Chapter 32: God and Man
"Probably, it's because we don't need faith, right?" Alice herself said with little confidence.
The same words, at this very moment, were spoken in the mouth of Mijas.
"There's nothing surprising about it, gods don't need much faith."
Rogers didn't look too surprised, which was not easy for someone who had grown up in a continental-wide pan-faith environment.
In particular, Rogers is still very young, and being able to do this can completely show the firmness of his heart, although in terms of personal cultivation and combat ability, he is not as good as Alice, the eldest disciple of Mijas, but as a leader, Rogers' qualifications are far superior to Alice.
Alice was only able to lead the "Voice of the Dragon" mercenary group of thousands at the beginning, but thanks to the experience of that time, Alice would have been the leader of the adventure team at best.
In fact, not only Alice, but most of the members of the original "Voice of the Dragon" adventure team left, and this result was decided the moment Alice expanded her recruitment for Mijas's choice.
Having the talent of cultivation does not mean that a person also has leadership, these two talents are already rare in the mortal population, and if you want to take care of both, the odds will be greatly reduced.
In comparison, Rogers, who took over the "Voice of the Dragon" in just a few months and relied on the resources of the Crystal Fire Province and the influence of the Earth Temple to expand it into a formed army, is undoubtedly a natural leader.
"No need for faith...... Rogers muttered meaninglessly, his eyes narrowed slightly, the expression he would show as he thought. For religion, Rogers still had a lot of scruples, and Crystal Fire Province had long popularized the belief of the Earth God System, so Rogers could feel that the people of Crystal Fire Province were willing to listen to him, not because his name was "Rogers", but because "Rogers" was a disciple of the Earth Temple Archbishop "Mijas".
Of course, for the time being, Rogers certainly doesn't think this will be a bad thing, and it will be much easier to do anything under the banner of a teacher, otherwise a young half-elf like him would come out and say a word that wouldn't even notice anyone.
But Rogers also knows that this is not a long-term solution, he can fully trust Mijas, but he can't fully trust the earth gods, the conflict between the church and the royal power naturally exists, but because of the sleep of the gods for the past two thousand years, the church power is very weak.
Now the gods have awakened.
Everyone has to rethink the relationship with the temple, and it has to be said that the fact that the "Protestant" power of Archbishop Ivan is in full swing and can be treated with courtesy wherever he goes, has a lot to do with everyone's respectful attitude towards the gods.
"Whew......" Rogers let out a long sigh of relief, the corners of his mouth slightly curled, "Gods don't need to believe...... It's great. "He didn't want to go to the opposite side of a god's existence at all, at least not until he had the ultimate force, so it was great to be able to separate religion from gods after hearing the news.
"Is there anything to be happy about?" Mijas looked at the second apprentice who suddenly became happy, and blinked in confusion, the gods have been asleep for so long, and the Nine Saints Church is weakened and only one big temple is left, it is rare to build a branch hall by himself two years ago, and now the headquarters is directly divided, how can it not look like it can become a climate, why does Rogers still regard the church as a hidden danger?
"That's a teacher, you haven't read the classics that the church has accumulated over the millennium." Rogers sighed.
"When I was younger, I always thought that gods were holy, so those who could use the light must also be good people." Rogers shook his head, even the textbooks compiled by Mijas and them rarely touched on religious topics, and those legendary mages couldn't figure out the attitude of the gods at that time.
"But you're not a kid anymore, are you?" Mijas glanced up and down, and now Rogers has grown into a handsome young man, and he is older than Mijas in appearance.
"So I later learned that gods are gods, people are people, and the priests are not special than others, and there are good and bad among them, and even after arriving on Dragon Island, I also saw the existence of the dark holy light." Rogers couldn't help but chuckle out loud when he said this, he was really naïve at that time, just seeing the black holy light, he was so surprised that he couldn't speak for a long time.
"I still have the image of you at that time." Mijas heard Rogers laugh at himself when he was a child, and he also remembered the time when he raised half-elf children on Dragon Island, so he took out a crystal ball, a magic toy with the function of a video recorder, and Mijas often used it to record funny videos.
Rogers was still laughing at himself, but when he saw the video crystal in Mijas's hand, his face immediately changed, "Photocopying magic? He didn't wait for Mijas to answer, he directly entered the magic power and activated the crystal.
"Eh, don't worry, I've recorded a lot of things, you let me find them." Mijas slapped Rogers' hand away and used his magic to manipulate the crystals to sort out a bunch of mana nodes.
"I'll see, Rogers, your video is in this node." Stimulated slightly with mana, the other mana borrowed points were restored in the crystal, and the remaining node swelled out, and Rogers could see that there were a lot of mana clusters in it.
"I remember you were thirteen, right? Ah, it's really nostalgic, that reckless Rogers who doesn't admit defeat in anything. Mijas clicked on the fourth mass of magic in the tone of an old woman, and then found one of the magic signals.
"Alright, found it!" The crystal lit up, and Rogers' immature face appeared in front of the two, the little Rogers seemed to have seen the end of the world, and the white and tender little face first stiffened for a while, and then turned into a loveless look.
"Enough!" Rogers slapped the magical image projected by the crystal. "Master, do those actions you just made mean that all the things recorded in that entire magic node are me?" Rogers' face could no longer maintain a gentle appearance, and Mijas could see the muscles twitching beneath the extreme skin.
"That's right." But who cares? Mijas replied to his disciple in the most pleasant tone.
Rogers calculated, based on what he had just seen, the number of mana clusters in the entire mana node, and the mana information that could be contained in a mana group, basically, everything he did in his life after meeting Mijas should have been recorded.
After thinking about it in two seconds, Rogers was not good, but he didn't know how to solve this matter, he couldn't beat Mijas, and Rogers didn't have the confidence to steal the treasure from an adult red dragon, not to mention that he was now grown up, and it was not suitable for selling cuteness and begging for mercy.
After thinking about it, Rogers was desperate to find that he couldn't get these handles back.
"Yes, yes, this look of lovelessness is carved out of the same mold as when you were young." Mijas continued to rub salt into Rogers' wounds.
Rogers, who fully understood his teacher's bad tastes, could only smile weakly, hesitating, still intending to try hard.
"No one else has seen these images, right?"
"How is that possible?!"
"Whew, it's good." Rogers consoles himself with the phrase "good luck in misfortune."
"Your sister, your sister, you must be able to watch it, right? Do you think you can hide it from them? In addition, Her Majesty the Earth Goddess should have seen some clips, do you think that without the permission of the Crown, you can master the power of the Earth Temple so easily? In addition, when the goddess crowned at the time, some of the divine beasts around him should have also seen it, and there was a berserk lynx who was fascinated, I remember very clearly, as for whether there is a record backup under the goddess's crown, and then share it with other gods, then I don't know, but now the god kings of other god systems have not yet woken up, and the goddess crown can't enter other god kingdoms, so it shouldn't be spread......" Mijas counted with his fingers, and the more he counted, the more Rogers trembled.
"Bang!"
"Eh, don't faint......"
The camera returns to Archbishop Ivan's side.
"I see, I see." Ivan repeated the sentence dumbfoundedly.
"What's wrong with you?" Alice shook her hand in front of Archbishop Ivan's eyes.
"It's nothing, it's just a matter of thinking clearly." Archbishop Ivan only felt tired, the church's persistence for thousands of years was not worth mentioning to the gods, even if it was just a newborn god, he didn't care, this was definitely a serious blow to him.
"God is God, man is man." Archbishop Ivan lamented in his heart.
"By the way, I've heard that you mortals can sing beautiful songs, is that true?" Alice is still very interested in the mortal world, anyway, as a new god who is "born", in order to stabilize the priesthood, she needs to stay between the mountains, so it is natural to know so much about the things in the mortal world, right?
"Does Your Majesty speak hymns? We did compose a lot of music to praise the gods......"
"Who said those songs! Those songs can't be listened to at all, if you think about it, you haven't seen it, and someone you don't know suddenly sings to you and says they want to kiss your toes or something, it's going to give you goosebumps, right? ”
"Right? Right...... Right? Well, I mean...... Right. "Archbishop Ivan only felt that a childlike heart was full of blades.
It is ironic that people are content to offer loyalty to their imaginary gods, and it is no wonder that the gods have never responded for two thousand years, and no wonder the old bishop said that the Nine Holy Churches "have grown crooked".
"What should I do?" Archbishop Ivan was no longer able to answer Alice's question.
"God is just God, I've been lying to myself."
"It would be nice if there really was a 'god imagined by believers.'"
"That's our mortal god, isn't it?"
"Man God."