This is an era of peace.
The scientific and technological civilization of Sky City is highly developed, the social welfare system is perfect, and people's material needs have been fully met; the level of medical care has also reached an unprecedented height. Raised, human rights are highly equal, no racial discrimination, and no gender discrimination.
No wars, no disasters in the city, extremely low crime rates... It seems like an almost ideal era.
It's all just "looks".
Beneath the veneer of peace, people still haven't forgotten that they live in a tower.
The sky looked blue, but that color was filtered through layers of artificial shields. The sky is always bright, and everyone knows in their hearts that it is not the light of peace, but the light brought about by collisions and explosions that occur all the time in the universe.
From ancient times to the present, people have come to know and explore the world they live in little by little.
In ancient times, people left the area where they lived and went to explore the area next door;
Later, people went further and left their "country";
Then, people have already understood all the countries on the planet they live in, and they start to study various sciences, manufacture spaceships and aircraft, break through the atmosphere, and explore other planets in the universe.
Today, all planets have been called "star cities". The highly developed technology allows people to know their own planet very well, and it is very convenient to travel to other planets. The distance barrier has almost disappeared in this era, and it is necessary to pay for it. Just a little time cost.
Human beings are born with a desire to explore, no, not only human beings, as long as it is a living body, everyone has this desire. It is not just a thirst for knowledge. This desire comes from a sense of urgency. Everyone needs to know where they are and where they can go if there is a local disaster in the future.
As long as there are living objects, there will always be this subconscious desire in the heart.
However, it is precisely in this era of incomparable peace, highly developed technology, and incomparably rich people's lives that people's desire to explore... was stopped.
Everyone knows where they live, the endless belt of eternal light, the final paradise of the Big Bang.
It sounds like a paradise, to a certain extent, to use an adjective to describe it, it is an island.
Anyone who has studied history knows that for any terrible disaster that can change the shape of the universe, its time span is often calculated in "hundreds of millions of years".
Universe, generation, century, century, period, time... These are all units that can describe time.
Humans are just creatures that exist at a small node in the history of time.
Under normal circumstances, people don't mind that they live in a certain period of time in a certain era.
However-
They are now at a very special point in time.
The universe, with a bang, burst open.
The vast majority of life has disappeared in the vast universe, and in the entire universe, there are no longer any stars.
It can be said that today's human beings are living in the early days of the formation of the universe.
No one knows when the explosion will stop, no one knows when the matter in the universe will restabilize, no one knows when the debris in the nebula will shrink under its own gravity, create vortices, and thus create new stars...
People are wandering in the tower, no one knows when the outside environment will change, when the first planet that can be settled by humans will be created in the universe...
Everything is unknown.
Under the background of seemingly peaceful times, people are very confused about their future life.
At the beginning, the compulsory education in the tower had a detailed history course. The textbook introduced all the lives of people before they lived in the tower, and also described in detail the difficulty of building the tower and the history of settlement in the tower.
This kind of detailed history education lasted for about three hundred years, new textbooks were introduced, and new history books replaced the previous content with the "new history" of a large number of people entering the tower to live.
You can understand this change as an inevitable change caused by the historical process. The accumulation of new history will inevitably squeeze out the weight occupied by the past.
However, the deeper reason is that the anxiety in people's hearts has been increasingly generated, the deletion of human genes, the emergence of new genetic diseases, and a large number of disqualified people have been forced to move to dungeons...
People are increasingly confused about the times they live in.
There have even been two suicide sprees in human history.
Despair for the future spread rapidly among ordinary residents, and many suicide groups appeared on the Internet at the moment, and everyone agreed to commit suicide at the same time.
It was a very scary two years.
After that, the control between the various star cities has been strengthened.
The originally very open freedom of speech has also been restricted, and the network between the dungeons has been completely interrupted, and it has not been restored until now.
In this case, various "religions" came into being.
People have faith and regular church activities can help people relieve stress. Under this circumstance, the birth of religion is strongly supported by various star cities.
In the beginning, religion was just an organization that helped people relieve stress. However, as more and more believers became more and more religious organizations became more standardized, larger in scale, and with sufficient funds, they established their own schools. In the beginning, it was just a charity school. However, due to the stronger and stronger teachers, it has gradually become a variety of famous colleges. These colleges have trained countless excellent students, and after leaving the college, a considerable number of them have become the backbone of society.
Due to a high degree of autonomy, almost all of the star cities are operated by themselves. Each city owner is also the planet owner. They have a high degree of management rights over their planets. They jointly negotiated a unified code that all planets must obey. Next, each planet has its own rules.
Each star city-state is an independent country, everyone is highly free, and there is no unified leader. The star city-state main meeting every few years is the most important joint meeting between the major star cities. Discuss the decision.
However, with the development of religion, a very wonderful thing happened:
Under the circumstance that the Star City-State is highly self-controlled, divided and independent, religious organizations have gradually gathered, the total number of religions has become smaller and smaller, but the number of believers has become larger and larger. These believers are classified into a limited number of large-scale religious systems, while Today, the number of large religions is still declining.
A new system of large scale, strict probability, and organizational norms has gradually taken shape.
Their believers are all over the star cities, and their organizations are also all over the star cities. Almost every week there is a small interaction between the believers, and there are large-scale activities in the star city every month. In the case that other star cities hardly interfere with each other, this Huge organizations have penetrated deeply into the lives of ordinary people, and the flat organizational structure allows their teachings to be delivered to every believer as quickly as possible.
In a sympathetic savior, they grow softly in the Eternal Tower.
In the 320th year of the Chaos Calendar, there are two religions left in the tower.
It's just two branches of the same religion split off due to different teachings and ideas.
Dongheng Guangjiao, Xiheng Guangjiao, and the Star City-State Alliance, which had existed for many years, became the largest human organization in Sky City.
However, at this time, whether it is Dongheng Guangjiao or Xihengguangjiao, they are still religious organizations in essence. Due to the expansion of their power, their power is indeed increasing, and the power they have has indeed given them the right to belong in the secular world. their own things, but they don't really extend their tentacles into the secular power struggle.
At the same time, the Star City-State Alliance finally realized the situation that this kind of power might lead to, and they began to jointly suppress the continued expansion of religious organizations.
The originally huge Hengguang Sect was even oppressed to the point of being almost disbanded.
until the man showed up.
Ashhivi Messertal.
This taciturn teenager was almost born "to defend the last glory of God in the human world".
He is smart, simple, temperate... Almost all good adjectives can be installed on him.
He was naturally aloof, and almost anyone who came in contact with him felt a sense of distance.
It's not a sense of distance between people, it's more like... a sense of distance between people and gods - many believers who have come into contact with him have expressed such excitement.
No one knew where he came from. He had no father or mother. He grew up alone in a foster home under the protection of religion, and then entered the religious academy logically. , admitted effortlessly
The highest college under the management of the church - Jerylvania College.
Because he was too good, he was included in his camp by the red-clothed Archbishop De Baron before graduation. As his right-hand man, he made great contributions to the development of Dongheng Guangjiao. He took over all his power and the huge faction behind him at a young to almost young age!
In Chaos Calendar 369, Ashhivi Messertal accomplished what neither his mentor, his predecessor nor De Baron had accomplished:
In the cardinal meeting of Dongheng Guangjiao, he unanimously voted to be elected as the bishop of Dongheng Guangjiao!
Without any title, the Eastern Hengguang Sect could have countless prefixes representing various high and low archbishops, but there could only be one person who could be called a bishop.
In the year 379 of the Chaos Calendar, Ashhivi Messertal once again created a miracle.
In the joint archbishop meeting jointly held by the East and West Hengguang Sect, he was elected as the common bishop of the two branches!
Elected unanimously again!
And this time, he really did something great that no one had ever done before: unifying two religions that had been divided for a long time! He also became a bishop of two religions!
This has never happened so much that people feel that the title "bishop" simply does not express the supremacy of the office!
then-
In the year 380 of the Chaos Calendar, Ashhivi Messertal became the "Pope".
Without a previous pope, he crowned himself.
After that day, people officially called him "Your Majesty".
In this era, there is only one "Your Majesty".