Chapter 889 Gretel, what do you think is faith? (Monthly ticket adds 1 update)
"Holy power... is a particularly wonderful thing."
When the Glory Holy City was in an uproar, Gretel moved a small stool and sat in front of Elder Tapros, looking up and listening.
As the seasons pass, it is time for the Natural Cult to recruit new members. The great elder in the Holy Land of the Natural Cult, the legendary priest Elder Tapros, rarely comes out of the mountain, traveling around and giving lectures to the new disciples.
And Grete naturally put down what he was doing and traveled dozens of miles to attend the class. Although it was a basic class, lecturers standing at different heights would convey different contents. There was no harm in listening to it a few times.
Besides, it would be better to avoid a few more beatings.
"Although they are both sources of extraordinary power, holy power and magic, they are fundamentally different. Magic comes from nature, while holy power... comes from the human heart."
"People's hearts?"
The new disciple opened his eyes wide and looked confused:
"Since it is holy power, doesn't it come from God? The power we use to treat injuries, communicate with animals and plants, and call upon nature, doesn't it all come from the God of Nature?"
"It was not God who created man, but man who created God." In his previous life, this was considered the basic worldview:
If you broaden your horizons and take the entire earth as the scope of observation, you will also find that the gods of each place have the characteristics of each place. As a certain great man said, if cows also have gods, it is estimated that their gods will be a cow
.
However, his previous life was, after all, a world without divine magic. In this world where extraordinary power is real and real, are gods illusory or real?
Gretel did not dare to make a conclusion. Under the oak tree, Elder Tapros had already begun to talk:
"What is the Holy Power? The Holy Power is a highly condensed spiritual power and the most sincere wish of the human heart. When this spiritual power is strong enough, it can interfere with reality at this stage. The Holy Power and the spirit of the magician
There is no difference in strength."
"But?" Grete asked in a low voice. Elder Tapros smiled:
"However, one person's power is too meager after all. In order to amplify the power, magicians found a way."
He lowered his head, stroked the oak cane in his hand, and rubbed his fingers repeatedly on the lines of the oak cane:
"They use their mental power to imitate the magical patterns formed by magical beasts, magical plants, and nature in the heaven and earth, so as to move nature more efficiently."
Grete stared at the round knot on the wooden stick, the fur on the leopard, the patterns on the snake, and even the knots and lines on the tree trunk...
Among those various patterns, there are some things with magical power called "magic patterns", which were found by the ancestors of spellcasters, or in other words, tried out one by one.
"Of course, the efficiency of such imitation is still too low. Later, the magicians took another step forward and began to pursue those more essential things. So, the magic pattern became a configuration, and the configuration became a formula...
"
In other words, water, earth, fire and wind have turned into energy evocation, protection, conjuration, transformation, and even alchemy has turned into chemistry. Gretel silently added in his heart. Elder Tapros said calmly:
"The magical arts have taken a different path: The magical practitioners who found that their own power was meager began to gather the power of everyone."
"No one can remember how it happened in the first place. Maybe someone discovered that the more people who sincerely pray for the patient when treating the patient, the better the treatment effect."
The old man's voice flowed leisurely, as if the moonlight passed through the oak canopy and fell into tiny light spots, as if coming from the other side of history:
"It may also be that when praying for rain, a whole village wholeheartedly follows, making it easier for the prayers to get in touch with the mysterious power;"
"It may also be that the atmosphere of unity on the battlefield can make it easier for soldiers to forget their pain and be full of courage..."
"In the same tune." Gretel suddenly interrupted in a low voice. Elder Tapros looked at him deeply, stroking his beard and nodded:
"That's right, it's synchrony. People's needs, people's desires, and people's pain have always been very messy and difficult to condense in one direction. This makes it very difficult for the priests to unite their forces. So, there is
god"
The legendary elder who met Gretel for the first time gave him a loving look:
"Little Gretel, you should really find time to go to the New World. Take a look at those primitive gods and primitive beliefs. What they look like is a big tree, a stone, a beast..."
Is it just like when the teacher went to the New World and killed the demigod totem beast he brought back? Gretel thought thoughtfully:
Because in this world, there are real spiritual powers that can stir up the real world, and there are people and things that absorb, store, and utilize them...
"With a goal, you can gather your spiritual power and gather these objects of prayer. Followers of nature worshiped nature and imitated nature at first. Later they found that just imitating nature was still too difficult and too easy to lose control...
Those who imitate beasts, after transforming into beasts, lose their minds and forget that they were once human beings;
Those who imitated plants stood there for a long time, and when their companions found him, his whole torso turned into an oak tree;
Those who feel the elements turn into roaring floods, howling winds, leaping flames, and solidified earth and stone...
"So, the object of our worship has changed from nature to the god of nature. This is much better, and the risk of losing control is much smaller. However, the brothers in the cult still have to remember where they came from in the first place.
road……"
Gretel pursed his lips and secretly made the mouth gestures of "God of War" and "Spring Water". Elder Tapros saw at a glance:
"They? They are not that ancient, and they have not gone through such a difficult journey. For them, the gods they worship are personal gods from the beginning, right?"
This was such a good comment... Gray turned away, secretly laughed, and couldn't help but ask:
"What about the Lord of Glory?"
"Lord of Glory..."
The elder's eyes suddenly became distant. Grete waited with bated breath for a long, long time before he finally said:
"The founder of that sect is extremely talented and brilliant, and has never been..."
ah?
Gretel was dumbfounded. In his concept, the Glory Holy See was probably the same as a certain religion in the previous life. It was a giant and oppressive in the world, but it was corrupt, degenerate, and smelly.
It hasn't collapsed yet, but it will collapse one day.
As a result, what I heard from this legendary pastor who had lived for an unknown number of years was that he was "astonishingly talented"?
"What, you're not convinced?" Elder Tapros looked at him with a smile. Gretel's neck stiffened: "Uh..."
"How do you think the Glorious Divine Religion managed to suppress us all this time and force all the magicians to this small island?" the elder said slowly:
"Because, the popes of that generation and the twelve saints under the pope, on the one hand, straightened out the priesthood of the Lord of Glory and made Him known and believed by more people; on the other hand, they
Created a brand new method of utilizing holy power."
Gretel sat upright, eyes full of curiosity. Elder Tapros smiled, pointed at Gretel with his oak stick:
"Let me ask you a question first. How do we store holy power?"
Grete subconsciously touched his chest. Then, he took out the oak staff from his breast pocket, silently shook off the [Endless Ink Pen] wrapped around the root of the tree, and flicked it back to its eyebrow-level stick form:
"……this."
"Yes, that's it." The elder nodded gently. He stroked his oak staff lovingly:
"The human heart is a force that is easy to disperse and hard to gather. Until now, we have only been able to use a small amount of holy objects and holy bones to store holy power, or let the prayers' thoughts permeate the church for a long time. However, the pope of the Glorious Religion generation
, gathered the Twelve Saints and created an unprecedented method."
The old man's eyes suddenly became intense. He stood up, turned to the east, and stared at the location of the Glorious Holy See for a long time:
"They intercepted a place. According to the magician's description, it was probably a place similar to a demiplane and built it into the Kingdom of God. From then on, the excess holy power can be stored in the Kingdom of God and used at any time.
Activate the divine descending technique."
Gretel said "Ah". He subconsciously raised his head, looked at the sky, and almost fell off the small stool:
"God's Kingdom? This thing...can move?!"
It's terrifying that this thing can move! It's about the same size as a space carrier. It can drive over your head anytime, anywhere, boom, boom, boom, boom!
If the Kingdom of God can move at will and activate the Divine Descent Technique at will... By the way, what level of spells does the Divine Descent Technique correspond to? Legendary? Intermediate or high-level legendary spells?!
"It seems that there are certain limitations and you can't move casually." Fortunately, Elder Tapros rejected his idea:
"It is not possible to launch divine descent everywhere. Moreover, the further away from the Holy City, the higher the consumption of transmitting holy power. Otherwise, in the previous war, they would have thrown away seventeen or eight divine descent spells and blew up the capital.
It’s in ruins.”
Gretel forced a smile. The elder stared into the distance and let out a long sigh:
"However, if the Holy See is really determined and does not care about the cost and sacrifice, it can still be done by throwing a few divine spells on the battlefield... Ostend will have to go through a lot of difficulties if it wants to win it steadily.
The battle..."
Grete lowered his head and was speechless. Therefore, if the Holy See wants to keep the water flowing, it can slowly restore the local faith and call on the local holy power to attack; if it is at all costs, it can use several divine spells in a row to bombard the battlefield indiscriminately.
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As for the Magic Council, the legendary mages, and the legends of the three sects, do they have equivalent means that can withstand this kind of attack?
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