Chapter 1577
In the bountiful garden shrouded in a twilight dome, the eternal feast continued as it had done for millennia, empty spirit feasters gathered around long tables, toasting and feasting, while Around these holy spirits without any thinking and only empty bodies, there are many "landscapes" that have never been seen before.
It was a large number of explosive devices neatly stacked around the long banquet table, as well as a mountain of charge units.
The mortal weapons made in the world are now piled up in the entire Fertile Garden. All kinds of explosives are piled up from the long banquet table to the entrance of the garden. Every path, every open space, and even the things that can be placed on the long banquet table The place is now full of bundled grenades. These killing weapons with a cold breath and iron-gray metallic luster almost piled up the entire garden into a huge ammunition depot. Their "painting style" that is incompatible with the surrounding environment makes this The scene looked very strange.
But even weirder than these explosives are the holy spirits who are still maintaining a "feast" around the long table, and the three godly half-bodies who are still sitting high at the end of the long table—these hollow bodies are very different from the sudden crowd in the Kingdom of God. The "foreign objects" that come out have no reaction at all. Even if the shells have hit their faces, they can still toast and drink in the gaps in the ammunition pile, laughing and celebrating, and the shining figures with shimmering lights walk through the ammunition depot like this Among them, the three holy and dignified half-bodies of divinity are sitting in the middle of the "divine throne" surrounded by charge units and chain explosive devices, which is extremely weird.
And in this extremely abnormal, even slightly creepy "banquet hall", the only three sane figures are still busy.
The goddess of spring, Flora, walked over from the direction of the river bank. Her upper body was wrapped with several rounds of armed belts, which were covered with various explosive devices. Her elk-like lower body was equipped with two A huge ammunition box was filled with crystallized bombs that could flatten an entire building in an instant, and a large number of explosives floated in the midair behind her, lifted by an invisible force and flew towards the few people around the long banquet table. blasting point.
Seeing that the explosives landed in their predetermined positions, Flora nodded in satisfaction, then turned and walked towards the end of the long table, where she saw the divine half-body that had exactly the same appearance as herself sitting quietly on a field of blooming flowers. In the middle of the bush, she stared at an infinitely distant direction with holy but empty eyes. Although she had the same appearance, the cold and hollow aura exuded by this divine half body made her feel a little creepy. Flora couldn't help but Zhu frowned, and then carefully piled up the new batch of explosives he was carrying beside the flowers. .
After stacking, she took two steps back, carefully observed the layout of the nearby explosives, and then stepped forward to make some serious adjustments—she seemed to be trying hard to arrange the bombs into a heart shape, but finally gave up up.
Then she shook her head, and looked at the other two figures beside her - the divine half of Gaia and Eve were also sitting upright among the flowers and bombs, unresponsive to what happened close at hand.
Flora quickly turned her head to take a look,
When she found that her two older sisters were planting bombs at the other end of the long banquet table, a little mischievous smile appeared on her face. She cautiously came to the side of Gaia and Eve's divine half-body, and then took out a few grenades from her side. Sneakily stuffing it under the bodies of the "two sisters"...
However, Gaia, who just turned her head around, saw the Goddess of Spring's small movements. The eldest sister of the three gods immediately stared: "Flora! What are you doing?"
Flora hastily took out the half-stuffed grenades, and while pretending to check the shell casings, she replied confidently: "Arrange around the throne, didn't you say that you would put all these bombs in place within today... ..."
"Don't do unnecessary things," Gaia walked over quickly, knowing what her sister wanted to do with a glance, "According to the blueprint given by Rebecca, so as to ensure that the power of the ammunition is released with maximum efficiency—no It is said that the denser the piles of these things, the better, have you forgotten how to teach them in class?"
"Remember..." Flora nodded again and again, "I was higher than you and Second Sister in the exam..."
"It doesn't mean anything if you have a good score on roll noodles, but the Curse Goddess roll score is also very good. During the practical test, the blood god was almost blown away, didn't you?" Gaia frowned and glanced at the young sister, and then Only then did she sigh, and turned her head to look at the empty, sacred, cold and weird half-body of divinity, with exclamation in her tone, "In addition, I want to remind you that although theoretically, the half-body of divinity cannot Take the initiative to act under the circumstances, and will not react to your contact, but it is best to be cautious, you are dealing with the most dangerous force in the world-do you want to do these pranks a long time ago?"
"Okay, okay..." Flora nodded subconsciously at first, and then suddenly reacted, shaking her head vigorously while denying, "Ah, no, no! I don't have one, I just want to test it..."
But Gaia didn't care about the sophistry of her younger sister, who is showing more and more "humanization" trend recently, her eyes still stay on her divine half body, and she has no warmth at all with that half body. Her eyes remained silent for a long time, until an involuntary sense of resistance from the depths of her heart forced her to withdraw her gaze, then she sighed slightly and shook her head: "It's really... an indescribable feeling, we What should be destroyed should be a part of ourselves, but now I look at 'them' but feel a strange disgust, and a kind of creepiness. For so long, we have been dealing with such unpleasant things Bundled together, it’s unbelievable to think about.”
Footsteps came from the side, and Eve also came to the "divine place" full of flowers and bombs. She frowned when she heard the elder sister's sigh: "If it wasn't for Ms. Ye who separated us from the divinity Come on, we don't even realize how corrupt and taut the chains around us are, and it's scary to think about it now."
Gaia nodded, and her eyes fell on the feet of her divine body—surrounded by the bright flowers, what caught her eyes was the black-red thorns and rotten vines that could no longer be concealed by the flowers. The mutated flesh has faintly seeped out of the soil, and the tiny granulation sprouts are spreading along the vines, and camouflage flowers are blooming on the top. , and such terrible changes have been going on in this kingdom of God for many years.
Every rotten and distorted detail reflects a development in the mortal world beyond the confinement of theocracy—for the three gods of abundance, it may be the improvement of the farming system, the study of the rotation of seasons, or the study of the wind and rain in spring. A clear perception of change, perhaps even the discovery of some new edible plant not found in the sacred texts, a new way of making wine, a new irrigation technique...
Every time a mortal draws strength from progress, accumulates experience from development, and recognizes wisdom and knowledge that are not mentioned in sacred books, the rotten vision in this kingdom of God will spread a little more, and the holy and glorious god will be far from madness. Fall a little closer.
The former three gods of abundance were bound by chains, and their will and cognition were bound and even covered by the half-body of divinity. Therefore, although the three sisters of Gaia knew that they were bound, they never saw the kingdom of God with their own eyes. It wasn't until Ms. Ye's neat "surgical operation" liberated their wills from the bondage of divinity that the three sisters clearly saw the terrible changes accumulated in themselves for the first time.
"...It's a bit disgusting." Eve also glanced at the real scene covered by flowers, but she quickly looked away, "It's a bit scary—Ms. Ye said that when she intervened, we were already far away. Crazy recent god, I didn't feel it at the time, but as my mind became clearer these days, I really recalled a lot of creepy details."
"The older the gods, the more crazy they are, because the ancient gods were born in the early stages of civilization and ignorance. What supports our operation is the superficial cognition and awe of the natural world by ancient humans, and those ancient information systems have already been extremely powerful. It is far behind the times, not to mention the rapid development of the mortal world over the years, especially in the field of farming, which is no longer what we are familiar with," Gaia said, shaking her head, "I checked the corruption of the Kingdom of God these days. According to the situation, it is roughly estimated that the time node for incubation acceleration should be in the last five to ten years.”
Eve thought for a while, and quickly realized: "...the people of Typhon discovered the technology of acidifying burning rocks to mass-produce 'abundance dust'. The synthetic fertilizer produced in the factory began to replace the harvest priests as an important source of food production. Assure……"
"Yes, the acidification of burning rocks, that was even earlier than Cecil's alchemy potion, and countless mortals who were struggling with food and clothing have been full since that day, but because the process of mortals' full food was bypassed 'God', this kingdom of God has bred crazy corruption..." Gaia's voice was a little low, but then she became firm again, she raised her head and stared at her divine half-body, "So, it's time to paint Full stop."
Flora listened to the conversation between the two sisters, then turned her head to look at the long banquet table next to her, she didn't know what she was thinking, she was suddenly a little worried: "We are discussing this next to my divine half, won't Is it dangerous?"
Eve turned her head and glanced at the god surrounded by flowers, her tone was very flat: "The thought trend has been cut, they can't hear the voice of 'myself'."
Flora breathed a sigh of relief, and then she looked at the explosives piled up in the entire garden in her sight, with a somewhat expectant expression on her face: "By the way... when will these things come in handy? Has the equivalent on our side already about there?"
"That will have to wait. According to the plan, it will not be activated until the last moment—on the day when the parent star barrier is activated." Gaia glanced at Flora lightly, "The progress of the 'preparation work' of the gods is different. If a certain god acts in advance, the huge energy fluctuations generated in the Kingdom of God will most likely spread to the realms of other gods, which will lead to unpredictable consequences. Taking a step back, even if there is no interaction between the Kingdom of God The sudden 'disconnection' of some gods will also have a chain reaction in the world, causing turmoil among the corresponding mortal believers, and this restlessness will spread to believers of other gods... Be alert, there will be big trouble."
Eve on the side also nodded: "That's right, mortals are different from us, they will often visit, and there are many mortals who believe in multiple gods at the same time. They are all very religious, so this situation is particularly troublesome. So in order to avoid this kind of accident, we must wait until the end to act at the same time... we cannot give any one of the divine half-body time to react.
"And before that... all we have to do is prepare, keep preparing, prepare until the last second, and maximize the success rate."
Flora nodded lightly, and then looked back at her divine body, with a strange expression on her face: "Although I know they won't react, it still feels weird to be 'plotting loudly' here. ..."
"I also think," Gaia laughed when he heard the words, "Okay, the rest time is almost over, we still have a lot of things to do, the Theocratic Council is preparing for the next large-scale sacrificial ceremony, we Before the new 'goods' are sent to the Kingdom of God, the storage space outside the garden must be vacated."
"Yes, yes, do business—I'm going to bring the box of fuzes by the river," Flora waved her hand, and said casually as she turned and walked towards the river that runs through the garden, "You two will open the offering next time." You have to be well prepared when you sacrifice the passage, don’t bring bricks and shoes in, to be honest, you guys are not as reliable as me in this matter.”
Gaia raised her eyebrows immediately, and Eve next to her hurriedly stepped forward to hold her sister's arm: "Don't, don't, my sister, my sister..."
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At the same time, in the majestic and magnificent Cathedral of the God of Commerce in Cecil City, the slightly chubby Archbishop Boris was standing in front of the icon of the God of Commerce Bovard, with an extremely well-placed and brilliant expression on his face. With a smiling face, I received a special "guest".
It was a tall priest wearing heavy armor and a full-coverage helmet. His face was completely covered by a silver-white visor, and sacred prayers and oaths were engraved on the steel plate on the helmet and chest. Riveted near his shoulder armor is a slightly glowing verse cloth strap, the logo of the Theocratic Council is faintly visible on the verse cloth strap.
This is a high-ranking trial knight from the Theocratic Council, representing the will of His Majesty the Emperor, and in charge of arbitrating the authority of the churches.
Under normal circumstances, the appearance of such a high-ranking judge knight in the church area would always make ordinary priests feel uneasy, but today, this mighty Mr. Knight brought exciting and good news.
"...To sum up, in order to commemorate the founding day of the Alliance, and at the same time pray for the heroic souls who died in the Battle of the Wasteland, and pray for the world, His Majesty the Emperor hereby authorizes all registered orthodox churches in the country to hold sacred ceremonies on the anniversary of the 112th meeting, and to carry out Sacrificial ceremonies and a series of celebrations that comply with the laws and regulations of the empire. For specific activities, please refer to the "Council Guidance" I just handed to you. Archbishop Boris, do you have any questions?"
Archbishop Boris smiled, obviously in a very happy mood: "Of course not - thank you very much for your Majesty and the council's help and support, we will strictly abide by the content stated in the "Guiding Opinions", legal sacrifices, and civilized prayers..."
As the chubby archbishop spoke, he raised his hand and outlined the sacred emblem of commerce that looked like a scale on his chest: "May the glory of our lord rest on the earth and comply with the laws and regulations of the empire in related fields... "