Chapter 475 The Goddess Awakens

Although Richard has made some laws to reduce the privileges of the nobility and try to make the nobility and free people compete in a fair environment. However, due to the differences in thought, concept and body, the winners are basically the nobility.

Rex Magic Academy has been reopened for more than half a year. Although Richard has sent a large number of grassroots bureaucrats to promote it, basically not many ordinary people participate in enrollment.

In fact, even in Harland Territory, which has been pushing Li Cha's decree for many years, there are only a very small number of people who grew up from ordinary families.

In the upper class of the territory, there are actually only William and Jennings. Although Richard has no noble blood, his physical condition is special. When he was a teenager, William had entered the upper and middle class of the Grant Kingdom and was not considered a person who climbed up from the bottom. As for Sophia, Soros, Sylph, and Sutton, they can all be regarded as from the noble class.

Most of the upper class people have noble blood, but in the baron class, many people have successfully turned over. Whether it is Martin, Roland, Sura, or Odaye, they have achieved great success to some extent, changed the fate of a family, and became the founders of aristocratic families.

Richard knew that it was impossible for people to be equal.

Even if an ideal country was created, and there was an environment where everyone was equal at the beginning, due to differences in intelligence, physical fitness, will and morality, differentiation would soon occur. Because people are social creatures, they all have selfish desires and want to control others. They will gradually change the rules and environment to make it beneficial to themselves. This is a genetic instinct.

Individuals may overcome their genetic instincts, but it is difficult for a group to succeed.

Since the nobles have emerged from the competition, Richard cannot personally suppress them and leave opportunities to the common people. It is already very difficult to create a relatively progressive environment.

With Richard's strong support, Rex Magic Academy reopened and quickly completed enrollment.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye it was November 7, 3280 in the Dawn Calendar.

In the early morning of this day, nine bells suddenly rang at the headquarters of the Dawn Cathedral.

The Dawn Giant Bell is a divine artifact cast by the goddess, and it will not make a sound easily. The Dawn Giant Bell rang nine times in one day. There is no need to guess that something extremely serious has broken out.

Almost on the same day, more than hundreds of believers received responses from the Goddess of Dawn.

The Goddess of Dawn has been sleeping for more than three thousand years and rarely responds to the prayers of believers. Occasionally, she will wake up briefly and only notify the top leaders of the Dawn Church. In the past three thousand years, basically only legendary priests will occasionally listen to the goddess's holy voice.

After a professional ignites the divine fire and successfully becomes a god, the kingdom of God can generally stay in the main plane for five hundred years.

After five hundred years, the kingdom of God will be excluded from the main plane.

The five hundred years after becoming a god is also the period when a god has the greatest influence in the main plane, because the kingdom of God stays in the main plane, the power of the god can be fully exerted, and the gods who ascended from other kingdoms of God cannot compete at all.

The reason why this world is named the Dawn Plane is because the Goddess of Dawn is the strongest after becoming a god. Not only did the kingdom of God stay in the main plane, but she could also manipulate part of the power of the world tree, expelling the rule wizards in the most intense war in hundreds of years, beheading the undead lord, and even winning the religious war.

Even the powerful God of Light, the God of Fairness and Justice, was not as majestic as the Goddess of Dawn more than three thousand years ago.

After the victory of the war, the Goddess of Dawn fell asleep. A few decades later, the Kingdom of God flew to the sky of the main plane, and its influence in this world gradually became less than that of the God of Light.

Although the Kingdom of the God of Light is not in the Dawn Plane, it is at a disadvantage in fighting with local gods, but because the Dawn Plane has degenerated from high magic to medium magic, there are many legendary professionals in the Church of Light, and it quickly gained an advantage in the struggle, established the Holy Empire of Light, and suppressed other gods.

Now the number of believers of the God of Light in the Dawn Plane has exceeded one billion.

One billion believers is also extremely important to the God of Light, and it is the third most important plane in the Church of Light. In the past thousand years, two incarnations of the God of Light have been stationed in the Dawn Plane.

A few years ago, the God of Light lost an incarnation, so he withdrew his strength and withdrew from the Red Moon Plane.

It is easy for the God of Light to make up his mind to give up the Red Moon Plane. However, if the God of Light is defeated in the God War and his life is in danger, he will not be able to give up the Dawn Plane for three thousand years.

Although the Goddess of Dawn was powerful and famous in this world, she was not successful in managing the plane. Today, the Dawn Church ranks only third among the Seven Gods Churches.

Richard played the most important role in the awakening of the Goddess of Dawn a few years earlier. In recent years, as Harland Territory has grown stronger, the number of believers in the Dawn Church has increased greatly.

After all, the Dawn Church is the only official church in Harland Territory, and it is difficult for other major churches to get approval from Harland Territory to build churches. Even the Royal Church, which is the favorite of the nobles, has difficulties in developing in Harland Territory.

Although Richard does not directly prohibit other churches from entering Harland Territory to preach, the Religious Bureau will also formulate various measures to suppress the development of other religions. It has become difficult for other religions to develop believers, and only the devout can be retained.

Harland Territory has a population of 14 million from scratch, and the vast majority of the population comes from the three countries on the east coast. Most of this population does not believe in the Goddess of Dawn. After entering Harland Territory, a country under religious control, the shallow believers quickly changed their beliefs. This part of the power of faith played a key role in the early awakening of the goddess.

According to the standards set by the major churches in the Dawn Plane, a believer provides different powers of faith to the gods according to the degree of faith and soul power.

Generally speaking, the church divides believers into four types according to the degree of faith.

The lowest is called shallow believers, accounting for 80% to 90% of the total number of believers. Although shallow believers occasionally pray and participate in religious activities, they do not believe in gods in their hearts. People who do not burn incense at ordinary times and cram at the last minute are basically this kind of people.

Although this world has gods, gods will occasionally show themselves and even respond to people who pray, but there are still very few believers who can really get the attention of gods.

For example, the Goddess of Dawn has nearly 200 million believers. It is equivalent to 200 million believers calling the goddess every day. The goddess has no time or energy to answer them one by one, and will block most of them.

As a god, even though he has two incarnations, he is still too busy.

Although the gods are powerful, they have to face messy things every day. The most important thing is to protect the sphere of influence and block the invasion of evil gods, alien gods, undead lords, demon lords, and rule wizards.

Similarly, the gods need to refine the power of faith, refine artifacts, cultivate gods, and manage the kingdom of God. There is not much spare time to answer the phone.

Even if the goddess of dawn is not asleep, 200 million believers will not get a response. Even if a god likes to communicate directly with believers, the number of prayers that can be responded to in a year is only 20,000 to 30,000.

Those who get a response from the gods are basically the people who the goddess pays attention to. Especially shallow believers, ordinary people's calls are impossible to get to the goddess's phone.

The upper level of shallow believers is true believers. True believers believe in gods from the heart and will hardly violate the scriptures formulated by gods. The power of faith they provide is ten times that of shallow believers, and they pray to gods almost every day.

Generally speaking, a true believer of a kind god must be a good person in terms of moral character. The Goddess of Dawn has nearly 200 million believers, and the number of shallow believers is estimated to be 170 to 180 million, and the number of true believers may be only 20 million.

Above the true believers are the fanatics. Generally speaking, the same person, the faith provided by a fanatic is equivalent to that of ten true believers and one hundred shallow believers. Fanatics will not only not violate the canons established by the gods, but will even use the canons to require others to follow them. They are the backbone of missionaries and are willing to sacrifice their lives for the gods. Whether the church can develop well actually depends mainly on the promotion of fanatics.

Taking the Dawn Church as an example, the number of fanatics is only more than one million.

Above the fanatics are saints. The so-called saints are the disciples of saints. This kind of believers has played a vital role in the development of the church and the promotion of doctrines. On the contrary, their own beliefs are sometimes not pious.

For example, Richard, the Duke of Harland, is a saint publicly certified by the Dawn Church and a favored person of God. He has played a very critical role in the development and growth of the Dawn Church.

In the past thirty years, through the development of Harland Territory, the number of the goddess's believers has increased by more than 10 million. Once the Duke of Rex Territory is controlled, this number will increase significantly. However, Richard's belief in the goddess of dawn is not pious, and he can only be regarded as a shallow believer of the goddess.

For example, the Archbishop of Grant Diocese is also a saint. Senna was trained by the church, promoted to a legendary wizard, and entered the decision-making level of the Dawn Church. He is a real senior member of the Dawn Church, but Senna has gone too far in the way of magic. What he pursues in his heart is knowledge. He is also just a shallow believer of the goddess.

People like Richard and Senna only believe in themselves and it is difficult for them to believe in the gods wholeheartedly. The real strong who can ignite the divine fire and master the rules have this kind of mentality.

In addition to the level of faith, the soul strength of a believer is different, and the power of faith provided to the goddess is also different.

For example, Archbishop Senna, although he is a shallow believer, his soul power is extremely strong. The power of faith he can provide alone is stronger than that of a fanatic low-level professional.

Richard has a strong divinity. After being promoted to Legend, his soul essence is much stronger than Senna, roughly equivalent to a demigod. The power of faith he provides to the Goddess of Dawn is actually a few points higher than that of a high-level professional fanatic.

As a believer, the higher the power of faith you provide every day, the more pious you are to the goddess, and the more the goddess will naturally value you.

Of course, there are some special believers who can even help the goddess, and the goddess will grant them divine favor. These divine favored people are often the most important foundation of a church.

Because the goddess is asleep, the number of divine favored people in the Dawn Church is pitifully small, and there are only four people in the Red Moon Plane in the past hundred years.

Among them, the legendary priest Ma Wei La has died, and his soul has entered the Goddess' Kingdom. There are only three divine favored people left in the material plane, including Richard.

After the Dawn Goddess woke up, she immediately passed the news to Richard's mind.

The Goddess's Kingdom is located above the Dawn Plane, and through the channel of faith power, she can pass her thoughts to every believer's mind.

This ability far exceeds that of Harland's Dream Tree, and is equivalent to a telegram group with 200 million members. Of course, the telegram group has strict permissions, and only a few hundred people who are the focus of the goddess can send messages to the goddess.

The rest of the people could only send spam messages, which occupied a large amount of memory in the telegram group.

After receiving the news that the goddess of dawn had awakened, Richard settled the government affairs and immediately prepared to rush to the headquarters of the church of dawn to see if the goddess had any next move.

The princess's tomb in Harland and the undead nest in the north of Bolton Forest can only be solved smoothly if the goddess of dawn personally comes forward. Both things are big things for Harland.

The Auxerre Castle in the Kingdom of Parame is the headquarters of the Dawn Church. The population of this country is basically believers of the Dawn Church, and the authority of the church is far more important than the kingship.

It is rumored that the goddess of dawn is a virgin goddess who has never married and left no descendants.

The earliest queen of Parame was a student of the goddess of dawn, and she was very famous more than 3,000 years ago.

Richard vaguely discovered from the secret information he had read and the ancient family collection that the first queen of Parame should not have died, and it is very likely that she was hidden in the kingdom of the goddess of dawn and promoted to a demigod.

Judging from the canon of the Dawn Church, the status of the first Queen of Parame is equivalent to that of the Dawn Goddess.

According to the public canon, Richard found that the status of the seven saints is very high, similar to the gods of the gods. These gods have statues and portraits placed in the church, and the length of the canon is also very heavy. According to the information Richard has, two of the seven saints are the incarnations of the goddess, and the remaining five are followers of the goddess, including the goddess's partners before the deification and students in the early stage of the deification.

Richard is not the core of the Dawn Church, and he does not know how many demigods the Dawn Church has now.

But from a logical guess, it is estimated that the number will not be too many, otherwise it would be impossible for the Red Moon Goddess to escape the seal.

Professionals who are promoted to demigods already have a strong divinity. The spiritual power of demigods is already very strong, and they can break free from the shackles of the flesh and have eternal life to a certain extent. Even if they are killed in battle, as long as they still have the faith of believers, they can still be resurrected.

Therefore, in the war between gods, attacking the church believers must be the top priority, and it will inevitably involve the secular kingdom.

This Crystal Wall Universe has gods, so the status of the church is naturally the top priority. Ninety-nine percent of ordinary people believe in gods. Although most of them are shallow believers, the influence of the Pope is far greater than that of Richard's previous life.

Religion has a strong influence, and religious wars are naturally extremely cruel, far more bloody than the secular kingdom. With the awakening of the Goddess of Dawn, the power of the highest level has once again broken the balance, and this situation makes Richard secretly worried.