Chapter 17 Mechanical Chariots
Silent was undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of this visit. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info Having succeeded in recovering the tax from the lord after the tax on the requisitioned drinks, Celent has now begun to catch up with Bishop Fren, and the townspeople have acquiesced to the status of Acting Bishop of Celent in accordance with the canon when Bishop Fren has not returned.
And his deeds of curing the lord's stubborn illness also spread far and wide, becoming one of the topics of conversation among the townspeople. The lord even sent the old butler to send him a few precious canons as a token of gratitude. The lord's unusual behavior confirmed the rumors.
In the last month, Celent has completely replaced Bishop Flren's former primary function, treating the townspeople.
The only thing that worries the acting bishop is that Bishop Flon has been gone for more than a month, and there is still no sign of returning.
After more than a month of research between the two, it was discovered that when Alfie sang the battle song, the effect of Selent's divine spell would be multiplied. For those incurable diseases, Celent can break through the limits of his own strength under the influence of Alfie's hymns, and use intermediate or even high-level divine spells to overcome those problems.
This question has been bothering the two for a long time. According to the normal understanding, Alfie's hymn can only be used to make Celent's divine spell break through and use a higher divine spell if it is successful, does this mean that Alfie's success rate in using hymns is 100%? This is far from the rumored negligible success rate of hymns.
But if the success of the hymn can only be used to increase it so little, there is a world of difference from the rumor that success can be used with the help of the power of the Lord God.
Alfie had secretly asked the Demon Note about this question, and the result was that if she wanted to know the answer, she would need Alfie to exchange it for a hundred years of life. Alfie immediately dismissed this idea and pressed her curiosity to the bottom of her heart. After all, the average life expectancy of a normal person in the mainland is only about 150 years.
This incident also gave Alfie a deeper understanding of the Demon Notes, unless he could have an eternal life like a god, it would be almost impossible to rely on the omnipotence of this Demon Note to achieve goals such as gaining invincible power and dominating the continent.
After mastering the two skills of bard, Alfie suddenly looked forward to the profession again. In his opinion, being an honest bard, and using this demon notebook to solve a little trouble when necessary, is a good choice, and it is more in line with his original character of eating and waiting for death.
"Alfie, come and help, I need your help. Silent asked for help in Elfie's direction, interrupting Alfie's train of thought.
"Alright, alright, right away. Reluctantly, Alfie put down the hymn book and walked out of the room rubbing her eyes.
Sellant must have had another tricky injury, which is why he was asked to go out and sing that one. Alfie sometimes even had the delusion that the townsfolk had not even come to heal their wounds, but had come to hear him sing hymns. Many insignificant injuries seemed to him, and the use of Celent's divine spells was simply a matter of getting rid of them. But even the "wounded" who had been treated by Celent and had significantly improved their wounds still said that they felt very uncomfortable and insisted on inviting Alfie out for a while before they were satisfied.
Even more suspiciously, whenever Alfie was invited out, a large crowd of townsfolk appeared around the church as if teleporting magic to listen to his singing—even Lord Stowe and his old butler had several times quietly hidden behind the crowd and acted as loyal listeners. This gave Alfie the illusion that she was a grandiose clown every time she sang a hymn.
Hell, are these people so idle every day? Alfie complained to herself more than once. Day after day went on for nearly a month, and if it weren't for the fact that Alfie had noticed a marked increase in his physical strength and vitality after each chant, which was very important to him in desperate need of vitality, he would not have sung hymns to others every day.
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Outside the small town of Frosacken, a group of men and horses galloped from the direction of the imperial capital, and at the head of the group was a female knight riding a rare unicorn.
The female knight was dressed in silver armor and was draped in scarlet coating, on which was embroidered with a golden insignia representing the Holy See. Judging by the outfit, this is a knight of the Knights of Light. Behind her, a group of brightly armored knights was clustered in the center of a strangely shaped "mechanical chariot".
It is a mechanical chariot in the style of a typical Duchy of Bavaria. The chariot did not rely on horses to pull forward like ordinary carriages, and the part that was supposed to be the wheel in front was replaced by a spherical metal device about one meter in diameter, from which bursts of magic fluctuations were constantly emitted, and a long pole made of mythril engraved with intricate magic patterns was transmitted to the wheels on both sides of the carriage, driving the wheels forward.
Behind the ball, in a small space surrounded by glass, sits an old man dressed as a waiter, controlling the direction of the chariot through a circular device.
After the cataclysm caused by the double moon 15 years ago, which completely destroyed the mechanical kingdom of Bavaria, almost all the mechanical devices that had lost the technical support and power source of the Duchy of Bavaria were scrapped, and only those with deep pockets and large energy reserves could use them in luxury. Nowadays, it is still possible to use energy-intensive mechanical chariots, which makes people have to be surprised by the amazing financial resources and noble status of the owner of the chariots.
A melodious song came from the direction of the town, lifting the spirit of the female knight on the unicorn, and a thoughtful expression appeared on her handsome face—it had been a long time since she had left the imperial capital a hymn in praise of the Lord of Light. But hearing the hymns at this time seems to be different from what the choir sings. The hymns sung by the choir are merely in praise of the Lord of Light, and do not seem to echo Her divine power in the same way that the hymns of this time do.
A chubby middle-aged priest dressed in the costume of the celebrant in the carriage raised his head from the holy canon in his hand, and looked happily at a clergyman holding a holy scepter sitting opposite: "Your Excellency, ...... you listen?"
The man sitting opposite him wore a towering crown on his head, a luxurious white robe, the cuffs of the robe were decorated with red patterns, the robe was draped with a red shawl inlaid with gold lace, and in his left hand he held a scepter with intricate patterns, and his face was always shrouded in a layer of holy light that people could not look at directly, and a silver mask completely covered his face under the holy light, leaving only a pair of golden eyes.
Judging by his dress, this is a cardinal who is second only to the Pope and Cardinal in the Holy See.
Although the Holy See branch in the Imperial Capital lost contact with the Holy See headquarters in the Western Kingdom due to the Cataclysm, resulting in the weakening of the Holy See's influence in the Empire, it does not mean that the Holy See is willing to sit idly by.
In order to strengthen the influence of the Holy See and consolidate the position of the Holy See in the Empire, the four cardinals under Cardinal Istta, the supreme leader of the Holy See's Imperial Branch, patrolled the four directions under the Holy Archbicy's oracle and spread the light of the Lord of Light within the Empire. And the one in charge of patrolling the northern part of the empire was none other than the cardinal in front of Dylan, Lord Olufei.