Chapters 1303 to 1304, Bitter Battle
Of course, it is not excluded that many churches were developed and established before the fire was ignited.
But even then, the number of believers in the church does not exceed 10,000.
After all, in the sea god Reis. When Ambori lit the Divine Fire and sealed the gods, there were quite a few demigods in the Hero World Realm, and the competition was extremely fierce.
In addition, there are many gods who have been gods for a long time.
It is legal for demigods to establish churches after igniting the divine fire, while it is naturally illegal and a cult to establish a church without igniting the divine fire.
Such an illegally established church will not only be suppressed by the secular regime, but will even be severely cracked down on by the Church of the Gods.
Well, that's absolutely.
In fact, even if the divine fire is ignited, the development path of the demigod church is extremely bumpy.
The first is the conflict between the secular government and the church, and even in a country where there is no propagation of faith, the royal rulers will not want the church to share their rights.
After all, in the former heroic world, it was an undoubted thing that the divine power was higher than the royal power due to the superiority of the power level.
In addition to this, the containment of emerging churches by other established churches will also greatly limit the growth of emerging churches.
Therefore, even if the churches established by many demigods have been developed for thousands of years, the number of believers under their command can reach hundreds of thousands.
And if the church of hundreds of thousands of people can last for a thousand years, the accumulated power of faith will be enough to unite the Godhead, elevate the throne, and create the kingdom of God.
But that's just theoretical. Under normal circumstances, many demigods fall for various reasons when they condense their godhead.
Of course, the most common reason for this is the failure of the church to weaken the power of faith and unite the Godhead.
Suffice it to say, during the golden age of the gods in the world of heroes. The demigods wanted to develop the church and gather the power of faith.
On the other hand, the Poseidon Church, due to the lack of miracles of the major sects on the earth, the development speed of the Poseidon Church is beyond the ordinary.
What is the concept of 40 million followers of Poseidon Church today? In the god of the sea, Reis. Ten thousand years after Amberi became a god, there were not so many believers.
To resist the enemy and protect the development of the Church. When the number of believers exceeds 10,000, it is necessary to develop the diversity of the church.
Bestow powerful magic on the priest and give the holy warrior divine grace. Frequent miracles, sanctification of all churches to increase the church's resistance to foreign enemies, etc.
To put it simply, a church of 10,000 believers needs at least 10 pastors to maintain the guiding faith. If you want to develop. Then twenty priests are indispensable, and in addition to this there are more than fifty paladins.
The Paladin is a semi-cast warrior class, and in addition to his strong melee fighting skills and physical body, he also possesses divine skills bestowed by the gods.
Of course, compared to the priest, the divine skills granted by the holy warrior are much weaker, but the effects of divine grace on the holy warrior's physical body and other effects require the consumption of divine power.
And the power of faith gathered by tens of thousands of believers is actually not much after it is transformed into divine power. Get rid of the priest of the church, the paladin. In addition to the divine power consumed by the sanctification of churches and so on, the demigods themselves can save very little power to condense their faith in the godhead.
In this way, it is obvious that the odds of many demigods failing to condense godhead are outrageously high.
Of course, if you don't purify the divinity and directly condense the godhead, the consumption of divine power will be reduced by more than ninety.
But in this way, the condensed Godhead is mixed, and the priesthood thus obtained is also weak and pitiful.
But this is not necessarily a path, the only problem is that even if it is, the risk when condensing the godhead is not low.
On the other hand, due to special reasons on the earth, the number of believers has grown to 40 million in less than ten years.
Although most of these believers are pan-believers who are not devout in their beliefs, due to the large number of believers, the power of faith gathered by so many believers is quite a lot.
At least as much as the power of faith of millions of true believers.
And the priests of the Poseidon Church are far less than the number needed to maintain the number of followers, and there are no holy warriors who have consumed the same divine power.
In this way, the amount of divine power that Cheng Kong had gathered and transformed in just a few years could be called a huge amount.
Of course, the divine power that Cheng Kong has accumulated in the past few years can be regarded as a reserve, and he will not use it easily, so when he began to condense the godhead, Cheng Kong directly transferred the faith connection to the prototype of the godhead.
The power of faith pouring down like a waterfall continued to instill into the prototype of the transparent godhead along the line of faith, and the prototype of the transparent godhead immediately appeared.
With the prototype of the transparent godhead as the center, within a radius of more than a few meters, small water droplets that rotated around the prototype of the transparent godhead immediately appeared.
After a few seconds, the droplets began to merge as they collided with each other.
Soon, all the water droplets fused into a large balloon that enveloped the rudiments of the transparent godhead, and continued to expand in all directions.
When the water balloon rapidly expanded to a range of hundreds of meters, it stopped expanding, and the other godhead prototypes that were wrapped in the water balloon at the same time still rotated around Chengkong according to the previous trajectory, but the water balloon did not dip into the one-meter range around the other godhead prototypes, making these godhead prototypes like bubbles floating in the water balloon.
However, there are some anomalies at the edge of the bubble.
There was a large amount of mist outside the milky white godhead, and a ring of tumbling mud formed around the earthy yellow godhead, and around the pure white godhead was an ice crystal slowly spreading out.
The only thing that hasn't changed much on the surface is the fiery red godhead prototype, but the slight cracking sound from time to time at the junction of the two sides can give people a sense of the conflict that lies beneath the surface.
In the process of condensing the Godhead, it is an unavoidable process for the abnormalities that appear between the rudiments of these Godheads. Any divinity that has been purified to the extreme is a single basic rule, and when a certain godhead prototype absorbs the power of faith and begins to condense the godhead, the power that spreads out will form a new rule force with other godhead prototypes, or cause some reactions and conflicts.
And just like when purifying divinity, conflict will bring some pain to Cheng Kong.
But. At this time, Cheng Kong completely ignored the pain caused by the conflict of reactions between the godhead prototypes, and instead focused his attention on the changes around these godhead prototypes.
After a long time, Cheng Kong came back to his senses with a hint of joy and pain.
This kind of reaction conflict between the prototypes of the godhead directly reveals the deep origin changes between the rules, which benefits Cheng Kong a lot.
However, if you want to see all the rule changes in it, it is not enough to rely on the amount of power supplied by the divine fire, and it also needs to consume a lot of divine power.
That's where the pain comes in.
Just a moment of effort, less than ten minutes. Cheng Kong's consumption of divine power exceeded one percent of his reserves.
In other words, if Cheng Kong opened up the consumption of divine power, he would only be able to check the change in the origin of this rule for a hundred minutes at most.
But even so. Cheng Kong also felt that it was worth it.
This should be an additional gain in the process of condensing the godhead, and in less than ten minutes, Cheng Kong felt that his understanding of various rules had risen a small step.
Cheng Kong rested for a while and repaired some of the minor wounds on his soul. He focused his attention entirely on the rudiments of the water godhead and the white atmospheric godhead.
Obviously. At a time when this divine power feels very insufficient, it is better to cast a net all over the sky than to concentrate on one place.
After concentrating his attention completely in one place, Cheng Kong could clearly feel that the divine power consumed had been greatly reduced, to a quarter of what it had been before.
Under Cheng Kong's eyes, the ice layer condensed around the prototype of the white atmospheric godhead was actually not simply frozen, but an ice rule formed by the mixing of water and air.
Cheng Kong stared at it for a while, and then he felt a tingling pain in his soul, and he didn't dare to look at it more. He immediately closed his eyes and used his divine power to smooth out the slight wounds that appeared on his soul. While showing the previously observed rule changes in my mind, I analyzed them one by one.
After a long time, Cheng Kong slowly opened his eyes, opened his mouth and exhaled a thick mouthful of white gas, but this white gas was composed of countless ice crystals, and after it erupted, the temperature around it dropped suddenly, and in the blink of an eye, the ground of the mountain peak under Cheng Kong's throne turned into a frosty color, and it quickly spread towards the mountain peak.
The frost spread very quickly, and after a while, the frost touched the surface of the sea, and the sea surface that was slowly setting off the waves was quickly frozen, and even the rolling waves froze in an instant, and as the frost spread, those sea creatures who were still trying to survive in the sea were considered to be unlucky.
They were frozen in crystal clear ice like amber.
To tell the truth, the sea creatures that were brought into this sea area by Cheng Kong were really fateful, they were originally swallowed directly by the demon existence and only bones remained, but this time they were directly frozen into statues by the owner of the palace.
Of course, this was not intentional by Cheng Kong.
That mouthful of white gas containing countless ice crystals was just a trace of breath that Cheng Kong accidentally leaked out after analyzing some of the ice rules in his mind.
But just a trace of leaking breath froze a small part of the sea surface in the palace, and even turned into ice within a hundred meters below the sea surface.
Of course, this is also because inside the palace, with the bonus of the palace, if it is outside, it can cover a radius of hundreds of meters at most, and the sea surface with a thickness of more than ten meters is considered good.
Although Cheng Kong has now ignited the divine fire, it is impossible to be invincible in the world with a sneeze.
But even so, Cheng Kong was very satisfied.
After analyzing the ice rules for a while, Cheng Kong's understanding of the ice rules deepened a lot, although it was not able to directly condense the ice divinity, but it led to Cheng Kong's in-depth understanding of the rules of water and the rules of the atmosphere, which killed three birds with one stone.
Time flies, and years pass in the blink of an eye.
The range of influence that the prototype of the water god personality in front of Cheng Kong could influence had expanded to thousands of meters, and the prototype of the water god personality had also grown from the size of a palm to the size of a human head.
There is not much time left before the prototype of the Water Godhead is completely condensed and successful.
Cheng Kong had a hint of relief in his eyes, during this time. Cheng Kong did not hesitate to consume divine power to check and analyze the rule reactions and conflicts between the rudimentary form of the water godhead and the rudimentary form of the atmospheric godhead, which made his understanding of the rules much deeper. This also accelerated the condensation of the rudimentary form of the water godhead.
"Huh?" Just when Cheng Kong felt that the divine power reserve was not much, he felt the prayers from several faith connections: "My lord, the god of the sea, we need your help." ”
When Cheng Kong condensed his godhead, he usually blocked the prayers of believers, no way, even with the help of divine fire, the prayers of tens of millions of believers were not something that Cheng Kong could fully bear.
Unless it is a large prayer of the faithful or a special prayer of a few people. Cheng Kong will react.
And this time the prayer was a special person.
Lao Ma, Murong Xue and others, after they lit the divine fire in Cheng Kong. More or less began to believe in Cheng Kong.
Of course, because they are too familiar with each other, except for Yang Tian and the others who are true believers, even Li Guanxi is a pan-believer. Don't mention the old horse. Murong Xue is gone.
But even so, the prayers of these people are the highest level in the Chengkong receiving sequence.
In any case, Cheng Kong has detached himself from the mortal level in the essence of life, but for Cheng Kong, even gods need friends, even if they are superficial friends, otherwise, it will be too lonely.
Cheng Kong after receiving the prayer. I couldn't help but have a faint trace of anger on my face.
It turned out that the prayers from Lao Ma and the others were for help. Achilles Island's foundation in the Heroic World Realm was attacked by angels, and in less than half a month, nine of the seventeen giant cities on Achilles Island in the Heroic World Realm were destroyed, and more than 600 heroes were killed, and even Murong Xue, who was sitting in the Beamon Giant City, was seriously injured in a big battle and has not yet woken up from a coma.
Of course, there is only so much that prayer can transmit.
After all, Lao Ma and the others were in the Hero World Realm at this time, if it weren't for Lao Ma gathering thousands of believers in the Hero World Realm and holding a grand mass ceremony, I am afraid that it would be difficult for this prayer to reach Cheng Kong's ears through the space barrier.
In the world of heroes, the thatched city of the thatched plain, after Cheng Kong ignited the divine fire, after Achilles Island began to stabilize its territory, many cities under Achilles Island got the opportunity to develop.
After all, after no longer going all out to expand the territory, the resources on the territory of Achilles Island have been fully exploited, making the resources and gold coins extremely rich, and these resources and gold coins are used to recruit troops, and there is a lot left behind, and they can only be used for the expansion of cities in various places for a long time.
The thatched city is a relatively central location on the territory of Achilles Island, so it has been given priority and has become the first city to be expanded into a giant city among ordinary cities.
It is precisely because of this that the thatched giant city at this time can withstand sporadic angel attacks.
In fact, the so-called sporadic angels are not one or two angels, and at this time, there are more than 100 angels gathered outside the thatched giant city.
These angels are different from the angels recruited in the major cities, in addition to the combat power is much higher than ordinary angels, what is even more unbelievable is that they do not belong to any power at all, just like wild animals, but they have strict organizational discipline.
They advance and retreat in an orderly manner in groups of ten, and they are extremely intelligent in battle, and the combat power they exert is by no means comparable to that of ordinary angels.
In the previous battle between Achilles Island and these angels, the Achilles Island side suffered a lot of losses.
To say that the initial battle between the two sides broke out completely inexplicably, after a small country near the side of the Beamon Giant City was destroyed by more than a hundred angels, and then rushed towards the direction of the Beamon Giant City.
Fortunately, Murong Xue happened to be stationed in the Beamon Giant City at that time, so the Beamon Giant City was not destroyed by the angels in the first place.
But even so, the loss of the Beamon Giant City was extremely heavy, seventy Beamon Behemoths were killed, only more than fifty remained, and more than half of the other troops were lost.
The angels didn't reap much good, at least sixty were killed.
However, these angels have a special trick compared to the ordinary angels in the Hero World Realm, that is, they can blow themselves up when they die.
If it weren't for that, the loss of Beamon Giant City wouldn't have been so great.
As the angel retreated, Murong Xue did not relax her vigilance, and immediately commanded the hero to arrange a retreat.
You must know that there have been many cities that have been attacked by angels in the past, except for some extremely lucky small countries, even the cities of large countries such as Lao Mei have been attacked.
Therefore, Achilles Island is still relatively familiar with the situation of angelic attacks.
Murong Xue knew that these angels would not disappear just because they were repelled once, they would gather more angels to take revenge.
And the result was not unexpected, and the next morning, the evacuated angel came back to take revenge.
Unlike before, the number of angels who came back this time has exceeded six hundred.
With such a number of angels, it is naturally impossible for Beamon Giant City to compete with.
Therefore, when the angels surrounded the giant city of Beamon, Murong Xue led the last group of heroes and troops to evacuate directly through the teleportation array.
But what is strange is that these angels did not destroy the city as before in the occupation of the giant city of Beamon, but ignored the restrictions of the teleportation array, and followed Murong Xue and the others through the teleportation array and chased after them.
Therefore, Murong Xue, who had just evacuated to Hesse City, had not had time to take a few more breaths when an angel appeared from the teleportation array.
And so a great war ensued.
At the end of this fierce battle, Hesse City was completely destroyed, Murong Xue was seriously injured and unconscious, and a group of heroes desperately fled with Murong Xue into the mangrove swamp, and ninety percent of all the troops were killed.
And the angel side also suffered heavy losses, and more than sixty angels were killed in Hesse City again, and Murong Xue alone risked his life to destroy the teleportation array, so that the more than twenty angels who were teleporting were directly annihilated in the spatial turbulence. (To be continued......)