Make the dragon great again

Chapter 184 Great Patriarch

On the edge of a certain sea area shrouded in perennial mist, on a deserted island, four priests in gorgeous religious costumes are surrounding a stone gate that was half buried in the soil and has now been excavated. A small circle.

In front of the stone gate, there was a white-haired ascetic monk with a middle-aged appearance standing in a simple white burqa with four illusory wings on his back.

At this time, the stone gate has been opened, and behind the gate is a broken and distorted space, which seems impossible for people to pass through.

The ascetic monk with four wings on his back faced the impassable broken space behind the door, his arms were slightly opened to the sides, and endless holy light overflowed from him and poured into the broken space behind the stone door;

The four priests in a circle outside were chanting something in a low voice, and holy light also emerged from them and merged into the four-winged ascetic monk.

Suddenly, the ascetic monk, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. At the same time, his arms opened wide, and the four illusory wings on his back also spread to both sides. The behavior of the four priests to provide the holy light was interrupted.

"Back off."

The hoarse voice of the ascetic monk sounded, and the holy light rolled out from him, forcing the four priests to a certain distance. The priests also realized that something was wrong, and the golden light scattered all over their bodies, and they took the initiative to fly to the distance.

The next moment, in the shattered space that was originally dominated by pitch black behind the stone door, a smear of pure white appeared and magnified sharply, quickly occupying the entire space behind the door, and tended to spill out.

The surrounding temperature rose sharply, and the fog was dispelled again. The light in the sky was continuously gathering here, and an inexplicable restlessness pervaded the surrounding area.

At this time, even the ascetic monk's face changed drastically, and he was no longer calm and breezy. The holy light radiating from his body instantly converged and condensed into a piece of pure gold battle armor and a pure gold battle spear. The image of the poor monk instantly turned into a majestic and holy warrior for salvation in the kingdom of heaven, as if he had stepped out of religious classics.

The ascetic monk who turned into an angel of the kingdom of God, while flapping his four wings and retreating at a super rear speed, held his spear tightly in front of his chest with both hands, and praised in his mouth:
"The Holy Spirit is the salvation of all beings, and faith is our sharpest spear and strongest shield!" (Note)
The ascetic monk held his spear high, and a large amount of holy light formed a huge golden shield with complicated patterns and religious images in front of him. Suddenly, some rules of the surrounding space seemed to be rewritten, and all hostile things were given Removed the state of "can only target the shield bearer";
The pure white light pouring out from the other side of the stone gate, as well as the continuously gathering sunlight in the sky, instantly changed from the state of covering and hitting the surroundings just now to the state of only focusing on the ascetic monk.

In the eyes of the four priests who were far away from the deserted island, they saw only a flash of extreme white light that could burn the eyes of ordinary people instantly. The mist has been instantly evaporated!
Where the original deserted island was located, there was only a waterless hollow suddenly appearing on the sea surface, the huge pit in the seabed exposed below that was melted into a magma lake, and the stone gate connecting a broken space. It has disappeared without a trace, and seems to be destroyed in the "white light" just now.

The ascetic monk was floating right above the huge crater. The spear in his hand and the golden armor on his body were shattered inch by inch, turning into golden light particles and dissipating in the air. Even the four wings on the back dropped a lot of feathers. The feeling deepened a little bit.

The four priests broke out in cold sweat on their foreheads, terrified in their hearts.

Even Patriarch Felice II, known as "the Lord's spokesperson on earth and the strongest shield of the Church of the Holy Spirit", could not completely resist the terrifying white light just now!
If Felice II hadn't pushed them away in advance, now the four religious leaders and patriarchs of the church who are overlooking the people on the Holy Spirit Continent, I am afraid that their fate would not be much better than the evaporated sea water and earth and rocks...

The four of them leaned forward again and asked the ascetic monk:
"Your Majesty, what was that just now?"

The ascetic monk, Felice II, one of the two chief patriarchs of the Church of the Holy Spirit, was looking at the original stone gate in front of him, and said in a very complicated tone:

"It's the Dragon Clan. Just now, there was an ancient giant dragon that had at least reached the [Sanctuary], forced the Holy Light out of the space gap, and destroyed and smoothed the entire space gap through a counterattack."

The words of Felice II caused the four patriarchs of the Church of the Holy Spirit to exclaim.

"Dragon Clan! Are those demons? They are really resurrected!"

"Is the saint's abnormality and sudden disappearance really related to the resurrection of those demons? Could it be that they have already stepped out of the sealed place without us knowing?"

"We should inform His Majesty Calvin VI of the news immediately. This is no longer the time to argue about differences in ideas. As the Lord's strongest spear, His Majesty Calvin VI will definitely not sit idly by on the resurrection of the Dragon Clan. ..."

Regarding the words of the four [Legendary] Patriarchs on his side, Felice II - the conservative leader of the [Church of the Holy Spirit] who advocates abiding by the fundamentals - the attitude of the [Holy Shield] Patriarch was noncommittal.

The resurrection of the Dragon Clan was already expected by Felice II and another Patriarch, Calvin VI.

In fact, when each patriarch succeeds, they will learn the "prophecy" that the "demons", that is, the dragons, will return one day sooner or later, through the inspiration and communication with the Holy Spirit. Even the Holy Spirit can't be sure when the return will happen.

In recent hundreds of years, this "Sea of ​​Cursed" and "Land of Seals" lying in the center of Ayla's world have experienced more and more abnormal phenomena, which has made the recent patriarchs ready Mental preparation for return...

However, [The Church of the Holy Spirit], which was supposed to follow the revelation of the Holy Spirit and obey the teachings of the Holy Scriptures, and work together to fight against the "demon" who once ruled the world in ancient times, has experienced the most serious incident in history during these hundreds of years. an internal disagreement.

[The Church of the Holy Spirit], split into two increasingly hostile factions.

Conservatives who advocate following the original teachings, fighting against demons and ancient gods, and seeking salvation for all living beings;
Radicals who advocate a more tolerant belief, spread the glory of the Lord to more distant places, and truly establish the Lord's kingdom of God on earth as their mission.

Phyllis II is the leader of the conservative faction, the patriarch, the "angel on the ground" known as the [Holy Shield], the seventh-level [sanctuary] powerhouse, and the four priests are the conservative faction. Four of the five Patriarchs.

The leader of the radical faction is Calvin VI, who is also an "angel on the ground", a seventh-level [sanctuary] powerhouse, and known as the [Holy Spear]. Compared with the conservative faction, there are only five patriarchs. However, the radical faction has eight [legendary] patriarchs!

Conservatives have always been worried about the return of the dragons, but the radicals have a different attitude towards this. They believe that the central continent [Sirias] of the world of Ayla, occupied by the dragons, can also become a place where the holy light shines. It is the Dragon Clan who will return first and open the blockade...

Ignoring the discussions of the four patriarchs, Felice II thought of the only cooperation with Calvin VI more than 20 years ago, and a plan that the two secretly jointly implemented during that cooperation.

——Collecting the blood of the dragonborn, thinking of "creating" an awakened dragonborn, and cultivating it into a devout believer of the Holy Spirit, finally passed through a gap in the Sirias seal that Felice II had mastered in the early years, and the secret will be This dragon descendant who believed in the Holy Spirit was sent into it...

And this artificially "created" awakened dragon descendant, the source of its blood is Felice II himself!His family is a family of dragon descendants whose blood has long declined and who have converted to the Holy Spirit for tens of thousands of years!
Recalling the piecemeal images sensed by the holy light that passed through the stone gate and entered the other side just now, the granddaughter who I can still recognize through the blurred gate and who I have never recognized before, Phyllis The second sighed silently in his heart.

"Alia, my granddaughter, have you really betrayed the Lord..."

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To be continued, change first and then change.

Note: Adapted from an excerpt from The Oath of the Templars.

By the way, the [Knights Templar] is one of the three major knights founded by some noble knights who abide by the knight's creed during the First Crusade of the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. The remaining two They are [Teutonic Knights] and [Malta Knights] (that is, Hospital Knights);

Among the three major knight orders, the [Knights Templar] is the most famous in China, thanks to the promotion of the French Ubisoft "Assassin's Creed" series. By the way, the [Knights Templar] was originally founded by the French, and its members Most of them are French, and it was the King of France who finally forcibly dissolved them...

[Knights Templar] is the only organization among the three major knights that failed to survive to modern times. It was disbanded in 1314. In "Assassin's Creed: Revolution", Ubisoft will be destroyed in [Knights Templar] in 1314 ], portrayed as a fusion faction who advocated reconciliation with the Assassin Brotherhood, and the French King Philip IV and Pope Raymond V who destroyed it are the real reactionary Templars. [Knights Templar] The embodiment of a special complex.

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