There are a total of eight Holy Spirit Church churches in Thorn City, which is the same configuration as most big cities. Each of the eight Holy Spirit faiths has one church.

The Church of the Holy Spirit is by no means just a place responsible for meeting people’s religious needs. In fact, a considerable part of the municipal functions are taken care of by different churches of the church.

For example, the funeral church of the Seventh Holy Spirit "Dead" is responsible for the requiem, cremation, sacrifice and related work of the deceased. Where ghosts usually appear to cause trouble, or an ancient tomb in the nearby countryside suddenly becomes haunted by the undead.

Generally, the requiem master of the funeral church is responsible for handling the matter. Of course, they will also charge corresponding fees.

But the situation in Thorn City is different. Duke Simon has shown his determination to suppress the Holy Spirit Church almost from the moment he refused the coronation of the bishop of the First Order in his knighthood ceremony.

During his more than 20 years of governance, he almost drove the entire Holy Spirit Church out of Blackwater Province. To this day, only two churches in Thorn City are still barely maintaining their existence.

And what William is going to now is one of them, the Cain Church, which symbolizes the Eighth Holy Spirit.

William felt a little toothache when he thought of this name.

Just as the authority of Oka or Vera can be obtained through the King of Kou rituals, the Seven Holy Spirits, as the archetypes of all myths except the King of Nothingness, can also theoretically obtain their authority through the corresponding mirror ceremony.

Of course, if you want to mirror to the level of the Holy Spirit, the process is countless times more complicated than mirroring ordinary local myths, and the resources required are also countless times more terrifying.

Historically, the Holy Spirit Church has tried this. For this reason, they basically squandered all the wealth accumulated by the church since the first year of the Platinum Calendar. Subsequently, they also continued to squeeze the secular government without restraint, which ultimately caused the church's influence to plummet.

It led to the end of the Platinum Calendar Era of theocracy and the rise of the Seven Kingdoms Era.

So what is the result of paying so much price and devoting so many resources?

The answer is the appearance of the seven plagues.

No one can retain their human personality after being baptized by the power of the creation archetype.

The subjects of the ritual, those mortals whose brains have been damaged by the will of the vast Holy Spirit, are venting their power like crazy, and instinctively want to transform the world into something that only symbolizes the existence of their own rules.

The present world is built on the delicate balance of various elements, and too much of any one element will turn it into poison.

And because the power of the Holy Spirit directly affects the rules that construct the world, in terms of pure destructive power, the disaster is even more serious than the invasion of the Moon Realm.

The worship of the Eighth Holy Spirit that has appeared over the past thousand years, especially the act of binding the object of worship to a specific individual, whether intentional or unintentional, seems to William to be somewhat similar to the previous behavior of mirroring the Holy Spirit.

shadow.

Gather and merge mythical archetypes, and then inject power through personality beliefs.

And the final subject of the madness ritual.

At least the miracles caused by the "Horn of Kane" incident have proven that the eighth Holy Spirit is currently active to a certain extent, and is not precipitated into the rules of this world like the other seven Holy Spirits.

And this sign of activation is currently bound to myself, at least half of it may be bound to myself.

I just don’t know what state Terra Riel is currently in.

At present, this process can be said to be irreversible, and this hidden danger can only be removed slowly in the future.

However, because the Holy Spirit Church has very strict restrictions on the missionary work of the Eighth Order, it is still far from the situation that occurred when the disaster occurred.

But more importantly, there was no living person before who could be the subject of exercising the power of the Holy Spirit - if Terra Riel really died as recorded in history.

But, now there is.

With a heavy heart, William opened the door of the church that had been carefully cared for and spotless.

By the way, that woman won't be here...

William thought to himself as he opened the door.

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"Praise the hermit, praise the Holy Spirit Cain, you are the head of the Holy Spirits, the father pioneers the law, the mother blows life, the elder enlightens wisdom, the lady illuminates the heart, the young gives rewards, the children bring growth, the dead promise rest...

And you, the hermit hidden behind the light of the seven Holy Spirits, you give us spirituality..."

Nezemael, who put on a coarse linen robe, knelt before the cracked icon and prayed softly.

The footsteps behind her caused her voice to pause slightly, and then she continued to pray:

"You are the immortal spirit in the heart of every living being, the never-ending desire for freedom, and the first driving force of creation... You are the most benevolent existence among many holy spirits. You have walked on earth twice to save the world.

In water and fire, and now it is about to come for the third time..."

"Okay, stop worshiping. I have never been a Holy Spirit."

The sudden voice behind her made Nezemar stop. She stood up and looked at the man who called himself William Kane.

The man continued to her:

"I should have told you before. I have never been a Holy Spirit. It was just an identity imposed on me by future generations to cover up my incompetence."

To this, Nezemar replied:

"But Holy Spirit Kane walked the world twice and saved Vic Continent. This is undisputed."

"I only remember it once, and it was also as a mortal, just like now."

"Mortal humans can't achieve such great things."

"Mortals can do it. I am the proof. It is you who use this to prove the completely opposite conclusion."

As he spoke, he walked to the side of his holy statue, and carefully looked at the face that had evolved over a thousand years of artistic image. It could not be said that the appearance was exactly the same as his own, but could only be said to be completely unrelated, as well as the cracked face.

That crack on the face.

Nezemar followed him quietly without saying a word.

Some time ago, she had been in some kind of psychedelic and exciting religious experience - it was confirmed that the Horn of Kane, which the cult had been looking for for hundreds of years, had appeared in the world, and she witnessed with her own eyes an evil conspiracy that was about to poison the earth.

He was prevented by the power of God and met a man who claimed to be William Kane. This is the most realistic pilgrimage for any believer.

But after actually coming into contact with this man who called himself William Kane and was suspected of being the Holy Spirit, she began to have doubts again.

It's not that I doubt the authenticity of Kane's horn, but I doubt the authenticity of that man's coming as the Holy Spirit.

Because she really couldn't figure out why the other party would completely deny his nature as the Eighth Holy Spirit while recognizing William Kane's identity.

He vehemently denied it, even when the manifestation was an ironclad fact.

Anyone with basic common sense should know that the two are just different names for the same thing, and they are absolutely impossible to separate concepts.

The seeds of this doubt were planted the day the other party came back from the Holy Sepulchre. I wanted to kneel to that person in accordance with the etiquette of the Eighth Order, but he stopped me with an invisible force.

Therefore, she put on the attire of an ascetic and came to this church to pray for answers, hoping that the Holy Spirit would give her enlightenment.

Except he's not really William Caine.

Looking at the opponent's back, Nezemar thought.

The other party is just a magic caster who was lucky enough to obtain the "Horn of Kane", and then used it to disguise himself as an impostor of William Kane.

Just like the countless false divine revelations captured by the Eighth Order's Sealed Temple every year.

The other party was unwilling to claim that he was the eighth Holy Spirit because he was afraid of being judged by the Holy Spirit after seeing the Holy Spirit appear.

As soon as this idea appeared, it seemed like all the questions were solved instantly.

Immediately, a bold idea grew in her mind like a weed.

She looked at the ancient horn hanging on the other party's waist, and her hand unconsciously touched the silver thin sword on her waist.

As soon as she figured this out, her instinct as a recycler of holy relics began to be triggered.

"I advise you to give up your current bold ideas."

Facing the man who cracked the icon, he suddenly spoke.

Nezemael's movements froze instantly.

Literally.

Then William ignored the [Petrified] believer for the time being. He stepped forward, stretched out his hand and touched the statue, and silently closed his eyes.
Chapter completed!