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Chapter 465 The Pilgrimage Road (plus two in one)

As the legend of "Book of Mechanics" intensified in the kingdom, the dwarves and giants respected Heris even more. When people ask for gods, their beliefs are often unquestionable and even fall into fanaticism , what the religious groups saw along the road were all overcrowded artisan temples.

"Book of Mechanics" once again awakened the dwarves' respect for Heris, and the weight of the Lord was gradually reduced. Impatient, but the elderly believers didn't take it seriously.

But no matter what, the situation did not change because of the thoughts of the religious group. Fewer people converted along the way, and the money of the religious group naturally decreased. Seeing this, the priest of the religious group went to ask the old believers.

"How much longer can we go?"

The old believer replied:

"At most four or five more cities."

When the priest of the religious order heard this, he knew that without money, it was absolutely impossible to rely on faith alone, so he thought about using the remaining money to leave the dwarf kingdom and lead the crowd to a high mountain pilgrimage.

The idea of ​​the priests of the order spread like wildfire. Although the true believers want to go on a pilgrimage, they want to continue preaching, especially those true believers who have just joined the group. They regard the difficulties in front of them as God's test. It is a cowardly act to face it directly, not to run away from it.

Disagreements arose within the regiment. Those young and energetic true believers were eager to accomplish a great cause and sway their enthusiasm on the road of evangelism. They regarded pilgrimage as a high-sounding escape. Their beliefs were fanatical and they had enough will to endure The hunger and cold that followed.

In that atmosphere, Wildo was also encouraged. He stood on the side of the fanatical true believers. Under the miscellaneous eyes, I will have more opportunities to steal money, but if I go on a pilgrimage, I will face many difficulties.

The old believers scoffed at the fanaticism of the young true believers.

Wildo was very puzzled.

"We are young and have enough will to go hungry and cold. We have never been afraid of the difficulties ahead. On the contrary, we knew from the beginning that the road was not bright.

Why not continue preaching, and it is not too late to go on a pilgrimage after you have traveled through a city or two. "

Wildo tried his best to persuade the old believers as a godson. In this sect, only the old believers are second only to the priests of the sect.

"I used to be as crazy as you guys.

I can see why you are crazy.

When you first converted, you thought you had mastered the truth. With enthusiasm, you thought that no matter how difficult it is, you are not afraid. You are too arrogant. If you are given a chance, you will regard yourself as a prophet. "

The old believer sneered coldly, his words made Wildo blush,

"But what about after the frenzy?
The faster a stone heats up, the faster it cools.When you don't get the feedback you deserve for a long time, you don't get the conversion of others, and you don't get the grace of God, you will be disappointed, confused like pigs, and even give up your faith in the end, where did you come from, where do you go back? go. "

Wildo listened to the thorny teachings in the words of the old believer, and he asked angrily:
"So what do you say we should do?"

The old believer said lightly:

"Just do what you want, let nature take its course."

Wildo asked again:

"It's good to let nature take its course. If there is no fanaticism, how can there be faith? If you don't preach over and over again, how can you remind yourself of your belief in God?"

After Wildo finished speaking, he became smug, thinking that this old believer should be speechless.

"Preaching over and over again?
Remind yourself of your faith in God? "

The old believer looked at him and asked:
"Don't you make faith your life?

Do you have to remind yourself every day to eat and sleep? "

Wildo froze for a moment, and became speechless for an instant.

Just listen to the old believers dismissively teach:
"Should we dwarves remind ourselves every day that we are dwarves, not humans?

Not a word because it's not worth mentioning

Don't be crazy, but make it your life. "

After that, the priest of the order overcame all opinions and made the entire order embark on a pilgrimage.

A very small number of true believers could not accept it, so they left the order and went to preach by themselves, while most of the true believers obeyed the order and followed the entire order to the homeland of the elves.

Wildo was quite dissatisfied, but others were light-hearted and had no choice but to accept this arrangement.

They began to leave the dwarven kingdom of Karlrond slowly, getting closer to the border of the kingdom every day.

Wildo is a person who is very good at spiritual victory. Although he was dissatisfied with embarking on the pilgrimage, he thought that he would not have to see those steam hydraulic forging machines and other machines in the "Book of Mechanics". Can't help but rejoice.

These things finally don't have to irritate my eyes anymore.

God, I am willing to be a wanderer all my life, as long as you let this kingdom, especially the Wood and Stone Clan, suffer a catastrophe.

Veldor cursed the Wood and Stone Clan almost every day.

As the church continued to approach the border of the kingdom, Wildo gradually realized that the pilgrimage was not as simple and easy as they imagined.

Due to the promotion of steam hydraulic forging machines, craftsmen in major cities gradually began to lose their original jobs. They could not accept the new machines, and they were unwilling to engage in those low-level industries. Many dwarf clans directly became bandits and began to block the way. The black job of robbery.

Dwarves are a race full of skilled craftsmen.

To what extent are skilled craftsmen, to the extent that even robbers can wear armor.

The order experienced two robberies along the way.

When the dozens of dwarves in black and shiny armor approached, the religious group did not offer any resistance, and the young people were very afraid, while the older believers directly bargained.

Since the attitude of the religious group was very good, there was not much resistance, and the robbers they encountered in those two encounters were more trustworthy, so they passed smoothly.

But by the third time, things were very different.

This time the bandits were extremely vicious. They claimed to be from the Liangtong clan. They took away most of the sect's money with extreme greed, and even wounded people. If the sect hadn't resisted desperately in the end, I'm afraid it would have ended badly.

Wildo was in great pain. The money he regarded as something in his pocket was taken away so easily. These true believers have become poor ghosts and have nothing to steal.

And the entire religious group also fell into a depressed atmosphere.

Even so, the pilgrimage must continue.

The religious group settled down in a nearby city. They asked the priests of the Artisan Temple to help them. At the same time, the true believers did various short-term jobs in exchange for money, such as presiding over funerals, celebrating people's birthdays, and singing hymns...

Wildo originally planned to take advantage of this to leave, but after thinking about it, he thought: It's too bad to leave like this.

So he still stayed and cursed the group of robbers who robbed every day.

The religious group stayed in that city for nearly a month and a half, relying on frugality, and finally saved enough money to embark on the pilgrimage again.

I don't know if it was because of the God's answer to Wildo's curse. It was a coincidence that the religious group encountered the robbers of the Liangtong clan again.

They found the bandits in an abandoned mine, which seemed to have undergone a catastrophe.

The Liangtong clan, which used to be fierce and rampant, now can only live in the abandoned mine. They saw that the dead and wounded of those robbers were exposed in the sun, and there was no one to clean up the vultures.

It is obvious that this group of robbers should have had a huge conflict with another group of robbers.

When the group of robbers saw the members of the sect, their faces were pale and they were extremely panicked. They wanted to fight against trapped beasts, but now the Liangtong clan is no longer able to fight, and has been reduced to a fish to be slaughtered. It has to be sighed Things are different.

Wildo couldn't help congratulating in his heart, and many young believers in the religious group couldn't help but feel happy at the sight of evil with evil.

The down-and-out robbers were wailing, unexpectedly, the gods did not let them go, and wanted them to swallow the bitter fruit they had been suffering all along and meet their own death.

But to the surprise of almost everyone, the priests and old believers of the church did not make trouble. They found the leader of the bandit and took back the stolen money from the latter who was seriously injured and dying. The entire order set about burying the robber's body.

Under their leadership, the true believers drove away the vultures of the bad guys' corpses, dug one grave after another, and buried the dead robbers in them. They recited scriptures while burying them, and after compacting the soil, they Say one sentence: "May you redeem your sins soon, and may the Lord forgive your soul."

The scene in front of him deeply shocked those robbers who were once vicious.

They were ready for spitting, cursing, revenge, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, this is the truth they pursue, but at this moment, they got what they didn't deserve.

They never thought that their dead companions would have a funeral.

Although the funeral was simple and simple, those true believers still buried the dead with heart and comforted the dead souls.

When the night was about to fall, the religious group left from the abandoned mine. The true believers did not stay, and the robbers did not stop. It was as if this incident had never happened, as if the two parallel lines had never intersected from beginning to end.

Wildo couldn't understand.

In his eyes, the religious group should not only get back their own money, but also drive out this group of people.

This is what the robbers deserved, not a funeral.

"What the hell are we doing?
Bury them?They deserve to be eaten by vultures! "

Wildo asked sullenly.

The old believer casually said,

"Just let them be eaten by vultures? Don't you want to kill them all?"

Wildo froze for a moment, he didn't expect his godfather to see through his mind.

But the dwarf quickly reacted, and said in a deep voice:

"That's how it should be, that's how it should be!"

The old believer glanced at him and said:

"That's not our business."

Wildo asked back:

"Then what is our business? To bury them? To unleash our impotent goodness?
We are true believers, we should judge their crimes for God! "

Hearing this, the old believer stared at Wildo coldly.

Wildo shuddered.

"Judgment for God?
No, no one is qualified to judge for God. "

The old believer said word by word,

"Punishment is God, and so is reward. We don't judge good and evil, we only testify."

Wildo felt a little fear for some reason, he seemed to see himself in those robbers.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth…

When he was a wanderer, Wildo lived such a life.

Therefore, he couldn't understand why the church wanted to bury the dead.

The old believer simply asked him:
"When will even that little kindness be criticized?"

"We didn't pay anything, we just did what we had to do.

After their death, God's judgment awaits, and so does ours.Heaven and hell, where the world will go, God has revealed. "

The old believer paused and chanted scriptures:

"'God is just and merciful, and for this reason he judges our deeds not in life but after death.'"

"God has redeemed us, he has treated us that way, and we have redeemed others that way, because that is what pleases God."

"Wildo,

Our world is not an eye for an eye,

Our God does not fight fire with fire. "

Wildo trembled at this moment, and he froze in place.

And the eyes of the old believer stared straight at him, as if piercing his soul.

"Wildo,"

"If you can't help a person when he is most helpless, how can it be called salvation?"

(End of this chapter)