Lord Harland

Although Richard formulated some legal regulations to reduce the privileges of the nobility, he tried to allow the nobility and free people to compete in a fair environment. However, due to ideological, conceptual, and physical differences, the winners are basically the aristocracy.

Ricks Magic Academy has been reopened for more than half a year. Although Richard sent a large number of grassroots bureaucrats to promote the school, basically not many ordinary people participated in enrollment.

In fact, even among the Harland leaders who have promoted the Richard Law for many years, only a handful of people grew up from ordinary families.

Among the upper class of the territory, there were actually only two people, William and Jennings. Although Richard did not have aristocratic blood, he had a special physical condition. When he was a boy, William had already entered the middle and upper class of Grant Kingdom and was not considered someone who had climbed up from the bottom. As for Sophia, Soros, Sylph, and Sutton, they can all be considered to be from the aristocratic class.

Most of the people in the upper class have aristocratic blood, but they are from the baronial class, and many people have successfully turned over. Whether it is Martin, Roland, Sulla, or Odaye, they all achieved great success to some extent, changed the destiny of a family, and became the founder of a noble family.

Richard knew in his heart that it was impossible for people to be equal.

Even if an utopia is created and there is an environment where everyone is equal at the beginning, differences in intelligence, physical fitness, will and morality will soon lead to differentiation. Because humans are social creatures, they all have selfish desires and want to control others. They will gradually change the rules and environment to benefit themselves. This is a genetic instinct.

Individuals may overcome genetic instincts, but it is difficult for a group to succeed.

Since the nobles stood out from the competition, it was impossible for Richard to personally suppress them and leave the opportunity to the common people. It is not easy to create a relatively progressive environment.

With Richard's strong support, Ricks Magic Academy was reopened and enrollment was quickly completed.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye it was the seventh day of November in the dawn calendar year 3280.

In the early morning of this day, nine bells suddenly rang at the headquarters of the Dawn Cathedral.

The Great Morning Bell is an artifact forged by the goddess, and it rarely makes any sound. The Great Morning Bell rang nine times in one day, and you didn't need to guess to know that something extremely important had happened.

Almost on the same day, more than a few hundred believers received a response from the Goddess of Dawn.

The Dawn Goddess has been dormant for more than three thousand years and rarely responds to the prayers of her followers. Occasional brief awakenings would only notify the top brass of Dawn Church. In the past three thousand years, basically only legendary priests would occasionally listen to the sacred voice of the goddess.

After a professional ignites the divine fire and successfully becomes a god, the Kingdom of God can generally stay in the main plane for five hundred years.

Five hundred years later, the Kingdom of God will be expelled to the main plane.

The five hundred years after being conferred as a god are also the period when a god has the greatest influence on the main plane. Because the god's kingdom remains on the main plane, the god's power can be exerted to 100%, and the ascended gods of other god's kingdoms cannot compete at all.

The reason why this world is named the Dawn Plane is because the Goddess of Dawn is the most powerful after becoming a god. Not only does the Kingdom of God remain in the main plane, but she can also control part of the power of the World Tree. In the fiercest war in hundreds of years Expelled the rule wizards, killed the undead king, and even won the religious war.

Even the powerful God of Glory, the God of fairness and justice, was not as majestic as the Goddess of Dawn three thousand years ago.

After the victory of the war, the Goddess of Dawn fell into a deep sleep. Decades later, the Kingdom of God flew high into the sky on the main plane, and its influence in this world gradually became less than that of the God of Glory.

Although the Kingdom of the God of Glory is not yet in the Dawn Plane and is at a considerable disadvantage in fighting the local gods, after the Dawn Plane degenerated from high demons to medium demons, there were many legendary professions in the Church of Glory, and they quickly gained an advantage in the struggle. Established the Holy Empire of Radiance and suppressed other gods.

Today, the number of believers of the God of Glory in the Dawn Plane exceeds one billion.

With one billion believers, it is also extremely important to the God of Glory. It is the third-ranked plane in the Holy See of the God of Glory. For more than a thousand years, two incarnations of the God of Glory have been resident in the plane of dawn.

A few years ago, the God of Glory lost an incarnation, so he shrunk his power and withdrew from the red moon plane.

It is easy for the God of Glory to make up his mind to abandon the red moon plane. But to give up the Dawn Plane, unless the God of Glory is defeated in the battle between gods and endangers his life, it is possible to give up the three thousand years of management of the Dawn Plane.

Although the Goddess of Dawn was so majestic and famous in this world back then, she was not actually successful in managing the plane. Today's Morningside Church is only ranked third among the Seven Gods Church.

Richard played the most important role in the reason why the Goddess of Dawn awakened several years earlier. As the Harland Territory has grown in recent years, the number of Morningside Church believers has increased significantly.

After all, the Church of Dawn is the only official church in Harland Territory, and it is difficult for other major churches to get approval from Harland Territory even for building churches. Even the Royal Church, the favorite of the nobles, had difficulties in developing in the Harland Territory.

Although Richard did not directly prohibit other churches from entering Harland to preach, the Religious Affairs Bureau would also formulate various means to suppress the development of other religions. It has become difficult for other religions to develop followers and can only retain devout people.

The Harland Territory has a population of 14 million from scratch. The vast majority of the population comes from the three countries on the east coast. The vast majority of this population does not believe in the Goddess of the Dawn. After entering the religiously controlled country of Harland, the believers quickly changed their beliefs. This part of the power of faith plays a key role in the goddess's early awakening.

According to the standards set by major churches in the Dawn Plane, a believer provides different power of faith to the gods based on his level of faith and soul strength.

Generally speaking, the church divides believers into four types according to their degree of belief.

The lowest group is called light believers, accounting for 80% to 90% of the total number of believers. Although shallow believers may occasionally pray and participate in religious activities, deep down they do not believe in gods. This is basically the kind of person who doesn't usually burn incense and just does it temporarily.

Although there are gods in this world, and the gods will appear occasionally and even respond to people's prayers, there are still very few believers who can really get the attention of the gods.

For example, the Goddess of Dawn has nearly 200 million followers. It is equivalent to 200 million believers calling the goddess's phone every day. The goddess simply does not have the time and energy to answer them one by one, and will block the vast majority of people.

As a god, despite having two incarnations, he is actually still very busy.

Although the gods are powerful, they still have to face messy things every day. The most important thing is to protect the sphere of influence and prevent the invasion of evil gods, alien gods, undead kings, demon lords, and rule wizards.

Similarly, the gods need to refine the power of faith, refine artifacts, cultivate the followers of gods, and run the kingdom of gods. There is not much free time to answer the phone.

Even if the Dawn Goddess is not asleep, the 200 million believers will not be able to get a response. Even for a god who likes to communicate directly with believers, he can only answer the prayers of 20,000 to 30,000 people a year.

Those who receive responses from the gods are basically those whom the goddess focuses on. Especially for shallow believers, it is impossible for calls from ordinary people to reach the goddess's phone number.

The next level up from shallow believers are true believers. True believers believe in gods from the bottom of their hearts, rarely violate the scriptures established by gods, provide ten times the power of faith as shallow believers, and pray to gods almost every day.

Generally speaking, a true believer in a good god must be a good person in terms of moral character. There are nearly 200 million believers in the Goddess of Dawn. There are an estimated 178 million casual believers, and there may only be 20 million true believers.

Above true believers are fanatics. Generally speaking, for the same person, the faith provided by one fanatic is equivalent to ten true believers and a hundred shallow believers. Fanatic believers not only do not violate the canons established by the gods, but will even use the canons to require others to follow them. They are the backbone of preachers and are willing to sacrifice their lives for the gods. Whether the church can develop well is actually mainly driven by fanatic believers.

Taking the Church of Dawn as an example, the number of fanatical believers is only over one million.

Above the fanatics are the saints. The so-called saints are the disciples of the saints. Such believers play a vital role in the development of the church and the promotion of doctrine. On the contrary, their own beliefs are sometimes not pious.

For example, Duke Richard of Harland is a publicly certified saint of the Dawn Church and a favored person of God. He has played a very key role in the development and growth of the Dawn Church.

In the past thirty years, through the development of the Harland Territory, the number of believers of the goddess has increased by more than 10 million. Once the Dukedom of Rex is controlled, this number will increase significantly. But Richard's belief in the Goddess of Dawn is not considered pious, and he can only be regarded as a shallow believer of the goddess.

Another example is the Archbishop of Grant Diocese, who is also a saint. Senna was trained by the church, promoted to a legendary mage, and entered the decision-making level of the Church of Dawn. He is the real high-level leader of the Church of Dawn. However, Senna went too far in the magic field. What he pursues in his heart is knowledge, and he is also just a shallow believer of the goddess. .

People like Richard and Senna only believe in themselves, and it is difficult for them to believe in gods wholeheartedly. The real strong people who can ignite the divine fire and master the rules have this kind of character.

In addition to the level of faith, the strength of a believer's soul varies, and the power of faith provided to the goddess is also different.

For example, Archbishop Senna, although he is a shallow believer, has extremely powerful soul power. The power of faith he can provide by himself is somewhat stronger than that of a low-level professional who is a fanatical believer.

Richard possesses powerful divinity. After being promoted to Legend, his soul essence is much stronger than that of Senna. He is roughly equivalent to a demigod. The power of faith he provides to the Goddess of Dawn is actually higher than that of a high-level professional fanatic. a bit.

As a believer, the higher the power of faith you provide every day and the more devoted you are to the goddess, the more the goddess will naturally value you.

Of course, there are some special believers who can even help the goddess, and the goddess will bestow divine favors. These God-favored ones are often the most important foundation of a church.

Due to the sleeping goddess, the number of God's Beloveds in the Church of Dawn is pitifully small. In addition, there are only four people in the Red Moon Plane in the past hundred years.

Among them, the legendary priest Mavela has died, and his soul has entered the kingdom of the goddess. There are only three favored ones left in the material plane, including Richard.

After the Dawn Goddess woke up, she immediately spread the news to Richard's mind.

The goddess's kingdom is located above the plane of dawn. Through the channel of the power of faith, she can convey her thoughts to the minds of every believer.

This ability far exceeds that of Haaland's Dream Tree, and is equivalent to a telegram group with a population of up to 200 million people. Of course, the Telegram group has strict permissions, and the only people who can send messages to the goddess are probably the few hundred people she focuses on.

The remaining people can only send spam messages, occupying a large amount of memory in the Telegram group.

After receiving the news that the Goddess of Dawn had awakened, Richard settled his government affairs and immediately prepared to rush to the headquarters of the Church of Dawn to see if the goddess had any next steps.

The princess's mausoleum in Harland Territory and the undead lair in the northern part of Bolton Forest can only be solved smoothly if the goddess of the morning comes forward in person. Both of these matters are big events for Harland Territory.

Auxerre Castle in the Palame Kingdom is the headquarters of the Church of the Dawn. The population of this country is basically the believers of the Church of the Dawn, and the religious power is far more important than the royal power.

It is said that the Goddess of Dawn was a virgin who never married and left no descendants.

The earliest Queen Palame was a student of the Goddess of Dawn, who was very famous more than 3,000 years ago.

Richard vaguely discovered from the secret information and ancient family books that the first generation Queen Palame should not have died, and was probably hidden in the Kingdom of the Goddess of Dawn and was promoted to a demigod.

Judging from the canon specifications of the Church of Dawn, the status of the first Queen Palame is equivalent to that of the Goddess of Dawn.

According to the open scriptures, Richard found that the status of the seven saints was very high, similar to the gods of the gods. There are statues and pictures of these gods placed in churches, and they are also very important in the scriptures. According to the information that Richard knew, two of the seven saints were the incarnations of the goddess, and the remaining five were followers of the goddess, including the goddess's partners before becoming a god and students in the early stages of becoming a god.

Richard is not the core of the Dawn Church. I don’t know how many demigods the Dawn Church currently has.

But logically guessing, the number is estimated to not be too much, otherwise it would be impossible for the Red Moon Goddess to escape the seal.

Professionals are promoted to demigods and already have strong divinity. The spiritual power of demigods is already very powerful, and they can break away from the shackles of the physical body and have permanent life to a certain extent. Even if you are killed in battle, as long as you still have the faith of a believer, you can still be resurrected.

Therefore, in the war between gods, attacking church believers must be the top priority, and it will inevitably involve the secular kingdom.

There are gods in this crystal wall universe, so the status of the church is naturally a top priority. Ninety-nine percent of ordinary people believe in gods. Although most of them are casual believers, the Pope's influence is far greater than that of Richard's previous life.

Religion has a powerful influence, and religious wars are naturally extremely cruel, far more deadly than secular kingdoms. As the goddess of dawn awakened, the power at the highest level once again broke the balance. This situation made Richard secretly worried.