The next day, under the leadership of Archbishop Brandon, Mavey came to the potion warehouse of the Church of the Three Destinies. To be precise, this should be a small church in the city of Westminster. On the surface, it seems inconspicuous. , in fact, it is close to St. Paul's Cathedral and the Witcher Headquarters, and next to the Scotland Yard Police Headquarters, which is extremely heavily protected.
In terms of protection, this place should be second only to St. Paul's Cathedral. After all, potion materials are not as precious as extraordinary items. Even if they are lost, they can be collected again. They are consumables. The most precious extraordinary items are all stored. In the treasure house of St. Paul's Cathedral, no one except the Pope and the three archbishops has the right to approach - except the goddess and the administrator.
Even so, this small church named Yin Dian is still an important place for the church. The door is closed on weekdays and will only be opened when goods arrive.
"Yindian Church is different from other church institutions. It is not open to the public. There are three cardinals and a saint living here on weekdays. Ordinary believers are not qualified to get close..." Archbishop Brandon introduced while introducing Walking towards Yin Dian Church, the priests and monks on duty inside noticed it in advance and quickly opened the door to let Archbishop Brandon, Ma Wei and Yunia pass through.
Behind the heavy black stone door is an ordinary-looking preaching hall. It is small in area and can only accommodate two to three hundred people. Under the colorful glass stands a statue of a masked goddess. From the appearance, it does not look like anything. Meet any of the goddesses of health, wealth, and sin.
"This... must be the legendary goddess of fate." Ma Wei stared at the statue and said, "Am I right?"
"Yes." Archbishop Brandon put his fingers between his eyebrows and saluted the statue: "This is the goddess of fate, Derote. Whether she is the goddess of health or the goddess of wealth, she is the embodiment of her greatness..." Destiny The Church of the Three Goddess is a polytheistic religion as well as a monotheistic religion. According to Ma Wei's understanding, they compare themselves to fate and believe that fate is composed of health, wealth and sin. Even in their doctrines, they continue to promote oracles about fate.
The clergy of the Church of the Three Destinies believe that a person's life goes through three stages: youth, middle age, and old age.
When you are young, you need the protection of Wilder, the goddess of health. Only in this way can you grow up healthily. At this stage, people should believe in Wilder, the goddess of health.
When entering middle age, in order to live a better life, people begin to pursue wealth. At this time, they must believe in Nande, the goddess of wealth.
When sixty or sixty years old, life is approaching dusk, the body's oil is exhausted, and the mentality changes accordingly. Wealth has become a foreign object. People begin to repent of the sins they have committed in their lives and want to be promoted to legend after death. In the Yin Tian Garden, the goddess accepted her and her soul found rest.
In order to atone for their sins, people should believe in the sin goddess Tilde and repay their sins when they are old but still capable of action. Only in this way can their souls pass the test of the goddess and enter the Garden of Paradise at the end of life.
From birth to adulthood to old age, the things promoted by the Church of the Three Goddess of Destiny last throughout life. In an era when the survival rate of infants is horribly low, belief in health seems to have become a common pursuit of everyone, and the wealth behind it has captured people's attention. The precise needs, as for sin... In the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny, Nander, the goddess of wealth, has the most followers, followed by Wilder, the goddess of health, and Tilde, the goddess of sin, has the least followers. It seems that people are not willing to grow old. She often uses material conditions to repay her sins, and only wishes to pray verbally to the gods before she dies, asking for forgiveness... The sin goddess Tilde, who has the fewest believers, is the strongest among the three goddesses, and the one with the most followers Nander, the goddess of wealth, is the weakest and is inversely proportional to the number of believers.
Ma Wei couldn't understand this phenomenon at first, but later discovered that no matter which one of the three goddesses the believer believed in, the power of faith would be provided to the trinity goddess of destiny Derote, that is to say, Wilder, Nan The strength of the three goddesses De and Tilde has nothing to do with the number of their respective believers, but is related to the combined goddess Derote!
The goddess of destiny, Derote, who has gathered the power of a large number of believers, distributes her power equally among the three goddesses. The goddess of wealth, Nander, who has too many followers, needs to perform regular manifestations in order to maintain her faith. She has fewer believers and controls the kingdom of death. Tilde's younger sister, she consumes more power, so she should be the weakest.
What's more, the goddess of wealth, Nande, is not good at fighting. She is the most popular blessing god among believers. Just like the God of Wealth, everyone who sees her must worship her!
Nander, the goddess of wealth, is the busiest. In comparison, Tilde, the goddess of sin, can be called 'leisure'.
Junia stared at the tall statue of Derlota, the goddess of fate in front of her, not in awe, but just curious.
The structure of the gods in the Church of the Three Destinies seemed to her very strange. Derlota never showed up and only had three avatars to inherit the believers' faith. So far, no one has seen her face.
There may have been in the past, but over the past two thousand years, the humans who have seen the face of the goddess of fate, Derlota, have long been turned into dry bones and handfuls of yellow sand in the graves. From relevant records, later generations of believers can only know what happened to Derlota. Extremely beautiful, comparable to the God of Beauty.
The saint who is responsible for garrisoning the Yin Dian Church believes in Nande, the goddess of wealth. The top manager here is Archbishop Brandon. He is the financial officer of the church, manages the church's accounts and has high prestige.
"Destiny has no particularly clear definition." Archbishop Brandon looked at the statue and sighed with emotion: "Human thoughts are very complex. Some people always want to break away from the shackles of fate. Little do they know that their resistance is just a part of fate. Everything has been doomed..." Ma Wei sneered at Archbishop Brandon's statement. The scope was too general, and no matter what he did, it was a part of fate... Isn't this a hooliganism?
If there is no trajectory, where is the destiny? Ma Wei firmly believes that if there is destiny in the world, then there must be a unique destiny trajectory for each person first, and then there is the possibility of jumping destiny.
If we look back from the results, it becomes consequentialism, and the arguments are untenable! Unless the goddess of fate Derlot truly knows everyone's fate, fate is nothing but nothingness.
The mission hall was just a cover-up. The real secret was hidden on the other side of the mission hall. Archbishop Brandon took out a silver ring and put it on his finger. He walked under the statue of the god and there was a small groove there that fit the ring exactly.
Insert the ring into the groove and turn it clockwise. The huge statue immediately moves back, revealing the dark cave entrance below. The winding stairs go down, and the moist wind pours back. Accompanied by bursts of roaring, you can still hear the faint rumbling. Buzz.
Lifting the kerosene lamp, Archbishop Brandon walked into the cave entrance, followed closely by Mavie and Yunia, all the way down. After walking for an unknown amount of time, light appeared in front of them.
Outside the underground tunnel is a huge underground tunnel with scaffolding and rails. Workers are busy in it. It looks like an unfinished subway. But judging from the layout, this should be the starting station or terminal station of the subway. .
Under the flickering oil lamp, a red number sign with the number 0 was printed on the wall. Seeing this number, Ma Wei was even more convinced that this was the underground railway!
After the London Metropolitan Subway plan was proposed, after discussion, the terminal station was determined to be the Houses of Parliament, which is Platform 1. For ordinary residents, they only know Platform 1!
Platform 0 means it does not exist!
"Would it be possible to keep potions in such a humid environment without getting moldy?" Ma Wei observed the environment of the underground railway tracks and felt that it was dark and gloomy and definitely not a good place to store potions.
"Of course ordinary potion materials will not be stored here." Archbishop Brandon smiled mysteriously and turned to look at the end of Track 0. There was a huge steel prison embedded in the stone wall, and violent collisions could be heard from time to time. He said: "There is nothing unusual about ordinary potion materials. What I want you to see and what the church wants you to run is far more than just trading potion materials. There are also these... living, extraordinary creatures!"
