The urban area where the Holy House of Prayer is located was originally called the New Municipal District. It was originally the relocation location of the municipal district established during the third expansion of the Port of Cape Opia. However, in order not to affect municipal management, various departments of the city hall

The buildings and offices were built and moved while the city was still under construction.

When half of the city was built and one-third of the municipal offices, such as the tax department, etc. were relocated, something strange happened. The people who moved there often fell ill for no apparent reason, and the illnesses they got were also strange.

There are no rules.

At first, the municipal officials did not take this seriously, thinking that the body had not adapted to the new environment. It was only when several senior officials died of continuous illness that they realized something was wrong, and some departments tried to

The office location is moved back to its original location.

As a result, something surprising happened. It turned out that the public officials who had been sick continuously recovered quickly and did not get sick again for several months. However, those who were still working in the new city continued to be sick.

After discovering this, the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of Cape Opia Port realized that there was something wrong with the new municipal area they had designated, so they commissioned the church to investigate.

But what is puzzling is that even after the church's investigation, nothing unusual was found, but the things that caused the illness still existed, so this area of ​​​​the city was left idle by the Port City Hall, and the city hall re-demarcated an area as a

Relocation location of the new town hall urban area.

Later, the church wanted to build the Holy Prayer Academy here, and the city hall specially set aside an area on the outskirts of the city for this purpose. However, the director of the Holy Prayer Academy at the time felt that it was too far from the city and would be detrimental to the study of Holy Prayer Academy.

Job apprentices come into contact with society and understand believers.

When re-selecting the site, the dean of the Holy Prayer Academy quickly took a fancy to the idle cursed land that was surrounded by the city at that time. After understanding the situation, he believed that this curse was not a bad thing and could actually help the Holy Spirit.

The Court of Prayer tests the piety of the priest's apprentices.

At the insistence of the director of the Holy House of Prayer, the Holy House of Prayer in the Port of Cape Opia was built in this cursed area. Even in order to save costs, the originally built city hall building was not demolished and rebuilt.

Instead, it was directly used by the Holy Prayer Academy, so on some college buildings of the Holy Prayer Academy, you can still see special reliefs that are only found in certain departments of the city hall, such as the blindfolded goddess of wealth holding gold coins in the tax department.

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After the Holy Prayer Court was built, several churches successively built temples and churches around the Holy Prayer Court, so that more than half of the city formed a group of church buildings, hence the official name of this city.

It became the temple area.

Leo's carriage first passed through the Gate of Justice built by the Church of Justice, then walked through the Gold Coin Avenue of the Church of Fortune, then bypassed the Fruitful Square of the Harvest Church, and then stopped at the entrance gate of the Holy Prayer Court.

The campus of Holy Prayer Academy is not open to the public, and the carriage can only be parked outside. Leo got off the carriage and came to the foyer next to the entrance. He showed the badge of his college lecturer to the gatekeeper at the door, and then said: "

I am Leo Dodd, a lecturer at the college, and I have something to talk to Mr. Staff, the president of Marvel Continent Magazine. The people from the magazine said that Mr. Staff is currently in the Holy Prayer Academy."

"Wait a minute." The gatekeeper looked at the lecturer's badge in Leo's hand, then signaled Leo to wait for a while, then turned and entered a small room inside the foyer. After a while, he walked out and signaled to the church guarding the door.

The knight opened the door and said to Leo: "Mr. Staff is in the dean's office now. Go directly there to find him! If you don't know the way, we can send someone to lead you there."

Leo refused: "No! I can just take this opportunity to visit the campus of the Holy Prayer Academy. Are there any taboos here?"

The gatekeeper didn't care about what Leo said about visiting the park. He just reminded Leo: "Basically there are no taboos, but if there are church knights blocking it, you'd better not force your way in."

Upon hearing this, Leo nodded and entered the park.

Although Leo has repeatedly scanned the park through the spiritual network several times before, and his familiarity far exceeds that of the vast majority of priests who live in the park all year round, but due to the interference of the divine power, the scanning of the spiritual network has always been unable to be done.

It's down to the smallest detail, like the power of the curse that shrouds this area.

The various divine churches entrusted by the city hall were unable to solve the curse contained in this area, and the Holy Prayer Academy was also unable to solve this matter. Not long after Leo entered the park, he felt a strong corrosive effect around him.

The power was seeping into his body silently.

This power is more suitable to be said to be the power of a cursed god than an evil curse, because when this power penetrates into Leo's body, it immediately begins to automatically

Something unknown in the body gathered together to form a vague mark of the gods.

Leo didn't know which god this divine mark corresponded to, but he was able to know two things from this divine mark that might never be formed. The first thing was that this divine mark represented the source of the plague, and the second thing was that this divine mark represented the source of the plague.

The thing is that the god who controlled the source of the plague is dead.

The reason why this kind of plague power appears in this place is probably because the blood, body and other things of the plague god once dropped here, polluting this place.

This is why the church cannot solve this cursed place, because unless it uses divine magic to completely dispel the divine power of the plague that has penetrated this place, otherwise the dispersal magic of the clergy alone will not be able to deal with this divine power.

If it causes any impact, it is more likely to have the opposite effect of adding fuel to the fire.

The dean of the Holy Prayer Academy at that time obviously knew what the cursed power of this place was, so he insisted on building the Holy Prayer Academy here. As he said, the ownerless divine power here has no influence on the people here.

For the priest apprentices who study, it will only play a supporting role. Under the stimulation of receiving this kind of divine power all the year round, the priests who study here will be more sensitive to divine power and easier to accept it than the priests who study in other areas.

When divine magic is revealed, you will receive divine magic given by the gods.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. When these priest apprentices are repeatedly stimulated by the divine power of the plague, they will also fall ill under the influence of the divine power like ordinary people. For this reason, the Holy Prayer Academy has specially prepared some to improve their physical fitness.

Incense to drive away diseases was hung up in incense burners in various places in the Holy Prayer Courtyard and burned all year round. This also caused the Holy Prayer Courtyard to be shrouded in smoke all year round. Over time, it also became known as the Fog Garden.

Because we know that the park is surrounded by smog all year round, the road signs guiding the roads in the park are very eye-catching. You can see the words on the road signs clearly from a long distance, and there is absolutely no possibility of mistaking the place.

After Leo entered the campus, he did not immediately go to the main building where the dean's office was located. Instead, he went to the prayer hall of the Holy House of Prayer, which was completely opposite to the main building.

The prayer hall is a place for enlightenment and prayer for those clergy who want to determine the direction of their faith. The clergy who studied in the Holy Prayer Hall did not know which main god they wanted to believe in at first, until they went through a series of strict church tests.

After studying theology and testing their faith, they will come to the prayer hall for enlightenment prayer. Here they will generally receive divine revelation corresponding to their beliefs, and then become priests of this god.

But not every clergy apprentice can obtain divine revelation, and those clergy apprentices who have not received revelation have another chance to obtain revelation, that is, after they decide which church to join, there will be arrangements within the church.

A revealed prayer.

If revelation is obtained during this revelation prayer, then the priest apprentice can successfully become a priest of that church. Otherwise, the priest apprentice must become an ascetic and wear rags worn by beggars.

, barefoot, go to different church temples in an ascetic way to perform self-enlightenment rituals.

The ascetic could not escape from asceticism until he received a revelation from a certain god, otherwise he would have to continue asceticism until death.

When Leo scanned the entire park with his spiritual network, it was only in the prayer hall that his spiritual network could not penetrate through any method. It was not that there was much power here, but because the power of the gods contained in this prayer hall was too complex.

Yes, the divine power contained here almost covers the divine power of all the main gods of the churches in the entire continent.

Leo took this opportunity to go to the prayer hall, just to see if he could try his luck, capture some divine powers, use the special characteristics of his body to create a temporary mark of the gods, and spy on some secrets of the corresponding gods.

, and then dispel it to prevent the gods from tracing back to him through the mark.

When he came to the prayer hall, there were already dozens of clergy apprentices from the Holy Prayer Academy here who were trying to obtain divine revelation. They did not recite specifically targeted prayers to the gods, but recited the prayers from the Holy Prayer Academy and various churches.

The Great Prayer jointly formulated.

This kind of big prayer is very simple. There are only ten prayers in total, and the content is all about praising the greatness of the gods. Because this prayer is common to all churches of gods, ordinary people, as long as they are not devout believers of a certain god, can

This prayer will only be used when participating in a religious ceremony held by a certain church.

What's even more interesting is that not only ordinary people use this prayer, but even some heretics who believe in evil gods will use this prayer in their own blasphemous rituals, because this prayer also applies to evil gods.

Although there are church knights from different churches guarding the hall, other people are not prohibited from entering. Any cleric apprentice can enter the prayer hall to pray, and people like Leo who are obviously not clergy in their dress will not.

Being blocked, just remind him not to disturb other people's prayers before he goes in.

After entering the prayer hall, Leo found a corner and sat down, and then tried to use the spiritual network to explore the situation in the hall. As a result, just like the situation encountered by the spiritual network before, the complex and chaotic divine power shrouded in the hall was like

Like an invisible storm of divine power, it easily tore apart and dispersed the spiritual network that was trying to penetrate.

After Leo tried several times and confirmed that the spiritual network was indeed unable to scan the hall, he could only use his own extraordinary perception to sense the traces of divine power in the hall.

This is not a difficult thing for Leo. He can easily sense the divine power around him, but the problem is that he wants to extract a kind of divine power from the surrounding divine power and transfer it into the body to form a temporary divine power.

Marking is a bit difficult, because these divine powers are like a tangled mess, and it is difficult to extract a pure divine power without being affected by other divine powers.

After several failed attempts, Leo could only find another way, and the way he found was also very simple, that is, to steal from other people.

Although he himself cannot obtain divine revelation through prayer, other priests around him can. He only needs to intercept and rob the divine power that generates the revelation before it comes to the priest.

Although the method is simple, it is somewhat difficult to do, and it also needs to avoid the backlash of these divine powers in the prayer hall. Even if Leo concentrated on it, he still succeeded in grabbing a revelation divine power after failing more than a dozen times, and that person

The priest apprentice who was robbed looked confused, because he clearly felt that he had received a revelation from a certain god, but the subsequent response did not appear, and he did not know which god responded.

After praying, I can only think that the feeling of receiving revelation is just my illusion.

As for Leo, after intercepting the divine power of revelation, he tried to integrate it into the body. However, after the divine power entered the body, it did not form a vague divine mark in the body, but automatically integrated into the divine punishment mark in Leo's body.

Among them, he became a part of it, and the divine punishment mark also seemed to be activated and passed on relevant information to Leo.

The divine punishment mark in Leo's body originated from the Lord of the Creation and Death of All Things. It was a divine mark that he accidentally obtained after seeing the divine battle. However, he has been unable to use this divine mark for so many years.

, as if the power of this mark was completely insulated from him. It was not until the divine power of revelation was injected into it that this divine mark began to react.

After Leo integrated the information conveyed by the divine mark, he understood that this mark was not so much a divine mark as a magical mark, because this mark was a divine punishment used by the Lord of the Creation and Destruction of All Things.

technique, and the reason why it was activated was entirely because the divine power of revelation he absorbed coincided with certain divine power fluctuations of the divine spell mark.

The divine power of that revelation originated from Justice, the Lord God of the Church of Justice. According to the teachings of the Church of Justice, Justice, the Lord God, represents the justice of this world. The Church is also the secular punishment substitute for justice, so it often launches campaigns against certain unjust people and things.

Some divine punishments, so the divine power of justice also contains the will to punish and punish, which just resonates with the divine punishment seal, and then inspires this divine seal that has been dusted for a long time.
Chapter completed!