Reincarnation Paradise: There are vests everywhere

Chapter 2257 Various Regions
The growth of the Glorious Church also had a great impact on other forces, just like Shurima's rebuilding is bound to encounter many obstacles. According to Taliyah, Victor, the leader of the Glorious Church, was assassinated many times, but he survived.

Victor's Glorious Church's headquarters was built in Bilgewater, and the Glorious Church had completely occupied the city. Bilgewater was originally located on the edge of the Blue Flame Islands far away from the mainland. It was a unique port city where sea serpent hunters, dock gangs, and smugglers came from all over the known world to settle down.

Here, wealth and ruin can happen in a blink of an eye. For those fleeing judgment, debt, and persecution, this city offers a new lease of life, for on Bilgewater’s winding streets, no one cares about your past.

Bilgewater is an extremely dangerous place, but it is also full of opportunities. It is not subject to any formal government or trade regulations. Whether it is shady hextech or the obedience of local gangs, as long as you can afford it, you can get it.

In short, Bilgewater was once a place of exile and a gathering place for villains. When Victor brought the Glorious Church here, it has now become the most mechanized city in Runeterra, called the City of Evolution.

Although Bilgewater has become the city of evolution, the Glorious Church is not without troubles. At least even if Victor heard the news that Lin Jiu was in Shurima, he couldn't get away to come. Because there is a very difficult enemy in Bilgewater, the sea beast priest Illaoi, or more precisely, the god behind her.

Nagakabouros is the deity that Illaoi yearns for. In the description, it is a huge sea monster with tentacles coiled around its head and neck, swimming back and forth endlessly. People also call it the Snake Mother, the Sea Beast, or the Bearded Lady. Nagakabouros is not only the god of life in the Serpent Islands, but also the storm of the deep sea and the supreme movement itself.

The name Nagakabouros itself means "the endless monster that drives the sky and the sea". As a god, it naturally has its own church, which we will call the Sea Beast Church. The core of its doctrine lies in three major beliefs: every soul is born as a servant of the universe; the desires of all life are planted by the universe; the universe surges forward because all things are eager to pursue their own desires.

Originally, there would be no conflict between the Glorious Church and the Sea Beast Church. After all, Victor only used Bilgewater as the headquarters, and the development of the church was still oriented towards the Valoran continent. The forces in various regions of the Valoran continent were complicated, and Victor did not want to cause a large-scale war, so he used the island as the headquarters.

The territory of the Sea Beast Church is the Serpentine Islands. Although Bilgewater is also a large island in the Serpentine Islands, the Sea Beast Church has never cared about this island.

This pirate city is the only place in the Serpentine Islands where outsiders are allowed to land, which makes the people of the Sea Beast Church sick. The true ones before Illaoi completely ignored the existence of this city and regarded outsiders as creatures that were only slightly better than the undead.

The conflict between the Glorious Church and the Sea Beast Church is caused by the unique Sea Beast Priest Illaoi. As the True One, Illaoi chose to bring the faith of the Sea Beast Church to this city that has always been ignored. Although other people in the Sea Beast Church do not understand Illaoi's behavior, as the True One of their church, when Illaoi and the Glorious Church clashed, it naturally evolved into a conflict between the two major churches.

On the way, besides Taliyah's chattering, Nasus was also teaching Sivir how to become a king. Of course, he taught the feudal monarchy, excluding the slavery system of ancient Shurima.

The more primitive the social environment, the more likely it is to breed large-scale slavery. This is the case with ancient Shurima. Although it has an extremely powerful empire, it still has large-scale slavery. This is partly due to the influence of the Ascension Ceremony.

Noxus is like a weakened version of ancient Shurima, both are expansionist empires, and Noxus does not have an obvious slave system because they do not have the Ascension Ceremony to create a strong army of Ascendants, which requires a sufficient army, so naturally there will not be a large number of slaves. As for the small number of slaves kept by the nobles, that is unavoidable. As long as there are nobles, this situation will exist.

Lin Jiu thinks that the social structure of Runeterra is very strange. Piltover and Zaun started the industrial revolution 200 years ago, lighting up the technology tree of steam and electricity. Now they have entered the third industrial revolution triggered by Hextech and alchemy technology.

And what about other places in Runeland besides the Twin Cities? Not to mention the industrial revolution that developed in the Twin Cities, mechanized production, mature labor classes, and productivity that was ahead of its time. The people in most regions and countries didn't even know what mathematics was.

Their system and social structure are at least one era behind the Twin Cities. Demacia and Noxus are fine, one is a feudal monarchy and the other is an expansionist empire. Demacia uses the medieval knight system, where the king divides the land among different lords, letting them manage the land on his behalf, pay taxes for him, and bear the obligation of war. Noxus is a little more advanced, using the next stage of the knight system: absolute monarchy.

The power of the country gradually concentrated in the hands of a monarch, who consolidated his rule by strengthening centralization and weakening the power of local nobles. Although the emperor of Noxus, Darkwill, was a puppet emperor, this did not affect the centralization of the empire. Power was still concentrated in the center, but not in the hands of the emperor.

And Noxus has a certain industrial base, especially the military industry, which is quite strong. Therefore, after the fall of the Shurima Empire and without the intervention of high-end combat forces, Noxus was able to embark on the path of expansionist empire and fight all over Rune Continent.

In addition to these two great powers, the development of other regions is even more diverse. For example, Shurima, where Lin Jiu is now, was once extremely glorious, but now it is full of warlords and chieftains, and the majority of them are nomadic tribes in the desert. It is not easy to find enough survival supplies in the desert, and fighting and killing are common. In addition, the development of Shurima by Noxus and the Twin Cities has also led to the rise of mercenaries.

There is also Ionia, which is well known to Alliance players. Before Noxus opened its borders, it was a completely agricultural society, where people were self-sufficient by farming at home. It was a perfect pastoral idyll with peace isolated from the world. For a long time, there was not even a decent unified region, let alone a large unification, not even a small-scale one.

There are many sects, but they only care about their own little piece of land, like a martial arts world without government. This has a lot to do with Ionia's environment. The soil where people live will undoubtedly affect the direction of civilization. If there was no Noxus, Ionia would probably remain the same in another thousand years.

Not to mention the Freljord, the ice and snow there are simply not suitable for human survival, and it is still in the primitive slave tribal era.

Even though the Twin Cities' system was ahead of its time, their development was distorted, and they did not successfully extend their tentacles to every corner of the world. Even with transportation fortresses such as the Hexgate and the Sungate, they only made war profits for Noxus and did business with the Demacia nobles. However, it could not be said that it was a problem of the leaders, but rather that the martial virtues were not sufficient, and there was still civil strife between the Twin Cities.

(End of this chapter)