Horus said in a deep voice: "Rhodes, you have to understand that you are now a genius with a strong mark in the palace, one of the brightest rising stars in recent years, your safety is very important... there are soldiers who died for you.

It’s valuable, they protected a future star, and he will save more people.”

Damn you!

Rhodes almost cursed, you are hurting me by not letting me out.

However, Horus's words were hard to refute. Rhodes racked his brains and could not find a new excuse. At this moment, his body suddenly felt hot, and a brilliant heat hit his face, integrated into his body, and spread into his limbs.

Remains.

Rhodes raised his head in surprise and saw the hand Wang just put down.

"King..."

"Your Majesty!"

Horus shouted loudly. Anyone who is familiar with him knows that he only uses honorifics when he is extremely angry.

"What are you doing?"

The king smiled gently: "Don't be excited, Horus, anger will reduce your wisdom..."

Horus interrupted him angrily: "Why did you give him a blessing? Do you want to kill our new star?"

Wang smiled and said: "Horus, I think you have misunderstood. The prophecies are not wrong, but our interpretation is often wrong. Where do you think Rhodes' danger comes from?"

Horus said angrily: "Of course it is an extremely dangerous, terrifying, and weird monster!"

Wang shook his head slightly.

"Not necessarily. Monsters are certainly dangerous, but the monsters currently appearing on the battlefield are all understandable. The incomprehensible monsters have not yet arrived. After Little Rhodes experienced the Battle of the Trident River, he has matured a lot and is a qualified

A high-level combatant."

"For him, the real danger comes from within."

This sentence was like a bucket of cold water poured down on the head. Horus was shocked: "You mean, doomsday cultists?"

"Yes."

"But... the Doomsday Cults have already suffered a big blow. The Survivor Cult has disappeared without a trace, the Advent Cult has fallen apart, and the Defiler Cult is hiding deep in the sewers, afraid to come forward..."

The king shook his head lightly: "Horus, Grand Hierarch Asa and his Book of Destiny are far more troublesome than you think. They may just want to use this to keep Rhodes in the royal city so that they can carry out their assassination conspiracy."

"But, but." Horus still couldn't believe it: "The battlefield is also very dangerous..."

Wang Shengsheng said: "The flowers blooming in the greenhouse can never face the wind and rain. If Rhodes wants to become a towering tree, he must go through a cruel battle."

"Even if you die on the way."

The holy fire sacrificial site became quiet, leaving only the sound of the burning holy fire.

After a long time, Horus sighed: "Okay, as you say."

Finally!

Rhodes' hanging heart finally relaxed.

Damn it, it’s not easy to go out.

Wang gently patted Rhodes on the shoulder and said gently: "Go, our new star, the Holy Fire Project has greatly advanced because of your existence. I have been waiting for many years, and it is finally reaching its critical stage."

We have reached the stage, and you have grown beyond imagination. Maybe you will be able to participate by then."

Wang smiled slightly, with flames flickering in his golden eyes.

"I'm looking forward to that moment."

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After Rhodes left, Horus also left quickly - as one of the most powerful archbishops in the history of the Holy Church, his personal strength exceeded that of a first-level combatant and reached the level of a quasi-super-level combatant.
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Therefore, the burden on his shoulders is far heavier than that of ordinary people.

Ever since Trorian entered a state of full-scale combat and launched a campaign to the west, he has had little free time and often has to deal with tedious academic affairs while fighting fiercely.

The Holy Church is an important organization that maintains the stability of the Trorian Kingdom. It is responsible for comforting the people, treating diseases, rescuing the wounded, and all prayer and sacrificial activities.

Whenever a war begins, fierce fighting will bring turmoil and unrest.

This is also the busiest period for the Holy Church.

Horus's work is very tedious, but he also has to support various places - the change in the situation that a quasi-super combatant can bring is very huge, and the palace cannot sit idly by.

There is nothing we can do about this.

As the Western Expedition depleted a large amount of combat power, the defense pressure in various places increased sharply.

The huge psychic disturbance caused by the large-scale war also made the world shrouded in black fog unstable, and abnormal states occurred frequently.

As the last line of defense of the human kingdom, the Palace of Fire has been squeezed to the limit.

Every palace-level warrior is constantly sent to deal with abnormal situations, and only has the shortest rest time.

The stronger the warrior, the more frequent the battle.

Trorian is like a taut bowstring. The strong pressure makes it break at any time, but it cannot stop.

This is also the reason why Wang’s plan met with fierce opposition.

No one wants to take this risk.

The king is not willing either.

But there is no way around it. The intensity of the holy fire far exceeds its limit.

No one knows this. The previous popular theory in the royal city believed that the power of the holy fire has no upper limit. As long as enough phlogiston and firewood are added, the holy fire can become infinitely stronger.

It was not until long after the king ascended the throne that the abnormality of the sacred fire was discovered.

But there is no way to save it now. Lowering the intensity means abandoning the entire outer city, which means the death of tens of millions of people.

Humanity's already embarrassing living space will be further reduced, and the number of new fire bearers every year will be significantly reduced.

Trorian will be set back fifty years, maybe even a hundred years.

Wang's dream will become out of reach.

——That is also a prophecy.

Before the king took office, the master of the White Tower was not Meredith, but his teacher, Alai Peter.

Before the fire-passing ceremony was held, Alai Peter used his soul to complete a miraculous prophecy of the source.

The result of the prophecy is: "The next king of Trolian will lead the surviving humans in the Dark Age to restore their former glory."

Yes.

The king remembered every word of the prophecy deeply.

He will never forget the moment when Alai Peter, the elder he respected most, exchanged his soul for him, turned into ashes in front of him.

That brief prophecy was imprinted on his soul like steel and became his spirit and belief for the next twenty years.

He did.

In his hands, Trorian is far more powerful than before. Its population has doubled, its resources have skyrocketed, its space has expanded, and its internal unity has made everything prosperous.

Until the holy fire changes.

That was Trorian's biggest turning point.

Since then, Trorian, which was developing at a rapid pace, suddenly came to a standstill, internal cracks appeared, conflicts increased, and doomsday cultists began to become rampant.

Faced with such a predicament, Wang had to stay at the Holy Fire Sacrifice for a long time and spend most of his time guarding the Holy Fire.

They even had to weave the illusion that the king was addicted to beauty to cover up the truth, so that the disputes among the candidates for the king became acute.

But all this is for the Holy Fire Project.

He wants to do something that no one before him could even imagine. He wants to capture another Fire King city sunk in the black mist - Tasnia's Star City, kill another king, and seize 1,500 years of history.

The sacred fire seed of the previously destroyed Starry Kingdom.

This is an extremely risky plan.

He had a safer choice.

But if we do that, we will lose the possibility of regaining human glory. Human beings can only give up their dignity, cut off their unnecessary compatriots with a knife, curl up again, and live in humiliation under the darkness brought by the black mist.
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That kind of shadow cannot be eliminated even in one hundred or two hundred years.

The king cannot accept it.

He had heard about the glory of mankind. They once ruled the heaven and earth, ruled the earth, ruled the ocean, and walked proudly everywhere in this world. Even the gods had to bow their proud heads to them.

He also firmly believes that he will be able to rebuild the glory of mankind.

Even just a little bit.
To be continued...