Chapter 1882: Eternal Judge Melina

"I don't care what your problem is. Tomorrow I want to see all the supplies delivered to the Third Legion's camp. On the 4th, the Third Legion must set out to clear the abyss vines in Redstone County." Melina used her fingers to support the frame of her glasses, and warned the logistics officer in front of her with a serious face: "Don't make any excuses. If I hear that the Fourth Legion did not set out normally as planned due to supplies, not only will you be charged with dereliction of duty, but even your boss will be sent to the court of justice, because anyone who obstructs the recovery plan is a heretic. Do you understand?"

The logistics officer's body was shaking like a sieve because of fear. How could he dare to think of anything else in his mind? He repeatedly said that he would definitely prepare all the necessary supplies.

After signaling the logistics officer to go down, Melina leaned back in the chair, looking at the large stack of material applications and transfer documents on the table, groaned in pain, stretched out her hand to rub her forehead, and wondered if she had changed the wrong position.

As one of the main persons in charge of the recovery plan, Melina can be said to be one of the most powerful people in the Holy City of Redemption. However, if she could go back a few years, she would never agree to take over the current position. Although the power in the office of the Inquisition is smaller, it is much more relaxed than now. At least the biggest advantage is that you don’t have to meet with representatives of all parties frequently and coordinate the relationship between various departments within the Order. It is not uncommon to delay the Legion’s plan because of personal grudges between departments.

If Melina did things in the past, she would definitely catch the guys who created obstacles to the Order’s plan in the dungeon of the Inquisition, interrogate them with the most cruel methods, and then put them in the square as festival torches.

However, she couldn't do that now. It wasn't that she didn't want to, but sitting in this position, she needed to consider all kinds of consequences instead of the simple things in the Inquisition. It was easy to kill those troublemakers, but after killing them, there was no way to find enough suitable people to replace them. Even if they found suitable people, they couldn't take over their affairs immediately. So they could only leave those insects behind and settle accounts with them slowly after the recovery plan of the Order was completed.

As the first batch of monks from the Order of Redemption, the first batch of judges of the Order's Inquisition, the first batch of divine favored people of the Order, and the eternal judge blessed by the goddess of victory, Melina was absolutely qualified to investigate anyone in the Order of Inquisition, including the Pope.

Melina was the only survivor in the world who was born and raised before the disaster. Although she was almost ninety years old, with the blessing of the goddess, her appearance and body always remained in the best condition of her thirties.

Before the disaster, she worked as an intern assistant at a scientific research base. At that time, she happened to assist some scientists in conducting experiments in the underground laboratory of this scientific research base. Because many of these scientists had a doomsday plot, they prepared a lot of materials needed for the doomsday in the laboratory.

After the disaster, these materials helped them survive the most difficult period. Later, because the food was exhausted, they had to leave the underground laboratory that had been converted into a shelter and come to the ground to go to the nearest scientific research base to find available materials.

Melina was one of the first people to go to the scientific research base, but because she had a respiratory disease, she needed to wear an oxygen mask to be able to move outdoors. She was not originally included in this operation because she had run out of the medicine she needed and had to find it at the scientific research base so that her disease could be curbed, otherwise she would die of the disease.

However, it was precisely because she wore an oxygen mask and isolated the oxygen from the outside that when she approached the scientific research base, she did not inhale the spores floating in the air like other people in the team and became a walking corpse.

However, when she escaped from the research base to the underground laboratory, she encountered a blizzard and lost her way in the blizzard. Later, she encountered a wolf pack, which triggered an avalanche, and was seriously injured. She fainted in the snow in the wilderness.

Fortunately, she was very lucky and happened to meet the first pope of the Redemption Order who was enlightened by the Lord of Redemption and the founder of the Redemption Order, St. Mariannelia.

With the help of St. Mariannelia, she recovered from her injuries and learned about the Lord of Redemption and the purpose of the Redemption Order, which was still the Redemption Order at that time. She joined it and became the second hospital of the Redemption Order.

After that, she took St. Mariannelia and her followers to the underground laboratory, wanting the survivors there to join St. Mariannelia's team.

Unfortunately, they went too late. Only a few old, weak and sick people were left in the underground laboratory. The rest of the people who had a little strength went to the underground base to find supplies and never came back. Now they may have become nutrients for giant vines.

Afterwards, Saint Marianne led her and other members of the Redemption Society to carry out repairs in the underground laboratory to avoid the snowstorm season. During this time, Saint Marianne revised the Book of Redemption of the Lord of Redemption, and adapted the Society of Redemption into the Order of Redemption, specifying a full set of sacramental rituals of the Lord of Redemption and the Three Goddesses, and finally established the Order of Redemption. It was at that time that Melina joined the Order of Redemption and became one of the first Redemption monks.

Over the years, Melina gradually expanded the Redemption Order with St. Mariamilla, and her status in the Redemption Order also increased day by day. When she was thirty-six years old, she successfully obtained the blessing of the Goddess of Victory and became a The symbol of a favored person of the Goddess of Victory is the divine grace scales on the forehead that look like some kind of black metal.

After the Holy City of Redemption was established, she entered the Tribunal and became a judge. After she completed a hundred trial trials, the Goddess of Victory blessed her again, making her the eternal judge of the Goddess of Victory. , which means that she is qualified to stand next to the goddess of victory after her death and hold the scales of justice for the goddess of victory.

In the following decades, she has been serving in the Holy City Tribunal. Originally, according to her qualifications, she should have become the chief judge of the Tribunal. However, because she overused her judicial powers in several missions, she caused There were many unnecessary casualties, so the position was never promoted. Later, he was even laid off and assigned to serve in a civilian office.

For a person like her, doing a clerical job is like going to jail, but her character allows her to complete her job to perfection, and she will not commit any malfeasance because of her preferences.

However, she has always been dissatisfied with civilian work, so when the recovery plan was announced a few years ago, she immediately submitted a transfer application. In her opinion, the recovery plan will definitely use a lot of force, and she is very suitable for the front line. She can also hold an annoying clerical job and participate in various battles on the front line.

However, what she didn't expect was that her application was directly reviewed by the Pope and approved by the Pope. The only slight mistake was that the position she got was not the commander or vanguard of each legion she applied for. Instead, he was an administrative officer in charge of logistics and personnel who also worked as a civilian, and was also one of the three main persons in charge of the recovery plan.

Melina's authority now is much greater than her authority in the Inquisition Office. Because the recovery plan covers all departments of the Redemption Order, she, as the affairs officer in charge of logistics and personnel, also has the right to intervene in all aspects of the Redemption Order. The affairs of the department can be said to be of high authority, but this is not the job she wants, so she has been submitting transfer applications, and these applications have been rejected without exception.

Just a few days ago, a new application was rejected. Melina, who had expected it, was not discouraged. She took out another copy of the transfer application from the drawer and signed her name on it. He stamped his seal and pressed the bell on the table.

The assistant who heard the ringing knocked on the door, then pushed the door open and walked in. When he saw the cover of the document that Melina reached out to hand, he couldn't help showing a helpless look. After finishing the document, he said: "Sir, you have already This is the ninety-seventh time I have applied. I think the result will be the same as last time. Instead of wasting time and energy like this, why don't you just use your status as a favored one? According to the canons of the order, you have certain privileges? , things like transferring positions shouldn’t be a problem.”

Melina looked at her assistant, and said somewhat inappropriately: "Do you know why you have been unable to receive the blessings of our Lord, but I can receive divine grace in every sacrament?"

The assistant was stunned and said tentatively: "Because you are a favored one by God."

"No!" Melina shook her head and said, "Because I fear my Lord, even if it is the divine grace bestowed by my Lord, I am also in awe. Using divine grace for one's own personal affairs is the greatest blasphemy against our Lord."

When the assistant heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Although Melina's tone was very calm when she said these words and did not show any sign of anger, when she thought of Melina's previous identity and deeds, she couldn't help but It makes people feel that Melina’s words mean something.

Melina knew what her assistant was thinking, but she didn't pay attention or explain. She just raised her hand to signal that the other person could leave.

After the assistant left the office in an uneasy mood, Melina stood up, walked to the multi-layer glass door behind her, opened the door, and walked to the balcony outside, overlooking the Holy City of Salvation in front of her.

The location of the Holy City of Redemption was very particular. Initially, Santa Maria Maria did not choose a purified city as the construction site of the Holy City. Instead, she chose a mountainous area far away from the city. Among the mountains, she chose a place called the Seven Sisters. The peak of the mountain served as the site for the construction of the holy city.

After that, St. Mariamilla used miracles to build the Sanctuary of the Redemption on Marian Peak, the highest of the Seven Sisters, and then gradually expanded the Holy City with the Sanctuary of Redemption as the center.

The Holy City has been expanding all this time, and it is still being expanded. The Seven Sisters Peaks have been completely covered with buildings in various regional styles, and houses have also been built on the slopes below and in the forests outside the slopes. , became part of the Holy City, and even cave houses were built on the cliffs, which are now the residence of the Ascetic School of the Holy City.

In the beginning, the Holy City was not suitable for human habitation, and all kinds of materials had to be transported in from outside. But now with the completion of the third technological recovery plan, there is already a set of plantations and breeding farms inside the Holy City that produce amazing food. , the daily food provided can fully support the daily needs of the millions of people in the Holy City, and there is even a large surplus. After part of it is stored as food reserves, it can also support other shelter cities.

In addition, energy has been solved in the second science and technology recovery plan. Wind energy, solar energy and other energy sources have been studied, and practical related equipment has been produced. The geothermal energy widely distributed underground has also replaced the previous energy crystals very well, and has also made great progress in energy storage. The Science and Technology Department of the Order developed energy storage devices similar to energy crystals more than ten years ago.

With the support of sufficient energy, the lighting of the entire Holy City has never been turned off. Even at night, the light emitted by the Holy City is still dazzling. Some people even call the Holy City the City of Light.

However, the lighting device of the Holy City that amazed the world is not something shocking in Melina's eyes. As a person who was born before the disaster, she has seen what the world looked like before the disaster and how great the technology was. Even though the Holy City has restored a lot of technology and even has a lot of innovative technology, it is still a lot worse than the world before the disaster. In this case, she naturally will not have too many emotional fluctuations about the beautiful scenery of the Holy City in front of her.

The reason why she likes to stand on this balcony full of cold wind and overlook the scenery of the Holy City is that she can clearly see the statue of the Three Goddesses in the Holy Parish at the foot of the mountain. The statue was carved by her own hands, representing her devout belief in the Lord of Redemption and the Goddess of Victory.

"My Lord, the Sanctuary has sent someone to ask you to go to the Sanctuary Hall of All Sages for a meeting immediately." While Melina was enjoying the scenery, another assistant knocked on the door and came in, enduring the cold wind blowing in from the door, and shouted loudly to Melina on the balcony.

"Meeting in the Hall of All Sages?" Melina was stunned when she heard it, because in her memory, the top leaders of the order only held three meetings in a place called the Hall of All Sages, one for the establishment of the order, one for the site selection of the Holy City, and the last one was the first religious meeting of the order after the death of the first Pope, St. Marianne. At this meeting, a set of clergy structure and pope election rules currently implemented by the Order of Redemption were designated.

Undoubtedly, the meeting in the Hall of All Sages meant that there was a major event that would definitely affect the direction of the Order of Redemption that needed to be discussed, and this also made Melina extremely confused, because according to all the intelligence information in her hands, it was obvious that there was no major event worthy of a meeting in the Hall of All Sages.

Although she was full of doubts, Melina did not move slowly. She returned to the office, took off the monk's robe hanging on the door opening, put on the Redemption badge, and hurriedly walked out of the office building, boarded the carriage that was already waiting there, and drove towards the Marian Peak where the sanctuary was located.