Chapter 839: The Glory of Sadmir (I)
The presence of this city lord of Yamen City is so low that it is unique in other cities, and the city lords of other cities will often show up in front of players, posting some regional tasks and other work, even if it is impossible to see each other casually, but at least they can be familiar.
And this one in Yamen City, An Yizhi doesn't know what he looks like, and he has never even heard of whether he is a man or a woman.
However, it is foreseeable that as long as the city lord is rescued, he will continue to find a way to wrest power from the hands of the four major temples, even if the Temple of Dawn has the grace to save his life, he is embarrassed to attack directly for the influence of public opinion, and he will definitely give such and such constraints secretly.
From the emotional aspect, the relationship between the Temple of Dawn and An Yizhi is very good, it can be said that the closest relationship with him in addition to the Three Towers Alliance is the Temple of Dawn, and they often provide free help, such as opening the teleportation array or something, and receiving a lot of favors, An Yizhi is not a wolf-hearted guy, and he doesn't want these good gentlemen to be plotted by.
From the perspective of interests, the greater the scope of strength of the Temple of Dawn, the more benefits An Yizhi can get from having a good relationship with the Temple of Dawn.
The most straightforward example of this is tasks.
The right to speak in a city of four people is not the same as the right to speak in a city, and many things cannot be done by themselves, and they need the help of others in all aspects.
When you encounter something that you can't reach out or can't free your hand, An Yizhi, who has the best relationship, is naturally the best choice.
In any way, An Yizhi didn't want the city lord to come back, and even if the Temple of Dawn had ambitions to unify Yamen, An Yizhi would be very active in helping.
What An Yizhi got here was only indirect benefits, and the direct beneficiary was still the Temple of Dawn itself, so An Yizhi said that Bishop Tolan was looking for trouble.
"Mr. An, on behalf of the Dawn Church, I thank you for thinking about us, but Yamen really can't do without the city lord."
Bishop Tolan has lived for decades, and to be able to get mixed up with the position of bishop, of course, his brain is not only hot-blooded, but not only not angry at An Yizhi's rude remarks, but very pleased, because he knows very well what An Yizhi thinks.
"And the disappearance of the city lord is now affecting more than just the city lord."
"Anyone else missing?"
An Yizhi hadn't heard of any news about this, and if the city lords of other cities suddenly disappeared, there would have been an uproar on the forum.
"Some time ago, Lop became the trailblazer of Priestley. You know that Lopven suddenly turned into an undead creature and returned to the human world, right? ”
An Yizhi nodded, he didn't just know, he was just on the scene, after all, he went to Luo Puwen to do something at that time.
This incident also set off some turmoil on the forum, because the situation at that time was very similar to the previous siege of Amen City by the Skeleton King, and the people who ate melons on the forum speculated whether someone had stolen someone's funeral goods again, but the resurrected Priestley disappeared on his own in a few days, without a trace, and no one knew where he went.
"The night of Priestley's resurrection, it happened to be the day of the once in ten years to activate the purification stone tablet and dispel the negative energy in the cemetery, the bishop of the Church of Justice and the high-ranking priest of the Money Church went to the outside of the city to hold a purification ceremony together, and then they disappeared, and the two have not heard from each other so far, and all the clergy accompanying them were killed, and this matter was blocked as soon as possible because it was about the bishop."
The bishop is equivalent to the leader of all the branch churches in a region, similar to the bishop of Tolan in the city of Amen, if he disappears, the entire Dawn Church in the Sademir region will not even have a person to make up their minds in case of any emergency.
It is also reasonable that such an important person is missing and blocking information, so it's no wonder that there is no news on the player's side at all.
"At that time, a wave of extremists in the city attacked the Kamen Theater, and many people in the know suspected that they had nothing to do with it."
"Ahem!"
An Yizhi almost poured black tea into his trachea when he heard this, and he always felt that Bishop Tolan deliberately ordered him when he said this.
"Well, you go on, go on, I'm just a little in a hurry."
Bishop Tolan smiled, and Ann had a feeling that he had seen through it.
"However, the people of the Righteous Church do not think so, they ask Shir Tyr to give them an answer, and the oracle shows that the bishop is still alive, but he is sealed somewhere and cannot come out temporarily, otherwise the bishop's soul will go to the divine realm, and what happened to him before his death will also be known by Tyr."
"It seems that this is the case with the lord of the castle as well...... So, what do you think is the church in Waukin? ”
"That's right, the recent unusual behavior of the Money Church is indeed very suspicious, and we suspect that both the city lord and the bishop have been sealed and imprisoned by them, but because there is no evidence, the temple cannot investigate it."
After all, different churches are like different countries, no matter how glorious you are, it is very troublesome to investigate them, and it is related to the other party's face.
However, it is not that there is no room for maneuver, so it is the turn of Ann to point out adventurers like them who do not belong to the church.
To be honest, Ann doesn't like the righteous church of Tyre either, even though they belong to the Church of Order, but the church of Tyre values order more than kindness, and our protagonist happens to be a chaotic neutral tease......
But on second thought, there is a lot of room for maneuvering in this matter itself, at least it can be connected to the church in Tyr.
The Church of Tyre has a very wide sphere of influence, no worse than Losanda, whether it is an adventure in the future, or a dungeon, maybe when these stereotypical guys will be used, and it is not bad to have one more friend.
What's more, for such a great achievement as saving the bishop, the reward given is too scathing, and they themselves are disgraced, and the amount of the reward must be guaranteed.
After thinking about the gains and losses, An Yizhi said:
"I can handle the bishop's matter, but the city lord's business...... Seriously, wouldn't it be nice to have no city lord Yamen City now? It's really not good, you just pick an obedient one from his nephews or relatives, there's no need to save him, right? ”
An Yizhi has already said very tactfully, basically let the four major temples get a puppet to go up, to avoid the diplomatic aspects outside the city of Yamen, saying that the divine right interferes with the royal power.
Bishop Tolan spread his hands:
"He really has to be."
Of course, Bishop Tolan understood what Ann Yi pointed to, and even if he didn't have any bad intentions in this regard, the clergy in Woking's gang must have had such thoughts, but they never implemented them.
"Going to save the city lord also has something to do with the second thing I want to say, so let's just talk about it together."
Bishop Tolan pulled out a map, and Anyi recognized it as a map of Dosu in the Overworld.
There is only one continent on the map, shaped a bit like a spread pentagon, and the most sealed area is uninhabited desolate frozen soil, and the rest is roughly divided into three areas by the Heavenly Sword Mountain Range.
This is Dosu.
But what is the Bishop doing with this?
"Doesn't Mr. Ann think it's strange? Why is a world so small? ”
"...... so"
It's a little smaller.
The size of the continent on the map is at most two times larger than that of Australia in reality, and in terms of the size of the planet, it is impossible for such a small planet to provide enough gravity to maintain the atmosphere, and without the atmosphere, it is impossible to form this kind of human civilization similar to that in reality.
At first, Ann didn't think about this problem, after all, this is a game, and a map that is two circles larger than Australia is enough for players to have fun, and there is no need to make it bigger.
But when Bishop Tolan mentions this, he means ......
"Incomplete map? Are there other continents on the other side of the sea? ”
"Yes, not only do other continents exist, but we clergy come from there."
Bishop Tolan said:
"That was about 1,000 years ago, when a group of pioneers came here by ship and let us know that the world is far bigger than we imagined."
The Bishop looked at the map with great interest, and for his age he could not have been one of the forerunners of the time, but he had the purest respect for those who dared to sail and venture.
"At that time, the region of Sademir was not visited by the glory of the gods, and it was a kingdom where only the royal power was supreme. Countless states, large and small, make up the mortal civilization on this continent. ”
An Yi pointed to fill the bishop's teacup, and the latter thanked him and continued:
"The ocean-going trade was soon in full swing, and with the goods came the teachings of God."
This is a very normal thing, not to mention anything else, the Celestial Empire also exported a lot of myths and stories through culture when it was conducting foreign trade in ancient times, and religions and traditions from other countries also flowed in, such as Buddhism is the most typical example.
However, the situation is somewhat different from reality.
At that time, the Sademir region was a country without any religion and the supremacy of royal power, and it can be said that people's resistance to religion at that time was zero, and it was not as much as in reality that everyone had some understanding.
This is a good thing and a curse.
Sure enough, just as Ann Yizhi thought in his heart, Bishop Tolan immediately changed his mind when he told about the smooth spreading of the glory of God:
"The wildfire of doctrine and fanatical believers intensified, and the missionaries of the various churches who came here at that time did not expect to become like this, and even the church itself was out of their control."
A church like Loshanda, which encourages people to move forward and has positive teachings, is fine, it can activate the motivation in the hearts of the people, but in this world there are not only churches of good gods, but also churches of evil gods that have come along with the ocean trade, and the churches of neutral gods are not easy to mess with.
The rapid expansion of the divine power will certainly cause alarm for the royal power, which is unavoidable, after all, there is only so much power, once the people begin to listen to the instructions of the priests and gods.
What would you do as a king?
…… The war began.