honor me as god

Chapter 142 The Scarlet Church
The mainstream belief in the Dogland Kingdom is the sun, and one of the officials in the eight-job system is the high priest who specializes in coordinating the sun belief.

Moreover, not only the slogan in the Kingdom Army is "Glory to the Sun", but also the extraordinary power of the Dogland royal family comes from the sun. The stronger the belief in the sun, the hotter the power of the sun will be.

In Dogland over the years, it can be said that the whole people believe in the sun. The so-called "Scarlet Church" is just a small group of doctors who study blood.

But since the veterinary epidemic broke out 26 years ago, the situation that the belief in the sun has covered the entire kingdom has slowly changed.

Since the royal family knew nothing about the veterinary disease, the alchemists were at a loss for research all night, and a large number of infected people could not be treated.

Later, although alchemists successfully extracted salt crystals and controlled the spread of the disease, the salt crystals could only prevent the epidemic and protect those who were not infected, and had no therapeutic effect.

And the number of those who have been infected is more than one hundred thousand million. Once these infected people's illnesses worsen and become beasts out of control, all parts of the kingdom will be destroyed overnight.

At that time, it seemed that there was only one way left for the royal family, and that was to execute all infected people and burn them on the spot.

Even if this approach will lose popular support, it is the only way to keep the kingdom going.

Just when the royal family made a plan to kill and Dogland was about to usher in the darkest age, the second road appeared.

In the face of the sweeping animal epidemic, the doctors of the Scarlet Church who studied blood invented the "blood therapy" that is still widely used today - using purified blood to suppress the animal epidemic factor in the infected person's body, making them lose their infectivity, and can act like normal people Life.

In the beginning, blood therapy was only used on a small scale in the city where the church was located. After everyone discovered the extraordinary effect, it burned the whole territory like wildfire, helping the royal family suppress the most serious waves of the epidemic and restore order to stability.

Since blood therapy can only suppress the epidemic factor, it cannot be completely eliminated, which means that the infected must have blood therapy for life. Once it is suspended, the infection will recur, and the animal epidemic may come back again.

The deadly part is here. Millions of infected people in the kingdom need blood therapy, but alchemists have no idea of ​​the principle of blood therapy, and they don't know how the purified blood is made. It can only be provided by the Scarlet Church .

This also means that the Scarlet Church, which has the blood of purification, actually controls the lifeline of the kingdom.

The royal family once wanted to buy the principle of blood therapy with a lot of money, but the scarlet church was extremely tough and refused to hand it over. The royal family's several threats and temptations failed to make them let go, and the spies who inserted it failed to gain access to the core information.

It is not that the royal family did not take violent measures, but what they got in return was the strong resistance of the epidemic doctor, who even threatened to cut off the supply of purified blood, which aroused panic among the people.

In the end, in desperation, for the sake of the stability of the kingdom, the royal family had no choice but to give up their tough attitude and choose to cooperate with the Scarlet Church to let the epidemic doctors travel through the six provinces to suppress the animalization epidemic.

Today, the scale of the Scarlet Church is already extremely large. For example, Xilin Town, where Chino was originally located, even border towns like that have epidemic doctors from the Scarlet Church, and the rest of the big cities can be imagined.

As for the common people, when they are really facing life and death, many people are more willing to trust the epidemic doctors who can suppress the veterinary disease than the illusory sun. The status of the Scarlet Church is getting higher and higher in the hearts of the common people.

Now, the sun is still the mainstream belief in Dogrand, and there is nothing to dispute about this.

But beyond the sun, there was already a lingering scarlet shadow.

Back to the present.

When Perseus heard this topic, his face was so gloomy that water dripped out: "It's true, it just happened last week."

Sting frowned: "Solandelle is only 12 years old after her birthday."

Perseus clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "The archbishop said that his son can wait until Solandelle is 16 years old."

"Damn it. I want to marry the princess of the royal family. This is clearly an attempt to intervene in the politics of the kingdom and tie the church and the royal family even deeper. It will be very difficult to untie this tie in the future." Sting held his forehead and said helplessly, "Even if you don't think about it that far and only think about personal happiness, I don't think Solandelle would like each other. The archbishop's son, heh, is as fat as a pig, with eyes smaller than mung beans, and my family's ground dragon prettier than him."

Thinking of Solandelle being carried into the room by that fat pig and being crushed under her body crying, Perseus's blood surged up, and his pupils seemed to be burning with fire: "God damn church. I swear, from now on, as long as alchemy Warlocks found out the principle of blood therapy, or found other methods to control animal epidemics, I will behead all these church dogs! Let their heads hang on the city wall to rot slowly!!!”

"Bang!" Speaking to the point of anger, Perseus couldn't control his emotions, and slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground.

The king was furious, and the audience was dead silent.

The banquet hall was very noisy just now, and no one heard what the two people were talking about on the stage. Now, of course, no one dared to ask.

Everyone looked down at the table in front of them, motionless and did not dare to make any sound, only the sound of Perseus' heavy breathing echoed around.

Solandelle looked at Perseus and asked cautiously, "Father, what's the matter?"

Perseus didn't want his daughter to notice the strangeness, so he put on a drunk look on purpose, shook his head and smirked: "Oh——I——and you——Uncle Sting drank too much~ It's okay! Keep going, just do it in a daze." Well? If you don’t get drunk today, you won’t return home!”

Regardless of whether it is true or false, the king's words are the truth. Everyone suppressed the timidity in their hearts and continued to laugh and laugh. The banquet hall soon became lively again.

Seeing her father's stupid "drunk look", Solandelle smiled and continued to learn magic tricks from Kino.

On the stage, the servants quickly came to clean up the fragments of the cups, and brought new cups, as well as wine and dishes.

Perseus held a jug of wine in his left hand, and a whole roast leg of lamb in his right, and drank and gnawed there with his head down.

Sting sighed and asked silently: "What is your plan? I want to know your real thoughts."

Perseus stuffed his mouth with meat, kept pouring wine into his mouth, and ate without image, and even his voice became blurred and hoarse: "I have a daughter, but my people have thousands and thousands of daughters. Born into the royal family, everyone must contribute to the kingdom, this is our destiny, just like Sura 12 years ago."

Upon hearing the name of his late wife, Sting's eyes also started to turn red. He glanced at Lorna in the audience and nodded slightly: "I can't bring Su La back, and I will be sorry for Lorna in this life. But you at least There are still 4 years to go.”

Perseus hummed, and continued to eat and drink indistinctly, as if he could forget his troubles in this way.

After eating, he wiped his face vigorously with his sleeve, and there were some wet marks on it, whether it was wine stains or something else.
(End of this chapter)