But this play must go on.
He sheathed the sword back into the huge stone, and the light immediately subsided.
Then, he helped Melisandre up and said to her, "Although you may not recognize the true god, it's not too late for you to find your way back."
"Yes!"
Hearing Alaric's forgiving words, Melisandre was excited and devoutly knelt before Alaric again, kissing his shoes, and exclaimed in happiness.
"…You are the messenger of God, the messiah, our light, our savior."
Alaric shook his head helplessly. If it weren't for the Cleaning Charm, she would have ended up with a mouthful of dust.
However, with the charm in effect, his shoes were cleaner than Melisandre's face. This time, she didn't...
He helped her up again and said warmly, "You are a righteous person. Though you do not know the true God, you strive to spread the glory of God.
Now that the Dragon God has returned and is about to establish his Church on earth to teach people to believe in him, I want you to become the servant of true god, spreading the gospel of the Dragon God to the world.
Do you have any complaints?"
Upon hearing this, Melisandre was about to kneel down in excitement again, but this time Alaric stopped her in time.
So she changed to kissing his hand and said, "I have no complaints. Seeing you is seeing God.
You make me spread the gospel of God on earth, and it is God's will. I will spread the gospel of Dragon God on earth."
Alaric nodded and took out a red gemstone, handing it to Melisandre, saying, "Since you are willing to spread the gospel for God, God will grant you the power to spread the gospel."
Melisandre took the red gemstone and immediately felt the surging magic within it.
She took off her golden necklace set with red gemstones, removed the original gemstone, and carefully embedded the new gemstone.
When she put on the necklace again, she found herself indeed much stronger than before.
Previously, she had to rely on robes and pouches containing various powders to manipulate flames to gain different powers, such as foreseeing the truth or even using it directly to kill.
But now she no longer needed these tricks; her own power was enough to control these spells.
"This is indeed the power only gods have."
Melisandre sighed, but in reality, this was just a new product made by Alaric after studying magic stones, a magical furnace made using his dragon blood to autonomously produce true ether.
However, because it required Alaric's blood, it couldn't be mass-produced.
Immediately afterwards, Alaric turned around and left, and the surrounding darkness immediately faded away.
Before leaving, he reminded Melisandre.
"The Church of the Dragon God is now in Pentos. You can bring your former colleagues to assist you.
If they can recognize the true God, God will forgive their sins. Also, the flames on this sword no longer burn everything.
Anyone can try to pull it out now. The one who succeeds will be the representative of God on earth. You can also give it a try.
This is the final test for the king chosen by God."
After watching Alaric leave, Melisandre came to the sword.
She found that although the golden flames had not disappeared, the intense heat had gone.
She grasped the hilt and tried to pull it out, but no matter how hard she tried, and no matter what magical means she used, she couldn't budge it.
Now, after using magic, her strength could surpass that of all the strongmen in the world for a short time, but even so, she couldn't pull out the sword.
This indicated that the sword couldn't be pulled out by mere strength.
It seemed that only those recognized by the Dragon God could do it. She thought so and headed towards Asshai.
Before becoming the leader of the Church of the Dragon God, she planned to bring a group of people from the R'hllor faith.
Preferably to make all the priests and followers of R'hllor recognize the true God, believe in the true God, which would definitely be a great achievement, and the Lord would surely appreciate her.
A few days after Alaric met Melisandre, Melisandre brought back a large group of red-robed priests from Asshai.
These were specifically called priests or priests among the followers of R'hllor, often wearing loose crimson robes.
It seemed that she had high prestige among these people, or the power given to her by Alaric had shown its effect.
After arriving in Pentos, Melisandre led these red-robed priests to admire the Lightbringer first, and then secretly entered Pentos.
Soon, in Pentos, they changed into different attire.
Melisandre, as the Pope or you would say as leader of Dragon God faith, wore a white robe, held a scepter, wore a high hat, and wore a golden robe, while other senior officials wore red robes and ordinary priests wore black robes.
Alaric adhered to the policy of borrowing good things from other religions.
(A.N: I know earlier it was mentioned that Alaric wanted Melisandre to be Bishop of Dragon God faith, but here it is written Pope. So to clarify any confusion you can just imagine her to be leader of Dragon God faith and I thought Pope suits much better as a leader compared to Bishop.)
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