Chapter 404: The Faith of the Moon Child
Although Aiwas originally intended to get equipment, he suddenly realized...
...I seem to have got the evidence.
Minister Griffith is indeed very cautious.
He destroyed all the letters at the first time, and did not leave any evidence at home; the ritual arrays in his basement can only confirm that he has tried to summon demons, but cannot confirm anything - after all, it is just a try, and it is not illegal if it fails. Minister Griffith himself has not surpassed the level of Tao, and cannot explain what rituals he has performed.
And the Star Antimony Kingdom obviously did not provide him with any abnormal funds.
As the Minister of Trade, he is like his predecessor, and all his assets are placed in the Star Antimony. When he runs away, he can really cash in these properties.
Of course, if he does not live to run away, then these things are equivalent to blank checks.
So Minister Griffith's funds are fine, the letters are fine, the itinerary is fine, and the Tao is fine. It seems that there is no evidence.
But the holy objects that Aiwas took out from his shrine are evidence in themselves.
There is no doubt that it is impossible to find the faith of Sister Sasha in Avalon, which has a high voice in the Nine Pillars Church. Such a holy statue can never be bought in Avalon.
There are only two countries that worship Sister Sasha, one is Iris and the other is Xingti. And he has never been to Iris... and as long as the Inspectorate investigates a little, it is very easy to find out that he got it from Xingti.
This kind of thing must be reported to the customs. Otherwise, he dare not put it at home openly.
And soon, Ligeia asked the result-this is a "souvenir" brought back by Minister Griffith in the name of "a gift from a friend".
As we all know, Sister Sasha is the mother of Blood Tiansi, and Blood Tiansi is the ancestor of the Moon Son. The Moon Son born in the moon is Hengwo's favorite. The fundamental reason is that the Moon Son was born from a corpse, which is a miracle of "death and rebirth".
Just like the moon, it falls to the earth and rises again, turns into a waning moon and becomes full again.
But as the ancestor of the Son of the Moon, Xue Tiansi chose the path of the Heavenly Secretary who rebelled against the Pillar God.
This directly led to the internal division of the Son of the Moon.
Xue Tiansi himself is the ruler of the blood domain, and his status is higher than that of his father, the Feaster.
After all, as a dragon, the Feaster does not suck blood or eat people.
After inheriting the impulse of his father, the Feaster, Xue Tiansi also tends to the way of feasting - but the Feaster likes a serious banquet, the kind of eating meat, drinking, singing and dancing that the dragons like; while the way of feasting of Xue Tiansi tends to sacrifice, flesh and blood, pain and thirst.
And the blood-sucking impulse of the Son of the Moon comes from him.
From this perspective, the Son of the Moon actually has four different beliefs.
Xue Tiansi is the most cruel and degenerate lineage. For their own satisfaction, they must hurt others, and even enjoy hurting others. They are extremely aggressive; the Feaster is a hedonist who hides his identity and integrates into the world, using the pleasure of eternal life to enjoy himself.
As the favorite of Hengwo, the number of Moon Children who directly believe in Hengwo is actually the smallest at present. Their characteristics are that they devote themselves to love and go crazy for love.
Those who have no obvious inclination will believe in Sister Sasha. Because she is not a pillar god, an apostle or a celestial minister, believing in Sister Sasha does not count as taking sides, and she herself will not give any tasks or issue any orders. This is basically equivalent to maintaining neutrality and finding an excuse to prevent the Moon Children of other factions from causing trouble for themselves.
The Moon Children who once believed in Hengwo were the most.
As a country of mages and Moon Children, the belief of the Narcissus Principality before was the Pillar God Hengwo. It is said that the Grand Duke of Narcissus Dracula died for love - although this is not considered lawful, after all, the moon phase is the representative of chaos, but there is "love" after all.
In other words, it is a love-minded person who is obsessed with love.
After the demise of the Narcissus Principality, those scattered and wandering Moon Children generally hated the Narcissus Principality that caused the demise of the country. Therefore, apart from the Moon Children who still survive in the Narcissus Principality, basically no one believes in Hengwo anymore.
A considerable number of Moon Children have turned to believe in the Blood Sky, and they are also the most powerful lineage. Because the Blood Sky itself is very powerful, and he responds to the Moon Children's prayers very quickly and is very protective. The disadvantage is that he will give a lot of tasks and requirements, just like the head of a feudal family.
The Moon Children who don't want to be dominated by the Blood Sky will believe in Sister Sasha.
Because believing in the Blood Sky is easy to be assassinated and attacked, and believing in the Banquet Master requires money - the Banquet Master is a very generous god, and he looks down on those misers who are petty. The minimum requirement for the Banquet Master to provide blessings and protection is to hold a lively banquet every week to entertain a large number of guests.
But it doesn't mean that you will be rich if you live long... and many Moon Children may not live long.
But even if Sister Sasha is very gentle to her children, normal humans still won't believe in Sister Sasha.
Unless they are those "spiritual Moon Children" with poor brains.
According to the common sense of normal extraordinary people, they actually know that the child of the moon is not the same person as himself - this world has souls. The souls of dead people can be summoned back, and someone has done experiments to prove that this is not the same person.
As a new life born from the corpse, most people tend to think that this is a "stranger who stole their interpersonal relationships and social identity", just like a shapeshifter that absorbed all their memories and killed them and took away their identity.
A normal human being would only be terrified by this.
Minister Griffith himself, as a diplomat close to Star Antimony, returned from Star Antimony and received a "gift from a friend of Star Antimony". Now he found that the gift contained a priceless holy object. Minister Griffith himself has the adaptability of the path of love - this is enough to form a complete chain of evidence.
No one would pay the price of a holy object to frame a dead person.
There are only four holy objects of Sister Sasha in the world, and they are basically all lost. If someone can find the holy object, the Moon Children with long lifespans and a lot of wealth will surely be willing to pay a huge price for it, and even get their friendship.
- Although there are few people who know the information about the Moon Children, this information is not impossible to find. At least you can ask for it by writing a letter to the Church. Iris people are probably also happy to give answers to add fuel to the fire.
After confirming that he would not be backstabbed, Aiwas directly skipped the verification stage and told Ligeia this knowledge. Let Ligeia act as a guarantor and directly determine the nature of the matter.
From this line, Aiwas can even search all the religious items in the ministers' homes.
This is very reasonable and makes perfect sense. After all, they just found ironclad evidence from a minister's home who had no evidence of connecting to the star antimony by examining the holy image.
——After all, intelligence can be destroyed, evidence can be destroyed, but no one dares to destroy things like holy images easily.
And if the holy image is handed over to the church, the church can use rituals to find out how many times it has been worshipped in the past year.
If you really want to find out, I'm afraid few ministers are completely clean.
Why haven't you worshipped the Silver Crown Dragon for a long time? Why do you worship your ancestors much more often than you worship the crown master? Why are there other holy images of the gods in your home?
You can find faults wherever you want, but that would put them too much pressure.
Moreover, this kind of thing will not cause any serious damage. If they are really caught, they will not be sentenced to a few years, but will only make people embarrassed. In the end, they will only offend people - this is equivalent to checking all web browsing records and call records for the past year without any notice. There will always be some shady secrets... For example, the rituals of the host of the banquet can have an aphrodisiac effect.
If this thing is found out and announced, it is hard to say whether it is illegal or not, but it will definitely be socially dead.
So at the round table meeting the next day, after Ligeia submitted evidence as the spokesperson of Aiwass, she only warned the knights and did not really make a big move.
This is enough.
As long as the Queen shows an attitude that she may investigate thoroughly, the high-rise faction will inevitably admit defeat.
After all, the reason why they are called the high-rise faction is because they have all taken money from Lloyd's and are a complete community of interests.
In the current situation where Lloyd's itself is not very clean, as long as you investigate it to the end, you will definitely find something.
Looking back, Griffith can't clear himself anyway, and Aiwass has no flaws at present. And he was not easy to control like a young man, but like a mad dog who would bite whoever he caught. Griffith held a small meeting at noon to scold Aiwass, and he died in the evening. The next day, his house was raided, and on the third day, he produced a considerable amount of evidence of treason.
——For the Round Table Hall, where the average age is over 50 and a proposal to "increase the match tax by 1%" can be discussed for three months, Aiwass's action ability is too high. It is so high that it is frightening.
Young people do not have martial ethics.
Maybe one distraction will lead to the loss of an old friend.
But after the high-rise faction shut up and calmed down, they were surprised to find that the chocolate faction to which Minister Griffith belonged had completely turned to Aiwass.
Not only were they not aggressive towards Aiwass, but no one spoke for Minister Griffith. They even repeatedly praised Aiwass's high action ability.
In fact, just the day before, when Aiwas had just returned to the Silver and Tin Palace from Griffith Manor, he received more than a dozen letters, all from the ministers of the Chocolate Party.
Without exception, without omission, everyone admitted defeat. Aiwas's previous assumption of "if someone did not write a letter" did not happen at all.
It should be said that they are senior ministers after all.
Compared with the younger and more arrogant high-rise faction, they are indeed more aware of the times.
They have obviously been waiting for a reply for a long time. If Aiwas did not reply to them, they would probably be anxious and unable to sleep. So Aiwas wrote back to all of them overnight, praising them and pointing out that "everyone has written a letter, so this matter ends here."
The next morning, the ministers of the Chocolate Party were obviously relaxed.
In this situation, the knights of other factions immediately noticed the change in the wind.
Although they may not have figured out the specific situation, they are fence-sitters. Now there is no attack on Aiwas and contempt for Isabel in the Round Table Hall. Someone even politely invited Aiwass to a meeting with Ligeia, and his attitude became much friendlier than the day before, which could be said to be a completely different person.
And this was only the third day after Isabel inherited the throne.