Chapter 667: The Disobedient’s Long-Term Plan

The study was quiet for a few seconds. Ophelia seemed to be sorting out her thoughts, while Gawain was digesting the information provided by the other party. After a while, he broke the silence: "You started the rebellious plan just because "These two sentences?"

Without waiting for Ophelia to answer, he added: "I have thought of a possibility - is it possible that the knowledge and nature of gods are too beyond human beings? Perception is beyond the processing capabilities of the human brain, so any act of getting close to the gods will lead to madness, regardless of whether the gods themselves are truly malicious or not. Will it just be the knowledge that leads to human madness, not the gods themselves?"

These words may sound like excusing the gods, but Gawain knows that Ophelia will understand what he means - he He is not a believer in God, nor does he have any innate favorable impression of God. It is just out of rigorous considerations that he must speak out all the possibilities that come to his mind. As a researcher of ancient empires, Ophelia has this kind of rigor. Spirit should also be her professional ethics.

Ophelia's reaction was just as Gawain expected: "This is a possibility, and we thought about it at the beginning - so we did a series of verifications and more investigations, However, the deeper we delve into the knowledge of the gods, the more disturbing the vague truth becomes.

“In the process of excavating ancient ruins, we discovered the remains of a civilization that was lucky enough to withstand the tide of evil. The few fragments left behind, their demise was sudden and without warning, and they ushered in extinction under the most prosperous and very stable society. This allows us to rule out almost all possibilities except 'destruction of the gods' .

“We have come into contact with some ancient races, including the sea monsters and dragons you know, as well as some ancient lords of the elemental world - the ancient empire has a close relationship with the residents of the elemental world, and the power of the elemental world Creatures are not affected by the demonic tide. In the fragments of those ancient races, we find that the destruction of ancient civilizations usually occurs at the stage of major changes in their belief systems.

"And in some cases. Among the rarest archaeological harvests, we have also unearthed some written records on the eve of the collapse of ancient civilizations, which occasionally mentioned such things as 'God did not allow it', 'Mortals have crossed the line', 'God has arrived, and the end is coming'. These words seemed to be left by those few people in the ancient civilization who noticed the gods' strange movements in advance, but those 'prophets' could not save the situation. "

Listening to Ophelia's story one by one, Gawain nodded slightly.

The rebels did not start that huge plan because of impulse - they were As they continue to conduct in-depth investigations, they discover increasingly desperate truths little by little. The dark future leaves these "deviants" with no choice but to secretly start a plan to fight against the gods.

"Maybe we still can't completely determine the truth of 'The Destruction of the Gods', but the demonic tide is coming, and the shadow of the gods is approaching day by day. Even if thatThere is only one percent chance of the end of the world, and we must be 100 percent prepared - maybe all our efforts will prove to be a joke in the end, but if it does happen, we must always be able to come up with something "We must use some means of resistance," Ophelia said in a deep voice, "People who live in a peaceful and stable environment may not be able to understand such extreme behavior, but as a pioneer, you should understand. "

"Human beings are suspicious and timid creatures," Gawain sighed, "that's why we always have to arm ourselves. ”

“This paranoia and timidity ensures the survival of our species. "

Gawain adjusted his sitting posture and looked into Ophelia's eyes: "You mentioned something just now. You found that the destruction of ancient civilizations usually occurred when their belief systems underwent major changes. stage, what exactly does this refer to? "

"In short, their temples are rapidly decreasing, and the size of all churches is shrinking sharply at almost the same time. ”

“Abandoning faith, thus angering God? "Gawain frowned, and suddenly his heart moved, "Then the current reform of the Holy Light Church..."

"This is exactly what I want to say," Ophelia said, in her Gawain, who was always calm and gentle, smiling like a mask, actually saw a trace of rare enthusiasm. It was a sincere expression, "The reforms we carried out in the Holy Light Church did not cause the Holy Light to The 'activation' of God. "

Activation - Gawain noticed the words Ophelia used at this moment.

Then he asked: "You mean, the southern teachings preach that 'the holy light comes from Contents such as "original intention", "morality and justice take precedence over dogma", "everyone has freedom of belief", etc., will not cause any bad reaction from the God of Holy Light? "

Ophelia smiled: "People are still pursuing the Holy Light. With the core elements of the Holy Light, namely protection, exorcism, justice, and light, our temple has not decreased. The church has not shrunk in size, even though we have replaced many of its things, but... the Holy Light Church is still the Holy Light Church, isn't it? "

Gawain looked at Ophelia who was smiling, and suddenly thought of the many obvious actions of the Holy Light Church in the past few years, and the saintly princess "Veronica Morn". The role played in the church, many things that were not connected at first, are now connected little by little——

The Holy Light Church’s rejection of heresy has promoted the rapid development of the church, but it has also led to a large number of Grassroots priests with low quality and bad behavior emerged; the reform of divine arts lowered the threshold for the use of holy light magic and expanded the size of the priesthood, but also allowed those priests of mixed quality to use the same divine magic, shaking a large number of original The beliefs of devout ascetic monks; the dispute over the interpretation of classics and morality led to the split among the lower-level priests in the church. It was against this background that progressive priests like Wright and Severn emerged...

What if all this is to test something, such as... testing the "regularity of operation" of the gods, testing the "personality boundaries" of the gods?

No wonder Ophelia would cooperate so actively with Wright's reforms and support Cecil's New Deal - without enough experimental data, how could a researcher make a decision easily? !

Ophelia just smiled calmly and looked at Gawain: "What are you thinking about?"

"These are the studies you got in the Holy Light Church. "Results?"

"If there is no gain, why would a rebellious person lurk in the enemy's church for so long?"

Gawain's eyes turned around involuntarily. It fell on the platinum scepter in Ophelia's hand - this platinum scepter has been in her hand since the death of the previous pope. Even if Wright, the patriarch, took over the northern church, she did not take over the power. Hand over the staff.

This scepter was originally held by the Pope. It is said to have the function of communicating with the Kingdom of God and listening to the oracle. It represents the bridge between God and man. However, due to the restructuring of the church, all the upper-level priests were reorganized. The issue of this scepter has been forgotten by people intentionally or unintentionally, but looking at it now, and thinking of Ophelia's words just now that the God of Holy Light has not been "activated", Gawain vaguely guessed something thing.

"Are you monitoring the status of the God of Light? Through this scepter?"

"Any experimental project requires strict monitoring and recording," Ofili Yawei raised the scepter in his hand, "This is the attitude that researchers must have."

Looking at the platinum scepter in the opponent's hand, Gawain suddenly couldn't help but have an idea - he wanted to Don't you want to try it too?

This thing seems to be able to establish a certain connection with the Kingdom of God. If used properly, it can even be used to monitor gods. If ordinary people touch it, they will probably be directly brainwashed into devout believers, but he himself is a person with hundreds of thousands or even Satellite spirits that have matured over millions of years are very resistant to similar brainwashing - the experience of touching the Eternal Slate proved this. Now if I touch the platinum scepter... it should be fine, right?

Could it be the same as touching the Eternal Slate, where others heard an oracle, but what I heard was another message from the super fleet, or even... something even more unexpected?

At this moment, Gawain's curiosity was suddenly ignited and burned uncontrollably.

He was even mentally prepared to die on the spot due to improper operation.

But at the last moment, he still stopped his curiosity because he realized a huge hidden danger - the Eternal Slate is dead, but the current God of Holy Light is alive. ...

Although the god seemed to have been killed once in ancient times, he is probably resurrected nowCame over.

If I touch the platinum scepter rashly, will I irritate the God of Holy Light? What Ophelia and Wright are doing now can be said to be "stealing divine power". The most important thing is not to irritate the god. If their slap wakes up the God of Holy Light, the other party will open his eyes. Take a look at the human world - where is my church? What about a church as big as mine?

The disobedient’s thousand years of hard work and his achievements so far are over.

After forcibly controlling his impulse, Gawain coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, looked at Ophelia and said: "If the reform in the Holy Light Church is successful, we can successfully escape without attracting the attention of the gods. Now that the 'Earthly Bridge' has been blocked, what are you going to do next?"

Ophelia faced Gawain's gaze calmly: "Use this as an experience to transform all faiths in the world."

As an ancient soul that has lived for a thousand years, she seems to have plenty of patience and time.

"Will the gods really wait to be blocked by us? Although our current transformation of the Church of Holy Light has not yet led to the activation of the God of Holy Light, it has really reached the point where the connection between all gods and the mortal world has been eliminated. Will the gods still be unable to react on the day of the cutoff?"

Ophelia nodded slightly: "The movement of the gods follows rules, although a few scholars in the Gondor era put forward the answer. The machine conjecture is not completely correct, but it is indeed close to part of the truth. Therefore, as long as we grasp this law, we can bypass the sight of gods and complete the replacement and transformation of faith in a relatively safe situation.

“Secondly, according to our research results, although the power of gods does not entirely come from mortal faith, the transfer of mortal faith will indeed greatly weaken them, and if the 'belief benchmark' of the mortal world is lost, If the gods want to come to the world again, they will face huge obstacles and losses. On the other hand, mortals will become stronger because they have regained the power of divine magic. One will wax and wane. On that day, the gods will be to us. It's not that I can't fight..."

She didn't say the next words, but the subtext was already obvious:

When that day comes, the gods who come to the world...will invade from another world. There are evil monsters in the mortal world.

The church in the world will fight back bravely to eliminate evil and defend the law in the name of faith.

This is the plan of the disobedient, but it is still not all of them.

Just this part is already shocking.

But Gawain still thinks that there are too many flaws in this plan. Uncontrollable variables, even if everything is implemented smoothly, it will not usher in the best results.

But at least at this stage, this plan still needs to be implemented - for Saint. The transformation of the Light Church is inevitable. Whether it is for the sake of social stability or the development of the new empire, he must ensure that this sect with the largest influence and the widest believers in the country abides by the laws and regulations of "divine authority."

Talk againAfter discussing some details about the rebellion plan and church reform, Gawain slowly exhaled.

"That's it for today. That's it for the topic of the disobedient plan." He leaned back in his chair. If you need to tell me, we can continue talking."

"As you wish," Ophelia smiled slightly, "but I have something else to do before I leave."

"Oh? You said it."

"It was the previous topic, about the church's restructuring," Ophelia said, "The current situation of female priests in the church is relatively... Embarrassing."