What kind of environment does a belief need to spread quickly?

If the environment is comfortable, it is absolutely not possible - well-fed and well-fed people can easily become pan-believers (in the eyes of these people...... It's always right to worship the gods, but it's to shed blood for the sake of the gods), but it's not enough to be a fanatical believer in supporting Cana.

Rhodes needs to find a place where everyone is living in dire straits, and emerge as a savior.

Only in this way can the faith obtained be sufficient to support Jana.

So Rhodes was the first to rule out Demacia and Ionia, two places where people could not live in misery.

Although both Demacia and Ionia have the soil for Rhodes to make trouble, but after making trouble, Cana can hardly gain faith, so she passes directly.

For the rest of the place, Rhodes excluded Shurima again.

The water was so deep that whether their emperor came back or not, Rhodes felt that he was not suitable to mix it in.

After ruling out the above goals, Rhodes has only one place to go, including Noxus and Freljord.

where Freljord ...... It is said that the three sisters of Alvarosa now seem to have a tendency to start a big war, and coupled with the belief that there are demigods there in the first place, it is not safe for Rhodes to intervene rashly.

After thinking about it, Rhodes set his sights on a three-way area, the Black Forest of Noxus.

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The Black Forest is indeed a general area – about one-sixth of the territory of northwestern Noxus.

It is made up of the Iron Thorn Mountains, the Moro Valley, the Sunset Swamps and the Icemecium Tundra, and the name "Black Forest" comes from the black pine, the most common evergreen coniferous tree in the region.

The ecologically resilient black pine is the most abundant vegetation in the Iron Thorn Mountains, and even in the northern part of the Iron Thorn Mountains, the cold winds of Freljord cannot penetrate the forests of these black pines.

The whole of the Black Forest is nominally Noxus – but in reality, it's a real trivial.

Freeljord doesn't care, Noxus doesn't care, Demacia doesn't care.

Historically, the Black Forest region was once part of Demacia - but there were no forbidden magic stones underground, and there was almost nothing to call it a product, so the Demacians quickly abandoned it.

Then, according to the agreement between Noxus and the Freljords, the Iron Thorn Mountains were the dividing line between the two sides—but it was so barren that the Freljords, and even the barbarians of Freljord, did not bother to plunder here.

After coming and going, it became the "land of Noxus".

But in fact, there are neither Noxian officials nor Noxian garrisons here, and in the entire Black Forest region, only some small settlements are barely orderly, and outside the settlements, everything is chaotic.

If Zaun was a dumpster in Piltover, then the Black Forest is a dumpster in Noxus.

More than seventy percent of Noxus' fugitives are hiding in the Black Forest – the only place where they are not captured back to the gallows.

Of course, not all Noxians in the Black Forest are scum.

In stark contrast to the fugitives, it was the Noxians who came here voluntarily.

When Darkwell fell into madness, not everyone chose to resist like Svein, and many chose to escape.

In order to alleviate the conflict, Darkwell also signed a [Black Forest Pioneer Decree], allowing all the mages of the Noxus mage regiment and the soldiers of the main army to leave their units and go to the Black Forest region as "pioneers" to "expand the territory of the empire".

It was a disguised banishment - but Darkwell allowed the pioneers to bring their immediate family with them, so there were many people who left the army because of the decree.

Thanks to these people, the Black Forest region finally has some order.

The fugitives were bold enough to kill people and do all kinds of evil in the Black Forest region, but when they met the retired military bosses, they were quickly suppressed.

Regional autonomy was formed in the Black Forest region, and the pioneers formed alliances and established dozens of settlements in key transport areas – each with its own written law that formed the order of the entire Black Forest region.

Due to the scarcity of goods, the entire Black Forest region was largely dependent on hunting and timber trade, where hunted game, meat and offal were eaten, and furs were sold along with black pine to the official Noxus purchase point in the city of Norvi outside the Black Forest.

The hard, hard, hard-to-cut black pine wood was an excellent weapon material, while fur was found in the families of some noble senators.

As Svein commented - "The Pioneer Decree is likely to be the last good thing Darkwell did for the Empire."

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Rhodes is targeting the Black Forest.

Life here is primitive, but the number of mages is extremely large; It's chaotic, but it's a rudimentary place of order – and most importantly, it has a population of over a million and is so radiant that it can sustain Cana's faith.

If the Storm Doctrine can be spread in the Black Forest, Jana can become a demigod!

Because of the urgency of time, Rhodes and Cana flew directly like wings, all the way to the northwest, day and night.

And as he moved further and further northwest, Rhodes visibly felt that the weather was getting colder and colder.

It's the height of summer, but in Norvi on the edge of the Black Forest, the weather is as cool as autumn.

The next formation could no longer fly - the dense black forest obscured the view from the sky, and if he still relied on flying, Rhodes estimated that he would not be able to find a settlement......

Unlike Besilik, there is no need for proof of identity to enter Norvi City, and there is no need to pay any entrance fees to enter Norvi City—of course, it may also be required, but the soldiers defending the city did not say anything when they looked at Rhodes, who was dressed as a mage and had a blue bird on his shoulder.

Rhodes could clearly hear the small muttering of the soldiers.

"At this time, there are still people coming to the Black Forest?"

"Who knows, maybe something happened somewhere—wasn't there an announcement that there was an organization with some flowers......"

"Black Rose!"

"yes, isn't there some black rose that has been cleaned up—I've heard it's full of mages, maybe this one is too......"

Rode, who silently heard this muttering clearly, smiled and strode into Norvi City without stopping.

Black Forest – I'm coming!