Chapter 950 Showdown?
Chapter 950 Showdown?
"This is Lord Lyon, a prince."
As if he had not noticed the strangeness of the two priests at all, after casually introducing Leon's name and identity, "Prince Vernon" took him through a special passage and walked quickly towards the main building of the Anointed Chapel.
Although the two priests wanted to stop him, they didn't say anything after seeing the guards following behind Prince Vernon. Instead, they stamped their feet and followed, saying meaningfully:
"Your Highness! The anointing ceremony is about to begin. There are so many people in the chapel. Look..."
"I think it's pretty good."
"No... What we mean is that the Deep Sanctuary is now 'purifying' their hair in advance for the ceremony. Those whose hair color is not clean enough should stay in..."
"What do you mean by unclean?"
After hearing the two priests' nervous dissuasion, "Prince Vernon" couldn't help but pause, glanced at the two white-haired priests, and then asked expressionlessly:
"Is there anyone in the entire Lily City with completely 'clean' hair color?"
"Your Highness, that's not what we meant..."
"Then what do you mean?"
He suddenly raised his right hand and roughly pulled off the hoods of the two priests, revealing their black and white hair. Then, Prince Vernon snorted and said,
"If according to your requirements, anyone with 'impure' hair color cannot enter, then what about you two? Will the Patriarch of the Deep also be driven out of the sanctuary by you?"
"..."
"Your Highness Vernon."
When the two priests were speechless, Lyon looked thoughtfully at Prince Vernon who looked annoyed, and then calmly said:
"I don't have to go over to visit. Since the Deep Church has the requirement of 'purity of color', I can wait for you outside."
"No, just come with me."
"It's better not to do that."
After blinking unconsciously, Leon stared at the "Prince Vernon" in front of him and said without blinking:
"You don't have to make an exception for me. Aren't rules the most important thing in your Kingdom of Calvin?"
"Haha, you don't have to worry about that."
Prince Vernon smiled upon hearing this, then walked forward and replied:
"The church's rules are set by themselves and are only valid for believers who are willing to follow them. They are not laws officially recognized by the kingdom. Their only power is to expel those who are unwilling to follow the rules... Are you going to drive me away?"
"..."
"Since they didn't say anything, they won't chase us away."
After glancing at the two priests who didn't know what to say, "Prince Vernon" completely ignored them and continued to pull Leon towards the Anointed Chapel in the center, introducing enthusiastically as they walked:
"Mr. Lyon, this anointed chapel is one of the few buildings in Lily City that is a color other than pure white... Look here!"
Taking Leon to the side a little bit and standing under the spire on the left side of the main entrance of the chapel, "Prince Vernon" rubbed the joints of the white stone with his hand, revealing large pieces of gold foil embedded horizontally in it.
"These gold foils embedded in the seams of white sandstone, in addition to symbolizing the rapprochement of divinity with the earthly world, have also been polished into a very smooth mirror surface. At noon, they can refract the sunlight back and hit the flat roof directly above the chapel, reflecting an image of the Mother of No Light." After raising his hand perfunctorily and pointing at the slowly disappearing image on the flat roof of the chapel, Prince Vernon took the initiative to step into the chapel, pointing to the colorful windows high up and continued to introduce:
"As for the rose windows at the top of the chapel, they are made of cobalt blue, gilded, and pearl white glass, stacked and cast like rose petals. When it rains heavily, a small amount of rainwater will accumulate inside the glass, condensing the core scriptures of the Deep Church and the Luminous Church."
"There are also flying buttresses corresponding to each other under the windows. The relief carvings under the columns of these flying buttresses record the scene of our ancestors of the Kingdom of Calvin, relying on the support of certain "friendly forces", establishing the two Kingdoms of Calvin, East and West, on both sides of the Calvin River... You should know about this, right?"
Hmm? You're not going to pretend anymore?
Seeing Prince Vernon suddenly change his aura, turn around and ask him questions directly, Leon could only sigh and stop hanging illusions around him, ready to blind his perception at any time.
In addition to this, even the actions of secretly invading Prince Vernon's heart lake, placing marks around his soul that would lead him directly to the realm of death, and preparing to launch a sneak attack with the Crimson Heart, were all paused.
"I think I know a little bit."
Secretly commanding the sheep offal to place the [Crimson Heart] in the mirror world, and immediately activate it if there is any abnormality, and directly drain all the blood from "Prince Vernon", Leon said calmly:
“Back then, the two ancestors of your East and West Kalevin Kingdoms, with the wish to watch over the entire human race, became the palace masters of the Watch Palace together.
The Cleanup Bureau also followed their promise and their wishes, helping their descendants gather nearby city-states and settlements, and establishing a kingdom on each side of the Calvin River... but now there is only one left."
"It's not that there's only one left, but that both are gone."
After correcting Leon's statement, "Prince Vernon" tilted his head slightly, avoiding the [Pseudo-Illusion] power that was trying to erode his hearing, and said coldly:
"The brave and just country that our ancestors hoped for did exist for several hundred years, but it gradually became rotten and eventually festered, slowly becoming what it is today."
"Oh……"
After looking at his ears regretfully, Leon blinked and asked:
"So what? What do you want to do? Cut out the rotten flesh from your mouth?"
"There's no point in just cutting out the rotten flesh."
After shaking his head to deny Leon's statement, "Prince Vernon" said with a scorching gaze:
"If there is one thing I have learned while trying to change all this... it is that everything related to humans, if it exists for too long, will slowly rot!"
"so what?"
Leon raised his eyebrows in surprise when he heard this.
"Humans have their limits? You don't want to be a human anymore?"
"???"
No…How did you come to this conclusion?
Leon's unconventional thoughts made Prince Vernon, who had just raised his momentum and then lost it, hold his temper for a while, and then he could only pretend that he didn't hear it, and continued to speak with a stern face:
“This is true for the Thirteen Kingdoms, and it is also true for the Cleanup Bureau that created the Thirteen Kingdoms!
They should have quietly gone to extinction when they were rotten beyond repair, but they relied on their own strength to escape all this and forcibly saved their already rotten bodies... This is wrong!"
(End of this chapter)