Angel on earth

Jonathan paused, glanced at Isabella slowly, walked up to Mikhail and squatted down, and said in the voice full of affection and vicissitudes of a bard:

"You are indeed a child of God, but not the sun god, Mithra, the heavenly father of us sinners, who came into this world with a deeper sin than all of us. - In the Third Holy War , I, Isabella, Hill, and Rollins assisted our Lord in killing the brothers and sisters of the "God of Harvest" Ivan Kupala of the Siegfried Federation, and brought their remains back to the Pantheon.

"Mikhail Ivanovich, the son of the heretical god Ivan Kupala who committed adultery with his sister Kostroma. These 16 years we have taught you to be kind, to study the scriptures and to be godly , leading you to be loyal to the Father God, I hope you can redeem your sins and become a new person. But you still fell, and blasphemed the Father God for a vampire, and even arrogantly regarded all the former brothers and sisters here as evildoers enemy.

"You don't need to argue, he has all kinds of pitiful and sophistical excuses. If you have no selfishness, you will not trust him completely, and you will not betray God the Father for him. You should know that your god-given power is only for you. Ordinary people and the weak are effective, how can you see through the ideas of people who are really capable of fighting against you?"

The lingering sound lingered in the spacious hall, and Mikhail's panting could be clearly heard.

Isabella had lied to him, and he hadn't noticed it last night.He had the slightest chance that if Isabella's "truth" was false, so could Jonathan.They shouldn't be judging him here, they shouldn't be telling him this when he's full of intentions to correct all wrongs of the church.

Suddenly he understood Jana.She was excommunicated from the church, then waited 200 years to kill Gabriel, but was Mithra's shepherd and high priest on an isolated island where no one could find her.He is different, he is still the high priest of the church, and may become God himself in the future, but he is the only real heretic in the church.

The pope and the saints were scattered in the empty hall, admiring his trembling from near or far.They didn't know why he was in pain, and if he looked up, they would find a gleam of joy in that tender boyish face.

"...I have always disliked a part of the Sun God's Tome. When you guys taught me, I always asked. Later, I saw that you didn't like this topic, so I stopped asking. I still can't understand it now."

After a long time, Mikhail said softly:

"In the history of God's canon, until now in many places, slaves are legal, and it is shameful to be a slave. But we are all born sinners, slaves of God the Father; sinners are shameful, slaves of God the Father What's there to be ashamed of? I used to be proud of my status a long time ago. That's when you thought I was the best? But then I was more arrogant than anyone else. I was much shorter than slaves and poor people, but I always stood tall. Have mercy on them before them, because slaves are not human beings, and poor people who are lazy and do not work will not go to heaven. I stood at the gate of heaven and sprinkled water on the people in the lake of fire in hell, and stained their lips."

Jonathan stood up, stepped aside, raised his eyebrows, not very angry, but asked more curiously: "Do you still call him God the Father?"

"The church accepts every pious and repentant believer." Mikhail looked up at him, the muscles on his face were still struggling with all kinds of surging emotions, but their owner said seriously, "I have always believed in him, because he Overcame all kinds of natural disasters, expelled the gods who eat human flesh and blood, brought us abundance and peace, and let the world have a resting place after death. The filth of the world is the price we should bear as sinners, but even All vampires look forward to the heaven promised by God the Father. I believe in Him with all my heart, so I should call Him my Father in heaven.”

He stood up on his left knee, looked around, and said slowly:

"There is not a pure and good person in this temple, but I have never tarnished any of my titles to this day-'Sun Knight', 'Harvest Priest', 'Chief Exorcist', 'Chief Priest of Lieyang City ’—let me prove it to you.”

The Pope tilted his head, fearing that the heavy diadem might take his head and break his neck:

"How do you prove that?"

Mikhail said, "I will enter through the narrow gate."

Jonathan straightened up in a leisurely standing posture, even the smile on Isabella's face disappeared.

The "narrow gate" mentioned by Mikhail is not the conceptual gate of heaven mentioned in the Sun God's Book, but a wooden gate embedded in the wall of the Pantheon facing the main entrance.

When the sky dome mural was completed, there was intense light shining directly through the rose-eye window, and the wooden door suddenly appeared in the wall.No trace of its existence can be seen from the outside, but before and after the third Holy War, the descended Holy Son and some curious believers did push the door in, and the physical body of the Pope who was descended at that time also accelerated the collapse.

The Son told his saints that only the very young and the absolutely pure should not enter through the narrow gate.Only those who have the qualifications to ascend to heaven alive have the possibility of victory, but the moment they step through this narrow gate, they are already filled with the sin of pride. "Sacred Code" Xixi's family once entered and came out alive, aged 20 years in an instant, and was permanently blind because of it; thirteen children entered, and five came out alive.

Isabella and the others were not worried about Mikhail's soul, but his body.They need this young, healthy and strong body of the true "Son of God" to sacrifice to God the Father.

Mikhail could see it, tilted his head and smiled, sincere and sincere from the bottom of his heart.He said briskly:

"Don't worry, Isabella, Gregory. If I fail and the 'Father God' you call really needs this body, He will send it out. What we think of as death is the death of the spirit, right? Isn’t a body without a spirit more suitable for sacrifice than a flawed faith? So you have to worry about me, Mikhail Ivanovich Kupala, walking out of that door alive. "

No one spoke, no one believed his spirit would come out alive, and strangely no one felt relieved.Mikhail stood up slowly and walked forward.The saints who were far away from him separated to the two sides, and even the pope on the throne stood up and looked down at this young man who knew nothing about the sky and the earth.

The gate of the Pantheon is five meters wide, which is still narrow compared to its height; there is a narrow door behind the seat that has never been opened, which also goes straight to the inner eaves, but the width between the two gateposts is only half a meter, as if It was not a stone gate, but the legendary sword that split the East and North Erhan Islands. A tall boy like Mikhail had to turn sideways to squeeze in between the pillars.

The stone pillars on both sides in front of the narrow door were actually two statues of gods who were thicker than the pillars supporting the wall—because they were kneeling.On the left is a male image, and on the right is a female image. The man wears a crown of wheat ears and fruits, and the woman wears a wreath decorated with butterflies and water drops.

Their foreheads sloping toward the ground are engraved with words written in ancient Sinai, "Through me, enter the city of endless pain" on the left, and "Through me, enter the pit of eternal misery[4]" on the right, like a castle with arcs. Arc de Triomphe with shaped opening.

Mikhail has seen these two statues many times. When he was not sensible, he was taken to the Pantheon and climbed up. Only today did he know that they were his father and mother.

He didn't worship them, because he is the chief saint, the chief priest of Lieyang City, and the Church of the Sun God does not worship idols.

He stood in front of the wooden door.

"Don't be afraid. You are the bravest and kindest man in the world, Mishenka."

Two unrecognizable voices intertwined and emerged in his ears, sounding gentle and cruel, but it was not like "Arnold" or Isabella, but rather like a middle-aged father and mother standing on a thatched roof At the door of his house, he waved his hand and watched the newly grown child go to the distance with a dagger and leather boots.Their young children will slay dragons, and treasures will be found, and everyone will praise them, and before that must be smashed in the flood of men and dragons and the wilderness of the world, but they will say nothing, because Their children looked so high-spirited, their eyes were full of stars and the rising sun, and they couldn't listen to a dejected exhortation.

Mikhail closed his eyes, paused for a long time, gently pushed open the wooden door, and strode into it.

The next moment, the stone wall and narrow gate behind him disappeared, and a dense forest of coniferous and broadleaf surrounded him.

He took a deep breath, and the dry air unique to late autumn poured into his chest cavity.

The low pressure before the rain actually gave people the illusion of being refreshed.The autumn wind pierced through the woods, and the yellow leaves of the beech rustled, making Mikhail, who was wearing armor, a little cold.He took two steps forward, tall and verdant spruces and firs above his head, the bushes at his feet had fallen leaves, and the dark brown branches struggled to stretch.The wet ground is covered with thick, soft leaves, and ground squirrels and gray rabbits flash past underneath.

Mikhail turned around twice more, and had to confirm that this was the Gospel Forest in the territory of the Mithra Dynasty.

Gospel Forest was originally a wilderness, rumored to have been haunted by unicorns, but it was filled with miasma and difficult to pass through. Before the Second Jihad, this place was known as Noren's Uniken Line of Defense.During the war, Micah and Isabella defeated the Noren army here. A forest grew on the corpses buried at that time, and the poisonous gas and insects no longer existed.

After the Xinghe Mountains were flattened, the warm and humid air in the Moon Sea and the cold and dry whirlwind of the Abaddon Empire had more ways to meet. The place where the mountains were originally located became mild and livable. It has been expanded three times, and the remaining part is to extend the Sun River, leading the river that originally stayed in Lieyang City all the way to the Black Star Sea.The warm current provided conditions for the growth of the Gospel Forest, and the emergence of rivers brought opportunities for the development of many small villages and towns. Missionaries carried the Gospel in boats and rushed in all directions.

The author says:

The narrow gate comes from the original text of the Bible, "Wide is the gate that leads to destruction...narrow is the gate that leads to eternal life..."

[4] The words engraved on the gate of hell in the Divine Comedy, although it is a rotten stalk, but the essence of this book is a rotten stalk...Let’s mark it for the time being.The next sentence of these two sentences is "Through me, enter the people who are lost forever... Whoever enters will sever all hope".

The story of Ivan Kupala is adapted from local Russian mythology, please do not substitute it into the real world.Fanatics' speeches do not represent their own positions.Main reference: Li Nuan. Customs and legends about the Ivan Kupala Festival[J]. Russian Language Learning, 2012(04):1920.

This chapter is not time travel, nor dreaming, just a trial, history is true, change is false.Arnold is true or false...