Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 64 Misunderstandings and Imagination: The Terrifying Nature of Fanatics (Seeking monthly votes and continued reading)
"Your Majesty, I have been rude."

"Just now, I sensed the aura of truth of 'My Lord' from you, and in my moment of emotional excitement, I misunderstood your identity. Please forgive me!"

"Oleg, the current resident priest of the Swamp, offers you his highest praise, Your Majesty, great and noble."

Oleg realized he had misspoke, and even thought he had figured out the cause and effect, so he immediately changed his words and sincerely addressed the dragon in the sky.

Lin Ke snapped out of his daze.

He looked at the believer in the truth with some surprise.

"So, it really was a misunderstanding?"

Lin Ke seemed to be deep in thought, and even chuckled to himself for a moment.

There are so many misunderstandings.

He did not answer, but suddenly withdrew the dragon's might he had been using on the resident Oleg and the Lionheart Knight.

The dragon's might has vanished.

The next instant, Oleg and Lionheart Knight simultaneously felt the nameless pressure on their bodies suddenly ease.

Oleg immediately scrambled to his feet and quickly placed his right hand on his chest in a priestly salute to the dragon slowly descending from the sky.

The Lionheart Knight was already deeply shocked.

He immediately followed suit, kneeling in a knightly salute while hurriedly shouting:
"Your Majesty, the Third Legion of the Lionheart Knights, Vice-Commander Kerr Davis pays you his highest respects!"

Please forgive my rudeness and intrusion!

Lionheart Knight Kerr was truly at a loss for words.

He was simply following the orders of Knight Commander Rayleigh, having arrived in the Swamp Territory a month ago to assist the resident missionary Oleg in investigating any suspicious activity within the territory.

As a result, this led him to encounter a big one?
This is both a giant dragon and a deity in the mortal realm.

He was almost scared out of his wits at first, not to mention being caught red-handed by an unknown god.

When he saw Oleg, the resident missionary, suddenly change his attitude, he was filled with doubt and wanted to curse Oleg and his entire family.

The giant dragon slowly descended from the sky.

The magical wind it carried gradually dissipated.

York, along with his stunned knights and squires, immediately addressed Link with excited and high-pitched voices:
"Your Majesty, Knight York, accompanied by his squires, has come in response to the divine decree!"

"May Your Majesty be well in the Kingdom of God."

"Swamp Lord, Knight's Squire, Keld, greets Your Majesty, the Great and Noble."

"Paul, squire of the Swamp Territory"

All the knights and squires followed York and knelt on one knee before the dragon in a knightly salute.

Looking at York and the other knights.

The dragon's eyes were full of appreciation, and it nodded to show that it understood.

He then turned his gaze back to the resident priest Oleg and the Lionheart Knight inside the steel cage on one side.

York was very clever; he knew that this was not the time for the gods to formally receive him.

So he immediately ordered the group of knights and servants behind him to retreat to the side of the dragon.

On the other side, Lin Ke had a thought.

The steel cage began to melt rapidly and quickly turned into dirt that fell to the ground.

At this moment, Linko spoke calmly to Oleg, completely ignoring the Lionheart Knight.

“It seems you, a mere mortal, are a devout believer in truth, rather than one of those who have been completely corrupted by worldly affairs,” Lin Ke said tentatively.

And these words seemed to confirm Oleg's own suspicions.

Therefore, his eyes immediately brightened, and his expression became more solemn and devout when facing the tall and majestic dragon.

"Your Majesty, to receive your approval is nothing short of a direct blessing from God."

“Oleg has no other desires but to be forever immersed in the ocean of knowledge of our Lord’s truth. I beseech Your Majesty to see this.”

Oleg's eyes were solemn, and he suddenly understood everything.

Why was I unable to sense the aura of the God of Truth from this deity's earthly form at the beginning?

That was entirely because he had not initially declared himself a believer in the truth. Therefore, only after he declared himself a believer in the truth could His Majesty directly use the sacred pages of the Lord God to judge his piety.

Fortunately.

He was able to see sacred things and sense the presence of the supreme deity, thus passing the test of faith.

And so, he was forgiven.

Indeed, all of this was the best arrangement of fate, and everything was within the prediction of truth.

Think about the first half of your life as the Royal Capital Bishop, and then think about the second half of your life where you ended up as a resident bishop in the swamp.

At that moment, Oleg felt as if fate had played a cruel joke on him.

At the same time, a glimmer of hope rose within him once more!
It turns out that all of this was a test from the God of Truth.

For over thirty years, I was down on my luck, ridiculed, and unwelcome by other church members, but I never strayed from my faith. That is why I came to the Swamp Territory this time under the guidance of God.

Only then did I have the opportunity to meet the esteemed His Majesty before me.

All of this is a test from the God of Truth, and a trial in His own life.

Suddenly, Oleg felt a surge of emotion that brought tears to his eyes, and his eyes involuntarily welled up with moisture.

But even in this self-congratulatory mood, a hint of coldness flashed in the eyes of this devout believer.

The time has come to cleanse those blasphemers!
Because the Lord already knew everything, even the unknown and great God, the Lord's 'friend,' already knew about the filth and depravity of the Church of Truth in its present day.

Otherwise, He would never have said those words.

In the present day, among the human kingdoms, the Church of Truth in the Eagle Kingdom seems to be extremely devout and fanatical in its faith in God, even to the point of wanting to go to war with the monarchy at all costs for the sake of its faith.

But what about reality?

Oleg, as a former bishop of the capital, had long seen through everything.

The Church of Truth is currently nothing more than using the banner of God to compete with the royal family for the supreme power that belongs exclusively to the church.

The church has changed a long time ago.

Lower-ranking missionaries, even noble bishops, and even the supreme pope have long been slaves to secular money and power.

Oleg reminisces about his life.

He was impetuous in his youth and arrogant in his middle age, believing himself to be a pastor of the great God of truth, and wholeheartedly wanting to uphold and spread the glory of God and all fairness and justice in the world.

However, the price of refusing to compromise is that no matter how high your spellcasting aptitude or how profound your study of scriptures, you will ultimately be no match for a single clumsy act of blasphemy.

He was stripped of his bishop status, his bloodline power was abolished, and he was ultimately reduced to a low-ranking member of the church.

It was at that moment that Oleg realized how vividly the darkness of the human heart could be displayed even within the church.

But Oleg never regretted it.

For the rest of his life, he continued to follow his own path, even when he was looked down upon and eventually became an obscure old missionary, he still maintained his devotion to the truth.

Of course, devotion to the truth does not equate to loyalty to the church.

And so, now we have all the blessings of God.

The gods have always been watching him and know of his piety.

Therefore, at this moment, he was already overwhelmed with self-pity.

As for Lin Ke, who was sitting opposite this old man, he saw the old man trembling all over and with tears in his eyes.

Lin Ke was genuinely afraid that this guy would suddenly die!
"Is he imagining something amazing?"

"I just tried saying one thing, and you old man can imagine being this moved?!"

Lin Ke felt bewildered yet impressed, to the point of being speechless.

But thinking about it carefully, it's not so bad. At least this is the result Lin Ke wanted to see. He just didn't expect that the old man was actually a fanatical believer.

Lin Ke felt that if the God of Truth were really here and told the old man that excrement is gold, he would probably really believe that excrement is gold.

After all, it seems that these fanatical individuals likely have their own set of rational logic and theories, and in short, everything the gods say must be true.

Lin Ke has truly witnessed the terrifying nature of fanatics.

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