GBP Chapter 428: The Current State of Sauron’s Faith
Chapter 428: The Current State of Sauron’s Faith
The Unpredictable Sea is just as its name suggests, with unpredictable moods. When you are lucky, you can cross the entire sea in calm sailing like the Castilian envoys. When you are unlucky, your boat may capsize as soon as you leave the harbor.
In order to prepare for the voyage, the Gray Robe had studied a lot of navigation knowledge. With the help of the captured Avars on the ship, the voyage was relatively smooth.
The fleet encountered sea monsters several times along the way, but Regus didn't even need to take action. The artillery alone took care of all the sea monsters. With the help of enchantments, ordinary sea monsters could not pose any threat to the hull. If humans and dragons didn't know so little about the ocean, Regus would even want to taste what these sea monsters tasted like.
Gray Robe was staring at Regus who was feasting in the cabin. Although the blue dragon was a symbol of wisdom in the legend, in the eyes of Gray Robe who grew up in the continent of Sauron, there were only two types of dragons: brutal and even more brutal. And the Regus in front of him was indeed not brutal at all, and was even a little... innocent.
Just as the man in gray robe was stunned, a crisp cough was heard beside him.
"Mr. Gray Robe, where were we just now?"
The one who spoke was Bernice. Although she was a nun from Lantern Dream, the Lantern Dream was now more like a research institution. Due to the awkward relationship between Lantern Dream and the Central Church, the nuns of Lantern Dream were now listed under the Northern Church. Bernice was more special than the other nuns. It was rumored that she had a close relationship with the nuns directly under the Emperor and had even joined the Combat Sisters.
"Faith, the faith on the continent of Sauron."
Gray Robe immediately sat up straight. Although he was a high-level spellcaster, Bernice in front of him always gave him a sense of danger. Gray Robe even felt that Bernice might have mastered more forbidden knowledge than all the high-level spellcasters on the continent of Sauron.
"I just talked about how after the dragons came to the continent of Sauron, both official and folk beliefs underwent tremendous changes."
It was precisely because of this discussion that the gray robe stared at Regus beside him in a daze.
"When the struggle of faith was the most intense, the new sects that believed in dragons and power quickly defeated the original faith on Sauron continent because they had the support of the dragons, causing the faith on Sauron continent to become strange and distorted."
Gray Robe immediately continued the previous conversation. He had already compiled all of this into a book for the Emperor of the Roll Empire to review. However, because they were about to land on the Sauron Continent, Gray Robe had to explain everything clearly to the others, especially Bernice, the person with the highest status in the fleet.
"The Church of the Dragon has taken over the absolute mainstream of the Sauron Continent and has become a tool for the dragons to exploit and amass wealth. Of course, those dragons don't really care about worldly matters. As far as I know, the dragons can't actually gain much wealth from the Church of the Dragon. Most of the wealth is embezzled by the clergy of the Church of the Dragon."
After saying this, the gray robe glanced at Regus, who was full and licking his fingers contentedly.
"The Infinite Mother, the largest faith on the Sauron continent, was able to compete with the Dragon Church with its vast number of believers... Rather than competing with each other, it's better to say that the two have reached a certain cooperative relationship and do not infringe on each other."
"But other faiths suffered much more tragically. Most of them were destroyed by dragons, and not even a single religious text remained, including the second largest faith, 'Lord of the Morning Star.'"
Then the Gray Robe introduced these beliefs to Bernice in detail. Bernice understood them roughly. The Mother of the Boundless is in charge of gestation and creation. With the exploration of the sea by the Sauron continent, the authority of the ocean has also been extended. The authority of the Lord of the Morning Star overlaps with that of the Goddess, and also points to light, purification, and the starry sky.
Of course, the authority of the so-called Lord of the Morning Star is still far inferior to that of the goddess. Unlike the goddess's alternation of day and night, his authority is basically only concentrated at night. Moreover, the religious authority on the continent of Sauron is chaotic, with many overlapping places. It is not like the continent of Mu, where the gods have their own duties. Even Bernice feels that even the oracles are not true. Although there are miracles, they are very different from those miracles on the continent of Mu that can be seen with the naked eye and have clear historical records.
The main reason is that there is no so-called divine magic on this continent. Although there are things similar to divine magic, compared with the divine magic of Mu Continent, it is just a special system of magic. However, it is not ruled out that there are really gods granting magic, so we still have to investigate slowly.
Gray Robes also have faith, but their faith is in the goddess of magic. They are shallow believers common among spellcasters. Rather than being a believer, it is more like a shield when being preached to.
"But as far as I know, the Morning Star Church has not been completely wiped out."
Gray Robe continued to introduce Bernice in detail: "This is a common secret among high-level professionals who have reached a certain level on the Sauron Continent. The Morning Star Church is such a huge church system. Even though it was destroyed by the Dragon Church, there are still many believers in the shadows. They changed their name to the Dark Night Holy Court, waiting for an opportunity in the darkness, and controlling the continent's resources without the dragons' knowledge."
The gray robe shook his head as he spoke: "The Dark Night Holy Court has become more and more like a cult. They seem to have mastered a secret method. I don't even dare to call them by name on the Sauron Continent, otherwise they will sense it. Even many members of the royal family don't know of their existence, or they know, but have no idea to what extent the Dark Night Holy Court has infiltrated."
Bernice frowned slightly. She felt something when the name was spoken, which made her interested.
Today, Bernice is already an expert in dream network security and has done very in-depth research on the sea of consciousness. Moreover, on this voyage, Bernice was allowed to bring the Oracle Lantern, which was personally ordered by His Majesty the Emperor. It doesn't matter if she preaches, just bring the Oracle Lantern to the Sauron Continent and let the goddess see what the Sauron Continent looks like.
"Can you elaborate on the fact that saying the name will cause a reaction?"
Bernice asked the gray robe curiously. The gray robe looked at the bards fiddling with instruments on the other side of the cabin. Both the communicator and the bards' means of communication were unusable after leaving the near sea. Even the Empire's technology could not transmit information on the Sea of Impermanence, so the Dark Night Holy Court should not be able to do it either, right?
Thinking of this, Gray Robe explained to Bernice in detail the so-called "not being able to call someone by their name" in the Dark Night Holy Court.
But the more she explained, the more Bernice had some guesses. This might very well be a trick related to the sea of consciousness and dreams. It's not that it can't be called by its name, but rather that the Dark Night Holy Court has connected to the sea of consciousness through unknown means, and can retrieve information from the sea of consciousness and quickly lock it. In this case, it only needs to use a false signal to bypass it, or even conduct anti-tracking.
It is far from being truly unnameable.
Of course, these are just guesses. We still need to face each other head-on to know what the situation is. However, this makes Bernice even more curious. Is the consciousness sea of Sauron Continent connected to Mu Continent? Can we communicate with Mu Continent through the consciousness sea? Bernice looked far away in the direction of that continent.