my pokemon player

Chapter 68
According to White's introduction, Ryan had a general understanding of Poseidon Temple and the Saint Candidates.

The Sea God Temple is the only legal religion recognized by the Kingdom of Arad. It believes in the god of the sea, Rogia, and the three major gods of the flame bird, the freezing bird and the lightning bird.

Under the influence of the Sea God Temple's propaganda, most people in the Kingdom of Arad believed in Rogia, the sea god, and even members of the royal family were loyal believers of Rogia.

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 the Sea God is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the power of the Sea God Temple has been 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 he would not show up. Therefore, the church can fabricate oracles at will to 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 Rogia doesn't care about human's belief in it, it saves human beings only 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 members of the royal family instantly straightened their backs. It turns out that the Sea God Temple is pretending to be a tiger. What is the use of light energy to communicate with Rogia? They can also communicate, even the one who was rescued by Rogia If the civilians are lucky, they can have a chat with Rogia.

Since Rogia will not favor the Sea God Temple, they will have to settle the accounts with the Sea God 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 attack, the Sea God's Hall was seriously injured, but they also learned to behave. First, they secretly expressed their surrender to the king, and then publicly used the name of Sea God to promote the kingship.

In short, it is just a sentence, from now on, our Sea God Hall is willing to go through fire and water for the royal family for generations, and we will do whatever it takes!

The royal family was very satisfied with the attitude of the Poseidon Temple, so they did not suppress them too much. They also established the Poseidon Temple as the state religion for Lugia's face, allowing them to continue to promote the belief of the Poseidon.

Little did they know that the Sea God Palace had never given up on the idea of ​​seizing power, they were just keeping a low profile and biding their time.

With the decline of the Kingdom of Arad, the ruling power of the royal family declined greatly. The kingdom was extremely unstable, and wars occurred frequently between territories. Coupled with the intrusion of the Northern Kingdom of Frem, the royal family was overwhelmed and relaxed its control over the Sea God 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 orders of the royal family in everything, but gradually change to cooperate with each other.

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

And in this powerful force, the status of the saintess candidate is still very high.

The division of powers of the Sea God Temple is similar to that of the church in the previous life. The positions of power from top to bottom are the pope, bishop in blue, archbishop, bishop, priest and ordinary monks and nuns.

Although the saints and saints are not in the authority system and have no clearly defined powers, their status is very high, second only to the Pope, and the blue-clothed bishops have to salute when they see them.

Moreover, they only have no power on the surface, but in fact they can command personnel below the blue-clothed bishop, and even mobilize the three major knight orders of the Sea God 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 Holy Son and the Holy Daughter have such a high position of power is that they not only undertake the important task of communicating with the sea god Rogia, but also are 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, the Sea God Temple is extremely strict in the selection of the Holy Son and the Holy Daughter.

The Sea God Temple is divided into two dioceses, the north and the south. The northern diocese selects the Son, and the southern diocese selects the saint.

Take the selection of the saintess as an example, the Sea God Temple will first select hundreds of nuns with pure faith, and then go through layers of screening, and finally select three candidates for the saintess.

They will let the three saintess candidates choose the branch hall they want to settle in, and conduct a one-year assessment. After the assessment is over, the bishop in blue will evaluate the assessment results and select the one with the highest merit from the three. Then it's up 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 seemed to be very open and transparent, but it was actually the result of open and secret struggles among various factions within the Sea God Temple. No one really thought that a random nun could counterattack all the way and become a saint.

Every saintess candidate who can be selected from among the candidates has the support of a faction behind him.

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 must be factional support behind the other two saintess 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 instead of choosing so many big cities.

"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 is. From the beginning of the establishment of the Sea God Temple, they wanted to turn the Kingdom of Arad into their Theocracy. This concept still affects them until now. .

But there are still very few territories that they can fully control. If Aisha can add a new territory to the Sea God Temple, then her contribution will be great.

"You mean hateful! Then how should we deal with these bastards from the Sea God Temple?"

White's IQ is not low, and he quickly guessed the purpose of Aisha and others, his eyes were full of 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, go meet them first, don't keep the 'guests' waiting."

Ryan got up and walked to the reception room.

When he got to the reception room, he saw Aisha who was sleeping with her eyes closed, and Aisha also opened her eyes and looked at Ryan when she heard the door opening.

"This man."

An idea popped up in their hearts at the same time.

"He's pretty good-looking/handsome!"

(End of this chapter)