Chapter 477 Holy Warrior

After the goddess of dawn woke up, although her injuries had not yet recovered, she was able to maintain the operation of the kingdom of God herself, and had the spare energy to send down a subordinate god. The subordinate god who came was named Saint Catherine. Through the introduction of the covenant party, Richard learned that Saint Catherine had a very close relationship with the goddess of dawn. She was a relative of the goddess of dawn, and from the perspective of bloodline, she was the great-grandson of the goddess of dawn's sister.

This Saint Catherine was one of the earliest followers of the goddess of dawn. In the wizard era, she followed the footsteps of the goddess and entered the dawn plane.

In the wizard era, rule wizards were the masters of this world. No gods dared to preach openly. The Dawn Church was only a secret religion at that time, and did not dare to enter the core of the wizard territory.

After nearly decades of secret preaching, countless sacrifices were made, and the wizard empire was unpopular, the Dawn Church accumulated tens of millions of believers in a very short period of time, and the goddess successfully ignited the divine fire and became a god.

This process is extremely difficult. According to the story of the covenant party, of the hundreds of followers who entered the Dawn plane with the goddess, only a dozen people survived until the goddess was deified. Among these people, nine legends and two demigods emerged.

The awakening of the goddess and the descent of the sub-god are undoubtedly good news for the Dawn Church. Moreover, according to the covenant party, the descending sub-god is also a relative of the Dawn Goddess, and he will come with a powerful artifact.

The Bible of the Dawn Church records many secrets of the ancient times.

There are several types of Dawn Bibles. The first one is the serious cutting board. This kind of Bible hides a lot of key information. It is basically used by ordinary believers and grassroots pastors. This is the first Bible that Richard could see.

The second is the normal version. This kind of holy book is basically used by high-level clergy in the Dawn Church. It records many secrets of the Seven Gods and even the wizard era, including some of the goddess' early experiences, the planes where the goddess went before igniting the divine fire, etc.

However, the core issue of the goddess and the seven sub-gods is still blank.

Even Richard, an upper-level figure, can't figure out the current situation of the gods in the Dawn Church.

It is rumored that there is a version of the Bible in mysterious text, which cannot be leaked and will only be taught to the legendary priest class.

In the entire Dawn Church, there are only two and a half people who are proficient in this text. Rossi has not been promoted to a legendary priest for a long time and is not proficient in this mysterious text.

The holy book is used for preaching. Like the holy fire lit outside the church, it has the ability to absorb the power of faith. It is through the holy fire outside the church and the Bible in the hands of the believers that the goddess can receive the power of faith into the kingdom of God.

So as long as they want to spread faith, be promoted to demigods, and ignite the heart of the divine fire, the saints will record the major events they have done in the Bible.

The compilation of the Bible is also a very serious matter for the church, especially when it comes to saints, they are even more cautious. Sometimes, in order to find out the whole story of a matter, the wizard who compiles the Bible will enter the goddess' kingdom of God in the state of soul and personally ask the person involved.

Pope Fang of the Holy Covenant talked for a long time, and Richard got to know a lot of secrets from him. After the secret meeting, the Holy Covenant asked Richard to stay alone and then took him to the top floor of the church.

The top floor of the Dawn Church is the bell tower, which is also the real core of the Dawn Church. Inside, not only is the artifact Dawn Bell enshrined, but also the body of the Saint of the Dawn Goddess, which is convenient for the goddess to descend with her true body.

The body of the Saint of the Dawn Goddess is her flesh before she became a god. The goddess was originally a powerful magician from the Farran plane. Due to the suppression of the gods of the Farran plane, she could not spread her faith on a large scale, so she could only leave the Farran plane, pass through the wind element plane, and enter the Dawn plane by chance.

There are more than hundreds of planes in the Crystal Wall System where the Dawn plane is located. These planes are located in the sea of ​​stars, and the physical rules of each plane are roughly the same.

In addition to these hundreds of material planes, the Crystal Wall System also has super-large planes such as the Abyss, the Sea of ​​Origin, the Shadow, the Underworld, and the Four Elements. These super-large planes are all connected to hundreds of material planes.

In the super-large special planes, there are many powerful gods. They are the planes with the highest energy level and are very dangerous.

Under normal circumstances, even legendary wizards cannot guarantee safety when entering. Even gods who rashly break in may be killed or imprisoned.

It is rumored that the goddess of wealth, Wu Jin, was imprisoned by the demon king in the Abyss Plane.

The goddess of dawn also took a big risk that year, and brought hundreds of followers to enter the dawn plane through the plane channel built by wizards.

At that time, the dawn plane was still called the White Tower Plane, which was under the control of the rule wizards.

Rule wizards do not need the power of faith, but only need to master the power hidden in the elements and the sea of ​​​​source, and then transform through the world tree, which is more like the demon lord and the undead lord.

Although the sphere of influence of the rule wizards is far less than that of the powerful multi-dimensional gods, they are also real tigers. With the control of the world tree, they can use the power of the plane origin to be more powerful than the gods in the White Tower plane.

Even the powerful God of Light dare not enter the wizard's kingdom in the strongest form of the saint's body.

Because wizards do not need the power of faith, they oppress the lower class very severely. Not only do ordinary people become blood test subjects in large numbers, but even low-level wizards will be killed at will, and they are in a precarious environment.

This special environment is very conducive to the Dawn Goddess's preaching, and the Dawn Goddess also used special methods to contact the Star Alliance.

Through the cooperation and cover of the Star Alliance, the Goddess of Dawn gradually gained a foothold in the new plane. Less than a hundred years later, she ignited the divine fire and successfully became a god.

The kingdom of the Goddess of Dawn was in the Kingdom of Parame at that time. This area was a wilderness in the O'Flan Wizard Empire. Although it had a large population, it was not valued by the Wizard Empire at that time because of the lack of magic wells.

After the Goddess of Dawn became a god, she immediately cooperated with the Four Gods of Light outside to launch a counterattack against the Rule Wizard. In this process, their alliance helped the two demigods to become gods successfully in the White Tower plane, and then they defeated the Rule Wizard in one fell swoop and seized the White Tower plane. However, the Star Alliance was exposed in advance, and Shao Gongyuan failed to be promoted to the Rule Wizard and died in the hands of the O'Flan Wizard Empire.

In the process of the Seven Gods seizing the White Tower Plane, the Goddess of Dawn made the greatest contribution and played the most core role. In order to commemorate her contribution, the Seven Gods signed a divine contract, renamed the White Tower Plane to the Dawn Plane, and recorded the deeds of the God of Dawn in the Bible of that year.

However, with the passage of time, the Bible has been constantly revised, and the exploits of the Goddess of Dawn have been constantly diluted. Now the believers of the Seven Gods no longer understand what happened in the wizard era, and the glory of the Goddess of Dawn seems to have disappeared in time. Only the Church of the God of Fairness and Justice still circulates some old versions of the Bible.

In the bell tower on the top floor of the Dawn Cathedral, there is not only the body of the Saint of the Goddess of Dawn, but also the flesh of five demigods.

Demigods are extraordinary people who have ignited the divine fire, refined the divinity, and possessed divine power. They are already a kind of spiritual body with almost eternal life, and their combat power is usually far stronger than that of the legendary fourth-level.

If a legendary fourth-level professional wants to fight a demigod, he must rely on the role of the artifact. The closer one's profession and soul are to the artifact, the more powerful the artifact can be. There are often legendary fourth-level priests who rely on the power of artifacts to defeat demigods. On the contrary, legendary fourth-level magicians can only flee in disgrace when encountering demigods, and are basically unable to compete with them.

Because legendary fourth-level magicians are basically shallow believers, they can't play the role of artifacts at all. The Church of Truth has developed for more than tens of thousands of years, but it is still a weak-level god. The lack of piety of magicians is also the fundamental reason.

Although the magicians are not pious, the strength of the Church of Truth is not weak, because the core of the believers of the God of Truth are magicians and scholars. Although the number of believers is relatively small, their combat effectiveness is very strong. Moreover, some wizard lords will also promote their subjects to believe in the God of Truth.

The biggest difference between demigods and gods is that they have no godhood, cannot form a priesthood, cannot establish a kingdom of God, cannot grant believers divine arts, and are unable to condense the incarnation of gods. Perception and magic resistance are not comparable to gods, but because they have divine power, they can hurt gods to a certain extent.

After Richard arrived at the bell tower of the Dawn Cathedral, he saw an old man at the door at first sight. The old man looked to be in his sixties or seventies. Although his face was old, he looked very energetic, unlike the Pope.

"Saint Richard, let me introduce you. His name is Francis. He is the leader of the ascetics. After the goddess awakened, he has been promoted to a legendary paladin and elected as the new cardinal."

The ascetic nodded to Richard with a gentle look. Francis was a silent man. He was a true fanatic and his profession was also a rare paladin in the Dawn Church.

The profession of paladin is very powerful and has a strong restraining effect on evil. They have a body and combat skills that are no less than that of a warrior, and a stronger magic resistance. The ability of melee is a few points stronger than that of a warrior.

In addition, the paladin also has spell abilities. He is proficient in spells in three aspects: defense, treatment, and fighting evil. He has mastered more than fifty spell abilities. Although not as comprehensive as a magician, it is far more than a blood knight.

You should know that legendary elves like Sylph only master seven kinds of bloodline spells.

The spell power of knights comes from their bloodline, while that of paladins comes from the gift of gods. The professional template is equivalent to a special advanced version of knights.

The ascetics under Francis are basically paladins. The status of paladins in the church is a few points higher than that of priests.

The promotion of legendary paladins is very simple and difficult.

First of all, you need to be devout to the goddess and must be a true believer or above. For example, shallow believers such as Richard, Racine, and Senna, although they are very powerful, the goddess also pays special attention to them and sometimes grants them divine favor. However, because of their imperfect faith, even if they barely become priests, paladins and other special professions, they basically have no future and it is difficult to be promoted.

Secondly, the promotion to legendary paladins requires a strong will and an extraordinary body.

Only when one's own will and body can refine the power bestowed by the goddess can one be promoted smoothly.

It is not an easy task to master the power of legend. Especially for a deity like the Goddess of Dawn who was promoted from a magician, she has mastered almost all spells, so it is even more difficult for her priests and paladins to be promoted.

According to the level of the Goddess of Dawn, she can condense two incarnations and grant four believers to be promoted to the legendary realm. In the past, when the goddess was asleep, in order to retain spare power, the Dawn Church generally granted priests to be promoted to the legendary realm.

Now that the goddess has awakened, Francis has filled the gap and become the fourth legend. The status of the legendary paladin in the church is basically the same as that of the legendary priest, and they are the most trusted people in the church.

Generally speaking, legendary priests will hold three positions: pope, high priest, and cardinal. Among them, the pope and high priest are priests, but there are many cardinals. The chief cardinal can also only be served by legendary priests.

Although the chief cardinal ranks third among the clergy of the Holy See, he is the successor to the pope. Generally speaking, after the pope enters the Kingdom of God, his duties will be taken over by the chief cardinal.

The main reason why legendary paladins cannot hold the three highest teaching positions is that their moral integrity is too high and it is difficult to unite all the believers. So he can only act as an ascetic and the leader of the Inquisition.

The number of secondary cardinals varies, with a maximum of five. Although this position is not an actual position, it has a very important status, equivalent to the deputy pope.

The Church of Dawn has three secondary cardinals, namely the legendary third-level magician Racine, the legendary second-level magician Senna, and the legendary fourth-level knight Wallace. Of these three secondary cardinals, Racine sits in the red moon plane, Senna guards the princess's mausoleum, and Wallace is the leader of the Templar Knights. Each of them is responsible for their own role and assumes important responsibilities.

Among the hundreds of legendary professionals in the Dawn Plane, the cardinals of the church are considered to be at the forefront of the ranks, and their gold content is self-evident.

The ascetic Francis served as the second cardinal just after he was promoted to legend, which shows how much the church values ​​the legendary priest. After all, for a church organization, the pastoral profession is the core, and the leadership of the church must be in the hands of the pastoral professionals.

Seeing that the Holy Father brought a stranger to the bell tower, and sensed the majestic morning divinity in this person, Francis immediately understood that the person who climbed the bell tower must be Richard, the favored one by God.

After all, among the three God's Favorites in the Dawn Church, only Richard is the youngest.

In fact, Francis and Richard had a chance encounter more than thirty years ago.

Just after Richard's soul came to this world, he was possessed by a high-level demon. Francis, as an ascetic, followed the Pope's covenant and rushed to Black River City.

In order to avoid alerting outsiders, Covenant Fang, Francis and his party did not reveal their identities. Even Richard was ignorant for a long time because his soul had been disturbed by demons because he had just traveled through time.