Black sails

Chapter 171 CLXX. Blasphemy of God

The miracle of suffering.

One of the oldest religions in the Western Continent.

Of course, their beliefs are supported by a set of rigorous logic.

That's the alchemy of the soul.

The physical body has its limits.

But thoughts are not.

People must go through penance to gain the perseverance of the soul and the recognition of the supreme will, so that the body will not rot.

Today, the number of members of the Painful Miracles is very small, and they have become a cult, which can be said to be the public enemy.

Eighteen hundred years ago, it was far from this. It was the most prosperous religion and the absolute first brother.

About two thousand years ago, the ancient Overlord unified the Western Continent.

But the dynasty established lasted only three generations.

Because of a horrific plague, about 90% of the population of the Western Continent was wiped out, and all animals were almost extinct, at least this is what is recorded in ancient books.

The dynasty collapsed, the descendants of the royal family returned to the country, wars, severe infectious diseases that could kill within a week, and natural and man-made disasters were everywhere. In ancient books, all rivers were stained with the blood of the dead and corpses covered with abscesses, and merged into the sea. All dyed bright red.

The Western Continent and even the entire world fell into the most chaotic situation in history, and also opened the curtain of the darkest hundred years.

Religions often have a strong social service nature. No matter how mysterious the background is, the teachings actually serve the political ecology.

The miracle of pain appeared at this time.

But strictly speaking, it is the predecessor of the Miracle of Pain, called the Holy Axiom, a church from the ancient era.

At this time, there were still wars, plagues, natural disasters, farmland wasted, livestock died, and people had to break their bodies to cook.

This church has established an armed force called the Holy Anointing Army, which provides survivors with free services to resist "predation" by armies of various countries, and uses ointment after prayer to treat people infected with the plague.

Just like their teachings.

People must gain the perseverance of the soul through penance.

And the methods of penance are diverse.

Congregational nuns apply ointments to the patients and kiss their lesions, with a pious heart, hoping for a miracle, the manifestation of the supreme will, and the blessing of grace.

The God that the Holy Axiom believes in is extremely ancient. It is better to say that it is the existence of a concept, the only supreme will.

And a miracle really happened.

One night, a young man was infected with the epidemic. The wounds on his body festered more and more seriously, and he was in great pain.

Seeing that he was in pain, a nun approached him, held him in her arms, and kissed his forehead with tears.

But in an instant, all his pain disappeared.

The Supreme Will gave birth to miracles.

Later, it was also extended to the "miracle" of all sects in the Western Continent, but it was once a narrow sense, and now it is a broad sense.

This makes Congregationalists believe that their teachings are correct.

As long as the soul undergoes penance and is strong enough to face the ultimate great thing, it can convey wishes and perform miracles.

The leader of the Axiom Church stood up and was a woman.

As miracles continued to happen in various places, she believed that the suffering in the world was limited and only needed to be compensated in other ways.

To end this plague.

She took the secret medicine and sacrificed all her remaining life in exchange for a strong body.

She then placed herself on the stake, while the congregation and patients wept and piled up firewood.

The fire burned for three days.

Just the ashes have piled up into a mountain.

finally.

A miracle was born.

She transformed into a stone sculpture with white petals constantly flying. The ashes from all the firewood also turned into petals and spread to all parts of the continent with the wind.

In this resurgent wind that floats flowers, the plague ends.

It seems everything is over.

However, this is only the beginning of the tragedy.

For a time, the power of the Axiom Church reached its peak, and every believer was completely fanatical.

They are not satisfied with being the most powerful religion on the entire continent, but want to become the actual ruler of this continent.

During this time, there was no country at all in the Western Continent, only religion.

He established an adjudication office and began to persecute other religious forces. He changed the Holy Axiom Church into the Goddess Church and called the former leader the Mother of All Mothers. He built extremely luxurious temples and enshrined stone sculptures.

Power, lust, greed.

Everyone longs to practice hard and let the supreme will perform miracles, and become a saint respected by everyone.

The mainland has ushered in its darkest century.

Miracles no longer come in the way people imagine, but turn people into deformed monsters, and pain becomes truth, faith, and a guideline.

Being enslaved by the abyss of illusion.

The sky was frozen in miserable dusk.

In this kind of stereotype.

There is nothing left except...pain.

There are so many stories that happened during this period, which are strange, mysterious, and even dreamlike, like the most terrifying nightmare. So far, even the most knowledgeable historians today dare not claim to be familiar with this period of history.

There are too many things that happened 1,800 years ago that cannot be verified.

Only one thing is certain.

At the end of the darkest century, a man stepped forward. The fierce man descended from the sky, killed all the saints, annihilated the Pope of the Mother Church, and cut off the so-called "Supreme Will" on the far other side. "The connection with this world, the blasphemy of God, the connection between heaven and earth.

But the Mother Cult has not disappeared. Even after nearly two thousand years, there are still many remnants of its former glory and prosperity.

Two factions emerged.

One sect is the fundamentalist Holy Axiom Church. Because the reputation of the Divine Mother Cult has been completely destroyed, the name of the Ancient Era has been restored, but now it has almost disappeared. Even if it still exists, it is not on a large scale.

One group is the notorious painful miracle in the Western Continent today, the real ultimate devil, trying to make the "Supreme Will" come back and become a saint.

Because this is the only way to become a god known to mankind.

At this moment.

In a town forty miles outside Yunxi City, among the farms, there is a villa on the first floor.

Fen's arcane missiles contain terrifying energy and are released by former members of the Magic Energy Industry Council. A true master and an adventurer cannot be generalized.

The air flow in the room was turbulent, and the gray prism flew through the air like a flying shuttle, directly piercing the dancer's abdomen. Blood spurted out instantly, and the internal organs were exploded, leaving a terrifying hole. Through the dancer, you could see behind her. scenery.

"What a pity for such a couple..."

Micah looked desolate. General Fen was really extravagant and wasteful, just for temporary entertainment. How could such a beautiful woman, with so many wonderful uses, waste so much?

"My hundred golden dragons!"

Li Site beat his chest and felt like he was about to have a heart attack. Well, now all one hundred golden dragons have been wasted.

Not to mention becoming a marriage tool, if I marry her to a giant from Tianguo Port first, and then betroth her to another giant, wouldn’t it be like a snipe and a clam fighting against each other, Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, what a clever plan!

"You owe me one hundred gold dragons now."

Li Site said to Fen very solemnly, this is considered the price of friendship, and the other collateral losses have not yet been calculated.

Meredith sighed at the power of this warlock. Is this an arcane missile? It's already an arcane cannonball, right?

"What's a hundred gold dragons? You brought back a cult member and you don't even know?"

Fen frowned, Li Site just liked to pick up rags, and the captain's room also collected many "magic props" used by liars to play tricks, and even the people who suffered miracles brought them back.

"If she's not dead yet, she's a treasure."

Fen used to have a very high status, with an extensive intelligence network, and knew some of the secrets of the Western Continent.

Li Site suddenly lost his mind when he saw that Fen was trying to default on his debt.

"How can a dead person be resurrected? You are using a sharp ax to chop open Gu's head. It's wonderful."

Li Site was about to admit his loss.

Sudden changes.