Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 426: Westmarch Cathedral

Westmarch Cathedral is a cathedral located in the lower town of Longton. To be more precise, it should be the largest church cathedral in the lower town.

The remains of a saint are enshrined here. This saint was a nun who lived here four hundred years ago. At that time, Westmarch Cathedral was just an ordinary church chapel and there was nothing special about it.

This nun helped the poor and took in homeless orphans for decades, spreading the faith in the All-Father in the lower town of Longton four hundred years ago.

Eventually, this ordinary nun died of illness due to overwork, and the local believers and people spontaneously renovated the Westmarch Cathedral into a cathedral, and buried the nun's body under the shrine of the renovated cathedral.

The believers hope that the light of the All-Father can protect this kind and virtuous nun and enable her soul to return to the All-Father's golden throne.

The nun's deeds were later widely spread and gradually became one of the miracles of the church, and the nun herself was canonized and crowned as a saint.

So in the hundred years after the nun's death, Westmarch Cathedral was renovated again, and the nun's remains were taken out. After being decorated with gold foil, gems, and various silk and jewelry, they were placed in a holy coffin made of transparent crystal. They are still enshrined in the cathedral and have become one of the famous holy relics of the church, Sister Westmarch.

In the following three hundred years, Westmarch Cathedral also became one of the famous church churches in Langton, and a large number of believers came here for pilgrimage every year.

The solemn and dignified cathedral and the Sister Westmarch enshrined on the altar have always left a very deep impression on people, so much so that every believer who comes here speaks and prays very quietly, for fear of disturbing the solemnity of the church and incurring the dissatisfaction of the church pastors and priests.

But today, the priests and clergy of the cathedral broke the tranquility of the cathedral themselves. They took the initiative to remove all the chairs in the cathedral, and then asked a group of craftsmen to smash the floor of the cathedral.

The ground beneath the cathedral is not solid, but consists of cellars and catacombs built in the past.

In the past, the church would bury the bodies of believers here. Over the years, four hundred years have left the basement of the cathedral filled with piles of bones.

Several priests first sprinkled holy water around the smashed floor, and then led the priests and nuns in a devout prayer. After the blessing, they let the workers go down to move the remains out and completely empty the basement of the cathedral.

At the same time, in the square outside the church, a large machine was being assembled. If someone familiar with it, they would know at a glance that this was the serpentine shield machine that Perfectoct had used in the North.

However, the one in front of him is smaller than the prototype originally made by Perfect, and its structure seems to have been optimized and improved. Even the excavation cutter disc at the front has been upgraded, and it seems to have become more efficient.

"Your Excellency Cardinal, the crypts of Westmarch Cathedral are too deep and contain too many buried corpses. It will probably take a lot of time to clean them up." A priest in a white robe reported to the red-robed cardinal beside him.

He is the person in charge of Westmarch Cathedral. He has never been down to the basement of the cathedral, but the cathedral has preserved a large number of records over the past four hundred years, including records of how many bodies the church buries in the catacombs every year.

Although he only said "a bit too much", he knew clearly that it was more than a bit too much. According to records, more than 500,000 bodies were buried in the underground of Westmarch Cathedral seventy years ago. This number sounds very shocking, but considering that this is a number accumulated over hundreds of years, it is not so surprising.

After all, it has been hundreds of years, and considering that there was a war between the Victoria Empire and France that lasted for a hundred years during these hundreds of years, it is normal to have so many corpses.

However, although it was easy to bury them at the beginning, it is very troublesome to clean them up now. It is not possible to clean up hundreds of thousands of corpses in a short time.

"Mobilize the believers and ask them to help." The cardinal in a red robe looked at the shield machine being assembled beside him. There was a hint of hesitation and entanglement on his face, but he soon made up his mind: "Tell the believers that these bones are cleaned up in order to transform the cathedral into a shelter. In the end times, the church will shelter all the All-Father believers who need help! Now we need them to clean up these bones to make room for the construction of the shelter."

After hearing what the cardinal said, the priest wanted to say something, but he finally decided to follow the cardinal's orders.

In fact, the church had already notified the priests in charge of the various churches, and he knew in advance that the Westmarch Cathedral needed to be transformed into a shelter to protect the people during the apocalypse.

Although the centuries-old monuments in the church were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of corpses underground were disturbed, since this was done to shelter more living people, the pastor felt that the only option was to let the dead make room for the living.

Soon the priest gathered the other priests and clergy of Westmarch Cathedral and sent them all out to mobilize the faithful to help.

At this time, the news of the coming of the doomsday announced by the empire had already been known to the people. They were in a state of panic at this moment. The church suddenly stood up and said that it would transform the church into a shelter to protect everyone through the end of the world. This undoubtedly made the people have a great favor and trust in the church.

When they heard that the church needed their help and wanted to contribute to the construction of the shelter, these believers enthusiastically joined in the process of cleaning and moving the remains.

Looking at the believers coming from all directions to help, the cardinal finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Westmarch Cathedral is the largest church in the Lower Town, and it will also be the largest shelter in the Lower Town in the future. If it cannot be cleared and the construction of the shelter completed within the specified time, it will have an immeasurable impact on the church's entire plan.

Especially according to the plan, this place will accommodate the refuge of tens of thousands of people, and it will also be responsible for the production of various materials. If there is a problem, it will not be a matter of this place, but will affect the entire lower city area.

Therefore, the cardinal did not dare to be negligent in this regard and came personally to supervise the entire construction process to ensure that everything went smoothly.

Although there will be some omissions and problems in mobilizing believers to clean up the corpses, this is nothing compared to the fact that the shelter cannot be completed on time.

Therefore, the cardinal had no choice but to mobilize these believers and let the priests and clergy of Westmarch Cathedral work harder.

(End of this chapter)