Tome of Blood

Grant believers divine grace and help them gain extraordinary power?

After listening to Lilith's words, Charlotte fell into deep thought.

Myths can indeed bestow extraordinary powers on mortals.

Same goes for Charlotte.

In fact, Charlotte had been able to do this long before she ignited the divine fire, and the specific method was to sign a blood dependent contract through the Blood Sacred Scripture, or to use the divine blessing ability of the Sacred Scripture.

In other words, even if Charlotte does not develop believers, she can still be blessed by divine grace.

No, to be more precise, in order for gods to bestow divine grace, they do not actually require the recipient to be a believer.

The so-called belief that only believers can receive divine gifts is nothing more than the strengthening of faith by gods and their control over extraordinary beings.

Charlotte only gradually realized this after turning Yurst into a blood kin and igniting the divine fire.

Of course, this kind of thing is only a secret between gods.

As for mortals, most don't know.

Lilith believed that Charlotte, who did not develop followers, would not be able to bestow divine grace, and she obviously did not know this secret.

However, there are also differences in the divine grace given by the gods.

Generally speaking, there are usually two ways.

One, and the most common method used by gods, is that myths directly lend their power to mortals.

This is the least expensive way for myths, and the fastest way to increase power for mortals.

However, this is also the "most unstable" way of power for mortals. Once the gods take back the supernatural power, the supernatural person will lose his power.

And those who gain extraordinary power through this method are actually priests.

The second method, which is also not commonly used in mythology, is to help mortals achieve extraordinary awakening, artificially injecting extraordinary blood into mortals' bodies, and helping mortals embark on the path to the extraordinary.

This method is actually what Lilith said is bestowing extraordinary seeds.

This method is more expensive for the gods, and the extraordinary people who gain power through this method can "cultivate" on their own. Their power no longer comes from the gods, but from themselves. At most, it only depends on their strength. The nature is close to the god who gave them the extraordinary seed.

However, this method also has flaws, that is, not all people can bear the "blessing" of gods. Whether they can obtain extraordinary seeds is also related to the physical quality and potential of the recipient.

And even if you obtain extraordinary seeds, how far you can go depends only on the beneficiary himself.

This is actually very similar to those people with extraordinary bloodline in later generations.

Charlotte has read many classics in the Royal Library.

Through many comparisons, she believed that most of the bloodline origins of the extraordinary beings who were not priests in the future should have obtained their extraordinary power through this method.

This is why many church texts describe supernatural powers as originating from God.

Of course, everything is not absolute. There are always some people with unique talents who can awaken extraordinary power on their own even if they have not been blessed by the gods.

Like Lilith and Harald.

As for the second type of extraordinary beings who were given extraordinary seeds by the gods, or simply awakened on their own, the gods could not take back or take away their power as easily as they could with the priests.

For these extraordinary beings, their power is already their own, and the gods can only suppress them in terms of personality and power at most.

It is precisely for this reason that gods rarely give mortals extraordinary power by giving extraordinary seeds.

Even if it is a gift, it is often given to the person who is a believer of the god.

In this case, the gods can use the growth of extraordinary people to obtain feedback of extraordinary power through the connection of faith.

This is why when Lilith knew that Charlotte didn't plan to preach, she thought she definitely couldn't do it.

Lilith may not know that the gift of divine grace does not require faith, but in her understanding, she definitely believes that gods will not help people other than believers awaken to extraordinary power.

This idea is not wrong. For gods, cultivating extraordinary people who are not believers is a loss-making business.

The same goes for Charlotte.

Traveling to this era, she has not even found a way to replenish her divine power stably, let alone consume her divine power to cultivate extraordinary beings.

Therefore, what Lilith said is not wrong in a sense.

However, since Lilith and both of them were begging her, Charlotte thought about it and decided to help them.

It can be considered a good relationship.

In any case, Lilith and Harald are still very likely to be the True Ancestors of Blood and the God of Creation in later generations, and they themselves have great "investment" value.

And even if Charlotte misunderstood the identities of the two, they were not the two gods in later generations. Based on her "teacher-student relationship" with the two, Charlotte felt that she should also provide some help.

It's nothing more than consuming some divine power.

Since she agreed to be the "savior", she should also do what a "savior" should do.

As for divine power... the big deal is to grab the power of other myths of this era to supplement it.

This is an era full of myths. Even mortals can pick up "divine fragments" and become gods along the way. This is naturally full of opportunities for Charlotte.

Not to mention that it is not a bad thing for her to help the Free City State cultivate extraordinary power. Even if the divine power can only come in and out, the strong Free City State can become her "eyes" in this era, helping her collect intelligence and resources.

What if... we really got something good?

Thinking of this, Charlotte nodded and said to Lilith:

"Would you like to help the city-state to awaken its extraordinary power? There is no problem with this. I can do it even if I don't preach faith."

As she spoke, she smiled:

"After all...I have promised to be the 'savior' of the Free City."

…

This is a vast forest.

Deep in the forest, a tall temple stands.

The temple is made of huge stones with a very rough style. It houses a huge statue with the head of a snake and the body of a human body.

In the temple, slender figures wearing animal robes prayed to the statue. Their bodies were covered with scales, and they turned out to be snake-men with snake heads and human bodies.

Suddenly, a dark green light flew from a distance and entered the temple.

The vast coercion swept across, and the snake people immediately crawled to the ground, trembling.

It wasn't until the blood-red light lit up on the statue with a snake head and body that the terrifying pressure that enveloped the snake man was blocked.

Immediately afterwards, a majestic and majestic voice sounded in the temple:

"We have guests here, please go down first."

Hearing this voice, the snake people who were lying on the ground stood up one after another, saluted respectfully towards the statue, and then left one after another.

The next moment, the statue's eyes lit up slightly, and its scarlet gaze looked at the dark green light:

"Adora, what are you doing in my temple?"

"He...is coming."

The dark green light dissipated, and Adora, the god of hatred and distortion, looked at the blood-red statue seriously.

Sorry, it was almost 11 o'clock when I got back to the hotel after work. I turned on my phone and forced the code to come out. This chapter is short and confusing, so please let me scold you...

Readers, please give it a try. This time I am on a business trip until around the 20th, so the updates during this period will probably be shorter.