"It's all thanks to the gold royals that Lord Knight gave Denzel. It's also thanks to Denzel's trust in the Dragon Queen that he stocked up on a large amount of food before the long night arrived."
"How could there be so many?" Denzel shook his head. "If we had known that the Eternal Night was real, we wouldn't have spent three gold royals to buy this house. Now that the property prices have plummeted, we've suffered a huge loss."
"Woo ~ Woo ~ Woo ~" Suddenly, a deep bugle call came from outside the house.
"Three times …" The two men looked at each other in shock. "Deviant Ghosts are attacking the city!"
The sound of the bugle horn became more urgent, and the urgent shouts of the soldiers could be heard on the streets.
"Quick, let's eat, the three of us have joined the Church's armed forces, we'll most likely have to participate in the defense of the city." The old man said urgently.
"If I have a full stomach, I can at least be a full ghoul."
His father-in-law was right. In less than half an hour, there were city guards shouting along the street, "Deviant ghosts are attacking. Adult men without a church background, report to the city wall guards. Those with a church background, report to the church you are affiliated with. The rest of the elderly, women, and children, go to the shelter arranged by the church."
The old father-in-law burped and immediately shut his mouth, swallowing the smell of meat. He quickly grabbed a handful of pine needles and stuffed them into his mouth. As he chewed, he asked his son-in-law, "What should we do now? Our family has joined three different religions. Who will the children go with? "
"Something's not right. I'm afraid this isn't a small fight." Denzel was also chewing on pine needles with a tinge of green in them. With a solemn expression, he said, "Why don't you bring Dina and Jaime to the Great Cathedral?"
Hannah frowned and said, "I joined the Red God Church, and my father joined the Church of Earth and Sea. We get one kilogram of bran noodles from the church every week. If we don't go to the roll call today, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for us to get any relief food in the future."
Although Crocodile God was dead, his church still existed. As the guardian of the city of Pentos for many years, the Church of Earth and Sea was the wealthiest church.
Moreover, although the Crocodile God had died, another Evil God soon imitated the Dragon Queen's story and contacted the royal family of the Church of Earth and Ocean. The two sides made peace and reached a win-win agreement. The royal family allowed the Evil God to take over the Crocodile God's nest, and the Evil God protected the royal family.
The reason why Denzel and his family had joined different churches was not entirely because they wanted to receive more relief rations.
The Red God was the mainstream religion of the trading city-state. Denzel's deceased mother-in-law had always believed in the Red God. Later on, Hannah also joined the Red God Church.
His father-in-law belonged to the old school of Pentos. He believed in the local god, the God of Earth and Sea.
As for Denzel, he was born in the Stormlands and had always served a noble like Selmy who was a devout believer of the Seven Gods. Naturally, he had also been a believer of the Seven Gods since he was young.
When Seven Treasures built the Holy Church in Pentos, Denzel was the first believer who went to pray. He even refused Varys's bounty and volunteered to be a member of the Fifty Cent Party. He roped in a group of Andal's neighbors to support the newly opened Holy Church.
Later on, when Qizang left Pentos, he personally baptized Denzel and converted him into a Star Warrior.
Er, Star Warrior is the official title of the Poor People's Gathering and the Beggar Army.
Only those with local residences and registered church membership could receive a small amount of relief food from the church.
However, the followers of the Seven Gods Church could not receive the relief food.
As the Holy Church was newly established, they could not store food in advance, nor did they have the means to purchase food.
In fact, Pope Danny had once issued a decree forbidding the church from purchasing food from the people.
Of course, the Church of the Seven Gods had their own ways to feed their believers. The monks would learn from Slave Bay and organize believers to engage in a long night of production. They would go outside the city to gather firewood, pluck tree roots, pluck tree leaves, and summon small suns to fish in the sea.
This morning, Denzel joined the Beggar Army and went outside the city to peel tree bark. He only returned home at two in the afternoon.
Compared to other families, Denzel's family was already considered to be in the upper middle class. However, once they gave up on the church's relief food for his father-in-law and wife, their living standards would definitely drop by a level.
"Don't worry. The Red God will protect me," Hannah said as she looked at her husband who was struggling.
"Child …" Denzel gritted his teeth and took the baby boy from his wife's arms. He said, "Dina will take care of Jaime. Follow me to the Holy Church.
Even if Pentos falls, the Other Ghosts won't be able to enter the Place of Glory of the Seven Gods. "
Hannah still wanted to argue, but her father-in-law held her back and whispered, "We don't know about the Gods, but there's one thing we're certain of — the Holy Mother is the strongest God. She far surpasses the Light King."
"Lahlo formed an alliance with the Gods to deal with the Dragon Queen. However, the Dragon Queen is only one of the Holy Mother's believers," the old man said wisely.
Hannah was convinced. She looked at the swaddling clothes reluctantly and began to put on a patched light yellow robe.
In the Red God Temple, only great monks who could represent the Red God and possessed extraordinary talent were considered red-robed monks. The Red God's priest apprentices were dressed in orange robes.
The yellow-robed monks were the temple attendants, while the orange-robed and red-robed monks were the servants.
However, the yellow-robed monks were considered to be part of an institution. They were official workers and had an iron rice bowl.
The employees of the institution were much stronger than the wild monks.
Denzel also put on a tattered leather armor and the gray linen robe of the Beggar Army.
When he walked out of the house, he realized that the streets were already brightly lit. All the torches, torches, and braziers in the city were lit.
It was as if they wanted to use these sparks to scare the monsters of the cold and darkness.
Passing through the chaotic crowd, Denzel carried his son with his left hand and his daughter with his right. After many twists and turns, he quickly arrived at the Holy Church in the center of the city.
Seeing the Tower of Light shining from the dome of the Holy Church, he, like everyone else, heaved a sigh of relief. He slowed down and no longer panicked.
His daughter carried her brother and walked into the basement in the backyard of the Holy Church with a group of old women and children. Denzel took the iron sword and the Dragon Crystal Spear and went to find Archbishop Hagan.
He would be the archbishop's bodyguard.
Yes, Denzel had a good political background and a good resume (he served the Dragon Queen and Qi Zang). He was trusted by the current archbishop.
In Pentos, many atonement scrolls were given out, but there were not many true believers of the Seven Gods. There were two hundred Warrior's Sons and five hundred Beggar Army members.
Among the Warrior's Sons, there were thirty Westeros, ten Church Paladins, and twenty Volunteer Knights. They were all elites.
"Archbishop Hagan, the Prince hopes that you can guard the East Gate and defend against the zombies coming from Valleglia Avenue."
Soon, the palace guard rushed to the Holy Church and handed the archbishop a letter of appointment.
"The deviant ghosts are coming from the east." A Paladin frowned.
The guard smiled awkwardly and approached Monk Hagan. He whispered, "Please forgive us, Archbishop. The Princes know that the East Gate is the most dangerous, but you are the strongest in Pentos."
"Including the Beggar Army members, we only have seven hundred people." Hagan sighed.
The guard came from a branch of the royal family, so he knew some secrets that only the higher-ups knew. He smiled bitterly and said, "The Church of the Seven Gods has you, ten Priests, ten Paladins, and a total of twenty-one Transcendents. You are much stronger than the other churches."
"Transcendents …" Hagan's mouth twitched. "You flatter me."
He did not expect that a Level Two Priest of the Great Cathedral of Baylor would become an Transcendents one day.
Moreover, other than him, the Paladins and Priests of the Great Cathedral of Pentos were only Level One. They were peripheral characters in the Curia …
The guard said in awe, "You are too humble. In the past year, half of the Transcendents' gatherings in Pentos were hosted by Priest Neymar under your command.
Only the strongest Transcendents are qualified to host the Transcendents' gatherings. Everyone knows that. "
Back then, when the Dragon Queen wanted to attend the Transcendents' gatherings, she was rejected. Today, her underling's underling's underling became a Transcendents' boss and began to host the Transcendents' gatherings.
The Transcendents' gatherings were not a competition of fame, and it was impossible to become a Master with just one "Receive Hair". It was a competition of magic power and Transcendents' knowledge.
It was a comprehensive competition, so Mr. Nanguo and Ma Baoguo could not take advantage of it.
Hagan glanced at the white-robed Priest Neymar, who had a solemn expression.
That guy's Priest level was not high, but he was a Doctor in his early years. He was one of the Doctors of the Naked Street. Because he was a rare believer of the Seven Gods, he was kept in the Great Cathedral by the Sparrow to repent and atone for his sins. Later, he became a Priest. Because of his rich Transcendents' knowledge, he was arranged by the Archbishop to go to Pentos to make a name for himself.
Now it seemed that the effect was not bad?
However, Hagan hoped that Neymar could rope in a group of Transcendents to convert to the Seven Gods.
The Transcendents' Priest was stronger.
Half of the ten Priests under his command came from the Dragon Queen's Royal Mage Regiment.
Those guys were all old foxes who were familiar with the affairs of the trading city-states, so they were sent to Pentos.
However, there was still some estrangement between the Transcendents' Priests and the native Westeros' Priests.
The Transcendents' Priests knew the details of the Holy Mother, but they could not tell their Seven Kingdoms' Priests in detail, so the estrangement was naturally born.
.....
In the end, Archbishop Hagan accepted the prince's commission.
When they climbed up the city wall, the ghoul army was already within a one-kilometer radius of the city wall. The Pentos people had built a sentry post outside the city. When the horn was blown three times, the ghouls were still twenty to thirty kilometers away from the city.
In the darkness, Deviant Ghosts rode on huge Ice Spiders and resurrected dead horses. They walked out of the snowy plains, holding ice swords that were as thin as blades.
The sentry post warned the soldiers of the corpse tide and escaped. They cried and drove the sleigh towards the city gate. Then, the ghoul horses caught up with them, and the ice swords slashed …
They slaughtered all living things in front of them, humans and sleigh dogs.
In the next moment, the dead were resurrected and joined the dense horde of corpses behind the Deviant Ghosts, which was like a moving carpet.
"It's over, this is not a small-scale attack by ghouls. There are more than a million of them, and no army can resist them!" Denzel's hands and feet were cold, and he murmured, "I should have thought of it. Kohor fell two months ago, so how could Pentos, which is next door, be spared?
This ghoul army must have come from Kohor, and followed Valleglia Avenue, which is a smooth journey. "
"No, the ghoul army came from Norfoss. Kohor and Pentos are separated by Norfoss.
Norfoss fell half a month ago, and the entire city and the surrounding villages and towns lost more than two million people. "
Denzel tilted his head and looked. It was the Holy Knight Arthur Erol, a young lord from the Hay Hall in the Land of Storms.
Yes, the youngest son of the count who did not have the right to inherit.
Denzel's hometown, the Harvest Hall, was next door to the Hay Hall. He had seen Arthur's father from afar a few times in his early years. Although one was a lord and the other was a farmer, they were still from the same hometown, and their relationship had always been good.
"Norfoss has fallen as well?" Denzel's throat was dry.
"In the continent of Ursos, except for the coastal trading cities, almost all the inland cities have fallen. According to the news from Dragonstone Island, more than twenty million people have died in the past six months from the narrow sea to the jade sea, "Arthur said with a serious expression.
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