The mainstream belief in the Kingdom of Doguland is the sun, and one official in the eight-position system is the high priest who specializes in coordinating sun beliefs.

Moreover, not only is the slogan in the royal family "Glory to the Sun", but the extraordinary power of the Doguland royal family also comes from the sun. The stronger the belief in the sun, the hotter the power of the sun will be.

 Over the years, it can be said that all the people in Doguland believe in the sun. The so-called "Scarlet Church" is just a small group of doctors who study blood.

 But since the outbreak of the lycanthropy epidemic 26 years ago, the situation of sun belief covering the entire kingdom has slowly changed.

Since the royal family knew nothing about the lycanthropic disease, the alchemists were at a loss after studying it all night, and a large number of infected people were unable to be treated.

Later, although alchemists successfully extracted salt crystals and controlled the spread of the epidemic, the salt crystals could only prevent the epidemic and protect those who were not infected, and had no therapeutic effect.

 And the number of people who have been infected exceeds hundreds of thousands. Once these infected people get sicker and become out of control, all parts of the kingdom will be reduced to rubble overnight.

At that time, it seemed that there was only one way left for the royal family, which was to execute all infected people and burn them on the spot.

Even if this approach will lose the support of the people, it is the only way to continue the kingdom.

 Just when the royal family decided on the strategy of killing and Doguland was about to enter its darkest age, a second way appeared.

In the face of the raging epidemic, doctors who studied blood in the Scarlet Church invented "blood therapy" which is still widely used today - using purified blood to suppress the epidemic factors in infected people, allowing them to lose their infectivity and function like normal people.

Life.

 At first, blood therapy was only used on a small scale in the city where the church was located. After everyone discovered that the effect was extraordinary, it burned the entire country like wildfire, helping the royal family suppress the most serious waves of epidemics and restore order to stability.

Since blood therapy can only suppress the disease factors but cannot completely eliminate them, it means that infected people must have lifelong blood therapy. Once it is discontinued, the infection will relapse, and the epidemic may come back again.

The fatal part is here. Millions of infected people in the kingdom need blood therapy, but the alchemists have no idea how the blood therapy works, and they don’t know how the purifying blood is created. They can only be provided by the Scarlet Church.

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 This also means that the Scarlet Church, which has the blood of purification, actually controls the lifeblood of the kingdom.

The royal family once wanted to pay a large sum of money to purchase the principles of blood therapy, but the Scarlet Church had an extremely tough attitude and refused to hand it over. The royal family tried to coerce and induce them several times but failed to make them relent, and the spies who inserted themselves failed to get access to the core information.

The royal family has not never taken violent measures, but what they received was strong resistance from epidemic doctors, and they even threatened to cut off the supply of purifying blood, which aroused a panic among the people.

 Finally, out of desperation, for the sake of the stability of the kingdom, the royal family had no choice but to give up its tough attitude and choose to cooperate with the Scarlet Church, allowing the epidemic doctors to travel through the six major provinces to suppress the lycanthropic epidemic.

Today, the scale of the Scarlet Church has been extremely large, such as the town of Shilin where Kino was originally located. Even border towns like that have Scarlet Church epidemic doctors, and other big cities can be imagined.

 For civilians, when they are really facing life and death, many people are more willing to trust the doctors who can suppress the lycanthropy in front of them than the illusory sun. The status of the Scarlet Church is getting higher and higher in the hearts of civilians.

 Nowadays, the sun is still the mainstream belief in Doguland, and there is nothing to argue with this.

 But beyond the sun, a lingering scarlet shadow has appeared.

 …

 Let’s get back to the present moment.

When Perseus heard this topic, his face was as gloomy as if he was about to drip water: "It's true, it happened last week."

Sting frowned: "Solandel is only 12 years old after her birthday..."

Perseus clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "The Archbishop said that his son can wait until Solandel reaches the age of 16."

"Damn it... His intention to marry the royal princess is clearly an attempt to intervene in the kingdom's politics and tie the church and the royal family deeper. It will be difficult to untie this tie in the future." Sting held his forehead and helplessly said

Said, "Even if you don't think about that far and only think about personal happiness, I don't think Solandel will like each other. The archbishop's son, hehe, is as fat as a pig, and his eyes are smaller than mung beans. My family's land is good

Even the dragon is prettier than him."

When he thought of Solandel being carried into the room by that fat pig and being pressed down and crying, Perseus' blood surged and his pupils seemed to be burning with fire: "The damned church...I swear, from now on,

As long as the alchemists find out the principle of blood therapy or find other methods to control the epidemic, I will behead all these church dogs! Let their heads hang on the city walls to slowly rot!!!"

“Bang!” When Perseus got angry, he couldn’t control his emotions and slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground.

 The king was angry and the whole place was completely silent.

The banquet hall was very noisy just now. No one heard what the two people on the stage were talking about. In this situation, of course no one dared to ask.

　　Everyone looked down at the table in front of them, motionless and did not dare to make any sound. Only the sound of Perseus' heavy breathing echoed around.

Solandel looked at Perseus and asked cautiously: "Father, what's wrong?"

Perseus didn't want his daughter to notice anything strange, so he deliberately pretended to be drunk, shaking his head and giggling: "Oh - I - and you - Uncle Sting drank too much~ It's okay! Keep going, just do it in a daze.

Well? I won’t come home until I’m drunk today!”

Whether this is the truth or a lie, the king's words are the truth. Everyone suppressed the timidity in their hearts and continued to laugh, and the banquet hall soon became lively again.

Solandel looked at her father's stupid "drunk look", smiled, and continued to learn magic techniques from Kino.

On the stage, the servants quickly came to clear away the broken glasses and brought new glasses, as well as food and wine.

Perseus held a pot of wine in his left hand and a whole leg of roast lamb in his right hand, drinking and gnawing with his head lowered.

Sting sighed and asked silently: "What are your plans? I want to know what you really think."

Perseus stuffed his mouth with meat and kept pouring wine into his mouth. He ate without any image, and even his voice became blurred and hoarse: "I have one daughter, but my people have thousands of daughters.

Being born into the royal family, everyone must contribute to the kingdom. This is our destiny, just like Sulla did 12 years ago."

As soon as he heard the name of his late wife, Sting's eyes began to turn red. He glanced at Lorna in the audience and nodded gently: "I can no longer restore Sura, and I will never be sorry to Lorna in this life. But at least you can

There are still 4 years left.”

Perseus hummed and continued to eat and drink in an imageless manner, as if this would make him forget his troubles.
Chapter completed!