Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 455 The Bell of History

"This war will be over soon."

Seeing that the Third Prince had not taken any action, the Pope finally reminded him, "This is your last chance."

"What if I say no?"

The third prince asked back.

Judging from the situation, as long as he bows to the Pope here, he can buy some time for himself and Coyote Twelve. After the war, whether they will give speeches according to the orders of the Church of Embers is unknown.

But then, the third prince hesitated.

The Pope must have also thought of this obvious "loophole". For a suspicious person like him, a promise would certainly not satisfy him.

The third prince then thought that this was the Holy City and they were in a secret space beneath the cathedral.

What the Church of Ashes is best at is mind control.

"Oh? Did you notice?"

The Pope seemed to see through the Third Prince's thoughts and frankly admitted, "You are right. This is a ceremony to prove your determination."

Once a contract is formed, it will be imprinted on the soul.

Just like the contract that the humans of the Embers Empire once made with the Sun King, they willingly dedicated everything they had to their gods, and in return, the gods would bring light to this world.

“You’re just following a path that has been taken before.”

"But as far as I know, the Sun King chose humans out of kindness and love, not to lock them up with an iron-clad contract."

The third prince said.

The Pope was a little surprised. "It seems that you have listened carefully to the teachings in the hymns, but you should understand that those are integrated versions used for external propaganda."

In the praises of the believers, the Sun King is naturally a just, fair, loving, omniscient and omnipotent god.

And those parts that are not conducive to its image have been eliminated.

……

At the same time, in the land of eternal night, on top of the tower.

Duan Mingyuan retracted his right hand that was touching the throne. When he came to his senses, the ground beneath his feet was already covered with green shade, and crisscrossing vines covered the entire tower.

Just now, he went through a long process.

Apart from the Dark Night Witch and 1721 who rolled down the mountain, the ancestor of the Void Demon once sent out 666 fragments of consciousness, most of which failed in the process of merging with the host. It is difficult for the human body to accommodate the soul of the demon. All "dead" consciousnesses will return to the land of eternal night, carrying everything they have witnessed.

All these memories flashed through Duan Mingyuan's mind.

The "black mud" and the disappearance of the Sun King happened in the same era, and in the same era, another disaster of extraordinary significance to mankind occurred.

The Embers Empire was destroyed by the planet's "cocooning".

Over the next several thousand years, refugees formed by the Embers Empire battled the "cocooning" that occurred on various planets.

Among the many fragments of will sent out by the Demon Ancestor, there is an extremely special one.

It was fused with a devout follower of the Church of Embers.

This apostle of the Sun King sensed the threat from the Land of Eternal Night, but was willing to use himself as a test subject, allowing the echo of the Void Demon to reside in his body. With the idea of ​​converting the demon, he had the believers imprison the "infected" him.

He is also the last apostle chosen by the Sun King himself, as recorded by the Church of Embers.

Because of this, this memory fragment contains a lot of content that was not recorded in "Genesis".

One of them is the experiment of the Sun King.

Different from the tone of the Embers Church's propaganda, when the Sun King felt that his life was coming to an end, he did not happily accept the arrival of death. He had conducted a series of experiments in the Embers Empire, studying energy itself like a demon. The way that the Embers believers now gather the energy of the scorching sun through faith is a product of that period. However, at the end of the Sun King's reign, the energy that was "collected" was not used to expand the empire's infrastructure, but was gathered to the golden throne built by the Sun King himself.

In essence, the Golden Throne is a huge receiver of the sun's energy.

However, this method can only slow down the disappearance of the Sun King, but cannot solve the problem of energy exhaustion from the root.

Until, during his continuous research, the Sun King thought of another possibility.

The soul must be attached to the body to exist, even though its energy can be temporarily separated from the body, but that will increase the frequency of energy dissipation several times.

Therefore, he had to find a new skin.

At first, He set His sights on humans, but soon discovered that humans’ weak bodies were simply unable to carry His soul and will. He needed something broader and more special.

For example, the planet itself.

During the years when the Apostles were imprisoned, the Sun King had abandoned the planets of the Embers Empire, and whenever there was a major issue concerning the fate of the empire, the top leaders of the empire and the church would come to listen to his advice.

This period of peace lasted until the end of the Empire of Ashes.

The symbiosis of the Protoss Demon prolonged the Apostle's life, allowing him to witness the rise and fall of the Embers Empire. When the Apostle warned the Imperial and Church leaders that he foresaw their homeland would be destroyed in a solar storm, the Imperial leaders believed that the Apostle's soul had been corrupted by the Void Demon.

Of course, this is the part that the Embers Empire claims to the outside world.

The truth is, the apostle's idea that the empire should help its residents find a new home as soon as possible before the solar storm arrives was contrary to the archbishop's idea at the time.

The Archbishop firmly believed that this was just a minor test for the Embers Empire and that they had enough ability to overcome this difficulty.

What really led to the apostle being convicted and labeled a traitor was that he "slandered" the Sun King.

The apostle carefully observed the changes in the energy of the sun and believed that such changes were the sequelae of the Sun King's original experiment.

The Sun King wanted to create a new container on the planet where the Embers Empire was located that could hold his soul, but ultimately failed. However, perhaps even the Sun King himself did not realize that these failed experiments gave birth to something else.

Or perhaps, the omniscient and omnipotent Sun King understood this, but ignored the risks in order to prolong his own life.

In Duan Mingyuan's opinion, this apostle was indeed corrupted.

But it was precisely the will of the Demon Ancestor that severed the contract he had made with the Sun King, allowing him to see the wrong side of the Sun King.

Unfortunately, the imperial high-ranking officials at the time ignored his warnings and locked him in an isolated cage.

When the solar storm came, the evacuation fleet did not come to rescue him.

And this devout believer also accompanied his homeland to the end.

"What did you...see?"

The Dark Night Witch came behind Duan Mingyuan at some point in time. She had been waiting here patiently.

She saw that Duan Mingyuan did not ascend the throne, but just touched the looming figure on the throne with his right hand, as if they were conducting some kind of communication beyond common sense.

"I've seen some negative feedback that's not in the best interest of the Sun King."

Duan Mingyuan concluded, "Based on the information I have so far, the planet's 'cocooning' is most likely caused by the Sun King."

A powerful, crazy researcher who did something crazy in order to prolong his remaining life.

If these allegations are true...

This will undoubtedly become the biggest lie in the past dozen centuries.

Everyone regarded the "cocooning" as a disaster brought about by the void demon.

Even Heya himself thinks so.

(End of this chapter)