Chapter 482 – Horn Bay Riot

Chapter 482 – Angle Bay Riot
“Printing?”

Mariana and Nathan both heard the word for the first time.

“Yes, it is printing. I never thought that books could be born in such a way; in the past it was necessary for a scribe to transcribe them word for word, and it was easy to make mistakes. Now, well, with these machines, one is worth hundreds of scribes, and it’s accurate.”

Edward said handily, “On entering the workshop to get the book, Sarnell saw from a distance that they applied what appeared to be an ink liquid to a flat plate on the machine engraved with the text, and then laid a sheet of paper on top of it, after which they pulled down an upper platen to meet the lower platen, which pressed the paper and the engraved lettering together, and then the paper was covered in clear The text. When you think about this operation, it is indeed many times faster than transcribing word by word, and as long as the text on that flat plate is engraved correctly, you don’t have to worry about typos and so on, it’s in an ingenious way.”

Seeing his companion’s look, Nathan frowned and said, “Edward, I admit that this method is ingenious, but I must remind you that you are now a spell caster, don’t be so emotionally agitated over something that’s so districtly mortal.”

Edward shook his head, “Nathan, that’s prejudice on your part, we shouldn’t get hung up on whether it’s a caster’s or a mortal’s, as long as it works.”

“Che!” Nathan scoffed, dismissive of Edward’s point of view.

“Nathan, Edward has to have a point, you’re being arrogant. Imagine what a major breakthrough it would be if this idea was referenced in the making of scrolls.”

Mariana said in a reprimanding tone.

“Uh …… scroll making can be more than just getting words on it.”

In the face of his mother’s criticism, Nathan’s mouth did not concede defeat.

Mariana waved her hand, “Well, now is not the time to argue about that. This batch of books should also be distributed to the coastal towns as soon as possible, Edward, keep an eye on this.”

“Yes, Lady Mariana. We will already have very effective …… [distributors] in the important towns, so you can rest assured.”

Edward assured her.

The lady turned to her son, “How is it going with the church.”

Nathan grinned evilly, “Haha, it’s probably as painful as sitting with your ass on a needle felt over at the church right now.”

……

In a large, brightly lit hall, many people sat solemnly around a large conference table.

Archbishop Elvis of Horned Bay sat at the top position of the group of seats with a grimace on his face.

The people seated to his left were all dressed in the robes worn by the clergy, while the people seated to his right were all dressed in the splendor of secular nobility.

“Archbishop!”

A clergyman closest to Elvis said with a worried face, “Of the twenty coastal states, there are still five whose attitudes are still unclear, while the other fifteen have already begun to explicitly turn against us, and if we don’t take strong measures, the Horned Cove Church will lose control over the coastal area forever.”

Hearing his words, Elvis slapped the armrest of his seat fiercely, “These foolish heretics, sooner or later the Lord of Light will send down divine punishment.”

How did the situation evolve into this?

Ever since the first “thrown out of the window” incident, other cities immediately followed suit, and such incidents occurred one after another.

Elvis had ordered the churches to pay 90% of their tithes to Collins, where the Corner Bay Church was headquartered, but only three of the twenty coastal states had been obedient enough to ship the money.

It wasn’t that the other local churches didn’t follow His Grace’s order, but they were all in the way of the raging local public opinion, and delayed bringing in the tax money for a near indefinite period of time.

In short, the Archbishop’s intentions were in vain. Since the beginning of spring this year, something even more serious has happened, as a book titled “The Book of Grievances” has begun to quietly circulate in Horn Bay.

Elvis had been exposed to the book, but he had only read two pages at the time before he was shaking with anger!
Blasphemy!

Blasphemy!

This filth was a book of utter blasphemy.

He immediately ordered All Horns Bay to ban the book and mobilized all forces to investigate who wrote it.

The impact of tracking down the book was almost as bad as a witch hunt, and under such pressure, many of the “authors” were identified, and Elvis had the most suspected publicly executed without trial, while the rest were thrown into the brig.

The Church’s ban on books was to burn them, just as it had burned the witches.

However, not only this book was burned, the burning of books also affected a large number of other books, as long as a book was reported to have criticism of the Church or dissatisfaction with the speech, or even just the suspicion of innuendo, will also be added to the banned list.

As the banning continued, the list grew longer and longer.

The ashes from the burning of the books fluttered in the streets and alleys of the towns of Horn Bay.

Some extremist religious elements even called on believers to leave only one copy of the Canon in their homes and burn all other books.

They believe that a single copy of the Canon is enough to satisfy the spiritual needs of the world, and that more than one spiritual quest is a shameful degradation and a sign of unswerving faith.

The Hornblower Church began to interfere more and more in the lives of ordinary people.

The original witch-hunting campaign had already severely affected the economy and people’s livelihoods due to its protracted nature, and now that more and more restrictions were being pressed down one after another, the grievances of the people of Horned Bay had built up to a breaking point.

People began to question the legitimacy of the Horned Bay Church, questioning whether this organization could represent the authority of the Lord of Light in the world.

However, even so, the Book of Grievances continued to appear, and its contents were being updated, and the later it appeared, the “richer” the contents became!
This drove Archbishop Elvis mad, and one after another he ordered more and more effort.

Under the intense pressure, there was finally a backlash, and a riot broke out in the independent territory of Messiah.

As the clergy burned a batch of banned books and announced that they would punish their owners, a rotten egg was thrown at the head of the clergyman who was giving a loud sermon.

Immediately, the Church Knight drew his sword and ordered the person who had thrown the rotten egg to come forward and be punished.

However, the rotten egg and the knight’s command were like a fuse that instantly ignited people’s discontent.

A large number of stones, rotten vegetables and other garbage were thrown at the clergy.

The enraged church knights moved in the conflict and created bloodshed.

The conflict evolved into a citywide riot in a very short time, even the local lords couldn’t suppress it, the churches in every area were attacked, all the clergy in Messiah were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers in the face of the raging citywide populace, many of the clergy were injured and killed during the attack, and those who were still alive were detained.

Some of the clergy were terrified and swore to the Lord of Light that they would prioritize loyalty to their city over the Church of the Horns.

This portion was released, and then those still loyal to the Church of Horned Bay were mercilessly expelled from the Messiah after a severe beating.

(End of chapter)