and I also know that you have seen through my heart! What surprises me is that you actually have power that I can’t see through!”
Prometheus' smile remained unchanged: "Knight Fielding, you are a brave man."
Fielding lowered his head and whispered: "I understand that although I am a paladin, the strength of the paladin may not be a threat in your eyes. So you did not take action against me! And I understand that I cannot kill If I kill you, I have no choice but to continue practicing. I once swore that I would not stop practicing until I was sure of killing you!"
Prometheus smiled: "So now that you have come out, you must be sure that you can kill me?"
"A little, but not too much." Fielding admitted simply. He shook his head and said, "It's a pity that I can't wait any longer! I'm afraid if I wait any longer, it will be too late."
He suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Prometheus. He said slowly: "Tell me, what is your purpose?"
Fielding held the hilt of the sword and slowly forgot about it step by step: "The temple can't win this war. You know this, and I know it too. Even if all the current strength of the temple is released, it can only give the Roland continent It’s just a catastrophe. The final result is that the temple will be destroyed, and the vitality of the Roland Kingdom will be greatly damaged! As the supreme leader of the temple, what is your purpose?”
"Do you really want to know?" Prometheus's voice was a bit vicious and evil. He smiled, and then slowly said in a low voice: "My purpose is to destroy the religion, or... destroy mankind. , you humans of the divine race!”
"Almighty Lord!" Fielding whispered, and with a chirp, his long sword was already halfway out.
Prometheus looked at Fielding with a bit of pity in his eyes, and sighed: "Fielding, it seems that you have indeed made some breakthroughs. I can see that your strength has increased a lot."
Then he shook his head and said slowly: "But have you ever thought about why I didn't kill you? Instead, I let you stay in the temple, leaving behind an enemy who clearly had murderous intentions for me in his heart?"
Fielding was indifferent.
Prometheus sneered: "Since you can't figure it out, why don't you try stabbing me?"
Fielding didn't hesitate for a moment and unsheathed his long sword! With a golden fighting spirit. It was like a fire dragon piercing Prometheus's chest! !
With a chirping sound, the golden fighting spirit completely shattered Prometheus' entire body...
"It's an illusion!!" Fielding suddenly changed his color.
"It's an illusion." Prometheus's voice drifted far away, as if it had landed in Fielding's heart: "Fielding, come in, go to the highest level of the temple, to the 'forbidden door' 'Come. I'll wait for you there!"
At the foot of the mountain, looking at the towering peaks, Nidis let out a breath. The air was very cold, and she couldn't help but shrink her neck.
"The breath... the breath of the gods!" The demon dragon's face looked a little uneasy, and there were sparks of hatred and anger in his eyes.
"On the top of the mountain above, there is the temple. It is the servants of the gods who rule the core of this continent." Nidis sighed and pointed to the top of the mountain. She really could not have imagined that one day, her little vampire would bring her with her. People are coming to the door of the temple!
After passing through the long corridor, this is already a forbidden area in the temple.
There are some strange words and patterns carved on the stone walls on both sides. The further Fielding walked forward, the more uneasy he became.
Pushing open a five-meter-high door in front of you, there was a room that looked like a small square.
In the middle of the room, Prometheus was sitting cross-legged on the floor, with a flat stone about as thick as a book placed in front of him.
"You are here, Knight Fielding." Prometheus raised his head and smiled: "Don't worry. The me you see now is not an illusion."
Fielding said nothing and approached slowly.
"This is the highest forbidden area of the temple." Prometheus looked around: "Only the highest chief elder can come in here. And you are the second person to come in in the past ten years."
He pointed to the door next to him and said with a smile: "That is the 'forbidden door' of the temple. But unfortunately, I can't tell you what is inside that door, because I have never entered it."
Fielding stood before Prometheus. He said coldly: "Why did you bring me here?"
Prometheus' fingers gently touched the stone slab in front of him, and his fingers brought out a magical light. Lines of text immediately appeared on the stone slab, but soon, as his fingers slid across , the magic light faded, and the words disappeared again.
"Fielding, have you ever heard of a story called the Tower of Babel?"
Prometheus smiled and said: "A long time ago, humans once questioned whether gods existed, so all humans worked together to build a tall tower and reach the sky through that tower to see if gods are in the sky."
His gentle voice echoed in the room with some magic.
"But how can humble human beings offend the existence of gods? So when humans were just halfway through building the Tower of Babel, the gods became angry. He destroyed the Tower of Babel and banned humans from exploring the existence of gods..."
"But humans are humble and ignorant. In order to ensure that humans will not do anything blasphemous again, the gods decided to discipline these ignorant humans." Prometheus smiled. Then he sighed: "So, some messengers of God sent by the gods came to the world and created a religion that believed in the gods, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling human beings. They taught people to respect God and believe in God. So, in this world, There is a religion!"
"But at that time, not all humans in the world believed in gods. Some humans did not believe in the existence of gods. So, a war broke out among humans. Those human kingdoms that believed in gods united and destroyed the human kingdoms that did not believe in gods... To put it simply, it’s war! It’s ridiculous... The so-called noble religion is just an organization that uses religious power to eradicate dissidents!”
Fielding's grip on the sword unknowingly loosened a little, and he looked at Prometheus in front of him in surprise.
"The matter is far from over. In this world, human beings are the most uncontrollable creatures. They are smart, greedy, ambitious, and imaginative. When the divine religion finally made the entire human world believe in gods, human beings' internal But a war still broke out. The human kingdoms were fighting to the death. Even the divine religion couldn't stop it. Seeing that its agents in the world were in trouble, the gods came up with a good idea..." At this point. , Prometheus showed some deep hatred: "Deflect the conflict!"
"The gods created a Moses envoy, gave him a Moses staff, and separated the Thunder Straits. This kind of thing made human beings finally no longer limit their attention to the fight for Roland Continent, and they turned their attention to In the south, there is a vast continent, rich resources, and boundless land... So, what follows is still a war! But this time, humans are united, and their common enemy is the Kara tribe who originally lived in the Bright Continent. !”
"Later, it was still a war. The Kara tribe also had their gods, but their gods had been defeated by human gods in the sky, so the Kara tribe had no backing and were soon destroyed by humans. Humans seized the Bright Continent. . Later, the divine religions of the two continents also split! Ridiculous humans, ridiculous gods, ridiculous divine religions! As the human agents of the gods, the divine religions naturally have enviable power, and human greed, Gradually growing in power, the church became a gathering place for godly followers. Their focus was not on believing in gods, but on how to seize power. In the end, the godly religions on the two continents broke up and hated each other and were hostile to each other. "
Fielding suddenly spoke, and he said loudly: "What about the gods? Since the church broke up, why didn't the gods intervene?"
"Because the gods are very smart! Because the gods have the highest wisdom!" Prometheus smiled: "The establishment of the divine religion is to control the human beings in the world to believe in the gods. And once human beings are unified, they will be like what they were thousands of years ago. , maybe they will boldly build another Tower of Babel to spy on the heavens and spy on the territory of the gods. Therefore, in order to make humans behave, the gods simply ignore it and let you fight back and forth. It is best not to fight. What a joy, they can never be united! As long as the divine religions still exist, no matter how the two divine religions in the two continents are divided? What's more, in the human world, no matter how much the divine religions in the two continents hate each other, they still believe in each other. Divine, at least in name."
Fielding took a breath of air and stared at Prometheus. He never expected that the Pope of the temple would actually say such treasonous words!
"Don't look at me so weirdly." Prometheus smiled and said, "If you don't believe me, then you might as well take a look at this thing." He pointed at the stone slab in front of him, with a weird smile on his face, and said with a He said slowly in a strange tone: "This is the legendary divine record! You must have heard of this name..."