The Original Vampire

Swan City, Shining Church.

In the tall and spacious prayer hall, Archbishop Adjani is leading the believers to pray according to the requirements of the ceremony.

Today is Sunday. According to church customs, all believers need to pray for morning prayers on this day.

Of course, no matter how big the prayer hall of the church is, it is impossible to accommodate all the residents of Swan City. Those who can stand in the hall to worship are basically the noble men of Swan City.

As for the commoners, they can only squeeze in the square outside the church, on the street, and even in front of their homes.

As the prayer deepened, the white crystal scepter in Adjani's hand gradually bloomed with white-gold holy light, which complemented the splendid morning light, sprinkled the entire prayer hall, and spread continuously, plating the entire Swan City. A layer of divine brilliance.

At this moment, Swan City showed its most sacred side.

Under the splendor of such a magnificent miracle, hundreds of thousands of believers knelt down on one knee, folded their hands, and praised the supreme Lord of Glory in unison:

"Praise the Lord! May your brilliance last forever and illuminate the direction we are going!"

After the ceremony, everyone got up under the guidance of Archbishop Adjani, then packed up and started a new day.

The nobles in the prayer hall also dispersed, only Count Schultz was left behind by Archbishop Adjani.

"Lord Count, Viscount Angele hasn't come back yet?"

Earl Schultz shook his head and said: "Not yet, I have sent someone to look for it, I believe it will be soon..."

"Don't look for it, I'm already back."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Colin striding into the prayer hall and said with a smile, "Sorry, Your Excellency, Archbishop, I came back late, and I didn't have time to catch up on Sunday morning prayers."

Adjani smiled slightly, indicating that the other party didn't need to care, and then asked curiously, "Have you caught Lucien?"

Colin shrugged and said helplessly: "Hey, let him run away!"

Adjani nodded suspiciously and comforted: "If a sixth-order soldier wants to escape, it will be difficult to keep him. However, you don't have to worry, I have reported the matter to Yulong City, and His Holiness the Pope will send a holy The Knights Templar arrest Lucien."

Colin nodded,

He didn't want to say more in this regard, so he was ready to leave.

Seeing this, Adjani said, "Viscount Angele, can you stay for a while?"

Hearing this, Ke Lin suppressed the doubts in his heart and nodded, "Okay."

Seeing this, Earl Schultz saluted: "Lord Guardian, Your Excellency Archbishop, then I'll go first."

"it is good."

Adjani looked at Earl Schultz's disappearing figure, and suddenly said with a smile: "Your Excellency Viscount, Earl Schultz is really respectful towards you."

Ke Lin said indifferently: "I am now the guardian of the North, conferred by His Majesty himself. Isn't her attitude taken for granted?"

Adjani looked at Ke Lin with meaningful eyes, and said, "So that's how it is! I thought it was because of the blood cavalry 50 kilometers north of Swan City?"

Colin's pupils shrank slightly, and he said in surprise, "You know all this?"

Adjani blinked and said in a playful tone, "Yes, a pious bird told me."

That's right, when he realized that Earl Schultz might have bad intentions, Colin notified the blood cavalry to come to Swan City.

In his plan, if Earl Schultz, who was transformed into a blood descendant, failed to hold his position under the pressure of Lucien and chose to betray, then Colin would start "Plan B" to let the blood cavalry army Get out and settle everything.

Fortunately, Earl Schultz did not disappoint Colin. Since that was the case, Colin would not have to work hard to wash the Swan Castle.

I just didn't expect that the blood cavalry army hiding outside the city was actually known by Adjani.

Colin certainly wouldn't believe the so-called "a pious bird" revealed the trail of the blood cavalry. It must be a letter reported to the church by the believers along the way.

To be honest, Colin has always admired and envied the church's intelligence capabilities, and of course, he is also jealous.

However, this also made Colin realize a question - did Earl Schultz also know the whereabouts of the Blood Cavalry in advance?

If she also knew, when she faced Lucien before, the reason why she did not betray Colin was because of the blood descendants, or because she knew that the blood cavalry was nearby. Once she betrayed, she would wait for the Schultz family , will only be destruction?

Just when Colin fell into deep thought, Adjani's voice sounded again: "Your Excellency Viscount, what are you thinking?"

"It's nothing." Colin responded casually, then turned to ask, "You left me here just now, what's the matter?"

"Please come with me." Adjani smiled mysteriously, passed Ke Lin, and walked straight out.

Curious in his heart, Colin followed suit.

The two walked out of the prayer hall and walked down the spiral staircase to a dim corridor.

There were guards in full armor every few steps on both sides of the corridor, and they bowed their heads in greeting when they saw Adjani.

After walking for about half an hour, a steel gate appeared in front of him.

The guard in front of the door saluted Adjani and then pushed open the door.

"Viscount Angele, please." Adjani gestured to let Colin go first.

Colin smiled slightly and strode forward.

The space inside the door is more spacious than Colin imagined, but it is a little too empty. Except for the sculpture of the Lord of Glory in the center and the small water pool in front of the sculpture, there is nothing else, which makes people wonder, if it is just for the sake of Putting these two things, why dig such a large space in the ground.

Looking around, Colin didn't see any light source, but the whole space was filled with holy light, and the darkness had nowhere to hide.

Bang!

After Adjani came in, the iron door closed again.

Colin turned his head and asked, "What is this place?"

Adjani didn't answer, her eyes were a little blurry, she didn't seem to hear Ke Lin's question, she just walked slowly towards the statue.

Colin frowned and followed.

Coming to the statue of the Lord of Glory, Adjani crawled on the ground reverently and prayed silently.

Ke Lin was helpless, so he had to kneel on one knee in front of the statue, but out of the corner of his eyes he couldn't help looking at the pool in front of the statue.

The pool is not big, about three meters in diameter, and the water inside is also very shallow.

However, he was surprised to find that the pool was not ordinary water, but more like holy water!

goooo...

Colin couldn't help swallowing quietly.

After a while, Adjani finished her prayers and stood up again.

Colin immediately asked, "Is this holy water?"

Adjani stared at the faceless statue of the Lord of Radiance, and said without looking back, "No."

Collin was a little disappointed and asked again, "What is this?"

Adjani finally turned around, her eyes full of inexplicable meaning, and said softly:

"These are the accumulated power of faith."

"The power of belief?" Colin knew for the first time that belief could actually be embodied.

"Yes.

The gods protect human beings with great power, and human beings serve the gods with faith.

When everyone prays to the Lord, they will generate the power of faith, and these power of faith will be received by the glorious cathedrals of various parishes and gathered into this space like ours. "

Colin rubbed his chin, stared at the swaying water in the pool, and asked, "What is the use of these powers of faith?"

Adjani shook her head and said, "The priest's cultivation requires the power of faith, but we only need a very small part of it. Most of the power of faith is what our Lord needs."

Colin nodded thoughtfully, and asked again, "This should be the church's secret, why are you telling me this?"

Adjani didn't answer the question, but said to herself, "You know what? The power of faith gathers in this space, liquefies in the holy pool, and is absorbed by my lord through the statue."

"So what?" Colin was confused.

Adjani pointed to the pool in front of her and asked in a deep voice, "Look, has the 'water' in this pool been absorbed?"

Colin narrowed his eyes, looked at it for a long time, and found that the 'water' in the pool did not decrease, but kept increasing.

Because today is Sunday, Archbishop Adjani personally presided over the morning prayer, so the power of faith surged in, and soon the water pool was filled, and then——

overflowing!

"What happens when it overflows?"

"The liquefied power of faith will disappear after leaving the holy pool."

Sure enough, Colin saw that the "water" disappeared after overflowing.

This time, he also realized that something was wrong.

Since the Lord of Glory needs the power of faith, how can he let the power of faith overflow without taking it?

"Is there something wrong with this statue?" Colin guessed.

Adjani shook her head and said solemnly: "All the holy pools under the Cathedral of Light in the north are like this, even the holy pool under the Cathedral of Light in Yulong City... the same, the power of faith has not been used. Collected, but overflowed into the holy pool, wasted in vain."

Colin narrowed his eyes and asked solemnly, "I still want to know, why did you show me this?"

What Adjani exposed to Colin, if it were to leak out, it would definitely trigger a crisis of belief!

The Lord of Radiance has stopped receiving offerings from humans. What does this mean?

Adjani still did not answer this question, but instead asked: "Do you know why the Dark Emperor was killed three hundred years ago?"

Colin moved in his heart and said, "Could it be that he discovered this secret?"

"Yes." Adjani nodded, "However, what really sounded the death knell of the Dark Emperor was what he once said."

"What did he say?"

"He says……"

The expression on Adjani's face suddenly became extremely complicated:

"The god is dead!"