Chapter 1884 True and False Oracle

Eight people have arrived in the not-so-large Hall of Sages. They are the veiled Pope of the Order of Redemption and the three female holy priestesses, Marshal of the Redemption Army Tarkov, General President of the Merchant Guild Jon, General Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Order, and Chairman of the Redemption Council. The eight of them plus Melina who has arrived now and the three Holy Judges of the Tribunal make a total of twelve people, and these twelve people represent the twelve most powerful people in the entire Order of Redemption and even the entire world.

"Close the door, we are having a meeting now." Adhering to his usual simple and clear style, the Pope gave a direct order after seeing Melina and the other four arrive, and then motioned everyone to take a seat.

The other eleven people did not say anything nonsense. They sat in the seats they thought were correct according to the Pope's order. It is not difficult to see the good or bad relationship between them from the position of the seats.

For example, the relationship between the Marshal of the Redemption Army and the General President of the Merchant Guild is very close. In non-wartime, the Merchant Guild is responsible for the logistics supply of all local garrisons, and most of the spoils of the local garrisons are also purchased and sold by the Merchant Guild.

In addition, the relationship between the Holy Priestess of Civilization and the Chief Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Order is very good, because they are all committed to restoring the technological civilization before the disaster, and they often cooperate with each other. Even when the Academy of Sciences of the Order conducts some experiments that can be classified as blasphemous, the Holy Priestess of Civilization will help them avoid punishment.

There are good relationships and bad relationships. The relationship between the Chairman of the Redemption Council and the Marshal of the Redemption Army is very bad. This is mainly because of money. Since the launch of the Great Recovery Plan, the Redemption Order has invested more than half of its tax revenue in the expansion and establishment of the Redemption Army. Even this cannot meet the needs of the Redemption Army. The Marshal of the Redemption Army will go to the Parliament from time to time to ask for more funding, which has caused many of the policies being implemented by the Redemption Order government to have to stop. The Chairman of the Redemption Council will naturally not have a good face for the Marshal of the Redemption Army, and the two of them are also two extremes of the Great Recovery Plan, one extreme agrees, and the other extreme opposes.

Among the twelve people, Melina is the oldest, and except for her slightly better relationship with the three students of the Inquisition, her relationship with the other eight people is not good, so when choosing a position, she simply chose the position directly opposite the Pope, and there is some distance between her and the others.

After everyone sat down, the Pope turned his head and nodded to the Holy Lantern Priestess, who then took out several documents and handed them to everyone.

"You read first, and then we'll talk." The Pope instructed.

Everyone showed a puzzled look on their faces, and they picked up the documents in front of them and started to look through them. Soon, they couldn't help but exclaimed. Some people even looked up and wanted to ask the Pope something, but at the Pope's signal, they swallowed their questions again, suppressed the agitated emotions in their hearts, and continued to read.

With the ability to read documents for many years, the Chairman of the Redemption Council read ten lines at a glance and was the first to finish reading the documents in his hand. After closing the documents, he couldn't wait to ask: "Your Excellency the Pope, is the oracle true? Is the Savior true?"

When the other people around heard this, although they were still reading the documents they hadn't finished, their ears were already perked up, waiting to hear the answer.

The Pope did not answer immediately, but raised his hand to signal the Chairman of the Council of Redemption to wait patiently. Then everyone finished reading the documents in their hands. As the Marshal of the Redemption Army closed the documents, she said slowly: "The oracle is true. The three sacred priestesses have received the oracle, but the identity of the savior is questionable, because I have not received any instructions from my Lord. This is why it is necessary to hold a meeting in the Hall of the Sages."

Everyone was stunned after hearing this. They did not understand what the Pope meant for a while, but Melina soon thought of something, and her face immediately became a little serious. She said to the Pope in a deep voice: "The first religious conference has already stated that the three goddesses and the Lord of Redemption are a trinity. The three goddesses are the incarnation of the Lord of Redemption, and their oracles are also the oracles of the Lord of Redemption. Do you want to overturn this holy rule of establishing a religion?"

"Of course not, I am just stating a fact!" The Pope was covered with a veil, and her expression could not be seen clearly, but it was not difficult to hear from her tone that she was not affected by Melina's questioning.

The crowd did not feel anything unusual about the scene in front of them, because they had seen such scenes many times in the past. It was already public knowledge that the relationship between the Pope and Melina was not good. Although the Pope far surpassed Melina in status and authority, Melina was called a living saint in the Redemption Convent, and the grace she had obtained was unquestionable, so the difference between the two in terms of discourse power and status within the church was not big.

It was for this reason that Melina often appeared in various meetings as a check on the power of the Pope. Although this would cause some obstacles to the normal operation of the meeting, everyone needed such an obstacle to exist, so as to avoid the Pope's authority being too great.

At this time, the beloved Lantern Goddess Saint Priest said in her old voice: "Although we have received the oracle, we are also unable to confirm the identity of this savior."

"Why?" the chairman of the Redemption Council asked with great concern. He was perhaps the one among the twelve people who was most concerned about the identity of the savior in the oracle, because once this person was confirmed as the savior by the Order, he would inevitably It will trigger a change in the power of the Redemption Order, and among these twelve people, his foundation is the weakest. If there is a slight fluctuation, maybe his chairmanship will become someone else's.

"As the Pope said, our Lord did not issue an oracle to the Pope." The Holy Priestess of Civilization said in a very serious tone: "According to his identity, the Savior is the savior of the world, and he also represents our redemption. Order, all the power of our order belongs to him, so the identity of the Savior cannot be determined solely by the oracle obtained by the three of us, but also by the oracle of our Lord. "

The three Holy Judges in the Magistrate Hall sat up straight after hearing this. The oldest among them had a gloomy face, looking at the four religious leaders with the highest religious authority, and said in a deep voice: "Then the three Holy Priests and the The Pope means that the oracles of the three goddesses can be ignored?"

The atmosphere in the room instantly solidified. Although for ordinary believers, the pope and the three holy chief priests in the Redemption Order are the most devout believers, people who know the situation know that the three holy judges of the Tribunal are the most devout believers. They are the truly most devout believers. They are the only three monks in the Order of Redemption who have completed all the various trials of the order. The trials here include not only the trial of the inquisitor, which is unique to the Tribunal, but also other monks. The test of faith, the piety test of the armed monks, etc. were all completed by them.

Because of this, the three of them were able to become the Inquisitors of the Inquisition, and on the day of their appointment, they received divine grace, so the name of the Inquisitor was preceded by the word Holy.

Nowadays, some people actually question the oracles of the three goddesses. Even if it is the Holy Lamp Goddess who has the best relationship with everyone and has the best reputation, they will never let it go. As long as the other party does not give a reasonable explanation, then They will then use their power as inquisitors to bring the Holy Priestess of the Lamp to the Inquisition for interrogation.

Everyone here knows the three Holy Judges very well, and knows that these three fanatical believers can definitely do such crazy things, so their eyes can't help but fall on the Holy Priestess with the Lamp to see what the Holy Priest says, and then Think about rescuing her again.

However, the Holy Priestess of the Lady with the Lantern did not say anything. Instead, she raised her hand and drew a Holy Emblem of the Lady with the Lantern in the air. A little light seeped out of her fingers, which made her draw the Holy Emblem. Suspended in the air in the form of a light pattern, the Holy Emblem then shone with a burst of light and penetrated into everyone's eyes.

Almost at the same time, a voice sounded in everyone's mind. People who had received blessings or favors from the gods knew very well that this was the word of the gods. Although they could not understand the words of the gods, they could understand the meaning contained in the words of the gods. meaning, so at this moment they all heard the oracle that the Holy Priestess with the Lamp received from the goddess she served, as if they were personally there.

The content of the oracle is very simple. It tells the Holy Priest that there is a person who can clear away the abyss vines in all the cities for the Order. This person is the savior of the world. Now this person is in the Mirar Plain.

The general academician of the Academy of Redemption Science, who devotes himself to the study of science and technology, is not interested in politics, but he doesn’t quite understand what everyone is arguing about, so he directly expresses his opinion, saying: "Now that the identity of the Savior has been established, and he clearly knows that he can eliminate Abyss Vine, we can welcome him back and let him preside over the great recovery plan to recover those cities that have been lost for many years. Isn’t this a good thing?”

Others also thought this was feasible. Melina said nothing, but just stared at the three female holy priests and the Pope.

"The three of us received the same oracle." At this time, the Holy Priestess of Civilization suddenly spoke and added in a serious tone: "This has never happened before."

Compared with others, Melina and the three Holy Judges quickly understood what the Holy Priestess of Civilization wanted to express. Before the Holy Judge could speak, Melina said first: "What you mean is this Is there something wrong with the oracle?”

The Pope and others did not answer, but they all nodded slightly in unison.

Seeing this, everyone immediately became extremely serious, and there were no other expressions on their faces. At this moment, they also realized why this meeting was held in the Hall of All Sages, because the issue of the authenticity of the oracle obviously involved the cultivation of salvation. Fundamentally, once the oracle is determined to be false, then the oracles obtained in the past may also be false, which will undoubtedly collapse the faith within the order.

The general academician of the Academy of Redemption Science said what everyone was thinking very directly, saying: "Do you suspect that it is a forged oracle that is blasphemed by the evil beings believed in by heretics?"

In the eyes of ordinary people in the Redemption Order, there are only two kinds of disasters in this world. One is the never-ending wind, snow and low temperature, and the other is the abyss vines that occupy the lost cities.

However, in fact, the top leaders of the Redemption Order are very clear that both the low temperature and snow and the abyss vines are easy to deal with. All they need is time, manpower and material resources. The real danger to them is the evil existence believed by the blasphemers and cultists, because those evil existences will give the blasphemers and cultists some power from time to time, just like the grace bestowed by the gods on the believers, including some magical supernatural powers. The blasphemers and cultists who possess these powers will become very dangerous, because their thoughts will spread like a plague when they use these powers.

In the past, there have been more than one incident where people in the shelter were contaminated by evil forces, and large-scale mutations occurred in the crowd. What is more serious is that these cases of being contaminated by evil existences are not only seen in ordinary people, but also in some believers. Even the clergy of the order are also unable to escape contamination. Moreover, the process of their contamination is almost the same. They all claim to have obtained oracles and are the gods of the Lord of Redemption, and are responsible for saving the world.

Because of this, when the three holy priests of the three goddesses received the same oracle, the first thing they thought of was not the content of the oracle, but whether those blasphemous evil beings had infiltrated the order.

"Under what circumstances did you receive the oracle?" Melina asked very seriously.

"When I was sleeping." The three holy priests gave the same answer one after another.

Melina frowned when she heard this answer. Although it is not unheard of to receive an oracle in a dream, only Saint Marialia has received such an honor. Other clergy need to pray devoutly to receive divine enlightenment. She also felt something was wrong and asked again: "Have you confirmed the authenticity of the oracle again?"

"Yes." The holy priest of the Lantern Goddess answered on behalf of the three people: "We used various methods to pray to the goddess, but the goddess did not respond."

"Is this really a false oracle created by evil beings?" The president of the business immediately said in surprise.

The Holy Priestess of Civilization replied, "The goddess did not give us any revelation, telling us that the oracle was false."

A Holy Judge looked at the three Holy Priestess seriously and said in a deep voice, "Did you conduct a piety test?"

"How dare you question the piety of the Holy Priestess?" The two enemies, the Marshal of the Redemption Army and the Chairman of the Redemption Council, almost slammed the table at the same time and shouted at the Holy Judge.

However, the three Holy Judges ignored the scolding beside them, but looked at the three Holy Priestess seriously, waiting for their answer.

The Pope said, "They found me as soon as possible, and I conducted the most rigorous piety test on them. They all passed the test perfectly, and their piety to our Lord is beyond doubt."

After hearing the Pope's words, the three Holy Judges' faces eased, and then they all looked at Melina at the same time.

Although Melina had left the Tribunal, her influence had not diminished. Now that they encountered a problem, the three Holy Judges thought of her as soon as possible.

Melina looked at the Pope and asked in a deep voice: "What are you going to do now?"

"We need to confirm the authenticity of the oracle. The best way is to confirm the authenticity of the savior," the Pope looked at Melina and said, "You are an expert in this area, so I think you'd better go to Miral Plain."