Chapter 53: Salahan (1)
Returning from the Franck Empire is already the sixth day of the battle of Yinyue Peak.
Xiuyi doesn't have much time to wait.
He decided to go to Mount Grabis and the Holy Spirit Church immediately to show off.
If the Pope does not understand the overall situation, then he does not mind using the same method to deal with this matter.
However, before this, Xiuyi needs to make some sufficient preparations for himself.
The Gribis Mountains are located at the southernmost tip of the Northern Continent, if its owner is a small border country - Bain.
Bain was once the most prosperous place in the entire Northern Continent. The Bain Empire was once a vast territory and almost covered the entire Northern Continent. The Holy Spirit Church has therefore become the number one religion in the Northern Continent. The relationship between them and the Bain Empire is just like the relationship between the God of Scourge Church and the Sierra Empire on the Southern Continent.
Bain's decline has its inevitable historical trend and artificial influencing factors.
At the time when Bain Empire was most prosperous, they encountered the biggest challenge of Electra's magical puppet army.
It was a life-and-death battle that affected the entire continent. Headed by the Bain Empire, all countries in the Northern Continent joined forces to fight against Electrolutela, but rarely won. Electrolutela's army swept across the entire continent and defeated the once prominent Bain Empire without any power to fight back, until Electrolutela gathered the army he thought was enough to go to the abyss. At this time, the former great empire had been smashed to pieces.
Shortly after that, the former old king died due to injury, and his three heirs fought for the imperial power. After external troubles, the Bain Empire finally fell apart completely, and some small countries took advantage of the situation and embarked on an era of melee between the countries.
To this day, the Northern Continent has not yet formed a complete unification situation, but the Bain Empire has been miraculously preserved to this day.
The reason for this is entirely due to the blessing of the Holy Spirit Church.
Speaking of this issue, the Holy Spirit Church actually has a lot of bitterness.
In the past, the Holy Spirit Church and the Bain Empire had a relationship of losing their lips and cold teeth. However, as the strength of the Bain Empire weakened and the strong rise of some small countries, the Holy Spirit Church faced a choice of where to go. In order to get the support of the church, some small countries promised the Holy Spirit Church that no matter who owns the land in the future, the state religion of this country would only be the Holy Spirit Church. At the same time, it promised all kinds of generous offerings.
Greed made his eyes short, and the Holy Spirit Church sat down to watch Bain's land be divided, until the coalition forces of the nations finally fought to the Grabis Mountains, and the Holy Spirit Church finally panicked. They finally stood up and called on the various countries to cease the last little land of the Bain Empire at the last moment.
According to the teachings of the Holy Spirit, each Holy Spirit will worship at least once in this life to the Holy Land of Sarahham.
This was originally a sign of the joint advancement and retreat of the Holy Spirit Church and the Bain Empire. But for this reason, it became a noose that restricts the development of the church. Therefore, the Holy Spirit Church must establish its headquarters in Sarahham for life and not leave the Holy Land, which has led to a weakening of their influence on other countries.
It is therefore not a good thing for the Holy Spirit Church to take dominance unless the Bain Empire re-emerges.
Today, Bain can only be called a kingdom. Judging from the land area alone, it is not an exaggeration to call a principality. Although the land area and number of soldiers are far inferior to the three empires, and the quality of soldiers is not as good as that of Cido and other countries, fortunately, it is still sacred here.
On the surface, the Kingdom of Bain is still the most favored by the gods. On the surface, people still respectfully call Sarahan a holy land.
However, except for the Bain people themselves, they also like to be intoxicated by the halo of glory of the past. When walking out of this mountainous area, no one would take Bain seriously.
It was in this situation that Xiuyi arrived in Saraham.
After a round of flying in the sky, Xiuyi put away her wings and slowly landed in an uninhabited forest area.
It is about twenty miles away from Sarakhan.
Xiuyi planned to walk here and take a look at Bain's customs and culture.
He is not in a hurry to see the Pope, and he has enough time to learn more about it.
Compared with the prosperous and prominent Lance Empire, the Frank Empire and other places, the Bain people's life seems much simpler.
They look very proud of a simple and close-to-nature lifestyle, with quaint wooden fences, low double-storey villas, and a small garden in front of everyone's houses, planted with various colorful flowers. Some of them are even quite good alchemy materials.
The Bain's carriage is actually a ox cart. They use a thick old cow with four horns as the main driving force of the car. This cow is extremely powerful, but it travels slowly. From this perspective, most of the Bain's life is leisurely, and there are few urgent things that require them to hurry up.
In fact, the Bain people, who have always regarded themselves as the remains of the Celestial Kingdom, still have unique arrogance in speaking and acting.
They called the Lances as arrogant nouveau riche, and believed that the Francks were all self-righteous bastards. As for the Georgian Empire, they were also not much better. They were a group of real profiteers, always good at getting along with each other. As for the Siddians, they were even denounced as "uncivilized barbarians and human-shaped beasts."
In the eyes of the three great empires, these Bain people are a group of arrogant people who are breathing under the wings of the Holy Spirit Church.
However, no matter how the three empires view the Bain people, there is at least one special benefit here: they have almost retained most of the traditional etiquette, which is one of the few things they can do now. I believe Baron Harden will definitely like it here. Oh, by the way, he is now an earl.
Subconsciously, Xiuyi still likes to call this gentleman who is very little and knows nothing except etiquette as the baron. Perhaps the childhood memories he brought him would be even better.
An hour later, Shuyi finally walked through the long mountain path into Saraham.
Looking around, the most, most brilliant and tallest buildings here are almost all churches of the Holy Spirit Church.
In the most glorious era of the Bain Empire, hundreds of thousands of foreign believers came to the holy land to worship every day, forcing the empire to expand churches and retain believers. Now, most of them have become ornamental buildings and can still attract a large number of tourists every year, of which believers and tourists account for almost half.
Sarahan is the most famous tourist city in the Northern mainland.
"Hey, sir, do you need a tour guide?" A little boy rushed over and bowed to Shuyi.
He has big eyes that look good.
“Tour guide?”
"Yes."
"Do you know I'm a foreigner?" Sarahan is a city, not a countryside. If the boy said that he was convinced that he was a foreigner because he had never seen him, Xiu Yi would not believe it.
"I not only know that you came in from another place, but also that you are not a believer." The boy's tone was very proud.
"Tell me how you know?" Xiu Yi was very curious.
"If you plan to hire me, I'll tell you."
"How much?"
"It depends on what you want to do. If it's a tour, twenty-five silverwitters. If you need special services, you need to add money."
“What kind of special service?”
"For example, girls, there are good girls from all over the world here. They are all young, beautiful, and very enthusiastic." The boy blinked.
"I don't need a girl, do I have any other services?"
"That's difficult. It depends on your special requirements. As long as you can tell, please believe that little Bill can do it for you. Of course, the key is the price." The little boy Bill rubbed his fingers.
Shuyi threw out a Jinweit: "Then I hire you for three days, this is a deposit. If you do a good job, you will get three more."
"Oh! You are so generous!" the little boy screamed, and casually looked at Jin Weit in the sun, and carefully collected it after confirming that it was real money. Then he said to Xiuyi: "So what do you need now?"
"First take me to a hotel to rest, and then I have some questions to ask you. By the way, I will answer me first, how do you know that I am from another place, and a tourist or not a believer?"
"Because every people of Sarahham are believers of the gods, and as long as they are believers, they will not be unaware of the image of Emaris. No believer dares to stand in front of Emaris without being worshiped like him." The little boy quickly replied: "It is a very simple way to identify."
Xiu Yi was stunned and realized that he was standing in front of a huge statue of god. Some believers would continue to go on their way before passing by this statue. Xiu Yi was just looking at the scenery on all sides, but he didn't pay attention to this problem.
The little boy looked very smart and had a strong ability to capture business opportunities. When he saw that Xiu Yi was not a believer, he immediately guessed that it might be a tourist. Especially Xiu Yi was dressed in a bright dress, obviously not a person without money, so he immediately recommended him.
Now that the little boy said this, Xiu Yi suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake.
Since love has never taken the Holy Spirit Church to heart, he still doesn't even know what kind of God the church worships and what kind of doctrine they have. At least Emaris looks like a thing, and why everyone worships it, so Shuyi is completely unsure.
"Then are you also a believer in the Holy Spirit Church?" Xiuyi asked casually.
"Of course, this place is the holy place designated by the former saint!" the boy shouted.
He waved to Xiuyi: "Come on, I know there is a hotel that is cheap, comfortable to stay, and the food is very delicious."
Xiu Yi followed him.
—It's late.
I know there are few updates recently, and everyone has questions.
Let me tell you honestly, the world should have explained it long ago.
The weather has not been bad these two days, and I am actually in good condition and I have written a lot. But unfortunately, I am not writing this book, but a new book.
As early as Electra appeared, a friend said that whether the omnipotence was about to end, and a series of mystery had been announced.
I haven't answered.
Now I'm giving a formal answer: Yes, it's almost over.
There are still some riddles that have not been answered, and some events have not been explained in full, but at most ten days, all the stories will be told.
Maybe someone may wonder why there is no abyss story.
My answer is: From the beginning, I didn’t plan to write about the abyss. The abyss is just a medium, and it expresses the stories on the surface.
If I wanted to write this book indefinitely, I could write it as a follow-up war.
But I didn't want to do that.
This is mainly because I was formally writing fantasy for the first time, and I lacked enough experience in many aspects. For me, this is certainly a creation, but more is still learning.
If I were asked to write fantasy again, I am sure that Xiuyi's story would be very different from now.
In fact, when many friends say that only the first one is good, I don’t deny that there is indeed any problem with this book in the later stages.
This is related to experience and to the insufficient preparation work at that time.
It is precisely for this reason that I don’t think it is necessary to write a new chapter on the Abyss War. It is enough to just take out the part of the plot I prepared in advance.
In fact, judging from the current results, doing so would be a great loss for me. After all, this book has a good grade.
But I don't want to use stories that I think can't be better-looking anymore to perfunctory readers.
I won’t squeeze out the surplus value of a book just because it sells pretty well.
To be honest, I am not satisfied with the omnipotence, or only the first half of it.
So I don't want to continue my dissatisfaction anymore.
Of course, this does not mean that I want a bad ending, but a eunuch.
It just means that I end it when it is time to end, not unnecessary to delay, that's all.
From this point of view, how can it be considered a irresponsible act to use a whole book to prepare for the end, right?
Then the final story is coming soon, and I will write it seriously and work hard, without perfunctory or shirk it.
At the same time, I have been preparing for the new book for two months. I believe that I will not make the mistakes I have ever made again.
That's all for now.
Chapter completed!