Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 42:

Pressure brings motivation. In the face of heavy pressure that is already within reach, everyone in the Dahl family is unwilling to delay overnight. After a little bit of food, they are protected by the most reliable subordinates and quietly come to the void. Temple of Face.

The paladin who watched the night spotted them, and at first thought they wanted to attack, and was shocked. After Baron Dahl came forward to explain the reason, the paladin who was as strong as a bear understood what was going on and took them to see the priest of Kalaba.

Priest Kabbalah sleeps in a small house with four walls beside the prayer room. He doesn't like luxury by nature. There are basically no furnishings in the room, not even tables and stools, but thick wooden boards on the floor. The wooden boards are draped with bedding and books, which serve as both a bed and a desk.

His strength is very strong. Even when he is sleeping, he feels that many people are approaching and he wakes up naturally. Knowing that Baron Dahl brought his relatives to visit him at night and wanted to talk about changing his faith, he couldn't help but feel a little stunned.

(I’m just here to show the church, how come I suddenly show up to the point where even the lord is going to convert to his majesty? Is this step a bit too big?)

There is a well-known saying on the earth that if the steps are too large, the eggs will be pulled. As a magic healer, the priest Kabbalah does not worry about the parts. However, he really feels a pain in the eggs now.

Especially when he talked with Baron Dahl in detail, and learned all the causes and consequences, it hurts even more.

(What's this! Why did the noble faction of the Gold Coin Federation fight with the merchant faction, but a leader came to take refuge in us? What does this have to do with us? You, a lord, shouldn't you naturally belong to the noble faction? Oh... It seems that he really can’t naturally belong to the aristocracy, because his main income comes from business... Then it’s okay to temporarily stop the smuggling business! Anyway, if they change their faith to your Majesty, they will also want to rectify the current variety Business...)

He thought a lot in a mess, and his eyes turned like mosquito coils, but he still couldn't figure it out.

With a deep sigh, he said to Baron Dahl: "My Lord Baron, I understand your situation. But this is not a trivial matter. I'd better ask your Majesty for your instructions..."

"Of course, that is of course!" Baron Dahl nodded with a smile on his face, like a fat chicken eating rice.

The Kabbalah priest came to the dressing room, took a bath and changed clothes. After everything was ready, he went to the prayer room, lit the incense wood chips that would give out a reassuring breath, and worshipped at the altar in the light smoke of the wood chips slowly burning. Before, pray silently.

After a while, Sui Xiong responded to his prayer.

"It turned out to be this...Yes, as long as they are willing to correct their evils, I can protect them." Sui Xiong thought about it, and agreed, "However, my asylum for them is limited to preventing the nobles or merchants. Sent to attack and assassinate them, if it is their business conflicts, or the grudges left behind, I will not protect them."

The Kabbalah priest told Sui Xiong's answer to Baron Dahl. Baron Dahl was silent for a while and said that he would discuss with the people again.

So they borrowed a room in the temple and discussed in the room.

They didn't discuss it for a long time this time. About ten minutes later, Baron Dahl visited Priest Kabbalah again, expressing his acceptance of Majesty the Void's condition.

Although they have not been able to obtain complete shelter, they always feel a little uneasy, but the attitude of Majesty the Void has confirmed his reliability from another aspect-as the old rivers and lakes, Baron Dahl, his clan No matter what, people would rather trust those who have to carefully negotiate the conditions for doing things than those who do things in a big way.

Because the more careful consideration, the more detailed the conditions, the more serious the attitude. And the kind of guy who seems to be able to run a horse-drawn cart, their words can't even believe a word!

Now that the conditions were negotiated and the matter was settled, the Dahl family returned to the castle in peace-although the sky was about to dawn, it did not prevent them from going to sleep now.

On the other side, the priests of the Masked Void Church are busy.

The Dahl family originally had mixed beliefs. Some believed in the gods of the nobility and some believed in the goddess of wealth. Now they want to collectively convert to the Mask of the Void, which naturally requires a formal grand ceremony.

Not only that, many people in the Dahl family are bad guys. To accept these believers, we must arrange atonement for them.

The "atonement" is not something that can be done by buying an indulgence note in the Middle Ages on Earth, nor is it like some big beards, just hacking to death a few heretics, no matter what bad things have been done. Can go straight to heaven. In this world, atonement is a serious and serious matter. It involves a rather difficult and costly process.

First, the person who decides to redeem must take a period of fasting and bathing to bring his body and mind into a state of peace and tranquility. Then, in this state, he has to personally describe his crimes one by one, and according to the crimes Accept the punishment, the content of the punishment includes but not limited to beating, burning, and various physical or magical pain.

This painful and difficult process sometimes lasts as long as a month. After the entire ceremony is over, they have to accept a task. Only when they complete this task with a kind and serious mind can they be truly completed. The entire process of atonement.

As long as the entire atonement can be completed, even a heinous villain can turn his camp from evil to neutral. After that, as long as you do good deeds earnestly, sooner or later you can become a kind person.

However...In this world, there are very few bad guys who can really complete the entire process of atonement.

On the one hand, this process is indeed accompanied by a lot of pain. The more serious the crime, the more serious the pain. Most bad guys are the kind of people who are strict with others and looser to themselves. They can't bear the pain at all. .

On the other hand, even if he is willing to endure pain, few churches are willing to perform the atonement ceremony for the bad guys, because it means that he will become a member of the church since then, and his behavior will be tied to the honor of the church. Related.

Even if they are willing to atone for their sins, priests are rarely willing to believe in villains.

The only ~IndoMTL.com~ who is keen to hold atonement ceremonies for people is the Church of the God of Redemption. The group preached that "no matter how bad people are, as long as they are willing to change, there will always be a day to repay their sins", and they are keen to persuade the bad people to atone for their sins and accept salvation-even if they are dying to repent.

But bad guys are unwilling to do this, because if they accept "salvation" when they are dying, it means that their soul will belong to the God of Redemption after death, and they will do all kinds of good things under his arrangement. , In order to pay for their sins.

This kind of thing is very difficult.

In the end, there are only a few senior members of the Dahl family who are willing to accept the atonement ceremony and become the core believers of the Church of the Void Mask. The rest of the people just worshipped and saluted the statue of Majesty the Void, accepted the baptism ceremony of the Kabbalah priest, and left.

"That's fine." Watching them leave, Priest Kabbalah was disappointed and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As long as a few people are responsible for the atonement, no matter the difficulty or the trouble that may be involved in the future, it will be much smaller.

As for those who leave...the way they go, the choice is made by themselves, no matter what, no one is to blame.