Xiling Empire Chapter 1071: Holy capital

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When we were still far away from the town, we met a welcoming team running out of the town. They saw the giant Raven that quickly approached from the sky in the town (had to say that Medyvh became a Raven **** with a wingspan of two or three hundred meters, wrapped in lightning storms and flames. It is indeed a road sign quite eye-catching, She has to fly high enough, you can see it from two hundred kilometers away), and then rushes out happily to meet. I believe that the **** of Raven must have given them the same speed of flying birds: when we were in the sky, they had just come out of the town, and when we landed, these people had already gathered two kilometers away from the town.

Hundreds of men, women, children, and young men stood a few hundred meters away, and when they saw a group of people jumping off the back of the **** of Raven, they were obviously dumbfounded. Obviously, the setting of "Going on a God" It's still not very easy for locals to understand, but after seeing the vanilla, Lily, and Onee-sama in the crowd, the expression on their faces is still relieved: at least the situation is not too bizarre. I looked at these welcoming crowds and saw that every face was filled with excitement and excitement, it was sincere feelings from the heart, no matter how bad Lily's character is, at least she really brought a good life for these people . The adults of these people are all weather-beaten, with traces left over from years of working in the mine and nicks left in life, and the children are basically shy: they were born and raised in the mine, they are not How to greet strangers. Some people are wearing black robes, and the robe is prefixed with two hanging sashes. Now I already know that these two sashes are the marks of the Raven sect, and the color of the sashes represents the class in the church. Like vanilla, it is the golden color of high-level. Of course, Lily Na and Raven also have the same clothes, but the two of them should be taken out of consideration: one is the image spokesperson of the gods, and the other is goddess himself. You said what they are doing together ...

"Welcome to goddess!" An old-looking gray-haired grandpa in the crowd (saying how he has dealt with the grandpa this time) stepped forward, first bowing to the stupid bird that was returning to human form, Then bowed respectfully to Vanilla, "Under the Pope's crown."

Vanilla took a small step back nervously, apparently still unfit for this identity, and then his neck was stiff and returned with a salute: "Oh, now, I have worked hard these days." Well, at least say a few words The expression on his face was fairly calm.

"The two great sages," the old man turned his head again to Lily Na and her sister, still bowing with courtesy and thoughtfulness, and then even the catwoman whose name was always forgotten was not missed, "And Her Royal Highness , Hard work along the way. "

The cat mother stood straight for body, her ears straight: "My name is Rabbi!" I looked at her inconceivably: eh, is this still a saint? Lily Na Jing will toss! Did she make a bunch of nagging titles?

But looking at the God Clan sliver of five people, it looks normal. Uncle Kansas even nodded slightly. It seems that this set of things that Lily Na toss is really about, at least it looks quite appropriate.

"He is one of the great priests of the Raven God sect," Lily Na introduced to me the etiquette in front of her with a spiritual connection, looking at the old man who is not much like a mine worker, "I used to be a little nobleman, Later, he was victimized and exiled here. The person with the highest level of education in the town can only let him be the chief priest. In fact, it is reliable, that is, sometimes is rigid, and especially cares about etiquette: 17 years in exile Correct this pile of problems. "

When Lily Na introduced it to me with a spiritual connection, she was not idle, pointing to us, everybody, to introduce the old man, the first one I introduced: "You should give him more Salute, this is the Lord of the Crow God recorded in the Divine Scripture, the father of the gods of the Spiritual Divine Department. "When she said this, her face was so stunned that I was almost calmed down by that serious look , Looked at me for a while, and then filled with deep veneration, then Lily and then introduced other people, "This is the aunt of the raven god, this is the aunt of the raven god, this is the second uncle of the raven god, the third uncle of the raven god, Little aunt, big cousin of the **** of the crow, big aunt of the **** of the crow, **** of the crow ... Oh! "

My TM should be aware of something wrong for the first time! Just let the girl say "Father of the Gods" to calm down and no response ...

"In short, it ’s the sauce purple." Lily Na looked at me with a grievance over her head, and then commanded the stunned raven **** believers to call back to the "Holy Capital". On the way, she introduced us to the speciality of this southern area. The social environment comes, of course, as well as the development and status quo of the city where the crow **** originated.

"Holy Capital", this is a name that has only gradually become known in recent days. It sounds so eye-catching, I am afraid that not many people will put it and one located near an abandoned mine with a population of not more than a thousand (not long ago Number) of the broken town contacted together. When the name was finalized, even the residents of the town felt a little dumbfounded by themselves, but after all, the name still spread out. Now, several people near the "Holy Capital" Every town knows that the long-abandoned "Black Sand Mine" suddenly has miracles. The miracles have been passed on, the holy tree that appeared in a day, the endless food and wine given by God, as long as the **** of the raven The doctrine can get rid of the holy land of all diseases, the food harvested day and night, and the sacred barrier that can cover all the invaders by relying on only one feather. The story is more bizarre, and the story of these things is more bizarre. People swear one by one: this must have attracted more and more people's attention.

In addition to these god-like legends, there are of course people who spread these stories from the "Holy Capital". They are residents of the original mining towns, but now they claim to be missionaries. These miners who have worked hard for most of their lives He and the peasants are now wearing strange robes, carrying the Bible of the God of Ravens (although most of these novice missionaries do not even write their own names), running around in nearby towns and preaching the power of the Raven God, The poor and the homeless provide medical medicine and food for free: these three things are the least valuable to those who come out of the Holy City, but they are urgently needed in nearby run-down towns.

The missionaries who transformed from miners and peasants looked of course full of disobedience, although they wore scholar robes and held decent books in their hands, but they could n’t hide their vulgarity and were used to it. Life style, yes, you will see the novice missionaries of the crow **** squat sitting on the stone on the side of the road to read the doctrine, and the surroundings poor people use hard biscuits dipped in salt crumbs for lunch, praying for divine power Took the Bible upside down when he was there-all of the above actions made people from the northern high society spit, but it made the local civilians very intimate. Perhaps this is a good thing. The missionaries of the Raven sect Can better develop believer in the poor society. And their divine power is not covered: even if they take the Bible upside down, they can still get rid of all diseases and possess the divine power. What can be more convincing than a real miracle? Their contrasting style of poor people is better against their own strength.

Under the dual power of miracles and missionaries, the Holy City has gained great fame, and now there are successive wanderers from other places coming to this place, most of them just want to try their luck, because It is said that the crow **** sect will provide food for free to the passing deserters (limited supply, and then rely on labor in exchange for living supplies, can not let the crow **** sect cultivate thousands of people lying under the holy tree and waiting for moldy Slacker?), While others are out of curiosity or nowhere to go. No matter what the reason is for people who come here, 99% of them will choose to stay: compared to any other place in the south, this place favored by God is to be full of incredible hope, at least here, you do n’t need to be hungry Too.

So far, the small town of Shengdu has accommodated almost twice the new population as the indigenous people. The expansion of the town has been in full swing, and new construction sites can be seen everywhere on the wasteland outside. And open-air workshops, and simple tents built by outsiders. Generally, no one dares to set up tents outside the city walls to spend the night because the dangerous wild beasts lie in the southern wilderness. The wolves occupy a larger area than the Human Race activity area, except here is an exception. The entire mine area They are all protected by a huge divine shield, not to mention the beasts, that is, the army of the northern countries, they may be instantly torn to fragment(s) by the storm released by the shield, as long as they are inside the shield and accept the teachings of Raven God , You are safer than anywhere.

And such a huge flow of people, even the act of building a city privately, did not attract the attention of any local official department. This of course made me curious. After some enquiries, I realized that this was due to the special living environment in the southern region. Caused.

The south is a barbarous illegal place, where most food cannot be grown, rivers are scarce, and the largest flat on the spot area is an unsuitable Gobi zone. The soil is mixed with metals that are harmful to crops and humans. The only economic source in the southern region is a limited number of minerals. For hundreds of years, the principality of the north used this as a place of mineral production and a disposal site for various wastes-the wastes here include convicts and political struggles The aristocratic nobles who failed in the course also included slaves who were exiled to mine sentient beings. Here, you can find simple towns that have gathered overnight because of the veins. There are also Human Race settlements where the veins are exhausted and dilapidated. "Exile", "slave", and "untouchable for life", these three systems have accumulated countless homeless people in the southern region. These people were sent to the mine in large quantities as tools, and the fate of their lives was tied to the mine veins. together After the minerals were exhausted, the authorities did not even bother to dismiss these abandoned people. They would only transfer the local supervisors and Soldier, as well as their belongings, and leave most of the abandoned people with autogenesis to exterminate themselves. Of course, out of the so-called "kindness" of the nobility, they will leave behind a year of food and the like, and by the way, issue a "mine free mining permit" to the civilians who are left behind, allowing the people left to freely mine abandoned mines Things in: if they can find anything else.

This is the absurd state of existence in the southern region. It can only be said that one World has its own World rules.

There is no clear division of sovereignty in the southern region, which is nominally managed by the Principality of the North, but this kind of management has been ineffective, and more and more abandoned people in the South have also weakened the control of the Principality of the North in disguise. This is an embarrassing situation caused by hundreds of years of accumulation. Up to now, this place has basically been self-reliant as king ... Eh, no king, but it is indeed self-reliant. So this social environment of everything in disorder gave Lily Na Ke the opportunity, of course, also gave the soon-to-be-raised half-dragon race.

There are not only the priests of the Holy Capital (well, really, these two words are a bit awkward) to greet us in groups (... it is even more awkward to say these four words!), there are also Ordinary residents in the city, even children running around with adults, can be seen that the crow gods are not organized at all. After all, the main members of this sect are now concentrated in farmers and miners. Class-This is of course not class discrimination, but it is undeniable that such a personnel component is far from enough for the development of a sect. Lily Na feels that the current priority is not only to expand the influence of the Raven God, but also to attract intellectuals and The noble class entered the church. The former can provide great help in compiling the doctrine and preaching in the upper class, while the latter can give a green light to the crow sect in many fields. Now a group of carefully selected missionaries have gone to the north, according to the information sent back Their progress is not bad. The biggest good news is that Santo will soon be able to provide a lot of Teacher that can teach children literacy: this is badly needed here.

Lily Na dismissed the noisy believer and civilians behind everybody and led us to visit this rapidly building town. The current Santou feels to me like an enlarged version of Sentul ’s dark alley area: dilapidated, messy, in disrepair, and unplanned.

The whole town looks like peeled orange peel. Several large areas are separated by a piece of wasteland. There are no rules. They are only connected in the middle, except for the square surroundings in the center of the town. In addition to good buildings, all other places are so-called "stacking of houses". Dilapidated wooden houses and stone houses are scattered everywhere. There are almost no straight roads. Gray and black are the main colors of this town. Here On the houses and pavements, there are black and gray rock dust from mines. The gravel used for ground paving is **** as a by-product of mining, and this is still a good place. The pavement in more places has not been treated at all, and the exposed soil Potholes, black areas with greasy sewage.

"This is the case in mining towns in the south," my sister sighed. "The people who build these towns only need one thing: they can live. Anyway, there is no more support from the principality of the north, and Even if it is built, there is no more economic value, so this is the case. The big house in the center of the town were inhabited by the original supervisors and Soldier, they are all the soil Emperor of the mining towns, and they were sent to **** slaves by the Principality of the North. And exile criminals, supervise mining operations, and leave without hesitation when the mine is exhausted. "

"But now it's different from before!" Na Lily pointed to the side happily. It was a construction site, a large collapsed house was being pushed down, and dozens of strong townsmen were building new When the house is prepared, they cut huge pieces of wood and stones on the wasteland on site, using ... using iron pieces or even palms? !

I finally noticed this wonderful detail. A shirtless black-faced uncle put a piece of wood on the shelf, then raised his right hand and prayed loudly: "Gah! The supreme powerful crow **** Oh! gave you believer steel Blessed with the same strength and magical sword! "Then with a palm split, cold light flashed, really cold light flashed, a layer of metallic luster floating on the edge of his palm, extending to a half meter away, Under this metal cold light cut, the wood is cut.

Me: "..."

"Lack of tools here, but the construction speed is faster than any town," Vanilla said happily, with a red flutter on her face, she rarely took the initiative to speak, but this time could not help, "Everyone relies on Raven The blessing of the God has become infinitely powerful, steel is added, and the sturdy tools are also the power of no match for ’s prayers. The only thing that is a little pity is that not everyone can get the power they need, and those who can participate in the construction Still not enough. "

My nodded: "I know that praying to this silly bird is a bit like buying lottery tickets, maybe you are fortified."

Little Raven listened to me call her a silly bird, and immediately pouted her mouth: "Gay!" She could still hear what the silly bird meant.

In the town, you can see hot labor scenes, rebuild houses, repair roads, and build tools. If there is anything in this dilapidated abandoned town that is completely different from other places in the south, it is that everyone here The enthusiasm and happiness that burst out from outside, they are full of hope, for the first time to build their own house so motivated, and firmly believe that they can finally build a rich home with their own hands. Along the way, almost every person I met stopped to pay tribute to our group of people: Of course, the objects of their tribute were small Raven and vanilla. I do n’t know how Lily Na did it. She actually made me stupid. Birds and herbs have such a high prestige. If the crow **** is a majestic god, this is a good explanation. But now the situation is that the crow **** usually only eats and sleeps acting cute. The only thing he can do is to bow his head. Finding small stones and collecting firewood sticks to build a nest for yourself, can such a guy really gather prestige?

In the final analysis, I can only say that Lily Na is quite good at fooling people.

Finally, we came to the central square along the only road in the town. This is the "sacred place" of the town. Only the aborigines of the town can access it. Recently, the wanderers who came to the "pilgrimage" from other places can only temporarily Staying on the outer edge of the town, even if the food is collected by the townspeople from here, after all, there are two most important sacred objects of the crow **** sect: the holy tree and the crow **** quill, who dare not let the details be temporarily unknown. People approached casually. Around the square, we saw the first "Church Knight" team organized by the townspeople, which was impressive: the church knight holding a pitchfork and miner **** is absolutely unprecedented.

"Their fighting strength is no worse than the most powerful barbarian knight in the north. The pitchfork thrown by the church knight can penetrate the fifteen-meter-thick boulder wall," Lily Na turned to the crow gods in black robe The soldier nodded his head and whispered, "Although it is broken now, their weapons and equipment will soon be made. Everything is being built here quickly. By then the Knights of the Crow Gods will be the most World The powerful Soldier, you think about it, the strength is greater than the mammoth, and the instantaneous shadow arrow and lightning chain ... the power of the crow gods tends to fight. "

Tendency to fight ... I suddenly thought whether the crow **** sect could fight the raven ...

At this moment, a burst of excitement from a short distance interrupted my thinking. Looking around, I saw a group of children running from the alley in front, and then the cat girl in our team He greeted happily.

"Rabbi Teacher! You are back!"

"Teacher, is the big city fun?"

"Teacher Teacher, we have finished writing those words!"

A group of children in shabby clothes, but with a cheerful expression, shouted happily, and a few of us were a little dazed. Lily Na at this moment seemed to suddenly think of it, and suddenly realized: "Oh, I forgot to say that this cat is one of the only two Teachers in the town now, responsible for teaching children to read and write, and the other Teacher is us The old man who saw a lot of rules before. "

Lin Xue smiled face to face: "Wow, I really ca n’t see it. The cat is quite close to the child, and usually looks like a dull gourd."

"Only the kids can remember her name." Sister covered her face and couldn't help but sigh.

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