Hearing Ophelia's words, Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "The female priest is in an awkward situation? What's the situation?"

"After the end of the city defense war, the original Holy See Knights and combat priests of the church were severely reduced. They are now undergoing reorganization and reorganization. The Patriarch is preparing to convert the people who passed the assessment into white knights, but there is a problem... The female priests and female knights do not seem to be very adapted to the white knights...style and equipment.

"In addition, as far as I know, the main priests of the Southern Church are composed of the White Knights' War. Of course, they are all powerful warriors of the Holy Light, very reliable on the battlefield, but as a window to spread doctrine, their style is a bit..."

Ophelia was a little hesitant when she said this. Even with the experience of a thousand years of disobedient, she seemed to feel a little entangled at this moment, but she still said the following words: "Their style is not very suitable for getting close to the people. We tried to reopen the confessional room in the church area, and the White Knights took turns to serve in order to relieve the pressure after the people's war, but there was almost no response..."

Gao Wen almost guessed what was going on.

Ophelia sighed, and her tone was quite helpless: "Frankly speaking, after the people who went to the confessional room knew that it was a white knight, they were worried that if they said their mistakes, the people inside would jump out and hammer themselves to death - even though we all know that this is impossible..."

Gao Wen couldn't help but hold his forehead with his hands.

This situation does exist-I don’t know which link is wrong (maybe related to the Patriarch’s personal style). The Southern Holy Light Church has embarked on a certain path of no return since its restructuring. It was formed in the form of a “religious war group”. Although there are ordinary priests and nuns, its main structure is the White Knights’ War and the “mechanical monks” who assist the war group. This militarized organizational form and the control method of the Government Affairs Department ensure that the Southern Church is highly controllable and loyal, but on the other hand...

It seems that there is something wrong with its painting style.

In the southern border and in the state of war, there was no problem with such a church, but the too hard and cold white knight had a natural lack of "affinity", which under the current circumstances became a shortcoming.

And another point that Ophelia mentioned is also a fact: the current White Knight suit is not suitable for female clergy, and this must be redesigned.

Even if all the above issues are not considered, it is necessary to properly place female priests during the church reform process. In this regard, Wright probably has no mature experience. If Ophelia wants to implement any measures, she will naturally come to ask Gao Wen for his opinion.

"The Northern Church is going to be reorganized, which naturally includes all priests and monks. You can count the number of priests in combat and civilized priests, discuss a new set of organization and management methods with Wright, and give me a look. In addition, I will also arrange for the research department to establish projects as soon as possible to produce equipment suitable for female priests."

"Thank you for your understanding," Ophelia thanked, "I have no other problem other than that."

Gao Wen nodded: "Let's just stop here today."

Ophelia stood up, and before she left the study, she turned her head and glanced at the bookshelf next to her, and nodded slightly with a smile.

After she left, the air next to the bookshelf immediately shook and twisted, and Amber's figure jumped out of thin air, shouting, "She really saw me!!"

"Your stealth cannot be hidden from her. Didn't you know before?" Gao Wen looked at the half-elf. "We discovered you at the same time since you entered the house - but I was really a little surprised that you would wait quietly by the side for so long."

"I'm curious about what you are talking about," Amber waved his hand, "and I'm more or less the Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, okay, I still have the eyesight to interrupt when and when to be quiet."

As he spoke, the half-elf showed an expression of sighing on her face: "But then again... it's really amazing inside story. Their understanding and research about God is really scary. In fact, half of me I regret listening to it - that Veronica didn't mind saying this in front of me. It seems that she sincerely wants to cooperate with us."

Gao Wen looked at the half-elf who said regretful to listen, but in fact he looked indifferent, and couldn't help asking: "After knowing the secrets about God and the truth about the disobedient plan, are you not touched? I remember you claim to be a believer in the Shadow Goddess..."

"First of all, I don't claim to myself, I really believe it, and secondly, I'm not an ordinary believer. I'm God's Choice. Don't disbelief, I'm really God's Choice!" Amber emphasized vigorously, then flattered his mouth and said in a low tone, "To be honest, it must be false to say that it was not touched. I don't believe that the Goddess' Kingdom of God is such a terrible place, nor do I believe that she is really full of malice towards humans... I talked to her. She is a very gentle god. She also taught me how to cook. How could it be like Veronica said..."

Gao Wen was actually stunned when he heard Amber say that the goddess taught her to cook, and once again confirmed that this guy's God-Choose identity was Wu Chuan. However, he remembered his understanding of this half-elves for so long. Seeing this guy talking about these things so naturally, and looking at her not bragging tone at all, Gao Wen became a little doubtful again-

Could this guy be saying it is true? Or at least, she thinks it is true...

But how is that possible? There is no belief in the Goddess of the Dark Night in this world. Although this belief is quite special, the believers do not have large-scale gatherings and churches, at least there are some gods and high-level priests in the Dark Night Realm. They have never mentioned that Goddess of the Dark Night is a god who can teach people to cook... No matter what, which god can do this?

"I'm a little bit doubtful about what you believe," Gao Wen said with a frown, "What do you think now?"

"...I want to ask the goddess and listen to her personal explanation," Amber's expression became serious and said word by word. "Next time I come into contact with high-level shadow believers, I will also look for clues from them. In short, I can't believe everything Veronica said before there is no tangible evidence."

Speaking of this, she quickly added: "Of course, I believe that most of what she said is true, or at least evidence-based. Other gods are probably as dangerous as what she said - but Shadow Goddess is definitely not!"

Looking at Amber with a certain face, Gao Wen finally realized one thing: this half-elf is probably the real person who believes in the Shadow Goddess - and it is not the kind of person who believes it casually because it is free.

But this guy's usual words and deeds can't even tell the slightest sign of faith.

This made Gao Wen fall into endless entanglement.

He had to calm his entanglement with a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "I respect your beliefs, but no matter what, cooperation between us and the disobedients is necessary. In the long run, we must also be wary of the dark future described by Veronica. I do not want to have differences and misunderstandings within us at this point."

"I understand," Amber nodded, his originally drooping ears raised a little again, "Anyway, what Veronica wants to do now is just to transfer human faith. I am the God of Dark Night. My faith is not affected by this shift. If one day it really reaches the worst step... it can only prove that what she said is right, and I have nothing to hesitate."

Just as Gao Wen knew her, this half-elf has always been enlightened when it comes to issues that need to be taken seriously.

Disobedient and the gods...

Gao Wen sighed in his heart, and the information he heard from Veronica/Ophelia today was once again stirred up in his heart.

What kind of existence are those gods who really exist in this world? Are they protecting this world or are they looking forward to the destruction of the latter?

Even those who disobey cannot explain the contradictory qualities of the gods, and cannot explain their behavior that seems to be full of chaos, but sometimes full of rationality and tendency. They can only start from facts and prepare for thousands of years, preparing for the moment when the gods show their malicious intentions.

Gao Wen actually has his own guesses about the true qualities of gods:

Perhaps, those powerful beings are too far beyond the understanding of mortals, and they can no longer measure them by simply "good and evil", because the concepts of good and evil are just concepts created by mortals trapped in their own cognition.

The gods may be operating in a higher and more incomprehensible logical system. Their actions of protecting the world or destroying the world have nothing to do with good and evil, but for other reasons.

The second possibility is even more thrilling and disturbing:

God, wouldn't it be crazy?

Or, will they be a "creature" that falls into madness periodically - when a certain "end of the day" comes, all gods will uncontrollably turn into madness!

The two legendary powerful men who crossed the rift and came back half-crazy, the sentence "This is a countdown" they left behind actually refers to the countdown for the gods to maintain their rationality...

If this is the second possibility, Veronica is now cautious in transforming the Holy Light Church and trying to block the "bridge of the world" without disturbing the gods. Whether the gods will open the end of the world has nothing to do with whether the disobedients have alarmed them, but only with a countdown.

A countdown that no one knows its specific scale and may come to an end at any time is probably still ticking.

The demon tide is impermanent and destroys the world, but at least the surveillance satellite hanging high in space can also provide a certain degree of warning to it. If the countdown to maintain rationality really exists... Gao Wen really has no way to predict it!

At this moment, Amber's voice came from the side, which made Gao Wen wake up from his contemplation: "Old Zongzi... your expression is a bit scary."

Gao Wen raised his head and temporarily suppressed the complicated thoughts in his heart: "No... nothing. Let's not talk about this for now, let's talk about you, is there anything wrong?"

Amber hesitated for a moment before she told her original purpose of coming here today: "I found the clue."

"Clues?" Gao Wen didn't react at first, but then he understood what the other party meant, "Have you found the clue of Surrey Randolph?"

"He is a royal shadow guard, and he was once personally enthroned by Francis II and possessed the secret noble title. Therefore, he has both a noble title and is not in the normal aristocratic roster," since he had spoken, Amber simply said it all, "his last task was to go to the Dark Mountains to find clues to the heritage of Gondor, and the reason why he stayed in the southern border was because he defected."

Gao Wen: "…"

"Wait a minute, the amount of information is a bit large, I want to sort it out," Gao Wen rubbed his forehead and couldn't help but mutter, "Why is this a big deal today..."

"This is the information I found. You can sort it out while reading it," Amber said, taking out the roster and record file she got from the Raven. "I have confirmed that it is indeed my adoptive father, and his name and appearance are consistent."

Gao Wen took the information and read it carefully. There was not much content on it. After skipping Surrey Randolph's early experience, he could finish the remaining content in a few minutes. He looked at it and said, "Have he never mentioned his former identity and experience to you?"

"No, I always thought he was a native of the Southern Kingdom, a crappy thief... But today I think about it. His nose bridge is very high and his eyes are slightly lighter. This is actually...the characteristic of northerners..."

"This country is narrow in the north and south, with small differences in ethnic groups. You were young back then, so it was normal that he could not tell the difference. Moreover, his identity as a defector, Shadow Guard... is indeed not suitable to tell a ignorant child," Gao Wen quickly finished reading the information and put them aside. "He defected in the mission of going to the Dark Mountains to find the heritage of Gondor. This is a breakthrough... Was he looking for a disobedient fortress at that time?"

"I don't know, and I can't figure it out. Even if the one he is looking for is really disobedient fortress, what's worth his defection?"

"Yes..." Gao Wen crossed his hands and pressed against his chin, with a deep tone, "This is really a problem..."
Chapter completed!