"Your Excellency High Priestess!"
The priests and believers on both sides of the road humbly bowed their heads and gave way. The psionic warlock appeared in a black priest robe with gold and silver edges. There were mysterious rune marks in the cuffs, and a complex nine-pointed star array was engraved on her full chest. At this moment, she had taken off the veil on her face, revealing a beautiful but slightly strange face, which meant that she was not a purebred human and had other bloodlines.
The psionic warlock's expression was serious and solemn. She glanced at the others in front of her and slowly said, "Everyone else, leave."
"Priests, follow me into the temple to pray."
The magnificent temple looked integrated. As the high priestess of the church, she presided over the entire temple from design to completion. The location of the temple was chosen on the side of the central square, built in the most striking place in the center of Autumnfall. Because of the large use of the spell 'Mud to Stone', the structure of the entire temple was quite stable. It could be understood as the existence of half a wizard tower. With the rise of Søren's power, Gloria's status in the Northern Witch Council had also risen sharply. The Witch Council was obviously very willing to make friends with a new god, so the layout of the entire temple was up to the standard of the construction of a wizard tower.
A temple was an unbreakable fortress!
As the most important place of activity for the gods in the mortal world, any temple that was still operating must have the ability to fight against legendary powers.
Or else!
Once there was a conflict in the future, the temple, as the core of the activity, would be pulled out by the enemy one by one, and it would be impossible to provide shelter for the priests and believers of the church.
This temple, as the first and most important great temple of Søren, may require millions of Kindler to be invested in it. The cost may be more expensive than many wizard towers. However, only the outline of the temple had been completed. At present, only the construction part of the temple had been completed. The other aspects of magic guidance, rune engraving, array arrangement, and so on had not yet been started. When it was really completed, the energy field of the great temple could cover the entire Island of Modor and even directly affect the climate of the island.
This was a huge project!
Just like the temple in the City of Wealth, in the end, it might still need a Saint Necromancer to be in charge of guarding it.
There were exquisite reliefs on the walls of the temple. They were all about Søren's achievements. The half-elf craftsmen had engraved Søren's achievements into reliefs. Currently, only a part of it had been completed, and there was still a lot of space left. In the near future, they would continue to carve Søren's other deeds into reliefs on the walls of the shrine. They might even carve the war between the gods. Of course, it wasn't just Søren himself. If the heroes of the Church did something legendary or epic, they would also leave behind a relief sculpture.
Seventy-two white marble pillars supported the structure of the temple. There was nothing engraved on them, but they seemed to have a special meaning.
The interior of the temple was quite spacious.
In the center of the hall was an exquisite and lifelike statue of a god. Søren was shrouded in a cloak, holding a scimitar with both hands. His eyes were calmly looking into the distance, as if he was looking into the future, and also as if he was protecting something.
The statue was only an ordinary object at the moment.
There was a faint glow of divine power on it, but it hadn't been fully activated yet. Only when the investiture ceremony began would Søren's divine sense descend upon the statue.
Only then would it be considered complete!
This statue would be an important tool for Søren to receive faith and prayers. It could greatly strengthen the connection between the believers and Søren.
Finally.
Søren could use the statue's eyes to observe everything.
The High Priestess' figure came in front of the statue. As she slowly knelt down, the priests behind her also knelt down. Before the apotheosis ceremony, the statue needed to gather more divine power. It was difficult for ordinary mortals to provide enough power of faith. But these priests were different. At the very least, they were devout believers, and they had stronger beliefs. Although believers made up the majority of the Church's faith, the truly pure and powerful faith was always provided by these priests.
If devout believers were a stream, then the priests were a river!
"My Lord Søren!"
"You are the master of the half-elves! You are the master of Mordor! You are the king of the pirates! … "
"My Lord Søren!"
"You are the protector of the half-elves! You are the forerunner in the shadows! You are the keeper of order! … "
"My Lord Søren!"
"Your name will become sacred among the half-elves! You have led us through danger! You have given us a stable and orderly life! You are a wise ruler! … Slaughter will make you stronger! The death of your enemies will spread your light! Your kingdom will protect our souls! When death comes, the servants who serve you will be reborn in your kingdom! … "
"My Lord Søren!"
"You will raise your kingdom high! Become the stars in the sky! … "
…
Along with the orderly prayers, a faint glow of divine power appeared on the statue.
This prayer would also sound when Søren was investiture. It would tell the world about the realm that Søren had when he was investiture. The first line was the most important part, representing the half-elves, Mordor, and the pirates. The second line was the less important part, representing the half-elves, rogues, and order. The third part was the core of the investiture, representing the half-elves, protection, order, rule, slaughter, death, and so on.
Finally, it was the conclusion of the investiture.
Throughout the entire prayer, only one part appeared in the first line of the three paragraphs, and that was [half-elves]!
This represented Søren's core clergy.
Mordor and the pirates were his foundation, the shadow was an extension of the rogues, and the order represented his faction. Slaughter referred to his identity as the [Son of Slaughter], Rule represented his influence on Mordor, and Death was an extension of Slaughter. These all represented the realms that Søren himself had come into contact with, but his real core was only the [half-elves] at the beginning of each paragraph.
Gods had many realms.
Order told the world about his faction, and from now on, the gods of the Order faction would accept him and admit that he belonged to the side of Order.
In the future, if he was strong enough, he might be able to master the [Order] realm, or even have the [Order] clergy.
Order was a very powerful force.
Almost most of the gods in the Order faction would have the power of Order, and there were many who had the [Order] realm. However, only some powerful gods could incorporate [Order] into their clergy. For example, the Queen of Spiders, Lolth, had the [Evil] clergy, which was opposite to the good faction, and also had a very powerful [Chaos] realm.
This meant that the gods had mastered the power of the law from the origin!
The core of Søren's investiture prayer was only [half-elves], and everything else was an extension. As long as there was no direct conflict in the [Clergy], other gods would not be too hostile to him because of the collision of the extended realms. Because most of the gods had various extended realms, just like the gods who mastered the war clergy had basically dabbled in the realm of death. This kind of extension was a very common thing within the gods, which was equivalent to private competitors. However, if there was a direct conflict in the [Clergy], it might be a battle between two gods.
…
Night fell.
The Psionic Warlock, who had officially become the [High Priest], came to the port of Modor in a cloak. Now everything in the temple was on the right track, and the investiture ceremony was also in full swing. Søren was directly investiture as a [True God], not a [False God] like the Demigod Vampire. The investiture ceremony of the Demigod Vampire was like the 'King of Grass', but Søren could not be so hasty. Even if he wanted to keep a low profile, he must be as solemn as the founding ceremony.
Therefore, there were still quite a lot of things to be prepared!
The Demigod Vampire sneaked around and found that the believers had arranged altars. In the end, there was not even a decent temple, so he directly became a god.
This kind of thing was also a joke among the gods.
Søren absolutely could not do this. As the spokesperson of Søren, the high priest absolutely would not allow this.
So she had been quite busy recently.
And now there was another important thing waiting for her, that was the holy emblem of the church, which represented the half-elven church and Søren himself and his clergy. They needed to complete it before the investiture ceremony.
The high priest was waiting for Søren's return.
…
(PS: Help! I forgot to think about the holy emblem of the church in advance! Who has a good idea? Quickly come up with it! Waiting online!!!)
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