Magic Tower Starry Sky

Consider this the capital of an empire. If you want to gather believers with a high enough status, the number must be large enough. Of course, the temple's grandeur cannot be lost to other churches. At such times, the church is not fighting for miracles, but for face. At least those mortals who think they are big men don't want to walk into a poor, dilapidated place and prostrate themselves on the ground before a god's idol.

There are enough believers with high enough status, the more wealth the church can amass. The stronger the financial resources, the more luxurious the temple can naturally be arranged. This is like a spiral that develops towards both ends, making the rich richer and the poor poorer, and it is difficult to turn back.

Those churches with insufficient financial resources and insufficient beliefs naturally cannot compete with those large churches. The shrines of these small churches are usually built on sporadic small open spaces between large churches.

Although there is no feng shui theory in Midi, the architectural complex still pays attention to symmetry or a certain shape. For example, a regular pentagon, or a regular hexagon. Especially the gods of the lawful camp, regard symmetry and coordination as a kind of beauty. Then the connection between the temple group of the big church and other temple groups of the big church, of course, cannot be perfectly connected without any gaps.

If it is not necessary, they will not do this, no matter how tense the land is. Just like in the secular world, the territories of big countries rarely directly border each other, and there will always be some small countries in the middle as buffer areas. The territory between the gods is similar. These sporadic small spaces that were not occupied by the big churches became the footholds of the small churches in the temple area of ​​the Nineveh Royal City Church.

Most of the shrines of these small churches have one hall and one courtyard. The halls are divided into two entrances. In terms of construction, of course, it is impossible to be as gorgeous and grand as the main halls of those big churches.

The temple of the small church, in addition to the style of the **** itself influenced by the origin race, also reflects the ingenuity and taste of the priests. The so-called style of the former may be changed by the latter.

Of course, there are also some gods who don't pay much attention to the appearance of the temple, and they are not little-known minor gods. For example, the famous God of Beggars, he is one of the most widely distributed gods in the temple, and he is not lost at all to another widespread belief, the Church of the Three Holy Lights.

Most importantly, the temple of this **** only needs a shack and a few haystacks. Construction is too easy, and on the other hand, it is also because of the large number of believers and they are spread all over the place.

In fact, the God of Beggars was not the God of Beggars at first. The concept he really represents is actually 'penance', which is the source of all ascetic monks in Lost Land. But because that image is too close to beggars, it simply became the object of beggars praying for enough food today, and later became the common belief of beggars.

However, those real ascetic monks hidden in the church of beggars exist troubles that no one wants to cause. It doesn't matter how tough you are, to use the words of someone from my hometown, you are not afraid of wet shoes if you are barefoot. For those who have a little wealth, they simply can't play the game of ascetic monks who have the consciousness of breaking everything, and they are not even afraid of self-harm.

So even if beggars are despised by most people, the **** of beggars and his church still stand firm. Bullying beggars, these people who live at the bottom of the society, is considered a daily petty evil for those with bad personalities, but no one will offend them to death. Because they didn't know if the bully was an ascetic monk who abided by the precepts.

Ascetics will endure all sufferings, which does not mean that they will accept death peacefully. When they rebelled, there were no moral constraints or rules such as not hurting innocent people, or harming family members. At least kindness is not among the precepts and requirements of the ascetic monks. If they were classified by one of the nine well-known camps, they should belong to the chaotic neutral group.

As for the temple of the gold coin goddess Ke Yin, of course it is impossible to solve it with a shack like the **** of beggars. Anyway, it is also the subordinate **** of the Lord of Wealth, representing the **** of money. Even if there is no way to compare with those rich and powerful churches, the temple in front of you can still see the ambition of the past priests to make it magnificent.

But it's a pity that the people who built all this at the beginning didn't seem to have considered the difficulty of maintenance later. And later generations seem to either carelessly take care of it, or be powerless.

The outer wall of the temple, which is full of sculptures, is now covered with various vines, and even small animals can be seen boarding on it. It was supposed to be an open courtyard for believers to take a nap, but it was overgrown with grass and miscellaneous trees. Even in inconspicuous places, you can still see discarded objects piled up and left to rot. At the end of summer, in the afternoon of autumn, of course, mosquitoes are flying around, which is very annoying.

Walking into the temple, the mottled gold-plated statue exposed the mud tire underneath. The windows made of colored glaze have long been filthy. Under the light, they should have shown colorful and dazzling rays of light, but now there are only dim colors left. The altar where the candles were supposed to be lit and the offerings were placed, there are only lonely candlesticks and wax tears that have not been cleaned up.

If there are some cobwebs, dust, and rags swaying in the wind, someone will think that he has come to a deserted temple in the forest of his hometown. Like Lanruo Temple and the like. However, it was kept fairly clean and was not left to be abandoned.

Looking at the mottled spots on the statue, someone wanted to identify whether the missing gold leaf was scraped off and exchanged for money? It means that there are really gods in this world, and doing this kind of thing will offend those existences. Or is it that this one is so generous that he is willing to sacrifice for his devout believers, even if he scrapes off the gold leaf from his statue.

When a certain person was thinking, a panicked voice came from the side, saying, "You... who are you? What are you going to do?"

"The Point Guard Is Here"

Hmm, weird question. Do we look threatening? Otherwise, how could it scare people like this.

Lin looked around. The aristocratic young man who peed his pants, what is he doing with him?

A pseudonym wearing a big red phoenix robe? Well, it's pretty normal, regardless of his gender and pretentious words.

But a demon with a big beautiful woman in scantily clad clothes, which is related to the word 'fornication', can be listed as a member of the sin, or at least be labeled as a disrespectful act of disrespect to the gods.

As for himself, although black robes are quite conspicuous in the temple area dominated by white robes, they are not so rare that they can be directly equated with sin.

Looking back, someone suddenly understood the crux of the other party's fear. The wheels of the wagon that passed through the previous slaughterhouse were covered with blood and mud. Not only was a small half of the spokes stained red, it even left clear blood-red wheel marks on the street.

The two horses driving the chariot were specially selected tall draft horses, one of which was the thick mane on the parts above the horse's hooves called the pasterns and metacarpals. Now, the coat color that should have been the same as that of the horse's back and tail was covered with scarlet blood.

The same is true for the horses of the guard knights of the house of Muhashabezi. The hooves of each horse are covered with red ink pad, like a stamp, leaving conspicuous traces on the road.

In short, this car has eight riders, no matter the people who see it think that they have stepped on the red soil, so they leave such marks, or they just came from a massacre, the messy red marks on the ground will really scare people. It hurt a lot of people. If they knew the fact was the latter, they would probably close the gate of the temple and dare not come out.

At this moment, Lin looked at the priests who stayed in the temple of the Nineveh imperial city and served the goddess of gold coins. These people did respond to Ephron's previous evaluation, the old ones, the young ones.

The elder priests are afraid to be over seventy years old. In Midi, an environment where nutrition and medicine are outdated, and the natural ecology is fierce, it is really not easy to live to this age. In addition, the gods they serve are not known for their physical vitality, so these old priests look very old. It won't surprise anyone to lie directly in the coffin in the next second.

As for the younger ones, they are probably the same as the children taken in by the family. The oldest one is probably no more than eight years old. There are also a few that have to be held by people. These children wore somewhat yellowed white robes, but they did not leave the temple like those old priests, questioning someone with fear. The children hid in the temple, all of them cats under the window sills, peeking at them from time to time.

The only exception is also the source of the panicked voice that just spoke, that is a girl in her teens. She stood in front of the old priests, wearing a chest armor, plus wrist guards and leggings, which was the only protection she had. And holding the long sword that she could not easily lift, she held it horizontally with difficulty, aiming at this group of unexpected visitors.

Thinking that he was the only one who looked normal among the crowd present, Lin took a few steps forward and jokingly said: "I remember that no matter which **** it is~www.wuxiamtl.com~ one of the commandments of the Templars is not Use Kaifeng's weapon. Little girl, I am the magician Gabrash Tripwood. Excuse me, what identity do you use to talk to me?"

Templars generally refer to warriors appointed by the gods, not a force group unique to a certain god. However, because they are recognized by the gods, the status of the Templars is usually equivalent to that of priests, and they are qualified to represent the gods to declare their will in the mortal world.

However, as long as there are no special circumstances, those who are recognized by the gods have their precepts and oaths that must be obeyed. What Lin said about 'do not use frontal weapons' is one of the commandments of most gods. The original meaning is the warrior of the gods, and its purpose is to spread faith, not to spread death. So they can take up arms to protect the church and believers, but they are not allowed to kill by will.

When Lin asked this question, he also wanted to know who the person in front of him was. If it had nothing to do with the Church of the Goddess of Gold Coins, he might as well go directly to those old priests, instead of wasting time on an insignificant little girl.

I had a conversation with the woman who was the emperor's personal guard before, and the unreasonable attitude of the other party had already worn away a little patience of someone. He wasn't sure he was in the mood for a second unreasonable person, male or female.

"I..." The girl hesitated. But then, as if she had made up her mind, she said firmly, "I am His Majesty Keyne's trainee templar, and my name is Lucrecia."

"Lucrecia, um, what?" Lin asked the other party's last name.

The girl replied, "No, just Lucrezia."

"Hehe, it's really special. There is no surname, but there is a noble name." Lin bowed and said, "Your Excellency, Apprentice Templar, I have come to pray to His Majesty Ke Yin. Of course, it is the most important thing to be able to see him once." Good. Could you please convey it."