Chapter 39 Situation
Rhine City, Holy Flame Cathedral.
This is a complex of Gothic buildings. The top of the church is a sculpture of a burning torch, hence the name.
Rhine City is the most important diocese of the Church of the Lord of Fire in the north of the Kingdom of Farouk, and the person in charge of church affairs is Cardinal Flanders McLean.
Flanders was speaking in the conference room at the moment, with bishops from nearby dioceses sitting on both sides of him.
His tone was rather heavy: "When the stars return to their positions, R'lyeh will rise from the bottom of the sea, and the Old Ones will return to the world. Although I am reluctant to admit it, the words of the cultist do describe a fact."
"163 years ago, the red moon reappeared. Along with the activity of the spiritual plane of the world, a thick gray fog began to spread in the center of the Endless Sea. Even with the scorching sun in the sky, visibility was still low. When night fell, the thick fog penetrated every pore and kept spreading outward."
"The Pope has sent a message that the Aegean Sea is also beginning to be filled with gray fog. It is winter now and the wind is blowing southward. Otherwise, the gray fog of the Bud Moon will spread to the northern continent. However, our situation is not optimistic either. We only have less than half a year to prepare."
"The situation has become extremely serious. The Sanctuary Project has officially been launched."
"We need to notify every church before the gray fog spreads completely. Bishops, do you have any other questions?"
Seeing that no one asked questions, Flanders waved his hand and said, "Everyone, go back and prepare. May the Lord of Fire be with us."
"May the Lord of Fire be with us."
When all the bishops left, Flanders looked tired.
The more you know, the more you understand what kind of monster you are facing now.
The church's secret books record the true situation of the previous era.
Those Old Ones are evil gods that spread fear and madness. The most famous among them is Cthulhu who resides in the city of R'lyeh.
Evil gods spread fear in dreams and distort people's souls. The more spiritually sensitive creatures are, the more they can sense that madness.
Now, I only experience those evil dreams on red moon nights, but when the gray fog completely permeates the world, I will have to face that kind of despair every day.
After the evil gods fully revived, mortals would fall into madness and be transformed into evil followers just by seeing their true forms. Extraordinary people could not be exposed to the gray fog.
The Bible records that the evil gods were defeated and sealed by the gods, but in fact many of them are beautified, and only a small part of them were sealed.
After the red moon left, the spiritual concentration in the world dropped. Such an environment reduced the activity of the evil gods' bodies, and they would fall into a deep sleep like frogs in the winter.
They were not defeated, they just found a place to sleep.
R'lyeh is the largest city built by the Old Ones, and there are also some small evil god cities in other parts of the world.
As the concentration of spirituality in the world continues to grow, these cities will all reappear on earth, and unspeakable fear will completely descend.
If the various churches had not worked together to develop a method to combat the gray fog after the arrival of the red moon, this time, humans would probably have to hide in various shelters, trembling in fear and praying in despair, just like in the last era.
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Andes Mountains, Sunset Peak.
This is the second highest peak in the mountain range, located on the westernmost side of the mountain group. Further west is a thousand-foot-high cliff.
If someone looks down from above, they will find that the snow on the mountain peaks is gradually melting, revealing a fortress built of green boulders.
The buildings here are all strange and bizarre, completely inconsistent with human aesthetics, and the spatial structure and size they display make people feel strongly disgusted.
There was a howling cold wind in the fortress, but once you entered a certain range of the fortress, the strong wind became gentle like a tamed wild horse.
As the sun reached its zenith, wisps of gray mist rose from the tallest building in the fortress.
Riding on the gentle wind, the gray fog flew out of the castle.
The wind grew stronger and stronger, the gray fog became thinner and thinner, and finally dissipated completely in the air, leaving no trace.
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Crown sat on the chair with his eyes closed. His consciousness came to that magical space, which he named the Sea of Consciousness.
In the conical bottle on top of the hourglass, the sand of time has accumulated half its volume.
In the crystal ball, the silver moon dew was almost overflowing, and the golden sunfire liquid had also accumulated by one third. These were the materials for making the Heart Purifying Talisman and the Golden Light Talisman.
After his consciousness returned to his body, Clown thought that he should also put the making of the talisman on the agenda.
If the Sun Fire Liquid and Moon Dew overflow, visualization will not produce new materials, and they will be wasted.
The talisman paper for Taoist talismans needs to be specially made. Wash the eggshell with distilled water, then dry it and grind it into powder.
Take the clean white part of the straw and grind it into powder.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Use egg white to mix the eggshell powder and straw powder together, put it into the prepared mold, apply it about one millimeter thick, then close the mold and press it with a heavy object for three days.
After the talisman paper is made, it needs to be dried in the sun and moonlight respectively.
The talisman paper dried in the sun is used to make golden talismans, while the talisman paper dried in the moonlight is used to make clear mind talismans.
Since he had been working hard to improve his proficiency in the Golden Light Mantra and had no need for Taoist talismans, he had not wasted time making them.
Now the crystal ball in his sea of consciousness was overflowing with moon dew, and he had to make some Taoist talismans.
The materials for talisman paper are very common, and he quickly prepared everything and made a piece of talisman paper about one square meter.
After making the talisman, Clown rushed to the church.
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In the church, there is a new guest in Nick's room.
"Old friend, the church you are in charge of is a bit simple," a pastor with fair skin and gentle eyes looked at the layout of the room and shook his head slightly.
"Hamfa, even in the most difficult places, we must uphold the glory of the Lord of Fire."
"Come on, old friend, there's no need to use such official language with me. We have known each other since we were selected as apprentices of exorcist priests. I don't know you yet."
Nick glanced out the window and shook his head. "I've been an exorcist for seven or eight years, and a church priest for almost four years. When I first came to this dilapidated little place, I was of course reluctant."
"But now, I am already thirty years old and have let it go. The bishop has his own plans and has been unable to assign me an assistant. So I will train myself. It is better to rely on myself than on others."
Hamfa stared at the strands of white hair on his old friend's forehead and at his determined eyes, and a sense of unfairness flashed through his heart.
When my old friend graduated, he was one of the best performing exorcist priests in his class, but he was assigned to the place with the worst conditions, and there was a delay in sending out Crusaders as assistants. He must have had a difficult time over the years.
"What's that look in your eyes? Pity?" Nick laughed. "You have the identity and promotion materials I applied for Clown, right?"
"Yes," Hamfa nodded. "Did you start training this young man as soon as you arrived here? It must have cost you a lot of effort and money, right?"
(End of this chapter)