Chapter 649 Continuation of the Disobedience Plan

The radiant barrier that shrouded the Holy Light Cathedral for several days began to gradually disintegrate, and countless pale golden particles escaped from the continuously dissolving energy barrier, flutteringly dissipated in the depths of the night, and in the gradually dissipating energy barrier. Inside the barrier, the melodious bell continued to ring.

The bell sounded melodious, like an invitation.

Gawain and the two guardian dukes stood on the square in front of the church district, looking at the scene in the direction of the church, Duke Baldwin frowned slightly: "Strange...the priests should come out of the cathedral at this time to meet the believers Why...why is the church district so quiet?"

Gawain looked up and saw that amid the scattered dust of holy light, the church district maintained a strange silence and solemnity. He could not see the bishops and high-ranking priests appearing, only some ordinary people in a hurry. Priests and attendants were running between buildings, and some panicked figures could be seen in the corridors on the upper floor of the cathedral. The situation was indeed abnormal.

Just as the three of them were guessing what was going on in the church, the solemn and heavy door depicting many miracles and runes was finally opened.

However, what came out of it was not the priesthood composed of bishops and high-ranking priests, nor the Pope Saint Ivan III, but Veronica Moen in a plain white dress—she slowed down. He walked out of the church slowly and walked towards Gawain and the others, holding the platinum scepter that belonged to the Pope.

I don't know if it was an illusion. The moment he saw the "Holy Princess", Gawain felt a faint sense of disobedience. Although Veronica still looked the same as the last time they met,...he always felt that There is a trace of inconsistency on the other side.

This feeling was inexplicable, and it was quickly washed away by a shocking news——

"His Majesty the Pope has been summoned by the Lord, and the bishops have been martyred in the God's Arrival ceremony." Veronica said calmly and calmly with her usual gentle expression.

Gao Wen and others were stunned for a while.

...Some people were really surprised, but it was the people outside the church who were surprised - when the door opened, the Pope was gone...

"Quan... martyrdom?" As if he couldn't believe his ears, Bai Dewen stepped forward and asked, "Is it a Divine Arrival on the spot? Did an accident happen?"

"The power of divine descent is beyond the reach of human beings. The Pope is too old to persist until the end of the ceremony. In order to prevent the ceremony from getting out of control, the bishops sacrificed themselves as a container," Veronica said, sideways slightly. Opening up, "The cathedral has been opened, and the Great Hall of Light still maintains the scene at that time."

This is the meaning of inviting three people inside to visit.

Baldwin and Victoria looked at each other,

After a moment of hesitation, he walked towards the main entrance of the church. Gawain woke up from a brief period of stunned and thoughtful thoughts. Countless guesses and thoughts popped up in his mind in an instant, but in the end they all converged into a profound one looking at Veronica. eyes.

The holy princess just kept a calm expression and responded calmly.

Before turning around and walking back to the church, Veronica noticed some changes outside the church district——

The streets are full of soldiers of the Cecil Legion. The Ansu King's flag above the Silver Fort in the distance has disappeared. The main tower where only the royal flag was allowed to hang, the flag of Cecil's Sword and Plough was illuminated by a beam of light. Bright, fluttering in the wind in the night.

Thinking of Gawain, Cecil herself, who appeared here, the princess' expression finally changed a little. She raised her eyebrows and asked aloud, "What happened in the city?"

"It has changed a lot. The Ansu monarchy is over, but it belongs to peaceful evolution," Victoria said in a cold voice, "The current owner of this place is His Majesty Gawain Cecil."

"I will explain it to you in detail," Gawain said to Veronica, "A lot has happened, and we all need to sort it out slowly."

Veronica lowered her head, drew the emblem of the Holy Light on her chest, and said softly, "I have converted to the Holy Light and am no longer Ansu's princess. The change of kingship has nothing to do with me... This city has survived, this It's the things that matter."

Gawain looked at her for two seconds, but said nothing, and walked towards the church not far away.

In the Great Hall of Light, the power of the Holy Light has calmed down, and the hazy Holy Light has re-condensed into a sea of ​​clouds, slowly floating over the hall, and the Pope's Holy Seat is now empty, not even a single remnant can be seen. All traces that can be found in the hall are only a dozen piles of embers surrounding the Holy See—those gray-white ashes are distributed on the key nodes where the God's Arrival is performed, and they are all the remnants of the old bishops' conference.

This does seem to be the trace left after the raging holy light burned the human body, and there is no sign of fighting or being invaded by foreign enemies in the entire Great Hall of Light.

However, the two Dukes of Baldwin and Victoria, who were about to rebuild order in the city and were responsible for maintaining the stability of the core area of ​​the empire, only felt a headache at the moment.

At this time, they couldn't help but envy Wales, who had left in time, and even couldn't help but have divergent speculations - it is possible that His Majesty the King knew about the shocking changes in the cathedral long ago, so he pulled away so resolutely. go?

"Gods..." Baldwin's face was extremely ugly, "I would rather deal with those crystal cluster monsters..."

Victoria glanced at him quietly, her voice indifferent: "Are you going to guard the city again?"

"That's not what I meant..." Baldwin waved his hand immediately, then glanced up and down at Victoria, "Why didn't I find out that you are still sarcastic?"

"Just curious, ask," Victoria said casually, then looked at Veronica, "That is to say, there are no bishop-level priests in the cathedral now? How many high-level priests are left?"

"It is true that all the bishops have been martyred, but the high-ranking priests have not been damaged, and the church can still function normally," Veronica said, and raised her platinum scepter slightly, "I have been recognized by the platinum scepter. I can temporarily manage the cathedral, but now that the kingship has changed, the order of Saint Sunil needs to be reorganized, and the believers also need to seek peace in the new environment. I am afraid that many things will require me and Gawain?? Cecil ...Your Majesty will make a decision after deliberation."

"We can talk now," Gawain said immediately, "if you have no opinion."

"Alright," Veronica nodded lightly and looked at the two guardian dukes, "The two grand dukes can wait in the lounge for a while."

Gawain saw that the "Holy Princess" seemed to have something that he wanted to communicate with him privately, so he said to Baldwin and Victoria, "You might as well go back to the castle to rest first, and we'll talk about anything tomorrow."

"Okay." Victoria nodded and said briefly, then took the Duke of Baldwin, who seemed to be worried, and left the cathedral together.

It was not until he came to the outside of the cathedral and came to a place where the holy light could not shine, he couldn't help but look back and said to Victoria: "Do you think this is very strange? Although St. Ivan III may They are indeed old, but they are not yet to the point where they can no longer support God's Arrival... And all the bishops were martyred? Although I believe that their faith is indeed so devout that they can be martyred at any time, but no one survived a God's Arrival ceremony... ...it's just too coincidental."

"It's really weird," Victoria said, "but there's no clue."

"His Royal Highness Veronica must know more..." Bai Dewen hesitated, "but she doesn't seem to plan to say it, at least not in front of us."

Victoria was silent for a moment, then turned around and looked in the direction of the cathedral.

The fine snowflakes escaped from her hair, and her voice came from the breeze: "But overall, it's a good thing."

Bai Dewen was stunned, his expression became subtle, after a few seconds of silence, he showed an expression that didn't know whether to cry or laugh: "Yeah, good thing... but there are too many things happening at the same time, really Makes it easy.”

"The turning point of the era...that's probably how it is."

Inside the cathedral, Gawain and Veronica stood in the hall of light, the former looked around a little uncomfortably: "Are we just here to talk?"

"Please rest assured, there are no extra eyes here," Veronica said mildly, "including the eyes of the God of Light."

Gawain took a deep look at Veronica: "This sentence sounds...not very religious."

Veronica just showed a smile, and gently raised the platinum scepter in her hand: "The platinum scepter representing the bridge of the will of the God of Light has already been under my control, and no one who believes in him will question me. piety."

"But I don't believe in Him," Gawain said. "Is Saint Ivan III really died by descent? Is the bishops really martyred?"

"They gave their lives for their beliefs, by definition, martyrdom," Veronica said calmly. "Do you still regret their deaths? As a ruler who is about to reshape the country's order Or, the sudden decline of the church should be good for you."

In everyone's normal impression, such words will never come from Veronica, from the mouth of this devout "Virgin Princess"!

Gawain stared into the eyes of the Holy Princess, and he could finally confirm that the sense of disobedience he felt on Veronica was not an illusion, but the sense of disobedience did not appear today. It is a violation that has always existed in this holy princess and has always been hidden by her.

It's just that I don't know what happened. Veronica's special aura is very obvious today, and Gawain happened to be quite sensitive to something "inhuman", so he noticed it.

He looked into Veronica's eyes, and felt as if he was looking at a puppet, a kind of heterogenous aura that was very similar to human beings, but was different from human beings when carefully perceived. The characteristics of... He vaguely seemed to have felt it in the other party before.

"I don't want to quibble. Who are you—you know what I mean—and what are you trying to do?"

"Have you ever heard such a sentence..." Veronica smiled lightly and said word by word, "——Humanity will live forever, even if it disobeys the gods."

"The Disobedient Plan!" Gawain blurted out, and he finally felt astonished, which even broke the indifference he had maintained so far, "How...how do you know this?!"

The pious princess is actually the insider of the disobedient plan? Why would she know? She got ancient knowledge? Is there a legacy of disobedience within the Moen royal family? Or...the existence of ancient survivors like Carmel?

One question after another exploded in Gawain's mind, and what shocked and confused him the most was that a disobedient (if Veronica was a disobedient) turned out to be a "devout" believer of the God of Light and a church. high-level executives—but if he imagined it carefully, he suddenly felt that this kind of development was quite in line with the meaning of "disobedient".

An organization that can slice and study God and extend its power to the most devout church, the disobedience in it is indeed not low...

"The plan of disobedience has never ended, as long as humanity continues, we will not stop," Veronica said under Gawain's gaze, "You don't have to be so surprised - by your side, there is already a living Disobedient?"

"Kamel..." Gawain frowned, "Then who are you?"

"It's not really that important, but if you're curious, I can tell you a name," Veronica whispered. "'We', used to be called Ophelia?? Norton. Yes, but you must know the surname."

"Norton? The surname of the Gondor royal family?!" Gawain's eyes widened, suddenly feeling that he was exposed to too much information today, "Ophelia...I really don't know much...but what you just said' What do we' mean?!"

"It involves the division and reorganization of souls, and it involves some secrets, I'm not sure if I should let you know now, and as for the name Ophelia?? Norton... You can ask Carmel when you go back, he It should give you a satisfactory answer."

Gawain could see that the disobedient with the identity of "Veronica Moen" in front of him didn't completely trust him, and he didn't plan to tell all his secrets, but he didn't force the question, but asked: "What do you want to do when you tell me this?"

"Do something disobedient to the gods," Veronica smiled and raised the platinum scepter gently, "For example... let the Holy Light return to mortals."