Chapter 145
Wo Yi was originally from a small businessman family, and he was almost considered a grassroots society. He was a young man and had a family accident when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. Not only did he lose all his money, he also owed a lot of money. In desperation, he had to travel around the world and be an adventurer. It took him about ten years to survive and die many times before he could repay the money.
After paying off his debts, he became less prone to take risks and started a family and a career. He originally planned to live a peaceful life, but unexpectedly, bad luck came, which led to a legendary story of the black blade being sheathed out of the sheath to kill noble people, and a peerless hero who had made the nobles most afraid of the world in the past hundreds of years.
All these past events have passed, but Woer will not forget these past events. Even though He has become a god, he is still not friendly to merchants and nobles. Instead, he is quite friendly to adventurers and is not in line with His "knowledge" clergy.
In recent years, on the one hand, He has gained some insights in self-cultivation, but on the other hand, He has been infected by the power of faith and has gradually changed and is no longer so hostile to merchants and nobles. On the contrary, he is willing to give a glimpse of merchants and nobles who are willing to learn or are willing to help spread culture, so his faith has gradually spread in the middle and upper class society.
In any case, knowledge is always an extremely important force. Mastering knowledge means mastering huge resources, which is of great help in both fighting and governance. Great nobles and merchants may not care about it, but those elites who yearn for the upper class are keen on learning and are actively cultivating their own teams - all of this cannot avoid "knowledge".
Not only that, many people among the casters respect Woer. Especially the academy mages, they have always believed that knowledge is the foundation of spells. The mage should be a scholar first, and the cultivation of a mage should first start with cultural education. These are all behaviors that tend to be Woer's beliefs, and many of them have even become Woer's believers.
So when Wo Yi came to the Secret Fat Tower Federation and called on his church and believers to start expanding, and established a sphere of influence within the once ironclad country of the wizards, what he got was not the indifference that Sui Xiong had originally worried about, but the warm welcome and support.
Because of the passing of the God of the Spellcaster, the Secret Arts Federation is now in panic and everyone is a little nervous. Especially those mages, Imia Lamperus has been the patron saint of the Federation for a long time and the stabilizing needle in everyone's heart. No matter how many storms the Federation has experienced, as long as he is there, everyone will be full of confidence.
However, He is gone.
Since the establishment of the Federation, he has been like a majestic mountain of sacred heaven, withstood all kinds of pressure. No matter how dangerous the situation is, he can make the right choice, or simply break the dilemma with his powerful strength. From generation to generation, from ancestors to descendants, the people of the Federation have long been accustomed to his existence, and even developed the habit of "praying to Master Lamperus when you encounter trouble."
This is just like on earth, Easterners often lament “God”, while Westerners like to lament “My God”.
However, He has fallen. The "God" and "God" of the Secret Tower Federation are no longer there.
This makes many people feel empty. When people encounter difficulties, they will subconsciously pray to Lamperus silently and ask for blessings, and then suddenly remember that the patron saint of the Federation is gone...
So many people will suddenly cry, crying loudly.
At this moment, the Church of God of Knowledge stood up to promote its own teachings and called on everyone to believe in God of Knowledge, and just seized this opportunity. Those who were empty in their hearts were trying to find a support, and the God of Knowledge made them quite fond of both doctrine and experience. Once propaganda was called, many people followed the flow and directly believed in Woj.
Of course, there were more than one god who had the opportunity to preach a lot of missionary work. In fact, churches of all gods took advantage of this opportunity to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out missionary work in the Secret Tower Federation.
However, preaching is not something that you can succeed if you spend your manpower and material resources. Faith is not a transaction. If your doctrine cannot be recognized by others, even if others join your church, they will not be able to become a true believer.
This situation is called "fake faith", which means "I said I believed it, but in fact I didn't."
The situation above it is called "pan-faith", which means "Although I don't believe it very much, at least I believe it when I pray.
Pan-believers are also believers, but their beliefs are not firm. Even at least half of pan-believers will believe in several gods at the same time. In various situations, they will choose to pray to different gods in hope of being blessed.
This is like the Eastern people on Earth who believe in heaven, God and ancestors. In short, whoever wants to bless him will be willing to believe in whoever he wants to bless him.
Many Westerners think that the faith of the Eastern people is hypocritical and turns faith into a business. They think that faith should be one-sided efforts. As for the blessing of the gods, it is a matter after giving. Even whether there is or not, it should not affect the efforts.
On this basis, they also developed the idea of "everyone should believe in my God, and those who don't believe should be dragged out and killed", and then developed to the point where "all believers should worship and understand God according to our faction, otherwise even heresy will be dragged out and killed."
In response to this, most Orientals just say "haha" twice, silently sighing in their hearts that "the brain is sick."
This kind of way of faith also exists in this world. Those who only talk about giving without asking for rewards are called pious beliefs; those who believe that not believing in one's own gods are sinful, which is called mad faith.
In addition, there is another type of people whose life philosophy is basically in line with the doctrine of the gods, so that their behavior is basically in line with the doctrine. This is the rarest and is called righteous faith.
Believers between pious and general believers believe only in one god, but if the god does not bless them, they cannot expect to be very loyal and they will convert if needed. This is called "true faith".
Fake faith, general belief, true belief, and pious belief are the four most common beliefs. In addition to the lowest level of false belief, the other three need to agree with the doctrines of the gods to a certain extent before they can be realized.
The Secret Tower Federation is a country of wizards, while the modern wizard theory is based on culture. Therefore, in this country, even old peasants who do not know a single word of big words know how to respect culture, so the doctrine of the God of Knowledge can be easily recognized by everyone and it is very convenient to preach.
As for other gods, they naturally do not have such advantages, and their missionary efficiency is far less than that of the church of knowledge.
Moreover, the Church of God of Knowledge has another huge advantage, they have money.
Rich, very rich, very rich!
When encountering such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Sui Xiong certainly would not care about the mere money. In his opinion, spending money naturally is also promoting social progress - don't you hear about GDP? It's all about making money and spending money!
So with his order, a huge amount of money was spent like flowing water, which could be said to be the way for gold coins.
Making money is not easy, but who can’t spend money!
With sufficient funds, the God of Knowledge really doesn't care about the cost when preaching. Even missionary pastors in some areas shouted the slogan "We want to promote education for all."
This made the churches of other gods jealous, but none of them could afford so much money, so they could only jealous.
In just four or five days, the Church of God of Knowledge expanded greatly in the Secret Pagoda Federation, increasing at least hundreds of thousands of believers, and it is still increasing. There are even more than one city rulers, high-level mages sitting high on the top of the Mage Tower, who chose to believe in Him.
With the large increase in believers, Wo's divine power was also rapidly increasing. Before he knew it, he actually stepped into the level of medium divine power.
Chapter completed!