Chapter 328: Goddess of Wealth
Where there is money, there are goblins...... The Goddess of Fortune Chamber of Commerce, well, in fact, there is not much difference between the two, anyway, as long as there are gold coins to fish, almost everywhere in the deposit.
Beyana, the goddess of wealth, is a deity who regards wealth and commerce as her priesthood, but the biggest difference from other churches is that her priests are basically part-time businessmen, and many of them are even businessmen.
This goddess likes successful businessmen who can make money, and especially appreciates new business models, markets, and sees them as an important criterion for gaining the favor of their gods, any successful business action is an expansion and interpretation of its teachings, not to mention the sale of holy water, healing potions, and other regular services, every goddess of wealth priest's bag is a department store, and all goods can be seen, and even their goddess has created a space magic specially used to store transactions.
But unlike the goblins who always cause trouble, the goddess of wealth priests are very popular everywhere, after all, they are not simply for themselves to earn wealth, but to create a source of wealth to produce wealth, there is nothing more than a new trade route, wealth production area can be more favored by the goddess, the best goddess of wealth priests themselves do not care about the amount of money, spend it but promote the circulation of wealth.
A little hard to understand? There used to be a most typical example, the Icewind Valley region with a cold period of at least 300 days a year, where there are only very powerful ice monsters, and it is impossible for crops or anything to live, but there is a very delicious ice lake fish, but no one will trek in the ice and snow for half a year just to eat a fish.
And a priest of the goddess of wealth actually found that the long-tailed fish bones are crystal clear, just like crystal, and the local people have always had the custom of processing fish bones into handicrafts. Bone art made by ancestral handicraft such as bone combs has a unique style. It is said that when a comb is used for a long time, it is also good for the hair and cervical spine. As a result, a series of marketing activities were carried out, such as inviting famous city lords and bigwigs to attend important banquets wearing handicrafts from the mainland border, speculating prices at auctions, and turning this bone comb, which was worthless locally, into a rare item in the center of the mainland.
And what followed was that every year, caravans would travel thousands of miles to find bone products, and the local area also had a new source of wealth, and a new trade route was born. And that ordinary priest was also favored by the goddess, and he is now the Archbishop of Finn of the Diocese of Olis, the largest diocese of the goddess of wealth.
The priests of the goddess of wealth may not have money themselves, but they are never short of money, and on the other hand, the more frequent the use of commerce and money, the more complete the priesthood of the goddess of wealth will become, and the more powerful she will become.
In fact, Beyana is also known for her aversion to war, and for her, it is good to stabilize commerce and trade. All of Beyana's priests will also work hard to extinguish the fuse of war, and once it happens. Plagues, violence, killings, and other priesthoods will rise, and the priests of the gods will stir up trouble everywhere.
If the war is raging, the "civilian" priesthood such as literature and music will inevitably suffer, and even the hindrance of divine power will appear, but both the gods themselves and their believers lack the ability to act, and in a sense, Beyana can be regarded as the backbone of the anti-war camp.
And in that declaration of the gods, as the hardcore of the Grim Reaper, the goddess of wealth, who has always been anti-war, actually took the lead in declaring war, which surprised many people.
But to this point, in fact, the biggest benefit is the goddess of wealth.
The priesthood of commerce includes the concept of "currency", using the token guaranteed by the official reputation as a general equivalent, and with the currency that can be exchanged for huàn in any region, there is the emergence of extended concepts such as "finance", "futures", and "stock market", in order to further strengthen the concept of wealth, in other words, if there is a true god on that "earth" plane, money worship is rampant, various economic forms are developed, and the goddess of wealth is probably already at the supreme god level, but here, Commercial trade is left to stay at the most basic commodity trading, but she is still only a second-rate god with medium divine power.
"Unified currency" is very important to the goddess of wealth, which is often necessary for commercial development to a certain degree of dù, which is difficult to develop and grow in this world, after all, there is no dynasty that does not fall, in the Ash continent where the kingdom is divided everywhere, precious metals are the most reassuring hard currency, but it is inevitable to carry inconvenience, paper money is not no one has thought about it, tried, but no one really dares to use it, even if there is an occasional kingdom to enforce it, either the use area is extremely narrow, or the final credit is bankrupt, and the end is dismal.
But since that declaration, there has been an additional kind of "universal currency built purely on credit" in the world - justice points, which seem to have changed little, but they are the germ of "credit currency", after all, without the guarantee of the true gods, this currency will be worthless, which is a typical "virtual currency".
The rules of the world changed because of this, and Beyana, who had mastered the exchange of justice points for huàn, even developed several proprietary divine arts, and made her high-level priest a wartime store, providing various materials to exchange huàn, such miracles, but she gained more faith and gratitude, popularity, and with it, the steady rise of divine power.
Even just creating the concept of "justice points for huàn" has given a new interpretation to "wealth" and made it successful and progressive.
Of course, providing this kind of service is equivalent to direct contact between the priest and the gods, and it is impossible to do it without enough divine favor and holy power, and basically only high-level priests can do it.
As soon as I returned to our station, I found a long line outside the tent, and at the very end of the line, Betty was fulfilling the requirements of her priesthood, offering justice points to adventurers.
The silver brilliance converged in her eyes, and the smile of the past turned into a cold and sluggish without emotional fluctuations, but beside her, there was a strange space that was as black as a black hole and couldn't stop distorting the light.
"He" simply listened to the other party's request, erased the record of justice points in the wrist chakra, and then took out the finished product from the black hole and handed it to the other party, very quickly, but without the slightest mistake.
Seeing this, I knew that my worries were unnecessary. Betty alone was a necessary strategic element of the operation. As long as she has this hand. There's no need to worry about our team being sidelined.
So, I just turned around and walked away on my own, walking out of the temporary station.
In a sense, this is my bad habit, even if there is a professional scout, I will investigate the situation myself, it does have a bit of a distrust of others, but it is also a bad habit that will provoke others. But he saved my life several times.
But before he got out of the village, he was met by a guy who was a little familiar, as if he was called ...... What's it called?
Kai...... Kate? ”
"It's Keith, Keith. Eloon,"
It seems that at least the cultivation is not bad, and when I heard that I was called by the wrong name, my smile did not change in the slightest.
"Looking for me?"
"I'd love to talk to you if I have time."
Obviously, this man seems to want to get to the bottom of me, but I don't bother to talk to him.
"Not available. I was about to go out to investigate. ”
"Well, I have this plan too. Why don't we go along? Black hurricane, come out. ”
With that, he activated the enchantment on his glove, and in a sudden cloud of black smoke, an all-black steed walked out, it was at least a head taller than an ordinary war horse, and its red eyes had a bloodthirsty glow, and the light shone on him, but it was strangely distorted.
"Nightmare War Horse?"
This is a rare commodity, this kind of war horse has the bloodline of the hell nightmare beast, in endurance, speed is far beyond ordinary war horses, and even a little supernatural ability, once galloping at high speed, this distorted light can form a series of phantoms, so that the bow and arrow miss, the bloodthirsty nature makes it not afraid of any opponent, the most convenient of its nightmare bloodline, can also be summoned as a contract beast at any time, it is very convenient.
"Yes, our team stumbled upon it during our last adventure in Trehill, and it's beautiful, isn't it?"
While caressing the horse's head and touching the other person's neck affectionately, Keith smiled at me, I don't know why, this scene reminded me of a deliberately forgotten Beastmaster hunter who is expected to jump out on his own soon, at least if he is here, I don't have to investigate it myself.
But seeing the scene of Keith summoning the mount, I have to reassess the strength of the other party.
For the knight profession, more than half of their own strength depends on the mount, this good horse, although there is no strong special ability, but the twisting bow is also an extremely useful ability, at least can increase the combat power of more than thirty percent, and being able to get a priceless mount on the market also shows the strength of this magic knight.
I'm kind of funny, this guy actually shows off his ability in front of me, and seems to be trying to overwhelm people, but it doesn't make people too off-putting to do it.
"Okay, if you follow, just keep up. Erin Bella. ”
But strangely, the waving hand fell into the air, and my call was not answered.
"Poof."
The uncontrollable snickering of the Demon Knight not far away embarrassed me a little, but I also wondered a little myself, although Erin Bella had been sleeping in my frozen soil lately, accumulating strength to prepare for advancement, she would not fail to hear my call.
"Hmph, you haven't let me come out to play lately, have you forgotten me?"
Well, she's been hanging out in the city lately, and there's really not much chance for her to play, so it's no wonder she's complaining.
"I'm sorry, I'll remember to take you for a regular walk in the future......"
Inexplicably, I remembered that I hadn't taken a walk for a while, and when Po was awkward, it was also like this.
"Insincere."
Isn't that forcing me to come up with a killer move, do you think I don't know what you want?
"Strawberry ice, banana ice, ...... for 10 people"
"A month, full of tubes."
In a sense, since the "invention" of fruit-flavored shaved ice, the ice nights also have a new hobby, and in addition to the taste of fruit shaved ice, what they really like is the dyeing effect of the juice after entering the body...... Well, it's uncomfortable just to think about it, so don't delve into it.
"Okay, deal, come out quickly, look at that kid who is snickering, my face is about to be lost."
As soon as I finished speaking, I floated into the sky, and now I was not on the saddle, but in the hands of a huge claw.
Above me, however, was a behemoth that covered the clouds, a crystal clear ice dragon, somewhat similar in appearance to the bone dragon, but more holy and powerful.
"Frost Dragon incarnate? Erin Bella, are you advanced? ”
"No, it's just a restoration, your world is simply a plane of ice elementals, where I can feel the comfort of home."
"Home? The Ice Plane? ”
I vaguely grasped something, but it was not time to delve into it, after all, looking at the stunned demon knight below, I was afraid that I would have to think more about how to deal with it when I returned. (To be continued......)
PS: It's been a bit bad lately, and when the state recovers, I'll add a new update in the near future