At the same time, Howard was still alone in the secret room under the Cathedral of Light, sitting cross-legged in the corner of the secret room, quietly flipping through the "Bible of Light" in his hand.
The book in hand is shabby, and every page is crumpled, like dead branches and leaves in autumn; even though it has been repaired many times, it still gives people a feeling that it may fall apart at any time.
So much so that Howard didn't dare to turn the book too fast. He only dared to carefully pick up the footer and make sure that the page had not fallen off before he dared to turn it over slowly.
After all, its history is longer than everyone Howard knows.
And the years recorded in it are also older than Howard currently knows.
It was like a dying old man, lying on the hospital bed, clearing away the fog for Howard and telling him the truth of history.
Howard clearly remembers that the first paragraph of the widely circulated "Light Canon" is as follows:
"At the beginning of the birth of the world, everything was shrouded in darkness and despair.
"God said, let there be light.
"Thus, the sun and moon were born, and the stars shined.
"The world has ushered in its first dawn."
Obviously, this sentence shows the power of the goddess of light, and also reflects the incompatibility between light and darkness.
However, in the original version of "The Book of Light" that Howard has, the first paragraph is completely different from it.
I saw it said:
"The nature of the world is chaos.
"It starts from the origin of distortion and is destined to return to disorder.
“God creates order out of chaos and creates law out of nothingness.
"Since then there has been light and darkness, dawn and dusk."
After reading this passage, Howard was stunned for a moment, feeling like his mind was in a trance.
Before that, after a brief conversation with Merlins, Howard knew that the "Light Canon" that is widely circulated in this plane today is not the original "Light Canon", but has been revised countless times by later generations.
version.
It's just that Howard never expected that the difference between the two versions would be so big, that even the descriptions of the origin of the world were different.
Although they are all binary oppositions of light and dark.
But one is an incompatible and hostile relationship, and the other is a mutually reinforcing and symbiotic relationship.
If this original version of the "Light Canon" is true, it naturally means that what the Light Doctrine has done in recent years, such as treating the God of Darkness as an "evil god", treating the Dark Temple as an "evil pagan", and treating darkness
The extermination of believers is essentially against the original purpose of the "Light Canon".
Once such things are spread, they will undoubtedly become an indelible stain on the Light Church and shake the foundation of the Light Church.
Perhaps for this reason, this shabby book has always been kept in the hands of the Pope. Under normal circumstances, only the Pope has the authority to read it.
But Howard couldn't understand why the Pope was willing to lend him this booklet.
And he agreed so readily?
I personally sent Yaconelga to the stake, but as an insider, the Pope still trusted me so much?
Isn't he afraid that I will leak the secret?
The more Howard thought about it, the more headache he got.
The reason why he was willing to leave the Braden Kingdom and come to the Papal Territory was that he hoped to use his own power to bring some changes to this decadent Church of Light.
But before he could actually make any move, he was involved in the whirlpool. First, it was the strange attitude of the angel Raphael, and then the secrets recorded in the "Light Canon".
Howard has never been interested in calculations and struggles between people, and he is not good at it.
He only felt that if Allen were here, he would be able to easily figure out the clues and know what medicine the Pope was selling in his gourd.
Thinking of this, Howard sighed silently, silently turning back a page of the booklet in his hand, while thinking from the bottom of his heart about the simple and happy days when he was learning magic in the Mage Tower.
Unconsciously, he vaguely remembered something.
Some memories that did not belong to him appeared faintly in the depths of his mind...
…………
Today is a day that shocks the whole world.
With the support of the Church of Light, the Kingdom of Ferrand officially declared war on the Kingdom of Braden on the grounds of "crushing the blasphemers".
The king of the Kingdom of Ferrand gave a public speech, listing dozens of treasonous acts committed by the Kingdom of Braden, from Queen Margaret to thousands of its subjects, including the long-term harboring of the heretics of the Dark Temple, including the abolition of church taxes.
The "ungodly" actions include various recent reforms in the Braden Kingdom that violate the spirit of thrift and asceticism in the "Light Canon", etc.
Only the shocking trial against Archbishop Yaconelga was not mentioned.
The reason is also very simple. When Allen initially accused Archbishop Nelga, every piece of evidence was genuine, and the reasons used were also the seven deadly sins in the "Canon of Light".
In the end, it was the current Cardinal Howard of the Church of Light who made the final decision and sent Archbishop Nerga to the stake with the "hammer of judgment" that symbolized justice.
It can be said that Archbishop Nerga deserves it, and can even be said to be the humiliation of the Church of Light.
Because of this, in recent times, in the Kingdom of Braden, secular power has been able to defeat the religious power step by step and truly take control of this rapidly changing and rapidly developing country.
But the Church of Light has troubles that it cannot tell.
Therefore, they could only give full play to their association skills and forcibly gathered dozens of charges against the Braden Kingdom. For people who do not understand the details, it seems quite reasonable at first glance.
The lineup of the Ferrand Kingdom's army is as gorgeous as the rhetoric of this speech.
Ironclad ships, cannons, heavy armored cavalry regiments, magician teams... and most importantly, the Holy Knights of the Church of Light who came from the Pope to participate in this war.
Every soldier of the Holy Knights possesses the divine power bestowed by the Goddess of Light, giving them combat abilities far beyond those of ordinary people;
At the same time, the Holy Knights also have many priests accompanying the army, who master the magic of healing and restoration.
Therefore, no matter where this army goes, its morale is high.
Many, many years ago, it was this powerful order of knights that traveled across the entire plane and brought many planes under the glory of the goddess.
At this moment, all the troops were gathered on the coastline of the Kingdom of Ferrand, ready to cross the narrow strait and fire at the infidels of the Kingdom of Braden.
…………
But Allen, who was still in Payne's plane, had no idea about this.
He was thinking hard about what kind of system should be established to maintain the authority of the Dark Temple.
Even after he leaves, the Dark Temple will remain standing.