Wall was originally born in a small merchant family, which could be regarded as the grassroots of society. He started learning martial arts when he was young, and when he was 17 or 18, his family suffered an accident. Not only did he lose his family fortune, but he also owed a lot of money. Helplessly, he had to wander around and become an adventurer. It took him almost ten years, and he risked his life many times to pay back the money.
After paying off the debt, he became less adventurous and started a family. He had planned to live a stable life, but unexpectedly bad luck came. Therefore, there was a legendary story of him unsheathing a black blade to kill a noble, and a peerless hero that the aristocrats in the world feared the most in the past hundred years.
All these things were in the past, but Wall would not forget them. Even though he had become a god, he was still quite unfriendly to merchants and aristocrats, but he was quite friendly to adventurers, which was quite incompatible with his priesthood of knowledge.
In recent years, on the one hand, he cultivated his mind, on the other hand, he was also influenced by the power of faith, and gradually changed. He was no longer so hostile to merchants and aristocrats. On the contrary, he was also willing to pay attention to merchants and aristocrats who were interested in learning or willing to help spread culture. So his faith gradually spread in the middle and upper classes.
No matter what, knowledge was always a very important power. Mastering knowledge was mastering a huge resource, which was of great help in battles and governance. Great aristocrats and merchants might not care about it, but those elites who yearned for the upper class were all enthusiastic about learning, and they were also actively cultivating their own team — all of this was related to "knowledge."
Not only that, but many spellcasters also respected Wall. This was especially true for the academic mages. They had always believed that knowledge was the foundation of magic, that mages should first be scholars, and that cultivating mages should start with cultural education. These were all behaviors that leaned towards Wall's beliefs, and many of them had even become Wall's believers.
That was why when Wall came to the Commonwealth of Mifata and called on his church and believers to start expanding and establishing a sphere of influence for scholars in the Country of Wizards, which used to be like an iron plate, what he received was not the indifference that Sui Xiong had been worried about. Instead, he received a warm welcome and support.
Because of the death of the God of Spellcasters, Lamperus, the Mifata Federation was now in a panic, and everyone was a little uneasy. Especially those mages, for a long time, Ymir Lamperus was the protector of the Federation, and he was the anchor in everyone's hearts. No matter how many storms the Federation went through, as long as he was there, everyone was full of confidence.
However, he was gone.
Since the establishment of the Federation, he had been like a towering divine mountain, withstanding all kinds of pressure. No matter how dangerous the situation was, he was always able to make the right choice or simply rely on his powerful strength to break out of the predicament. Generation after generation, from ancestors to descendants, the people of the Federation had long been accustomed to his existence, and they even developed the habit of "praying to Master Lamperus whenever they were in trouble".
This was just like how on Earth, Easterners often exclaimed "God," while Westerners loved to exclaim "My God."
However, he had already fallen. The "God" and "God" of the Mifata Federation was no longer around.
This made many people feel empty in their hearts. Often, when people encountered difficulties, they would subconsciously pray silently to Lamperus, praying for blessings, and then suddenly remember that the Federation's patron saint was gone …
As a result, many people would suddenly burst into tears and bawl noisily.
At this moment, the Church of the God of Knowledge stood out to promote their own doctrines, calling on everyone to believe in the God of Knowledge, and they seized this opportunity. Those who felt empty in their hearts were looking for someone to rely on, and the God of Knowledge, whether it was his doctrines or his experiences, left a good impression on them. Once the Church of the God of Knowledge spread the message, many people went with the flow and directly believed in Wall.
Of course, Wall was not the only god who saw the opportunity to preach wantonly. In fact, the churches of various gods took advantage of this opportunity to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out preaching in the Mifata Federation.
However, things like preaching were not guaranteed to succeed just by investing manpower and material resources. Belief was not a transaction. If your doctrine could not be recognized by others, then even if they joined your church, there was no way for them to become a true believer.
This situation was called "false belief," which meant "I say I believe, but in fact, I don't."
The situation above it was called "general belief," which meant "Although I don't usually believe, at least I believe when I pray."
General believers were also considered believers, but their beliefs were not firm. At least more than half of the general believers would believe in several gods at the same time. Under different circumstances, they would choose to pray to different gods, hoping to get blessings.
This was like the Easterners on Earth, who believed in heaven, gods, and ancestors. In short, they were willing to believe in whoever was willing to bless them.
Many Westerners felt that the beliefs of the Easterners were very hypocritical, and that they had turned their beliefs into business. They felt that belief should be a one-sided effort, and as for the blessings of the gods, that was something that came after the effort. In fact, whether there was blessings or not, the effort should not be affected.
On this basis, they also developed the idea that "everyone should believe in their god, and those who don't believe in them should be dragged out and hacked to death." Then it developed to the point that "all believers should worship and understand their god according to our sect. Otherwise, they would be regarded as heretics, and should be dragged out and hacked to death."
In this regard, most Easterners just laughed twice, and silently sighed in their hearts that there was something wrong with their brains.
This kind of belief, of course, also existed in this world. Those who only talked about giving without asking for anything in return were called pious believers; those who thought that not believing in their god was a crime were called fanatical believers.
In addition, there was another kind of people whose life philosophy was basically in line with the teachings of the gods, so much so that their actions were basically in line with the teachings. This was the rarest kind, and was called righteous believers.
Believers who were between pious and fanatical believers only believed in one god, but if this god did not bless them, then they could not be expected to be very loyal, and they would change their beliefs if necessary. This kind was called "true believers."
False believers, fanatical believers, true believers, and pious believers — these were the four most common types of beliefs. Other than the lowest level of false believers, the other three types required a certain degree of agreement with the teachings of the gods in order to be realized.
The Commonwealth of Mifata was a country of mages, and the theories of modern mages were built on the basis of culture. Therefore, in this country, even the illiterate old farmers knew to respect culture. Therefore, the teachings of the God of Knowledge were easily recognized by everyone, and it was very convenient for them to spread their teachings.
As for other gods, they naturally did not have such an advantage, and their efficiency in spreading their teachings was far less than that of the Church of the God of Knowledge.
Moreover, the Church of the God of Knowledge had another huge advantage — they were rich.
Rich, very rich, very rich!
Encountering such a rare opportunity, of course, Sui Xiong would not care about mere money. Anyway, from his point of view, it was logical to spend money, and it was also to promote social progress — didn't you hear about GDP? Earning money and spending money were all GDP!
Therefore, with one command, a huge amount of money was spent like water. It could be said that he was using gold to pave the way.
It was not easy to earn money, but who didn't know how to spend money?
With sufficient funds, the Church of the God of Knowledge really did not care about the cost when spreading their teachings. There were even missionary priests in some areas who shouted the slogan, "We want to promote education for all."
This made the churches of other gods very jealous, but none of them could come up with so much money, so they could only be jealous.
In a short period of four or five days, the Church of the God of Knowledge had greatly expanded in the Commonwealth of Mifata, at least adding hundreds of thousands of believers, and it was still increasing. There was even more than one ruler of a city, a high-level mage who sat at the top of a mage tower, who chose to believe in him.
With the large increase in believers, Wall's Divine Power was also rapidly increasing. Unknowingly, he had actually stepped into the level of a mid-level Divine Power.
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