Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2126 - 661: Return of Mount Hyjal
The news of the five Spirit Communication instances and the "Song of Three Elements" caused quite a stir throughout the Bimon Kingdom.
As the only flag of Kampas’ divine authority at the moment, Liu Zhanshaking attended the emergency Round Table meeting convened by the Senate, systematically detailing to all high-ranking members the outstanding achievements Dubin and Bonaparte Medusa had made in the war songs. Drawing lessons from this, he corrected the centuries-old rule of the Religious Tribunal, which had classified "self-created war songs" as heretical practices, and proposed to rehabilitate and restore the reputation of many priests who had been tragically executed at the stake throughout history, such as the Chekin prodigy family of the Hegemonic Singing Family.
The scale of surgery and reform on history and tradition would never have been so smooth without the great influence of the Red-cloaked High Priest Brut. To some extent, the Bimon should thank the Sea Clan. Without Avril’s earth-shattering blow, the Bimon would not have had an iron-blooded, formidable religious leader.
However, Old Liu did not agree with the Senate’s proposal to abolish or merge the notorious Religious Tribunal. Everything must not go to extremes; the Religious Tribunal is merely an enforcement unit, innocent in itself, and cannot shoulder all the blame on the executioners. Moreover, self-created war songs also require oversight and restraint, for example, the sensational effect of the "War Song of Slaying Pets," which should alert any priest with a good heritage. Should any miscreant abuse this war song, its social harm would surpass even that of fallen magic by humans.
From that night on, the priests of the Bimon were formally divided into factions and territories, with the Summer Palace, the Army, and the Temple forming a tripartite dominance. The corrupt practice of noble families supporting and recruiting priests was explicitly banned, with all priests’ equipment, funds, and subsidies provided entirely by the Summer Palace of the God of War. The testing grounds were designated as the four major regions: snow mountains, forests, the Underground World, and the desert. Special regulations for proper procedures were established to prevent priests from being ostensibly sent for trials but in reality sent to their deaths as a means of striking against dissidents.
In terms of functional arrangements, every War Shaman must serve in the army for at least one year, giving the army priority on selecting young shamans. Shaman of Staff and higher are managed by the Temple, while the Summer Palace is responsible for researching and promoting new war songs, uniformly training all priests in war dance skills, group cooperation, and various tactical methods at the Cambridge Sacrificial College, and exclusively managing the "Phantom Beast Priest," a heavily armed combat unit—actually, military leaders once suggested that all Altar Sacrificial Ceremonies should replace their magical pets with heavy Phantom Beasts to maximize battlefield lethality. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Nevertheless, the attending priests unanimously rejected this proposal; different magical pets have different functions, and there are only unqualified priests, not unqualified magical pets. Producing standardized Phantom Beast magical pets like an assembly line destroys priests’ creativity.
But the formidable nature of heavy Phantom Beasts is a recognized fact, so the final compromise was to add a special title, "Phantom Beast Priest," to the priest establishment. Other than this, no priest was allowed to deliberately summon armor-type magical beasts with the hope of converting them into battle formations of heavy Phantom Beasts.
The Cave Dwellers of the Underground World, numbering in the hundreds of millions, were also formally absorbed as foreign citizens of the Bimon Kingdom, and in the current world where population numbers dictate dominance, this large population of cave dwellers meant a future vast reserve of priests and mages for the Bimon.
To repay the great contribution of the Dubin Beast Kings, the Temple created a new title, conferring "Honorary War God Shaman" on all Dubin Beast Kings, with the Shaman of Divine Songs assisting the Dubin Kingdom’s Kampas Main Temple in bestowing a divine song aura upon it to show the glory of the gods—this is the honor the Dubin Beast Kings most desired. Although their Main Temple has never experienced the ravages of war and destruction and is magnificently splendid, it has lacked a divine song aura since ancient times. For religious personnel, this awkward discrepancy between status and reality is quite embarrassing.
Worth mentioning is that while the Dubin Kingdom’s friendly assistance was acknowledged, the issue of Rexa was deliberately overlooked by all of Bimon’s top echelons.
Having spent thousands of years building a spiritual idol among the nation, not even Bimon’s king and seasoned senators nor Liu Zhanshaking, who views religion as high philosophy, are willing or dare to easily overturn it.
What’s more, the oath Rexa made in the wilderness, though spoken millennia ago, was perfectly fulfilled. The Dubin did indeed provide aid in Bimon’s most critical moments. Compared to the exceedingly hypocritical diplomatic relations between nations today, the actions of the Dubin Kingdom already demonstrate rare integrity. Who could argue that the Ogre-Werewolf hybrid lacked foresight back then? Wasn’t he a war god incarnate?
On how to handle Bonaparte Medusa, significant division arose within the kingdom.
Liu Zhanshaking did not hide the fact that Bonaparte Medusa is now constantly wary of the Bimon, full of petty cunning and peasantry slyness, with a mindset armored in arrogance yet filled with concealed inferiority—the trait of all traitors. Their values are forever based on selfishness, strictly speaking, such Medusa can no longer be considered part of the Bimon.
"If our priests hadn’t developed the three-pets system, these Medusa would certainly not have returned to help." With a point of reference, even the seasoned senators previously annoyed by the Swan Tribe now discovered Smey’s virtues: "Look at how assertive the Bode Clan is, having chosen to split, they refuse to exploit the Kingdom while still making selfless contributions! We don’t need these Medusa traitors to aid us, in some sense, they are actually more despicable than Valenbuer!"
