Russell thought for a moment and decided to tell Paradise Bird immediately what the church was doing.
Including the nature of how angels can be "juiced", and the sales situation of "Source of Holy Order" in the dream world... The situation has changed, and it may be too late to wait for the right time.
"...How could this be possible!"
After hearing Russell's explanation, Paradise Bird's eyes suddenly widened, almost furious, and her voice became sharp because of this: "What right do they have to betray angels?!
“Without the angels, the church would have ceased to exist!
"These angels have long been able to control the entire church. They chose to trust the church and the pope, so they voluntarily were frozen and sealed. But now..."
For Paradise Birds, this is almost a collapse of the worldview.
Although under the influence of her father, she did not have much trust in the church, she had much more sympathy for angels than ordinary church personnel.
Her anger was not based on disappointment with the church, but on empathy and indignation toward angels.
After all, this child's heart is too pure.
Although he was born in Xiacheng District, he was not polluted by Xiacheng District at all. Paradise Bird still carries goodwill and trust in others in his heart...
This kind of character can indeed make her from a poor background recognized by the church, but it also makes it easier for her to be taken advantage of.
Russell was not worried that she would also be arrested...
As a living saint who does not use a halo and can obtain the power of angel-level Holy Orders by relying solely on her pure will, her value is obviously much higher than that of ordinary angels.
After all, the Bird of Paradise belongs to the "angel template that has not yet appeared".
After she grows up, she can copy a lot of new angels with her memory alone. Even if the church high -level only regards the angels as a tool, the paradise bird also has at least the value of the assembly line.
Even with the wisdom of elves, they should be able to tell the difference.
What he was worried about was that the Paradise Bird, who had no idea what was going on, would be used as a gun.
The church is not monolithic either.
Although based on the way to obtain the power of Holy Orders, the essence of the church must be good...
But the birth of "angels" itself was a loophole taken by the church. Although it was to defeat the mage, if the church was truly pure and flawless, angels would never have been born from the very beginning.
The so-called mechanical angels are false artificial saints.
By modifying other people's memories and adjusting other people's wills to deceive the world...deceitfully obtain the power of the Holy Order that would otherwise be unobtainable or not as strong. For this purpose, they even do not hesitate to leave the remains of dead saints.
and relics, analyze their memories, copy their subconscious, and build a system of "divine descending devices".
Since they can do such a thing, it means that the church is by no means pure and flawless.
As early as that time, they had already proven that... as long as it was for the sake of victory, they could do it without hesitation, even if it meant desecrating the bones of generations of saints and rewriting the spirits and memories of innocent people.
And these created angels themselves are naturally innocent and holy. Regardless of whether their consciousness is false or not, implanted later in life, but since the power of the Holy Order they can use is much stronger than that of the bishops of the church,
This shows that the "god" of the church recognizes them better than those mortal bishops.
But after the war, the angels did not have any power at all, but were collectively sealed away.
"From that moment on, I knew... the church might be better than the company, but it wouldn't be much better.
"Isn't it hard to understand that the church now sells these 'artificial saints' for other interests? Fundamentally speaking, what they did in the past and now is actually the same thing."
Russell sighed: "When you went to visit, you should have someone accompanying you, right?"
"Yes... there are four or five of them."
"You didn't meet anyone else on the road, right?"
"……Yes."
"This means that the church headquarters must have known that you were coming. How could they have such a coincidence that just at the moment you went out, you saw that the room opposite was empty?"
Russell patted Paradise Bird on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't think too much, you are just being used.
"Because your own value is too high... you won't get into trouble easily. And naturally there are struggles within the church. One faction wants to use you to cause trouble for the other faction. This is normal.
"I think that these acts of selling angels should be carried out by one of the factions. This is a very simple reason... If the church leaders unanimously pass this resolution, then the production and sale of angels should be able to form a complete assembly line, then it will not
A deficit may occur.
"But other forces within the church are obviously not happy to see the resurrection of angels. So although they do not support it, they do not directly oppose it in substance, but regard it as a handle.
"And you use this handle to leverage their fulcrum."
"Why is this..."
The bird of paradise could only murmur and repeat this sentence.
Although he planned to tell Russell some secrets, he didn't expect that he was shocked by Russell.
"I have also considered whether I should tell you this kind of thing. You are a good boy and not good at acting... Once you know too much, you will easily reveal flaws in your words and deeds. It is difficult to hide it from those old turtles.
.
"But the same thing...if you know too little and can easily be used by others to do something you don't want to do. If the two powers are harmful to each other, I still decide to tell you all this."
Russell put his arm around Paradise Bird's shoulders and whispered in her ear: "Let's take a walk afterward... Wait until you feel calmer before going back. At this stage, it's best not to let Wuming and the others know too much...
...After all, as far as I know, the church holds the control terminal that exerts influence on each halo. Once the angels make any obvious act of betrayal, it will easily alert the church and disarm all the angels.
"By the way, what did you want to say to me before? What's the second thing?"
"...Wait a minute, let me think carefully, Mr. Barber. My mind is a little confused..."
The Paradise Bird murmured with his eyes closed.
She paused for a while and then explained in a low voice: "I feel that I may not have fully understood this before... After you told me this secret, I seem to understand a little bit more...
"The news I originally wanted to tell you is that the church already knows that you are a mage. They plan to continue to send angels to the Special Execution Department to put pressure on you. On the other hand... they also hope that I can contact you.
The remaining forces in the city conveyed the church's wishes to 'reach some kind of deal with the Godfather'.
"I originally thought this was a trap. Because I didn't think the church could reach any real 'deal' with the mage. It just wanted to trick you out and kill you. Because they knew that I was born in Xiacheng District, and I was from Xiacheng District.
I have contacted and even fought with some organizations. They are just using me to convey false goodwill to you.
"But now...I can't tell the difference..."
The Paradise Bird finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned around and lay in Russell's arms, whimpering in a low voice, and let out a mournful cry like a lake: "I don't know, what should I do... What on earth are they going to do... What is the end of what I was pursuing before?
What is..."
Russell sighed softly, rocked his body back and forth as if coaxing a child, and patted the paradise bird on its back.