Chapter 168 Different Sun Cults

Outside the elven forest, the crusaders were praying.

But their prayer rituals are completely different from those in the scriptures.

The prayers were no longer about God's love for the world, but had become about praising the sun and expelling the darkness. The darkness they were referring to was undoubtedly the alien races.

In front of them, there was an elf who had already fallen into a coma. Every time they recited a prayer, the priest presiding over the prayer would inflict a wound on the elf's body.

With each wound, the sunlight here seemed to become hotter, and their gods seemed very satisfied with their actions of torturing the alien race. These crusaders were now receiving more and more gifts. They were originally only grassroots priests and believers in the Sun God Cult, but now, several of them have been promoted to high priests.

The priest who was presiding over this prayer was not an ordinary priest before he was selected and sent here, but now he has become a high priest.

Of course, the official Sun God Cult does not recognize his qualifications as the officiant. The promotion of these people did not go through the internal process of the church. According to the church's process, every officiant will be baptized by the Pope after obtaining the power of God, so that the future officiant will have a closer connection with God. The future officiant will live in the cathedral for several months until he is completely accustomed to the strong atmosphere of God in the cathedral. Then, he will be recognized as a real officiant.

But the high priests among these crusaders undoubtedly skipped all these procedures.

"Impossible. If a priest of the rank of dean really appeared, His Holiness would undoubtedly inform me."

Judging from Laming’s reaction, the church was completely unaware that a new high priest had appeared in the Crusaders.

“But I do feel the priesthood at the level of the officiating priest.”

But Reinhardt's words forced him to fall into silence again, considering the possibilities that had caused this situation.

Although Reinhardt is not a member of the church, many stories about him have begun to circulate in several surrounding kingdoms. The Cult of the Sun God will certainly notice Reinhardt and have conducted several evaluations on him. The latest evaluation believes that in a few years, he has a great chance of becoming a quasi-legend.

In all assessments, it is considered that the warnings issued by Reinhardt need to be taken seriously. He has no record of exaggerating or exaggerating threats.

"Without baptism, these people will be too susceptible to the influence of gods."

Even gods do not want their high-ranking believers to be overly influenced by them.

The gods themselves will consciously or unconsciously try to avoid the phenomenon known as the "echo wall", and those high-level believers are closer to the gods than those ordinary believers. If nothing is done, they can easily affect the gods and start to resonate. Moreover, most of these high-level believers are high-level church officials, and they also need to reduce the influence of the gods in order to better manage and operate the church.

After all, once fanatics indulge in their faith, they tend to ignore the reality of the situation. After all, the church is not the kingdom of the gods. They will eventually have to face the reality before them, and the gods cannot help them overcome all the real difficulties. This requires them to have more thoughts and wishes of their own.

Reinhardt didn't know much about the procedures and rules of the Solar Cult, but with his superficial understanding, he could feel that something was clearly wrong with the Crusader Army.

"Perhaps, they just want to be influenced by the gods."

In Reinhardt's eyes, those priests were much more fanatical than the normal priests in the church, and seemed to have a consciousness of treating themselves as the torch. In every routine attack on the Elven Forest, these priests led the team.

These high priests suffered heavy casualties as a result, but soon, new high priests would appear to replace the dead high priests.

“Although I can’t understand why they would do that.”

Reinhardt certainly couldn't understand.

"The high priest who was in charge of selecting the members to join the Skitarii was clearly one of their people. He could have allowed his own people to preserve their strength and let those ordinary believers who were different from them die..." "Because that was their purpose."

Fari spoke up.

For these believers, what is important is to carry out the will of their gods. If the will of their gods is to eliminate alien races, then they will do whatever it takes to achieve it.

"If they continue to die like this, they will soon use up all their strength..."

Ferry looked at Lemming, waiting for him to answer Reinhardt's question.

"Our original plan was indeed to send them to their deaths and consume these grassroots priests who hated foreign races."

Lai Ming tried to move his body. As a level 10 priest, his injuries had begun to heal. Although it was still difficult for him to fight, he had no problem limping over.

Lisabel looked at Laming coming over and silently made way for him.

Obviously, her plan to kill Lemming had failed after Reinhardt and his group showed up. As her biggest support, Farry was obviously familiar with Reinhardt and had no intention of fighting with him for her.

What Lisabel is thinking about now is how to lead his men to survive the next pursuit.

"Our plan is very simple. The dead will not affect the gods. As long as they are all dead, the gods may be able to recover after some time."

Reinhardt frowned.

"Is there no better way? Can letting these people die really solve the problem?"

Laming smiled bitterly.

"It really doesn't seem like it would be a good idea to group them together."

Every time a new crusader army was sent out, these personnel would be gathered together, and it seemed that in the process of gathering, they successfully developed a new organization under the nose of the church.

“We will not be forgotten.”

On the other side, the crusaders outside the forest ended their prayers and began to attack the elves' forest again.

The forest in the distance did undergo some changes under the continuous attacks of this crusader army.

The Crusaders successfully created a gap of several hundred meters in radius at the edge of the forest. The magical trees originally located in those places have fallen down, and they have successfully caused real damage to the elven forest.

"Our brothers are driving away the darkness, and the Yi forests will eventually be completely eliminated."

The candlelight illuminated this small basement, and in the basement, a man who looked like a priest was preaching to others about the achievements of the crusaders.

(End of this chapter)