Chapter 367 [0365] The Cult of the Sun and Lahorak

Speaking of "Lahorak Warriors", the first thing that Shurimans think of now is the tall and strong Lakkor warriors who protect the Sun Cult.

These Lahorak warriors are not only the protectors of the sect, but also the destroyers of heresy and paganism. They also have a certain propaganda significance - handsome armor and strong bodies are very important propaganda means for them to show the Sun faith, which can leave a good first impression on people.

But few people know that the history of the Giant God believers raising private armies can be traced back to before the birth of the Shurima Empire.

In other words, when Kalya came to Runeland, the first Lahorak warriors had already appeared among the mountains of the Giant God Peak.

However, at that time, the Giant God did not care too much about mortals, and the Lahorak warriors were not the "servants of the gods" today. At that time, the main purpose of the various Giant God sects to form Lahorak warriors was to hope that through these warriors, the non-believers would be honest when listening to their preaching.

Later, the Solari sect made an angel investment in Shurima in time, and successfully occupied a place that could not be ignored in the then impoverished Shurima system.

So, the question is, why did Kalya, who was one of the leaders of the tribe and was not very interested in religion, accept this investment from the Solari sect?

This is actually a need and a helpless choice.

In today's Shurima, many of the Solari sect's ideas are quite conservative and backward, but that was today!

But thousands of years ago, on the Shurima continent, many tribes, big and small, were still in ignorance, and living sacrifices and burials were everywhere. The harsh environment caused the Shurimans at that time to have no bottom line at all. In this case, the Solari sect was simply a very progressive group!

If they did not cooperate with the Solari sect, should the new Shurima tribes be enemies all over the world, or should they cooperate with those tribes that sacrificed people at every turn?

Moreover, as an angel investor, the Solari did bring a lot of valuable resources and knowledge to the still-nascent Shurima, especially the first batch of "intellectuals" in the Shurima Empire, except for Kalya, almost all of them were priests of the Solari.

Without these priests, Kalya, who was still a mortal at the time, could not handle all the internal affairs of the growing Shurima tribe!

After the Solari invested in Shurima, as Shurima expanded, the sects that believed in other giant gods retreated in religious wars, and countless people converted to the Solari. In return, the Solari provided the Shurima Empire with invaluable knowledge about the energy of the heavens.

With this knowledge, the Shurima Empire formed its own Ascension Cult and established the first sun disc in Narimaj.

When this sun disc was full of energy, Setaka bathed in the glory of the heavens and became the first ascender.

In the early days of the empire, it was also the honeymoon period for the Solari and the Shurima Empire. The expansion of the Shurima Empire was also the expansion of the Solari faith. The Shurima army was also the Solari protector army, and the Lahorak warriors directly under the sect were almost completely reduced to a complete show.

However, as time passed, the priests of the Solari gradually discovered that although the Shurima Empire was still expanding, their own missionary scope was almost no longer expanding. After Karya finally succeeded in ascending after great efforts, the first thing he did was to curb the further expansion of the Solari!

From the perspective of the Solari, Karya was crossing the river and demolishing the bridge; but from the perspective of Karya, it was because the Solari did not make progress.

When everyone was a savage, you were progressive.

But now Shurima has its own language and civilization foundation, and the empire has begun to study the mysteries of elemental magic. Are you still insisting on your old calendar? Isn’t it a bit behind?

It is true that the glory of Shurima is partly due to the Solari, and we also guarantee the freedom of the sect to preach in the empire, but the further expansion of the empire does not need to be accompanied by the attributes of religious war.

Angel round investment requires equity dilution, and no one can rest on their laurels, not even the Ascendants, and even less the Solari!

In this case, the Solari was somewhat unhappy, but there was nothing to say. After some discussion, several respected elders decided to send priests who were proficient in righteousness as missionaries, starting from Mount Targon and traveling thousands of miles to the east of the Shurima Empire to start a great missionary journey.

From the perspective of Shurima's history, this great missionary journey was a journey of great progressive significance. While expanding the faith of the Solari, it also greatly strengthened the cultural exchanges of the entire Shurima Empire.

Those progressive Solari priests lived on wind and dew, and their footprints almost reached the area of ​​today's Kohalise. At that time, the Shurima Empire was not able to completely control the grassroots, and the Solari's great missionary journey filled the gap in the grassroots ideology at that time, allowing the empire to gain a firm foothold in many newly conquered areas.

Moreover, because the priests were all people who traveled thousands of miles, they gradually became more open-minded after being away from the Targon Peak and seeing and hearing more and more. Although these people who traveled thousands of miles to preach still spread the beliefs of the Solari, the part about the Targon was getting less and less.

A considerable number of priests later simply abandoned their religious identities and became part of the empire. Vali Eva, mentioned by Karya before, was the representative of this great missionary work. She was a rising star of the Sun Cult, but was kidnapped by Karya and became one of the Ascendants of Shurima.

After a vigorous missionary work, the faith of the Sun Cult seemed to spread throughout the Shurima Empire again, but the fact is that the farther the Sun Cultists are from the Targon Peak, the farther they are from worshipping the Sun Cult; the closer the believers are to the Targon Peak, the more conservative their faith is.

Later, the first expansion of the Shurima Empire ended, and the honeymoon period between the empire and the sect also ended completely. Under the leadership of Karya, the Shurima Empire began a cultural reform movement, and friction between imperial power and divine power began to appear.

As a result of the constant friction, the Shurima Empire finally abandoned the old capital of the empire, Narimaj, and instead built a brand new Shurima city in the middle reaches of the Shurima River as the capital of the empire.

With the relocation of the capital, the Solari sect was almost essentially split into two - the conservative part stayed on Mount Targon and adhered to tradition; the radical part followed the empire to Shurima City and later developed into the backbone of the Ascension sect.

It was under this circumstance that the Rahorak warriors once again stepped onto the stage of history.

After the split, the Solari sect has been extremely conservative for thousands of years, and the rebuilt Rahorak warriors have completely become the guardian private army - relying on the special environment of Mount Targon and the characteristics of the guardian private army, even if the empire collapsed and the rune war, the Solari sect did not suffer too much impact, and took the opportunity to clean up the sects such as the Bright Moon Sect that tried to rise again.

In this process, the Rahorak warriors made great contributions. Even today, there is still a most powerful Rahorak warrior who stays at the cloud line of Mount Targon to prepare for war.

This elite Lahorak accepts the support of the entire sect and bathes in the glory of heaven every day. Their existence has only two meanings - as the sect's trump card and as the reserve of the Titan's Protoss.

And now, under Leona's order, this most elite Lahorak warrior of the Fiery Sun Sect finally moved.

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Compared with Lux and Ino, these Lahorak warriors who have lived on the cloud line for a long time are undoubtedly more skilled in climbing.

With the message from the guardian Titan, Leona can be said to have responded immediately. Even though Lux and Ino have accelerated their climbing speed, the Lahorak warriors still successfully arranged a line of defense before they crossed the cloud line.

The cloud line, as the name suggests, is a horizontal line with clouds. Here, the clouds are thick, and the floating clouds surround the hillside of the Titan Peak, forming a circle of thick clouds.

In the area above the cloud line, the Targon Peak has an obvious, terrace-like annular contraction zone, where the Lahorak warriors are waiting for the opportunity to deal with the blasphemers.

Considering that according to the news from the Guardian Titan, Lux and Ino are climbing on the eastern foot of the Targon Peak, Leona naturally focuses on deploying the Lahorak warriors on the east side.

And the follow-up seems to be just as Leona expected.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the defense line was deployed, on the east side of the Targon Peak, a bright light from bottom to top penetrated the thick clouds and flashed away.

Seeing this scene, Leona couldn't help but feel happy.

The two blasphemers didn't realize that someone was waiting for them above the cloud line!

The blasphemer who used light magic was still foolishly using the magic light to illuminate!

Shine it, shine it!

Maybe the light can illuminate the mountain covered by thick clouds, but the light that penetrates the clouds is bound to expose your position!

After seeing the flash of light, Leona quickly mobilized the main force of the Lahorak warriors and guarded the east side of the mountain.

All the Lahorak warriors prepared javelins that could pierce people like hedgehogs, waiting for the two blasphemers to fall into the trap.

However, during the silent waiting of the Lahorak warriors, the two blasphemers did not appear for a long time - just when Leona was suspicious, a Lahorak warrior with a crooked helmet and armor hurried over.

"Two blasphemers climbed up from the west. We are few and can't stop them!"

Karya's small class · The use of the glory of the heaven by the Fiery Sun Sect:

The Fiery Sun Sect will select a group of descendants of devout believers with good physical fitness, and raise them on the snow line of the Giant God Peak since childhood, and then select the best from the best to form a Lahorak elite who can survive on the cloud line after adulthood. This elite is both the trump card of the Fiery Sun Sect and the reserve member of the Fiery Sun Star Spirit.