Chapter 297 The Holy Bell Rings, Storm Is Coming

With the departure of Calvin and the Grey Knights beside him, the grand military parade ceremony has come to an end.

The huge torrent of faith on Ophelia 7 finally went from peak to trough after the emotions of tens of billions of people were fully released.

The believers on the viewing platform slowly stood up after their tears ran out, telling each other the details they felt in the prayer.

This time the prayer to the Emperor was so different. Under the blessing of Calvin, the super-large "signal amplifier" of faith, the unprecedented emotional resonance of the crowd and the feedback after praying wholeheartedly were the clearest experience in life.

The same is true for other populations on the planet. Under the leadership of the believers, they have already broken through themselves and presented themselves to the God-Emperor of faith as never before;

And after Calvin's filtering and screening, the desires and dark sides of their emotions were swept away.

This potential impact on people's hearts is so obvious that the crime rate of the entire Ophelia galaxy, which was already extremely low, will be almost zero in the next ten years.

Taking this as the origin, and extending back hundreds of years, the birth rate of the population in the Ophelia star zone and the population health index of the entire galaxy have data growth curves that are unbelievable to the imperial high-level officials under Calvin's large-scale mental coordination this time.

The inquisitors of the three major orders therefore paid great attention to this place. After hundreds of investigations, they finally came to the conclusion:

The source of all these events came from the grand ceremony held when the Terra Lord visited Ophelia in 756.M39 of the Imperial Calendar.

The Emperor gave generous rewards to the piety of the citizens of the Empire here, and the per capita mental quality and stability of the entire star zone have been greatly enhanced.

Even the psychics born here in the next few hundred years will have a unique mental stability rating.

But these are secrets that belong only to the Inquisition. Outsiders have no way of knowing, and it is impossible to sort out the context of these things.

The long-term impact is still continuing, and in terms of the impact within a hundred years, the imperial subjects of the entire star sector and the middle and lower-level members of the imperial state religion all miss the experience of spontaneous large-scale prayers at the parade.

As the initiator of all this, Calvin, the Lord of Terra, is naturally remembered by them.

As the economic development of the Orpheus sector is becoming more and more smooth and its support to the entire Storm Star Region is becoming more and more important, the name of Calvin, the Messenger of Ashes, also resounds on the battlefields throughout the Storm Star Region with merchant ships and recruited star legions.

The Ophelia sector has a particularly enthusiastic response to the spread of this holy name. They remember that grand celebration and the decades of beautiful development in the sector that started from that time.

The fanatical belief in the Emperor and the great reverence for the saints sent by Him have once again made the name of the Messenger of Ashes, Saint Calvin, famous in the star region. Thus, it spread from top to bottom to the entire star field again, rooting this name with practical significance in the memory of the entire star field.

The parade array has passed through the City of Grace. After the last wave of Astartes belonging to the Minotaur Regiment boarded the transport ship and returned to space, Calvin and his Grey Knights also joined the Anglican priests who had previously led the queue outside the City of Grace.

Under the leadership of Cardinal Jane Harrington, this team, together with the Grey Knights, boarded the airship prepared by the Anglican Church for picking up and dropping off important personnel in the atmosphere.

The Supreme Administrator Saratan failed to wait for Calvin's arrival in the St. Gregory Hall, which was used for reception, as scheduled.

He was standing in a church dedicated to storing holy relics at this time. He listened to the report of the priest beside him with an ugly face, surrounded by a mess of large and small stasis field parts and fragments.

"That's it, right?"

Saratan raised his hand with a huge ruby ​​ring and pointed to the center of the ruins. In the middle of the ruins that spread out in waves, a golden clock several feet high and inlaid with gorgeous gems was quietly placed on a high platform.

"Yes, that's it. At the climax of the ground celebration just now, it sounded at the same time as the bell on the surface.

Its sound carries obvious psychic power, and the static force field cannot suppress its movement.

The surrounding holy relic boxes were also damaged, but fortunately the holy relics in them are intact..."

The priest in charge of guarding answered Saratan's inquiry in a low voice, and presented the data tablet with the storage information in his hands with both hands. This unexpected disaster came too suddenly and without any signs. When he arrived at the scene and saw the mess here, he could only report it to his superiors after the disaster.

"Hmm..." Saratan waved his hand to indicate that he would stop, and the priest also took back the data tablet and stood behind him.

It's not Saratan's impatience, but this unknown clock has its own magical function.

Because its name was kept secret, no one outside the state church knew it. But Saratan, as the supreme administrator, was reminded by the previous Holy See at the beginning of his appointment to pay attention to all the abnormalities of this holy bell.

This exquisite clock came from the previous Supreme See, who accidentally received it as a gift when he was preaching outside.

It is known that the priest who presented it did not know its origin. They originally found this holy bell on the ruins of a church in the wilderness when they were preaching outside.

Its chord was welded tightly from the visible angle, and the specific structure under its shell could not be detected because of the integrated shell.

The original priests did not attach importance to it, and when they presented it to the previous Supreme See, they just handed it over as a normal relic.

But its abnormality successfully saved the fate of the Holy See and the entire planet shortly after the previous Holy See got it.

Or it was its bell that suddenly rang spontaneously on the way back from the Holy See's sermon in the middle of the night when no one was watching.

The previous Holy See, who was only wearing a nightgown, came over after hearing the sound and witnessed its abnormality with his own eyes. Its low voice carried obvious spiritual fluctuations, and the Holy See had some insights under its revelation and knew in advance the coming of the Chaos invasion.

At that time, the Holy See did not hesitate and immediately launched a call for help and conscription to the surrounding imperial armed forces.

When the Astartes and Astra Militarum of the satellite-guarding area arrived there, as expected, a warp storm with a Chaos fleet immediately surrounded the star area.

The war ended with the Empire's armed forces winning a gratifying victory at a small cost.

After destroying Chaos and expelling it back to the warp, the Holy See who returned to Ophelia 7 was naturally full of awe and curiosity about the holy bell.

A large number of scholars and priests were drawn to his side, looking for the origin of the holy bell in the vast books of the City of Grace.

But they failed in the end, because no matter which similar holy object in the books, it could not cope with the clock in front of them. It was also a theological scholar of the Inquisition who was visiting for exchanges who gave the most likely possibility.

After carefully observing the holy bell, he said to the Holy See at that time that this was not the body of the holy object, but a holy object with the power of the Emperor, which was projected in the real universe after being thrown into an unknown space.

After that, he attached great importance to this holy bell. After returning to Ophelia 7, he personally delivered it to the hall where the holy relic was hidden, and ordered a special person to guard it.

The bell rarely made a sound in the next hundred years, but without exception, as long as the bell rang, it would mean the coming of disaster.

It was nearly 200 years ago that Saratan took over the scepter representing the Supreme Holy See and the seal of the cardinal of Ophelia 7 from the previous Holy See.

In these 200 years, this holy bell has never sounded, even the joint rebellion of hundreds of billions of people in several star regions adjacent to the Taiping star field failed to alarm this sacred relic.

He originally thought that he would never hear about it again in his entire clergy career.

But now, the loss of the Heavenly Punishment Stand Weapon and the arrival of the Supreme Lord Inquisitor Calvin, one by one, major events that have never happened to the state religion in a hundred years, have occurred on the land of Ophelia.

He looked at the golden holy bell in silence, and couldn't help but feel a sense of depression in his heart.

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