Chapter 501 - Religious Reform (2/2)

Of course, it was theoretically possible to ignore someone as a special exception, but this would basically be the equivalent of having a pure ious ascetics Obviously, this would attract a great deal of negative emotions and dissatisfaction

“The God of Law and his Church of Law don’t even solicit donations or offerings Why do your Gods want so much money? Also, they claim that sinners will enter hell, while you claih ht? They also have divine power and Divine Arts, but their priests are capable of taking care of the but pray, and never have to worry about food or clothing, why…?”

Well, it was likely that not even Pope Caloma of the Holy Church would be able to answer such questions

In that case, the best way for the Gods’ Churches’ higher-ups to deal with this was probably to temporarily pretend not to see us “heretics”, and deal with us later after the Holy War

“Xueti rushed things too ious reforms; it’ll attract enmity fro halfway through I had chosen that tauren with so ative hobbies as the boss of the Church of Law because he actually had a steady personality Xueti wasn’t the hasty type at all, and even if he made a rash decision, Lilith and the others would stop hiious s the most, so I’ll just tell you”

All the Gods’ Churches folloas popular, and put out their own azine would contain the teachings and sayings of their particular church, and some bastards even placed weak hypnosis runes within their azines to help influence the readers to believe in their church I would never pay even a single copper coin for such mental pollution! Yep, it was all because it was a scay!

“…You lost your i the truth”

Harloys, however, loved to purchase and read all sorts of randoazines, especially the ones froht then, it would seem that the silly cat wasn’t foundationally different froe-bearing

“Ever since two years ago,about Law job classmembers from their territories There have beenlast year, the complaints more than tripled As for this year…”

“Howthis, I pretty much understood

“This year’s not over yet, but there’s already been ht thousand complaints The complaints come from a total of approximately ninety churches and two hundred and forty different countries Shall I report each and every one to you?”

“Fck! Isn’t this prettythe mortal enemy of the entire world?”

Now, I finally understood why the moment that the Church of Law’s Northlands trio arrived in Anton Town, the priests and holy knights from that tiny church rushed all the way over froetting too fa believers from other churches If it wasn’t for the fact that the Holy War was still ongoing with the fight between Order and Chaos, the other Order Gods’ Churches would have long since ainst the Church of Law

“This is basically, basically… a wonderful job!”

My originally depressed feelings completely disappeared? The other countries and churches were co? Let them complain At any rate, there would be no “internal war” until the Holy War ended It wouldn’t hurt inally, I had been worrying that ould attract too s, but since I learned that ene scale already, this actually hly successful in spreading their teachings I was plenty used to being vieith en the teaching of Law as the ‘Law plague’”

I even broke out into laughter when I heard this Indeed, fros of Law indeed reseers here froe as an example If Thor successfully planted the seeds of Law here, then it was highly likely that several dozen low-level Law job class members would be born here within the next two years And, if one of those Law job class e, perhaps another several hundred Law job class meain… This really did feel a bit like a plague, or even a cult

“Our original plan was that it would take a h the entire world We accomplished this in only seven years? We’re more cult-like than a cult”

In the end, the teachings of Law had only been able to spread so quickly because of its own specialties

This was a world where the strong preyed on the weak A power that could be used by an ordinary mortal would naturally spread quite quickly This was also why Evil Gods’ Churches were impossible to stamp out completely While it was definitely better to believe in a True God rather than an Evil God, the True Gods wouldn’t reward their believers so easily Meanwhile, the Evil Gods would typically reward their believers instantly when they prayed, and Evil God believers were also able to progress far quicker in power level In this world, concrete poould be far s

And fros even more ridiculously than an Evil God’s church After all, if you worshi+pped a deiven power or your as realized, you would definitely lose so even more important and valuable Meanwhile, the Church of Laould also give you power, but not take anything in return

The Church of Law didn’t have actual churches There was no need to pray to the God of Law No expensive religious rituals were required One only had to believe in Law, Justice, and Protection… There was nothing abstract about the Church of Law’s teachings This greatly reduced the cost of cultivating the power of Law, along with greatly reducing the difficulty of teaching Law A sainst than an Evil God’s ritual

The power of Law focused on protection and punishment It wasn’t a power that could be used effectively for attacking Most domain lords were quite happy to see law job classin their domain as Laas a power specialized for protection While law job class , they could be used to protect towns, along with repelling wild beasts and enemy invaders And, the powerful individuals in the Law job classes wouldn’t pose any threat to the do) And on a deeper level, the Law job class ious authority, which would expand the domain lord’s authority From a certain standpoint, this was yet another battle between royal and divine authority If it wasn’t for the do the Law job class s of Law to spread so quickly

But, the most important factor of all was that the requirements to becorowth rate in Law job classes was rather fast This caused mortals who desired to control their own fate to voluntarily learn more about the power of Law

Of course, there were also plenty that tried to pretend to believe in Law just in order to obtain power However, it would be impossible for such individuals to utilize Law Incantations without a sincere understanding and belief in the Concept of Law And even if there was a person as intelligent enough to use Law Incantations regardless of personal beliefs, that person would always beco power The ain…

“Divine Law, the seventh criet their own duties and use their powers for personal gain shall be stripped of all their powers of Law forever!”

The previously wild and fantastical declaration was now concrete reality It was noyou Anyone as stripped of the power of Laould find it iain for the rest of their entire life

And, everything about all of the above was all because Wumianzhe had now reached Main God status, and also because the God of Law and his hell Faction had now become an independent third major faction

Only if the God’s divine poas sufficient would they be able to suht, the divine e caused several dozen people to choose the path of Law By giving them the seeds of Law, this in turn obtained their belief, which would also provide more divine power for Wumianzhe

As I previously said, the Holy War would both be a trial and an opportunity for the True Gods It would seem that the God of Law had already turned this into an opportunity

Perhaps this was also how the God of Holy Light had achieved his rapid growth during the previous Holy War In the end, the God of Holy Light completely lost control of hihtly bound by his own rules Wuears of hell

“Since things have already reached this state, why don’t I add soht out a piece of paper and started thinking about what I should write in my letter to Xueti and Lilith