I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Obviously, the Wicker Man is not yet able to crush the faith energy of the five battle nuns.

The following battle was very simple. The Wicker Man's attacks were restricted by the natural restraint of the energy attribute. The baby's sharp and piercing cry inspired the Wicker Man's desperate offensive, but he could not change this, and was finally forcibly dispersed by Fanny.

Having temporarily lost its shelter, the baby returned to normal size. Holding Fanny in her arms and comforting her gently, the baby slowly stopped crying. After all, it was just a child.

Taiya looked up the books stored in the confinement room and found out the origin of this thing.

The child's family had been convicted of heresy by the church and his mother had been convicted of being a witch. Before the execution, the inquisitor snatched the baby from her arms.

The mother cried and begged the judge not to let her child watch her being burned at the stake, and the baby was taken away by church members.

People watched the burning and loudly cursed the woman as a witch and a pagan.

The child watched all this from a distance and kept crying, and the church members covered his eyes with a cloth. The blindfold was soon soaked with tears, and then two lines of blood and tears slowly flowed out from under the cloth.

When people were lighting the firewood pile, the woman prayed that someone would be kind enough to weave a doll of her body shape out of willow branches after her death to accompany the baby and ease the child's longing for her.

This was done after she was burned, and when the distressed child was placed in the arms of a wicker dummy, the motherless child immediately stopped crying.

Soon there were rumors that the wicker man had come to life and would gently rock the sleeping baby in his arms like a mother. Later he disappeared and it turned out that he was secretly taken in by the church.

"Danger level D, temporarily contain it and wait for further processing."

Such a monster that can be obviously restrained by the Holy Light is not very dangerous. As long as there is no problem within the church and it escapes, it is almost no threat.

After Taya finished speaking, the other women had no intention of objecting. Unless they used Sok's evil blade to liberate the opponent to the other side of the dream, the miracle could not be defeated. As long as there was a breath left, it could recover as before. They could only kill the opponent completely.

But most of the miracles caused by the church's actions were caused by the victims' great injustice and grief, and they would not want to kill these poor people if possible.

Anyway, as long as the source is resolved, these miraculous products that are the manifestation of distorted desires will disappear.

After defeating the Skeleton Archbishop, there were no more obstacles in front of Sok. He continued to ascend to the roof of the monastery through the elevator. Outside the roof, a wooden throne standing in the wind and snow appeared in front of Sok.

[They don't understand that God's grace is not in the pile of old papers or in dark dreams. God's grace can only be found in purity. Everything we see and touch in daily life can be God's grace. I must realize the true beauty from the brightness and restore the truth from the curve...]

[What is the use of the vestments? What is the meaning of gold? Only the pure silver that is carved can obtain the gift of miracles. Silver should not be seen on the outside of the body, it should not be worn outside the body, it should be stored in the body, and be one with the flesh. ]

[Silver holiness will envelop my lungs, and when I breathe, miracles will penetrate me with purity. Silver holiness will envelop my stomach, and when I eat, miracles will nourish me with purity. Silver holiness will adorn my eyes, and when I open them, I will see miracles!]

——Dovers

Sitting on it is a skeleton wearing the vestments of a church deacon, holding in its hands a holy relic of a silver mask, and within the skeleton one can see his internal organs shining silver.

There was no emotion in Sok's eyes beneath the mask. He was wearing a mask on his face, and his goal was to break the church's hypocritical masks one by one and expose the bloody crimes hidden beneath the masks.

As one of the three deacons and bishops whose power was second only to the Holy King at the pinnacle of the church, Dovers dominated the Inquisition, the core power of the church, and used it to try heretics on the continent, confiscating silver from their homes to create the silver miracle he had always dreamed of.

All of this was his poor imitation of the divine will. He didn't even have time to wait for the confessor to arrive and accept the verdict. He died alone in the biting cold wind, like a ridiculous monkey.

The existence of his so-called silver virtue and the entire church can be described in one sentence.

"The horse is reading a holy book, the monkey is pretending to be a bishop, and a group of people are worshiping reptiles."

The divine words rang in Sok's ears:

[I saw everything from the top of the dead tree. Miraculously, it was in this dead tree that I was reincarnated.]

[I burn from the inside out, my smoke is a fog that covers everything]

[I woke up from the silver-ash that was once my cradle, and miracles called me. 】

At that time, a large number of churches that believed in the Holy God were born on the continent. Their management of believers was very broad, and everyone had the freedom to choose their beliefs.

However, when the first miracle occurred, the Holy King and the Church saw an opportunity, an opportunity that would allow them to establish their religious group as the only authentic one.

After a devout young man with firm faith in the church prayed, a miracle happened for the first time on the continent of Gustodia. His body merged with the wooden staff, and his limbs turned into roots that twisted and grew along the upright wooden staff.

Although his body was in extreme pain, there was no trace of pain in his expression.

As the roots continued to grow, they became increasingly thicker and pulled, squeezed, and wrapped around the young man's trunk, eventually merging into one and turning into a dead tree with three spirally twisted roots. Hot golden oil seeped out of the dead tree, and based on the three words "I am guilty" that he left behind before his death, the tree was named the Three-Character Knot.

With this miracle, the church formally established the doctrine that miracles can be made to happen through suffering. The belief in miracles through suffering was completely contrary to the divine will.

According to legend, before the young man completely turned into a tree, the Holy King cut a wound on his head and collected his blood. The blood and the gold-cast container became a holy object, the Holy Grail.

Upon learning that such a miracle had occurred in the church, the people of Gustodia came to watch and worship. In the face of the real miracle, some people began to turn their faith from the Holy God to the seemingly more practical incarnation of miracles, the Distorted Holy Father.

In a church near Albero, there is a believer who believes in painful miracles. She uses a twisted statue of the Holy Father carved from thorns to hit her chest day and night to confess her sins, longing for punishment for the sins in her heart.

After an unknown amount of time, the statue really turned into a sword with thorns of sin that pierced the woman's chest, and then she turned into a statue. This was the second miracle, and the church named it Mother of All Mothers, and built the largest church in the history of Gustodia, the Mother of All Mothers Cathedral.

The church worships the three-word knot that distorts the Holy Father, and from then on the church was renamed the Church of the Holy Mother.

During the same period, new miracles were born, such as Our Lady of Scorched Earth, but they were not members of sects like the Mother of All Mothers and the Twisted Father, so they were rightly labeled heretics and tried.

In fact, during this period, the Holy God did not only repay the sincere penitents, and not only these two miracles occurred during this period.

It just so happened that both the Twisted Father and the Mother of All Mothers had a strong desire to atone for their sins and punish themselves, and Holy Allah responded to their desires.

The same is true for Our Lady Jiao Rong. Her beautiful face brought her endless troubles and fears, so she didn't want that face of hers, which led to such a tragic end.

In any case, many miracle workers have proved that suffering can bring about miracles, so ordinary people who want to change their own destiny have begun to follow suit, accusing themselves of sins, and allowing themselves to suffer and commit self-mutilation.

There is only one Twisted Father, but there are thousands of imitators who hang themselves upside down on sticks.

The believers of other religions began to abandon their original worship of the illusory holy God and instead began to believe in the visible and tangible distorted Holy Father and the Mother of All Mothers.

The ignorance of the majority of the people and their blind enthusiasm for painful miracles ignited the ambition of the Holy King. He hoped to integrate other churches through the belief in miracles and become the true ruler of this continent by relying on the unity of divine power.

The belief in Allah has no bias. No matter which church it is, as long as it believes in Allah, it is legal. However, painful miracles have bias.

Our own painful miracle is a miracle, and any other miracle is a curse, which directly cuts off other churches' right to interpret the painful miracle.

After the church wiped out other sects that believed in the Holy God, the sects that believed in the Holy God had to go underground, while those that believed in the distorted Holy Father and the Holy Mother became the mainstream on the mainland.

As power and believers disappear in large numbers, even the divine will without personal consciousness can feel the loss of its own power. This is a process of replacement of master and servant.

As long as time is long enough, the distorted Father who possesses the embodiment of real miracles will sooner or later replace the divine will.

Sensing the deadly threat, the divine will brought down divine punishment. A strange disease similar to leprosy began to gradually spread across the continent of Gustodia. The rest of the story is as recorded in the history of the continent.

In the end, the Holy King absorbed the opinions of the self-preservation faction and built the forbidden door to completely isolate the church from the outside world and ensure the safety of the lives of the top leaders of his own church. At the same time, he killed the believers who came to ask for treatment in order to completely eradicate the hidden dangers of the spread of the plague.

This was naturally a huge blow to the reputation of the Holy King Pope and the Church itself. At the same time, the Holy King also realized that someone within the Church wanted to assassinate him.

He sat in the holy hall, pondering how to defend his throne, and his reluctance to let these mortals inherit the throne of Pope after his death. He let it drink the distorted holy blood of the Father in the Holy Grail, and under the stimulation of strong desire and the influence of the holy blood, a miracle happened.

His body quickly turned into a tree trunk that grew wildly, becoming a thousand-meter-high towering tree in the holy hall, and pushing his throne high into the sky, so that no one could touch his throne and threaten his kingship.

But some priests and believers lit it with torches. As the tree burned, the entire Gustodia continent was shrouded in dark clouds, and the wind could be heard with the roar of giants like wild beasts.

The ash from the raging fire covered the entire continent of Gustodia.

Strong winds, plague, ashes, and the cries of the people who were sanctioned to be sacrificed accompanied the burning of the burning tree for 90 days. This was the ultimate judgment of the divine will on his betrayal, and it also brought a catastrophe to the entire Gustodia.

And on the day when the flames were completely extinguished, the time of Gustodia was eternally locked in the twilight, never to see the sunset or sunrise again.

After a long period of evolution, the first Twisted Saint, who was worshipped by the most people on the continent, already possessed abilities similar to divine will.

The Holy King, whose everything was burned in the fire, also completely broke free from the shackles of the divine will. The cup of the holy blood of the Twisted Father gave it the ultimate status upgrade, and it became the miracle son of the Twisted Father walking on the earth.

The battle between Sok and the Holy King is the concrete manifestation of the collision between two wills.

Walking into the central holy hall of the church, the first thing you see is a huge glittering statue. It is the golden statue of Holy King Escribba, the source of sin on the continent.

In a trance, Sok entered into an illusory dream.

[In my dream, I heard your footsteps getting closer and closer. In my dream, I tried to talk to you and introduce myself.]

[Guardian of miracles, guardian of the miracle flag, I carry the emblem of the Holy Father in great pain. I am the cracked and bloody hands of the Holy Father, and I am the kind eyes of the Holy Mother.]

A giant of unknown height appeared in front of Sok. He had five red arms. The giant wore a silver crown, a silver mask, and silver armor. He looked mighty and magnificent.

Beneath this exquisite silver armor, which could not be made by any mortal craftsman in the world, is the Holy King's red skin and black blood that were burned by fire.

[But I know nothing about you, except your cold, nameless face. Except your calloused, scarred hands, except mourning your death.]

[No, I know nothing about you, only miracles know you. Now, may your sinful sword collide with my golden sword.]

[I will curse your name forever. I will bless your death forever.]

Chapter 460 Cutting off the Miracle

While Sok was fighting the Holy King, Taiya and others from the lower level came to the church's sacrificial hall. The center of the hall was naturally the church's core belief, the cradle of painful miracles, and the giant tree that the twisted Holy Father had transformed into.

Looking at the three-character knot with hot golden oil flowing continuously between the tree trunks, the young Mina suddenly had an idea and blurted out: "Shouldn't these flowing liquids represent the weeping of the Twisted Father?"

'According to the records in the classics, it didn't produce these at the beginning. It was many, many years later when it completely became a twisted tree that these liquids flowed out. So why didn't anyone think it was crying? '

"what?"

"Because of what he said, I am guilty..."

The girls looked at Mina with wide eyes and a curious look on her face, and were a little stumped by her question, because no one had ever thought about this question. Taya replied to Mina according to what was written in the classics.

Mina shook her head reluctantly: "How great a sin would it take for him to endure such twisted pain for eternity... I can't understand it."

Even the poorest monks in the Seris Alliance, who measure the land of the alliance with their feet and eat only one meal a day as beggars, seek the great wish of bearing the sins of the world, and they do not have the saying that they have to do so for every life.

The ascetics are the solid foundation of the folk belief in the Goddess. They measure every inch of the alliance's land with their feet. They are the official group that goes deepest into the grassroots. They refuse material rewards only to train their minds and prove the truth from the heart. They have extremely high prestige both among the people and within the church.

The most important point is that this is something you can do or not, and it’s all voluntary, because having the intention is enough.

The Holy King, wearing black sacrificial robes and holding a golden sword, appeared in front of Soke in the form of an ordinary human. The two of them started attacking without any unnecessary nonsense.

The Holy King was proficient in four kinds of miracle magic: fire, thunder, poison, and arcane. He also had a silver holy armor with abnormal defensive power. As soon as the two men fought, the Holy King's rich combat experience forced Sok into danger.

Although the Sword of Thorns can absorb sins and restrain miracles, various negative states greatly weaken Sok's reaction ability.

The incredibly fast lightning and large-scale flames, as well as the deadly poison hidden in the dark and the flexible and changeable arcane magic, were all perfectly combined by the Holy King to bring out their full power.

However, as Sok was suppressed, the Holy Light energy hidden in his body began to take over his subcutaneous biological tissue, quickly strengthening his resistance to abnormal negative effects.

After the negative state no longer took effect, Soke was no longer restricted and the situation suddenly turned around.

You have to know that Soke has undergone two full-range body transformations, and his physical fitness has nothing to do with that of ordinary people. With a height of more than two meters, beating an old man who is less than 7 meters is like a grandfather beating his grandson.

As time went on, the holy light energy in Soke's body became more and more abundant, and his ability to suppress the Holy King's magic became stronger and stronger. Soke managed to get close to the Holy King while withstanding the attacks of thunder and fire magic, and the situation suddenly became one-sided.

'Ding ding ding...'

‘Clang! ’

A series of powerful chops knocked the golden sword in the Saint King's hand away. Sok stepped forward, grabbed the silver helmet with his big hands, lifted the whole person up, and threw him violently to the ground.

'Boom! '