Although the existence of this astral plane that Lawrence and the others openly control is a good and bad thing.
The good thing is that from the perspective of future development, making this public can reflect the power of the new church in the future and gather more believers.
At the same time, under this situation, Lawrence and the others can openly conduct material exchanges between the two planes and promote the development of the two planes, especially the astral plane.
You know, in the past, in order to remain secret, Lawrence and Nora had to do various preparations whether they were replenishing supplies for the astral plane or taking out special products from the astral plane.
This has also resulted in not only very slow material exchanges, but also strict control over the volume of transactions. This has greatly slowed down the development of the astral plane.
However, there are also disadvantages to the star plane being exposed now. To take the simplest example, after this plane is exposed, those who want to attack Nora and the others are likely to target this plane.
But neither Lawrence nor Nora had the energy to consider this issue now. Because at this time, the ceremony had come to an end and all their attention had been drawn to it.
As the burning of the divine fire slowly stabilized, the regular runes that had been attracted into the divine fire flew out of the range of the divine fire one by one and dissipated between heaven and earth.
But not all the rule runes disappeared. Lawrence saw that one large rune and several small runes still remained within the scope of the flames.
The runes left in the flames began to draw power bit by bit from the flames of the surrounding divine fire, and then began to slowly transform from their original illusory state.
I saw these runes begin to roll and change in the flames, and then began to slowly melt under the catalysis of the divine fire, and then condensed together and transformed into some kind of crystal.
"This should be about forming a priesthood." Lawrence looked at the situation in front of him and muttered in his heart, while his eyes were fixed on the situation in the divine fire.
You must know that the ascension ceremony is very important for the specific existence of this ceremony. It is basically impossible for anyone to be willing to open their core divine fire to others.
Because the information contained in this kind of divine fire is too core for the owner of the divine fire, if it is known to outsiders, it may cause a fatal threat. Only the relationship between Lawrence and Nora can allow him to see this.
In this ceremony, the divine fire and the indescribable changes within the divine fire are very valuable to every extraordinary person. As long as the observer is willing to observe, the observer's future path to extraordinary will naturally be smoother.
However, just as the entire ascension ceremony entered the final moment, Lawrence suddenly discovered that the runes at the core of the divine fire did not solidify together as planned, but were still trembling and had no tendency to crystallize.
"What's going on?" Lawrence immediately became nervous after seeing this scene that was completely different from the normal situation. However, in order to avoid disturbing the little doll, he could only silently pray for Nora at this time.
At this time, the little doll obviously also discovered that the core priesthood could not be solidified, so he stimulated his own divine fire as soon as he discovered it, hoping to use stronger power to promote the formation of this priesthood.
For a moment, Lawrence could feel that the power contained in the golden flame was much stronger. At the same time, the entire divine fire came to life completely, forming threads one after another to wrap around the rune.
However, in this case, the power of the runes and Nola's power still formed a stalemate, and did not condense into a priestly crystal as they expected.
"Yes, that's right, it should be like this, I'm too greedy -" After many attempts, the little puppet suddenly thought of something and shook his head.
"——Obviously, even if you ignite the divine fire and embark on the path of the gods, you still need to pay for something in order to gain something. If this is the case——"
"Calm down, Nora." After hearing what the little doll said, Lawrence finally broke the silence and persuaded. "Compared with pursuing power, your safety is the most important."
"Of course I know this, my brother." The little puppet chuckled first, and then said.
"But the difference between taking a step forward and taking a step back is really too big now, so I don't think I can take a step back now. More importantly, I can afford the price."
After saying that, the little puppet reached out to his left eye and took it out. Then he held the eyeball in front of his hand with both hands, kissed it and then put the eye with green pupils in his hand.
It turned into a ball of green light.
Then, she held the ball of green light the size of a ping pong ball in both hands and pressed it toward her chest.
This green light immediately passed through the body of the little doll and entered her body, and then flew directly into the golden divine fire burning in the heart.
And when this green-light-emitting ball of light entered the divine fire, those golden flames immediately gave way to the core rune of rules.
In an instant, the green light that turned into the left eye of the little doll was sucked in by the largest rule rune.
After absorbing this ball of light, the rule runes representing the priesthood that had been struggling before suddenly became quiet like some kind of well-fed beast, and then began to slowly solidify under the calcining of the surrounding divine fire.
Finally, after a golden light flashed, one large and several small golden rhombus crystals floated quietly in the divine fire.
"How are you now?" After confirming that the entire process was over, Lawrence immediately asked the little doll that fell back to the cave floor.
"It feels very good, my brother." The little doll Nora closed her eyes and felt it for a few seconds before smiling. "Really, I feel like I have unprecedented power now."
"Don't worry about it for now, Nora." Seeing the calm expression on the little doll's face, Lawrence immediately interrupted her.
"What I'm concerned about right now is how your left eye is doing. If I saw it right just now, you seem to have taken out your eye."
"Yes, as you saw before, I lost my left eye, and it is permanent." Nora smiled and opened her eyes. At this time, her eyes looked exactly the same as before.
However, Lawrence, who had a soul connection with the doll, could clearly feel that her left eye was just a sphere at this time, instead of being part of the doll's body like before.
"Can't this be restored?" Although there was some omen in his heart, Lawrence still asked with some luck in his heart.
"I hope it can, but it doesn't actually work." The little doll shrugged in a very humane manner and said, "Now that my left eye has been conceptually erased, even the gods cannot restore it."
"Actually, this is just like the Nordic god Odin in your original world. I exchanged one of my own eyes for powerful power."
"Of course, I will never need to take the initiative to hurt my eyes as a cleric in the future." At this point, Nora seemed to have thought of something and warned Lawrence seriously.
"I know that some clergy like to imitate their own gods, but I definitely don't want my clergy to imitate me, because this kind of behavior of actively harming oneself is really too stupid."
"You are right, but the arrangement of this matter may be later because we have countless tasks to do now." Lawrence shrugged helplessly and said.
"A few days ago, I looked at the lists given to me by several friendly churches, and found that we are currently very poorly prepared for what we need to do after the ascension ceremony is successful."