The end of winter was good news for the average person since there would be no more snow after that and the weather would gradually warm, making it an important season for sowing seeds.
Still, it was not a good thing for Xi Wei or the Church of Games.
The melting of winter snow also freed up the shackles of communication between cities. If they did not keep a low profile, the existence of the Church of Games would be exposed at once, even if the Lancaster Players were already on the brink of being exposed.
If the existence of the Church of Games was discovered, or worse yet, Tierra's restoration was made public, the Players who had yet to fully mature would undoubtedly become the target of most legitimate churches within the Empire's borders.
Even if the Valla Empire's king's main focus was tied down by the year-long war, it was not impossible for him to squeeze out some manpower or directly order the local nobles to use their private armies to wipe out the Players.
"Looks like I've been too relaxed before. I need to strengthen the Players." Xi Wei muttered to himself, stroking what was probably his chin with his tentacles. "That being said, there aren't many areas that could be strengthened …"
After all, he was just a third-rate god who had basically given his believers all the benefits he could, and the Players had been working diligently as well. It was extremely difficult to improve their ability at such a pace.
"Maybe I should think about it from another angle …"
Xi Wei tried to change his train of thought.
If the Players were to be considered as a whole, it would be expressed in terms of a formula:
Overall ability of the Players * Average ability of a single Player * Number of Players
Since the goal was to improve the overall ability of the Players, and since Xi Wei could not quickly improve the average ability of the Players, he might as well increase the number of Players.
The first thing Xi Wei thought of was to indiscriminately take over every refugee camp outside Cromwell, just like how the Jie Sect in The Investiture of the Gods did, creating a church where all immortals would pay homage to them without discrimination.
After all, most of the refugees outside Cromwell were refugees who had fled from Lovinia, the former capital of Tierra, due to the year-long war.
Still, it was a very inefficient move if one thought about it. After all, not everyone was grateful (or gullible), willing to join their cult and worship the heretical God of Games as long as they were given food, even if the God of Games was the object of their worship.
Moreover, it was unrealistic to have the Players guide them one by one. Others aside, even Simba and the other two children who worshipped Mufasa had yet to surpass shallow believers and become true believers of the God of Games …
Moreover, most of the refugees had survived by stealing food from weaker refugees and tasted the sweetness of bullying the weak. Even if they joined the Church of Games, they would not hesitate to slaughter women and children for EXP.
If he were to ban and delete their accounts, Xi Wei would feel like he was shooting himself in the foot.
In comparison, it was more convenient and worth a try for the smaller villages where the villagers were closer to each other. As long as he could think of a way to conquer the key figures in the village, they would most likely lead the entire village to join the God of Games. Moreover, the simple villagers would obey the rules that the Players shared more than the unscrupulous refugees.
It was a pity that such villages were rare at the borders, and it would be better to start from Tunaya in the Silver Eagle Duchy.
Aside from that, the situation on the other side of the Eastern Continent was also worth paying attention to.
The Players had explored more than half of the outskirts of the Valley of the Tragic Dead, and at this rate, they would soon reach the core zone.
It would be great if the Players could find unclaimed divinity in the core zone of the Valley of the Tragic Dead, even if it was just a fragment. That being said, it was something that could only be found by chance, and Xi Wei felt that his luck was not so good that he would run into it.
Still, it was a certainty that he could get his hands on many divine relics.
The other gods might not touch those things out of various scruples, but Xi Wei had no qualms about it at all, and even hoped that the Players could get their hands on more …
Moreover, as long as the Players worked hard to penetrate the Valley of the Tragic Dead, they could use the torches they planted as beacons to open a trade route that connects the eastern and western continents!
If even the Society of the Secret Eye could earn so much by smuggling on the sea, the Players who had control over a trade route naturally wouldn't be too shabby either.
Moreover, Xi Wei had heard from the Great Lion that there were many nonhumans living in the Western Continent. In other words, they were demi-humans with bestial traits.
In some of the novels Xi Wei had read before he transmigrated, the nonhumans were called orcs. But in this world, orcs were green-skinned creatures with tusks that yelled 'wagggggh' as they charged. On the other hand, the cat-ears, centaurs, and other demi-humans who were half human and half other creatures were collectively known as nonhumans.
In the memories Xi Wei absorbed from the Aquatic Lord's divinity, the nonhumans appeared to be descendants of the creatures that survived the Second Divine War. In the Third Divine War, they joined a different faction of gods, and were chased to the Western Continent after being defeated by the humans.
After that, the gods of both sides personally fought the War of Gods and Demons, destroying the civilization of the last era and shattering the continental shelf to form the current geography. The Valley of the Tragic Dead, the battlefield of the War of Gods and Demons, thus became known as both 'the center of the world' and 'the edge of the world'.
Unlike the humans who had gathered together to form the Blind Concubine's Eight Tribes, which did not have many casualties, the nonhumans had different appearances and would often form groups with the same characteristics. Although there was a brief period of peace, most of the time they despised each other and divided themselves into hundreds of tribes that were far more troublesome and complicated than the humans …
And these nonhuman tribes that shared the same racial traits were clearly the kind of group that Xi Wei had just thought of that was most worth roping in! After all, there was no one more trustworthy than their own kind to the nonhumans.
"But it's still too early to do that since the Players haven't even cleared the Valley of the Tragic Dead … Eh? Wait a minute … "
Xi Wei suddenly realized something at that thought and activated his Divine Eye to look down at the mortal realm.
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Chapter 161:
Xi Wei's Development Plan
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