Vol 5 Chapter 53

The undulating holy voice under the towering curved vault came to an end. Twelve high-ranking clergymen wearing gold rims and red robes were pale and almost unstable, and the attendants and subordinates on the side rushed forward to take them. Hold on. These high-profile figures are either the regional chief sacrifice in the area around Rusta, or senior scholars of the Academy, with a solemn status and respected status, which can be said to be second only to the figures above the dome of the Temple of Fire; Matching their identities is their strength. Among them, the high-princess Christopher of Cohen, Anders, the goddess, and Sutton, the master of the sect, have already stepped into the side of truth and are only a step away from the Holy See. Lu The residents of the Star habit used to call the eleven people above the dome of the Fire Temple collectively called the Holy See. Over time, this saying has also spread-in addition to these three people, the other nine people have also been enlightened. In normal times, people like them have rarely presided over sacraments or rituals in person, but occasionally, most of them are hand-in-hand, and they will never be so embarrassed as at this moment.

"It's really amazing." The person who watched this scene and said it was Walla. It's hard to imagine that the person who has not seen the Supreme One, who is in charge of the entire Temple of Fire, will look like this. An old man with a good eyebrow, his beard and eyebrows have long been white, and his body has shrunk a lot. He is wearing a red bishop's shawl with snow and white edging and is carrying his hands on his back. But only those pairs of eyes that fell deeply into the eyelids and flashed a few bright eyes from time to time, and the sharp lines on the tight lips also proved that the old man who had controlled the temple for more than half a century did not show that. simple.

The world calls him the great priest who brings iron and fire. The only person in the eleven throne who has experienced a complete jihad. Rusta has a proverb about him that is widely spread. Personality is by no means as good-looking as the appearance.

He stood on top of the altar with two other people, and he spoke to the woman behind him. This woman was very tall, wearing a short white cape, a high headband, and a golden flame emblem. A scepter and a long cloak dragged to the smooth ground made of obsidian; her face was a bit too thin, her cheeks seemed to be cut with a knife and axe, so that she could not see the beauty of the woman, and she was too cold. She has short blonde hair, a long braid tied behind her head, and draped over her shawl. This woman is Sidney Metfalica, the third handle of the Temple of Fire, and Cruz. The fourth-largest empire of the empire has countless legends about her since the age of star-gathering. It is said that she played against the fourth wizard leader of the Bugatians and lost only one line, although she was defeated.

Ordinary people often use the sharpness of a hawk to describe the sharpness of a person's eyes, but such wording appears weak and weak in front of this lady. Her eyes are not only sharp, but also have substance. Just looking at people can make people understand. What she meant was that there was a golden ring of flames deep in her pupils, which had something to do with the divine power she possessed—the angel of the holy sword, Eromar—if there were achievements in the Word of Sin, no one in the empire could come out of her. To the right, even Walla has to admit it.

And the other person beside Walla, the decoration on the silk robe is extremely gorgeous, his face is kind, and he looks more like a businessman. This person is called Caesar. He is a low-ranking existence among the eleven. The name sounds domineering. However, his people have been diligent and diligent in history but have not done much.

Sidney maintained a constant silence. Even if the controller of the Temple of Flames spoke in front of her, she did not have any meaning to answer. It is not unreasonable for the world to call her the statue of the lion, But Walla admired her personality very much. Compared with the era of the previous generation of great priests, because of the experience of jihad, the inheritors of this generation of the temple of Yan generally look young-young people always look too radical , But it was not stable enough, except for Sidney.

"His Majesty sent his Majesty on the 14th, and these people entered the city on the 17th. Those in the Academy responded most positively, the great priests," Caesar whispered.

Walla nodded, of course he understood the hidden meaning in this sentence. For centuries, Cruz's imperial power has finally reached its peak in this century. Sometimes he can't help thinking that if he was born in himself How good the teacher was in that time. At that time, the temple could not only develop its own power in small countries such as Eruin and Antobro, but also intervene in worldly things. In the era of the highest religious power, even the throne The right of inheritance is in the hands of the great priest, but now?

The old man only felt bitter.

"After this time, I am afraid that Her Majesty's influence in the temple will rise again, Grand Priest."

"I understand," Walla shook his head, and the sectarians have always been closer to the royal family. They have been trying to reform the school since the Thunder, and have long accused him of this great priest, although in the Jihad A group of people were eliminated afterwards, but this obviously did not stop the madmen. The temple is indeed about to undergo change, and he is becoming more and more aware of it, but the authority to preside over the changes must not fall into the hands of those who are party and private, otherwise the temple of Yan will not have tomorrow.

He knew that Caesar's words reminded him that he should not meet Her Majesty's request this time. Although the imperial power increasingly penetrated into the temple, the temple of Yan still had the power to decide his own internal affairs. His decision was called that for nothing. As if the eternal Highest had put his hand into the temple, it had long caused dissatisfaction among many of the eleven. Only he, Sidney, and Caesar who are present today can be seen-Sidney has no intention to fight for power, Caesar is just a promise, while others are obviously very dissatisfied.

"But that's the azure lance." Walla sighed. Her Majesty her Queen was too difficult to deal with. Sometimes he wondered whether such an empress was the luck of Cruz, or Yan Zhi. The misfortune of the temple—The azure spear is a sacred relic of the world. The azure knight smashes the sky to bring the second epoch. In the poem of the azure, it is described as the hope of mortals and the sacred **** of change Gun-It is conceivable that if any temple has such an artifact, if it is approved by it, how great the prestige of the temple will be. If it is public or private, he cannot refuse.

Caesar also closed his mouth. Of course he understood the meaning. He couldn't help looking back at his colleagues. Even Sidney, who always had the same expression on his face, blinked at the moment. Light.

After all, it is the sacred gun sky--

"Unfortunately, why the gunman is a mountain citizen." Caesar thought with regret, if he hadn't known that the holy gun had been transported from Eruin, he would have owned the master before that, otherwise he would have You must think that this is the mastermind of the supreme empress; for it is well known that among the nations under the temple of the flames, only the mountain people do not believe in the teachings of Gilt. Called barbarians, but they are such barbarians, recognized by the Holy Grail.

"Oh, Her Majesty, give the things that change your destiny to aliens, just to suppress the temple, you are playing with fire and self-harm-how can mortals hold the future in their hands, and the gods will make it sin." My heart was helpless, and I couldn't help mumbling.

The three did not speak. They silently watched the crystal in the center of the hall become thinner and eventually disappeared. The girl inside closed her eyes tightly and held a spear in her hand, breaking the 'ice' as if she lost her center of gravity. The ground fell to the ground, then fell down, and then fell into a coma on the ground filled with layers of magic array.

Walla looked at the pieces of crystals falling on the ground, faintly as if he saw the shattered temple, the sectarians no longer stood with them, and the local priests were also snakes and mice, and Williams' failure was even more It was a heavy blow to the temple's prestige outside the empire. He thought of the incompetent guy and couldn't help but get upset. One of the Templar heads would be planted in the hands of a junior. It was a shame, but it was not only his loss The face, or the face of the Cecil family, is also the face of the temple.

He went on to think of the little Earl of Tollinger, the grandson of Swordmaster Darus in the rumor, and couldn't help whispering, "Why is this guy again, it's a ghost."

Caesar heard the whispered whisper aside, and couldn't help snoring, his face changed. He certainly remembered the dramatic change of forty years ago, the decline of the temple, as if it had begun with that unjust trial. He looked at the great priest next to himself, and suddenly thought that the great priest had so readily agreed to the condition of Her Majesty, not only because of the azure gun, he suddenly remembered, as early as last week at the royal banquet Her Majesty seemed to have revealed the origin of the new Countess vaguely, and her relationship with Eruin's Count Toniger.

He thought of this, and couldn't help but even the cold sweat almost ran down, and hurry up, his face stretched tightly, as if he was afraid that the Supreme Man around him would see his thoughts.

But Vala didn't care about him at all, and instead turned his head and said to Sidney, "Sidney, take the count to bathe and cleanse, be nice to her."

The goddess official froze, then nodded indifferently.

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The girl was dressed like a princess. She was wrapped in a baroque light-yellow long dress, and her long red hair fell down like a flowing flame. The long neck and the weak collarbone were exposed in the air. A thin Mithril necklace passes through a flame jewel and clings to it, and the flowing amber color sets off the healthy skin. The fluffy skirt was full of rose-like folds, and she was almost dressed as a delicate doll with multiple sleeves, lined tulle, and a huge bow on her chest. Her waist was severed, making her breathless, and Akane looked at it a little at a loss. Amber eyes were full of restless light.

The experience since this day seemed to her an absurd and weird dream. She dreamed that she slept in a huge piece of amber, experienced many things in the meantime, and saw strange landscapes-but most of the time, She was all covered with black cloth, or she was locked in a crate and disappeared in the sky-occasionally when she was upset, there would be a voice to chat with her, but the frequency was not particularly high, the one in the Azure Gun The lady was so proud that she wished to draw a conclusion between the two sentences to prove that she was a fool.

Then she 'sees' that she is transported into a magnificent temple, where there are many priests performing a ritual around her, and her ears are filled with the low hum of the hymn, and then Then, she felt as if she had woke up, and there was a lady in a white **** robe leading her in the haze, and then the lady asked a few maids to bathe and change her clothes; she had never experienced such a scene in her life, Almost stunned, she tried to escape on several occasions, but was stopped by the lady every time. She was proud of her strength and was as weak as a child in front of him. . She remembered that the other side looked at her with certainty every time, and chanted a prayer, and then it seemed that an irresistible coercion fell from the sky, penetrated the dome of the temple, and was directly applied to her, leaving her unable to move.

And at the moment, she was sitting on a bench—the chair was extremely luxurious, almost like a woodcarved throne. Even in Lord Lord ’s castle, she had never seen such a beautiful chair— —Looking at me in the long mirror in front of me, although the beautiful person inside didn't look like her at all; a few maids around her, carefully dressing her, Qian knew that she couldn't resist, They are still playing with them like a puppet.

A few maids looked at their new master, contrasting the beauties in the mirror, carefully combing her long hair, gleaming earrings, or whispering, and occasionally whispered a low laugh and laughed Qian Fever on the face. She still hasn't figured out exactly where it is, why she came here, why she put on such weird clothes, she wants to contact Owenna, but the lady in the Azure Gun Today it seems that there is another important matter. The inquiry in Qian's heart is Shen Haihai. Fortunately, she feels that she can still feel the existence of the Azure Gun, which makes her feel relieved.

The maids around her were all cute and lovely, obviously they were carefully selected, but most of them had red or long red or short hair of different shades, which made people understand their origin and bloodline at a glance. Looking at these same people I have never seen before, listening to them softly speaking in their ears, it was really bad for a while to shake off their tempers and only be patient-of course, she also understood The goddess officer who was too harsh still stood outside.

"Master," a round-faced maid said with a little envy, "You are really our princess, the most beautiful girl among the people."

"What do you ... call me ..." Qian wasn't very good at dealing with strangers, but she couldn't help but be surprised when she heard this sentence, and almost asked it with a stunned expression.

"By the way, Lord Earl, you don't know yet-you are the only Earl in the centuries to be sealed by His Majesty the Emperor. Your fief is said to be the most beautiful piece of land in the kingdom. On the wild side— "

"Yes, yes, I've seen the maple forest there, oh my god, it's so beautiful, you can see that Your Majesty appreciates you very much," the maids said sternly, "The point is that we are still close to our people Land, the mountains of Valachi, I really want to go home and take a look. "

Qian heard the mist in the clouds, she looked at the girls somehow, and didn't understand what they were saying. She was born in Chablis, and there were many mountain people there. She seemed to have heard about the hometown of the mountain people when she was a child. ——The legends of the mountains of Valachi, but those are distant dreams. She listened to what they said about the land, her majesty, and the Earl, and only thought that the mind was messy, and she could not think of anything for a while. .

But she could see that these girls worshiped her sincerely, and they said to her eloquently, "Master, I heard that Your Majesty intended to plot the autonomy of that land after your loyalty. To you-that land in your hands is equivalent to returning to our mountain people. For thousands of years, the independence and autonomy that our mountain people have dreamed of can finally be realized in your hands! "

The girls discussed enthusiastically, but as they spoke, their voices gradually fell.

The mountain people ’s condition in the empire is no better or worse than in Eruin. The Cruzs regard them as barbarians, and the nobles catching mountain people is like catching wild beasts—mountain men and women Once we are driven out of the mountain forest, they will be locked in cages like wild animals. They will leave their homes and sell to other places. In better conditions, they can become noble servants, and most of them die in an unknown mine. In.

Who is willing to leave the country, but the history of mountain people's resistance has become a legend a few centuries ago. In the empire, except for a few clans that are attached to the empire, most of them are hiding in the mountains and living. Life like a beast. But even those who are left, they bow their heads and may be arrested for various reasons at any time and become slaves.

These seemed to be the common experience of these girls. There was a sudden silence in the room. Several girls couldn't help sobbing. The round-faced maid choked and said, "Master, do you know that today because of you ——Our mountain people will no longer have to leave their hometowns and their wives to disperse, nor will they be hunted by Cruzs like wild animals. Lord, your reputation will surely spread throughout the mountains of the empire. One day you will be a mountain. The hero of the people— "

Akane opened her mouth.

She felt that she must be dreaming. She couldn't help but grab the armrest, as if she wanted to stand up steadily—the crystal shoes under her feet made her very uncomfortable, walking like a puppet— The waitresses hurriedly hugged Her Royal Highness Princess, beware that she stepped on her skirt and fell to the ground, which is not something that has happened before. But Qian looked around and finally asked negligently: "What you said ... I don't quite understand, Lord Lord, where is he ...?"

"Master, aren't you?"

Akane shook her head fiercely, trying to refute, but someone knocked on the door outside now, and then Sidney's voice came in: "Count Mitra, if you have finished your makeup, someone will see you."

The maids calmed down, all of them suddenly seemed to become puppet people, because they knew that only who would come here at this time.

...... (To be continued. Please search for floating astronomy, novels are better and faster!)