Chapter 328 (1/2)
Chapter 328: Goddess of Wealth
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
Gnomes could be found wherever there was money to be earned… or a Goddess of Wealth merchant association Fine, there actually wasn’t much difference between the two At any rate, these two existences would alold coins to be had
The Goddess of Wealth, Beyana, was a Goddess who ruled over Wealth and Business However, unlike most other churches, many of her priests were also merchants on the side In fact,the church
Beyana favored successful merchants ere able to make a lot of money She particularly favored brand-new business models and markets andher divine favor Any successful business transactions would help expand her church’s power and influence Let’s notHoly Water or curative potions—every Wealth priest would have a bag filled with all sorts of general itee spell just for her believers’ convenience so that they could carry around lots of itenomes that always caused trouble for everyone, Wealth priests idely welconomes who only cared about their personal wealth They often helped create wealth for others as well More than anything, Beyana favored successful new business markets and products, so the best Wealth priests didn’t even care about how much material wealth they possessed They would spend all of their wealth in order to ensure their businesses flourished
You’re saying that this is a bit difficult to understand? Let ive you a classic example There was this incredibly remote area called the Icewind Valley, which was so cold that it would be frozen over for more than three hundred days per year Only hoid location meant that no crops would possibly survive However, there was an incredibly delicious fish that was ende to such a distant, frosty location whichsome delicious fish
Yet, a Wealth priest just happened to discover that this particular fish had crystal-clear bones, just like real crystals The few locals that lived in this re these fish bones into artisanal crafts, such as fishbone combs, which had their own unique smile So this priest advertised the beautiful fishbone co excellent effects on one’s hair and spine if you used it to co famous domain lords and so on to wear these crystal fishbone accessories while attending important parties Then, he increased the price even further by only selling the accessories at auctions and forcefully succeeded in inally considered dirt cheap and worthless by the locals into an incredibly rare and valuable product that was difficult to purchase withtheir people to this remote location every year in order to obtain the fish’s crystal bone products, which helped bring wealth and flourishment to the locals Thus, a new business inally ordinary Wealth priest named Fen also received Beyana’s divine favor and becaest territory of loyal followers, the Oris District
Perhaps Wealth priests ht not necessarily be rich the at it from another standpoint, the more people made transactions with each other and spent money, the more powerful Beyana’s Divine Concept would become
To be honest, Beyana was also fa war To her, a safe and uninterrupted market was quintessential This hy all of Beyana’s priests would actively work to prevent any wars fro for the Gods with the Divine Concepts of War, Plague, Violence, or Slaughter Those Gods’ priests would only go around everywhere and fan the flames
If war broke out everywhere, Gods with more “literary” Divine Concepts such as Literature, Music, and so on would also become weakened In fact, it was even possible for them to become so weak as to lose their Godhood But, these Gods and their followers all lacked the ability to take action, ainst war
However, during the previous Gods’ proclamations, Beyana had actually joined Ayer’s faction and ended up declaring war together with the other Ayer Faction Gods This astonished countless people
Yet the Goddess of Wealth stood to benefit more than almost any other God
Her Divine Concept of Business included the concept of “Money” Any currency guaranteed by soe for goods or services counted under Money And only after there was Money would additional Concepts such as “Finance,” “Futures Trading,” and “Stock Market” be born Only all this would further increase the power of her overall Concept of Wealth To put it another way, if Gods really existed in my home world of Earth, where soand businesses and econo so well, the Goddess of Wealth would likely be the Main God who ruled over Earth, ht here in Eich However, in this world, business transactions were only at the level of theor products and services Beyana was merely a mid-ranked second-rate Goddess here
“A currency that everyone used” was so super important to the Goddess of Wealth This would only be possible after businesses expanded to a certain extent However, it would almost be impossible to use only one unified currency in this world After all, there was no such a thing as a country that would be eternal—countries were constantly warring against each other, destroying old countries and creating new countries and currencies Rather than a currency, precious metals hat people trusted in the most to trade for whatever they wanted However, precious metals were obviously inconvenient to carry While so paper money before, nobody ever dared to keep it There were a few kingdo their citizens to use paper money, but either only a sdo in disaster
Yet, ever since the Gods’ proclamations, there was now an additional, brand-new currency in the world that was “trustworthy and obtained purely as a result of your own hard work:” Justice Points This seemed like just another ordinary currency, but Justice Points would actually be the very beginning of a creditable and universal currency They were guaranteed by the True Gods, after all, and not any country’s governuarantee, Justice Points would be just as worthless as any paper inary value”
The natural way things worked in this world would gradually change Beyana, who had obtained additional power thanks to Justice Points, even invented several Justice Point-related Divine Arts, helping her high-ranked Wealth priests becoe stores This type of Divine Miracle in turn helped her to obtain even ratitude and fame Of course, all of this helped her steadily increase in divine power
In fact, just the invention of the “Justice Points exchange system” helped her concept of Wealth expand in influence and power
Of course, providing this type of service required the Wealth priest in question to directly communicate with Beyana This would be ih divine favor and power so only her high-ranked Wealth priests were capable of acting as living Justice Point exchange stores
Theline aiting outsideline was that Betty orking as a Wealth priest, serving as a Justice Point exchange store for all these adventurers
A silver light glowed in his eyes, while his typical smile was replaced with an emotionless iciness There was a pitch-black void-like diht next to hiht
He merely listened to whatever it was that an adventurer wished to purchase using Justice Points before extracting the required Justice Points froive the desired itee portal His speed was very quick, and hethis situation, I knew that allJust Betty alone provided absolutely necessary services for all the adventurers here, so as long as he was present, the adventurers would never treat his team too badly
And so, I directly turned around and left, walking outside the caround by myself
From a certain standpoint, this was a bad habit of mine Even if I had expert scouters with me, I still liked to personally see the situation for myself Indeed, this was partly because I didn’t completely trust in others Yet, this so-called bad habit of mine had already saved my life on nuround, I met someone who looked a little faain?