Almighty Alchemist

This is a magnificent and magnificent castle-like building, which is divided into three areas.

The outermost area is the believer's area, which is the cathedral of the Scourge Church.

Every day, a large number of believers come here. They offer sacrifices to the gods, offer incense, pray for blessings, pray sincerely, accept baptism, and priests do alms and pray to enlighten the world.

Different from the Church of the Holy Spirit, the Church of the Holy Spirit believes that after death, the soul will either ascend to heaven, be accompanied by the God of Light, and enjoy eternal blessings, or go to hell and suffer the karmic fire of hell. Those who believe will have eternal life, and those who do not believe will suffer forever.

The Scourge Church believes that human life is bestowed by God, and death is only God's taking back the life bestowed on it. Therefore, Agas, the god of the underworld, is the greatest existence, making everything return to nothingness. However, this does not mean that they support death, because the Scourge Church believes that no one can arbitrarily take the life of others except Hades. Only death after baptism is a clean death, and life returns to the embrace of the god of the underworld, and will reappear in the world one day.

On the other hand, the Odin Temple in the Eastern Continent believes that death is not a terrible thing. What dissipates is only the body, and the soul will never die. The soul can even be sublimated, believers can become gods, and unbelievers can become demons.

It can be seen from this that no matter what kind of church it is, it is good at defining life and death. Because they know very well that life and death are always the top priority of any life.

Among all the definitions of life and death, the Temple of Odin's attitude towards death is the most tolerant, thinking that death is not terrible, and even looking forward to it. Therefore, the main battle force that their church has is the frenzied, brave and fearless berserkers. The Scourge Church uses their teachings to sanctify death, thereby controlling the life and death of others. As for the Church of the Holy Spirit, it is somewhere in between.

Fortunately, although Lasseter is a berserker from the Eastern Continent, he is not a priestly warrior from the Temple of Odin, so he is not considered a pagan. Otherwise, if he comes here, he may be punished by the pagan first.

Religious disputes have always been cruel and merciless. After all, it involves the principle of belief.

After passing the cathedral, it is the residential area of ​​the clergy of the Scourge Church. There are a large number of dark priests, priestly warriors, and some special identities such as holy guardians. This area is relatively complex, with living areas, training areas, a confession area for clergy, and an inner hall where the elders handle internal affairs, etc.

Behind it is a tall temple. There is the third and most important area of ​​the Scourge Church: the Temple of Sacrifice.

There is a huge altar in the sacrificial temple, which is said to have existed a long time ago. No one knows its origin, but only knows that it possesses a strange power. When enough sacrifices are made, it can communicate with the god of the underworld.

"You mean, just there, you can communicate with Hades?" Xiu Yi asked in surprise.

Isado laughed: "As early as the first time I talked to you, I told you that God exists, and it is by our side, listening to our voices and observing our behavior. Every once in a while, God will send down divine metaphors through the temple to give us guidance, and we will act according to His will."

"Divine metaphor?" Xiu Yi was very surprised.

"Yes, oracle!" Isado replied very positively: "The Church of Scourge was established under the guidance of the great god of the underworld, and thrived because of its existence. Hugh Iglesle, you don't have to believe my statement, but about your coming, the god of the underworld already knew about it."

"You mean that God of the Underworld knew that I would come?" Xiu Yi was taken aback by this statement.

"Yes." Isado nodded.

"This is unbelievable. God can actually see the future?"

"God is omnipotent."

"If that's the case, why do you want to make a deal with me? Don't all the deals become meaningless? Whatever you need, you can just ask God for it."

Isado's face became very serious: "God is the existence that created all things, and we are all just His people. For God, we can only give and cannot take. If you are devout enough, then you may be able to receive God's gift. For God's gift, we must be grateful and content. We must listen to God's will, we must fulfill God's will, and God's command, we must execute. Everything we do is carried out under God's guidance. We succeed because God needs us to succeed, and we fail because God wants to test us Your loyalty. To God...you can never ask for it!"

This is a typical religious fanatic's answer.

Xiu Yi calmed down slightly.

He knew that he had made a slip of the tongue just now, but fortunately Isado didn't care about what he said.

After thinking about it, Xiu Yi replied, "I still don't understand. If God knows me, why did you go through such a heated argument before reaching a deal with me?"

Isado replied, "Because God knows and we don't."

Huey was stunned.

According to Isado's words, God knows everything, knows about Xiu Yi, and even knows that Xiu Yi is coming. But his old man may not be interested in this, and he may not have told his people, so Isardo does not know, and the Scourge Church does not know, which is normal.

To put it more bluntly, now anyone standing in front of Isardo, he can say to the other person very well: "God has known everything about you and you will be here. As for us, we don't know because God didn't tell us."

A very common trick.

This made Huey laugh.

He could tell that Isado believed in the God of Hades from the bottom of his heart, but Xiu Yi didn't have the slightest liking for this so-called omniscient and omnipotent God of Hades.

It seemed too ethereal, too ethereal.

"So God is watching me now?" Huey asked.

"God creates all living beings, looks down on all living beings, everything is in His eyes."

"If all beings were created by God, then who created God?"

"God is an existence born in response to the laws of this world. It coexists with the world, and no one can create it!" Isado's face became serious. He was obviously not happy with Huey's rude question.

Xiu Yi finally stopped asking.

Looking around, the tall temple in the distance, the lingering incense, filled with a strong mysterious atmosphere.

For some reason, Xiu Yi's heart suddenly jumped violently.

He felt as if some force was approaching him, peeping at him.

There was a strange feeling deep in his heart, as if a voice was whispering in his heart.

It was as if something was calling to him.

This startled Xiu Yi, but when he felt it with his heart, the feeling disappeared, only the mysterious hall in front of him still stood.

"What's wrong with you?" Isardo saw that Xiu Yi stopped suddenly.

"Just now...it seems that something got into my body, as if someone was calling me softly." Xiuyi looked at Isado in confusion.

A satisfied smile appeared on Isado's face: "You finally feel the power of God, child. That is God's call to you. As I said, God is great. He is omnipresent and overlooks all living beings. He already knows your coming."

Xiu Yi stared blankly at the temple, and finally said: "Your Majesty Isado, may I go to worship the god of the underworld?"

"Of course, after completing our deal."

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"Ah!" A shrill cry tore through the tranquility of the night.

Simone sat up with a touch, and beside her was the man holding his head and screaming crazily. His eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead were bulging, like an angry lion, roaring terrifyingly.

"Brother Stone!" Simone called out.

She quickly jumped out of bed and brought the water she had prepared earlier. Then he took out a towel dipped in water and wiped it off the man's body.

Big drops of sweat fell from the man's body, he roared in a low voice, his image was hideous and terrifying.

Simone wiped the man tremblingly. She didn't know when the man would lose his mind and tear herself to pieces, but she still insisted on not running away, summoning up all her courage to take care of the man.

The man's headache occurred suddenly half a month ago.

On the first day of his attack, he lost his mind and went berserk, nearly killing Simone. Fortunately, he finally regained his sanity at the last moment and controlled himself. At that time, Simone's neck bone was almost broken by him.

Soon after that, every day or two, the man gets a headache. Every headache made him extremely terrifying.

Surprisingly, Simone showed extraordinary courage at this time.

Whenever a man is sick, she will take care of him tenderly by his side. After a long time, Shi Shi's condition has improved significantly.

He no longer loses sanity during an attack.

Today, the man's pain seems to have improved significantly.

It took only ten minutes for him to stop roaring.

He was lying on the bed, fast asleep like a child.

When he woke up the next day, the man found that there was no one around him.

Walking out of the cabin, Simone was sitting on the bow alone, wondering what she was thinking.

The man came to sit beside her and said with some difficulty, "Thank you."

Simone looked at the man in surprise.

These days, she has to talk a lot with Shishi every day, just like teaching a child to babble. As a result, Shi Shi's speech became more and more fluent, but he never took the initiative to speak, and always answered passively.

But today, he broke the habit.

This made Simone happy.

It is not easy to change this stubborn guy.

But Simone believes that no matter how difficult it is, the problem will always be solved.

It's a pity that there is one thing Shishi is still very stubborn about, that is, he always holds the black long sword and doesn't allow anyone to touch it.

This troubled Simone a little. Once she asked him: "Brother Shitou, why do you always hold it?"

Shi Shi thought for a long time before answering: "I... don't want you... to be hurt."

"Hurt?" Simone was a little confused.

In Simone's view, a sword is a sword, how could it hurt others?

But no matter how she asked, the stone just didn't answer.

Maybe he didn't know why, but he had a feeling deep in his heart: no one could touch the sword except himself.

No, there might be one more person to touch.

But who is that person?

He couldn't remember.

A faint shadow loomed in his mind, but he just couldn't remember who it was.

And he found that whenever he tried to retrieve the lost memory, he would suffer from headaches.

However, as the number of headache attacks increased, the degree of pain gradually decreased, followed by countless strange fragments in my mind.

He saw some special scenes.

Dark room, ferocious smile, hazy sky and bloody ground.

He heard some peculiar sounds.

Fierce whipping, feeble wailing, angry scolding, roaring like an angry lion, pitiful begging for mercy, prayers to the gods, and huge explosions shining with countless brilliance.

He smelled something special.

The rotten, moldy, smelly, and dirty ones seem to be in the hell world.

Occasionally there is also a sunny side, like childhood memories, full of laughter.

"I... had a nightmare yesterday," he said.

"What is it?" Simone asked curiously.

"There's a... girl." He touched his head and said.

Simone's face became a little ugly.

He went on: "She died... a terrible death... but... I can't remember who she was... and there was a girl... she was scary... with a big scar on her face... and I can't remember who she... was."

"Is that so... Maybe your memory is recovering. I think your headache may be related to this." Simone whispered.

"But I don't want to think about it," he replied.

Simone looked up in astonishment.

She found him looking at her, and said in a straightforward voice: "If I remember... maybe I will go."

He lowered his head, like a child who made a mistake: "I don't want to leave you, I don't want to lose you."

Simone burst out laughing.

She hugged him lightly: "Brother Shitou, you won't lose me."

"Cough, cough."

There were several old coughs from behind.

Simone and Shitou separated quickly, their cheeks flushed.

Looking back secretly, the old man was walking into the cabin with his hands behind his back, talking to himself as he walked: "Oh, the sun is so poisonous this day that I can't even open my eyes."

"Pop!" Simone covered her mouth and laughed.

The man opposite obviously didn't understand what happened, and looked at Simone blankly.

He just looked at it purely, and he just liked to see her innocent and sunny smile that day.

Simone's eyeballs rolled around, and she suddenly took Shitou's hand and shouted loudly to the cabin: "Grandpa, I'll take Brother Shitou to play on the shore for a while."

The helpless voice of the old man came from the cabin: "Be careful, this area is the territory of the Earl of Beavis, don't go too far."

"Understood, Grandpa."

"Remember, don't pick the fruit from the tree."

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