Starting from raising the Kraken in the clouds

Chapter 26 The Controversy of Theocracy
The Pars Empire and the Naval Governor's Mansion at the Port of Minks.

"Mr. Governor! You must believe us! We really encountered a sea monster!"

"It's true that Lord Saint Mist unfortunately died in order to protect us. We don't dare to lie about such a thing."

"If we hadn't come back to report the appearance of the Imperial Evil God's Familia on the Imperial route, we would have followed the Saint to fight with the sea monster."

In the Governor's Palace, Duke Armando, the naval governor of the Pars Third Fleet, was listening to the nervous elaboration of the businessman in front of him, his face solemn.

"Why do you think I can't care about it, and I don't want to care about it? I just want to know that you are really sure, or that you saw Saint Mist fall into the hands of the giant octopus sea monster?"

"And that sea monster, are you sure Saint Mist said it was a descendant of the evil god or a dependent?"

"You guys need to know that you can still be saved if you tell me the truth now, but if you lie, when faced with another inquiry from the Silver Temple, those saints will not be as easy to talk to as me."

Armando looked solemnly at the merchant ship owner and his second officer in front of him, his eyes as sharp as looking directly into people's hearts.

"This"

The captain trembled nervously when he heard this, and his tone also hesitated.

He looked at Governor Armando, and then said cautiously: "We did not see the saint fall, but the situation was really very dangerous at that time, because the saint had been swept away by the tentacles of the sea monster. Yes, so..."

"As for the evil god, the saint was just suspicious before he went to check out the vision caused by the sea monster."

After saying this, the captain's feet immediately became weak and he knelt on the ground.

The same goes for the second officer behind him.

Seeing all this, Governor Armando finally understood everything.

And just at this moment, a report from a navy soldier suddenly came from outside the door.

"Report! Lord Governor, the report on the interrogation of the crew has been completed!"

"Well, come in!"

"Yes!"

The navy soldier came to Armando and presented the report directly.

Armando looked at the contents of the written report, just flipped through it a few times, and then everything was completely confirmed.

Then, as the captain and second mate begged for mercy, they were quickly escorted out by navy soldiers.

The Governor's Palace soon fell into silence, and in this silence, Armando suddenly spoke as if talking to himself.

"The situation is not too bad. The holy stone has been tested and there is no pollution on these people who came back. Then, the situation of the sea monster is a little less difficult."

"I don't know what's next. I'm very curious about what our saint, Lord Cayo, are going to do?"

Armando finished speaking, and soon, on an empty seat on Armando's side, the figure of an old man in a white robe slowly appeared in the room completely as if it had transformed from transparency into an entity.

The old man in white robe walked up to Armando. He took the report handed over by Armando, looked at it, and then smiled calmly.

"Since the situation is not too bad, we naturally have more time."

"However, there are still too many doubts about this matter."

"If the core of this sea monster incident is that the holy beast was derived from the holy relic left in the sea, then Saint Mist should not have been killed."

"Although Mist is not very strong, he can be considered an elite member of our temple. He has been able to survive in dealing with many pollution incidents. He should not be unable to stabilize himself or even recklessly take the initiative to anger one who has just received the inheritance. The holy beast is the right one.”

"So, in the case where Saint Mist may be killed, there are only two possibilities!"

"The giant octopus born in the sea is not a holy beast, but a descendant of the evil god in disguise."

"Of course, apart from this possibility, there is also the possibility that the holy relic obtained by the holy beast may not belong to the gods that we humans believe in!"

"Your Excellency the Governor, you must have heard of it more or less, right? There were still many non-human races in our world before the Millennium Holy War of the Gods, and the divine authority of the sea was always vacant before the appearance of the God of the Four Seas."

Saint Caio looked at Governor Armando with a faint smile.

Armando heard this and nodded with some interest. "Of course I have heard some of this, but the royal family and the nobles treat these as just stories. After all, churches in various countries and even your temple will not take the initiative to tell the outside world, and of course they are not likely to tell the outside world in large numbers. admitted on the occasion.”

"So, Kayo, are you trying to say that the newly born sea beast probably obtained a sacred relic from an inhuman race?"

Saint Cayo was noncommittal.

"Nine times out of ten, and I think this incident may have something to do with the incident a few days ago. After all, depending on the situation, the range of the sea areas is not too far apart."

When Armando heard this, his expression suddenly froze, and then his expression became solemn again.

"The slain are resurrected! Flesh and blood are reshaped, and time is turned back regionally!"

"Kayo, are you sure this is something a holy beast can do?"

The incident about an official fleet of the Pars Empire being robbed by pirates in the Gulf, and then the people who were killed being resurrected and escaping in a gap in time has been making a fuss among the powerful circles recently.

Of course Governor Armando also knew about it, and he had handled the matter from the beginning.

Therefore, he showed a solemn look when talking about this.

Hearing this, Kayo smiled calmly.

"Ordinary holy beasts definitely can't do it! But Your Majesty the Governor, you haven't thought of it, right?"

"Those two people just said that the giant octopus' sacred beast caused extremely exaggerated changes in the celestial phenomena during its awakening and sanctification."

"So, Your Majesty the Governor, do you think it will still be an ordinary holy beast?"

"This!!!"

Armando finally reacted at this time.

He stood up suddenly, looked at Kayo with a somewhat shocked expression and said:

"Artifact!!!"

Saint Cayo and Governor Armando looked at each other, but neither of them spoke at this moment.

But Governor Armando already understood and slowly sat down again.

At this time, the look of shock on Armando's face was gone, and what appeared instead was caution and complexity.

"It has no owner and may not be the artifact of any human god. Moreover, this artifact can also turn back time to a certain extent."

"Haha, it seems that the sea area under the jurisdiction of my Governor's Mansion is very lively. I don't think the Silver Temple can handle it alone, right?"

"And Kayo, you came here for this possible artifact in the first place, right?"

Governor Armando finally figured out all the causes and consequences.

Cayo smiled and said nothing. He looked at the harbor outside the window of the Governor's Palace, walked a few steps, and then sighed:

"The world has rarely been prosperous for thousands of years. The strange movements of the evil god's family and the appearance of the artifacts of alien gods may mean that the curtain of chaos is approaching."

"In the final analysis, the Silver Temple is just a loose theocratic joint organization on the mainland. There are still differences between churches."

"The current royal family of the Pars Empire has deviated from their devout faith in our Lord and wandered among the major churches. This is a blasphemy that our Lord will certainly not forgive."

After Saint Cayo made his intention almost clear, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Governor Armando again, his eyes full of indescribable calm.

"Your Majesty, the major churches will take action in this battle for the artifact, or rather the sacred beast. As a believer in the God of Dawn and Freedom, I wonder if you can dedicate everything to our Lord this time?"

When Armando heard this, a glimmer of light flashed across his old face, and then he immediately touched Cayo's chest and saluted.

"I, Armando, am willing to sacrifice everything for my Lord!"

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