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Chapter 189: Chapter 181: The Power of Faith

In the darkness, Karl listened to the voices of many people.

“Help me, great Lord of the Lost!”

“Please answer my plea, I am willing to offer everything to You! Lord of the Lost!”

“Your power will descend upon the world, those fools simply do not understand Your greatness!”

He could hear the prayers of people across the world to him, and those devout individuals seemed to have a “special focus,” becoming clear and visible among the multitude of voices, overpowering everyone else.

In recent years, Karl had been hearing more and more voices.

And he suddenly found it quite strange that not only the Fischer family and its influence prayed to him, but also a small portion of the commoners across Cyart spontaneously began to pray to him.

“Interesting.”

Karl found this very amusing and began to discern their specific identities, understanding why those people would pray to him.

Mostly they were people who had been persecuted by the church or illegal Extraordinary Exponents who had forsaken the righteous path and prayed to him out of lost hope and hatred for the gods.

Even in Zeya Town to the east of Sunrise Lake, an Extraordinary Exponent of the Transmutation Level actually emerged, impersonating a disciple of a “Discipline Upholder” and gathered a dozen illegal Extraordinary Exponents to set up a branch of the “Lost Cult.”

Of course, his real purpose was just to exploit those low-level Extraordinary Exponents.

Karl felt a bit amused and dismayed.

“The identity of the Discipline Upholder itself is fake, yet he impersonated a disciple of the ‘Discipline Upholder’ and actually succeeded in establishing a small-scale Extraordinary organization.”

However, he found out that several of those low-level Extraordinary Exponents genuinely believed in him, which is why he could hear their prayers.

“This is a very interesting situation, my ‘vision’ has expanded greatly. It would be even more interesting if those enemies of the Fischer family also prayed to me.”

But Karl soon discovered that the so-called doctrines those people followed and their image of the Lord of the Lost were completely different, fragmented, and utterly without a unified concept.

Karl found this quite intriguing internally, it was just unfortunate they were not favored clan, not of Fischer family blood; hence, attempts at sacrificing various things were completely ineffective.

They also hadn’t taken the Shadow of the Lost potion, so they couldn’t hear Karl’s voice at all.

“As for those people, I can only listen unilaterally, nothing more… But just listening to prayers actually has its uses, it at least allows me to know many pieces of information.”

“Hmm, certain individuals with potential inside can be paid special attention to, and when the opportunity arises, the devout people of the Fischer family could be sent to preach and formally recruit them as part of the Dawn Church.”

The activity involving “Solar Gold” actually helped him quite a lot, in a sense.

Although he couldn’t make use of those people yet, Karl subconsciously understood that they were definitely useful.

Because those prayers came flying like strands of thread, and some kind of power, born from faith, also began to accumulate, albeit very slowly, along with them.

At first, the number of believers was so small, the accumulated power of faith could almost be ignored. Now it’s beginning to increase bit by bit, and Karl decided to try making good use of that power of faith.

“The key to the power of faith is the number of people and the time spent praying, not the power of the believers themselves. It seems, to make use of this force, large-scale preaching is indispensable in the future…”

He even felt that he should order the Fischer family to establish a real godly Kingdom dynasty.

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In recent years, Nasir Town has also undergone significant changes, with a population growth exploding to over thirty thousand, and already starting to have a siphoning effect on the surrounding villages. In a few years, it would likely grow to a population of over fifty thousand.

Moreover, a population of over fifty thousand is just a starting point. In the steam age everything will be vastly different from the past.

The Fischer family established a new elementary school, then set up a substantial hospital in Nasir Town, and commenced transforming the dwellings of the poor in East City District. Finally, they planned to add a 5th City District, a residential area for the ever-growing number of newcomers.

Most of those coming to the town entered the factories, with the labor force growing endlessly. Consequently, the Fischer family began to consider constructing new factories.

Yet, environmental pollution is also an important issue. Although many factory owners do not take it seriously, Byrne had the foresight to do so.

In the basement of Fischer Manor.

“Regarding military matters, we still need to make a lot of effort.”