These big shots are actually me - #102 - Chapter 102

“Calm down, calm down, I must calm down, this is just a wooden sculpture that I’ve been blinded by! This can’t be a holy elephant, it’s definitely not a holy elephant!”

As a cardinal, and recognized as the most devout believer, once it is discovered that he failed to protect the holy image in front of him, it will be a big problem.

As he spoke, he spread his hands with an indifferent expression and said:

“If this is a holy elephant, how could I still be okay now?! I am the cardinal of the goddess! If it were a holy elephant, would I still be able to shout?”

If this really was the king’s sacred image, the goddess’s divine punishment would have followed it long ago. Where is the time for him to scream?

Bishop St. Marshall gradually accepted the ‘fact’ that this was definitely not an icon through constant self-hypnosis.

There must be no problem today. As for this room that he has no clue about, it must have been specially set up by a former bishop to show his piety.

It’s just because he or she failed to develop their carving skills enough until he or she left office, and as a cardinal, he or she did not dare to destroy the icon without authorization, so it has been shelved until now.

“Yes, that must be the case. This is just a mistake by a certain predecessor, and this wood carving is definitely not a holy elephant. I must have been too nervous and saw it wrong! That kind of thing, no, at this level, That’s not right, that’s how it is anyway! This is definitely not a sacred image!”

After saying that, he bowed with a relaxed expression and closed the door.

Although he looked very relaxed, it could be seen from the fact that he kept sealing the door of the room that he was definitely not so peaceful in his heart.

But even so, he still found a good excuse for himself:

“This is to prevent someone from accidentally slandering the sacred image. Yes, I am not guilty at all. This is just in case!”

After applying countless layers of seals, Cardinal St. Marshall left here in three steps.

After all, he didn’t even have the courage to close the wooden sculpture to confirm the truth.

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Mozo and others on the other side finally set foot on the land of the Sea Capital.

After getting off the boat, Mo Zuo rubbed the little guy’s head, took out a dozen Duze gold coins, put them in a small bag and handed them to the boatman.

The other party took the bag with a smile at first, and became even more happy when he felt the weight. He felt that there must be a lot of copper coins or even silver coins in it.

Banknotes are not popular in most areas of the Sea City. Although banknotes are issued and guaranteed by the Iron Bank and the local government, few people still like banknotes. Therefore, their transactions are basically metal coins that have value in themselves.

This seems to be the shadow and poison brought about by the Ancient Dragon War and the War of the Four Gods. After all, in that era, banknotes without their own value and countries that were going bankrupt one after another were really unsettling.

I heard that the goddess of wealth has been very troubled by this. However, there is no corresponding action in the Iron Bank, so this should be just a rumor of a mortal.

As a result, he opened it and handed it back to Mo Zuo in surprise:

“You gave too much!”

Mo Zuo looked at the little guy and said:

“It’s a lot to you, but it’s nothing to me, so please accept it. It will just happen to change this child into more comfortable clothes.”

The middle-aged man took it back hesitantly.

He had heard that some noble people did not care about the ‘big money’ in their eyes, and it seemed that he had also encountered it today. It’s just that he still can’t believe that such a good thing could happen to him.

“Then, if you want to go back, you can take my boat and I will take it to you for free!”

Mo Zuo smiled and said:

“If I have the chance, I will definitely do it. But now I have to say goodbye.”

After saying that, he bowed and left with the girls who also bowed.

On the way, Audrey couldn’t help but ask:

“Would it be too much? I mean, this might not be a good thing for them.”

Gold coins, especially Duze gold coins, which are the most hard currency at the moment, are not something that the lower class people should ‘hold in large quantities’.

Mo Zuo shook his head and said:

“No outsider can know how much is in the bag, and the security of the sea city is not so disturbing.”

The goddess just doesn’t answer prayers that often, but she’s not gone anymore.

Therefore, on her land, although the church’s group of guys are mostly just free-range, there is a master who holds the invisible rope after all.

They are greedy and don’t dare to bite people everywhere. He won’t let someone he can’t bite get bitten.

Mozuo raised his head and looked at the huge holy ancient dragon skeleton in front of him and said:

“And they also told me a lot of valuable things. This is a reasonable exchange and not just a handout.”

Audrey nodded to show that she understood, followed Mozo’s eyes, and then said with admiration:

“No matter how many times I see it, such a huge creature is an extremely dazzling presence.”

Verdani also walked to Audrey and said:

“I heard from Mr. Captain before that the church allows people to visit Dagulong after paying a certain amount of money.”

You can imagine how majestic it is from a distance, so how amazing it would be to see the ancient dragon up close!

The Church of the Goddess of the Sea must have made a lot of gold coins by seizing this, right?

Mo Zuo was a little surprised and asked:

“Pay the money? The church turned Grand Sanx into a business?”

I really don’t know about this Mo Zuo.

“Yes, the captain of the airship told me when we came here that if we are interested and have enough money, we can even visit the head of the ancient dragon from the outside to the inside!”

But as she spoke, Verdani said with some hesitation:

“Although it is the church of the goddess, is it really okay to do this? After all, it is just a matter of looking below and from the side. It is also too blasphemous to step on the head of the holy body and look inside. Already?”

The dragon species did lose the Ancient Dragon War and the Four Gods War, and even lost many Sanks in previous wars, but they are still a powerful ancient race!

After all, Yuan Chu seems to be a little too fond of dragons.

Mozo did not answer this, but turned to look at the holy remains of Grand Sanx with a complicated expression. The dragons are very arrogant, but Mozo still respects them, because although their pride is annoying, it is also worthy of applause.

And is this really the church of the Goddess of the Sea and not the church of the Goddess of Wealth?

Is it possible that the current Thirteen Cardinals were poached from the Iron Bank? Or is this the Goddess of Fortune putting her hand into Helvetica’s church?

Otherwise, these people would be too outrageous, right?

However, Mozo felt that it was not easy for him to tell them, because what he wanted to do next was to directly ‘steal’ the church’s high-sequence sealed artifacts.

Although normally most people in the church do not regard this sealed artifact as part of their inventory. But this is ultimately the wealth of the church.

I just don’t know if the group of people from the church have found this sealed artifact after so many years.

And Heavis didn’t know what was going on.

Hey, there are a lot of things!

Mozo rubbed the corners of his eyes, then pulled up his hood and said to the girls:

“Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. Let’s go into the city and find a place to stay.”

The City of the Sea is Havis’s divine kingdom on earth. There must be statues of Havis everywhere in it. Mozzo wouldn’t dare to wander around there without putting on his hat.

But then something happened that surprised Mozo.

Mo Zuo remembered that there were twelve city gates in the direction they chose, but after they arrived, they only opened the outermost six gates.

The six city gates in the middle are completely closed.

Then that was it, there were three of the six open doors that seemed to be under traffic control. The flow of people was relatively sparse, and most of them were motorcades.

The consequence of this is that the other three gates have an extremely large flow of people.

Normally speaking, if the twelve doors are opened at the same time, six doors will go in and six doors will go out, and even in a large flow of people, it can be easily entered and exited.

This was Ophelia’s design back then.

She even hand-carved the names and embossments on each door.

What the hell is this now?

Only six of the twelve doors are open? ? ?

After getting closer, Mozo and the girls were at a loss for words again.

It turns out that this was the case many years ago.

At that time, the cardinal thought that opening so many doors was too extravagant, so he closed three doors in all directions. Later, after the genius who graduated from the Iron Bank became a cardinal, he suddenly felt that there was business to be done here.

So he openly closed many doors in the name of extravagance, leaving only three roads for believers and pedestrians. Then, when the three gates were completely unable to cope with the huge flow of people, he suddenly stood up and announced that three gates could be opened in all directions. However, a certain fee will be charged to cover the loss of multiple doors.

All they did was take the opportunity to collect a large amount of tolls. As for why there was no city entry tax, it was because the Storm King had explicitly ordered no city entry tax when he was still there.

Anyone, any race, as long as you have no ill intentions, you are welcome in the sea capital!

They didn’t have the guts to modify the king’s order, so they set up this toll in a cunning way.

During this period, they also successively modified the number of doors opened, but found that if they opened more doors, they would collect a lot less tolls, and if they opened fewer doors, they would save money in other aspects due to traffic congestion.

After constant twists and turns, it became three doors for free and three doors for a fee.

At this point, the other directions are pretty much the same.

After learning about this, the three girls couldn’t help but said:

“Aren’t we really in the Iron Bank?!”

“Feilengcui doesn’t know how to play with this group of people!”

“You need money for a walk?!”

Mo Zuo covered his face with a complicated expression.

These people…

Forget it, at least they haven’t come up with tithing yet.

Wait, it seems that tithing is a very reasonable thing in this world?

Mozo suddenly discovered that in the presence of gods and blessings, the tithe, which used to be completely arbitrary and unreasonable, seemed very reasonable in this world? !

At least in those areas where the gods would really help increase production, it is extremely reasonable. After all, without the blessing of the gods, their production would never be so high.

For example, if the fields of the People of Light in the Eternal City were not blessed by gods, it would be impossible for them to explode every year, contrary to common sense.

No, no, no, what the hell am I thinking about.

The current discussion is not about whether tithing is reasonable in this world, but that these people actually turned something that was originally free into a charge!

What has changed is still equivalent to people’s livelihood!

After thinking of this, Mozo started to touch his chin and thought about whether he should find an opportunity to tap it?

But what should I do? Is there any method that is safe and effective?

I’m going to get a posthumous edict that was unearthed in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and was actually written by the Zhou Dynasty? ? ?

Before Mozo could continue thinking, he saw a priest suddenly walk up and said to them:

“Welcome, four lost lambs!”

Audrey glanced at Mozo, who was still thinking, then faced her and smiled:

“Hello, dear priest!”

The other party also bowed slightly respectfully, looked behind him and said to the four of them:

“Are you all followers of His Majesty?”

Audrey shook her head slightly. She didn’t believe in any gods, or she believed in gods depending on the situation.

For example, when she was in that terrible underground ruins, she was a serious follower of the Sun King, but not after she left.

But Verdani and Miss Knight both nodded at the same time and said:

“We are followers of Her Majesty Havis!”

One of them is the lightning path, the other is the storm path, both of which are within the scope of authority of the Ocean Goddess. So both of them are followers of Helvetica and the Storm King.

Hearing this, the priest became even more happy and said:

“That’s great.”

The priest turned around again and pointed at a huge box guarded by many knights placed at the city gate and said:

“I wonder if you two saw that?”