When the storm stopped, it didn't mean that everything was calm. On the contrary, on the first day after the thunderstorm stopped, uninvited guests came.
It was a group of hungry rock wolves. No one knew where they came from.
Apart from the few leading the pack that could be considered strong, the others were thin and tired. Some were so hungry that their ribs could be seen.
After all, they had been holed up in the dark cave for half a year. Even if they had stored food, it was almost gone. Those who could still move and hunt now were considered strong.
"Is the beast tide about to start?"
Just like how wild beasts would hunt crazily after a long winter, the wild hunters of this wasteland would also hunt in groups after the end of the thunderstorm season. In the past, the ones who suffered the most were the scattered tribes in the wasteland.
Perhaps in the eyes of the wild beasts, this new city without walls was not much different from a tribe.
"Sizzle!"
But soon, reality taught them a lesson.
The outermost tower was suddenly activated. A chain of lightning made these wild wolves emit the fragrance of cooked meat.
The patrol team, who was watching all this with a smile, also went up at this time. This group of temporary "fresh meat" couldn't escape.
Standing on top of the tower, Rorschach had a bird's eye view of everything that was happening.
The thunderstorm season had just ended, and the grayish-black magic fog came again. The fog dispelling equipment that was bought with a large amount of money could only protect the city for a short period of time.
Even though they had made preparations, this ghost fog still caused a series of problems.
The most direct one was that they had entered an area without any signal. The Gods of the Alliance and the Descenders had lost contact.
The rare fog-free area allowed the Descenders of various churches to enjoy convenience and the protection of the Gods for a period of time. Now, they had no choice but to return to the past and act alone.
This usually didn't matter, but now they had encountered some small problems.
"Ha, although there are some surprises, at least most of the developments are still within expectations. In this battle for faith, we must seize the opportunity!"
Although New Donia City was a functional city with mainly residential areas, it was, in essence, a religious city, although it was far from the concept and tradition of religion.
Faith was an important source of power for the New Gods. It was also the proof that the soul went to the God's Kingdom after death.
Building a city at such a high cost and letting the residents of the Wilderness and the tribes move in could not be for the sake of doing good deeds like Lei Feng. When the first batch of residents arrived, the first city rule came into effect.
[Intruders must believe in a new Aishi god.]
Although he didn't have an entrance ticket, he could write an IOU (low interest) for the accommodation fee and basic living expenses. Paying the Heart of Faith was indeed the most basic entrance ticket.
Yes, it was just the beginning, and the New Gods couldn't wait to snatch the Source of Faith. Many of them had sacrificed so much for this moment.
Rorschach was against such behavior from the bottom of his heart.
This wasn't because he felt that there was anything wrong with stealing the power of faith. After all, this was the natural law of two different worlds. It was impossible for an individual without any faith to fight against the entire world. It was just that he …
"Aren't you in too much of a hurry? The leek hasn't even grown yet, and you're already planning to harvest it? That's too unsightly."
In Rorschach's eyes, this was no longer about harvesting unripe crops. Instead, it was about putting the seeds that had just been planted into the pot.
Actually, it didn't matter if it was unsightly. It was just that if it was too extreme, it would cause a backlash and hostility.
Without even mentioning the locals' belief in Mount Sainte, many of the wild tribes in the Wilderness were named after beasts or divine beasts. This was a natural form of totem worship. In this Ansorenne where the Elemental Tide was raging, primitive Gods could even be born.
These primitive Gods usually weren't very intelligent and weren't very powerful. However, some were truly capable of protecting their tribesmen and even bestowing them with natural divine arts, just like the ancient Aishi Gods that had once existed.
These "Totem Gods" lacked knowledge related to faith, and their general intelligence was on the low side. They were naturally born and relied on their instincts to survive. Rather than calling them Gods, it would be more accurate to call them elemental beasts.
Rorschach had seen an eagle with a wingspan of more than 20 meters on Mount Sainte. The elemental waves were so strong that he didn't dare to approach it. Two days ago, Rorschach had seen a large white leopard that was more than three meters tall. That was the Battle Leopard Tribe's totem beast.
Even if these Totem Gods had low intelligence, a decrease in the number of believers or tribesmen would cause them to weaken. The fact that they would become stronger when their tribesmen increased was also "common sense" engraved in their instincts.
Forcing them to change their beliefs was likely to cause these Totem Gods to rebel. Furthermore, they could influence their tribesmen who hadn't settled down yet. If they were forced to rebel now, it would be really troublesome.
However, Rorschach soon realized that he had underestimated these guys once again.
There were no idiots among the new Gods. Even if the Aishi Gods hadn't done enough preparations, Ansorenne's pioneering and preaching wasn't something that could be done in a day or two. They were very experienced in preaching.
[Believers can receive a pot of oil and a bag of rice every month.]
[You don't need to be very pious, nor do you need to change your beliefs. You only need to recite the prayers of your God three times a day and read the simple teachings once.]
[Every month, ten devout believers will be given a barbecue feast and fresh Rock Wolf meat!]
Cults and whatnot were probably nothing compared to these big bosses who directly showed off their money to attract people.
They didn't talk about any great principles or teachings. They directly used food and goods to attract people's hearts. It seemed that the new Gods had accumulated enough experience in their past pioneering.
However, most of the Gods' preaching wasn't very successful. The main reason was that they encountered two difficulties.
The first was Nature Divine Arts or Divine Grace.
The primitive Totem Gods could bestow Divine Arts. As a result, the tribesmen believed that a true God must also be able to bestow Divine Arts.
The primitive tribes' Divine Arts masters were the shamans and witches. They were often the ones who held power in the tribe. In their eyes, any clergy who couldn't wield Divine Arts were naturally swindlers and false Gods who spread lies to deceive the masses.
This wasn't a big deal in Aishi, as they had plenty of priests. But now, Rorschach noticed a disharmony that he had always neglected — there were very few priests and other clergy in the descenders' ranks.
Actually, this was quite easy to understand. Priests needed to rely on the Gods' power to cast magic. Without the Gods' support, they wouldn't be able to use even a tenth of their power. Ansorenne's magic fog naturally separated the two.
In large populated areas, it was possible to construct a large Holy Church to gather the power of the believers and break through the magic fog's interference to form a connection with the Gods. Then, the Gods would bestow Divine Arts to mass produce priests.
In the early stages, the New Gods' churches generally lacked priests, nor did they need priests. In the later stages, they were able to construct a large Holy Church to make up for their shortcomings … But the prerequisite for a large Holy Church was that there were at least ten thousand medium level believers in the area.
High-level priests were able to cast magic on their own, but the prerequisite was that there was enough soil to cultivate them. This was yet another contradiction.
At the same time, naturally, the Vila Nova Dônia's missionaries were stuck in a difficult situation.
They needed enough believers to construct their own Holy Church in order to form a connection with the Gods and obtain Divine Arts to prove that they were True Gods. But the prerequisite for obtaining enough believers was that they had Divine Arts to bestow.
Yet, in the Thunder Tribe, they were still able to use Divine Arts, and they even attracted many natives to join them.
This actually became a bad thing.
The Divine Arts they just obtained were gone in less than two days. This was even worse than not having any Divine Arts in the first place. In the mouths of the new believers who quickly left the churches, those churches became false Gods that were full of lies.
Of course, there were always exceptions, but the existence of these "exceptions" only intensified the conflict.
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