Faced with Calia's pretense, Sarlayan, who had already guessed that she knew the inside story, looked at her meaningfully, and after a few seconds, he showed a relieved expression.
"You have indeed grown a lot...I won't go around in circles with you anymore. Let the guard outside the door let in another of my followers."
"In addition, seal the reception hall and don't let anyone in. Only a small number of guards and female officers who deserve your absolute trust will be left."
Under the personal order of Calia, who was still a little confused, Faao, who was completely wrapped in black robes, strolled into the palace reception room that he had been away from for a long time.
Out of trust in Sarlayan, Calia rejected most of the guards and female officers, leaving less than 20 people in the living room. These people have been with Calia since childhood. Abandoned absolute confidant.
As a priest who possesses the power of Holy Light, Calia clearly felt the indescribably pure power of Holy Light on this black-robed man, and asked Sarlayan in surprise: "How deep is this power?" Shadow Duke, who is this?”
Sarlayan smiled and shrugged, turning to look at Faol who was silent and seemed to be looking at Calia through his hood.
"Let him explain it himself."
Fao silently took off his hood, revealing a pitted undead face.
"Qiang!"
After the number of people was greatly reduced, the remaining guards were already nervous. The moment Faao showed his face, these guards reflexively pulled out their weapons.
No wonder they overreacted, the appearance of the undead Faao... was indeed a bit eye-catching.
"etc!"
Calia's expression suddenly changed. She stopped the restlessness of the guards with a look of surprise on her face. She stood up from her seat unconsciously, her eyes staring directly at Fao's face that was still very familiar even after the big change. .
"You...are you, Archbishop Alonsos Faol?"
"Haha~"
Fa'ao chuckled twice with a hoarse voice: "Long time no see, Princess Calia, I'm glad you still recognize me."
"this……"
After receiving Faao's personal admission, Calia stood there stunned for a while.
"How is this possible? Back then, Alsace and I watched you being buried with our own eyes. What are you..."
Faao smiled nonchalantly and explained: "As you can see, I was awakened from the grave using psychic magic, and now I am an undead body."
Logically speaking, even if the entourage of representatives of other countries enters the palace, they need to undergo layers of inspections.
But in the country of Lordaeron, those who hold the powerful Holy Light will be more easily respected.
When entering the palace for inspection, although Faao was always wearing a black robe, after feeling the majestic holy light on his body, many guards gave up their efforts to investigate him further out of respect.
In the minds of the people of Lordaeron, the Holy Light is a sacred power, and evil people will never be able to possess such vast and warm power of the Holy Light.
After Faol's death, his most valued successor, Benedictus, left the Kingdom of Stormwind. Today, no one in the Church of the Holy Light in Lordaeron can compare with him, or even come close to him.
Uther has already mastered the art of Paladin, and Saidan and Tirion are not far behind.
As the leading figure of the Knights of the Silver Hand, the palace guards are already very familiar with their holy light fluctuations.
Even in Uther, who was known as the Lightbringer, the palace guards responsible for the prosecution had never felt such pure holy light.
When Faao went through various checks and waited outside the door of the living room, some of the guards around him were still whispering among themselves to discuss his identity.
Some people speculated that this person was Liadrin, the Legion Commander of the Morning Frontier Legion, and others speculated that he was Von Delor, the high priest of Quel'Thalas, but no one considered the resurrection of Faol.
The undead did not appear in Azeroth for the first time after the rise of the Scourge. As early as the Troll War more than 2,000 years ago, the archmage Merry Winterwind transformed his dying self into a lich and continued to fight against the trolls. Contributed to the coalition forces during the war.
He is the first undead since human civilization has recorded history.
During the time when Dalaran was first established, the research of the mages was completely disordered. Without anyone to manage it, anyone could explore various projects that were later called taboos.
This kind of chaotic management naturally brought about bad consequences. Because of the mages' messing around, the space barrier between Azeroth and the Twisting Nether continued to weaken, and the demons of the Burning Legion gradually began to sneak in.
The Tirisfal Council was established to expel demons, and the new Kirin Tor Council also strengthened the management and review of research projects for mages.
During that chaotic period, many people used Merry Winterwind's notes to study death spells, and some people actually developed some tricks and made some specious psychic hair accessories.
To this day, the descendants of the original Necromancers still exist in Azeroth, but they are not accepted by the mainstream.
The undead are relatively unfamiliar to ordinary people, but they are nothing new to the senior officials of various countries who have a large amount of intelligence.
"Undead..."
Calia looked at Faao's blue-grey face in disbelief: "How is this possible? Why can the undead still control the Holy Light without being hurt?"
Faao smiled and explained: "My child, many people, including you, and even the top leaders of the Holy Light Church, only have a superficial understanding of the power of the Holy Light."
"There are some things I would not say in front of those who devoutly believe in the Holy Light. In fact, the power of the Holy Light is not sacred. It is only the representative force of the light side among the six forces of the universe."
Fao smiled bitterly and glanced at Sarlayan beside him: "I only learned about this fact from Sarlayan not long ago."
Sarlayan smiled and waved his hand: "You are too humble. I just told you the concept of the six forces of the universe."
"You should have discovered the essence of the Holy Light a long time ago, right? It's just because of your status that you can't publicize it in a big way."
The sanctity of the Holy Light is the foundation of the Holy Light Church. Of course, it is impossible for Faao to take the initiative to cut off the Holy Light Church's escape route and tell everyone about the unscrupulous power of the Holy Light.
"Hiss~"
After listening to Fao's explanation about the nature of the Holy Light, Calia felt a little headache, and returned to her seat slightly dejectedly, holding her forehead and sighing.
"I probably understand, so Archbishop Fao climbed out of the tomb by yourself, rather than someone stealing your body?"
"Well..." Fa'ao sorted out his words: "You can't say that I crawled out on my own. Someone did stand in front of my grave and used the psychic spell to awaken the undead."
"If I remember correctly, they call themselves the Church of Eternal Life, and Sarlayan calls them the Curse Sect."
"Curse the Cult!"
Calia's eyes narrowed. She had heard of this name from her previous correspondence with Sarlayan.
Preachers of the Cursed Sect have appeared in many noble territories far away from the political center of Lordaeron. Although they have not done any major harm yet, this kind of cult organization will naturally be on the focus list of Lordaeron's intelligence department.
After Calia took over the intelligence system from Arthas, she quickly read the investigation report and disposal priority recommendations on the Cursed Sect (Eternal Life Church).
Since the Cult of the Damned has not really begun to expand violently until now, Lordaeron's intelligence department ranks them relatively low as a threat and their priority is not high.
But that was before.
After witnessing Faao's "resurrection" as an undead, Calia would naturally be more vigilant towards the cursed sect.
"Since they can even resurrect saints, then..."
Calia asked worriedly: "The Kingdom of Lordaeron has buried a lot of heroes over the years. If the Curse Cult awakens all these heroes from the dead..."
Fao shook his head and comforted: "Princess Calia, you don't have to worry about this."
"Only a corpse like mine, whose body and soul have not been completely wiped out, can exert its greatest value after resurrection and maintain its sanity to the greatest extent."
"Those ancient heroes who have been buried for too long may not even have their bones anymore, and it is impossible to resurrect them. Even if there are still bones... you can't expect the combat effectiveness of a group of skeleton soldiers whose consciousness has long since disappeared, right? "
The chaos in the introduction system of the Shadow Realm only occurred in the past few hundred years. The heroes who died in the troll wars in the early years have long been introduced to the Shadow Realm to continue living, and it is impossible to stay in their home world for a long time. .
After hearing Faao's comfort, Calia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she turned her attention to Sarlayan who was standing aside: "Duke Deep Shadow, Archbishop Fao, you should all know that in order not to shake the foundation of the Holy Light Church, the identity of Archbishop Fao cannot be exposed easily, right?"
Faao smiled understandingly and said: "Of course, I had no intention of returning to the public eye."
"This unscrupulous visit is just to gain the support of Princess Calia. It would be best if some resources can be allocated to help me establish a brand new organization."
"I'll tentatively name it - free will."
