Chapter 91: Falling Star (Part II)
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The other party didn't use any subordinate means, but just joined in the pursuit of him.
Originally, because of this incident, Zoxia's status in the hearts of the people of the empire had already dropped a level, and the secret praise of the temple had put the young sword master in a certain embarrassing situation.
Of course, the temple priests don't advertise how many orcs Sasha has killed and how many feats he has made, and their praise for him is limited to telling others "how powerful Sasha is", but they will never mention how much he has contributed to the empire with this powerful force.
Many choir priests disguised themselves as bards, telling stories that had already been made up everywhere they went.
Without exception, the protagonist of these stories is "Zohya", and the content of the stories is also very strange, they do not discredit the human hero in the story, but only add many strange adventures to his personal experience that do not exist.
Although their stories can be regarded as a kind of spread of Zoxia's fame, under the guidance of these stories, the public's feelings for Zoxia's sword master gradually changed from admiration for heroes to envy for successful adventurers.
Under the deliberate guidance of the temple, the true bards also began to change the content of the story about the "Joxia Swordmaster", after all, they wanted to consider the preferences of their listeners first.
People have long been tired of listening to the original kind of war report-like chants, and there is a great deal of interest in the fantastical stories compiled by the temple.
Listeners in the mainland, in particular, are more receptive to fresh stories, and if a bard still clings to the old ways, no one will stop for his recitation.
This is also understandable, after all, stories such as "how many orcs did Saxia Sword Master kill this month and how many orcs he killed last month" make people's blood boil at first, but they feel tired of hearing too much. What's more, among the audience in the mainland, many people may not have seen orcs much in their lives, and the so-called hatred for orcs is just accumulated from the mouths of others.
Comparatively speaking, stories such as "Zoza Sword Saint killed a certain evil dragon and got some treasure" can better satisfy their curiosity.
The audience's love is the source of the bard's story, and they don't care about the authenticity of the story, so they change the name of the protagonist of the previous story to "Zohya", and then slightly change it and tell it as a new story.
Not to mention, such a story form of "old bottles of new wine" has really been widely recognized by the audience, and people generally have a high degree of tolerance for this kind of entertainment that is not cost-effective and one of the few ways to entertain. That is, of course, if the type of story you tell is what they want to hear.
The one who knows a profession best must be one of the members of this profession, and although the priests from the temple choir are not the same as the bards, they do not have to know less about the profession than the real bards, so neither the disguise of identity nor the compilation of stories show any flaws in these sacrifices.
After all, the two have a deep connection hundreds of years ago.
The profession of "bard" originated in the battlefield against demons, and in order to stabilize the confidence of the people in the rear and prevent them from falling into the camp of the fallen due to the intimidation of the seducers, many choirs of the temple were sent out, and they sang the good news of the battlefield ahead and the legends of the gods, bringing hope and warmth to the people of the Dark Ages.
The empire was so vast that it was impossible for the sacrificial nuns of the choir to reach every region, so they would go around singing to find young people with dreams, nurture them, and let them travel to all parts of the empire with stories full of hope.
Initially, these young men were trained as preparatory members of the choir, but after the war, the temple was reluctant to find that the number of reservists exceeded their imagination.
After all, these young people who had been cultivated would also pick new people to train in the process of traveling around, and they didn't have any personal thoughts at that time, but they just felt that cultivating one more companion would increase the difficulty of the abyss to lure their fellow citizens.
These people all contributed to the war, and there was no superiority in the first place. No matter who accepts or rejects, it will only cause resentment among the people, and the archbishops of the temple still understand the principle of "not suffering from inequality in numbers".
In desperation, the temples had no choice but to abandon the idea of picking reserves from among these people, and declared the sacrifices and nuns' promises null and void on the grounds that these people had not yet undergone the test of faith.
Of course, after that, the temple rewarded each of these heroes with a sum of money, and jointly awarded them the title of "Bard".
Time has passed, the original honorary title has become the name of the profession, and the voice that conveys hope and faith has also become a means of earning a living, compared to the sages of the past, the bard of the present...... That's it!
As soon as the new stories that the temple secretly introduced spread, the bards who made a living from them set their sights on them.
In order to enrich the entertainment of the audience and meet the market demand, the "noble" bards resolutely abandoned their professional ethics and began to compile bizarre stories about the sword master of Saxia.
Plausibility and truthfulness are not in their consideration, and there may even be some logical errors between the front and back of a story, but as long as the listener is willing to listen, the "noble" bard will not care about this.
Whether it is a rumor or a rumor, as long as they feel that it is a story, they will adapt it to Saxia's sword master as quickly as possible, and they don't care at all how their singing will affect this hero.
In just a few months, various versions of the "Sasha Juggernaut" appeared on the lands of the Empire. Yesterday he may have been a beardless, polite scholar-like figure, but today he could be a half-breed berserker with a beard and a two-handed axe.
Of course, the people would not be stupid enough to believe the description in the story, but after listening to it with relish, they unknowingly lost their worship of the Sasha Sword Saint, and the only thing that remained was nothing more than the basic awe of the strong.
The imperial totem shaped by countless feats and glory was destroyed in the mouths of ignorant bards in just a few months, and people no longer believed in the sword master of Zoxia as a hero of mankind, and the impression of him became that of a warrior with great strength.
Such a situation was something the temple would have liked, but it was not their true purpose.
As a result, another innovation in the story quietly took place, and the bizarre story content was gradually eliminated by some kind of reasonable new story, in which the Sasha Sword Saint had a specific image, character, and logic, and all these messages from the temple's intelligence department were compiled into the story, forming a specific standard.
Under the secret promotion of the temple regardless of the cost, people quickly accepted this standard character setting. As a result, all other stories that did not fit this character were rejected by the audience, and in order to make a living, the "studious" bards quickly introduced this standard into their story system.
With standard characters, the storytelling loses more than half of its leeway, and the bards can no longer talk nonsense as they used to, and although the stories they describe don't have much truth now, they at least sound a lot more reasonable.
It's not that there are no bards who want to change their masters, but in the face of countless temple sacrifices disguised as this profession, the right to speak is completely out of their hands, and when listening to the story of "Saxia Sword Saint" has become a trend and habit, those who want to change can only be abandoned by the audience.
In desperation, the bards could only stick their imaginary wings on the enemies faced by the Sasha Swordsman, since the Sasha Swordsman already had a specific template, then in order to attract the audience and increase their competitiveness in the industry, they had to use their brains on the villains.
As a result, the strength of the Sasha Sword Saint in the story began to grow sharply, today he is still "tearing the mountain with his bare hands", tomorrow he will "sword out of the sea of annihilation", a few days ago he also "faced more than a dozen legends without falling behind", and in the next few days, he can "slaughter dozens of demigods".
The rumors about the Sasha Sword Master are becoming more and more bizarre, like a wild horse that has escaped from the reins, galloping towards the cliffs from which it will never recover......
It wasn't until the time was ripe that the temple "showed up", and with the help of rumors, they gave Zoha a majestic title - "Falling Star Sword Saint".
PS: Alas, it's another year of chopping hands......