Mokou Town, the temple of Ogma, the god of knowledge.
In the temple, the magic light flashed with soft light, dispelling all the darkness.
This temple, shrouded in the glory of divinity, is like a library, full of auxiliary sacrifices for studying knowledge and various books, maps, and scrolls.
The bright hall is filled with a strong atmosphere of books, as if it is to make people obsessed with the ocean of knowledge and the torrent of history.
Knowledge is power.
In the temple of Mokou Town, countless books are kept, in addition to poetry, historical documents, and biography of celebrities, as well as many knowledge such as spells, alchemy, mystery and taboo knowledge.
As long as the clergy here can be collected and preserved, they will copy, repair and complete the knowledge as much as possible, and finally deposit it into it one by one.
At this moment, the temple's pastor Tysonde was wearing a white robe full of scholarly temperament, holding a golden holy emblem carved with a blank scroll, standing in front of the statue of Ogma in the center of the temple, praying devoutly.
With the continuous growth of the power of Mokou Town, with the help of their clergy, all the towns within the territory began to establish colleges one after another, teaching the most basic knowledge of civilians, such as arithmetic, literacy, reading and writing, etc.
These basic knowledge, entirely funded by the territory, sent by the temple, are taught to all children of the right age at no cost and uniformly.
As a priest of Ogma, Tysonde certainly knew the difficulty of spreading knowledge.
In the eyes of civilians, the first thing they need to consider is how to fill their stomachs, and then they are qualified to think about other things.
The backward social system makes the common people think that instead of wasting their children's time in free and boring colleges, it is better to work on a farm or a manor in exchange for food and clothing.
This phenomenon is common even in powerful kingdoms like Cormier.
But the lord of Mokou Town seemed to have understood this situation long ago. He not only gave a large number of slaves and free people, but also distributed them to them to teach them farming knowledge. He also made appropriate adjustments to the taxation of the land so that they could not only afford taxes but also own surplus grain at home.
In just half a year, with the continuous help of the Church of Mokou Mother Goddess, a large number of farmers have obtained the first relatively satisfactory autumn harvest, and saved enough surplus grain at home to last the second harvest.
It is precisely because the lives of the civilians in the territory have been fed and the slogan "knowledge changes destiny, magic creates the future" promoted by Mokou Town that the civilians began to awaken their consciousness and gradually realized the importance of learning knowledge.
The Lord of Mokou Town claimed that popularizing the education of every leader is not simply about literacy and literacy, but also basic natural common sense, political thought... and instilling in national consciousness and sense of belonging.
Because the improvement of cultural level can give the territory enough grassroots personnel to promote change. Compared with the ignorant people who fight for no reason and obey suffering, the awakening of national consciousness will make them burst out with unimaginable power.
The civilians in the territory are like the sparks sown by the lord. One day, they will set off a prairie fire on this continent!
The facts are indeed developing as he imagined.
In Mokou Town today, he can always hear children or adults chatting about the kingdom from the mouths of them.
After all, the more civilians are, the more they like to discuss major issues in the kingdom. Although they are not direct beneficiaries, they are definitely direct victims.
After the capital of the Kingdom of Sambiya was destroyed by the huge dark ritual of the Ghost City, most of the surviving nobles and wealthy businessmen immediately saved their wealth into the Temple of Wealth.
For them, as long as they keep their small treasury, even if the country is destroyed, their family will not die. As long as they have money, they can still live a luxurious life.
When the female commander of Sambiya took office, a large number of wealthy people took this opportunity to acquire assets in the kingdom at an ultra-low price, leaving Sambiya still in a quagmire.
However, all these wealthy businessmen took away their wealth and moved to other kingdoms along the coast of the Fallen Star Sea.
After all, seeking profit and avoiding harm is a human nature. Since this kingdom is not good, they can just continue to live in another kingdom.
But civilians have no way out, the land under their feet is their own, and this is where they settle down and they will never even be able to leave for their entire lives.
Once foreign enemies invade, their only way is to pick up weapons and resist desperately.
Even if the kingdom has been destroyed and broken, they can only defend this kingdom. They have no chance to choose a way out, because if they take a step back, their families will be destroyed.
Loving one's own kingdom is the last dignity of the common people.
The Lord of Mokou Town seemed to have a very deep understanding of this, so he personally helped the clergy in the temple to change the teaching materials of their academy so that the civilians in the territory would gradually cultivate a new national consciousness.
Tysonde naturally enjoyed seeing this. After all, the higher the level of cultural education of civilians in the territory, the greater the scope of knowledge popularization.
Just like Prince Selante rebelled against the war not long ago.
With the end of the war, the Regent Queen not only exempted the civilians from land taxes for one year, but also divided the land equally for them. She also built free academies in pilot cities and towns, allowing their clergy to spread knowledge and culture to children of appropriate age.
If it were in the past, the reform of the Regent Queen would definitely be strongly opposed by the aristocratic class. Even if it was forced to implement it, not many civilians would be willing to bring their children to the college to "waste their time".
However, there was a precedent for Mokou Town, and the lord of Mokou Town was Cormier's Duke of National Protection. He appeared without exception in the Dragon Crazy Rebellion, Orc War and Rebel War and all turned the tide.
This made all the civilians and nobles of the entire Cormier Kingdom know the name of the Duke of Guarding the Kingdom.
The Lord Lord resounded throughout the reputation of the entire kingdom and the representatives of the reformists, so naturally the masses began to turn to the governance of the Lord of Mokou Town.
In the territory of Mokou Town, whether it was the abolition policy, the equally divided land and the free academies established, or the slogans they preached, all aroused strong responses from the people of the entire kingdom.
It was in this wave that the reform policy of the Regent Queen came into being, allowing the vast majority of civilians in the kingdom to see the shadow of being prepared to imitate the Mokou Town system.
Under such circumstances, the academies of those pilot towns have not yet been established. The entire kingdom, the clergy of the Temple of Knowledge Church have received all the registration lists.
This strong response and the desire of the civilians to popularize knowledge even caught them off guard by the clergy who believed in the god of knowledge.
From this we can see that with the issuance of reform policies, the entire Cormier Kingdom, led by the lord of Mokou Town, has moved towards a new future step by step.
But behind the prosperity, Tysonde saw a hint of worry.
This matter requires the Lord of Mokou Town to add simple magic knowledge to books that popularize knowledge, so that children can gradually understand what magic is the beginning.
At first, he didn't care too much about the decision.
If you want to train spell casters and educate children of appropriate age, it is indeed the best choice, which can allow them to integrate into the magic atmosphere and imagination more quickly.
However, until today, he saw an elder from the Kingdom of Harua, leading nearly a thousand spellcasters. After entering Mokou Town, Tysonde not only did not feel happier than the leaders because of the power of the territory, but instead felt a little worried in his heart.
As a high-level priest of Ogma and the chaplain of Mokou Town Temple, Tysonde is naturally qualified to know some of the long history of the God of Knowledge.
According to the temple's data, during the ancient Naseril period, the floating city of Azuma was the largest academic research center in the entire empire.
The great arcane Opus is also a devout believer in Ogma, the god of knowledge.
The Great Arcane's Floating City is like a scholar living in seclusion.
This is the city with the highest popularity of literacy and magic during the ancient Naseril Empire.
There is no prosperous trade or convenient transportation here. The leaders have always lived a peaceful life, busying their mission like a group of hermits.
Until the eve of the demise of Naserel, the great arcane Opus gradually mastered some of the secrets of the higher creations in Naserel's scroll.
The study of life creation is the most restrictive knowledge of the Church of Gods at any time. Even if it is the Ogma Church, if it is included in this knowledge, it will be directly sealed and will never be passed down.
Although the great arcane Opus, as the strongest arcane in the field of creation during the period of Naserel, successfully came into contact with the research of life creation, he had not yet transformed his research into results, and the empire was left unresolved because of the broken magic net.
The reason why Tysonde recalled these materials was mainly because he felt that as the Kingdom of Cormier continued to grow into a real magical kingdom under the leadership of the pioneer territory of Mokou Town, it was very likely that he would also be exposed to the knowledge of these life creations.
After all, after the Halua wizard group joined the Mokou Town power, rumors spread throughout the territory.
It claimed that their lord was a wizard from Harua and a remnant of the Naseril Empire. He not only wanted to lead the wizards of Harua to build a floating city, but also wanted to recreate the glory of the Arcane Empire.
This seemed like an impossible rumor, but after calming down and thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that the actions of the Lord of the Lord have been developing in this direction?
For example, deep in the Mokou Mountains in the north of the town, some huge and dense cave groups built by stone giants began to appear, and a large number of working people were transferred to work.
Where is the Mokou Mountains?
Since many large goblin tribes and other humanoid creatures in the Mokou Mountains were wiped out by the Purple Dragon Knights, they have become the territory of stone giants and are also the entrance to the dark area.
There are several direct access to the Mokou Mountains in the Grey Dwarf's Royal City.
Tysonde can find that a steady stream of mineral materials are transported to the depths of the Mokou Mountains, but he has never seen a large batch of weapons and equipment made by the gray dwarfs appear in Mokou Town.
Does this mean that their lords have accumulated so much raw materials, and it is very likely that they are preparing for the floating city.
This also shows that the Lord’s addition of simple magic knowledge to the new textbook is definitely preparing for the subsequent establishment of the Magic Academy.
Obviously, he intends to make the comprehensive popularization of knowledge and culture, even national consciousness, just like the Kingdom of Harua, and also to let them master magic.
What is magic?
In the ancient times when elves, dwarves, giants, and dragons still ruled the dense forests and wilderness of the Feren continent, all those who possessed the ability to use magic were committed to seeking powerful power, hidden knowledge, and further understanding of the essence of the magic network in order to overcome their opponents.
What is the final result? Almost all of their powerful civilizations disappeared in the long river of history.
In this regard, the early empires of humanity were exactly the same:
The Imaska ​​Empire mastered a lot of knowledge about portals and gates of other worlds, and captured tens of thousands of indigenous people from other worlds, forcing them to become slaves to their secret magic power.
The Neserel Empire is proficient in various techniques for making magical devices, and these amazing or fearful effects are still lurking under the Enoak Desert.
Lomasa summoned many orc tribes from another world to fight against Nalfio, but not long after, these warriors broke away from their master's control and became a permanent scourge of the Feren continent.
There is no doubt that these powerful civilizations and empires were all destroyed by their abuse of magic.
After all, as a wizard and a spellcaster who masters the wise art, they are all committed to discovering new schools of magic, able to understand the secret art more deeply through other ways, or gain terrible new powers in the study of forbidden.
There have been many ways to understand power in history, and then abandoned, and various researches that are continuing to be carried out, some are cautious explorations, some are terrible fantasies, and they have also continuously brought out various secret magic theories and new magics that have never been seen on the Feren continent.
There are many stories about legendary spells about the ancient Naserel and the fallen elves. It is said that these spells can also dwarf the most powerful "wishing technique" at present.
If they are not careful to look at the power of magic, even if they establish a powerful magic empire, their fate will sooner or later be the same as that of Naserel and Imaska.
So, when Tysonde saw the sprouts of the Magic Kingdom in Mokou Town had begun to burst, he suddenly hesitated, or was confused.
If he follows his inner thoughts, as the priest of the God of Knowledge, and benefiting from the lord's knowledge, he will definitely spare no effort to help the lord of Mokou Town spread knowledge.
This is without any problem.
However, as the church's power continued to grow in Mokou Town, Tysonde clearly felt that his strength not only stagnated, but also had a downward trend.
As a pastor, his power comes from the gods of faith, he knows very well what this means?
He did not suspect that there was a problem with his belief, so the only possibility was...
"Are I confused, or am I really doing something wrong?" Pastor Tysonde looked at Ogma's statue with a devout look on his face and murmured to himself.
The God of Knowledge Ogma is an absolutely neutral deity, which determines that the Temple of Knowledge can gain a foothold whether in a kingdom ruled by the good camp or in an evil and dark area.
But for Tysonde, he was more inclined to do his best to help Lord Lord.
"Knowledge is everything."
It took only a long time for the pastor to pray for a devout prayer that a faint voice in his heart awakened Tysonde.
"My Lord!"
Tysonde looked surprised and hurriedly knelt down to the gods.
The image of the God of Knowledge Ogma in the material world is a young and handsome adventurer wearing exquisite and ornate armor, carrying a snow-wood Yatingqin with beautiful tone.
Little by little divine brilliance emerged.
The tall statue of god was faintly coated with a layer of golden light. Tysonde knelt down and bowed his head, still feeling a pair of majestic eyes, as if he was watching from the distant kingdom of gods.
"Remember: no matter how illusory or crazy a new concept may seem, we should not hide or cover it up, but let everyone know and review it."
"Then why..." Tysonde hesitated for a moment, spoke slowly, but finally did not express his doubts.
"Knowledge is the greatest gift that mortals receive, and its value is more important than everything."
"You can choose to stand under the flag of Purple Dragon..."
The solemn voice of the god seemed to echo in the heart of the pastor from far to near, and gradually disappeared.
As the light of the statue gradually faded, Tysonde stood up regretfully, and the statue of Ogma in the hall returned to normal.
As a priest, being able to communicate so directly with the gods he serves is simply a dream for him.
Moreover, he could clearly sense that his stagnant strength was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it seemed that it was not far from the Legend of Destiny.
"Stand under the flag of Purple Dragon, not..."
Tysonde stared at the statue and murmured to himself that the last sentence left by the God of Knowledge seemed to be a helpless sigh, and seemed to be meaningful.
"Does it mean..."
The pastor looked shocked, as if he understood the thousands of meanings that seemed to be contained in this sentence.
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Mashanbo Port.
The blue sea was very calm, and only the slow and steady drum beats and the soft paddles of wooden oars were heard.
The large merchant ships full of cargo, "My Fair Lady" and "Shy Girl" moaned, and the tightly raised traction rope was taken away, and the bulging sails rose slowly from the mast.
The high priest of the Temple of Wealth is still wearing jewels, like a graceful and luxurious lady.
She stood in the harbor, standing in the wind, allowing the salty sea breeze to blew her loose golden priest robe, making her graceful figure reveal her plump and graceful outline.
The high priest felt unprecedented joy as he watched the two wind snakes sailing along the boat, chasing each other in the clear blue sky.
The Tukan people in the endless wilderness like to call the ocean poisonous water. These nomads believe that liquids that horses cannot drink are unclean things.
She saw that on the 'My Fair Lady', three Tukan guards from the nomadic wilderness, seemed to be heading towards the abyss, rather than sailing towards Murholland.
They stared at the shrinking coastline, their eyes wide and white, and they grabbed the railings desperately. No matter how small the bumps were, they vomited.
Apparently, they seemed rather dancing with nervous horses than seeing this terrible world without land.
The high priest couldn't help but smile. She watched the two merchant ships that could take gold from Murholland away, and then returned to the temple, looking at a scroll that was passed through a small teleportation array with a slightly solemn expression.
This is a golden scroll the size of a palm, which means that there is a very important information hidden in the information conveyed in the scroll.
Thinking of this, the high priest flirted with the golden hair that was blown by the sea breeze, and the smile on his face calmed down and he checked it carefully.
After about ten minutes, the high priest put away the scroll and showed a thoughtful look.
"The elders from Harua led all his wizards to join Mokou Town." The high priest murmured to himself, and an unexpected expression appeared on his delicate face reflected by the light of the jewelry.
As the high priest of the goddess of wealth, she manages the entire temple of the Kingdom of Cormier and a large caravan.
This gave her a sufficient understanding of Halua, the magical kingdom that opened up foreign trade in the last century.
She thought that the mage lord of Mokou Town was just a spellcaster with excellent talent, and because of Cormier's series of frequent disasters, he successfully gained his current status.
Who would have thought that the other party was even more incredible than expected?
When she learned that Alad, the elder of Halua, had brought her silent wizard to nearly a thousand spellcasters, all loyal to the wizard named Brian, it meant that she had to change her views on him again.
At first, he planned to make friends with Brian just to facilitate his ability to use the hatred of the dark monarch Glazt to weaken the power of the demon lord when there is a possibility of turmoil in the dark areas in the future.
However, what she could not imagine was that as she became more and more interested in the mage lord.
She once went to Mokou Town in person. As a high priest with an important status in the Temple of Wealth, she just took a casual look and immediately found that it was full of vitality and vitality, and a large amount of wealth.
Such a town located on the road to the Enoao Desert will soon attract many merchants trying to open up the trade lines between the central mainland and the North.
This is the case. Even the several huge caravans under the Temple of Wealth have successfully opened up trade channels with the North and earned a lot of wealth.
Especially when Mashanbo's rebellion was quelled, she invited Brian to visit her temple and talked about some things about trade, and she refreshed her understanding of him again.
Among these conversations, what impressed the high priest the most was a matter that Brian accidentally chatted with her about the rule of the people of a certain kingdom.
As pastors who believe in the goddess of wealth, they have a very keen insight, especially in their grasp of wealth and business opportunities.
As for Brian's identity, the high priest has marked the important news through the scroll as the person with the strongest development potential among the guests he has met so far.
Thinking of this, she felt that as the pastor who controls all the temples of Wealth in the Kingdom of Cormier, it was necessary to cooperate more deeply with the other party.
She gently rubbed the ruby ​​ring she wore on her fingers and began to think about how to cooperate with her.
As the wizard lord of Mokou Town and the Duke of the Kingdom of Cormier, even the Regent Queen listened to her and now she has gained allegiance to a powerful mage group.
Recalling the recent series of reform policies that occurred in the Kingdom of Cormier and the town of Mokou, known as the "pioneer of reform", the high priest realized that this descendant of the ancient Neseril Empire was probably more than just Cormier's ambitions.
If he could gather the power of the entire Cormier Kingdom and defeat the Yinhun City, he could use Mokou Town as a bridgehead to gradually conquer the entire Enoak Desert.
Although the largest desert in this continent is deserted and there is no value to use, as the highest priest of the goddess of wealth, he even personally participated in the adventurer who went to the bottomless abyss to save the goddess.
The high priest had long understood based on the information and knowledge he had mastered that the fundamental reason why Naserel's former territory turned into the barren Enooke Desert was the ancient monster buried deep in the ground - Ferin Demon Aoy.
If Ferlin Mokui can be completely eliminated, then it is only a matter of time before it can be turned into an oasis by manipulating weather-like spells or getting the help of a certain natural god.
This is a big bet!
After considering the whole question clearly, the high priest instantly realized what choice he was making.
As the goddess of wealth, as the Goddess of Wealth, was once so weak that his divine power was about to fall to the realm of a demigod, and rushed into the realm of medium divine power in one breath. This is naturally related to the wealth, trade, currency and merchants controlled by the goddess.
In the realm of the Goddess of Wealth, once wars and trade occur, her power will be affected, because in this case, there is basically no way to trade, and naturally there is no way to improve the divine power she has obtained.
However, with the arrival of the "Aofa Catastrophe", unprecedented disasters almost affected the entire continent. The Goddess of Wealth not only did not fall, but instead steadily increased at an extremely fast speed. The reason for this is naturally inseparable from the goddess' newly acquired merchant clergy and the temple to help protect wealth.
But for the goddess, this is already the limit. It is obviously undesirable to rely on disasters and war to break through medium divine power in one fell swoop.
In this case, the high priest gradually turned his attention to some potential kingdoms and territories.
After all, in a prosperous country, trade will grow rapidly, and living standards will improve, and the wealth accumulated by the people in the country will gradually increase.
If it continues to develop in this way, the role of the Temple of Wealth in helping civilian merchants or nobles preserve wealth will become an indispensable existence in everyone's life.
If such a prosperous and powerful empire can really continue to develop, it can even allow the goddess to obtain a new protective priesthood. Even if it is promoted to powerful divine power, it is not impossible.
In the eyes of the high priest, among the many countries she has traveled, whether it is the Silver Moon City in the North, the Deep Water City in Jianwan, or even Am and Kalinshan and other areas, none of them meet her standards.
On the contrary, the series of reforms in Mokou Town, which had just emerged, the importance of education and magic, as well as the identity of his descendants of Naserier and the addition of the Halua Mages, gave her a glimmer of hope.
The most important thing is that when talking to the mage lord of Mokou Town, Brian also told her that when the other party had traveled to other worlds on the plane, he had seen some prosperous countries and had long given up the currency minted from gold and silver, and replaced it with paper money and ‘bank cards’.
These words of his are undoubtedly equivalent to helping the High Priest open a new world and about the future development direction of the Temple of Wealth.
Thinking of this, she was vaguely ready to make a decision.
She is not only the high priest of the Temple of Wealth, but also a businessman who is extremely good at investing.
Hundreds of years have passed, and she can still remember the growth history that changed her life.
She was born in an ordinary family in the Kingdom of Cormier. If there were no accidents, she would spend her whole life on the land of working.
When she was twenty years old, she concealed her parents, mortgaged her house and real estate, and borrowed a payment from the Temple of Wealth in Daotan Town, using the money to buy a lot of acacia bark from the agent of the Kingdom of Sambiya, a guy named ‘Pig Nose’.
At that time, someone mocked her: If someone would buy acacia bark from the Asian Games in Sambi, he would be so stupid, because in the Kingdom of Cormier, he could buy oak bark at an extremely low price.
But the next day, the druids of the Kingdom of Cormier threatened that if people did not stop destroying the oak trees, they would let the plague and locust plagues descend on the land, and the elves of the King's Forest also supported the druids.
As the ruler of the Forest Kingdom, the King of Cormier announced that the permanent embargo of oak trees would take effect today, and the prices of acacia trees would rise steadily.
This was the first pot of gold she earned in her life, and she became a clergyman of the goddess of wealth and eventually grew to her current status.
The high priest who came to his senses gradually became firmer, and then waved his hand and a female priest in a golden robe walked in.
"Help me hand this gift to the Lord of Mokou Town Brian." She took out a shiny golden card with the inscription of the Goddess of Wealth engraved on it. "This is a golden card of the Temple of Wealth. As long as you hold it, you can withdraw 500,000 gold coins from any temple on the mainland at any time."
"Tell this lord," the high priest said slowly for a moment: "Although I need to establish a partnership with him, this gift is not within the scope of our next transaction. No matter how we can cooperate, it only represents the heart of the temple."
"In the Kingdom of Cormier, the Temple of Wealth has the most powerful financial resources and the largest caravan, and we can fully afford any construction in the future."
Looking at the female priest's departure, the high priest nodded slightly and turned around to stare at the goddess' statue.
The image of the goddess of wealth Wojin in the material world is a young and beautiful slender woman with bright golden hair and her eyes like two melting golden balls.
She wore a robe covered with various gems and precious metal sequins, a cloak made of gold coins, a belt made of gold, and a pair of golden boots covered with large pearls.
As a goddess who controls wealth, the Temple of Wealth is not short of money. Even if the 500,000 gold coins are given to others, she will not feel any pain.
For her, the only thing she lacks is a partner with great potential.
This is just her largest investment that has far-reaching significance so far.
Although it cannot get a return in a short period of time, if the investment is really successful, the return you get cannot be measured by money.
She believed that the lord of Mokou Town would be able to make the most appropriate choice after seeing the gifts she sent.
After all, if you have money, you can adapt to the rules. If you have the right, the rules can serve you. If you have neither money nor power, then the rules are tailor-made for you.
Chapter completed!