Chapter 118

Grela the witch brought good news to the king.

After such a long time, she has completed the preparations for other parts of the ceremony. As long as she waits for the king's help, she can summon the Warwick pirates who died of the black death back to the Jeanne in a ghostly way. She hoped that the king would allow the pirates to leave the river of the dead in hell.

When he saw this, the king looked up at the devil.

The devil laughed: "Your Majesty, hell is the final gathering place of all the sins in people's mouth. Here is the end of death. However, before the opening of the Millennium Kingdom, the river of the dead was stagnant, and the soul was stuck in it layer by layer, unable to enter the last deep spring Of course, it will be different in the future. "

The king also knew what he meant by "different.".

Today's long river of the dead has gradually begun to flow, and also began to have some new generation of the dead. However, the number is still very small, which is not in line with the mortality rate of this era It can be seen that hell has just recovered, and there is still a long way to go before it reaches its heyday.

In the letter, the witch grela mentioned another thing:

the witches in the kingdom of Blaise wanted to be accepted by the king.

"Wizard..."

The king thought.

In the letter, grela gave the king a brief introduction about witches.

In fact, the witch's original residence should have been in the Arctic ice sheet. In the "cloth of the world", the draftsmen fill the blank of the ice field with Python. In the belief of witches, "snake" is a very important reference. They think that it is a symbol of women, sin and darkness. After the end of the legend age, the witches' power was weakened, they could not bear the cold of the ice field as before, and left their original residence.

In the history of witches themselves, the first century at the beginning of A.D. is called the "hundred year migration".

With the development of the holy court, the life of the witch became more and more difficult. Until the establishment of the holy Empire, they were more and more unable to survive in the Kingdom under the rule of the holy court, which allowed astrologers to linger under their own eyes, but there seemed to be an absolutely unforgiving line between them and witches.

A group of witches contacted grela and expressed their hope to the King through her.

If there is any place in the world where these heretics can live, it is only Legrand.

"Now, let's talk about the surprise."

After reading the letter, the king counted the help of the witches in his heart, but he didn't show half a point on his face.

"The ghost ship that your pirate gentlemen control is a forbidden alchemy product that shocked the gods." The devil said, "do you know what they were designed for?"

"Warships?"

The king had a guess.

"Yes, they were meant to be battleships for the gods." The devil replied, and then he suggested to the king, "you can ask your pirates to drive it to hell, where they can recover to a certain extent. Well Just in time, we can surprise the Lords with them. "

The king thought about it and agreed to his proposal.

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South East of Legrand, port of kosia.

As the black death on the other side of the abyssal Strait retreated after the fall of God, the blockade of the southeast coast of Legrand was lifted. The chambers of Commerce, which suffered heavy losses, left the port almost at the same time, hoping to make up for the losses caused by the blockade for more than half a year as soon as possible.

Headquarters of the free chamber of Commerce.

The head of the Royal Chamber of Commerce appointed by the king before, Mrs. poisonous spider and the head of the Dawson family, were busy after the lifting of the southeast coast emergency blockade Ordinance. The king's order reached them before the blockade was lifted.

The core content of the order is only one: after the blockade was lifted, the royal family's control over Southeast commerce was strengthened.

The king's intention was obvious. He clearly wanted to establish the royal family's commercial status in the economy by taking advantage of the attack of the black death on the southeast business of Legrand. There will not be a second chance for a "king without a crown on the sea" like the five port alliance. During the blockade period, the royal family's understanding of the southeast chamber of Commerce has reached an unprecedented level under the requirements of the general register of southeast port ships.

Affected by the blockade of the coast by the black death, almost all the small business associations in the southeast coastal areas went bankrupt, and the big business associations also suffered huge losses.

It was at this time that Mrs. poisonous spider and patriarch Dawson received the provisional chamber of commerce protection act drafted by the king.

In name, it is the "protection law", but in fact it is the incorporation act. According to the bill, the bankrupt small chamber of commerce can obtain Royal assistance at the cost of the royal family's direct incorporation. The chamber of commerce can also get tariff preference after further concession. But either way, they were destined to do more to the king.

After the enactment of the bill, the chamber of Commerce broke out in private.Because just before the appearance of Shenjiang on the other side of the abyss channel, the blockade to the southeast of Legrand was far away. The merchants looked at the countless overstocks of goods with great anxiety.

Just before the fall of the holy court, the king issued the temporary commodity relief act, which made the merchants rush to sell the goods to the state at a lower price in the name of relief.

As a result, now the black death is solved.

With the idea of trying to save the loss, he sold the goods to the Royal Chamber of Commerce. At this time, he wanted to spit out a mouthful of blood. What makes them even more angry is that the king's assistance to those small bankrupt chambers of commerce is to provide them with goods purchased from them at a low price.

Oh, they have to sign a series of treaties with the royal family by holding their noses before they can get the first batch of goods from the headquarters of the free chamber of Commerce.

Shameless, mean.

During this time, the principal of the southeast chamber of commerce did not know how many times he scolded the king.

However, other small chambers of Commerce accepted it well - they didn't have as much capital as the big chamber of Commerce. If the king hadn't bought their overstocked goods, they would have starved to death this winter and spring. It's not bad to accept the complete incorporation of the royal family. In any case, under the exclusion of the big chamber of Commerce, they didn't have a good life.

"That's good."

Grela, the witch, held the railing and watched the merchant ships sailing out of the harbor.

After the contact blockade, the warwicks did not rush out of the southeast - they are now part of the Royal Navy - but continued to patrol the coastline of the logrand border.

This is the king's order.

On the one hand, they want to hunt down other pirates who want to take advantage of this opportunity to kill merchant ships after lifting the blockade. After the black death, the huge business can no longer afford to be harassed by pirates. You should know that the merchant ships that have been incorporated are now the property of the king. Of course, the king will not sit back and watch the situation that pirates used to hinder the development of commercial routes.

On the other hand, they were ordered by the king to guard against any attack that might come from the other side of the abyss Strait.

"Are you ready?"

Chief officer Charles had some worry on his face.

"You Are you sure? "

As soon as grela looked back, she saw some pirates immediately shrunk their heads and pretended to be OK. She wiped the deck by wiping the deck and pulled the cable by pulling the cable She laughed a little: "you do not trust me and Jennie, Jennie will be angry."

As soon as she spoke, a guy pretending to tidy up the rope immediately tripped over the rope, and a "poop Tong" of wiping the deck fell out of the hole suddenly appeared on the deck.

Charles also gave a little smile.

As the sky began to darken, all the Warwick pirates' ghost ships, plus a hell ship, had returned from their cruises and arrived here. Charles, who needs to stay and deal with things, is standing on an ordinary clipper, watching the ghost ships from a distance.

Grela was standing on the deck with Hawkins in her black pointed bonnet.

Charles waved them goodbye.

These special ships quietly leave the harbor under the cover of night and sail to the vast sea. When they are out of sight, the storm covers the sky and the ground.

Jennie's already out on the sea.

In the storm, Hawkins opened his gold watch to confirm the direction. When they arrived at the coordinates mentioned in the king's letter, grela saw that the sea was becoming dark. In the storm, a huge whirlpool appeared on the sea not far from them.

The whirlpool was so deep, so black, thick black fog rose from inside, and the storm roared out from inside, which made people feel cold.

It seems to go straight to hell.

"Here we are."

Hawkins said he closed his watch and stood motionless on the undulating deck in the storm.

"Go, Jennie."

Said the witch.

They did not blink, even people with the ship into the vortices devouring everything.

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Hell, Blackstone.

The devil tapped on the king's door. There is no difference between day and night in hell. The devil plays the role of considerate servant and seems to enjoy it.

After getting the promise to push the door, the devil regretfully found that his majesty had got up and was reading the documents at his desk - even if the king was in hell, he still had to take care of the political affairs of the world.

"Your warship is about to arrive, but there is a little problem..." The devil said, "the dock of the castle has not yet awakened. You need to go and wake it up yourself."

The king put down his pen. He doubted that the devil told him about the ghost ship. In fact, he wanted him to wake up the castle further.

"Your Majesty?"

The devil took the cloak off his arm and looked at the king in consultation.

"Let's go."The king stood up.

When the devil came forward to put on the cloak for the king, the king seemed to ask a question casually: "since hell exists, what about the kingdom of God?"

He has thought about it for a long time.

"There has never been a kingdom of God."

After putting on the cloak for the king, the devil stepped back and gave an unexpected answer.

"At least There's no such thing as the kingdom of God as those guys call it. "

"Then, what is it?"

"The kingdom of the gods." But after dusk, everything has changed. Since then, the eternal night has been ringing, and the sky steps have been cut off What a pity. "

The kingdom of the gods?

The king subconsciously thought of other things.

The Holy See was not the spiritual master of the world from the beginning.

Taking the end of the legendary age as the demarcation line, the king can infer from the history of alchemists that, at least in the legendary age, there was more than one God for people to believe in.

The legendary age can also be called "the age of gods".

The establishment of the holy court should be in the first century AD, when the gods had gradually withdrawn from people's sight, and from that time on, the number of saints in the world began to increase. In the memory of the king, the earliest and clearest record of the power of the holy see is the history of Blaise.

217 A.D.

With the help of the angels, the former kingdom of Blaise, the kingdom of Chloe, United many states on the east coast of the abyss Strait, and established a vast Blaise kingdom with the holy see as its national religion. “…… The priests drew a cross on the chest of the hero, so the brave knights were invincible. "It was from here that the idea that the victory of the war was decided by the LORD was gradually rooted in people's minds.

This is a more objective origin of the Vatican.

A noteworthy thing

The origin and development of the Holy See has always been hidden in the fog. In the past 1000 years, the holy court has spared no effort to combine the holy book with history, which has rooted an impression in people's hearts that the omniscient and omnipotent God has opened up the world, the divine will runs through human history, and the development history of the holy court is the evolution history of human civilization.

I have to say that the Holy See has done a great job in this part. Countless theologians in the school of Confucian classics have developed theology to the extreme generation after generation, finding corresponding theological explanations for every historical event known to mankind. Finally evolved to the present situation: the belief in God runs through all aspects of people's life.

Earlier, the era of polytheism had been oblivious. All polytheism has become heresy.

The king raised his hand and pressed his forehead, feeling that he had touched some secret truth.

"What was the age of the gods like?"

He asked.

"The age of gods..." The devil looked at the king, "gods are worshipped by different names, each of which points to different attributes and different powers. Who doesn't want to hold the ultimate supreme power? It was a time of war, when wolves fought. "

"What's your name?" The king listened and suddenly asked.

"Me?"

The devil seemed stunned for a moment, but soon he replied in his usual frivolous tone.

"That's a lame name, I don't think you want to know. Your majesty. "

The king did not speak. He watched his indenter silently. He was always wearing a smiling mask and was surrounded by a black butterfly. The devil in his ice blue pupil finally gradually put away a smile, become gloomy and cold, like pulling out the sheath of the blood blade.

For a long time.

"I don't have a name." The devil said, "I lost it long ago."

The king was stunned. The voice of the devil was calm, but the king clearly felt that his words were full of blood. The moon turned, and the devil's figure disappeared in the dark. The king could not see his face clearly, but felt that he was standing there in silence, silent and full of anger.

The room suddenly became quiet.

"That's nothing." The king said lightly, "it's just a name. What do you want?"

The devil looked at him and realized that the king was not joking, so he burst out laughing.

The solidity and silence in the air were suddenly broken, and the devil regained his elegant demeanor. He bowed to the king with a smile: "please bring my name back for me when that day comes, my dear majesty."

"Good."