A strange world

Chapter 486 Section 143. "The Temples"

The early morning sea fog enveloped the awakening Liberty City.

Residents who had rested all night were ready to get busy. The sea fog has not yet receded, and the smoke from cooking has once again enveloped this small town called Liberty City.

Loew had just lost his job because new buildings were no longer being built in the city, and was about to try his luck at the Great Northern Wall—the Free City had no city walls, but there was a long wall under construction in the north that stretched eastward from the foot of the Forest Mountains.

As a result, he was recruited by the city lord's palace, and it was said that he wanted to build a magnificent cathedral in the city.

The wife who made him proud - less than one tenth of the people in Breeze City had a wife who urged him to go without even asking for wages. Everyone felt honored to be able to build a church for the God they believed in.

Loew only has some faith in the goddess of wealth, but his neighbor Jimmy is a devout believer, but he was recruited to dig rivers. He also came to the door with several pounds of dried fish, hoping to exchange with Loew——

"Sorry, my belief in gods is equally devout."

Loew rejected him... What if building a church can be blessed by the goddess of wealth?

We set out to find a site for the church, which was still a wasteland. The commercial street was right next door.

"Who can read the drawings!"

shouted the Minister of Construction, who could only hear his voice but could not see anyone.

"I..." Loew, who found that his voice was drowned in the noisy crowd, raised his hands and shouted: "Me!"

The crowd parted, and a low wine barrel "rolled" over.

"Very good, now you are the captain, choose five people to follow you."

Wine... no, the kind dwarf threw a drawing to Loew, and Loew straightened his back unconsciously in response to the gazes of the people around him.

"Loew, how the hell do you know how to read drawings!" People who knew him yelled jealously.

"I'm in the workers' class at school." Loew raised his head proudly, "You guys are either taking the magic class or the potions class... Are you Mudbloods worthy of being mage masters?"

Loew selected five workers who did not scold him amidst the bursts of curses, and ran to the construction site to take a look at the drawings first. His first impression was the movement in the guest room on the second floor of the tavern... Oh, what a blasphemous thought!

But the drawing did divide a church into small churches. Then Eli Rubble called these captains together and told them that this would be a pantheon of statues of all the gods - and you will become this immortal Builders of temples.

The captains were excited, and then began the boring work of laying the foundation...

It is still far from starting to build the church. They need to lay the foundation first, and it is estimated that it will not be completed until before the rainy season... Without the earth element, all construction is forced to slow down.

It will be difficult for them to repeat the miracle of building Liberty City in the first two months.

Working from early morning to night, the workers received their salary: one silver coin, and the captain gave an additional 50 copper coins.

Many workers refused to be paid because they did not want money to blaspheme their faith.

"Take it, this is given to you by the Lord of the City."

But there is another inequality in Liberty City: Annan is greater than the gods.

Therefore, Loew accepted the salary without any sense of guilt. Even the goddess of wealth would be happy to know about it.

"We should give Lord Annan a place in the pantheon of gods!"

A shout came from somewhere.

…

"They're also talking about making you a god," Ingrid said.

Annan, who was flipping through a geography book and pretending to study hard, raised his head: "Become a god?"

"The God of Magical Images."

Annan's newly raised curiosity was extinguished: "...it's better to forget it."

"Really? I don't think legends or demigods will compete with you for this priesthood."

Annan thought about gathering with a bunch of gods in the future:

"I am the God of Light, and I fill this world with light."

"I am the goddess of the ocean, I control the entire ocean."

It was Annan's turn to say: "I am the god of magic images, and I take magic images for everyone to see."

Ingrid showed a look of regret: "Recently, there have been some rumors in the city, about the mad dog... Rumors about the "Grand Duke" Gilles planning to attack Liberty City are spreading.

"We don't have any trade with surrounding towns, right?"

"The merchant ships brought news that the 'Grand Duke' Gilles was preparing to conquer us, so the merchant ships brought food and resources."

Annan thought that there were many boats floating on the bay these days, and they would never leave without docking. It seems this is the reason.

"Didn't you tell them our purchase price?"

"I told you, they are going to sell us food and resources, as well as the location on the ship when we are attacked by the Mad...Ji...Mad Dog Archduke." Ingrid finally succumbed to Annan's title.

“It looks like they’re going to waste a lot of time and money.

Annan had no sympathy for these businessmen waiting for a price at all: "Where are our mercenaries?"

Annan handed this matter over to Francois, who had been arranging for the mercenary guild to come to Liberty City in the past few days.

"The mercenary guild agreed to settle in. I temporarily placed the guild in an empty warehouse, and a master-level mercenary group accepted our commission."

"Master level?"

"The leader needs to be a master professional and complete the challenge." Ingrid has become accustomed to Annan's lack of knowledge and skills. "The commission I gave them is to expel all the beings wandering outside the city wall."

This should solve Liberty City's shortage of staff.

Annan, who was leaning on the sofa, sat up straighter: "Do you think this mercenary will stay in Liberty City forever?"

"Their leader is a man."

"It seems there is no chance... Remember to ask Francois to find some mercenaries who have a chance to stay in Liberty City."

Ingrid wanted to continue talking about government affairs, but the astute Annan interrupted her: "Is Lilith still studying with Dean Blehim?"

"Yes."

"Find a reason to let the mercenary group see Dean Breshim."

This should eliminate some unnecessary trouble.

"Okay, about-"

Annan turned a page: "If you have nothing else to do, go and do your business. I want to continue reading."

"OK."

Ingrid didn't say anything else. When she was leaving, she suddenly turned around and said, "You held the book upside down."

Annan's movements paused, then returned to normal and said: "I'm practicing my ability to read backwards."

"What's the point?"

Annan put down the overturned book and said solemnly: "Perhaps one day in the future, I will be caught by bad guys and they will hang me upside down, and a book not far away will be my life-saving straw."

Ingrid responded by closing the door and leaving.

Annan breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head to look at the window: Lily was stepping on the flower bed and jumping to the window sill.

"A cat sees a stupid cat."

"Is it playing outside?"

"Yeah." Lily lay on the window sill to bask in the sun.

Annan couldn't help but want to touch a few. When he came to the window, he suddenly squinted and looked out at the street.

The witch was wandering outside the city lord's mansion.