Chapter 1516: Chapter 1510: The Scroll of Hesitation
Confirm the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and ourselves.
Integrate the current intelligence details we can grasp and formulate corresponding plans.
To deal with the "Nine Commandments meeting" that has infiltrated the holy capital, all Ronald and his team can do at the moment are these.
Gathered around the desk, a few people exchanged information with each other, referring to the records and pushing forward the specific plans for action in a few days.
A few minutes passed, Ronald suddenly noticed a detail.
Originally shuttling between the bookshelves and the long table, Orel’s actions had suddenly slowed down, and he hadn’t been seen for a while now.
"..."
"I’ll go take a look at the bookshelf."
Ronald got up and left, and after looking around, he found that the King of Giant Beasts was still here. Only now, Orel was standing in front of a bookshelf, lightly stroking the spine of a book, with a hesitant look seldom seen on this guy’s face.
"Is there a problem with this book?" Ronald went forward to inquire.
Anything that could make Orel act this way was definitely not simple!
The content within might be quite crucial.
And in response to Ronald’s inquiry, Orel broke away from his gaze.
He then looked at Ronald, smiled, took the book off the shelf voluntarily, and handed it over:
"It’s nothing, just brought back some memories."
"For the current era, it may not be information that needs to be heavily guarded."
With just a few simple words, Orel then carried out an action drastically different from before.
He no longer searched for documents between the shelves but bid farewell to Ronald, turned around, and headed downstairs.
By the time he stepped onto the stairs to go down, Orel finally spoke of his decision:
"The information I can provide to you is all this."
"I’ll go and watch downstairs first, you can research here as you please, and call me if there’s any situation."
As he finished speaking, the King of Giant Beasts disappeared onto the second floor without hesitation.
Ronald stared at his departing figure, and only when Orel’s figure disappeared completely did he hold the book handed to him just now, returning to the desk where everyone was discussing:
"Orel went down to rest, and what he could provide us is all this."
That’s what he said.
But the information that the King of Giant Beasts provided to Ronald and his team was still quite abundant.
On the elm desk in front of everyone, one end near the wall was completely covered by over ten volumes of books, three bound record tables, and several bundles of tied documents. In addition, there were also a few rolled-up maps piled in a corner of the desk.
If there was only one person onsite, facing such an information load...
Just trying to carefully read these materials within a few days would likely be a quite daunting task. Let alone correlating various materials and then summarizing corresponding judgments and action plans.
Ronald and his team glanced at each other.
They also understood that under these circumstances, division and cooperation should be the wisest choice.
So they exchanged a few simple words.
They divided up each person’s responsibilities according to their strengths.
Just a few minutes passed, and there was barely any sound of human voices in front of the desk on the second floor, replaced by the sound of pages being turned while reading carefully.
...
Within everyone’s assigned tasks, Costate, with her extraordinary ability to receive and analyze information, naturally specialized in dealing with annals, which were the most tedious booklets that a maid could handle properly.
And due to the map-drawing ability he demonstrated previously, Ronald took on the responsibility of refining the map of the holy capital and marking every key intelligence point on it.
This task.
Whenever someone sorted out important information, naturally Ronald had no shortage of tasks.
But when other people were diligently going through the documents and hadn’t yet summarized important information, he without a task became the most leisurely one among the crowd at the desk.
So, during a spare moment after a period of busyness.
Ronald glanced down, naturally setting his eyes on the book beside him.
It was the book he had placed beside him when he just sat down, and also the book that the indecisive King of Giant Beasts had decided to help them with.
What on earth did this book record?
Driven by curiosity and his duty, Ronald naturally picked up the book.
"Osfeile Chronicles..."
The name on the book title pointed out a person’s name.
Ronald happened to have seen it before when going through the materials.
It was on the list of church popes from ancient times, a name he had seen. Although he couldn’t confirm the specific deeds of the person, appearing on this list must have marked an important figure from a very long time ago.
Ronald continued to flip backward and discovered more interesting details.
In this secret library, the book in his hand didn’t look that old in terms of paper aging, and combined with its cover title, a conclusion could be drawn that it was not the original copy, but a handwritten copy version.
The too-ancient original had been damaged, but its content was important enough to be handwritten and preserved.
Ronald’s eyes fell on the content of the first page.
[In the holy calendar year 141, the month of repentance] ——
Judging from the year, these were objects from a hundred years after the church’s founding.
Then his gaze fell on the specific record, with the first page beginning with the author plainly narrating the ancient secrets of the past.
[For the past fifty years, I’ve been certain that God doesn’t exist.]
[But lately, situations that contradict this common sense are happening —— ’God’ has appeared. And more frighteningly, we know nothing about this existence, only that what it shows is completely consistent with the ’God’ we believe in!]
...
[It is not yet clear whether it’s a friend or a foe, but the aid to ordinary people has already occurred. A priest shall be sent to make contact and bring it back to the holy capital, a decision to be made after confirming the situation.]
[We cannot overlook heretics and blasphemers.]
...
[Finally understood!]
[This ’God’ doesn’t come from elsewhere, not something created by those Wizards, nor from another world!]
[It was born out of our faith, born within human will!]
...
[Human faith can actually create a true deity...]
Just an opening, and the weight of the content was beyond imagination.
Even Ronald himself, upon seeing this, couldn’t help but fall into a state of shock.
God born out of human will?
Did the past church people misinterpret something, or did this record reveal some extraordinary information to him?
If these contents are indeed true.
Then Orel’s hesitation about it before could be well justified!
In the midst of his internal conflicts, Ronald finally freed himself from his contemplative state.
At this moment, he realized that during his deep thoughts.
The originally intended information provider, Martha, was quietly standing beside him, her eyes transfixed on the contents of the book.
