Chapter 235 Your Church is Fake

captain:"."

fries:"."

Beatrice's heart was pounding. She knew it was risky, but she didn't care.

What happened to Castel became a thorn in her side. She was even distracted by it and didn't have time to save the Queen. This made her want to get information about Castel even more.

It was just a momentary curiosity, but gradually she found that she had invested too much in Castel, which made it even more difficult for her to let go. Once she gave up the exploration, wouldn't it mean that all her previous efforts would be in vain?

Moreover, although she was unwilling to admit it, she knew that she actually cared about Count Hughes in her heart.

Moreover, throwing out some information to show that she knew more and had greater value was also her plan.

Beatrice is no longer the naive little girl. The triple crown on her head does not allow her to be naive anymore. That is why she named herself Scepter - the person holding the scepter, the day the scepter falls, is the day he falls into the abyss. This is a common saying in the empire.

She was trapped in this cage and had to try to grasp every straw.

The three of them fell silent. After a while, a weak voice broke the silence.

Gwen: "Fries, Captain, are you still there?"

fries:"!"

French Fries: "Gwen! Are you okay?"

Gwen: "Well, I don't think I died. I took a nap and when I woke up, I felt a little hungry."

Gwen stroked her stomach in surprise. She hadn't felt hungry for a long time. The wild vegetables she swallowed yesterday seemed to have activated her hunger and rekindled her hope for survival. However, it also burned her body and made her tortured by hunger.

Gwen: "I, I'll go pick some more wild vegetables. There are still a lot of those wild vegetables with heart-shaped leaves here."

Captain: "Don't eat too much at once. Eating only wild vegetables will make your body collapse. What else do you have nearby?"

Gwen thought for a moment and slowly said, "Some villagers used to grow vegetables, but now they are gone. The fields are all barren. We did grow some potatoes, but they were all dug up by the soldiers who came last time."

French Fries interrupted: "Is there a church in your area? You can go to the church and ask for some food."

Scepter: "Don't go to church."

fries:"!"

Gwen was somewhat surprised to feel the new voice in her heart. She suddenly felt happy that she had more and more friends. This was something that had not happened for a long time.

Since the war began, her friends have been slowly decreasing, and several of the familiar people in the village would disappear after a while.

When she couldn't find anyone she knew, she put on her favorite dress and prepared to die quietly. Her sister once told her that the dead would go far away and eventually meet again in another world.

She missed her friends, her father, her mother, and her sister. "Why don't you go to church?"

Scepter: "Why go to church?"

After a moment of silence, Ken tentatively spoke: "The church will distribute some food during difficult times. Although it's not much, it's enough for people to survive. Gwen needs this care now, right?"

This time it was Beatrice's turn to be confused. She hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Are you talking about the candlelight meeting?"

Ken thought about the church of the Candlelight Society on the island, and Sister Chloe, who was not very kind but at least gave people some food, and nodded seriously: "Yes."

Scepter: "Then you may have gone to a fake church. I am not kidding. Some heretics or cultists will use the name of the Candlelight Society to do good deeds with malicious intent, and gain support by deceiving the common people. A real church will not have too many interactions with the common people. The teachings of the Candlelight Society are to keep mortals away from the extraordinary and to distance themselves from the secular world. You will not get food if you go to church."

Ken scratched his head, this was totally inconsistent with what he knew, but he didn't believe that Miss Chloe was a cultist. He had come into contact with Chloe a lot after becoming a student in the advanced class. This nun just liked to pursue knowledge, and he had never seen her do anything bad.

Ken didn't know that his sister had joined the Fire Moths. If he knew about this, he might have a different impression of Chloe. Jeremiah frowned and suddenly asked in his mind: "How does the Candlelight Society recruit believers? I remember that the Candlelight Society is the state religion of the empire, right?"

Beatrice was a little surprised. These two people didn't seem to be from the Empire. How come they knew so little about the Church? But if they were not from the Empire, then they were from the Southern Continent? They couldn't be barbarians from the west of the Empire. The Storm Ocean and that place spanned the entire Empire.

Wait, Storm Ocean Beatrice's eyes lit up.

Scepter: "You should have been at sea the whole time. I heard that the Martha Islands worship the evil god. Only the church of the evil god will take the initiative to contact the secular world. In other countries, even in the theocratic countries like the Silent Temple, the church is far away from the mortal world."

Beatrice felt her heart skip a beat when she said this.

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Wait, if the church is really moving away from the secular world, then what is she? The queen was assassinated, the church's army surrounded the palace, and she, a former noble, wore the triple crown and became the pope. Only the evil god church would take the initiative to contact the secular world. Thinking of the gears and machinery under Hela's black veil, it is obviously inextricably linked to the Mechanical Temple. The Candlelight Society has always regarded those mechanical priests as crazy, so why did they suddenly cooperate with them?

Beatrice had been worried about her situation, and when she thought about it now, she suddenly realized that the church's recent actions were inexplicable and strange.

Before she knew it, her back was covered in cold sweat.

The Scepter suddenly stopped talking, and Ken didn't think much about it. He turned around and asked Gwen: "Gwen, then don't go to the church. What... uh, organization are there near you?"

Gwen: "I don't know. The flags held by the soldiers are different every time. I don't recognize them."

Jeremiah frowned and glared at Ken, "She has no strength now. Even if she knew where to go, she couldn't get there. Help her find something to eat first."

Ken nodded quickly.

Captain: "How are you now? Is it difficult for you to walk? Can you go out to find food?"

Gwen: "I'm not feeling well. It's hard for me to even sit up from the bed. I may not be able to go out. There seems to be no one in the village recently. There were some stray dogs at night before, but now even stray dogs are gone."

Jeremiah and Ken looked at each other, and their hearts sank.

Captain: "Do you still have that weed?"

Scepter: "Wait, I have a good idea, but it may involve the supernatural."

(End of this chapter)