Chapter 1230 - 104: A Bunch of Diligent Socialites! (Part 3)

Chapter 1230: Chapter 104: A Bunch of Diligent Socialites! (Part 3)

How many people truly cannot survive without their aid?

Most people lack security, fearing that a natural disaster might take everything from them at any moment. Many followers pray devoutly every day, hoping for a future where, if they or their family become sick or disabled, they can receive help from this small church when they can’t afford the expensive costs of divine techniques.

For this, they are willing to give it a try.

It’s that simple.

The Mother of Great Bliss has only truly helped one or two hundred people on her journey, with most problems solved by a bit of herbal medicine. Many people are not lacking the ability to survive; rather, they have no opportunity for a decent life. They are willing to work hard and endure hardship, yet they can only struggle in the muddy bottom of society.

Most of these people are not bad, because the bad ones are already mingling in the gray areas. This land is filled with weeds-like, unending bandits.

A simple job could allow them to live with their heads held high; most followers don’t need charity, they just need an opportunity to live by their own efforts.

The funniest thing happened.

The Mother of Great Bliss thought developing the church would require a lot of money, but the actual money spent was less than one-third of the grand celebration welcoming the Joyful Goddess’s descent.

Just that little.

Apart from maintaining the church, the priest’s expenses, very little was truly spent on the followers, mainly the cost for divine technique treatments, a midday meal on prayer days, and some life-saving food.

The things these church followers asked for were very little, so little that it made the Mother of Great Bliss realize for the first time that ten copper coins could let a poor family live for half a month.

Since they left the lavish golden mansion, moving away from the grand and mighty Divine Hall of Joy, everything they encountered has caused a strong shock to the worldview of many Joyful Priestesses.

There really were people living so miserably.

On this day, these green tea personas, gold-diggers, socialites, and hedonists who changed their allegiance, one among them received Duncan’s divine grace.

In a certain direction along the Aken River, a small village was attacked by marauding beastmen robbers.

A Joyful Priestess named Natalia took off her luxurious high priest robe, donned a warrior’s heavy armor, grabbed a shield, and raised a flail, smashing the head of a powerful beastman warrior.

As she bathed in blood.

Watching the brain matter scattered in the air and the beastman warrior’s cracked skull.

She suddenly realized, I can fight too.

They weren’t just a bunch of vases.

Immediately afterward, it was as if Natalia saw the silhouette of a towering dark giant; she excitedly knelt on the battlefield filled with blood and corpses, a faint blood-colored light descended, and she received divine grace. The first priestess with divine favor was born.

In the past, you could call her anything, a frivolous promiscuous socialite, a scheming green tea persona, a backstabbing white lotus, and so on, Natalia’s reputation was never great.

But now, you must address her as the ’Battle Nun’ serving the Black King.

The first Joyful Goddess’s priestess transitioned into a combat role, although she seemed not much different from before, still a fair-skinned, beautiful long-legged noblewoman in daily life. But when battles erupt, she can also appear fully armed on the battlefield.

Don’t know when it started.

These priestesses, whether the Mother of Great Bliss or her maids, began to pay attention to their reputation, especially regarding frivolous evaluations. They want to sever the past, reappear in the world’s eyes in a new manner, in a true priest style.

All of this, Duncan hardly intervened proactively. He just let them go about their business, and somehow, they changed a bit.

Now they are respected priests, and being respected, they increasingly demanded strictness over their words and actions.

These priestesses are very smart.

Those not smart enough can’t be a green tea persona nor a socialite; under their efforts, the church’s influence rooted in the lowest level of society, gradually taking root.

Duncan also suddenly discovered the Power of Faith was more ample than expected.

This means he could promote clergy beyond priests.

However, the small church established by the Mother of Great Bliss also has a fatal flaw. There are no professionals, much less any strong professionals; the church’s entire strength resembles a stepping stone, a mere cluster of newly transformed image priestesses, plus a large group of despised mud legs.

Now a few warriors, apprentice priests have emerged among these mud legs, but still they are not worth mentioning, making other forces despise and patronize.

Yet as long as that man stays alive, hasn’t died in the tumult among the gods, whoever sees them must nod slightly in respectful acknowledgment, just like at the moment. Arabella, these Comer Kingdom elite nobles bow their heads in reverence to the radiant Mother of Great Bliss, addressing her as ’Holy Mother’ respectfully.

The Mother of Great Bliss eventually achieved the power she wanted, in a different way, more weighty, and this burden even made her a bit fearful.

Valley Calendar 1365, at the dawn of New Year, the aftermath of Saint’s Calamity, the continuation of a tumultuous era.

No longer indulging in beauty, Duncan finally took action.

The slaughter fell, all beings equal.

Whether it’s the lofty gods or the insignificant mortals.

No regret in the act.

Wagering two human forms, Duncan wants to overturn the gods’ chessboard.

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