039, Church (1)
Managing a country is a difficult thing, and this Adam knew it for a long time, but it was far less profound than it is now. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Half a month after the end of the New Year's celebrations, Adam experienced the difficulties firsthand, and this was with the help of the First Consul Arras and the Senate. Nominally, the Seven-City Federation no longer exists, and the Celtic North accepts his leadership and rule, but the takeover of the other six cities, the change of authority, and the replacement of personnel are a long process.
During this time, he also needed to deploy troops to deal with any possible attack by the noble council. Whether it was the Duchy of Griffons, led by him, or the Council of Nobles, which was controlled by the Church of Dawn, there was an idea of unifying the Celts. It's not easy.
Luckily, Adam still had the Templar weapon in place, which relieved him of a lot of burden. In particular, the Janissaries had the six most important cities to begin to function according to Adam's ideas. The importance and uniqueness of the monitoring system, which is independent of the administration, demands great greatness from those in charge: loyalty to Adam, strict self-discipline and keen insight. The Praetorian Guards did a good job of meeting these conditions, and not only that, but the collective consciousness allowed them to share information no matter how far apart they were, ensuring that Griffon City was the first to get the news. Coupled with the frustration that Adam currently has no suitable and reliable candidates, they became the first Ombudsman to take office.
With the exception of Griffon, each city has been assigned 5 guards, which is barely enough to cope with the main monitoring tasks of the six cities, and more inspectors will be trained as soon as Adam completely controls the entire Duchy of Griffon.
When the Praetorian Guards traveled to the six cities, Ellie did not always say goodbye and return to the ocean, and even if she was only at the silver rank, she could not avoid the negative effects of leaving the ocean even if she soaked in the bath in the city lord's mansion every day. Two days later, Karlof and St. Foster of the Harvest Church also bid farewell to Adam, left Celt and returned to the kingdom of Sock.
During this time, there was no movement from the Council of Nobles, much to Adam's surprise. However, judging from the news from the special personnel assigned by the Seven Cities Federation in the noble council before, the noble council is still looking for a more suitable opportunity.
So in this eerie calm, the Duchy of Griffin gradually got on the right track.
When February comes, the first church appears in the city of griffons, the church of the sun god.
The reason for choosing to build the church now is simple.
In fact, after learning from Simon that he was the sun god in the templar space, Adam had the idea of spreading the faith in Griffon City and the entire Duchy of Griffon, and his intuition told him that it would be good for him. The words of the goddess of fertility and the god of the sea made Adam understand the importance of faith to the gods, and it was the source of their divine power. Moreover, when the legendary powerhouse attacks the demigods, enough faith is needed to cultivate divinity and ignite the necessary fuel for the divine fire.
Since the goddess of fertility has bluntly stated that she sees the hope of becoming a god in the future, Adam does not mind giving the goddess a little faith and spreading the faith and cultivating divinity from now on, although so far he does not know any method on how to cultivate divinity.
When Simon came to inform Adam that the world's first Church of the Sun God had been built, Adam was discussing with Arras and the Senate the possibility of establishing a griffin legion. As an elite class of the Templar space, the Gryphon has the strength of the Silver Intermediate Rank since its birth, and has reached the Silver High Rank after being upgraded. When Aras learned that more griffons would come to Griffon City in the future, he immediately came up with the idea of creating a griffon army, and the combination of silver-ranked warriors and griffons was definitely a super combat army.
Good idea, it's a pity that there aren't so many griffins.
Adam calculated that according to the calculation that he could get three griffons for each class level he raised, the total number of griffons was about 40, which was far from the number of griffons that could be established, and there were not so many silver warriors in the entire griffon principality. But in the end, this proposal was approved, but the griffon legion was changed from the griffon army to the royal griffin guard, and a group of young bronze warriors with outstanding potential and advanced silver were selected throughout the entire griffin principality for training, and the main task was to protect the safety of the future griffin duke's palace.
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The world's first Church of the Sun God is located at the foot of the easternmost hill in the main city of Griffon, a secluded place. Church and faith mean the intervention of theocracy, and the struggle between theocracy and kingship is always an eternal topic, and today the Romanoan royal family and the Church of the Sky are the best examples. Fortunately, whether it is the Duchy of Griffons or the Church of the Sun God, the kingship and the people behind the divine power are surprisingly consistent, and it is Adam who avoids this serious issue. However, considering that he now rules the Duchy of Griffons as the Grand Duke of Griffon, Adam doesn't mind minimizing the influence of theocracy first, and he can adjust and transition at any time if necessary.
Therefore, in the location of the church, Adam avoided the bustling area in the center of Griffon City and placed it in a foothill in the east, the environment was quite quiet and had a very secluded taste. The church is not large, only one-fifth the size of the church in the sanctuary space before it was upgraded, and it was barely built according to the layout of the overall Sun Cross, and it took nearly half a month for Arman and the silver mage of another earth faction to lead ten bronze rank mages of the same faction to work together.
It has to be said that the mages of the Earth faction are very talented in architecture, and if it weren't for the finer shapes in some places, Adam felt that they could have completed this building in less time. Of course, the use of silver-rank mages to build buildings can only be done by people with great power like Adam, otherwise no silver-rank mage would be willing to act as construction workers.
Although there are no elaborate sculptures on the outside, the spires and large stained windows still retain the usual style of the church. The bell tower, garden, and fountain are among the best decorations for this church. When the church finished a priest ringing the bell on the bell tower, even Arman and others, who were in charge of building the church, felt a sense of divine solemnity rushing over their faces.
"Hey, man, what are you doing here?" One adventurer stops the other.
The other party raised a smile and pointed to his bandaged right arm: "I was slashed by a goblin, and I plan to go to the church of the sun god." ”
"Church? Is it a temple? When did we have a temple in Griffon? In Adam's propaganda, buildings in the foothills of the eastern mountains were called churches, rather than temples used by other gods, as a distinction.
"It's a church, not a temple." The other party patiently corrected his mistake, "It was completed three days ago, and it has just been put into use in the past two days. The Archbishop of the Sun God, Lord Simon, is in the church, and if you are lucky, you may be able to see him. ”
Simon's presence as the Golden Archbishop caught the attention of adventurers, and the gods were above, and this was one of the two golden professionals in Griffon City, and he was soon interested. After two minutes, he asked, "But what does this have to do with you going to church?" ”
"Of course, it is to receive healing, and the priest of the sun god is very skilled in healing arts. What you've seen at the New Year's celebration is that milky white light that can heal the wound in just a few seconds, which is very magical. "A day before another adventurer had said the same thing to him, and now he repeated the same thing to the adventurer, for some unknown reason, and in the course of explaining it he produced something called pride.
"Oh, healing magic!" Of course, the adventurer had seen the healing light, which looked extremely soft and holy, and gave people hope, but the thought of the cost of performing the healing magic made his face fall to the ground.
"I'm guessing you're worried about the cost."
The adventurer rubbed his face with his hands, a little embarrassed: "Am I acting so obviously?" ”
"Actually, you don't have to." He pointed to himself, "Do I look like I'm wealthy enough to ask the priests of the temple to help me heal?" ”
The adventurer was confused, didn't he just say that he was going to the church for treatment?
"Notice that I'm talking about the priests of the temple, not the pastors of the church." Yesterday's day was enough time for him to understand these basic concepts. In the church of the sun god - well, now the sun god does not have a church of his own, but he is convinced that in the future the church of the sun god must be a great church - the church replaces the temple and the priest replaces the priest.
"Does it make a difference?"
"Of course, one of the differences is the cost." He laughed and said, "How much do you think I have to pay the church for a treatment?" ”
"I can't afford that much money anyway." The adventurer was a little sad when he said this, as far as he knew of the church that was best at healing, the Dawn Church's cost in this regard was not low, and ordinary civilians and adventurers were basically not eligible to receive treatment, after all, the church also needed expenses and it was not small.
He stretched out a finger and shook it in front of the adventurer's eyes: "This number." ”
"100 gold coins?" This was already a lot of money for him, and it would take several dangerous missions to accumulate that many gold coins.
"Guess again."
"Is it 1,000 gold coins?" The adventurer trembled, he still didn't want to go to any so-called church in the future, just once he could not even wear underwear.
"1 gold coin."
"What?" (To be continued.) )