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Fran Bereng's voice was powerful and powerful, and strongly infected everyone present. They thought of Bishop Lemont who had been martyred, the crisis facing Luan City at the moment, and even more the glory of dedicating themselves to the Lord. Everyone stood up and followed the voice of the interim bishop:

"We swear!" "We swear!"

Chapter 0476 White Knight Armor

There are many problems that need to be solved, big and small, near and far, one after another—some from the cultists, some from within Ansu, some from neighboring countries, some from the wasteland, and some... To this day, it is still hidden in layers of historical fog, and even the Kraken can't tell when it will emerge and in what form it will emerge.

But problems have to be solved one by one, from near to far, from small to large.

The most important task at this stage is still to lay a good foundation for oneself and eliminate the unstable factors within the Principality of Cecil.

The first batch of promotional materials for "promoting the new teachings of the Holy Light and correcting past erroneous thoughts" has been printed, and the samples have been sent to Gao Wen's desk. In the comfortable seat, looking at the promotional materials in hand, enjoying this rare and slightly leisurely moment.

Besides him, there was only Amber in the room, who was already sleeping and the sky was dark. The half-elf lady moved a chair and sat by the window sill. At first she was just basking in the sun, but she fell asleep after a few minutes. Resting his head on the window sill, he purred slightly like a cat taking a nap in the sun after eating, and the saliva flowed out along the window sill.

She is obviously a master of shadows, but she likes to bask in the sun, and she gets sleepy when she is in the sun, and she has no vigilance at all when she gets sleepy—does the Shadow Goddess, who she claims to be devout, know that her followers are so embarrassing?

Gao Wen shook his head, turned his eyes away from Amber, and continued to look at the sample material in his hand.

This is not a difficult religious classic, nor is it a long-winded admonition and teaching. It is a booklet written by Wright in the most simple and straightforward language based on his own missionary experience. The words and sentences describe the basic operation method of the northern church, the truth about the ransom money and the heresy trial, and the fact that the priests hold the right to interpret the scriptures and thus control the thoughts of the believers. While writing these facts, Xiao The brochure also talked about the establishment of new churches in the south and the basic concepts.

This is extremely simple and simple promotional material. The whole text is in plain Chinese, and in order to make it easier for people with lower education to understand, the words used in the booklet do not even exceed the scope of the "[-] Common Words List" , which makes it look like an old farmer with little knowledge and poor speech is sitting opposite you, using his own most simple language to tell you the facts he has seen and heard. In the eyes of scholars and scholars, they are not worth mentioning, even despised, but this is exactly what Gao Wen asked for.

What he wants is this kind of simple and close-to-heart material, and what he wants is this kind of narration as if the person involved has personally experienced it.

Gao Wen put down the booklet in his hand. He knew that soon tens of thousands of materials would be packaged and shipped from the printing factory, and shipped to every corner of the southern border, and a large part of them would be sent to the surrounding areas of Luan City. And to infiltrate into the city of Luan. For the Church of the Holy Light still entrenched in the city, this will be a more dangerous weapon than guns, and the priests of this era... have no experience in dealing with this weapon.

At this moment, a loud hum suddenly came from the Magic Network communicator next to the desk, interrupting Gawain's thinking.

Amber, who was sleeping soundly on the window sill, suddenly woke up from her slumber. The shameful half-elf jumped up and ran out along the window with a "Oh my god", the next second there was a loud noise and a loud noise from the window. All exclaimed.

Gawain got up and closed the window with ease, locked it from the inside, and then opened the magic net communicator.

Rebecca's figure appeared above the communicator: "Master Ancestor! The sample of the White Knight armor is finished!"

Gao Wen was a little surprised: "So fast?"

"Have experience in magic armor, and Mr. Egg's help," Rebecca in the holographic projection giggled and said while scratching her head, "It's just adding an inverter array converter. Not complicated."

Gao Wen smiled with satisfaction: "Very well, I'll go there right away, you are waiting for me at the research institute."

Then he stepped forward to turn off the communicator, and at the same time, a loud bang came from outside the window at the right time—he turned his head and saw amber slapping firmly on the window, and The windows slid down.

Gawain opened the window before the guy completely slid down, grabbed Amber's collar and dragged the girl into the room, and walked out without any explanation: "Follow me to the Institute of Magical Technology."

Amber danced in Gao Wen's hands like a cat caught in a weak point, protesting loudly: "How can you be like this! Don't you know that I will come back! And what do you mean by locking it! I Now I don't want to do any research at all... Hey, let me down, why don't I go by myself!"

Gao Wen walked out carrying the amber in this way. The attendants and guards along the way had long been familiar with this scene, and they all greeted the lord and the intelligence leader indifferently: It is very good for the lord to go out with his guards. It's a common sight, but sometimes it's led, sometimes it's carried, anyway, it's almost the same...

Soon, Gao Wen saw the hard work of Rebecca and others over the past few days.

In the No. [-] laboratory of the Institute of Magic Technology, a mighty and thick full-body armor is standing quietly on the circular platform in the center of the room. Rebecca, Kamel, Wright and Nicholas Dan and the others waited around the platform. Several technicians were finally checking the status of the armor and the runes around the platform. After seeing Gao Wen appearing, they temporarily put down their work and turned around to respectfully Salute respectfully.

After Gawain responded, he focused on the eye-catching armor: "Is this the armor prepared for the White Knight?"

That is indeed a rather beautiful set of armor - just like the magic armor, it is completely different from any kind of full-body armor common in this era.

The armor is silver-white as a whole, and has a thicker shape than the magic armor. Perhaps it is to accommodate more holy light rune substrates and inverter array components. Its torso is obviously specially designed: on its back, it can Seeing a detachable combat backpack, there is a faint flow of magic energy between the seams of the backpack and the armor. On the chest of the armor, a large piece of steel plate bulges, and there is a faint glimmer of light between the split armor pieces. , You can also see a fist-sized sunken area on the chest and abdomen. There is a translucent crystal embedded in the sunken area, but I don't know what it is for.

On the left chest of the armor, close to the heart, there is a piece of light yellow parchment filled with the teachings of the Holy Light fixed there by firm rivets. This hanging parchment slightly weakens the coldness of the steel armor. The texture of the future reminds others of the connection between this armor and the holy light.

In addition, the most eye-catching feature of this set of armor is that it also comes with a full-cover helmet—the helmet is extremely eye-catching in shape, and the streamlined thick steel plate is directly pressed with the stamping machine from the holy light tome. Words, the tactical eyepiece made of crystal is integrated with the whole helmet, and a pair of golden feather-shaped decorations extend from the back of the helmet. Although it is obviously a mass-produced product stamped and formed by a machine, it makes the whole In the steel atmosphere of Xiao Sha, the helmet has an extra layer of holy religious meaning out of thin air——

The parchment filled with canonical teachings, and the winged helmet printed with sacred runes, these two will obviously become the typical marks of the White Knight.

Gao Wen is very satisfied with the shape of this set of armor. It can perfectly reflect Cecil's power, and it also embodies the significance of Holy Light as a part of Cecil's system. Becca.

However, the first one who couldn't help asking questions was not Gao Wen, but the one who was still yelling when he went out, but at this moment, he was so curious that he wanted to get into the amber in the armor, and the half-elf lady walked around the platform. Turn around, grab Rebecca after two turns: "Can this thing allow ordinary people to use holy light?"

Rebecca looked proud: "After the last experiment, we conducted a series of supplementary experiments to ensure safety, and now this set of armor is a practical finished product..."

While talking, the roe deer pointed to the structure on the armor and introduced it to Gao Wen: "We optimized the combat backpack of the previous generation, reduced the number of charging crystals, and improved the energy output efficiency of the backpack itself, so that it can It can provide more energy to the armor. In the case of abundant energy, we have directly integrated a large number of holy light spells into the armor, including the most basic holy light spells, healing spells, and blessing spells. gauntlets to release."

Gawain nodded as he listened: These are the most basic holy light spells, and they are also the first batch of holy light spells that have been analyzed and transformed. From a practical point of view, the first generation of white knights does not need to master those powerful but As long as they can take on the duties of field priests, it is enough to greatly enhance the strength of Cecil's army and shake the faith of the traditional church.

After Rebecca finished speaking, Nicholas' egg also floated over, and a voice with metallic resonance came from his body: "According to the design experience of magic armor, we have added a set of more effective magic armor to the white knight's armor." Buffer lining, it can better protect the safety of the wearer. On the battlefield, occupations with medical capabilities must be properly protected. In addition, due to the increased output power of the backpack, we have added more weight-reducing symbols to the inner lining Wen, such a suit of armor will also reduce the pressure on the White Knights, and they will also be able to carry more supplies and equipment..."

"As a supplement to the protection, we added a shield crystal on the chest of the white knight's armor," Kamel added, pointing to the eye-catching crystal on the chest of the armor, "this crystal has an independent inverse The power supply of the evolution unit can generate a shield of holy light, which is even stronger than the force field shield currently used by Cecil soldiers. In an emergency, the shield it generates can cover several meters around the white knight, although the duration It's only a few minutes, but it's enough to protect nearby teammates in the heat of battle, providing time for healing or transfer."

Gawain nodded again and again: Just like his impression of the field priests, the most reliable thing about the white knights is their power of healing and protection. On the battlefield, a large group can release wide-area shields and instantly cast various Healing and blessing-like priests will greatly improve the survivability of the soldiers, and can greatly improve the morale and resistance of the entire army in battle. The heavy armor is different from the painting style of priests in other places, but the battlefield positioning of the two is obviously not much different...

Gawain's thoughts continued until Rebecca brought out a huge long-handled warhammer.

"After talking about protection, let's talk about the white knight's weapon!" Roe deer girl's eyes lit up excitedly, and she shook the long-handled warhammer on her shoulders with a face full of credit (how can she be so powerful as a mage?!), "Mr. Wright pointed out that an excellent priest should not only have the heart to protect the innocent, but also have the power to fight against evil. Therefore, the white knight also has a strong combat effectiveness. Look at this warhammer. It first has a mechanical impact structure. This inspiration comes from Power Sap..."

Chapter 0477 The True Priest and the False Priest

Looking at the large warhammer carried by Rebecca, Gawain knew that he was too optimistic about the mental state of this roe deer.

Did she think all pastors in the world looked like Wright? !

However, Rebecca herself didn't think there was anything wrong at all. She was still enthusiastically introducing the magical mechanical warhammer she specially built for the White Knight—to be fair, this hammer is made of pure white alloy steel, and the hammer body is engraved with The warhammer with a large number of sacred runes and a St. Job belt wrapped around the handle is indeed a very beautiful weapon. The fusion of religious elements and magical machinery has produced an impressive beauty—— Perhaps in Rebecca's mind, as long as a weapon has the above characteristics, even if it is a meteor hammer, it can be called a priest's equipment. Now the only thing that Gawain is lucky about is that Rebecca is at least Made a Warhammer instead of a real Bolas...

Then he saw Rebecca happily snapping off the handle of the warhammer, and the alloy handle locked by the machine buckle suddenly broke off, revealing the inner chain: "And look, ancestor, as long as you open this place, it can still Be a meteor hammer!"

Now even Hu Po, who has always been very flexible in thinking, couldn't keep up with the stupid roe deer's thinking: "Why does the field priest bring a meteor hammer?!"

Rebecca immediately corrected with a serious face: "It's the white knight, not the priest!"

"Even if it's a white knight..." Gawain looked at the little granddaughter in front of him, and the magical weapon that had been reassembled into a long-handled warhammer, "...Can ordinary people really use this kind of weapon?"

"Please rest assured that the selection of white knights will follow the most stringent standards," Wright immediately stepped forward and said seriously, "Only a strong body can bring firm belief, and only a strong body can be able to protect people on the battlefield." Comrades, fighting against evil——I think that as a brand-new profession of the Holy Light, as the first generation preacher of the Protestant Church of the Holy Light, the White Knight must have strong power."

Gao Wen looked this strong man up and down: "...can I ask you about your criteria for selecting a white knight? I mean physical fitness."

Wright showed a slight smile, and his expression was peaceful and peaceful like the coming of the holy light: "I won't fall with three punches."

...I always feel that this new profession has nothing to do with pastors at all! !

"Well, what you said has some truth..." Gawain was awkward, but he quickly accepted Wright's statement intellectually: he couldn't plan the new profession of white knight according to his inherent impression of priests. Starting from needs is the way Cecil has always been developing, and when it comes to starting from needs, he can't help but have a question, "Mechanical powered warhammers are indeed good melee weapons, but long-range weapons on the future battlefield In power, does the white knight have any countermeasures against long-range attacks?"

Rebecca nodded: "Yes—because the output of the White Knight's armor is greater, and the energy systems of the armguard and armor are integrated, there is more space, so their gauntlets are equipped with high-power dual-link Equipped with holy shock hand cannons, they also carry a considerable number of crystallized grenades in case they are needed."

Kamel then added on the side: "Holy impact is the most stable power and the best rune structure among the middle and low-level holy light damage spells. At present, we only use it on hand cannons, but we can consider it later. The idea of ​​the rainbow light cannon is to create a more powerful holy light weapon."

Speaking of this, the magician paused: "Actually, we didn't intend to manufacture holy light weapons at first—we originally planned to use heat ray guns directly. The technology of heat ray guns is mature, and the accessories are highly versatile. It is also quite sufficient, and if a holy light weapon is specially customized for the white knight, the production of accessories will bring new pressure to the logistics, but then we found that the conventional magic substrate and the magic substrate, the inverter array substrate integration After a space that is too narrow, there will be considerable magical interference, and the energy system will also be overwhelmed by too much waste energy, so we have to adopt the current plan."

Gawain nodded slightly, carefully observing the weapon system on the White Knight's armor - due to the more excellent weight-reducing runes and more advanced forging technology, the gauntlets of the White Knight's armor are larger than those of regular magic armor Circle, at the front end of the streamlined gauntlet, you can see the slightly inwardly concave shooting muzzle inlaid with focusing crystals, its size is obviously much larger than that of the thermal energy ray gun.

Since he has a lot of experience in the design of magic weapons, and the white knight armor is basically modified from the frame of the magic armor, the set of things in front of him can't be regarded as a complete new product development, but the style of this thing can still give People brought a sense of freshness, Gao Wen walked around the platform, and suddenly found that once he accepted the setting of this thing... it was quite interesting.

That's probably how the White Knight should be.

He couldn't help but start to compare in his mind:

False field priests, from the northern regions, frail monks, wearing defenseless cloth robes, holding prayer books that get in the way, fighting with light short staffs, hiding behind friendly soldiers and secretly casting spells, once they get close A weak chicken with no resistance.

A true field priest, from Cecil, a loyal and strong white knight, dressed in heavy armor, directly engraved prayers on the helmet with stencils, wielded a heavy mechanical power hammer, and charged directly to the line of fire as soon as the force field shield was opened First, the world is invincible after being close - even if the enemy runs away, you can send those heretics back with a hand cannon.

By the way, I will also order things like healing techniques and healing techniques. After entering the battlefield, I will shout "Your doctor dad is here!!"

Gao Wen stroked the stubble on his chin, and couldn't help but murmured to himself in a low voice: "I always feel reckless..."

In the future, the Field Priest might become Cecil's strongest infantry.

Amber, who was standing next to Gawain, immediately shook her ears. Her long elf ears allowed this half-elf lady to catch the "popular words" that Gawain couldn't help popping out at the first time. She immediately leaned over and whispered. : "Old Zongzi, you don't pay attention to your image again."

Gawain glanced at the half-elf, and also muttered in a low voice: "If you talk nonsense, be careful and I'll silence you."

"whispering sound……"

Gao Wen coughed twice, and looked at Wright and the others in front of him: "In short, let's install it as soon as possible. If the production line is not in place, you can put on the Nicholas egg yourself-you can temporarily put aside other work. We must first arm the first one." The White Knights Brigade - Luan City, has been quiet for too long."

Nicholas bobbed his body up and down: "Understood."

Gao Wen thought for a while, then looked at Amber beside him.

The half-elf seemed to want to show an awkward look, but he still raised his head obediently: "Is it time for me to work?"

"The MIB is at work."

……

Luan City was indeed quiet for a long time.

However, it is a quietness that contains panic, a quietness that hides tension, a quietness that makes people sleepless at night.

After maintaining such silence for a long time, an undercurrent finally gradually surged, but this undercurrent could not break the tense and depressive atmosphere in the city, but instead permeated the entire city with greater uneasiness.

No one would care about the mood of ordinary civilians, and so did Fran Berenger, but the temporary bishop could notice the change in the atmosphere in the church area: in this area that occupies half of the entire Luan City, it consists of a cathedral and several In the enclosed urban area composed of ten small churches, a negative emotion different from the previous tense atmosphere is spreading. This negative emotion has shaken the low-level priests, and even shaken some priests and deacons who are in charge of the small church affairs.

After finishing the morning prayer, the interim bishop of Fran Bereng once again noticed that there were low-level priests whispering in the shadow of the church pillars, and some priests hurriedly ran through the corridor. He felt the omnipresent holy light He was conveying a vague warning message to himself. As a devout believer of the God of Holy Light, he did not let go of this kind of revelation similar to "divine revelation", so he immediately recruited a high-ranking priest who was in charge of the daily affairs of the city .

"The atmosphere in the church area is not right for the past two days," Fran Bereng stood in the corridor of St. Luan's Cathedral, and said to the high-ranking priest who was summoned, "Go and investigate, what's going on."

The high-ranking priest obviously also noticed the subtle change in the atmosphere, he didn't ask any more questions, but immediately took orders to leave.

Fran Bereng didn't wait too long. Before the night prayer that day, he saw the things collected by the high-ranking priests.

"Bishop, there are some unknown... leaflets entered the city at some point," the high-ranking priest handed a stack of cheap-looking papers to "Bishop Luan" in front of him, with an ugly expression on his face, "this The above... are all unsightly and slanderous words."

A bad premonition emerged in Fran Berenger's heart. He took the papers in silence, and what caught his eyes were words that were so neat that they were not handwritten, but whose grammar was so straightforward that one couldn't help but frown.

The high-ranking priest continued to explain the situation beside him: "...it first appeared in the outer city, and after being thrown into the city walls and fences, it was scattered everywhere. family members brought it into the inner city and it began to spread from chapel to chapel."

Fran Bereng looked at the contents of those leaflets with a livid face—the exact same handwriting on these leaflets reminded him of printed matter, but the printing level was obviously beyond his cognition—there was nothing profound in the leaflets, On the contrary, the content written on it has been so simple and straightforward that even people who have just learned some basic words can read it fluently, but these simple and straightforward contents are extremely disturbing.

This is the first time he has seen such things: the way the church operates, the nature of the ransom money, the reasons and interests of high-ranking priests monopolizing the right to interpret classics, the development and corruption of the church... These things that should be taboo turned out to be It was written in such a crude and straightforward way, and it was printed on cheap paper with such grandeur, and it was distributed everywhere! !

Where did this come from?How did this get in?

The first question is easy to answer, they must be from the Cecilians, as for the second question...

Frank Berenger suddenly began to regret that he had arranged most of the crusaders and exiled knights in the church area of ​​the inner city...

After more than ten seconds, the temporary bishop broke the silence with a gloomy face: "How long have these things been circulating in the church area?"

"It may have been circulating as early as four days ago."

Fran Bereng's face was livid: "Why didn't anyone report it immediately?! These things... are simply blasphemy and slander!"

The high-ranking priest hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "All the leaflets that have been circulated into the church area of ​​the inner city have entered the small churches in the fringe areas..."

Fran Bereng blinked and suddenly understood.

The small churches in the fringe areas were the places where the low-level priests gathered, and the priests who were in charge of managing them were also the priests with lower status or who were more excluded.

They themselves lack enthusiasm for the church, and may even have a tendency to deviant themselves.

During the long blockade, the faith of those low-level priests and priests has begun to shake, and they are simply not comparable to the pious people in the cathedral... They are loopholes that are easy to attack.

In addition, the low-level priests and priests are a group without the right to interpret classics. Similarly, they have almost no power to divide up the ransom money or organize heresy trials alone...

Those leaflets mentioned the right to interpret the classics and the dark side of the church's current interests, not only mentioning it, but also mentioning it in the most merciless way.

The duke who committed himself to the devil finally did it, but the way he did it was completely unexpected.

Chapter 0478

A long siege is the biggest blow to morale and cohesion, and this is no exception to anyone—even the priests of the church who originally believed and stood firm.

When the situation is stable and there are no major differences of interests, the church can still maintain a balance and unity within the church. Although there are many factions inside and outside the cathedral, priests and priests at all levels have conflicts of greater or lesser interests. But at least everyone will maintain superficial unity for the sake of fellow church members—in short, to give Shengguang a face, and try not to bring any conflicts to the table, so as not to affect the interests of the church as a whole.

However, after the church has nothing to gain, and even the church itself has become a cause of threat, the apparent unity will be split from the inside out.

Not everyone supports the order from the Plain of the Holy Spirit. Although the former southern bishop Lemont has the highest authority in the Luan Cathedral, he cannot make all the priests of the Holy Light monolithic—as the diocese on the border of the kingdom, From the very beginning, the Southern Church had the potential for a great deal of internal division.

The local priests have always resisted the orders from the Plain of the Holy Spirit. In the past two years, in order to expand the influence of the diocese, the newly promoted young priests have had conflicts with the elders in the cathedral. The land gets more autonomy, and the upper-level priests are always worried about those "barbaric, rude, and uncivilized" country priests preaching at will and tampering with the classics. Among them, there are even more conscientious priests. The increasingly bad behavior is full of resistance...

Under the circumstances of many contradictions, the former southern bishop Lemont took almost all the top forces in the church to participate in the war against the Cecil family, which was actually a helpless move.

If he can defeat the oldest family in this land in this war and gain higher prestige in the combined force of more than forty nobles, then Bishop Lemont will undoubtedly greatly consolidate his position in this parish status, most of the undercurrents in Luan Cathedral will be subsided—if it wasn’t for Cecil’s place full of immortal players, his success rate would still be very high.

Unfortunately, he failed.

His failure even caused the entire southern church to stand against the Principality of Cecil, and the belief in the Holy Light was in danger of being forcibly eradicated in this land.

The priests who originally did not support Bishop Lemont's risky move were naturally filled with resentment, and because Lemont was born in the Holy Spirit Plain, a large number of local priests also wavered. The haze began to emerge, and the order in the outer city was getting worse day by day, and a large number of low-level priests also accumulated huge resentment: they couldn't bring their families to the inner city like those high-level priests, and even they themselves lived in and The chaos in the outer city has inevitably affected them, and it is getting worse...

The leaflets circulating in the city at this juncture undoubtedly exacerbated the deterioration of all situations.

Almost everyone can imagine that this is a "conspiracy" by the Cecilians - but so what?Could it be that what the leaflet says is false?