Cthulhu Gonfalon

Spring returned to the earth, and so everything recovered.

In the eastern part of the mainland, close to the inland area which was a little further from the coastline, there was a city called “Rem.”

The city was now the holy city of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest, where more than 40% of the elites in the entire church gathered. The strength was so powerful that even the Kingdom of Blue Moon had no way to deal with them. Therefore, they could only let them develop as an independent city.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the city had such a status was greatly related to Leon Igor, the “King of Seaside” of Garth City, the Church of Void Mask and the Church of the Goddess of Wealth.

Twenty years ago, the holy city of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had been Garth City, the most famous commercial city on the east coast. Later, a battle had broken out in Garth City in which the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had lost to the God of Marsh. When her avatar was going to be swallowed up, she was so angry that she blew up the avatar, blowing up the entire Garth City into ruins. Fortunately, Prince Leon Igor, the archbishop of the Church of Void Mask, had led the surviving residents to work so hard that they rebuilt Garth City above the ruins, avoiding the occurrence of more tragedies.

Because they had hated the disaster caused by the Goddess of Bumper Harvest, the people of Garth City had gradually given up their faith in her. Instead, they had believed in the Goddess of Wealth and the Void Mask who had made great contributions in the process of reconstruction. Now the city and its surrounding areas mainly believed in these two gods. Of course, there were also some people who believed in other gods, but very few believed in the Goddess of Bumper Harvest.

The Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest certainly hadn’t allowed this, so they had tried hard to fix it. First, a large number of manpower had been dispatched to do missionary work, trying to get the faith back. After being defeated by the governor, Leon Igor, they had used force. They had dispatched a large number of elite masters to try to use violence to clean the Church of the Goddess of Wealth and the Church of Void Mask out so that they could capture faith forcibly.

As a result, they had kicked the iron plate. Garth City had been loose on the surface but tight on the inside. It seemed that there had been no masters, only in addition to Leon, one of the strongmen. In fact, a large number of masters of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth gathered from the portal at an earlier time. The masters of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had rushed in, and suddenly they had fallen into the trap. They had been completely defeated, and even the legendary strongmen had been killed. Moreover, they had even lost an important artifact of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest in Garth City.

This incident had dealt a heavy blow to the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Although the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had retaliated, causing the main bases of the Goddess of Wealth, the Dhaka Commercial Association and the Commonwealth of Gold Coins to fall into famine, they had not been able to solve the problem. Later, in order to retrieve this artifact, they had to compromise with the Church of the Goddess of Wealth. They had promised never to do missionary work in Garth City, never to participate in any movements or planning against Garth City, and to immediately offer information once they had learned of something harmful to Garth City. With those three promises, they were able to exchange for the vital artifact.

However, it had been good for Rem City. Rem City had originally been the second largest city in the belief system of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Because of the loss of faith in Garth City, the top class inside the church had been divided into the “Recapture the Holy City” party and the “Re-establish the Holy City” party. There had been no doubt that the top class of Rem City belonged to the latter one.

The struggle between the two parties had been fierce. At first, the “Recapture the Holy City” party had taken the absolute advantage, and the “Re-establish the Holy City” party had been badly suppressed. Like the religions on earth, once the holy city had fallen into the hands of others, people always wanted to find ways to get it back. They had never given up until they had achieved their aims or until they were completely defeated. Of course, some religions had developed, giving up the ignorant and backward, traditional church form, so there naturally had been no such thing as a holy city.

The “Recapture the Holy City” party of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had made several big moves before and after, and finally, they had quieted down when the elites among the top class had been completely defeated. And for the blessing of this dispute, the “Re-establish the Holy City” party had prevailed in the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. They had taken Rem City as the holy city and had worked hard for a few years, gradually making it look like a holy city.

Today, in Rem City, people could see the huge holy emblem of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest on the tower before entering the gate. If a person looked carefully, they would find that every guard of the gate also had a holy emblem of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest on their armor. After entering the gate, people could see the same holy emblems hanging on the door of every house in the city. Even most of the pedestrians had the graphic pattern of the holy emblem on their clothes.

On every large open space in the city, there was a statue of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Some people worshiped and prayed in front of the statue all day long. In the vision of the magical aura, every statue was radiant, which meant that all of them were divine. Even from every holy emblem in the city, people could feel the divine power of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest.

An adventurer and mage who had just entered the city were stunned. After a while, he returned to his sense, turned and left regardless of his tasks or anything else, taking all his companions with him as well. None of them stayed here under his forceful persuasions.

The guards of the gate were not surprised because similar things had happened many times in the past few days. Almost every experienced adventurer had made similar choices, and no one dared to stay.

Something abnormal must have a horrible reason! Now the situation in Rem City was definitely not what should happen in a usual holy city!

The most famous holy city on the mainland was currently the “Land” of the Church of Void Mask. However, even in that holy city, everyone could only feel the omnipresent majestic power of the Void Mask’s Majesty. There would never be holy emblems and statues everywhere, even though those holy emblems and statues were all divine.

Was this the posture of a holy city? This was clearly an act to draw attention!

A man should never stand under a dangerous wall, and that was the principle of drawing on advantages and avoiding disadvantages. This was known to all the veteran adventurers. Even if there were great benefits, they would never give in into such big news.

The battle in Garth City had happened just 20 years ago, so many people who had experienced it were still alive!

If there was another explosion of the god’s avatar this time, well, the scene would be too beautiful to imagine.

The tallest and biggest building in Rem City was now the temple of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. The house of the city owner, which had originally been a little taller and bigger than it, especially removed two floors to avoid getting in its way. The city owner was naturally very dissatisfied, but he had no choice. In fact, he had already been under the spell that could control his mind, and the caster was a legendary priest. It was estimated that he had no hope of getting rid of the control for his whole life.

On the roof of the temple, a huge stone-carving holy emblem was standing there. On the flat ground at the top of the holy emblem, a white-haired old man was there. He was wearing a gorgeous robe, holding a colorful wand, and carrying a pendant with a strange glow on his chest.

These three treasures were the sacred objects of the Church of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest, including the magic items used before the goddess had become the god and the artifacts created personally by the goddess after she had become a god. Every treasure had earth-shattering power. At this moment, as the three treasures gathered together, although they had not yet exerted their power, only their revealed pressure had covered the entire Rem City.

With such preparations and such equipment, ordinarily, there should be more than a 70% possibility of success to whatever he was going to do. However, on the old man’s face, there was no such confidence that he would win. Instead, he seemed to have some concerns.

He stared at the sky, silent, and sighed softly after a long time.

“I hope that… I can succeed,” he whispered. “My master, you really need a follower of God!”