Chapter 253: Faith Collapses, Flames of Punishment
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For example, taxation, in general, in the other world, the tax rate is a thing, although each country has a proportion, and taxes are collected according to different situations.
The poll tax is basically fixed in a place, and the tax is levied according to the size of the family, and the tax is collected as much as there are people.
However, in practice, there will be deviations due to relationships such as human favors, and believers who are not local churches will undoubtedly be overcharged, and believers who are local churches may be overcharged sometimes, but they will receive less than believers in other churches.
But for the priests, the readiness of the believer's conversion was not suitable.
The biggest difference between priests and ordinary believers is that priests receive the gifts of the gods they believe in, and they are able to unleash divine magic.
And after the collapse of the faith, the priest will first be marked as treacherous until he is accepted into another true God.
This is not too much of a problem, after all, even if a priest becomes an apostate, he will be hunted down by that church at most, and if he can join another church in time, this hunt will stop.
Of course, if this were all the punishment, I don't know how many priests would have betrayed their faith and converted to other churches.
After all, for some churches with deep pockets, more priests available for missionary work are more valuable than wealth.
This brings us to another punishment.
When the priest's faith collapses, all the divine spells given by the gods before, whether they have been consumed and used, or those that have not been consumed, will instantly transform into a punishment flame and burn the priest's soul.
In Jia Kedao's words, this is a ghost gate.
If you don't make it. If you survive, the person will survive, but due to the trauma of the soul, it will be difficult to recover in a short period of time, even if you join other churches, it is impossible to inherit the divine magic of the gods' gifts for a period of time, and even if you recover after that, the divine skills that can bear the gifts will drop one or two levels compared to before.
Of course. This is not something that is absolutely irretrievable, and with the passage of time, the divine skill level can be slowly restored.
With this punishment, no priest would have made a decision to convert unless it was an extremely exceptional circumstance.
And the more powerful the priest, the more difficult this level will be, so even if it is because of some temptation, most of the priests who are converted are below the official sacrifice.
There are very few priests above the officiant, and there are basically none.
And at this point, the priest whose faith had collapsed quickly tasted punishment.
There was no sound. A crystal flame erupted from the priest's head, and only then did the priest wake up from his previous state of confusion, and the screams rang out.
A slash in the flesh can be unbearable. Moreover, the soul is burned by flames.
Before long, the priest's screams became weaker and weaker, and finally he fainted and fell to the ground without taking a breath, not knowing whether he was dead. Or just a coma.
With the first, there is the second, three.
In this strange state. In just five minutes, four Battle Priests collapsed in their faith and were burned unconscious or dead by the fire of punishment.
On the contrary, those church warriors were unharmed one by one, and after struggling desperately, they managed to get out of this state.
As for the highest position of the church here, the archbishop Trilu and the three priests around him have been struggling.
Jia Kedao also saw at this time that the methods used by the evil god Aikansdi were really nothing if they were placed in the ancient Chinese gods and demons.
That is, a little similar to the means of the Qingqiu Fox Demon.
However, most of the aura outside this Ekantid's body was golden, which showed how powerful the other party's soul had become, and with this powerful soul, even such inferior means were unbearable for the priests present.
It's all about crushing with force.
If this state of affairs continues, I am afraid that it will not be long before most of those priests will be forced to convert.
Truth be told, such a loss is too much for any church to bear.
Formal priesthood is not very easy to cultivate, and the time and money are enormous.
In any church, the apprentice priests are basically recruited from devout families, and these apprentice priests need to study with senior priests for eight to ten years, and then go through a rigorous faith examination before they can be promoted to full priesthood.
Suffice it to say, this type of apprenticeship education and training is very inefficient, and under normal circumstances, it is fortunate that one or two out of ten priest apprentices can be successfully promoted to full priesthood.
Many more priestly apprentices lose their apprenticeship for various reasons or accidents in the course of their studies.
As for the battle priests, it is even more troublesome to cultivate such priests who are biased towards battle.
Truth be told, when faced with such a method as the evil god Ekantdi, the priests who only preach may have resisted for a longer time.
The reason for this is probably the relationship between faith and piety, after all, although these battle priests are relatively firm in their beliefs, after all, they are often responsible for dealing with heresy, and they have a lot of blood on their hands, and they may have an inexplicable disgust for themselves in many cases.
In this way, when the evil god Ekandi uses a powerful soul to suppress confusion, the loopholes in his mind can be easily controlled, so that in the illusion he creates, he will doubt the god he believes in, and his faith will collapse.
Well, to be honest, Jia Kedao felt something from this evil god Aikansdi, but at this time, Jia Kedao didn't have time to think about it too much, just imprinted these things in his mind and focused his attention around the oasis.
Finally, the High Priest of Trilu awoke from the bewilderment of the evil god Ekantid.
When he just woke up, the high priest of Trilu couldn't help but hesitate a little when he saw the qiē around him, and after a moment of seeing the corpses of the priests whose souls had been burned to ashes, he was stunned and angry, and shouted: "Holy aura!"
With the roar of the Terry Road Priest, a milky white light burst out from the Terry Road Priest, and in a moment, it spread out, enveloping all the surroundings, and even rushed towards the evil god Ekandi, but was slashed down by the opponent's right hand, and the hurricane formed by countless sand and gravel directly blocked the white light that had spread out.
At this time, the soldiers of the royal army, the noble officers, and even the priests, and the priests who had fallen into confusion woke up one after another. (To be continued......)