Chapter 74: Church Revival
Pantheon was very pleased with Allen's change in attitude.
This little disciple is quite sensible about current affairs!
"Alan, in order to obtain the qualification to enter the secret realm for four years of training, you must complete a mission assigned by the academy."
"Teacher, what is the specific task?"
“Crack down on cult activities!”
"Cult?" Allen was surprised. "Hasn't our South Island Federation banned all religious activities a long time ago? How can there be cults?"
"More than that, there are quite a few!"
Pan Sen sighed , his tone unable to hide his pessimism.
"The economy has been bad recently, with natural and man-made disasters happening all the time. People at the bottom of society are having a hard time, so they want to find some spiritual sustenance."
"Various cults took advantage of the situation and spread their fallacies and heresies, winning the hearts of many ignorant people and their influence is growing."
"If this continues, as the cult grows in power, it will sooner or later threaten the rule of the major warlock families."
Pan Sen hesitated to speak.
This topic is too sensitive to talk about any further.
In fact, even if the instructor didn't tell him, Alan could guess about 80% of it.
The three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight.
Cults don't just appear out of thin air.
The world of warlocks was once a country where gods and their churches existed.
Just like the normal fantasy worlds that Alan saw in novels in his previous life.
It’s just that the gods who once enjoyed great glory have long since fallen.
It was the ancestor of the sorcerers who pushed the gods off the altar!
Every bloodline of warlocks that has been passed down to this day.
Their origins can all be traced back to an ancient ancestor.
The power of the warlock ancestors is extremely terrifying, comparable to that of the gods!
The struggle between the ancestors and the gods lasted for thousands of years.
The struggle between the two camps is not just for interests.
In essence, it is a struggle between "great power belongs to oneself" or "great power comes from faith"!
The ancestor's power comes from his blood and from himself.
The power of the gods comes from faith and from gathering together.
The ancestors were very strong alone.
However, it is impossible to pass on one's power to others in an efficient and universal way , such as through books.
Just as Allen wanted to learn spells from his mentor, he could only inject blood awakening agent.
However, in the time of the ancestors, even the expensive, ineffective and high-risk awakening agents did not exist.
The ancestors could only pass on some of their talents to their descendants by having children.
This way of inheritance couldn't be more efficient.
On the contrary, the greatest advantage of gods is that they can gather people!
Once a church is established, the more devout believers it has, the more energy of faith it provides, and the more powerful the god it worships becomes.
The same is true in reverse.
The more powerful the god is, the more and stronger the grace and magic he can bestow on his believers!
This creates a positive feedback.
A strong church, like a snowball, grows bigger and stronger.
In the early stages of the struggle, the gods led their believers and completely crushed the warlock ancestors, almost wiping them out.
The ancestors had to abandon their wives and children and leave their homes.
Hiding in a secret place where the gods cannot find him, he practiced hard.
Many years later, he has achieved great success and comes out again to seek revenge!
Gradually, the ancestors also realized that they could not achieve anything by fighting alone.
So they connected with each other and formed the "Warlock Alliance" to fight against the gods together.
After years of struggle and having suffered too many losses, the ancestors have learned their lesson.
Instead of directly challenging the powerful gods, pick on the weak ones first.
What is a soft persimmon?
Believers of the gods are just soft persimmons!
The correct way for the first ancestor to kill gods is to start by slaughtering the gods' believers.
Massacre the city and exterminate the entire clan!
The corpses were everywhere!
The blood flowed like a river!
Kill and run!
Change place and continue the massacre.
No matter how fast the Church of the Gods recruits believers, it cannot be as fast as the slaughter by the ancestors.
After all, it is always easier to destroy than to build.
If violence doesn't solve the problem...
Just use more violence!
It’s that simple and crude, but effective!
Ninety percent of the world's population was killed.
Are there any innocent people who died unjustly among them?
Yes! Not too much!
However, the ancestors felt no guilt.
This is a brutal struggle over the line.
It is better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let one person escape.
The killing continued until there was no one living within a thousand miles, and the church lost the soil for survival and growth.
The church declined and died.
The gods then lost the source of their faith and began to decline.
The divine power declined irreversibly.
As one side gained strength while the other side lost strength, the gods finally met their end.
After the fall of the gods, the ancestors became the new masters of this wasteland world.
So they recuperated and rebuilt civilization.
And just like that, the Warlock World was born.
The ancestors won the final victory.
The blood of the ancestors spread all over the land, forming the major warlock families of today.
This is a victory for the aristocratic elite and a victory for the theory of bloodline, but it is also a disaster for the masses.
The First Ancestor and his bloodline family suppressed everything with violence.
No believers are needed.
No worship is needed.
There is no need to buy people's hearts.
There is more capital for selfishness than religion.
He cares less about the lives of ordinary people than the gods do.
Warlocks of noble blood never mind exploiting ordinary people.
Treat civilians as slaves, toys, and even food.
Such a social system has existed for thousands of years and has accumulated countless grievances among the people.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance.
In order to survive, the oppressed people chose to embrace religion again.
Religion is the opium of the people, but the suffering of the people is real and actual, and it cannot be eliminated by simply taking away the opium.
As a result, folk beliefs were revived and secret societies emerged one after another.
There are underground churches that pray for the gods to revive and grant them grace.
There are also fraternities that help each other.
The purpose is to resist the rule of the warlock family.
The Warlock family, as the ruling class, also noticed these dangerous signs.
In addition to internal fighting, the major families also have a common mission:
Monitor, search, and destroy underground churches and resistance organizations!
Just in the South Island Federation, one of the most threatening cults today is known as "Beastiality"!
In the belief system of beast worship, all kinds of wild beasts and even insects have corresponding main gods.
It is said that devout believers who worship these half-human, half-beast gods have the opportunity to receive divine grace and awaken the beast blood in their bodies.
Become a powerful beastman!
What’s even more terrible is that the beastmen who worship the Beast Cult can spread their bloodlines crazily in the form of viruses.
For example, the most typical beastman is the werewolf.
A person bitten by a werewolf.
There is a high probability of being infected with beastism.
On the night of the full moon, going crazy without control.
From a normal person, he turned into a bloodthirsty werewolf, and then continued to spread lycanthropy.
It's like a rabid dog that bites people everywhere and spreads rabies.
Areas where bestiality is rampant are always accompanied by outbreaks of bestiality.
In fact, the virus spread by bestiality cult is more than just beastiality.
Ratmen are the most despicable kind among the beastman family.
What they are best at is spreading the plague!
Wherever it passed, the shadow of the Black Death shrouded the land.
Now, the same tragedy is happening on Magic Stone Island.
Magic Stone Island, one of the most important resource points of the Warlock Academy.
The mining industry is well developed and magic stones are abundant.
Magic stone, a key resource for meditation practice.
The importance of Magic Stone Island can be imagined.
Starting this spring.
The evil tentacles of the Beast Cult extended to the Magic Stone Island.
First, small-scale underground churches appeared.
Then there was the plague pandemic that broke out in multiple places.
When the island residents were frightened by the epidemic, they were at a loss.
The cultists who had been lurking on the island for a long time stood up.
They claimed that if one joined their church, one would be cured of the plague and his family would be safe.
In fact, this disaster was caused by cultists.
They were good at treating the plague, as well as spreading it.
Through this self-directed and self-acted method, he quickly won the admiration of the ignorant people on the island.
As the power of Beast Cult expands.
The rule of the Warlock College on the island is also threatened.
Many mines have been out of the control of the academy and have become the private property of the Beast Cult.
The greedy cultists are causing trouble on the island, with the ultimate goal of controlling the mines and frantically mining the magic stones.
The major families that control the Warlock Academy do not care about the lives of the civilians on the island.
However, the cult's theft of magic stone resources is equivalent to stabbing the warlock family's aorta and drawing their blood.
This is intolerable!
The order came from the Dean, Master Randolph, himself.
A group of student elites were selected to form a team and go to Magic Stone Island to crack down on cult activities.
The first team, which set out a month ago, has now lost contact.
The whereabouts of all members are unknown, and their lives and deaths are uncertain.
Therefore, the college is planning to set up a second investigation team.
A stronger team.
Not only does it have to crack down on cults, but it also has the mission of rescuing missing former team members.
This task is very risky.
The team that was completely wiped out before
Only when there is a big reward will there be brave men.
Enter the secret realm of time and practice for four years.
Corresponding to real time, there is only one year.
This is the mission reward!
The opportunity that Pantheon intends to fight for Allen is a spot to join the Magic Stone Island Investigation Team!