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According to White's introduction, Ryan had a general understanding of Poseidon Temple and the Saint Candidates.

The Poseidon Temple is the only legal religion recognized by the Kingdom of Arad. It believes in the Poseidon Lugia and the three gods of Flame Bird, Frozen Bird and Lightning Bird.

Under the influence of the Poseidon Temple's propaganda, most people in the Arad Kingdom believed in the Poseidon Lugia, and even members of the royal family were loyal believers in Lugia.

According to common sense, a religion with such great influence will also become very powerful, just like the church in the Western Middle Ages.

But this is not the case. Although the belief in Poseidon is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the power of Poseidon is severely suppressed by the royal family.

The reason is very simple. The God that the church believed in in the previous life was false and would not appear. Therefore, the church could make up oracles at will and expand its power in the name of God.

The sea god Lugia is real and has high wisdom. He knows that there is a group of humans on the ground who worship him and has established a religion for him.

But Lugia doesn't care about humans' belief in it. It saves humans just out of kindness.

In Lugia's view, all humans on the ground are equal. It will not only communicate with a certain group of people just because they believe in it, nor will it convey any oracles to them.

Poseidon Temple expanded its power very quickly at first, and even became equal to the royal family. However, after a long time, the royal family discovered that Lugia did not care about Poseidon Temple very much.

At most, he communicated with them a few times from time to time for the sake of their long efforts to hold the ceremony, but it was limited to communication. Lugia ignored all the unreasonable requests made by Poseidon.

After discovering this, the royal family members straightened their backs instantly. It turned out that Poseidon Temple was pretending to be powerful. What is the use of light energy to communicate with Lugia? They can also communicate, even those rescued by Lugia If the civilians are lucky, they can chat with Lugia.

Since Lugia will not favor Poseidon Temple, then they have to settle the accounts with Poseidon Temple.

The strength of the royal family is far greater than that of Poseidon. In the past, they were afraid of Lugia, so they repeatedly tolerated Poseidon. Now after learning the truth, they immediately launched a counterattack against Poseidon.

Naturally, Poseidon Temple could not compete with the powerful royal family, and the power in its hands was quickly taken away by the royal family. If it were not concerned about Lugia's mood and Poseidon Temple's influence among civilians, the royal family might have uprooted Poseidon Temple.

After this blow, Poseidon Temple's vitality was severely damaged, but they also learned their lesson. They first expressed their surrender to the king secretly, and then openly used the name of Poseidon to promote the king's power.

In short, it is a sentence. From now on, our Poseidon God is willing to go through fire and water for the royal family for generations to come, without hesitation!

The royal family was very satisfied with the attitude of Poseidon, so they did not suppress them too much. For Lugia's sake, they established Poseidon as the state religion and allowed them to continue to promote Poseidon's faith.

As everyone knows, Poseidon Temple has never given up the idea of ​​seizing power. They are just hiding their capabilities and biding their time, waiting for the opportunity.

With the decline of the Kingdom of Arad, the royal family's dominance has greatly declined. The kingdom is extremely unstable, with frequent wars between territories. Coupled with the intrusion of the Kingdom of Frem in the north, the royal family has no time to take care of itself and has relaxed its control over the Poseidon Temple.

This was the opportunity that Poseidon was waiting for. They took the opportunity to seize part of the power, established three major knights, and had their own armed forces. After these years of development, their power has been greatly improved.

Although they will still be suppressed by the royal family, the situation is much better than before. They no longer obey the royal family's orders in everything, but gradually transform into cooperating with each other.

Therefore, the current Poseidon Temple can be said to be a force that no one dares to ignore in the Kingdom of Arad.

And among this powerful force, the status of the saint candidate is still very high.

The division of powers in Poseidon is similar to that of the church in the previous life. From top to bottom, the power positions are the pope, blue-coated bishop, archbishop, bishop, priest and ordinary monks and nuns.

Although the Son and Saint are not in the authority system and do not have clearly defined powers, their status is very high, second only to the Pope, and the blue-clothed bishop must bow when he sees them.

And they only have no power on the surface, but in fact they can command people below the Blue Bishop, and can even mobilize the three major knights of Poseidon Temple.

Generally speaking, the three major knights only obey the orders of the Pope. Even the blue-shirted bishops have to obtain a papal edict before they can mobilize them. This shows the high status and power of the Son and the Saint.

The reason why the Son and the Saint have such a high power status is because they not only bear the important task of communicating with the sea god Lugia, but they are also candidates for the next pope.

They are in a position of "below one person and above ten thousand people" in Poseidon Temple, and their status is extremely noble.

Because of this, Poseidon Temple is also extremely strict in the selection of saints and saints.

Poseidon Temple is divided into two major dioceses, north and south. The northern diocese selects saints, and the southern diocese selects saints.

Take the selection of saints as an example. Poseidon Temple will first select hundreds of nuns with pure beliefs, then go through layers of screening, and finally select three candidate saints.

They will let the three saint candidates choose the branch temple where they want to live and undergo a one-year assessment. After the assessment, the bishop in blue will evaluate the assessment results and select the one with the highest merit among the three. It is then left to the Pope to decide.

If the Pope thinks there is no problem, then this person will be the new saint.

The entire selection process seems to be very open and transparent, but in fact it is the result of the overt and covert fighting among various factions within the Poseidon Temple. No one really thinks that just any nun can counterattack and become a saint.

Every saint candidate who can be selected from the candidates has the support of a faction behind her.

For example, Aisha had the support of the Archbishop of the Southeast Region behind her. Not only that, she also received the attention of a blue-clothed bishop, and then she was elected as a candidate for the saint.

Of course, there will definitely be factional support behind the other two saint candidates.

However, no matter how powerful the power behind them is, it still depends on the results of the assessment, so the choice of settling in the branch hall becomes extremely important. After all, it is related to whether they can become true saints in the future.

And this saint candidate named Aisha chose Yinghuo Town despite so many big cities. She definitely had an ulterior motive.

"It seems that we are being treated as soft persimmons!"

Ryan lowered his head and thought for a while, and he already guessed what the purpose of Aisha and others was. From the beginning of the establishment of Poseidon Temple, they wanted to turn the Kingdom of Arad into their theocracy. This concept still affects them to this day. .

But there are still very few territories that they can fully control now. If Elsa can add a new territory to Poseidon Temple, her achievement will be great.

"What you mean is hateful! Then how should we deal with these Poseidon Temple bastards?"

White's IQ was not low, and he quickly guessed the purpose of Aisha and others, his eyes filled with anger.

"Be patient for now. It's fine if we see through it but don't tell it. We can't conflict with them yet, and they don't dare to blatantly ignore me. Otherwise, if the news gets out, all the nobles will not let them go."

"Let's go and meet them first. Don't keep the 'guests' waiting."

Ryan got up and walked to the reception room.

When he arrived at the reception room, he immediately saw Aisha who was sleeping with her eyes closed. After hearing the sound of the door being opened, Aisha also opened her eyes and looked at Ryan.

"This person."

An idea came to their minds at the same time.

"You're pretty good-looking/handsome!"