Wait a minute......

Eleanor believed in herself?

Charlotte was stunned, but she couldn't hold back and immediately sink into the network of consciousness communication beliefs to see if it was true.

Speaking of which, she really hasn't paid much attention to the affairs of her own believers lately.

No way, the prayers of the believers are too loud.

Ever since she had a faith network and was able to connect with believers, Charlotte has learned a lot about what it means to be troublesome.

She has less than a thousand believers, and her mind is like a vegetable market, with people praying in the morning, some praying at noon, and some praying at night...... Even in the middle of the night, there are people praying from time to time, and they are annoyed.

So...... Charlotte had long since blocked most of her prayers.

Although her current spiritual power is strong enough, the spiritual power of her body is not yet strong enough to handle many prayers like an electronic computer.

Charlotte believes that other myths must have a solution, and that eighty percent are some kind of "tool" that can handle most prayers in their place.

Otherwise, even the gods would have to be driven crazy by the constant stream of voices.

Charlotte also tried to find information in Albrecht's memory, but alas...... Albrecht was only a legend after all, he knew how to become a god, but his knowledge of how to be a god was a blank.

Charlotte herself is a novice, driving on the road without a driver's license, and can only temporarily set the faith network to a semi-active state, and does not actively accept prayers from believers except for a few dependents.

It is only in her spare time that she sinks into her consciousness, connects to the network of faith, and chooses prayers with particularly strong emotions to respond as appropriate.

Now that I think about it, she has been busy with other things these days, but she hasn't responded to believers for a long time.

It's a bit irresponsible to say that, but if Eleanor really believed her......

Ahem, she probably doesn't really know yet.

……

Charlotte gave a few more orders to Earl Gaston and sent him back.

The Central Committee meeting has not been held after all, and he has come to the door so stably, after all, it is more eye-catching, this political change in the Crescent Kingdom, Charlotte wants to fish in the water, but it is not memorable.

As for the guy Gaston...... The ambition is still a little bigger, obviously she has been contracted into a blood servant, and even deliberately left a mental hint of unconditional allegiance at the beginning, but she still has some thoughts and greed of her own.

If you want to say the wrong thing, you can't say that he is wrong, and from the perspective of the Gaston family, his appeal is indeed excusable.

But Charlotte was not very satisfied.

You know, she used [Mind Manipulation] to break the resistance consciousness of Count Gaston's father and son, and theoretically speaking, their way of thinking since they became blood servants should be based on Charlotte.

But now it seems...... Although there are contractual constraints, the effect is probably limited.

This made Charlotte hesitate about her original plan.

In her plans, Count Gaston is the main pawn she intends to secretly control Boulder, and even intends to seek more power through his claim to the Duchy of Gaston in the future.

However, if this pawn does not satisfy her, then many things need to be reconsidered.

It's Charlotte's heart.

Unlike Albrecht's "voluntarily" becoming a blood servant, Count Gaston's father and son were punitive mind control in the true sense of the word.

In the early days, Charlotte even planned to use them to uncontrol and modify memories at the end of the war, allowing them to go back to Boulder to fend for himself.

Charlotte has always been sensitive to the direct use of mind control.

She knows that her self-control is limited, and it is easy to develop path dependence, and once she gets used to mind control, she is likely to use this shortcut many times in the future.

And the reason why a shortcut is a shortcut is that there are hidden dangers in shortcuts.

Not to mention that any magic may be dissolved in the strict sense, even if it is not dissolved, this kind of forcible way of manipulating the minds of others is easy to make people gradually lose themselves in power.

Charlotte has always been sensitive to self-loss.

Therefore, she never thought of controlling the two of them all the time.

It was only later that Earl Gaston did make a lot of contributions in the war, and his comprehensive ability was unexpectedly good, and any thing Charlotte explained could be done to her satisfaction, which led to the regent of Boulder.

And unconsciously, Charlotte's plan for Earl Gaston has also changed from erasing memories after running out to being able to try to see if he can turn the other party into his real follower.

True followers are not the same as those of Mind Manipulation.

When the other party becomes her true follower, even if the [Mind Control] in the depths of her soul is lifted, they will still be loyal to her.

In order to achieve this, during the Boulder War, Charlotte often took the other party with her, and also gave all kinds of preferential treatment and support to the Earl of Gaston's father and son.

But as it turned out, Charlotte still thought too well.

With the help of the communication with the other party just now, Charlotte also secretly sensed the mark she left in the other party's soul, and it was easy to know that the other party's current allegiance to her was still only controlled by spiritual magic and the blood servant contract.

Once the contract is terminated, I am afraid that the two parties will immediately part ways, and after the spiritual magic fails, the other party may fall into anger and rebellion.

It's a hidden danger, and it's not completely impossible, and it's the essential reason why Charlotte pursues true allegiance.

As for the various preferential treatments made by Charlotte after the contract with the other party...... It didn't work.

Seriously, it's not that Earl Gaston himself is difficult to really solicit.

In Charlotte's opinion, this should be the disadvantage of [mind control] itself.

Unlike when she forcibly contracted Nice, and unlike her threat to lure Yurst into becoming a blood relative, none of Charlotte's previous followers were manipulated by her.

The mind that is not manipulated is the purest thought, a blank sheet of paper that can be painted at will, and it is easier to cultivate feelings and loyalty in treating each other sincerely.

Even if the two sides may be on the same page at first.

But [Mind Manipulation] is different.

Although [Mind Manipulation] can take shortcuts to gain allegiance, it also sows the seeds of "distrust" in the beginning.

After all, if you really trust, where is the word "mind control"?

Mind control is magic that forcibly obtains allegiance, but it is also a shackle.

This is equivalent to a stain on the white paper, and any subsequent efforts will be weakened by [mental manipulation].

There is no way, the relationship itself is a two-way street, and it is impossible to ask the other party to be truly loyal to him from the bottom of his heart, but at the same time, he "distrusts" the other party.

After all, the other party himself is already loyal to him under the hint of his heart, so all his preferential treatment is a matter of course in a sense.

Not to mention that Count Gaston was different from her other followers, even without mind control, the Count was an ambitious and ruthless nobleman in his own right.

His allegiance to the third prince did not come from the heart, but took advantage of each other.

Of course, Charlotte doesn't have to think about it so much.

It's all about using the other party as a tool, as long as you don't put the other party in a key position.

But who made Charlotte expect more.

Now it seems that it is very likely that she is self-inflicted.

"It's also that I'm too greedy, and I went with the mentality of looking for a tool man from the beginning, so I don't need to expect so much."

Charlotte shook her head.

She wasn't going to expect more from Earl Gaston.

How to be lenient or how to be lenient, how to call and how to call, after all, the other party is her blood servant.

Tool people also have the use of tool people, even if they are ambitious, once they are used in the right way and in the right place, they can also have incredible results.

This is the ability to control people.

But more, don't think about it now.

Shaking her head, Charlotte no longer thought about Earl Gaston.

She wanted to see what was going on with Eleanor.

Back in her study, Charlotte retreats from everyone, then sinks into consciousness and connects to the faith network.

She had been in contact with Eleanor, and had deliberately written down the aura of the other party, and if the other party really became her follower, she could theoretically find it in the web of faith.

The network of faith unfolded, and the stars shimmered brightly, and there were more than a thousand of them, all of whom were Charlotte's followers.

And after some searching, Charlotte really found a new light in the corner.

It was a rather shining light, and among the more than a thousand believers, it was relatively firm in its faith, and the aura brought Charlotte a similar familiarity.

That...... It was indeed Eleanor's breath.

"Do you really believe in me? And...... It seems that the faith is still a staunch fanatic? ”

Charlotte looked confused.

She was convinced that she had not preached to Eleanor.

No, or more accurately, she didn't expect the other person to become her believer.

So what is the situation now with the light of faith comparable to that of the devout?

Charlotte was amazed, puzzled, and curious.

After a deep sigh, she decided to "see" for herself what was going on with the other party.

The divine power of blood operates, and Charlotte communicates on behalf of Eleanor's point of faith.

The next moment, she projected her consciousness into the past.

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Ahem, sorry for the late update.

Well, XJ is still bright, so it's still daytime! (No)

There is a shift around 12 o'clock.

(End of chapter)