Mansha never expected that Yin Lian would say such a thing to him.
The Black Sage and all the mages were also stunned for a moment.
Mansha gritted his teeth, and after a while he cursed angrily: "You... traitor to God!"
Yin Lian didn't care about his attack and said: "I obey the order of the lady and am the most devout believer. If you want to judge me, you must first make sure that you can represent all the gods... Can you? Don't you think Are you too arrogant?"
Mansha was so seduced by her that he couldn't help but defend himself and said, "Even if I can't represent the gods, the Pope can always represent it, right? The Holy City has issued an order to declare you a traitor to God! You witch!"
"You so-called believers only know the Holy City and the Pope, but not the gods and believers. Do you think the Pope can represent the gods, so he can really represent it!?" Yin Lian raised his eyebrows and spoke with a full expression. He looked at Mansha with a provocative expression, "Sir, as a 'devout' believer, can you tell me, when the gods in heaven and the church on earth have different ideas...who will you listen to?"
Mansha opened his mouth and wanted to answer, but suddenly stopped.
This question is really too tricky and too sinister.
In the world of Yin Lian, a church member once asked a girl the same question. The girl answered without hesitation that she would follow the Lord in heaven. So, a group of greedy hypocrites who did whatever they wanted in the name of religion took this as a crime and burned this devout believer on the stake.
This girl was Joan of Arc, who was later canonized.
The crime she was charged with was the most absurd of all, for it in a sense proved her piety. It would be ungodly to choose any other answer.
At this time, Yin Lian laughed and asked Mansha: "Why do you hesitate? For a devout believer, a knight who understands the doctrine, I think the answer is obvious and not at all. You need to hesitate for a second. Unless...your piety is not for the gods at all."
At this point, Mansha has obviously been completely brought into Yin Lian's rhythm.
If he was smart enough, he should actually ignore Yin Lian completely and not answer any of her questions. But at this time, Yin Lian had already used the most ingenious words to arouse the emotions of the knight leader - making him unable to choose silence and unable to tolerate Yin Lian putting such a crime on his head.
So he sarcastically said: "Then what? The Pope cannot represent the gods, how can you represent them?"
But I heard Yin Lian say: "The gods are omnipotent. If they want, they can naturally convey their will to my heart, just like they can convey their will to your heart. But, have you ever felt it? ?Have you ever felt that kind of miracle?"
She approached Mansha, so the postures of the two of them at this time, the standing Yin Lian appeared taller than the tied Mansha kneeling on the ground, which made her expression and movements full of oppression.
Mansha said: "The Pope is the spokesperson of the Emperor of Heaven in the world. If everyone can claim to know God's will, wouldn't the world be in chaos!?"
Yin Lian said: "Then according to your statement, the gods will be controlled by the church?"
Her words were still very heartbreaking.
Since he had to pretend to be a ghost, Yin Lian also spent time getting to know Mathil's church. The various churches here have been standing on the mainland for thousands of years at most. This sect has no name. If I have to say it, it is the Church of the Gods. However, there are various sects under the church, which worship different gods and believe in different gods, and they also fight with each other.
Any powerful organization that has stood for thousands of years will inevitably experience many corruptions. So in this world, people believe in the gods, but hate the gods and the church. This is just like that terrible time in the Middle Ages. The independent church brought unbearable oppression and intimidation. They focused more on pleasure and no longer cared about the joy of believers.
This is also the reason why the Magic Association can gradually gain a place in the hearts of civilians, and is even willing to take refuge in this group of rebels.
But at the same time, due to the wanton behavior of magicians in the early days and the image the church created for them in the hearts of the people, most people are still afraid of the Magic Association and the City of Sages, and demonize them in their hearts.
What Yin Lian did was to use the influence of a new sect to speed up the resolution of this terrifying established impression and snatch the hearts of the common people from the hands of the church.
Do gods exist? Yin Lian doesn't know. She has studied the history of Martier. Although the gods seem to be omnipresent in the marks of history, and the Black Sage also believes that the gods did exist, in the past hundred years, Yin Lian has not seen any decent gods in the records. Traces are more like "auspicious" records.
But in this magical world, even if the gods really have Yin Lian, it wouldn't be too strange.
However, she is not afraid - gods or others, since they have not appeared for a long time, there is no need to worry too much. When you actually see him, it's too late to think about how to coax him to please him.
Faced with Yin Lian's question, Mansha choked for a moment, and after a long time he gritted his teeth and said: "That is a gift from the gods to His Majesty the Pope. The church definitely does not coerce the gods... No one has the ability to coerce the gods."
"Then why do the gods bestow favors on the Pope but not others?" Yin Lian smiled, and the mages behind her felt a chill for some reason. "Is he the most pious person in the world? Knight Sir, are you not pious enough? Aren't all the believers in the world as pious as the Pope? What has he done for the gods? What have you done for the gods?"
Yin Lian's great deception method was officially launched, and all the mages, including the Black Sage, involuntarily took a step back mentally to leave space for this little magic stick.
"Shouldn't it be in everyone's heart to be pious or not? To the gods, we are all believers, so what's the difference between them? Shouldn't the difference be the belief in the heart? A cleric will execute a person A believer, what does he rely on? Is he better at interpreting doctrines than others?"
"Will God abandon a devout believer because he is not eloquent enough?"
Yin Lian was so aggressive that Mansha couldn't help shouting: "It's nonsense! What you said is all nonsense!"
Yin Lian suddenly stopped and said to Mansha: "Have you ever thought about why there haven't been any real miracles in the mainland for so many years? I don't mean the kind of miracle where a flower blooms with several petals... …but like the miracle that affected the entire continent five or six hundred years ago.”
Mansha was stunned for a moment.
Yin Lian said: "...because the gods no longer want to give any miracles to the church controlled by hypocrites."
The mages really didn't want to dismantle this little magician, but her way of speaking out of hand was really hard to watch. Some mages felt that they couldn't stand it any longer, so they couldn't help but sneak out of the dungeon.
When Yin Lian finally left the dungeon, the Black Sage followed her and said, "I'm afraid it's useless what you said... The faith of the Temple Knights cannot be shaken by just a few words."
Yin Lian said: "I know." She turned around, smiled lightly at the Black Sage, and said, "If faith is something that can be shaken so easily, then it is not called faith."
The Black Sage said: "Then why are you doing this?"
Yin Lian said: "If the teacher is willing to give me some time... I can try to shake this person's belief."
Black Sage: "..."
He felt that Yin Lian's idea was a bit too naive, but this girl did have wisdom beyond her years. The Black Sage was quite curious about what she would do.
He thought for a while and said: "I'll give you three months... If you can find a way to instigate him within three months, even if it just makes him relent openly, I will consider you successful. At that time, I will send him A surprise gift for you."
Yin Lian asked: "What gift?"
The question was so direct that the Black Sage wanted to laugh. He is usually so mature, but when it comes to gifts, he acts as straightforward as an ordinary child.
So he said: "You have to instigate him first...and then I will tell you what the gift is."
Yin Lian thought about it and felt that it was just something for free. No matter what it was, he seemed to be able to accept it, so he didn't ask any more questions.
In the next few days, she took no action and started running out more often. Because of the previous attack, the Black Sage increased the number of mage guards following her, and strictly searched for the whereabouts of the Temple Knights inside and outside the city. All of these affected the actions of the Knights, forcing them to hide left and right, and increased The leader of the regiment was captured and his life and death were unknown, so everyone had no choice but to flee the city of sages.
In the process of escaping, they lost two more people,
So far, there are only less than half of the escapees left in this group of knights.
When Sardesi came to the capital of sages, he never imagined that he would escape in this way. They had already anticipated the danger of coming to the City of Sages to perform a mission, but because the target was just a village girl and a high-level mage in the City of Sages, all the knights were inevitably a little careless, and this carelessness made them A heavy price was paid.
When Sardesi left the city of sages, he couldn't help but gritted his teeth and glanced back at the huge city of mage. The girl with a mocking and indifferent expression and a staff seemed to be deeply engraved in his mind. Although a few days had passed, it did not fade away at all, but became more and more profound.
Although the future of his departure was uncertain, he still had one thought in his heart.
One day...he will come back.
In the dungeon in the city, after disappearing for several days, Yin Lian finally appeared in front of Mansha again.
This time, she brought a little girl.
She was a skinny girl, wearing clean old white clothes. Her withered yellow hair was tied into a braid, and her bangs were combed to both sides, revealing a shocking scar on her forehead.
The moment Mansha met the girl's eyes, he felt
