The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

One of the things about Phoebe that Selene is most uncertain about is her attitude towards the God of Light.

From the story of the female Pope Eleanor, it seems that it can indeed be read that "what the saints of light really believe in is themselves and the justice they can convey, rather than simply worshiping the god of light", but this does not mean that only one of them There are people who maintain a devout belief in the God of Light at the same time.

Moreover, as a saintess of light, one must master some advanced divine arts. A layman like Selene may not really believe in the god of light, but a priest in this position really has a way to survive a person who does not believe in the existence of the god of light at all. Can you easily use such a profound magic technique under such circumstances?After all, the power of faith must first be contributed to the gods before it can receive feedback from the gods.

Selene even doubted that Phoebe would come to show her favor, because she was not only the fallen Queen of Nord, but also a superficial believer in the Illuminati. Now Hussein chose to lead his country to betray the Illuminati God religion, Wilton hurried over to win Selene.

However, this possibility is indeed too small. Even if the Holy Church of Wilton is not sure that it can easily defeat the Nagrand Empire, there is no need to win over Selene. They can be counted on one hand, and the Church of Light may have guessed that Selene is far less devout than she appears.

Rather than using the Cult of Light as a guise to win over Selene and bring about a series of subsequent troubles, it is better to simply reach a temporary cooperation with the Talis Alliance. After the Nagrand Empire is eliminated, the territory that originally belonged to the Nord Kingdom Returning part of it to Selene is guaranteed to be more effective than directly coming to the door to curry favor with Selene.

The [-] soldiers of the Church of Light are called the "Legion of the Holy Light".They follow the orders of the Church of Light, especially the Holy Maiden of Light, and think that they are an army serving the gods. They fight for the God of Light when they are alive, and after they die, they go to the Kingdom of God with the Holy Maiden of Light and become residents of the Kingdom of God.

From this point alone, Selene can imagine how the Holy Church of Wilton had such a strong military strength at the beginning of its founding: in an army, the most lofty ideal of every soldier in life is "death" .

This can also explain why the Northlanders who first established the Nord Kingdom were not interested in the Light God Sect at all, because even without such beliefs, the Northlanders can still regard death in battle as a kind of glory.But the Northlanders are not for any honor after death, but to use their own death to keep their companions alive, and to use their own bones to pave a way for the living to move forward.

The Wiltons have been influenced by their surroundings since birth, and have engraved belief in the God of Light into their nature.People in the Northland do not have a "specific" religion like the Guangming God Sect, but their beliefs have also been passed down from generation to generation along with their blood. After being polished in the wind and snow for 1000 years, they still stand on the mainland without being The God of Light taught Nibble, and it was not absorbed by the Talis Alliance who also did not believe in the God of Light.No matter what Selene said, she couldn't let the history of this glorious nation and country be buried in her own hands.

The Legion of Light maintained a spine-chilling silence.They lowered their heads in neat movements, holding a weapon or a scepter in one hand, and clenched the other hand into a fist in front of their chest. They didn't look like thirty independent individuals, but more like a huge head. The monster is composed of three thousand identical but subtly different parts, as long as it moves forward, it can devour everything.

When the Legion of Light went to wipe out the remaining half-orcs, Selene was not there in person. From Hecate's report, she knew that her intuitive feeling and imagination were correct.

"Have all the nearby half-orc camps been wiped out?"

"Yes." Three thousand people in the camp answered in unison, low and full of deterrence.

"Then I don't have any tasks for you for the time being." Phoebe knocked on the scepter, obviously trying to make her voice clear to everyone through divine magic, "Please go back to God first, I have other things to do for him."

There is no doubt, and there is no need for Phoebe to explain, the Legion of the Holy Light will carry out all her orders unconditionally.Without a unified slogan, three thousand people quietly and neatly turned in the direction of the team and set off on their way home.

Selene was sure that the Holy Church's regular army would not be as terrifying as the Church's army, but it was probably worse than that.

"Her Majesty the Queen of Nord..."

"You don't need to call me so long every time." Selene shook her head, "Just call me Selene."

"Selene." Phoebe changed her words very simply, "Please allow me to accompany you to the Talis Alliance."

Selene almost laughed out loud.She felt that the blunt and almost rude way of speaking of the people in the Northland was enough for outsiders to understand. She didn't expect that there was a way of speaking in Wilton on the mainland - being polite and not giving you any room for rejection. .Phoebe is a very typical one among this group of Wiltons, just like Hecate is a very standard Northlander.

"Don't make up your own mind when we haven't made it clear that we trust you." Hearing Hecate's impatient voice, Selene knew that it was too late to stop her. When she raised her head, Hecate's Crescent Blade had already Phoebe was on Phoebe's shoulders, and at her speed, at this distance, Phoebe had no possibility of dodging, "You can either go back to your holy kingdom with the person you just left, or Prove your innocence before coming with us to the Talis League."

There are indeed a lot of "innocence" that Phoebe has to prove, not to mention Wilton's almost open hostility towards Talis, her country helped the Nagrand Empire not long ago, making King Nord Falls, leaving Selene and Hecate in exile.

Leaving aside the tension between countries, it is a miracle that two Northlanders, one from Wilton and one from Penglai, can complete a journey together without fighting.

Selene had to admit that Hecate's social methods were too rough and full of efficiency at the same time. She and Phoebe had been chatting for a whole day without getting to the point, and Hecate forced Phoebe to answer in one sentence.

"I'd be happy to prove to you that I have no malicious intentions, but unfortunately, I can't provide evidence visible to the naked eye to make you believe me." Selene was surprised that she had just discovered that Phoebe's eyes were the same as hers and Hecate's. They are all blue, not the green that is common among Wilton people. Just by looking at her eyes, she might be mistaken for a Northlander. "I'm afraid there is nothing but my sincerity to prove my innocence, Your Excellency You can judge for yourself.”

Hecate shook the blade: "I don't believe in any way of judging other people except to cut open someone's head and take a look. After all, I don't know if you are talented in acting and lying."

"Or, I can swear to my God of Light."

"No need, I believe it. If it's really a liar, the knife is on the neck, at least you have to make up a sentence or two to make us believe it." Hecate retracted the crescent blade, and his eyes stayed on Phoebe. Still paying attention to her hand holding the scepter, "I don't even have a half-sentence explanation, either I'm too stupid, or I really have a clear conscience."

Selene finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she put the knife back and didn't really fight Phoebe.

In the past, Hecate was an "item" created by magic. Because it came from the same source as divine arts, but was in two completely different systems, she could make most of the divine arts ineffective on her body.Now her strength has increased, and she is almost about to shed her human identity and enter the kingdom of gods, but she is already an independent existence, a life in the true sense, and her previous immunity to divine arts has completely failed.

To deal with ordinary priests, Hecate is still no problem, but if there is a head-on confrontation with the Holy Maiden of Light, she will understand that the magic spells she has seen before are comparable to what this person in front of her can use. It is called the difference between cloud and earth.

With Hecate underestimating the enemy and Phoebe well prepared, the outcome is really hard to tell.

As soon as she came up, she used divine magic to heal Selene. I believe it was not only to show favor, but also to let Selene know her strength.

"Hecate, don't mess with her." Taking advantage of the small chaos of rectifying the team and packing up, Selene secretly dragged Hecate to her side, and confirmed that there were no fluctuations of divine magic around, "I don't know her true identity either. What is the purpose, but you are not allowed to be impulsive."

"I won't mess with her." Hecate's answer was very light, "It's fools to mess with people they can't beat."

"...You know you can't beat her?"

"In the past, when I was very slow to the power of faith, I might think that she is an ordinary person who can play tricks like you. But now, my perception of the power of faith is better than most mortals. Yes." Hecate rarely showed a serious expression, she breathed a long sigh of relief, and moved her wrist, "I was really scared to death just now, if I really fight her, whether I can hurt her is a problem."

In fact, the contest between masters sometimes has a lot of luck factors, and it is common for one side to be unscathed and the other to die in hell, but from Hecate who has always been confident in herself, she said this judgment, she It is definitely not such a bad luck situation.

"Whether it can hurt her or not is a problem?" Selene almost squeezed out the words from the depths of her throat, "Is that an exaggeration?"

"When the divine art has reached a certain level, even the best fighters in the world can be helpless." Hecate bit his lip and admitted reluctantly, "Phoebe has reached that level."