Chapter 221 The Pope's Great Plan
On January 1, 4598, the Guangming Continent changed its name and era.
From this day on, the Light Continent became a Thunderstorm Continent, and the Era was also changed to January 1st of the first year of the Thunderstorm.
It was on this day that the Hannovi Empire was established. In the distant central square of Hannovi City, under the attention of everyone, Cynthia, the new pope of the Goddess of Nature, brought the Crystal Lotus Crown to Imadnagur, and in the name of the Goddess of Nature and Thunderstorm, announced in public that Imadnagur was crowned as the founding emperor of the Hannovi Empire.
Today's Hanover Empire, like the Rohan Kingdom a few months ago, is an empire that controls the entire continent.
After Imadnagur became the first monarch of the Hannovi Empire, he issued several orders in succession to build a giant statue of 130 meters high for the Thunderstorm Emperor in the central square of Hannovi. In the name of the law, it was established that the undead and normal creatures were equal. The Thunderstorm Continent would become the real home of the undead creatures; it was declared that the Goddess of Nature was the state religion, and all the property of the former Church of Light, including more than 100,000 Churches of Light distributed throughout the mainland were all included in the Church of Nature.
There is another order, which is to announce the disintegration of the Rokhan Kingdom. According to the original administrative division of the Rokhan Kingdom, the province was elevated to a principality. Emperor Imadnagur I conferred forty-nine dukes at one time, serving as rulers of the forty-nine new principalities.
Although the coronation ceremony was hasty, it was very grand and the scene was very lively. In addition to the monarchs of all the principalities in the southern part of the mainland, seventeen of the forty-nine new principalities in the northern part of the mainland also came.
The coronation ceremony participated by more than thirty great dukes has never been seen in human history.
The Hanover Empire was established, and the Goddess of Nature became the largest religion on the mainland, and the Land of Light also became the Thunderstorm Continent.
In this violent change and shock, the common people on the mainland are not concerned about who is the king, but whether their own safety can be guaranteed.
Since the undead creatures entered the human world in a large scale six months ago, humans have been trapped in a whirlpool of anxiety and uneasiness. With the successive victory of the undead legion, more than one million humans died in the war, and anxiety and uneasiness have evolved into fear and despair.
When the Undead Legion destroyed the Temple of Light and the Rohan Kingdom, the most powerful country on the continent, fell apart, almost all humans believed that the world would be ruled by undead creatures and that humans would be subjected to bloody massacre.
However, the development of the facts was beyond expectations. These undead creatures were different from the legendary undead creatures. They were strong but not cruel. They were terrible but disciplined. Although the rule of the mainland had fallen into the hands of undead creatures, large-scale massacres did not happen.
In fact, the range of undead creatures in the human world is not large. There are only five places near Hanover City, Hukou Pass, Ultraland City, Hosworth Fortress and the five places near the Holy Mountain of Light, where undead creatures are frequently active, and other places are still very peaceful.
With the continuous publicity of the Goddess of Nature and the Hannovi Empire, humans gradually believed in the fact that undead and normal creatures might be able to live in peace under certain specific conditions, and that terrifying Thunderstorm Emperor might not be as cruel as the Church of Light promotes.
So many people began to reflect on whether it is correct for them to believe in the Light Church for a lifetime? The Supreme God really represents justice and sacredness. Can it really bring them peace and prosperity?
In addition, there is a huge mystery in everyone's hearts - what happened in the final decisive battle in the Holy Mountain of Light?
The news that the Church of Light was killed by the undead was brought back by soldiers from the Rohan Kingdom. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers saw the burning fire on the Holy Mountain of Light with their own eyes, and they even brought back the bodies of eleven Cardinals, but there were many puzzling things that confused them.
The first puzzling place is that since the Church of Light has been destroyed and the Temple of Light has been burned, the two miraculous light pillars still exist, one big and one small, two light pillars penetrated into the sky, so that people hundreds of kilometers away can also see it.
The second puzzling place is that since the undead creatures have occupied the Great Temple of Light, why did they not continue to attack the back mountain of Apollo Palace and the Holy Mountain of Light, but instead surrounded the place, as if they were protecting something?
The third puzzled place is that there are nearly 200,000 armed personnel guarding the Great Temple of Light. In addition to more than 10,000 holy knights being massacred, why did some other warriors evaporate?
The most important point is where Pope Paul II went, was he dead or escaped? Where did Gonzalez, the only remaining Archbishop in Cardinal, go? Where did the two great magicians of the Church of Light go? Where did the fourteen terrifying silver dragons go?
The Pope is a symbol of the Church of Light. If he escapes, will the Church of Light be considered to have been destroyed?
The magician and the Silver Dragon Warrior are the ultimate power of the Light Church. What should they do if they continue to exist?
Too much confusion made everyone turn their attention to the Holy Mountain of Light and the Apollo Palace, which once lived in hundreds of popes.
However, there are hundreds of thousands of undead warriors outside the Apollo Palace on alert, and there are more than a hundred giant dragons flying above the Apollo Palace, and no one dares to approach here.
Almost at the same time Cynthia put the Crystal Lotus Crown on Imadnagoul's head, in the Apollo Palace, Lei closed the Golden Holy Book and slowly raised his head.
"Thunderstorm, what did you see?" Pope Paul II, who had been waiting for more than twenty days, asked anxiously.
"Dark, death, killing!" Lei pushed the Golden Holy Book to the Pope and said, "No wonder your Light Church is bloodthirsty, it turns out that they are doing it according to the method of this book!"
The pope was stunned, looked at Gonzalez beside him, and murmured: "The eyes of the night can only see the night, and the eyes of the light can only see the light. The attributes are different, and the results are also different!"
"Tell me, why do you do this?" Lei couldn't understand the Pope's words, but he had many questions in his heart: "Why did I let me destroy the human faith in the Supreme God, and why did I hope the Supreme God will abandon it?"
On that day in the Temple of Light, the Battle Angel abandoned his origin of gods and created a pillar of punishment. The Pope could use this super weapon to repel the undead legion and even kill the thunderstorm.
But the Pope did not do this, but secretly told the thunderstorm to destroy the Great Temple of Light and destroy the Holy Knights.
In that case, Lei can only choose to cooperate, otherwise at least one-third of the 300,000 undead creatures are within the range of the light column, and the light column will melt them all in just a few minutes.
In fact, the thunder was just a gesture. The black fog soared into the sky could not stop the landing of the pillar of punishment. Everything was arranged by the Pope.
"For more than fifty years, I have been studying this golden holy book every day. Combined with the experiences of previous popes, I came to a terrible conclusion--in a few hundred years, the Supreme God will abandon this plane!"
Pope Paul held the golden holy book and felt sad: "The civilization history of this plane has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. The creatures that ruled this plane have also changed from the original dragon clan to the current human beings, but the function of this plane has never changed. This plane is a tool of the Supreme God, and it exists for the Supreme God to collect the origin of God."
The noun "The Origin of God?" is very familiar with the noun, but I still don't understand its specific meaning.
"The origin of God is the material necessary for the survival and growth of Gods. Just like the soul energy of your undead creatures, the food and water of our human beings. If Gods want to exist, they must constantly devour the origin of God."
Although the explanation was very clear, Lei still did not understand what the origin of God was.
"That is the power of faith. Gods live by faith. Without the power of faith, gods will die. The more faith they enjoy, the higher the status of the gods and the greater the power." The pope sighed: "In the history of civilizations over the past tens of thousands of years, hundreds of religious types have appeared, such as Light, Natural Goddess, and even Orcs' Shamanism. They are organizations that collect the power of faith. All the collected faiths have become the origin of the Supreme God and become the driving force for the development and growth of the Supreme God."
"However, the faith of a plane is limited, and the origin of God that can provide to the Supreme God is also limited. When the faith of a plane is exhausted and the Supreme God cannot enjoy enough faith, the Supreme God will abandon this plane and restore this plane to the ignorant and wilderness era."
"Since the Goddess of Nature is also an organization that collects faith for the Supreme God, then isn't the humans in this plane who believe in the Goddess of Nature also providing faith power for the Supreme God?" Lei asked: "Why do you say that the faith in this plane collapses, and the Supreme God will abandon this plane?"
"Because humans believe in the goddess of nature because they are afraid of being destroyed by undead creatures. When they pray, they are not thinking about the goddess of nature, but you, and the powerful undead legion you represent. Therefore, their faith power will not be sent to the Supreme God, but to the Lord of Darkness."
So that's it. Lei understood a little: "But after the plane is abandoned, the power of life will disappear and humans will perish. How can you save them?"
"Because you suddenly appeared, I saw hope!" The Pope suddenly stood up and looked at Lei aggressively: "The abandoned land is where hope is, I want to immigrate to the abandoned land!"
Chapter completed!