5. Foothold Chapter 178: The Request of the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture
"Lord Baron, with the priest of our church, the crop cultivation in your territory will be more excellent, and the yield will be increased by a large part, and if people are sick and injured, the priest can also cast a trick to treat it, of course, these need to use the altar of the great goddess to communicate divine power, so it is really beneficial to establish an altar of the goddess, especially for a newly opened territory like Dalaran, within a radius of ten miles where the altar is located, all kinds of demonic beasts and beasts will be suppressed by the divine power of the goddess, and avoid coming here, if the lord can build more than two altars, or even a small temple, then it will be better to protect the safety of the entire land of Dalaran,........." The assistant deacon Martin was gushing about the benefits of establishing a church system in his domain, but Donald didn't listen to it.
If the priest of the goddess of agriculture can assist the farmers in the territory to plant crops and achieve the effect of increasing production and harvest, then Dalaran, who has the natural enchantment and the essence of the moon, and the existence of a group of druid elves, can completely achieve a better level.
And the pastor's ability to heal and save people is even less popular with Donald. Because those who have a little insight know that most of the healing effects of divine arts are achieved by overdrawing life force, especially low-level and mid-level divine arts, and these alchemical potions created by Donald can also be completely done.
As for those powerful divine techniques that can regenerate limbs and even bring the dead back to life, although they are very effective at critical moments, not to mention those who can perform high-level divine arts, there is only one Bishop of Bantri in the entire northern county, even if he can invite this white-clothed cardinal, the price of a high-level divine technique is not borne by ordinary adventurers or even local minor nobles.
And what Martin said about building temples and altars to protect the territory, when his natural barrier is fake?
In terms of enveloping area, the natural enchantment unleashed by the Tree of Life, which has now been promoted to the gold level, is even more powerful than the only large temple in Boulder City. After all, the Tree of Life itself is rooted in the nature of the earth, and it is a descendant of the World Tree, and its grasp of the natural environment is much stronger than that of the true god who has lifted the throne up above the starry sky and is separated from the main world.
Moreover, this is only the main shrine of a small parish of the goddess of agriculture, which is naturally not comparable to the enveloping area and related functions of the natural barrier. Therefore, these benefits that Martin spoke of were basically useless and dispensable to him.
However, although he was very reluctant to be associated with the power of the gods, Donald did not refuse the idea of building an altar proposed by the goddess priest, but deliberately delayed and did not give a clear answer.
Seeing this, Martin could not say anything more, so he sat down for a few more moments and then offered to take his leave.
Donald personally escorted the other party to the gate of the Lord's Palace, and when he saw the prosperity of the town, Martin sighed again, and then got into the carriage and returned to Boulder City.
Donald's mind was churning as he watched the other carriage drive away from the outside of the town.
"Is the god's gaze drawn so quickly? I haven't done anything out of the ordinary!" Donald couldn't figure out why the Bentri Church of White took him so seriously, but no matter what the Church of the Goddess had in mind, it didn't hurt the development of his realm at the moment, even if it was a request to build an altar, from the words of the priest Martin, it was more like the temple was courting him more than a pure desire to develop believers.
Donald, who couldn't figure it out, didn't think about it anymore, so he could only block it with soldiers and cover it with water, and be ready to deal with it. However, because of this, he had an urgent feeling in his heart to increase his strength as soon as possible, and finally had to temporarily wronged Catherine, said hello and went directly into the underground cultivation room of the manor villa to declare that he was going to test the magic technique, and then paid a drop of divine power, opened the house of time, and devoted himself to the long cultivation of more than three months.
It's just that the attention paid to Dalaran by the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture was unexpected by Donald.
When he came out after a day and a night in the basement, the first news he received was that the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture had sent someone to visit Dalaran again.
This news made Donald frown, and he couldn't help but have more guesses in his heart, but he couldn't figure out the other party's purpose.
Seeing Donald frowning and silent, William, the political officer who came to inform his master as soon as he got the news of Donald's release, asked cautiously, "Lord Lord?"
Donald, who came back to his senses, waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, you can go back and entertain those people carefully, I'll freshen up and meet them right away!"
William was immediately relieved when he received the order, he really didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, and he felt a little depressed to stay around those big people from the temple.
When Donald appeared in the antechamber of the Lord's Palace, the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture had been waiting here for about three to five hours.
As soon as Donald, who was dressed in a neat set of mage robes, came out, he said to the visitor: "I'm very sorry, my laboratory is closed to the outside world, and the servants can't inform you of the news of coming, so you have been waiting for a long time!" The four people present immediately got up, and the only acquaintance among them, Pastor Martin, hurriedly said: "Don't be sorry, Lord Baron, we haven't been here for a long time, and the hospitality in your palace is more than the food in the palace, and we will be happy to wait for a while!"
This young priest has been here for the second day in the past three days, and he is the only one who is familiar with Donald, the mage lord, in the temple, and the other clergy have not dealt with each other at all.
After a few pleasantries, Donald asked Martin curiously, "I wonder what these members of your sect call me?"
In addition to Martin, he was accompanied by two young knights, a man and a woman, and a middle-aged man dressed as a priest.
Martin smiled and introduced: "Lord Baron, these two are the Rich Knights of our church, the Wood Knight and the Ellie Knight, this one is Deacon Thord, who is already the high priest of the goddess, and the three of them are all elites of the church who came from the main temple, and this time they are here for the Baron?"
"Oh, it's a friend from your church headquarters, welcome!"
Two of the three men responded with a lukewarm basic etiquette to Donald, but the blonde, white-skinned, somewhat handsome-looking female knight smiled softly at him.
Even if Donald didn't use his divine vision, he could sense that these three were at least silver-level powerhouses, and among them, the middle-aged priest Soder looked at the sign on his emblem, it should be a high-ranking priest of the silver rank, although he was not as good as the Bishop of Bantri in Boulder City in the lower position, but his strength was much stronger than that white-clothed bishop.
However, the status of the clergy in the Church is not simply based on strength, but also on the devotion to the true God and the means of dealing with the affairs of the diocese. So Donald wasn't surprised by the discovery.
The other male xìng Rich Knight is about twenty-six or seventeen years old, and his strength is also stable in the middle of silver, although Donald attaches some importance to it, but he is actually not too afraid in his heart.
The only person who made him a little incomprehensible was the female knight Avery who seemed to be the weakest of the three.
This Elli Knight looks like he is only nineteen years old at most, a weak girl, and the strength he shows is only the first stage of silver, and he has just been promoted to silver, and his strength is still a little unstable.
Donald secretly always felt that this female knight was a little different.
It's not that her strength is stronger than everyone present, but it's a vague feeling in her breath.
He has had a lot of contact with the powers of divine power, the power of faith, and the abyssal breath that are beyond the mortal level, and even if he didn't master them, Donald was a little familiar with their breath, and he vaguely felt that this young knight was not as simple as it seemed.
However, through his own divine vision, he did not find any anomalies at all, but he did not dare to use the Book of Truth to spy on it, so as not to leak the breath of the artifact and attract the attention of the true god.
You must know that the powerful believers above the general bishop, the gods have paid attention to them from time to time, especially these believers are still going to enter the dangerous dark area to carry out tasks, Donald feels that he can't take this risk, not only the result of the artifact being seized, if you are not careful, it will be a catastrophe!
However, Donald is not worried that the breath of the Book of Truth will be discovered by the other party, because the Book of Truth has been restored last time, and his ability has improved, as long as he does not take the initiative to reveal the essence of the Book of Truth, the aura of the artifact in his consciousness space will not be detected by the outside world, and if he wants to detect the existence of the artifact through the consciousness space, as long as it must be at the level of the incarnation of the true god.
For true gods, although incarnations can be regenerated, each incarnation is very important, and destroying an incarnation will reduce the true god's own strength by at least 30%1 Therefore, the gods in the outer realm will never easily send an incarnation to the main world, at most a wisp of will to attach to the believer.
Donald didn't know if these masters from the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture were even more shocked than him when they saw him! Was there a mistake in the intelligence? Or was this genius mage really so genius, he had only broken through the bronze for only a few months, and he had advanced to the silver stage again?
In fact, Donald also practiced in the House of Time for three months, and after accumulating his strength to the limit, he naturally broke through in the last few days, and because of the support of a huge amount of divine knowledge, this time he accumulated very deeply, and as soon as he advanced, he reached the level of the middle stage of silver, which was not inferior to the accumulation of more than ten years of time accumulated by Chris who had trained through the mysterious holy land before.
And with the support of the god xìng, the effect of the intermediate training of the mysterious holy land is also comparable, so Donald broke through directly in the house of time without causing any vision in the outside world.
As for the Martin priest, he didn't feel anything about the change in Donald's two meetings after only three days, he was just a little priest of the black iron level, because he was born in the Celtic nobles, and his belief in the goddess of agriculture was not very pure, so his strength naturally would not be much promoted.
But it was precisely because of his background that the Bishop of Bantree took this boy very seriously, and promoted him to the position of assistant deacon. This is also due to political considerations, after all, the relationship between their church and the royal family of Celt is still in the stage of entering the mì period, and more in-depth exchanges can also deepen the connection and bring more common benefits to both sides. !。