Game Transmigration: Saving the World Again 1000 Years Later (ON-HOLD)

Chapter 73: Sealing Temple

The oak door emitted a brass luster after being enhanced by metal-type spells.

When hoes, woodcutters, axes, or other tools that weren't meant for killing knocked on the door, the heavy banging made the scalps of the survivors hiding in the hall tingle.

Why was this happening?

Should I have chosen to leave back then?

Woolt thought to himself as he pressed the magical medium against the door and released Brass Door.

However... This is the Sealing Temple... Why has the Holy Spirits Church given up on the Sealing Temple?

With this in mind, Woolt realized that his thoughts had crossed the line. He shook his head fiercely and shook off those thoughts he shouldn't have.

The Sealing Temple was an important component of the Holy Spirits Church's power, or rather, the most important component.

Typically, every parish would have two to three branch halls. There were a total of about 30 branch halls distributed in every corner of the continent.

The clergy of the Sealing Temple didn't need to be in charge of preaching, sacramental work, sacrifices, or purification. Their existence was semi-confidential. Most citizens didn't even know of the Sealing Temple's existence.

As for the Sealing Temple's duty, it was to ensure that the Church's teachings weren't distorted. Of course, this was only what was made public. In essence, the Sealing Temple was a violent mechanism that was rooted in the Church's authority. It used a less benevolent method to maintain the Church's authority.

In short, they were responsible for interrogating the spreaders of all kinds of heretical theories, collecting intelligence from all over the world, sealing and managing holy relics, and maintaining the large-scale teleportation nexuses.

The overlords who held secular power didn't actually like such an armed force that didn't heed their orders. Therefore, other than cities like Platinum City or Myriad Feet City that served as the center of faith, most places' Sealing Temples were only allowed to be built in the countryside or small towns. They typically weren't too close to the core cities, but of course, they weren't too far away.

For example, the Sealing Temple in charge of all the matters in the northern parish of the Blackwater Province was located in a town called Red Spring Town about 80 kilometers away from Thorn City, the political and economic center of the Blackwater Province.

It was built underground under the cover of the Holy Spirits Church in the center of the town.

The status it had was akin to an uncrowned king of the entire northern parish of the Blackwater Province. Any work the Holy Spirits Church wanted to carry out in the northern part of the Blackwater Province couldn't avoid them.

It should have been like this...

But what was the problem?

A loud bang sounded from outside the door. This time, the things outside seemed to have rolled over a very heavy thing before slamming it into the door.

With this, even the door that had been reinforced cracked slightly.

Millstone? Or something else?

"Roy, try activating the communication nexus again. It might just be a temporary malfunction."

Feeling the pressure gradually increase, Woolt turned his head and said to the woman who was sitting in a corner and bandaging her wound with a hand and teeth. A chunk of flesh had been ripped off by something.