Chapter 667 The Disobedient's Long-Term Plan
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There was silence in the study for a few seconds, Ophelia seemed to be sorting out his thoughts, and Gawain was digesting the information provided by the other party, and after a while, he opened his mouth to break the silence: "You guys started the disobedience plan just because of these two sentences. talk?"
Without waiting for Ophelia to answer, he added: "I was thinking of a possibility - is it possible that the knowledge and essence of the gods are too far beyond human perception and beyond the processing capacity of the human brain, so anyone who is close to the gods The behavior itself will lead to madness, which has nothing to do with whether the gods themselves are really malicious. Will the dead explorers and half-mad returnees see only the knowledge that led to the madness of humans, rather than the gods themselves?"
These few words sounded like they were trying to excuse the gods, but Gawain knew that Ophelia would understand what he meant—he was not a believer of God, nor did he have any innate favor towards God, just out of strict consideration. , he must speak out all the possibilities that he thinks of, and Ophelia, as a researcher of the ancient empire, this rigorous spirit should also be her professional ethics.
Ophelia's reaction was not as expected by Gawain: "This is a possibility, we also thought about it at the beginning - so we did a series of verifications and more investigations, but the more in-depth research of the gods knowledge, the more disturbing the looming truth.
"In the process of excavating ancient ruins, we found some fragments left by civilizations that were fortunate enough to withstand the tide of magic. Their demise was sudden and unpredictable. It was ushered in the most prosperous and very stable society. extinction, which allows us to rule out almost all possibilities except 'death of the gods'.
"We have contacted some ancient races, including the sirens and dragons you know, as well as some ancient lords of the elemental world - the ancient empires are closely related to the residents of the elemental world, and the powerful creatures of the elemental world are not affected by demons. Influenced by the tide. In the few words of those ancient races, we find that the destruction of ancient civilizations usually occurred at the stage of major changes in their belief systems.
"And in some of the rarest archaeological harvests, we have also excavated some written records on the eve of the collapse of ancient civilizations, which occasionally mentioned 'God does not allow', 'Mortals have crossed the boundary', 'God has come, the end is coming' ' and the like, this seems to be a sentence left by the few people in the ancient civilization who had detected the changes of the gods in advance, but those 'prophets' could not save the situation."
Listening to Ophelia's remarks, Gawain nodded slightly.
It is true that the disobedients did not start the huge plan because of impulsiveness - they discovered the truth that was becoming more and more hopeless in the process of continuous in-depth investigation, and the dark future gave these "deviant" no choice. , had to secretly open a plan to fight against the gods.
"Maybe we still can't fully determine the truth of 'the gods die,'
But the tide of magic is coming, and the shadow of God is approaching day by day. Even if there is only a 1% possibility of the end, we must be 100% prepared-maybe all our efforts will prove to be a joke in the end, but Once it really happens, we must always be able to come up with some means of resistance," Ophelia said in a deep voice, "People living in a peaceful and stable environment probably cannot understand this extreme behavior, but as a Pioneers, should understand. "
"Humans are suspicious and timid creatures," Gawain sighed, "that's why we always have to arm ourselves."
"This paranoia and cowardice has ensured the survival of our community."
Gawain adjusted his sitting position and looked into Ophelia's eyes: "You mentioned a point just now that you found that the destruction of those ancient civilizations usually occurred when their belief systems underwent major changes, what does this mean specifically? ?"
"In short, their temples are shrinking rapidly, and all churches are shrinking dramatically in size at about the same time."
"Betraying the faith, so it angered God?" Gawain frowned, and suddenly his heart moved, "Then the current Holy Light Church reform..."
"That's exactly what I want to say," Ophelia said, and on her mask-like face, which was always light and gentle, with a gentle smile, Gawain actually saw a rare trace of enthusiasm, it was a hair With a sincere expression, "Our reforms in the Church of the Holy Light have not caused the 'activation' of the God of Holy Light."
Activation - Gawain noticed the words Ophelia used at the moment.
Then he asked: "You mean that the teachings of the Southern teaching that 'the source of the holy light is in the heart', 'morality and justice take precedence over dogma', 'freedom of belief for all', etc., do not lead to holy What kind of bad reaction did the God of Light have?"
Ophelia smiled: "People are still looking for the Holy Light, with several core elements of the Holy Light, namely, protection, exorcism, justice, and light as creeds, our temple has not decreased, and the size of the church has not shrunk, although we Replaced a lot of it, but... the Church of the Holy Light is still the Church of the Holy Light, isn't it?"
Gawain looked at Ophelia who was smiling, but he suddenly thought of the many obvious actions of the Church of the Holy Light in the past few years, as well as the role of the Holy Princess "Veronica Moen" in the church. Things that were originally unrelated, but now are connected little by little—
The Church of the Holy Light's rejection of heresy has promoted the rapid development of the church, but it has also led to the emergence of a large number of low-quality, bad behavior grassroots priests. Allowing those priests of mixed good and bad to use the same magic has shaken the faith of a large number of devout ascetic monks; classic interpretation rights and moral disputes have led to the division of the middle and lower priests in the church, such as Wright and Severn It is against this background that such progressive priests came into being...
These seem to be natural changes caused by the degeneration of the church and the division of internal power after its development reached its peak. However, what if there are a pair of scrutinizing eyes from researchers behind these "natural changes"?
What if it's all about testing something, like... testing the "laws of operation" of the gods, testing the "personality boundaries" of the gods?
No wonder Ophelia cooperated so actively with Wright's reforms and supported Cecil's New Deal - how could a researcher make a decision so easily without sufficient experimental data? !
Ophelia just smiled calmly and looked at Gawain: "What are you thinking?"
"These are the 'research results' you got in the Church of the Holy Light, right?"
"Why would a disobedient lurk in the enemy's church for so long if there is no gain?"
Gawain's eyes turned around, and involuntarily fell on the platinum scepter in Ophelia's hand-since the previous Pope fell, this platinum scepter has been in her hand, even if Wright, the shepherd, was in her hand. The chief took over the northern church, and she did not hand over the scepter.
This scepter was originally held by the Pope. It is said to have the function of communicating with the kingdom of God and listening to oracles, representing a bridge between God and man. However, due to the reorganization of the church and the reorganization of all the upper-level priests, the problem of this scepter has been resolved. It was left behind by people intentionally or unintentionally, but looking at it at the moment, I remembered Ophelia's words just now that the God of Light was not "activated", but Gawain vaguely guessed one thing.
"Are you monitoring the status of the God of Light? Through this scepter?"
"Any experimental project requires strict monitoring and recording," Ophelia raised her scepter slightly. "This is an attitude that researchers must have."
Looking at the platinum scepter in the opponent's hand, Gawain suddenly couldn't help but come up with an idea - do you want to try it yourself?
This thing seems to be able to establish a certain connection with the kingdom of God. If used properly, it can even be used to monitor the gods. If an ordinary person touches it, he will be directly brainwashed into a devout believer, but he himself is a man of hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. The satellite essence is very resistant to similar brainwashing - the experience of touching the eternal slate at the beginning proved this, then touch the platinum scepter now... Should it be fine?
Will it be the same as touching the eternal slate, others hear the oracle, but what I hear is another message from the super fleet, or even... something more unexpected?
At this moment, Gawain's curiosity was suddenly ignited, and the burning was unstoppable.
He was even mentally prepared to die on the spot due to improper operation.
But at the last moment, he stopped his curiosity abruptly, because he realized a huge hidden danger - the eternal slate is dead, but the current God of Light is alive...
Although the god seemed to be killed once in ancient times, but now he is mostly resurrected.
If you touch the platinum scepter rashly, will it irritate the God of Light? What Ophelia and Wright are doing now can be said to be "stealing theocratic power". The most important thing is not to provoke the god. If the god of light wakes up with his slap, the other party opens his eyes. A look at the world - where is my church? What about a church as big as I am?
The thousand years of hard work and the achievements of the disobedient are over.
After forcibly controlling his impulse, Gawain coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, looked at Ophelia and said, "If the reform of the Church of the Holy Light is successful, we will successfully shield the 'world bridge' without attracting the attention of the gods. , what are you going to do next?"
Ophelia calmly faced Gawain's gaze: "Take this as an experience to transform all beliefs in the world."
As an ancient soul who has lived for a thousand years, she seems to have patience and time.
"Do the gods really wait to be blocked by us? Although our current transformation of the Church of Holy Light has not yet led to the activation of the God of Holy Light, the day when all the gods and the mortal world are cut off, the gods Will it still not respond?"
Ophelia nodded slightly: "Gods operate according to rules. Although the 'answering machine' conjecture proposed by a few scholars in the Gondor era is not completely correct, it is indeed close to part of the truth, so as long as you grasp it well With this law, we can bypass the sight of the gods and complete the replacement and transformation of beliefs in a relatively safe situation.
"Secondly, according to our research results, although the power of the gods does not completely come from the beliefs of mortals, the transfer of beliefs of mortals will indeed greatly weaken them, and if the 'belief benchmark' of the mortal world is lost, the gods will no longer want When we come to the world, we will face huge obstacles and losses. On the other hand, mortals will become stronger because they have regained the power of magic. "
Her next words were not spoken, but the subtext was already obvious:
When that day comes, the gods who came to the world... are the demons and beasts that invaded the mortal world from another world.
The church in the world will fight back bravely, in the name of faith, to eradicate the devil and defend the Tao.
This is the plan of the disobedient, but it is still not all of their plan, but only part of it.
Just this corner is already shocking.
But Gawain still believes that there is something wrong with this plan, there are too many uncontrollable variables, and even if everything goes smoothly, it will not usher in the best results.
It's just that at least at this stage, this plan still needs to be implemented - the transformation of the Church of the Holy Light is inevitable, whether it is for social stability or the development of the new empire, he must ensure that it has the greatest influence in the country, The sect with the widest number of believers obeys the laws and regulations of "the divine right of the king".
After talking about some details about the disobedience plan and church reform, Gawain slowly exhaled.
"That's it for today, I'll stop here on the topic of disobedience," he leaned back in his chair, "I'm going to sort out this information, and if I think of anything else, or if you think it's necessary to tell me anything else Yes, let's continue talking."
"As you wish," Ophelia smiled, "but before I leave, I have something else to do."
"Oh? You said."
"It's an earlier topic, about the reform of the church," Ophelia said. "The female priests in the church are currently in a relatively... embarrassing situation."