Chapter 1242 - Temple of Holy Light
Chapter 1242: Temple of Holy Light
Ice Storm pondered for a long time.
“So, we fought all the way from Black-corner City to Red-gold City and risked all our courage, wisdom, and luck just to become two troublemakers who failed to do anything, right?”
The snow leopard warrior’s frown never lifted. “However, even if you like being a troublemaker, what good is it to me?”
“That’s why I said that our cooperation has entered a new stage and we should have a deeper understanding of each other.”
Meng Chao frankly said, “You might as well state your conditions and tell me what you want to do on the Holy Mountain. How do you want me to help you so that you are willing to be a sh*t stirrer?”
Ice Storm was not used to Meng Chao’s magnanimous style. It was like fighting a bayonet.
Nevertheless, after staring at Platinum Embrace’s ashes for a long time, she could not think of any possibility of getting what she wanted alone.
To be honest, she had risked everything to get to Picturesque Orchid Lake in an attempt to discover the Holy Mountain’s secrets.
She had intended to die in the depths of the Holy Mountain with nothing but a rotten life. At least, it would be a pleasant death.
Since that was the case, why should she stop someone who was willing to die with her?
“How much do you know about the Holy Light Temple?” Ice Storm seriously asked as she thought about it.
Meng Chao’s expression became serious too.
His eyes gradually lit up with the doomsday flames that would destroy the entire Dragon City one day in the future.
The Holy Light faction had been the Chaos faction’s mortal enemy, including the Dragon City civilization, in his previous life.
After his rebirth, Meng Chao had racked his brains for years, but he still could not find any way for Dragon City and the Holy Light faction to avoid hostility and advance hand in hand.
An Other World war was inevitable.
The Dragon City civilization could not turn hostility into amity with the Holy Light faction.
It was even more impossible for them to bow and scrape together with the Holy Light faction before their so-called gods and demons, or for the people of Earth to let the Other World’s gods and demons to decide their fate.
Since that was the case, he naturally would not ignore the information about his mortal enemy, which flashed past in the memory fragments of his previous life.
At that moment, the north of Picturesque Orchid Lake was the largest and most fertile central region in the Other World continent. It was the place known as the Land of Holy Light.
It was filled with humans, dwarfs, elves… and many other intelligent creatures.
However, the human race was also divided into different kingdoms, noble fiefdoms, knight groups, and mage territories.
However, whether it was a dignified king, a knight who was strong and determined, or a powerful existence who wielded near-miraculous power, they were all known as Nine-ring Magicians.
They were not the Land of Holy Light’s true supreme rulers, but the land was a world where divine power was supreme.
It was different from the clowns on Earth who claimed to be blessed by the gods but were just a bunch of ordinary people who pretended to be gods. They fooled all living things, and ultimately, brought about their own destruction.
The Land of Holy Light was truly protected and ruled by the gods.
The gods floating above the Land of Holy Light, who had ruled and blessed the world for hundreds of millions of years, were a ray of light.
It was neither a figure of speech nor a so-called “miracle” created by priestly clergy who used all kinds of tricks to fool the hardworking people.
It was a “light” in the literal sense.
Meng Chao had vaguely seen Holy Light in the memory fragments of his previous life on the fragmented battlefield of the apocalypse.
It was floating in the sky like clouds, mist, or some kind of gaseous creature.
But it was shining and unpredictable.
Some of it resembled auroras that often appeared near the Arctic Circle on Earth.
It was just more flexible, like a furry living creature.
Of course, it was also more dangerous.
It was said that in the Land of Holy Light, this multicolored ball of light often fell from the sky.
Those who were enveloped by the ball of light would listen to the god’s voice in a trance, learn of profound and mysterious principles, and awaken an unparalleled power.
Obviously, if they were heretics who were unpardonable and unwilling to repent, or even those who were unwilling to believe in the Holy Light, they might also be punished by the Holy Light. They could be burned alive by the light blobs or distorted into deformed and ugly monsters.
In short, before the Holy Light humans, elves, and dwarfs had their own history, the light blobs from outer space had involved themselves with these intelligent human-shaped carbon-based life forms. The light had actively participated in the creation and development of their civilization.
Over time, the human race of Holy Light naturally worshipped the light balls.
It was believed that these light balls represented the will of the gods, and above the unreachable sky, the source of all the glowing balls was a turbulent ocean of light.
That was the residence of the gods.
It was also the home of the believers.
The Holy Light Temple was the symbol of this belief.
The priests in the temple were spokespersons who were surrounded by Holy Light all day long, and they could communicate directly with the ocean of light at all times, listening to and conveying God’s will.
Therefore, even if there were less than hundreds of registered households near a remote Holy Light altar, there would still be a novice priest who had just received the Holy Light’s blessing.
It was not an existence that a seemingly awe-inspiring king and general with the loyalty of several hundred knights and mages could disobey.
Meng Chao had reincarnated as a human and obtained a large number of remnants in the ancient ruins, especially precious flashbacks from the ancient battlefield hundreds of millions of years ago.
Meng Chao now had a deeper understanding of the Holy Light.
He, who came from the great eastern country of Earth’s civilization, absolutely did not believe in the existence of gods and demons in a narrow sense.
However, there were powerful existences beyond the understanding and parameters of Earth’s technology in the 22nd century. It was certainly possible, or even inevitable, for them to present a terrifying power comparable to that of gods and demons.
After all, if there were no “gods and demons” in the Other World, it was difficult to explain how the huge Dragon City and millions of Earthlings had all passed through to the Other World intact and unharmed.
Meng Chao estimated that the so-called “Holy Light” should be some kind of weapon or relic left behind by the Ancients during the ancient war hundreds of millions of years ago.
In the mother’s memories, he had seen that during its prime, billions of ancient beasts had gathered and condensed into towering towers of flesh and blood.
The mother had tried to use these towers to break through the atmosphere and attack the orbital space station set up by the Ancients above the Other World’s atmosphere.
In the end, the mother’s plan had seemingly been destroyed by the Ancients’ orbital weapons.
However, that was only the tip of the iceberg that Meng Chao had witnessed on the ancient battlefield.
Perhaps the mother had succeeded somewhere else, or at least partially.
It had successfully destroyed the Ancient people’s orbital space station, and both the Ancients and the mother had suffered heavy losses. Gradually, the mother had retreated from the stage of history that was billions of years after this world.
As for the shattered orbital space station, the power that leaked out became the “Holy Light,” and it was worshipped by human-shaped intelligent life form that had developed from scratch.
If that was really the case, then the “Holy Light priests being able to directly communicate with the ocean of light above the starry sky” was bullsh*t.
It could be translated as “the Holy Light priests had mastered data exchange with the orbital space station debris that had been dormant for hundreds of millions of years.” They could even partially activate the orbital space station’s functional module.
‘Look deeper.
‘In my previous life, was Dragon City directly destroyed by the space-based orbital attack that the Holy Light priests summoned?’
Thinking of that, a glint flashed in Meng Chao’s eyes.
He briefly described the Holy Light Temple that he knew about to Ice Storm.
It was a rough description that everyone in Picturesque Orchid Lake knew.
“Okay, that level of understanding is enough.”
Ice Storm contemplated for a moment and continued to ask, “Then, do you know why Picturesque Orchid Lake and the Land of Holy Light have been fighting nonstop for the past 10,000 years? Why do they always want to exterminate the other party?”
Meng Chao was slightly stunned.
That question was not difficult to answer.
Since the Turan civilization was under the mandrake trees’ control, they were always caught in a vicious cycle of periodic population explosions.
In addition, the totem armors, a single soldier’s ultimate tool, brought about bloodlust. The Turan people only wanted to solve the problem of population explosions with killing. They did not change Picturesque Orchid Lake’s natural environment at all. They focused on the mandrake trees, renewed the social structure and ruling order, and built their mindset, as well as skills, for long-term construction.
They were like the nomadic civilizations of ancient Earth, attacking the central region that was rich in resources. At the same time, they plundered and eliminated their own redundant population. It was simply an instinct that was branded on the gene chain. Was there a “why” to this?
As for the Land of Holy Light, it had always faced the threat of advanced orcs over the past ten thousand years. Once it was time for a powerful civilization to emerge from the Land of Holy Light, they would try to wipe out Picturesque Orchid Lake and complete the mission in one go. That was a matter of course!
“It’s not that simple.”
Realizing that there was something Meng Chao did not know, Ice Storm heaved a sigh of relief. For some reason, a sense of pride welled up in her heart.
She quickly collected herself and coughed a few times before explaining, “In the past ten thousand years, although the advanced orcs have invaded Picturesque Orchid Lake more than a hundred times to show their so-called ‘glory.’
“However, the fanatics from the Land of Holy Light have invaded Picturesque Orchid Lake more than a dozen times, killing all living creatures in front of their eyes and destroying everything that symbolizes civilization. To be honest, the human race of Holy Light has contributed a lot to the advanced orcs becoming as barbaric as they are today!
“The war that both sides have fought with all their strength despite their heavy losses is not only because of resources or hatred, but also because of their completely different beliefs.”
“Beliefs?”
Meng Chao thought about it for a moment. “Is it because the humans believe in the Holy Light, and the advanced orcs believe in ancestral spirits?”
“The ancestral spirits are not a problem. There are also so-called ‘saints’ in the Land of Holy Light. As long as they are devout enough, they can send their souls through the Holy Light to the ocean of light. One day in the future, when the gods hear the call of the devout people, they will come to the human world again to wipe out all evil. How different can it be from the advanced orcs’ ancestral spirits?”
“The most fundamental contradiction between the two sides lies in the origin of their respective legends..”