"However, Your Majesty, what you asked us to count a few days ago has been basically counted at this time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

In front of him, Patton had a serious face and reported to Artis.

Hearing his words, Artis turned around and looked at him: "What is the result?"

Barton stepped forward, bowed and said, "After Your Majesty ordered the number of knights and sacrifices in the country to be counted, with the active cooperation of the local church, the data on the surface has been counted. ”

"Among them, the rest of the knights and others are not at the level of high priest for the time being. There are currently nine of them registered, and none of them are the Celestial Knights. ”

He looked at Artis in front of him and said, "However, these nine high priests are all from the tribes of the north, including the Pope and the chief knight Kurumba. ”

Hearing this, Artis nodded, indicating that he was quite satisfied.

Naturally, this data cannot be completely counted, but it is close to the real data.

"In that case, then the process of that matter can also be put on the agenda. ”

He said.

Hearing him say this, Bill and Barton immediately looked straight, understood the point, and listened attentively.

"A few years ago, I ordered special sacrifices to spread the belief in the gods of nature among the army, and specially built camps for the selected officers to practice fighting spirit, so as to strengthen the army. ”

"And in terms of the results that have come to the future, the effect is also very good. ”

He stepped forward, looked up, and said, "But it's not enough!"

"In the previous duel with the royal court, this problem has already begun to be revealed. The knights of the royal court are too large, and there is a steady stream of knights among them, both in terms of the number and quality of knights, far surpassing us. ”

Therefore, if you want to face the royal court on the battlefield in the future, or even attack the south, strong knights and sacrifices must be indispensable. ”

Hearing this, Bill and Barton gradually realized in their hearts and understood a little.

I saw Bill stand up and say to Artis, "Your Majesty, do you want to train the officers in the army again?"

But seeing him say this, Artis shook his head: "Not the officers in the army, but the entire army." ”

"In the past, due to the limited consumption of food and other materials, and other constraints, we only had time to conduct special training for officers in the army. ”

"But now, it is possible to start the cultivation of vindictive spirit for ordinary soldiers, and send special sacrifices to train. ”

As soon as these words came out, the two people in the audience were a little shocked.

Bill was better, and though there was some surprise in his eyes, he didn't say anything.

But Patton's reaction was even more intense, only to see him stand up with some hesitation, and said to Artis: "Your Majesty, will there be anything wrong with opening up the precious Dou Qi cultivation method to ordinary soldiers. ”

"With such a huge base, if the Dou Qi is opened to these ordinary people, then sooner or later these Dou Qi Techniques will spread out and be stolen by the surrounding nobles and even the royal court in the south. ”

This is also a real problem. Originally, even if they were open to officers, the reason why officers were officers was because most of these officers were from the aristocracy, and a very small number of those who were not born into the nobility were also elites and could be easily accepted by the original aristocratic class.

And in the army, the officers are only a minority, so they can barely control it.

But if it spreads to the whole army, the concept is different.

First of all, most of the soldiers were simply ordinary people, even birth slaves, and were not accepted by the aristocracy. And under such a huge base, there will inevitably be a loss, and the decentralized Douqi method will be spread.

However, for this question, Artis just smiled and didn't seem to care.

"What if it leaks out?"

He looked at Patton and said, "First of all, for ordinary soldiers, it is naturally impossible for us to leak out the entire set of fighting spirit, and only a part of the foundation will be distributed first. ”

"At this level, at most, a cultivator can only reach the critical point of generating a fighting spirit, and he can't even become a knight. How attractive can it be to those nobles?"

"When these soldiers have made their combat exploits, or have cultivated to their current limits within the specified time, then they can open up their subsequent fighting spirits to them. Even when they are promoted to the rank of Grand Knight, they can also choose a Dou Qi Gong method by themselves, and open the part of the Earth Knight to them. ”

However, hearing him say this, in the audience, Barton rarely put on a little hesitant expression, but he didn't know what to say.

And Artis looked at him like this, and did not speak, but smiled slightly.

He knew in his heart that this order had actually touched the interests of traditional nobles like Patton.

In the past, the reason why the aristocracy was aristocracy, in addition to their own boastful noble blood, was actually by their monopoly on knowledge and the mastery of extraordinary power.

And now, what Artis has to do is to break this long-term monopoly and spread its extraordinary power to the people. Naturally, these traditional aristocratic classes are dissatisfied, and even instinctively want to oppose it.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Ardis turned, silently walking towards the throne standing behind him.

"For now, the strength of the army can help me defeat strong enemies and unify the world; in the case of the gods, the strength of believers can be fed back to the gods of faith and give more blessings to the gods; in terms of the world, the strength of living beings can make the world strong and gather more source power. ”

"If this is in my favor in every way, why should I bother?"

He thought so, and as the thought flowed, his heart gradually calmed down.

In fact, to a certain extent, this is also a matter of different perspectives and heights. For Barton and the others, they can only see what is in front of them. For Artis, his thinking is from the perspective of the gods and the world.

In fact, in his opinion, the reason why the world appears to be so declining is also related to the old order of this world.

In the past, there were ancestral gods above the city-states. The ancestral gods are high above, enjoying blood sacrifices at the same time, but at the same time, they have also consumed many living beings in the world, and the power consumed for thousands of years is unimaginable. And the practices of these nobles have also made the people miserable, and even limited the spread of supernatural power, and made the world unable to progress.

After all, the power of a world is, in the final analysis, the collection and accumulation of living beings in a world. From this point of view, although the ancestral gods and nobles played a role in resisting the erosion of foreign demon gods on the one hand, they also hindered the progress of the world and prevented the world from being promoted.

As his thoughts gradually flowed, around him, a little world power gradually vibrate, as if a new source force was coming, with murderous intentions, and behind it there were faint cries of countless dead beings.

Sensing this source power, suddenly, a familiar feeling struck, which made Artis slightly startled.

"This is, the source power of the world is fluctuating, do you want me to go and clear all these obstacles that hinder the development of the world?"

He sensed the source power that was beginning to diffuse around him, and thought to himself.

In his body, as the source power gradually poured in, several killing divinities suddenly shone up, directly absorbing all the source power around him, and then condensed into a somewhat illusory and incomplete priesthood, which seemed to be responding to the killing machine of the world, and wanted to launch a killing robbery, killing all those who hindered the world.

・・・

On the same day, a new decree was issued with the order of Artis.

Artis ordered the establishment of a school of fighting spirit and divine arts, which were stationed by some senior knights and priests, and specialized in teaching soldiers in the army.

With this order, a cry of horror suddenly sounded in the Duchy of Adisus, and almost all the nobles frantically opposed it, and its momentum was even far greater than the previous huge rebellions, which reached the royal court in the south.

For a time, the rebellions that had gradually subsided were rising one after another, triggering a new round of rebellions.

However, in the process, there were also many nobles who were silent, just silent.

After the suppression of Artis's number theory, and even the forced banning of all the original armies, at this time in the Principality of Artisus, the power of the nobles was already very weak. Coupled with the fact that several previous rebellions were suppressed, he was powerless to resist Artis.

However, because of this order, the number of nobles who fled south to the royal court increased greatly, and it caused Artis to confiscate a large number of territories.

Wait until a few months later, and it's autumn.

Countless people were surprised to find that this year's harvest has almost doubled or tripled compared to the past.

This year, a large number of churches have been built, and a large number of sacrifices have been stationed in various places to preach. With the cooperation of local officials, the priests have performed magic skills in various places this year, such as enhancing fertility, plant communication, and giving birth to plants.

Under the influence of these magic techniques, not only the pests and diseases that had grown in large quantities in previous years have disappeared, but even the fertility of the land has been greatly enhanced, so the yield is naturally much higher than in the past.

And this kind of production, compared with the surrounding people who have not received the blessings of natural sacrifices, naturally caused these leaders to kneel down one after another, frantically pray to the god of nature, and the faith spread out at once.

Especially in the Eastern and Western Regions, with the stationing of nature sacrifices at this time, a large number of people took refuge and began to believe in the gods of nature.

Although these new believers are not as religious as the original believers, as the prayer time deepens, the natural faith will gradually deepen. Moreover, with the increase of so many believers at once, the power of faith is also accumulating wildly, making the nature god in the void much stronger.