Chapter 1115: Theocracy, religious authority, kingship and government

The English Kingdom will recognize the legitimacy of the Destiny Web Weaver Church, not only because of the secret operation of the Duke of Buckingham, but also because the Parliament and the royal family of the English Kingdom need another church of gods to counterbalance the growing growth of the kingdom. Poseidon Church.
After the foggy years, the manifestation of gods, which had disappeared for many years, began to appear in various churches. Even the dull people could feel the gods returning to the world. Everyone believed that the returning of gods was to save mankind, so all Of church members have become extremely pious. In the past, qualified clergy members were difficult to select from believers. Clergy members could only be trained from an early age. Now it is necessary to select the best from a large number of devout and faithful members who are qualified to become clergy members. Okay, and devout believers are the main reason why the church can grow rapidly in this disaster era.
The situation in the Kingdom of England is slightly different from other countries. The main churches in other countries are without exception the power of the church that far exceeds the secular power. Almost all government functions are church members, so even if there is a conflict, it will not Very serious.
But before the foggy years of the English Kingdom, the struggle between religious authority and royal authority was already a matter of blatant detail. In fact, it should be a struggle between the two powers within the church of Poseidon, because the royal family itself is The owner of the Seagod bloodline, the royal family is the incarnation of the Seagod in the eyes of the people of the kingdom, so the core of the royal power of the English royal family is still the belief of the Seagod. This is also the purpose of the English royal family to openly own the seagod bloodline.
But with the return of the gods after the foggy years, the focus of the people’s faith began to shift to the church. After all, the gods themselves are the core of the faith of the believers, and the clergy of the church are also the core of the faith of the gods. After the return of the gods, he began to possess and master some magic arts that only senior clergy could master in the past. For example, almost all tested clergy would be given blessing magic arts by Poseidon. This is also one of the signs of the return of the gods.
Feeling the crisis, the royal family of Engel still possessed the artifact of Poseidon, which convinced many citizens that after Poseidon’s return, he would be able to give the royal family greater power and rights. However, in the face of the growth of the Poseidon Church, the royal family was still panicked, so it started The council, nobles, and scholars who were also dissatisfied with the church began to unite to suppress the Poseidon Church.
However, in this era when gods can be consecrated in church ceremonies, and clergy can show magic in front of ordinary people, any suppression of the church is futile, and only the church can fight against the church.
Those who want to understand this, the English royal family and council want to use the support of the Lake Lady Church, which also has extensive beliefs in the Kingdom of England, to fight the Poseidon Church. Unfortunately, the Lake Lady Church seems to have insight into the ideas of the royal family and the council, or perhaps it is. The focus of development of the Ladies Church in Huzhong has shifted to all continents, so it ignores the olive branch thrown by the royal family and parliament, and is still doing its own things at its own pace.
In this regard, the English royal family has nothing to do. Although the believers of the Lake Lady Church in the English Kingdom are far from being compared with the Poseidon Church, almost all the English people have a very special feeling for the Lady Lake. This kind of emotion is just like that of a child to a mother. Some belief ceremonies related to the Lady of the Lake have become the daily rituals of the English people. The Lady of the Lake is a part of their lives. This is the Poseidon Church is far from being able to compete with the Lady of the Lake Church. Compared to.
After the Ladies Church in Huzhong refused to cooperate with the proposal, the English royal family and the parliament could only find another collaborator. At first they thought of the shamanism that had formed in the kingdom of English.
It's just that the shamanism is either too primitive, with a lot of appalling blood sacrifices. In the Kingdom of England, some cases related to extraordinary powers are almost all related to shamanism.
Either the shamanism is too profound, some primitive doctrines have been transformed into shamanism, which is only circulated among some scholars in the college, and will not be accepted by ordinary people at all.
So when the English royal family and parliament were having a headache for a suitable collaborator who could resist the church of Poseidon, the Duke of Buckingham showed up in front of them with his fateful web weaver church, plus some coercion, temptation, etc. Operation, the underground church that originally belonged to the interior of the Duke of Buckingham became a legal church in the Kingdom of England, and began to build church churches throughout the Kingdom of England.
The Poseidon Church was naturally unwilling to accept all of this passively, so it also put forward the request for open missionary restrictions in the Duchy of Buckingham.
The Duke of Buckingham did not refuse this, nor did he put forward any particularly harsh additional conditions. He only asked Poseidon Church to publicly recognize that the Destiny Net Weaver was the Church of True God.
Whether a church is a true God church is not determined by whether a certain church recognizes it or not, but is determined by the representatives of the true God churches in the Orthodox Court after discussion and the divine enlightenment obtained after various ceremonies, so the Poseidon Church even admits The Destiny Web Weaver is the Church of True God. Once it leaves the Kingdom of England, the Destiny Web Weaver will still be an underground church.
The Church of Poseidon knew whether it would admit it or not. It was of no use to whether the Church of the Destiny Web Weaver was the Church of True God, so they quickly agreed to this request from the Duke of Buckingham.
The Duke of Buckingham also knows this. He only needs a starting point. What's more, the confirmation ceremony and process of the Church of True God are not public. Only the senior churches and the Orthodox court know this. The ordinary people don't know this. In the eyes of ordinary people, when a church of true God recognizes that another church is the church of true God, that church is the church of true God.
For this reason, when Poseidon Church recognized that the Destiny Web Weaver Church was the Church of True God, the mission of Destiny Web Weaver Church in the Kingdom of England became much smoother, especially the various ceremonies held by Destiny Web Weaver Church. The phenomenon of manifestation of gods in this book is more than double that of other churches. The ordinary people have a feeling that gods are always paying attention to the church, which has led to a rapid increase in the number of believers of fate weavers.
Facing the pressure brought by the Destiny Web Weaver Church, Poseidon Church has also stepped up its mission to the people of the Duke of Buckingham, but the Duke of Buckingham has already assisted the Destiny Web Weaver Church to build the believers in the territory like iron barrels. As a result, the mission of Poseidon Church is simply doing nothing. This also makes Poseidon Church have to shift its mission to some of the emerging territories of the Duke of Buckingham. Morlock Island is such an emerging territory.
Knowing that Morlock Island has become the core transit point of the transcontinental route, the Destiny Web Weaver Church, with the help of the Duke of Buckingham, took the lead in building a large church church in Morlock Crater, the highest mountain on Morlock Island. .
The foundation area of ​​this church is larger than that of all other churches of the Destiny Net Weaver Church, because its foundation support pillars cover the entire crater of the active volcano, and the main body of the church is in the center of the crater below. It is the billowing lava, and the whole building is a miracle in the eyes of ordinary people.
This is also the goal that the Destiny Web Weaver Church wants to achieve. They just want people who travel between the two continents to see this miraculous building and spread the reputation of Destiny Web Weaver.
The Poseidon Church was a few steps slower than the Destiny Web Weaver Church for various reasons. It was not until the main body of the Destiny Web Weaver Church was almost completed.
Although the Poseidon Church was a step late, they did not give up on it. On the contrary, their whimsical ideas generally changed the arched and columnar architectural form of the church church in the past, but based on the island environment and the state of the route. The church chapel was built into a pointed lighthouse chapel.
Because the Duke of Buckingham restricted the sale of available land on Morlock Island, the foundation of this lighthouse church of Poseidon Church is not on the island, but in the sea, and its foundation area is also very large, which is equivalent to Morlock Island. One-sixth of the overall area.
The lighthouse sanctuary emerges directly from the sea and extends upward in the form of an eight-sided pointed cone. When it reaches the top, it just exceeds the height of the volcanic sanctuary of the Church of Destiny Net Weaver.
Such a huge lighthouse and church can be seen clearly from the ship on the sea far away, and when the construction of the church is completed and the components of the navigation light are ready to be installed, Poseidon manifests itself in the church and bestows it in front of countless believers and non-believers The lighthouse is an ever-bright fire. From now on, the light of this lighthouse church does not need any fuel, and it can be lighted forever, and the intensity of the light can be seen by nearby ships even in the biggest storm. The ship entered the haven of the island.
There is no doubt that both the Lighthouse Church and the Volcano Church are very successful church buildings. After the appearance of these two church buildings, the number of church members related to them has also begun to increase rapidly, and the Destiny Web Weaver Church is no longer It was limited to the internal mission of the English Kingdom and began to spread on other continents, but because it was not the Church of True God recognized by the Orthodox Court, it was still an underground church suppressed by other mainland churches.
However, the bizarre ideas arising from the struggle between these two churches also opened up the era of the wonder churches of the various churches. Various types of wonder churches that demonstrated the power of the gods began to appear in the headquarters of various churches or important parishes.
When the Star of Hope sailed to Moloch Island, like the other passengers and crew on the ship, Leo also saw the two wonders of Moloch Island, but they were slightly different from the others and were more spectacular. The Beacon Church, which gives people more oppressive power and possesses an immortal fire, does not have much appeal. On the contrary, the Destiny Netweaver Church in the crater attracts his attention.
With Leo’s vision, although the Lighthouse Church is more majestic and shocking, it is not very difficult to build. With the existing industrial level and the intervention of extraordinary powers, any financial and human resources allow it. Non-church forces can build a similar building, so the lighthouse church is difficult to equate with miracles.
As for the immortal divine fire at the top of the lighthouse sanctuary, it was not a divine fire at all, and had nothing to do with Poseidon. Above it was an exit hatch guide light that was only available on a mothership-class battleship that could still operate.
The main material of this guide light is derived from a special material unintentionally developed by a certain medium-sized scientific and technological civilization. This material is called eternal light energy metal. It can always emit a special frequency light wave to produce It is not strong, but the light that can be clearly seen in the special environment of the universe, and it will almost never weaken until it does not destroy its atomic structure.
Almost all motherships built by cosmic creatures based on light-receiving vision will place this special metal on the exit hatch of the carrier aircraft to guide the fighter back into the cabin.
Obviously, the Poseidon Church should have discovered this still intact piece of eternal light energy metal from the wreck of a damaged mothership spacecraft, so it regarded the metal as a miracle of Poseidon and placed it on the top of the lighthouse church.
Compared with the simple structure of the lighthouse church, which is a marvelous building that is a mixture of industry, extraordinary power and cosmic civilization and technology, the volcanic church built purely by extraordinary power on the crater is more attractive to Leo. , Because he sensed that the extraordinary power that built this volcanic temple was not much stronger than him. It was only equivalent to an eighth-level psionicist, similar to the true eye in its heyday. This also made Leo guess that this was The destiny web weaver supported by the Duke of Buckingham should be a demigod~EbookFREE.me~ The same as in the past, Leo would only feel that this power is very powerful after he felt the power of the demigod, without more details. , Now that he has reached the seventh level of psionics, he can also be called a demigod, and when he feels the power of other demigods, he can already analyze more details, but these details often bring Leo More questions.
In addition to the strong curiosity of Leo himself, these questions originated from his knowledge of his future psionic level improvement.
Because after he entered the seventh-level psionicist, he found that the complete set of psionic inheritance knowledge he had acquired, in addition to the conventional psionic skills knowledge is still useful, other knowledge related to the increase of psionic level is due to the racial civilization Wait for the difference, the help that can be provided to him is already very small, and even most of the content can only be used as reference materials.
Leo felt that as the life form evolved to the level of the seventh-level psionicist, the psionic level could no longer be improved through primitive accumulation or trickery as before. As for how to continue to rise to a higher level , Leo was also at a loss now.
Although he has just entered the stage of a seventh-level psionicist, he has not even fully grasped the power after the ascension. The life information generated by the life form is even more uncontrollable, and it is not being radiated out all the time, to anyone who approaches. Everyone has an impact, but he instinctively feels that he should prepare for the follow-up psionic level upgrade. When he thinks of the upgrade, it will be too late to prepare, so when the destiny web weaver, a ready-made reference object, appeared in him In his eyes, he naturally had no reason to let it go.