Chapter 175: Divine Punishment? The Church’s Secret Weapon, a Complete Change in the Situation on the Continental Island!

"It feels familiar, but it doesn't remind me of anything."

Patricia put down the secret scroll in her hand with regret, picked up the white porcelain cup beside her again, and took a sip of the tea with milk in it.

"Really."

Seeing that Patricia didn't recover any more memories, Deya didn't care.

He put the scroll away, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "I don't know what Kirkadi II is going to do, but it is definitely a problem."

After all, Kirkadi II is the final boss of a version of the game, so he is definitely not a simple person.

Especially in this reality, the various intelligence and information Deya obtained was richer than in the game.

This made Deya guess that after the elimination of Kirkadi II in the game, the plot still left some foreshadowing, which should be prepared for the next version of the game.

The emergence of Deya has caused things to go off track, so some of the content in subsequent versions of the game may happen ahead of schedule.

The sound of birds flapping wings came from outside the window. Deya stood up from his chair, walked to the window and looked at the clear sky.

Thousands of vampires were escorting more than a hundred falcons with cargo tied to their feet, flying into the distance.

Both England and Susaitani have declined over the past seven hundred years, and their air forces are not large in number.

Susaytani has only one griffin group of more than one hundred people, which is treated as a treasure by His Majesty the King.

Even in modern times, the Air Force and the Navy are forces that require a lot of money to develop, and this is still the case in this era of low productivity.

"But even so, the national strength of these two countries has weakened too badly. If it weren't for the strange eternal curse on this continent, England and Susetani would have been destroyed by the Narpo Empire long ago."

Deya shook his head. In this world where all great power belonged to one person, he was not very interested in the pursuit of power and territory. He cared more about strengthening his own strength.

The falcons in the sky were transporting the alchemical and magical weapons that defended the City of Gold. Inside the cathedral, there were many undead creatures carrying gold, silver, jewelry and other items that had been treasured by the Church of Dawn for hundreds of years.

Deya was not going to give all these things to his father and brother, but kept a large part of them as materials so that he could use the "Ten Rings" spell when needed.

"Dong dong dong————"

There was a knock on the door, and the bishop who had promised to help Deya manage the city came in. He gently placed a document on the patriarch's desk and said respectfully:
"Lord Deya, here is the information you need about some important families and their relatives in the Golden City."

The bishop didn't know that the reason he compiled such a document was entirely due to the influence of Deya's "Great Command Technique".

Deya didn't know much about England, so he needed help from a local.

"Very well, go down."

The bishop had no idea what he was doing. He bowed and slowly walked out.

Deya walked back to the desk, picked up the document and took a quick look at it.

It details the families, relatives and addresses of the archbishops of the major dioceses in the Kingdom of England in the City of Gold.

These people are similar to hostages, and are a means for the Anglo-European Patriarch to control the archbishops of the major dioceses.

When the archbishops took office, their relatives had to stay in the Golden City to prevent the archbishops from betraying them.

In particular, many of these archbishops themselves came from large families in England, and together with the Garcia family they formed the ruling class of England.

“No matter where you are, over time, the classes will eventually solidify, mobility at the top will decrease, and the rulers of the country will always be the same people.

It would be good if gods could really manage the secular world, as their positions could be determined based on the piety of one's faith.

No, this is not good either. When all choices depend on faith, capable people may not be able to make a breakthrough.”

Deya quickly made himself forget these thoughts in his mind.

This is something that concerns the system and fairness, and no matter how many talented people there have been throughout history, they have been unable to completely resolve it. Deya doesn't want to bother thinking about these things.

Deya flipped through the documents and said to the shadow behind him, "Camille, how is it going?"

"Lord Deya, I have already privately led people to execute the leaders of the rebels, and used the local newspapers in England to report the fate of these rebels."

Camille also applied what he learned. When he was in Abram, he saw the importance of newspapers.

Therefore, he forced the newspapers founded by the church in the Golden City to make public the fate of these rebels.

Deya nodded slowly and continued, "For a country with strong beliefs like this, especially one with a single faith, blindly using terrorist means may lead to greater resistance."

If it is a place with multiple faiths, Deya can completely stir up conflicts of faith among the lower levels and thus play a balancing act.

But in a city with only one faith, people will be more united for their faith.
Therefore, at this time we cannot stir up conflicts of faith, but we must stir up conflicts of class.

He handed the document in his hand to Camille: “We don’t have our own intelligence agency in England, and we don’t know what other dioceses are doing now.

But it can be guessed that the archbishops of those dioceses must be reorganizing their troops and are ready to attack the Golden City at any time.

This document contains the families and relatives of those archbishops. Controlling them all may not guarantee that the archbishops of those dioceses will give up the attack, but it can buy us more time."

After a pause, Deya continued: “…When the gods’ eyes can no longer focus on the mortal world, the higher the level of people, the less firm their faith will be, and the more they will care about their own interests.

These people will be even more afraid of death. After controlling them, we can use some means to make them cooperate with us.

My most important goal now is to transport the wealth of this city away, not to play hide-and-seek with those rebels and waste my time, Camille, do you understand me? "

The half-elf said humbly, "I already know how to do it, Lord Deya."

"Well, go ahead. Remember, the Garcia family is the most important. We can't let anyone escape." The figure of the wandering half-elf disappeared into the shadows.

Patricia's ruby ​​eyes were fixed on Deya, and she said, "You seem very tired, Deya."

Deya sighed: "Some people may be addicted to this sense of superiority of being high above and holding great power.

But I prefer to study magic, find the truth and facts of this world, and make myself stronger and more satisfied.

No matter how much power you possess, in the end you are nothing but a cup of dust. To put it bluntly, after you die, your grave might be dug up by a necromancer like me.

Only immortality is what we should pursue, everything else is meaningless."

Patricia asked curiously, "Do you want to become a god?"

“I don’t deny that I have such arrogant thoughts. Now I am a chosen one of God. Theoretically, as long as God exists, I can be with God.

But you see, even gods fall, and a chosen one like me can only live for a thousand years at most."

Since you have traveled through time, as a time traveler, how could you not have the idea of ​​becoming a god?

Although Deya still has a long time to go before he dies of old age, he doesn't want to wait until he is about to die to rush to find a solution.

"Patricia, can a mortal become a god?"

Deya asked.

In known history, there is no record of any mortal becoming a god.

Apart from the nine main gods, the rest are only supernumerary gods, all of whom are fallen gods like the God of Corruption.

The number of gods is decreasing, but it has never been heard of them increasing.

Patricia thought about it and shook her head: “I don’t know, Deya, I don’t know if mortals can become gods.

If you are afraid that you will die one day, then you can try to resurrect the Mother Goddess. As the chosen one of God, you can be with the Mother Goddess. "

Deya smiled and said, “This is also one of my plans.”

If the rules of this world do not allow mortals to become gods, then Deya can only implement the second plan.

That is to find a god to rely on. Undoubtedly, the only one he can rely on now is the Dark Moon Goddess.

He has already received so many benefits from the Dark Moon Goddess. Whether for himself or for the goddess, he must let the Dark Moon Goddess win the resurrection match.

Judging from various clues, it is very difficult for gods to fall completely.

Whether it is the Dark Moon Goddess or the God of Corruption, they both left behind various means of resurrection.

……

Deya stayed in the Golden City for the rest of his life, trying to grab as much wealth as possible from this city with a history of more than a thousand years.

This wealth is so huge that it would take a long time to transfer it by air transportation.

The main reason is that among these wealth are large amounts of gold, silver, jewelry, various antiques and artworks. Many of the things placed in the collection room have been covered with a layer of dust.

If Deya had not dug deep into the ground to dig these artifacts out of the cathedral, the Dawn Church might have forgotten about these things.

The numerous treasures and various objects, even if loaded onto the caravan's horse-drawn carriages, would probably fill up hundreds of them.

With only the transport capacity of more than a hundred falcons and the long journey, Deya could only wait quietly.

Most of this vast fortune was transported by Deja to his own great tomb in the Limerick Mountains.

In addition to being used as materials for magic, these rare treasures can also be used to exchange for various precious materials in the future to build your own magician's tower.

The days passed one by one, and Deya continued to learn magic to improve his strength while not dealing with the affairs of the Golden City.

On the twentieth day after Deya captured the Golden City, he did not wait for the coalition forces of the major dioceses of England, but instead received a piece of news that shocked both Susaitani and England!
Patriarch Garcia of the Church of Dawn led England's most elite army to attack the Third Church of Susetsani.

Pope Kirkadi II of the Susatian Church recalled all the crusading troops and high-ranking church forces to fight a desperate battle with the Inglor Patriarch within the sphere of influence of the Third Church.

According to intelligence, in the initial engagement, Kirkadi II's army was defeated, and facing the elite troops of England, the Susaitani Church was no match.

But just when the British army had already entered the third church and was on the verge of victory, the Goddess of Dawn suddenly brought down divine punishment!

"According to the unanimous statement of spies from all fronts, the British side took advantage of the cover of night to launch a surprise attack and broke through the gate guarding the Third Church.

But suddenly, the area within a hundred miles of the Third Cathedral became as bright as day, and a strong light descended from the sky.

The human eyes could not even see those glories. When the glories disappeared, the Patriarch of England and his elite army were all reduced to ashes.

Until now, the area within a hundred miles centered on the Third Church is always in the morning light, and the night never falls!"

Deya summoned all his people in the Golden City and spoke with a serious face about this news that completely changed the current situation on the mainland island.

"The most important thing is that, in addition to the elite army and all the strong men of the Anglo Church, almost all the high-ranking officials and strong men of the Susetani Church have also died!"

This is definitely good news for third parties such as Deya and King Susaytani.

The Dawn Church of the two countries was in civil strife, and all the elite and high-ranking members were killed. This was simply the most ideal outcome.

But the bad news is, what on earth is that "divine punishment" that can kill tens of thousands of elite troops and many six-ring and seven-ring strongmen including Patriarch Inglo?
Deya didn't believe that it was a real punishment from God. It must be that Kirkadi II had mastered some secret weapon belonging to the Goddess of Dawn!

(End of this chapter)