"Impossible, it's definitely fake!" After hearing the news about the golden scales, Rudick, the scepter priest who was discussing the matter with Archbishop Chris, immediately said with certainty.

This scepter priest is an extremely rare sea tribesman on land. Although on the surface, there is not much difference between sea tribesmen and ordinary land people whose bodies have been transformed into sea tribes. They are almost half human, half fish, and covered with scales.

, but the fish features on the Hai people will be more obvious, more prominent, and the appearance will be more exaggerated. With a little observation, you can easily distinguish them from each other.

For example, the eyes of this scepter priest are much more protruding than normal people. The area of ​​gills behind the ears is also very large, covering almost the entire back of the neck. There is also a fin on the top of his head, starting from the center of his eyebrows.

It grows all the way to the back of the neck and looks very eye-catching.

Due to physical and religious reasons, the Hai tribe people hate land very much and do not like to go to land.

When the Spirit Tribe split from the Sea Tribe, with the domineering character of the Sea Tribe, they would definitely send out a large number of pursuers to hunt down the Spirit Tribe and completely eliminate the group of traitors from the Spirit Tribe. This would never be the case as mentioned in the story.

That would have forgiven the Eldar for their divisive behavior in the first place.

But the Sea Tribe did not do that in the end, and instead allowed the Spirit Tribe to develop on the ground. In addition to the Spirit Tribe being recognized by the Sea God, it was also because their physical strength and combat skills would be seriously affected after they went to land.

restrictions, and the dry air on the land will directly damage the scales and skin of the sea people, causing the sea people to develop a fatal disease called rip disease.

There are very few Sea people who are willing to live on land for a long time, and even fewer Sea people who are willing to hold positions in the Poseidon Church. Although the object of Poseidon Church's belief is Poseidon, in the eyes of the Sea people, this church is the church of land people.

The Hai people have their own Poseidon temple.

As the only member of the Sea Tribe who serves as the scepter priest of the Poseidon Church, Rudick's reputation is very great, almost to the point of becoming a household name. However, compared to his reputation, his status is a bit embarrassing. The Sea Tribe people think that he is the God of Poseidon.

He is a traitor in the temple, and it is difficult for the Poseidon Church to trust a Sea Tribe man. In the end, he was still able to obtain the real power position of Priest of the Scepter, which shows that his ability is outstanding.

When Chris's Temple of Divine Descendants was allowed to be established, she recruited many senior clergy from the Poseidon Church, and Priest of Scepter Rudick was one of the few senior clergy she personally visited, and these few were chosen by her

The high-ranking clergy she valued were now also entrusted with important responsibilities by her.

For example, although Rudick's current position is still the scepter priest, his authority has crossed two levels and has become a senior clergyman at the bishop level. And he is now mainly responsible for the connection between the Divine Cathedral and the Sea Tribe, from business and trade to

He is responsible for all armed cooperation.

As the only sea tribesman present, Rudick was the most vigorous in speaking out about the golden scales. When he heard about the golden scales, he immediately denied the authenticity of the scales.

However, not everyone present agreed with Rudick's judgment. Another cleric who had a somewhat hostile relationship with Rudick retorted: "Don't make such an arbitrary judgment first. The news has already reached here, so it may not be true."

real."

"When I say it's impossible, it's absolutely impossible." Rudick still maintained his previous judgment and said: "Back then, Sea King Okla asked Poseidon for help about golden scales. Poseidon gave an answer, telling him that there are only golden scales in this world.

Thirty-nine, and now those thirty-nine have been taken back by the Sea Clan, so the golden scale that appears now is definitely a fake."

As Rudick's words fell, the clergy in other rooms also started talking quietly, but now most of the people present believed Rudick's statement, because they also remembered the number of golden scales one after another.

The Sea Tribe is a race that respects promises very much. They value their promises even more than their own lives. There are many stories in this world about the Sea Tribe people who lost their lives in order to keep their promises.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, maritime merchants will do business with the Sea Tribe. Even if there is a transaction between two maritime merchants, they will like to find a Sea Tribe merchant to be the middleman or guarantor.

It is precisely because the Hai tribe attaches great importance to promises that the Hai tribe people rarely make any promises to the outside world. Even if they do make a promise, they will carefully impose some conditions on the promise they make and will not make random promises that they cannot fulfill.

Promise of.

The promise of golden scales is one of the promises made by the Sea Clan that is out of control, because the conditions for this promise are very few, so that anyone who comes to the Sea Clan with golden scales must come to the Sea Clan.

It was a big promise, and many times the entire Sea Clan had to mobilize together, suffering countless casualties in order to fulfill the promise represented by the golden scales.

Because of this, the Sea Clan is very concerned about how many golden scales are floating outside. The royal family specially found the high priest of the Poseidon Temple and used some taboo methods to calculate how many golden scales there were and where the remaining golden scales were.

, then all the sea tribes went out to search for the remaining golden scales around the world, and finally collected all the golden scales back.

This incident caused quite a stir at the time, because at that time, the entire Hai Clan mobilized, and even did not hesitate to block the sea area, and set off in all directions. It looked like they wanted to conquer the world.

The Eldar clan was even more frightened by this news, so much so that the royal family of the Eldar clan hid in the church of Poseidon Church to pray. It was not until the final truth was announced that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It is because of this incident that people all over the world know how powerful the Sea Clan is, and it also makes people all over the world pay attention to the value of golden scales.

As a result, many people later regarded finding a golden scale as their lifelong goal. As for the thirty-nine golden scales mentioned by the Sea Tribe, they regarded it as a lie, in order to prevent others from going there.

Looking for golden scales, what's more, some daring people will forge golden scales to defraud the sea people's promises. Naturally, they are easily exposed, and the scammers will not have a good end.

Now someone has taken out a golden scale, and naturally everyone can't help but think of the liar.

One cleric suggested: "Since he is a liar, let the people below deal with him. After all, this incident happened on our construction site. If it gets bigger, it will not be good for our reputation."

This proposal has been approved by the vast majority of people, but those who agree are only ordinary clergy, and the real leaders of the God-born Church have not expressed their stance yet.

At this time, Archbishop Chrissy, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke and said: "I remember that after the golden scales appeared in the past, the Sea Clan would still send people to confirm the authenticity of the golden scales. This is also what others think the Sea Clan calls the golden scales.

Only thirty-nine is a lie. Is there a reason we don’t know about it?”

Rudick opened his mouth, wanting to explain, but it seemed as if he was restrained by something, and the words could not come out.

Next to him, the holy priest who had the same status as Rudick said: "Let me explain it! I know a little bit about this matter." After saying that, he paused, signaled the people around him to quiet down, and then continued: "Actually,

The saying from the Sea Clan that there are only thirty-nine golden scales in this world is not wrong. At that time, there were indeed only thirty-nine golden scales in this world. But there is another saying that the Sea Clan has not spread, and that is golden scales.

The total number is forty."

As soon as the Holy Scripture Priest finished speaking, doubts rang out in the room, saying: "How is this possible? This sounds really weird, thirty-nine for one moment, forty for another, how can there be two answers.

"

Others also echoed.

On the contrary, some people had thoughtful looks on their faces.

At this time, the person who understood the meaning of the words of the holy priest asked confirmingly: "You mean that the other golden scale is not in our world, but in other worlds."

"Yes." The Holy Scripture Priest nodded, then turned to Chris and said: "Sir, do you still remember what we found during our investigation in the Despair Mountains? There is a sacred site on the top of a mountain not far from where the stone was found.

The arch shows signs of movement, and there are traces of battles that took place near that location."

Someone immediately understood what the other person meant and said, "You mean there are people from other worlds coming here from the Holy Arch?"

"Yes, I wonder if someone came to our world from the Holy Arch with that golden scale, and then wanted to make the Sea Tribe keep its promise." The Holy Scripture Priest carefully explained his thoughts: "Actually, I just heard

When it comes to this matter, I feel a little strange, because if it is people from our own world, they should conceal the whereabouts of the golden scales, and then find a sea tribesman to show the golden scales, because the people here understand the sea tribesmen's commitment to the promise

I take it seriously and will not do anything contrary to my promise because of the value of the golden scales. In addition, if the scales are real, only the people of the Sea Tribe can tell them immediately. But now that person has disclosed the golden scales in this way, which makes me

It feels like that person doesn’t seem to understand the situation here or the people of the Hai Tribe, so he made such a somewhat inexplicable move.”

"Indeed, he should not be from this world." Archbishop Chrissy said solemnly: "He should want to make public the fact that he has mastered the golden scales, and use the power of public opinion to force the people of the Sea Tribe not to break their promise.

.”

Some people cannot understand this idea and say: "Is this useful? If you don't want to keep your promise, you won't keep it no matter what other people say."

"It's indeed useless, at least in this world." Chris said with profound meaning.

"I have another question?" Another person said with doubts: "If they come from other worlds, shouldn't they come out of the Maelstrom? How could they come out of the Holy Arch in the Despair Mountains? I remember

The sacred arches in the Mountains of Despair are all damaged and unusable."

People in this world know very well that there are other worlds. In those worlds, if people who believe in Poseidon want to enter this world, they need to connect to the Holy Arch through a ritual before they can enter. Otherwise, they can only try their luck to encounter this world.

Only the large whirlpool connected by the ocean can enter this world.

However, the Holy Arch is not eternal. Every once in a while, the Holy Arch will become unusable. At that time, some rituals will be needed to recreate the Holy Arch, and the broken Holy Arch will be sent to the Mountains of Despair.

.

In the past many years, there has never been a situation where a broken holy arch could still be used.

"I don't know about this, but..." Chris smiled and said, "Why don't we find the owner of the golden scales and ask him?" As she said that, she turned to look at the scepter.

Priest Rudick said: "Lord Rudick, please come and tell whether the golden scale is real. Then, whether it is real or fake, bring the holder of the golden scale over. I have something to think about.

Ask him."

When the scepter priest Ruddick heard this, he did not object and nodded directly: "Yes, sir, I will follow your instructions."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the conference room, but the people in the conference room did not leave. Instead, they put the matter of the golden scales on hold for the time being and continued to discuss the construction of other divine temples.

At the same time, other forces in Lingdu also heard the rumors about the golden scales. Their attitude was similar to that of the scepter priest Ruddick. They did not believe that the golden scales were real, including the Ambassador of the Sea Tribe and others.

However, when they heard that the Holy Temple of the Gods had sent the scepter priest Ruddick to check the authenticity of the matter, their originally completely negative attitude turned into doubts. Among them, the Spiritual Tribe and the God's Holy Temple of the Poseidon Church were a little worried, because

If the golden scales are real, and the golden scales finally fall into Chris's hands, then the construction progress of the Temple of the Goddess will increase tenfold and a hundredfold, and it cannot be stopped.

Thinking of this, they couldn't help but send people to check the situation. They didn't think about stopping it, and they knew they couldn't. They just hoped to get the news in advance and make corresponding preparations.

However, the attitude of the Sea Clan remained the same, believing that the golden scales were fake, so they did not send anyone at all.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that after the scepter priest Rudick went to the dock construction site of the Temple of God, it didn't take long for him to take people back to the spirit capital. Compared with when he went there, he only brought

Several people, not only did he add some more temple guards when he returned, but there were also a lot more ordinary recruiters brought back to Lingdu, and those recruiters were also vaguely under the protection of the temple guards.

People who know a little bit about the situation will not understand when they see this situation. The previous rumors about golden scales should be true. Rudick is probably worried that someone will attack the golden scale holder, so he added a lot of them to confuse it.
Chapter completed!