crush the rich

The situation that followed was out of control.

With the leadership of the Sea God Sect and the Moon God Sect, many small sects followed in their footsteps, began to register with the Magic Association, and claimed their own temples.

If you look carefully, these are all sects that focus on farming and trading, but their combat effectiveness is not strong. Even the Poseidon Sect and the Luna Sect, which are recognized as belonging to the Twelve Great Churches, the former is called the patron of sea trade merchants, and the latter The latter are considered patron deities of mothers, wives and daughters, neither of which is offensive.

For them, just being deprived of force will not have any serious impact on their own missionary work, because they were not strong in the struggle for belief in the Holy City before, and they had their own special belief groups.

But even so, not being strong in the past doesn't mean that you don't want to be strong in the future.

Once other sects occupy their original temple, and the Magic Association stirs up the muddy water, the next situation will be unpredictable.

Some people still couldn't turn their heads and gritted their teeth and didn't want to follow the wishes of the Magic Association. Some churches just sent a few priests privately and wanted to take over the church in the name of the sect first.

When Yin Lian listened to the report, she thought for a while and said to the other party: "...the archbishop is required to sign the contract in person. If the archbishop is not there, it doesn't matter...as long as they are clergymen above the seventh level and are accepted by most of them. The congregation admits that we can all improvise ceremonies and be directly ordained as archbishops."

"No matter what changes thereafter, we will only recognize this archbishop."

When this sentence spread to the ears of the major sects, everyone was shocked.Some people are heartbroken, and some people have lingering fears.

Yin Lian's meaning is very clear. If the major churches want to send a young man to take over the temple and then turn around and deny it later, she will not allow it.To take over the temple, at least the archbishop must sign it. If the archbishop doesn't want to sign, then it's okay to send someone with weight, and they will directly appoint and hold the ceremony.

But the various churches are not fools. If they really do this, will the Magic Association turn the whole thing into reality, and will the new bishop be willing to step down in the future... But it will become something uncontrollable.

So when the news came out, all the churches inevitably withdrew their original plans for a while.

In this case, Yin Lian's method of differentiation will become more effective with each passing day.Under such circumstances, even if they originally planned to hold back temporarily and wait for the right time to expel several sects of the Magic Association, they had to speed up their actions.

"Regardless of whether the reason for the surge in strength of these magicians has been detected or not, we can't wait any longer. It is imperative to take back the Holy City!"

"That woman is too resourceful. If this continues, more and more sects will be attracted by her, and her roots in the Holy City will become more and more stable. It will be difficult to get rid of them by then."

"...Thirteen days later will be the Spring Harvest Festival that the woman has decided. According to the notice from the Magic Association, there will be a [-]-hour ceremony from ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening on the day of the Harvest Festival. After such a day, Even if it is to maintain order, the spirit of the group of mages will definitely be exhausted and relaxed. This should be the best opportunity."

Then someone suddenly raised his head, looked aside, and said, "Knight Sadesi, where are you going!?"

Sadesi turned back, smiled sarcastically, and said, "I'm going to find out information."

Wearing a black robe, he left the residence and walked all the way to the notice area in the central street of the lower city. Then he looked at the notices in the notice area, his eyes gloomy, and he stroked the writing on them with his fingers.

【...Spring Harvest Festival...】

He knew that these notices were definitely not from Yin Lian's hand, and should have been transcribed sentence by sentence by other scribes according to her original manuscript.But he also knew that there must be a notice there, and every word and every sentence came from her own hand.

That beautiful yet hateful girl.

Her expression was contemptuous, her methods were vicious, and she killed many knights without even blinking an eye.But it was such a vicious girl that Sadesi dreamed of her every night.

Sometimes I dreamed that the other party inserted a knife into my chest, and sometimes I dreamed that I killed the other party.When his chest was pierced by a knife in his dream, what he remembered when he woke up was not the fear, but the warmth of her hands, and the...sweet distance where he could feel each other's breath.

It was as if he had been poisoned by a witch.

Can't get relief.

...Perhaps only by killing her can one be freed from the witch's bewitchment.

He grimaced, thinking so.

But he also knew that it was not very easy to kill Yin Lian.Perhaps... even if he tried his best, he could only have one chance.

He reached into his arms and grabbed the scroll.

Soon it was the day of the Harvest Festival.

The Harvest Sacrifice is a new trick played by the Church of Life. It has never appeared in the Martil Continent before, so everyone is not familiar with it.

However, because it was a festival that was born after the harvest of new varieties of grain, the reason was very reasonable, and there was not too much personal color of the goddess of life mixed in, so the Holy City did not reject it too much.

What's more, the holy city at this time really needs some celebrations to ease the tense atmosphere after the war.

The battle of gods and magic is different from ordinary wars, and ordinary people cannot participate in this kind of battle.Even lower-level knights or mage apprentices have no room for meddling.When the magicians captured the holy city, ordinary people were not without casualties, but most of them were only affected by the aftermath of the battle, and no one died because of participating in the battle.

On the contrary, there were many casualties when the city collapsed, but compared to the war in Yin Lian's world, the death rate is not enough.Especially the temple complex was under martial law at that time, and there were not many believers except the priests themselves, which greatly reduced the casualties.

It is also because of the powerlessness of ordinary civilians in this kind of battle that they are full of fear of magic and magic.To be honest, Martil's civilians have very little influence on the superiors. When encountering such a torrent of war, they can almost just drift with the tide like floating catkins and pray to the gods.

But the strength of the church is inseparable from the people.Because in the final analysis, divine power is actually a collection of believers' mind power.Unlike the self-cultivation of mages, priests are more dependent on believers, and on the other hand, their abilities are easier to grow.

Of course, this growth comes at a price.

In any case, the power of the clergyman can only continue to grow when he is believed in.Once a believer is lost, the priest's ability cannot continue to grow and may even decline.Of course, this kind of decline is not inevitable. According to the current understanding, even if a person who is full of profound attainments in divine arts loses the support of believers, the decline in divine power will be less obvious.

On the contrary, if one relies purely on collecting beliefs, then once the support of believers is lost, there is a possibility of losing the ability to use divine magic.

It is also because of this that some churches will use all means to compete for faith.For them, not only desire is faith, but fear itself is also a form of faith.

But in fact, during this period of high religious development, mere threats and intimidation are no longer enough to completely control believers. A small number of sects have begun to use gentle methods, but more sects still insist on the original approach , Regardless of the dissatisfaction of believers, continue to force believers to obey orders driven by fear.

This approach seems to be effective in the short term until the emergence of the Life Church.

After the society develops, it is an inevitable process for religion to transform from a deterrent church to a soft one.Yin Lian just speeded up the process.

Because of these natures of the old sect, believers fear the gods far more than they love them, while the teachings of the Life Church are relatively full of temptation, attracting more believers and creating a beautiful future image for them.

Under such circumstances, although the residents of the Holy City who have been oppressed for a long time are inevitably full of fear and anxiety towards the Mage Association, they may not have a more violent or hateful reaction than the Church of the Holy City itself.Especially after the mages stayed in the Holy City for a period of time, many people gradually realized that these mages were not prepared to slaughter the city, and they were not as scary as imagined.

Of course, the mages can't say anything good.During this time, they killed not a few people in the holy city.Some of them are rebels, some are just implicated.

In addition, there is a beautiful girl who is possessed by the mages.From the standpoint of a person on earth, Yin Lian does not approve of the act of robbing civilian girls.But now that the mages are strong, it is impossible for Yin Lian to deny the spoils they can harvest in the holy city. In addition, many churches on the Martil mainland do not prohibit priests from getting close to women. It is said that beautiful women will be forced to enter the church Therefore, Yin Lian has no way to ask the mages to be more noble than the priests of the Holy City from all standpoints.

In this case, Yin Lian can only protect the believers who have taken refuge in the Church of Life and exclude the recipes of the mages.At the same time, she asked the mages not to use force to rob them. If they fancy someone, they must at least obtain the consent of the other party's parents or themselves.

As for how to obtain consent, that is a personal matter.Anyway, mages are rich.

Of course, priests who are unregistered or actively attack mages are not within the scope of this protection.These are considered the mage's personal trophies, and it's up to them how to deal with them.

In fact, this kind of regulation is nothing more than turning plunder into a transaction... In essence, it is just as rude and barbaric.

However, the residents of the holy city unexpectedly accepted this idea, and instead felt that the Mage Association was quite reasonable-this was beyond Yin Lian's expectations.From this point of view, cruelty is not cruel, kindness is not kindness, it is not absolute... but a comparison.

So as time passed, the Mage Association was slowly accepted by the people of the holy city.Although there are many opposition parties, most of them dare not speak out.More ordinary people began to accept the reality after helplessness and fear, and even developed a good impression of the Mage Association.

This atmosphere undoubtedly angered and pressed the sects lurking in the dark, making them even more angry and anxious.

So on this day, when the ceremony started, Yin Lian felt the tense atmosphere.She looked at the turbulent atmosphere amidst the excitement outside, and smiled.

Then the voice of the black sage came from behind, and said in a low voice: "You are too courageous!"