Almighty Alchemist
Chapter 53: Sarahan (Part 1)
After returning from the Frank Empire, it was already the sixth day of the battle at Yinyue Peak.
Huey didn't have much time to wait.
He decided to go to Mount Grabbis immediately to have a complete showdown with the Church of the Holy Spirit.
If the pope doesn't understand the big picture trade-offs, he doesn't mind doing the same thing.
But before that, Xiu Yi needs to make some adequate preparations for himself.
The Gribis Mountains are located at the southernmost tip of the Northern Continent, if its owner is a small border country—Baine.
Bain was once the most prosperous place in the entire Northern Continent. The former Bain Empire had a vast territory, covering almost the entire Northern Continent. The Church of the Holy Spirit has thus become the number one religion in the Northern Continent. The relationship between them and the Bain Empire is like the relationship between the Scourge Church and the Sierra Empire in the Southern Continent.
The decline of Bain has its inevitable historical trend, and there are also artificial factors.
When Baine's empire was at its most prosperous, they encountered the biggest challenge ever - Electra's Golem Legion.
It was a life-and-death battle that spread to the entire continent. Led by the Baine Empire, all countries in the Northern Continent joined forces to fight against Electra, but there were few victories. Electra's armies swept across the continent, leaving the once-prominent Baine Empire defenseless until Electra mustered what he thought was enough troops and headed for the Abyss. At this time, the once great empire has been beaten to pieces.
Shortly after that, the former lord of the country died of a sudden injury, and his three heirs fought for the imperial power. After the foreign troubles and the internal troubles, the great empire of Bain finally fell apart completely, and some small countries took advantage of the momentum to rise up, and the era of melee wars among the countries began.
Up to now, the Northern Continent has not yet formed a complete unified situation, but the Bain Empire has miraculously survived to this day.
The reason for this is entirely dependent on the blessing of the Church of the Holy Spirit.
When it comes to this issue, the Church of the Holy Spirit actually has a lot of bitterness.
In the past, the Church of the Holy Spirit had a bitter relationship with the Bain Empire. But with the weakening of the Bain Empire and the strong rise of some small countries, the Church of the Holy Spirit is faced with the choice of where to go. In order to gain the support of the church, some small countries assured the Church of the Holy Spirit that no matter who owns this piece of land in the future, the state religion of this country will only be the Church of the Holy Spirit. At the same time, he promised various rich offerings.
Greed made the vision short-sighted, and the Church of the Holy Spirit sat back and watched Bain's land be divided up, until finally the coalition forces of various countries hit the Grabis Mountains, and the Church of the Holy Spirit finally panicked. They finally came forward, called for a truce among all countries, and saved the last bit of land of the Bain Empire at the last moment.
According to the teachings of the Holy Spirit, every Holy Spirit believer must make at least one pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Sarahan in his life.
This was originally a sign that the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Bain Empire were advancing and retreating together. But precisely because of this, it has become a noose that restrains the development of the church. Therefore, the Church of the Holy Spirit must set up its headquarters in Sarahan for life, and must not leave the Holy Land, which has led to a weakening of their influence on other countries.
It is precisely because of this that, in the view of the Church of the Holy Spirit, unless the Bain Empire re-emerges, it will not be good for itself to allow any country other than the Grabis Mountains to dominate.
Today's Bain can only be called a kingdom, and judging from the size of the country, it is not too much to call it a principality. Although it is far inferior to the three empires in terms of land area and number of soldiers, and the quality of soldiers is not as good as Xiduo and other countries, but fortunately, it still has a sacred status after all.
On the surface, the Kingdom of Baine is still the country most favored by the gods. On the surface, people still respectfully call Sarahan a holy land.
But except for the Bain people themselves who also like to revel in the halo of glory in the past, no one will take Bain seriously when they walk out of this mountainous area.
Huey came to Sarahan under such circumstances.
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Flying around in the sky, Xiuyi folded her wings and landed slowly in a deserted forest area.
It is about twenty miles away from Sarahan.
Xiuyi planned to walk over here, and take a look at Bain's customs and customs by the way.
He is not in a hurry to meet the Pope, and he still has enough time to learn more about this place.
Compared with the prosperous and prominent Lance Empire, Frank Empire and other places, the lives of Baine people are much simpler.
They seem to advocate a simple and natural way of life, simple wooden fences, low double-storey villas, each with a small garden in front of the house, planting a variety of colorful flowers. Some are even pretty good alchemy materials.
The carriages of the Baines are actually bullock carts, and they use a stout old ox with four horns as the main power of the cart. This kind of cattle has great strength, but the speed of travel is slow. Analyzing from this aspect, most Baine people lead a leisurely life, and there are very few urgent matters that require them to hurry.
In fact, the people of Bain, who have always regarded themselves as a relic of the Celestial Dynasty, still have a unique arrogance in their words and deeds until now.
They called the Reims a smug nouveau riche, thought the Franks were self-righteous bastards, and the Georgia Empire was no better, a bunch of real profiteers who were always good at getting things right and wrong. As for Xiduo, they even denounced them as "uncivilized barbarians, beasts in human form."
In the eyes of the people of the three empires, these Bain people are a group of egomaniacs lingering under the wings of the Church of the Holy Spirit.
However, no matter what the people from the three empires think of the Baines, there is at least one special advantage here: they almost retain most of the traditional etiquette, which is something they rarely have at present. I believe Baron Harden will definitely like it here. Oh yes, he's an earl now.
Subconsciously, Huey still likes to call this little gentleman who knows nothing but etiquette a Baron. Maybe the childhood memories that brought him will be even better.
An hour later, Huey finally crossed the long mountain road and entered Sarahan.
Looking around, the most, most brilliant, and tallest buildings here are almost all churches of the Church of the Holy Spirit.
In the most glorious era of the Bain empire, hundreds of thousands of believers from other places came to the Holy Land to worship every day, which made the empire have to expand the church again and again to accommodate believers. But now, most of them have become ornamental buildings, and they still attract a large number of tourists every year, of which believers and tourists account for about half.
Sarahan is the most famous tourist city in the Northern Continent.
"Hey, sir, do you need a guide?" A little boy rushed over and bowed to Huey.
He has nice big eyes.
"Tourist guide?"
"Yes."
"Do you know that I'm a foreigner?" Sarahan is a city, not a country. If the boy said that he was convinced that he was a foreigner because he had never seen him, Huey would be the first to not believe it.
"Not only do I know that you came from another place, but I also know that you are not a believer." The boy's tone was very proud.
"Tell me how you know?" Xiu Yi was curious.
"If you're going to hire me, I'll let you know."
"How much?"
"That depends on what you want to do. If it's for sightseeing, twenty-five silver-witus. If you need special services, you need to add money."
"What kind of special service?"
"For example, girls, here are good girls from all over the world, they are all young, beautiful, and very enthusiastic." The boy blinked.
"I don't need a girl. Is there any other service?"
"That's difficult. It depends on what special requirements you have. As long as you can tell, please believe that little Bill can do it for you. Of course, the key is the price." The little boy Bill rubbed his fingers.
Huey threw out a Gold Witt: "Then I've hired you, three days, here's the deposit. If you do a good job, you'll get three more."
"Oh! You are so generous!" The little boy exclaimed, took a look at the Gold Witt in the sun, and carefully collected it after confirming that it was real money. Then said to Huey, "So what do you need now?"
"Take me to a hotel to rest first, and then I have some questions to ask you. By the way, answer me first, how do you know that I am from another place, and that I am a tourist and not a believer?"
"Because every one of Sarahan's people is a believer of the gods, and as long as they are believers, they will know the image of Emmalis. No believer dares to stand in front of the image of Emmalis and not worship him like him." The little boy quickly replied: "It's a very simple way to identify it."
Xiu Yi was taken aback, and then realized that he was standing in front of a huge statue of a god. Before passing by this statue, some believers will continue on the road after worshiping this statue. Just now, Xiuyi was only focused on looking at the surrounding scenery, so he didn't pay attention to this problem.
The little boy looked very shrewd and had a strong ability to capture business opportunities. Seeing that Xiu Yi was not a believer, he immediately guessed that it might be a tourist, especially Xiu Yi, who was well-dressed and obviously not a rich man, so he immediately recommended himself.
Now hearing what the little boy said, Xiu Yi suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake.
Feelings Because he has never taken the Church of the Holy Spirit to heart, he still doesn't even know what god this church worships and what kind of teachings they have. At least what kind of thing this Emalis is like, why everyone has to worship it, Xiuyi is completely unclear.
"Then you are also a believer in the Church of the Holy Spirit?" Xiu Yi asked casually.
"Of course, this is Sarahan, a holy place designated by the ancestors!" the boy called out.
He waved to Xiu Yi: "Come on, I know there is a hotel, it is cheap, the accommodation is comfortable, and the food is very delicious."
Xiu Yi followed.
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It's late.
I know that there are few updates recently, and everyone has questions.
Tell everyone honestly, the world should have explained it long ago.
The weather has not been bad for the past two days, and I am actually in good condition, and I have written a lot. But unfortunately, it is not this book, it is a new book.
As early as when Electra appeared, some friends asked whether Almighty was about to end, and a series of mysteries had been announced.
I never answered.
Now for my official answer: yes, it's almost over.
At present, there are still some mysteries that have not been answered, and some events that have not been fully explained, but in a maximum of ten days, all the stories will be finished.
Some people may wonder why there is no abyss story.
My answer is: From the very beginning, I didn't intend to write about the abyss. The abyss is just a medium to express the story of the surface.
If I want to write this book indefinitely, I can write a follow-up war.
But I didn't want to do that.
This is mainly because it is the first time I officially write fantasy, and I am inexperienced in many aspects. For me, this is certainly a creation, but more of it is learning.
If I were asked to write fantasy again, I am sure that Huey's story will be very different from the present one.
In fact, when many friends said that only the first book was good, I did not deny that this book did have problems in the later stage.
This is related to experience, and also related to the lack of preparation at that time.
It is also for this reason that I don't think it is necessary to write a new chapter of Abyss War, as long as I take out the part of the plot I prepared in advance.
In fact, judging from the current results, it is very bad for me to do so. After all, this book did well.
But I don't want to bully the reader with a story that I don't think could be any better.
I won't force a story and squeeze out its residual value just because a book sells well without a story.
To be honest, I am not satisfied with Almighty, or only the first half of it.
So I don't want to continue to be dissatisfied.
Of course, this doesn't mean that I want a bad ending and a eunuch.
It just means that I end it when it's time to end, not to prolong it unnecessarily, that's all.
From this point of view, how can it be irresponsible to spend an entire book preparing for the end, right?
So
The final story is coming soon, I will write it seriously and work hard, not perfunctory or evasive.
At the same time, I have been preparing for the new book for two months. I believe that I will not make the same mistakes again.
That's all for now.
Well... Anyway, there are still ten days left.
The first release of this book is from Novels.com, so you can read the genuine content for the first time!
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