Chapter 883 (1/2)

Chapter 883: Vol V Chapter 243

“Your situation looks terrible,” Sui Xiong said with a frown as he looked at the Goddess of Wealth.

As a God of Wealth, Manissy was a member of the great Divine Powers. She did not belong to the category of gods who were skillful in battle, and perhaps she might not even be able to defeat some of the mid-level Divine Powers who were especially good at fighting. But her power was still unquestionable.

This was like making donations without any sacrifices when the Motherland was in need. It was absolutely not considered as morally low. It was just that the selected object of reference was far too superior.

If every mid-level Divine Power could fight as well as the God of Strategy, Augmentin, or the God of Half-Orcs, Morani, would not the world directly fall into a complete mess?

So “600 million citizens could all be Yao and Shun” was merely a beautiful ideal after all.

Manissy’s power was arguably said to be ranked among the ones who were the top of the gods. She should have a strong Divine Power and abundant divinity, and from this, she would develop her elegant disposition, as well as a majestic light that made it impossible for mortals to look directly at her. But now, her face was pale. Dark eye circles and eye bags were obvious at first glance, and the majestic light around her body had become very dim. Just as what Sui Xiong said, she looked terrible.

Manissy gave a bitter laugh, shook her head and sat down in her usual seat. Then she sighed deeply.

After a while, she said, “Of all my priesthoods, there are four most important ones. I’m sure you all know, right?”

The gods nodded.

Among all the priesthoods of the Goddess of Wealth, Manissy, wealth, merchants, commercial practices and the Commonwealth of Gold Coins were the four core priesthoods. Though the priesthood “wealth” encompassed luxury, generosity and class, the amount of divinity it could really provide was not much. It belonged to the category of things that served the purpose of outlining and summarizing. The priesthood of “merchant” was something he started, while the “Commonwealth of Gold Coins” was the key for his stepping up from weak Divine Power to mid-level Divine Power. With Sui Xiong’s help, the priesthood “commercial practices” was composed by incorporating a series of policies together. Although it was only in a nascent state, it was already starting to exhibit enormous value.

For the moment, these were the four most important priesthoods. They were like four pillars of support that held up the great Divine Power of whoever was called the “God of Wealth.” Perhaps a differentiation of the more superior to less superior of these four priesthoods could be derived through a more thorough division of the four priesthoods. But if one was missing, no matter which one it was, it would cause her to incur a great loss. It would not be surprising if she would directly fall from the ranks of great Divine Power back to the ranks of mid-level Divine Powers.

Morani already understood and asked, “The Commonwealth of Gold Coins… Is it really done for?”

Manissy sighed and nodded.

“Not even a formal unity is possible?” asked the God of War, Wenner.

Manissy sighed and nodded again.

“Then you’re in trouble!” said the God of Justice, Yorgaardman, as he shook his head. “Your divinity is definitely going to decrease.”

Manissy sighed deeply and nodded with a grimace.

As one of her four fundamental priesthoods, the priesthood “Commonwealth of Gold Coins” was derived from the worship and belief that the entire Commonwealth of Gold Coins placed in her. As the state religion of this country, she had gained great benefits from this belief and thus accumulated an astronomical amount of Divine Power.

However, interests and responsibilities, together with risks, had always come together hand-in-hand.

Now this country, the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, was already on the verge of collapsing. It would not be long before it utterly collapsed to become two, or even more states. The Church of the Goddess of Wealth would still be very powerful. But it was unlikely for her to hold on to her status as the state religion in all territories, as she once did.

That was to say, this priesthood of hers was on the verge of collapse, and also, it was beyond repair.

If she were to lose this priesthood, though she could still make up for it by using the beliefs of the other small, divided nations, the effect would not possibly be the same as before. This was why the divinity of the Goddess of Wealth was definitely on the decline this time.

The only question now was, how much lower would her divinity be? As well as… when could she make up for this loss?