Is it so easy for religion in another world to win?

Chapter 19 The power that is about to expand and the protagonist group that is about to appear

The willpower of the bandit village chief is unexpectedly strong, or it may be that Blessing 2 is not very effective for older people.

He held on for ten seconds before rushing towards the young villagers around him.

Then, when he was out of the protection of the surrounding villagers, he was knocked down by a stone.

As they lost their command, the fighting will of the villagers in Takina Village gradually declined. After the last attempt to break through the defense of the minotaur failed, they began to retreat.

Rand looked at the retreating villagers and shouted: "Surrender and you will not be killed! Drop your weapons and lie on the ground!"

Hearing this, only a few villagers stopped running away, dropped their weapons, and lay on the ground as Rand said.

The vast majority of villagers who did not hear what Rand said, or simply did not believe Rand, turned around and dropped their weapons and ran wildly, trying to escape from this village with monsters like minotaurs.

Rand estimated and walked up to the elite tauren leader Shasa: "Take your people to chase them until they can't run anymore, kill those who fall behind, and leave twenty."

In fact, these villagers who can maintain their combat effectiveness for a period of time in front of monsters they have never seen before are very high-quality soldiers.

But now, we can only choose the best of the best. Due to the tyranny of the occupying party, there is not much food left now. Even if the hideout is disguised as hideout No. 2, it is still seriously injured.

So we can only leave the villagers who can run the fastest and have the best physique as high-quality population absorption.

Rand himself couldn't believe it. He didn't feel anything when he gave such an order.

More than a month ago, he was just an ordinary agricultural university student chasing his escaped graduation project.

Now he can say the words "leave twenty" without emotion.

But he had to do this. If he didn't plunder the rations of other villages, the food stored in the hideout would definitely not be able to support the wheat harvest.

So these high-quality soldiers had to be reluctantly abandoned.

The fighting power of a minotaur is basically equivalent to that of two semi-experienced adventurers, but for these villagers who are so scared that they even throw away their weapons to run faster, the fighting power of the minotaur is equivalent to infinity.

After all, ordinary villagers with bare hands can hardly cause harm to a strong adult minotaur.

Rand no longer watched the minotaur chasing and killing, and ordered the villagers in the den to clean up the battlefield, and by the way, see if there are any fallen villagers in Takina Village who can be rescued, or worth rescuing.

The elf came back soon, knelt on one knee, and raised the gorgeous red round jewel. In the sunlight, it was like offering a heart.

If Lisa hadn't been sick, her appearance and temperament would be quite good. If a painter with enough skills had drawn the picture just now, it might be priceless.

It's a pity that this elf doesn't seem to have a serious time.

Rand looked at the trembling elf, took the red ball, and said helplessly: "You can bark if you want."

Seeing Rand's permission, the elf's fair face turned red, and she said softly: "Woof woof!"

Then she closed her mouth again, as if she was recalling something.

Rand sighed, feeling that it was too embarrassing to let the elf follow him back to the sacrificial room. Her kneeling in the middle of the road was a devastating blow to Rand's reputation.

Although it is very likely that Rand has no reputation now.

He skillfully sacrificed the red ball to the Mother Goddess, and then he walked up to the altar and sacrificed himself, asking the Mother Goddess what reward she would give.

A moment later, Rand returned to the sacrificial room from the Mother Goddess's kingdom.

There was a good news and a bad news.

The bad news is that this series of tasks is not over yet, and we need to find the cult den of the God of Struggle and destroy it.

It is estimated that the end of this series of tasks is to completely eliminate the belief in the God of Struggle.

I don't know if I will have the chance to complete it in my lifetime.

The good news is that the great, kind, merciful, generous and generous goddess of abundance is finally not so stingy this time.

[Rand

Gender: Male

Ability: Sacrifice exemption

Blessing 1: Black Goat Mother's Desire (reached the limit)

Blessing 2: Desire sharing (single)

Will: N] (expandable)

Blessing 2 finally no longer has the word "temporary" after it, which is really a great joy.

Leaving the sacrificial room, the battlefield outside has been almost cleaned up.

It is very surprising that the village chief of Takina Village is still alive. He was just knocked unconscious, not dead, and because he was knocked unconscious, he was very lucky not to be affected by Blessing 2.

Looking at the awakened village chief of Takina Village, Rand asked: "What's your name?"

"Taran." The old bandit village chief replied weakly.

Although Taran knew very well that this cruel world is a world where the strong prey on the weak when he was young, he felt a little disheartened when he thought that his village of about 30 households might not even have 30 people left.

He struggled to sit up, ignoring the blood on his head, and wanted to kneel down and beg: "We surrender, we surrender, they are all good guys, please spare them, if you have any resentment, vent it all on me, it's all my fault."

It was meaningless to take all the blame at this time. Seeing this silver-haired old villager kneeling with his head against his boots, Rand's heart naturally fluctuated, but his determination would not change: "I will leave about 20 people."

Taran, with blood still flowing from his head, raised his head and asked pleadingly: "Then, will you let those old and young go?"

"Will it be useful if I let them go?" Rand replied in a flat voice.

The den was not completely unscathed in this battle. After all, the Takina village came to attack with complete weapons.

Under the attack of iron weapons and bows and arrows, there were still some places that the front-line big shieldmen of the minotaur could not protect.

Two members of the den who were originally bandits unfortunately left this world and returned to the embrace of the Mother Goddess, including the bandit leader who originally had a sore on his face.

Oh, we should bless their souls after death not to go to the Mother Goddess's kingdom. Rand estimated that normal souls could not bear such a scene.

"But, but." Taran lowered his head again, and then continued to use his head to support Rand's boots.

In fact, although he said so before, Rand had no intention of killing them all, and said: "Young children, I will stay."

Rand was not worried that these children who were left behind and the villagers who were captured by the tauren would retaliate.

This world is the law of the jungle. For the people at the bottom, as long as they can survive, there is no dignity and hatred.

And his place is a cult den. Although Rand did not deliberately preach, the bandit leaders chose the Mother Goddess as their belief under the influence of the original cultists.

However, the doctrine sent to them was not the kind recited by the Paladin Taner, but Rand wrote it temporarily, only a little bit, and called it: You are not qualified to understand more profound doctrines now.

Hearing this news, Taran breathed a sigh of relief. This is already the best result. After all, there are only so many resources. If this Lord Rand promised, he would fall into despair.

Then he closed his eyes: "Come on."

"?" Rand was puzzled. It's not that you, an old thing, don't want to learn from Lysa.

After a while, Taran opened his eyes in confusion and asked, "Aren't you going to kill me?"

It stands to reason that after such a life-and-death battle, the enemy leader will never let go.

Rand smiled and suddenly had a bad taste: "Guess?"

Chapter 20 The Strongest in the World

In this world, for most people, personal strength can be divided into ordinary, elite, superior and supreme.

This classification varies greatly due to racial differences, but every supreme professional will have unimaginable reputation, status, wealth, etc.

However, there are still some titles in this world that are given to those extremely rare, even once in a hundred years, and whose combat power is beyond the imagination of mortals.

——King——

This title seems to be a provocation to the royal families of various countries, but no king or emperor has come out to oppose it.

If there is no Vladimir Grand Duke's sacrifice event in the next expansion pack, the professionals with the title of "King" may always maintain their unparalleled dominance over those mortals.

The center of the continent - the saint of the Torch Church, the eyes of the blazing sun, the red king Karin.

By the way, she is the one who defeated the leader of the Nurturing Blood Church, Rand Cameron, and captured him.

The endless sea in the south - the owner of the lighthouse, the bright morning star, the blue king Rommel.

The north - the spokesperson of endless ice and snow, the owner of the permafrost furnace, the white king Karant.

...

Rand didn't know how many kings there were in this world, but it must not exceed ten fingers. He only remembered those with good-looking portraits, such as the above three, and one of the protagonists was the blood relative of the white king.

And what Rand worried about still happened.

Just when Rand was actively directing and arranging the reconstruction of the village of Takina, which was named No. 3 hideout at this time, two adventurers came not far from the hideout, riding horses that were worth a fortune at a glance, and the equipment on their bodies was also high-end goods that ordinary adventurers could hardly imagine.

At this time, Rand didn't know that he had been targeted. Since defeating the village of Takina, it seems that the village war in the entire barony has gradually subsided. Now there are less than three villages left in the huge barony.

The rapid annexation of each other has caused the village power to expand rapidly. Now it seems inappropriate to describe the villagers who survived as villagers.

They should be called bandits who are about to awaken.

However, the den is still the strongest, even including the baron stationed here.

Due to the tight front-line combat power, the stationed troops were transferred to the front in waves. If the current baron walks out of his tortoise shell castle and fights with Rand's den forces, he will definitely lose.

Rand has coveted this baron for a long time. He knows the general trend of the future. After a while, the Torch Church in the center will come forward to mediate, and then the Kingdom of Lunsa will give way and withdraw decisively.

Rand was waiting for this opportunity. There was no way this baron would stay in the castle like a coward.

But Rand still needed to be prepared, at least to eat the food in his mouth thoroughly and digest it.

Taran was standing beside Rand trembling, and next to him stood Shasa, the elite tauren leader whose bloody smell had not been completely washed away.

Now the No. 2 hideout was incorporated into the current Takina Village, and Rand named it No. 3 hideout.

Taner was reappointed as Rand's adjutant.

In the previous high-defense low-defense battle at the gate of the hideout, the hideout forces suffered 2 casualties, and minor injuries were not counted.

Captured 20 young and strong men, both men and women, and 5 children.

The strength of the den at this time ushered in a rapid expansion, becoming 25 original den members + 25 new den members + 8 tauren, excluding Taner, Rand and Lysa, a total of 58 people.

Rand was not in a hurry to attack other villages. When he found an opportunity to kill the baron who crawled out of the turtle shell and took back enough food, he would have the opportunity to completely annex other villages, instead of killing many high-quality soldiers like now.

And a very critical point is that a large number of iron weapons were seized from the village chief Taran. After careful inventory, it was enough iron weapons to arm fifty people. I don’t know what Taran did before.

The only pity is that there is no armor, otherwise Rand would have the opportunity to break through the baron’s turtle shell and see if the baroness still has charm!

"Taran!" Rand called the name of the former village chief.

Taran agreed immediately. This outlaw who was also a powerful figure in his youth, now had a face full of flattery.

"This place will be called No. 3 den from now on." Rand smiled. He also knew that his naming skills were very poor. "It will still be called Takina Village to the outside world. You will be the village chief here in the future."

Of course, the villagers in No. 3 den are basically believers now. Only a small number of villagers from the original Takina Village, and most of the villagers have been taken to the No. 1 den.

In fact, Rand felt that there would be no problem if the original Takina Village villagers were led by Taran, but there was no need to take this risk, lest this fierce and decisive old man think that there is really a chance. If he stabs him at a critical period in the future, it will be bad.

Now this arrangement is just right, leaving Taran a position as the village chief, and also letting the people in the No. 1 den not think too much, showing that he Rand is generous and really intends to absorb them instead of treating them as consumables.

After a brief moment of confusion, Taran quickly understood what Rand meant, and bowed his head respectfully, saying, "Please rest assured, I will watch carefully here, and there will be absolutely no problems."

"No need to do that, just don't do anything you shouldn't do in private, my people will watch you." Rand gave a light warning, and then stopped paying attention to Taran, because Taner came over.

Taner came over, and now because of his excellent reading and writing skills, and his relatively normal style of doing things, he was promoted to Rand's adjutant.

He came to stand beside Rand, as always, like an iron tower that made people feel at ease.

He was a little embarrassed to look at Rand, because he felt that his little thoughts were seen through.

Before, Rand disguised himself as the village chief of the No. 2 den for Rand, and perfectly blocked the possibility of humiliation for the messenger of God, but Rand had no reaction. He was actually a little disappointed, although he obviously didn't want Rand to know.

But in the past few days, he heard that Rand took Serai and Ses to the town to help him avenge his shame.

At this time, he was a little ashamed, he knew that he shouldn't have thought so before.

But there is still one problem. He feels that there is something wrong with the identity of this Rand envoy!

This envoy is too normal. He has worked under him for so long, and he has never done anything really evil. Now those minotaurs have obtained the same status as the believers in the den, and are no longer treated as slaves as before.

He also read the new doctrine compiled by Rand. It can't be said that it is not very similar to the original doctrine he recited, but it can be said that there is no connection.

Although only a few thin pages have been written, he took a look and even felt that this is the new doctrine of the Torch Church. No, maybe the new doctrine of the Torch Church will not be so practical and profound.

Rather than saying it is a doctrine, it is better to say it is a guide to life.