Old days in the box

Chapter 137 It's Broken, I'm a Double!

And at the same time as the Eastern Continent was slowly heading towards the European coast.

Frankish Kingdom, Marseille area.

The news that Taiyin was going to launch a crusade had been officially announced in the country, and it immediately received great support from the people.

In particular, the commercial houses and banking families in major urban areas immediately announced their support for the king's expedition and pooled a large amount of funds to finance the equipment and upgrades of the Frankish Royal Navy.

These merchants and families have so many trading businesses on the Emerald Sea. They can be said to be the most affected by the cursed pirates. Now it is rare that King Tain proposes to take the initiative to expedition against these monsters. Of course, they spare no effort to support it. .

The people were all immersed in the previous celebrations and victories, and their confidence in the Frankish Kingdom reached an unprecedented level, and they all shouted in the name of war and victory.

While the whole city was in commotion, in the Cathedral of the God of Raging Waves, the Bishop of Marseille rarely closed the door and held a secret meeting within the church.

All members of the Church of the God of Raging Waves in Marseille, as long as their level is higher than the intermediate level, were all summoned to the lobby to participate in this meeting.

Soon, nearly a thousand middle-level and high-level interpreters and night watchmen in the city of Marseille all arrived and sat in the sealed lobby to wait for the bishop.

The doors and windows of the luxurious lobby, usually used for interpretation conferences, were closed at the moment, as if not even a trace of light wanted to leak in.

Only rows of candles were lit around the lobby, providing limited light indoors.

All the interpreters and vigil officers present were whispering to each other, whispering about the purpose of the bishop's convening of this secret meeting.

In the belief of the God of Raging Waves, they are believers known as the "Book Sect", who firmly believe that the true meaning of the gods can only be deciphered from words, and words should have no secrets, and black and white words can face the light.

However, at this time, the church issued a secret summons to them and closed the doors and windows, which made them very puzzled.

boom--

The back door of the church was opened, and the Bishop of Marseille and several church leaders walked into the lobby, dragging a large device behind them.

The hall suddenly became quiet and silent. They all knew that it was the church's large-scale extraordinary miracle, the "Watching of the Sea."

But this device was granted to the city of Marseille, and it was stipulated that it could only be used publicly at interpretation conferences. Why did the bishop bring it in with him?
At this time, the bishop and several senior church officials walked onto the arch of the lobby. At the same time, the people behind them also pushed the "Watch of the Sea" onto the stage. Just like holding an interpretation meeting, they adjusted the position of this large-scale extraordinary miracle. , lifted the curtain covering it.

An icy device that resembled a giant globe appeared in front of everyone.

"Everyone, this meeting today is for an important matter. This matter is related to the development of our Church of the God of Raging Waves, so we have chosen a secret method that is not open to the public."

The bishop stood on the arch, facing thousands of interpreters and night watchmen and spoke loudly.

"As you know, His Majesty the King has launched preparations for an expedition against the cursed pirates, but His Majesty not only invited our church to join, but also invited the Odin Cult, and even the Saint, the Son of the Old One from the North Sea."

"This is not a good sign."

The Bishop looked around, and everyone had worried expressions on their faces, especially when he mentioned the Cult of Odin.

"You should all know very well that the Church of the God of Raging Waves has been the highest-status church in the kingdom since it settled in Frank. It has the highest membership and privileges. Our status is almost equal to their official belief."

"But now, our status is threatened again, not only by the resurgent Odin Cult, but also by the unknown North Sea Kingdom and their sons of the past."

As the church's senior leaders answered, the audience quickly began to express their opinions.

"Your Majesty Bishop, aren't the Sons of the Old One part of our Sea Book doctrine?" a senior interpreter asked.

"This is the oracle of the sea that we used to interpret the teachings of the Children of the Past." The bishop waved his hand. The people behind him were obviously prepared. They took out the huge piece of paper that Zhou Xiao had dragged in to pretend to be the oracle, and hung it on the Displayed to the public on the arch.

"This oracle is different from any of the oracles we have excavated before, and the words used to describe the divine introduction are also different. I have to suspect that this is a situation where the 'Watch of the Sea' was affected. Download the error text developed."

The huge piece of paper that Zhou Xiao dragged in was very different from other old parchment oracles. Now that it was exposed to the public by the bishop, everyone quickly discovered this.

There was immediate shock among the crowd, especially the interpreters. They were originally responsible for interpreting the oracles and answering questions. Now that they discovered that the oracles might be wrong, this naturally made them very nervous.

"If what the bishop said is true, then we will not only be charged with misinterpreting the oracle, but we will also personally create a heretical belief. This is absolutely unacceptable."

"So I propose that we secretly use the 'Watch of the Sea' here today to verify the authenticity of the Son of the Old One to Niord, the God of Raging Waves, and at the same time ask Him about our future direction."

Seeing the reaction of the crowd, a senior church official immediately took the opportunity to step forward and made a loud suggestion.

"If everything is verified to be true, we can pretend that nothing happened today, but if it is verified to be false, or the God of Raging Waves has other instructions, we can deal with it calmly without worrying about anyone else knowing."

As Tu Qiong saw, the bishop had been arguing with these church leaders for a long time, and finally revealed his true purpose.

They wanted to incite the church members in Marseille so that they could secretly activate the "Watch of the Sea" in private and ask the God of Raging Waves for answers to their doubts.Ever since the eight snake demons attacked that night and their private conversations were directly overheard by King Taiyin, they had become anxious all day long. They always believed that the king would settle the scores later, or that he might harbor suspicions against the Church of the God of Raging Waves. Other suspicions.

Especially recently, the king has been intentionally or unintentionally elevating the status of the Children of the Old Faith. He also called the pope of the Odin Cult to Marseille to have a meal with Freya to win their support. It was as if in the king's mind, the three of them were three parties with equal status.

This series of changes had to make some of them worried, thinking that the status of the church had been greatly shaken.

In order to solve this matter, they must activate the "Watch of the Sea" and seek guidance and oracles from the great god of raging waves.

Yet the "Watch of the Sea" is a common asset owned by the Church.

If just a few of them use it privately, once discovered, it will be a serious crime that can revoke their high-level status.

But if they can convince all the church members in Marseille and unanimously decide that it is necessary to launch the "Watch of the Sea" privately, that will be a different matter.

So they actually don't care whether the Children of the Old Ones are true to Poseidon's teachings.

This is just a pretense they use to persuade everyone so that they can agree to this matter.

"Since there is a possibility of misinterpreting the oracle, I agree to activate the extraordinary miracle."

"That's right! Let me tell you why the children of the past's beliefs are so strange. They are completely incompatible with the existing teachings of the Book of the Sea!"

"The Sons of the Old One came from the North Sea, and our Church of the God of Raging Waves comes from the Holy Roman Empire. I knew it wouldn't be such a coincidence!"

As expected, a large number of doubts emerged from the lobby, and all the interpreters and night watchmen agreed to activate the "Watch of the Sea" to find out whether all this was true or false.

The bishop and the church leaders looked at each other on the arch, and they all smiled heartily, and immediately raised their hands to stop the excited crowd.

"Since everyone agrees that this is necessary, I will now activate the 'Watch of the Sea' to verify the authenticity of this matter."

The bishop announced to everyone, then turned and walked towards the cold device that stood still.

He noticed that today's "Watch of the Sea" was a little different from usual. It did not shine with the brilliance of divinity. Instead, it had a withered and strange feeling all over its body.

But the bishop did not make too many guesses - after all, he was invoking extraordinary miracles in private, so he felt guilty and had no time to pay attention to these details.

Like every previous reading session, he chanted the magic power of the raging waves in his heart and put his hand into this cold device.

With the flash of blue light, the entire "Sea Watch" seemed to be awakened and slowly started up.

However, a strange situation occurred. The "Watch of the Sea" did not bloom with extraordinary divinity. Instead, it instantly sucked the bishop's hands, making him unable to pull away from the base of the steel ball.

The steel wire sphere on the device began to rotate, and a terrifying scarlet light slowly leaked out from it, like a blood moon blooming in the church, making everyone's faces turn red!

That night, Freya had long since drained away this extraordinary miracle, leaving only an eroded empty shell filled with scarlet magic power.

It's a good thing that this empty shell didn't move. Once it was touched, the scarlet magic power contained in it seemed to have found an outlet, and all of it leaked out crazily along the bishop's hand that reached out!
The steel wire sphere was like a cold hand-chopping machine. The sharp edge rotated rapidly, instantly cutting off the palms of the bishop's hands and falling into the base of the sphere.

A terrifying scarlet magic power exploded from the "Watch of the Sea", rushing towards everyone present as if the air curtain spread!

The red light flashed across the entire sealed lobby, and then quickly disappeared. The "Watch of the Sea" on the stage also completely released all its power and collapsed, and the steel ball rolled down the arch.

But no one panicked or made a sound.

Everyone lowered their heads, as if they were stunned by the burst of red light, and sat quietly in their positions motionless.

The bishop whose palm was cut off slowly raised his head, his pupils glowing with a strange red light, and stood up again to face the giant paper miracle of the Son of the Old One.

The voice of God was in his mind, clearer and clearer than ever before.

The pair of palms he lost began to regenerate flesh and blood in the blink of an eye, quickly growing scalp-numbing granules, and densely transforming into flesh and blood.

Thousands of interpreters and night watchmen, as well as the church leaders on the stage, all raised their heads again, and at the same time slowly looked at the giant paper miracle of the Son of the Old One——

Their eyes all shone with a strange scarlet light.

The voice of the gods also echoed in their minds, unprecedentedly clear and unprecedentedly clear.

"The answer is so close. It turns out that we have always been only one step away from the truth of the world, and now, we have learned all the truth..."

The expressionless Bishop of Marseille knelt down and bowed deeply to the giant paper miracle of the Son of the Past. Everyone present also did the same. Following the Bishop's actions, they spoke in unison the answers they heard in their minds. :
"It turns out that the distorted false teachings are not the children of the past, but the god of wrathful waves..."

(End of this chapter)