Chapter 530: The Day of Leaving

"That's all she told you?"

Inside the lord's mansion, Gawain looked at Wright in front of him and asked curiously.

"Yes," Light nodded. "She learned about Protestant teachings from me, and she didn't show any excitement, no rebuttal, and certainly no support—I have absolutely no idea what her purpose was."

Gawain touched his chin and shook his head slightly: "Her purpose has always been hidden deeply."

Emily was floating aside, playing with the pen holder that Gawain put on the desk curiously, when she suddenly turned her head: "There is light everywhere around that sister."

Emily has a strong affinity for the Holy Light, especially after she became a spirit creature, so Gawain did not ignore the little girl's casual remark: "What kind of light? It is the same as the Holy Light on Wright. Is it?"

Emily raised her head and thought for a while, then shook her head: "It's not the same - the light on uncle's body is pure white, and the light around her is pale golden."

Gawain frowned: "A pale golden holy light..."

He couldn't help thinking of what Carmel had reported to him earlier.

As a senior researcher of the Disobedience Project, Carmel, who had been in contact with the power of gods, felt a strange temperament from the "Virgin Princess". He judged that Veronica was either related to the gods or had been to the realm of the gods... …

The so-called "going to the realm of the gods" certainly does not mean stepping into the kingdom of God as a mortal. This involves a concept in religious studies: scholars believe that the kingdom of the gods is not directly connected to the world of mortals, and there are There are several layers of barriers beyond what mortals can understand. Under normal circumstances, mortals cannot reach the kingdom of God no matter what, but at some special levels, the power of the kingdom of God will radiate and spread to the vicinity of the world, while mortals cannot reach the kingdom of God. Part of the structure of life - such as soul perception, dream state, supersensory touch - has the opportunity to contact these spread of the realm of the kingdom of God.

In most cases, this kind of contact will have terrible consequences. The mind of mortals cannot withstand the huge shock of information from the gods, and the contact person will be swallowed up by the endless illusions and memories almost instantly. Entities are also twisted into indescribable states, and the few who come back alive bring back knowledge of the gods.

This rare "contact" has happened more than once in history, and those lucky people who have the opportunity to return safely after contacting the kingdom of God and maintain human minds have basically become saints in the legends of various sects and prophets.

As far as Gawain knew, the Holy Light Church, as the strongest branch of the Orthodox Churches, had many special divine grace ceremonies inside it.

The content of some of the rituals is related to "contacting the realm of the gods", but being able to truly step into the kingdom of God and return safely is something that cannot be found. Therefore, these rituals are essentially more similar to a kind of "catalysis". The power of the weapon temporarily increases a person's spiritual talent, allowing him to hear a message from the realm of the gods.

As a "living saint" of the Church of the Holy Light, Veronica may have also experienced this special ceremony.

Did she successfully come into contact with the real realm of the kingdom of God during the ceremony? Did she see "that world"?

If this is true, then Veronica must be the most devout believer of the God of Light, even if she was not, after entering "that world" and facing the God of Light, she must be.

However, a devout believer of the God of Light...why would he calmly listen to Wright tell about those deviant Protestant doctrines?

"She said that she would use her own eyes to witness the holy light of this land," Gawain said slowly, he watched Emily drill around the desk, the holy light spreading from the little girl's body covered the whole The tables were covered with a faint glow, "If this is how she witnesses...that's beyond my expectations."

Then he turned his head and asked Amber standing behind him, "What is Veronica doing these days?"

"Most of the time, she was just wandering around the territory - accompanied by the entourage we arranged. She bought a lot of souvenirs, and also bought some newspapers and printed books, just like an ordinary tourist into the city, In addition, she stayed in the autumn palace, reading or praying. Going to the church to meet Wright should be her only special move - of course, it is not ruled out that she uses more advanced incarnation spells to sneak in other places, but we There are strict monitoring in all key departments, and there are two legends, you and Carmel, in the administrative area and the research area, respectively, so the possibility is not high.”

Gawain touched his chin: "Shopping, shopping, reading, praying... This is not what I expected at first."

The attitude and actions of the Holy Princess are hidden in a layer of fog. Gawain had made a lot of arrangements for the visit of the Holy Light Church messengers before, from coaxing corruption to coaxing, from tough confrontation to provocation, basically Taking all the circumstances into consideration - but he only did not expect that the other party was a street-shopping player, and after so many days, Veronica has not looked for him again, and has not mentioned anything to him about the split between the North and South churches and the orthodox doctrine. , the topic of the reconstruction of Nanjing Parish, which made Gao Wen, who was fully prepared, feel like he was punching cotton.

However, the Holy Princess was just doing so "normally", going shopping, shopping, doing whatever a normal visitor should do in the company of the entourage arranged by Gawain, and this continued until Gawain Finalizing all trade details with Victoria lasted until the day when the envoy from the royal capital was ready to return.

On the 40th of the Brumaire, the time to return to the capital has come.

No matter how many questions Victoria has about the southern border, no matter what Veronica, the church messenger from the north, wants to do, they will all return to the capital.

At the farewell banquet at the Lord’s Mansion, Duchess Victoria came to Gawain, the ruler of the north bent down and said indifferently, “Thank you for your hospitality over the past few days, this trip to the South is unforgettable—here What I saw greatly exceeded my expectations."

Gawain smiled: "Actually, you can stay here for a longer time - there has been snowfall recently in the north, so it's not easy to travel."

"The Wilders don't care about the wind and snow," Victoria said lightly, "and I'm going to return to Saint-Sunil as soon as possible to preside over business and complete our deal--winter will end, and we'll be in the East Arm the fighters before the border rebels attack again."

"Very well, I will ship the armaments before then and send them to the mouth of the Dorgon River next to the rock fortress," Gawain nodded, took a glass of red wine from the tray in the hand of the attendant, and said to Victoria. A toast, "It's a good start."

"Your help is very important to the kingdom's army, and the kingdom will always get better," the duchess also raised her glass and touched Gawain's glass, "but you really don't think about going to Saint-Sunil. Is it? The Cecil family has returned to the center of power in the kingdom, and you should have a seat at the conference table guarding the Duke."

It can be seen that the duchess is sincerely inviting, but Gawain just smiled indifferently and shook his head: "Compared to going to the capital to attend your meeting, discuss a bunch of things I don't understand. stuff, I have more important things to do here."

Victoria wanted to say something else, but she noticed the direction Gawain's eyes were directed: it was due south, where the Dark Mountains were located.

Her expression became serious: "Are you still worried about that wasteland?"

"I've never been relieved - don't think that it will be calm forever after seven hundred years," Gawain looked into Victoria's eyes, "Victoria, now I ask as a guardian duke of the same level, not an elder. You say: Do you really think that as long as the civil war is over, and as long as Wales takes the throne, the nobles of Anzu will be able to block Typhon in the east and the wasteland in the south?"

Victoria wanted to blurt out an affirmative answer, but she fell silent before the answer came out.

During Cecil's ten days, she observed a lot of things, and during this observation, she confirmed one thing.

Duke Gawain Cecil has been preparing for a war, even many wars.

He has taken the entire southern border, and his army can easily destroy the coalition of more than forty nobles, but he still hasn't stopped, he has built a steel monster in the rock fortress, but his energy in the dark mountains is even More than a rock fortress, Anzu's civil war has dragged countless nobles of the kingdom into the quagmire, but for the founding ancestor who had risen from the dead, he didn't care about the civil war at all - his enemy was bigger than that. threaten.

If the nobles in the capital saw all this, they would probably think that the founding grand duke was hypersensitive, thinking that he was still trapped on the battlefield 700 years ago, so he was paranoid and blindly fighting like a ghost. She did not hesitate to push the newly-born duchy to the brink of financial collapse, but after seeing the records of the two Cecil defense battles with her own eyes and hearing the memories of those who experienced it, she would not make such a rash conclusion.

And even if the wasteland of Gondor can be regarded as an invisible threat, what about Typhon who is so close at hand?

The Ansu people have been pressed to their throats by the blade of the empire more than once.

"The nobles of Ansu have many problems," the Duchess finally broke the silence. She responded to Gawain's gaze with firm eyes, "But even if we want to rectify them, we need a complete Ansu first."

"...It's not an excellent answer, but it's worthy of your title," Gawain sighed, and then said seemingly casually, "By the way, I have something else to ask you. Don't worry, it's not difficult."

"You just speak."

Gao Wen nodded: "I have a group of craftsmen and mages hired from the capital, and they hope to bring their families over too - but I heard that the capital has been under martial law."

He didn't forget his promise to Cohen - the young mage from the capital asked to bring his family to Cecil before pressing the button of the Inversion of Holy Light, Gawain always remembered it, but if he Mentioning this matter to Victoria at the very beginning will inevitably lead to a bunch of unnecessary speculations. At this time, after talking about the "big business" and then talking about it casually, this matter will not be so abrupt.

"It's not difficult," Victoria didn't think too much. "Just give me the list, and I'll issue a pass for them myself."

Victoria left, and Gawain sighed slightly, looking at the slightly thin and lonely back of the Duchess.

"To rectify them... I didn't think about rectifying them at all."

A warm and soft breath approached from the side, Gawain turned his head, and saw Veronica Moen smiling peacefully.

"You're leaving today too," Gawain nodded to the holy princess, "Is there anything you want to say?"

"I'm just an eye sent by the Lord, and my mission is to see, not speak."

"That's it?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, and his tone became serious, "To be honest, as the messenger of the Holy Light Church, you don't seem to be doing your job very well—you really did it for the destruction of the Southern Church and the change of owners of Lu'an City. come?"

Veronica didn't speak, she just looked into Gawain's eyes quietly, her gaze was deep and quiet, like a bottomless spring, at a certain moment in a trance, Gawain actually felt that he was not with a pair of Human eyes look at each other - it seems to be just a medium or prop for observing the world, a dead thing without a soul, and a real soul is hiding in a deeper place, peering into itself through this medium.

"What happened in Lu'an City was a regrettable accident. It was the priests of the cathedral who went astray and betrayed the Lord's teachings before they were expelled by the people. Now the people in the southern border have chosen the order that they recognize. Under the guidance of Duke Cecil, a new order has been established, Luanne Cathedral has been restored, and the Holy Light still shines on the land - the South, and nothing happens."

Veronica's voice fell, and Gawain couldn't help frowning in shock: "Are you serious?"

Veronica smiled lightly: "Isn't this a 'fact' recognized by everyone in the South?"

"What's in it for you?" Gawain asked bluntly. "It's for your faith?"

Veronica was silent for a moment, and the unchanging smile on her face suddenly faded: "Yes, this is for my belief."

After a long silence between the two, Gawain broke the silence: "Will the Northern Church accept all this?"

"They will—because this civil war will continue, and on the plains of the Holy Spirit, there is a vortex larger than the southern border."