"Smash it!"

"Smash it!"

"Smash it!"

……

Countless angry people in front of the temple raised their arms and shouted, urging Roland to destroy the statue of the sun god that symbolized the cruel oppression of the people of the Far East by the Imperial Holy See.

Rudolph did not echo the cries of the people, but sank his face. The scene before him was beyond his expectations, and the person who instigated the smashing of the statue of Pero may not have malicious intent, but in fact he had pushed Roland and the entire new regime in the Far East to the brink of fire, and was in a very dangerous but dilemma.

It takes a lot of courage to reject the voice of the people, but what will Roland choose if he follows the voice of the people?

Rudolph's heart rose to his throat.

"Do you want to make a bet with me," Grophas asked Rubin, turning to him, "suppose he'll smash the idol?" ”

Rubin couldn't speak with a dry throat, stared straight at Roland, holding his breath nervously, how could he still have the heart to bet with Colossa.

In the midst of the violent impulses, Roland ascended the altar, bowed to the idol calmly, and then picked it up with both hands and moved it from the center of the altar to the corner of the temple.

Seeing that he had no intention of destroying the idol, the shouts fell into a sigh of disappointment.

Roland put down the statue of Perro, turned around and walked to the door of the temple, crossed his hands on his waist and smiled at the faces with different expressions at the bottom of the stairs:

"Fellow citizens, fellow Catholics, I know that many of you are eager to smash the idol of Perot with your own hands, isn't that so?"

He was answered with a cry of affirmation.

Roland nodded, and continued: "Considering the discrimination and oppression of the Far Easterners by the Perro Church for many years, we do have a reason to do this, but if we do this, what difference is it from the religious oppressors we have been fighting against for thousands of years?" ”

There was silence on the streets, and reason returned to the people, who began to seriously think about the question of not doing to others as you would have them do unto you.

At this time, Roland proclaimed: "I don't want to vent my hatred on a cold statue, because we don't need to prove that the Sindra Church is stronger than the Perro Church with the destruction of the statue that cannot fight back, on the contrary, we want to prove that the Sindra Church is more tolerant than the Pero Church!" ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, some applauding Roland in agreement, but there were also doubtful voices.

Roland smiled, lowered his tone slightly, and said in a serious tone to his resentful compatriots:

"Of course, I can't be tolerant enough to allow this idol to remain here, otherwise how can I be worthy of my compatriots who have suffered from religious oppression and heresy for thousands of years? Therefore I will remove this idol from the altar and send it to the place where it should go, and henceforth it will be the temple of our Lord Sindra, and I have no objection to anyone who wishes to continue to worship Perot, but he may have set up an altar in his own house. ”

This remark succeeded in dispelling the resentment in the hearts of the people, and the last joke had the miraculous effect of soothing the atmosphere, causing everyone to laugh in unison, and the urge to destroy the statue of Pero was dissipated.

Seeing that the crowd had regained calm, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and he turned to Master Merlin and said coldly: "I want to know who was the first to jump out and incite the people to destroy the statue of Pero, I want to know if there is any behind-the-scenes mastermind, go and check immediately!" ”

Mage Merlin bowed slightly, and disappeared out of thin air with his teleportation spell.

In front of the temple gate, Roland was secretly relieved to see that people's emotions had returned to calm.

Why not destroy the statue of Pero in public, in addition to the high-sounding rhetoric that appeased the people just now, there are actually reasons why it is inconvenient to disclose it publicly.

Roland didn't mind breaking with the Empire, or even going against the Empire's Holy See, but he couldn't publicly humiliate the statue of the sun god, the symbol of the Perian faith.

It is important to know that the Church of Pero was not only the state religion of the empire, but also the state religion of Pausward, Fijin, Hailan, and Canaan, at least in name. It was on the basis of this common belief that the Empire and the Four Princely States had the basis for the formation of a pan-religious federation called the "Holy Light Alliance". But the Perot Church in country A and the Pero church in country B are not necessarily one and the same, just as the Orthodox Christianity, Catholicism and Protestantism, which have also believed in God throughout the history of the earth, have not been mutually exclusive and heretical, so that there is a joke that heretics are more hateful than heretics.

The overthrow of the imperial government in the Far East and the abolition of the imperial papacy in the Far East are only bilateral conflicts between the Far East and the empire, and Canaan and other princely states that have been under the pressure of the empire for a long time will only steal pleasure, but destroying the statue of Pero in public is tantamount to provoking all the Pero believers in the world of Vares, whether he belongs to the Imperial Church, the Paulshua Church, the Fizhen Church, the Hailan Church or the Canaanite Church, this is a bottom line that must not be broken.

As far as reality is concerned, Roland certainly does not forget that Rubin and Corofa, the two "Blue Sky Knights", are also the priesthood of Pero (the Blue Sky Knight is a branch of the Holy Warriors), and if he destroys the statue of Pero in public, Rubin and Colossa will inevitably form an incompatible hatred with him, and the cooperation between the Far East and Canaan will be a cake.

The sign of a person's maturity is to learn to be in awe, to know what can and cannot be done, and Roland has spent a lot of effort in preparing for this sanctification ceremony, and certainly will not make irreparable mistakes at the moment of imminent success, because of the clamor of the people.

Roland lifted the idol of Sindra again and placed it on the empty altar, thus completing the final step of the "sanctification ceremony".

Rumble! The moment the idol touched the altar, it triggered a round of divine power fluctuations, and those with keen perception felt that the earth under their feet trembled slightly, as if something in the leylines had surged up, connecting with the beautiful and solemn statue of the goddess on the altar, forming a sanctifying barrier that dominated the entire temple, and the golden light illuminated the main hall.

Roland straightened up to look at the statue of the goddess, and suddenly an exclamation sounded behind him.

People saw that Roland's feet first automatically opened a circle of red aura symbolizing the evil camp, and then transformed into a silver aura symbolizing the good camp.

Roland also sensed the changes under his feet, and hurriedly opened the system to check his camp, confirming that the "curse of sin" had been removed, and according to what he had done since he was born, the laws of the world judged that he should be classified into the good camp. However, Roland did not like this change, and quietly released his divine power to resist the influence of the "sanctification ceremony" on him, so that the camp returned to a special state of transcendence from good and evil.

Those who follow the sanctification ritual do not know what Roland is doing, but they see the spiritual changes under his feet and conclude that by entering the temple of Sindra, being baptized with light in front of the altar, and converting to the goddess of fate, they can be washed away from heresy like Roland, and after death they will receive the promise of eternal happiness in the kingdom of Sindra instead of falling into purgatory and suffering!