Although Richard made some laws to reduce the privileges of the nobility, he tried to allow the nobility to compete on a level playing field with the freedmen. However, limited by differences in thought, concept, and body, the victorious ones were basically the aristocracy.

Rex School of Magic has been reopened for more than half a year, and although Richard has sent a lot of grassroots bureaucratic propaganda, there are basically not many ordinary people involved in recruiting students.

In fact, even Harland, who has implemented the Richard Decree for many years, has only a very small number of people who have grown up from ordinary families.

In the upper echelons of the territory, there are actually only William and Jennings, although Richard has no aristocratic blood, but his physical condition is special, William has entered the middle and upper echelons of the Grant Kingdom when he was a teenager, and he is not a person who climbed up from the bottom. As for Sophia, Soros, Silph, and Sutton, they can all be regarded as being born in the aristocratic class.

Most of the people in the upper class have aristocratic blood, but they are the baronial class, and many of them have successfully turned over. Whether it was Martin, Roland, or Sulla, and Oday, they all achieved great success to some extent, changing the fate of a family and becoming the founder of a noble family.

Richard knew in his heart that there could be no equality between people.

Even if an ideal country is created, there is an environment where everyone is equal at the beginning, but limited by the difference in intelligence, physical fitness, will and morality, there will soon be differentiation. Because people are social creatures, they all have selfish desires, and they all want to control others, and gradually they will change the rules and environment to make it beneficial to themselves, which is a genetic instinct.

Individuals may overcome their genetic instincts, but it is difficult for a group to succeed.

Since the aristocracy stood out from the competition, it was impossible for Richard to personally intervene to suppress it and leave the opportunity to the commoners. It is not easy to create an environment of relative progress.

With Richard's strong support, Rex School of Magic was reopened, and enrollment was quickly completed.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the seventh day of the 11th month of the 3280 year of the Dawn Calendar.

Early in the morning, nine bells rang out at the headquarters of the Dawn Cathedral.

The Dawn Bell is an artifact cast by the goddess, and it is easy not to make a sound, and the Dawn Bell rings nine times in one day, and you don't need to guess to know that something very important has erupted.

Almost on the same day, more than a few hundred devotees received a response from the goddess of the dawn.

The goddess of dawn has been asleep for more than three thousand years and hardly answers the prayers of her devotees. Occasional brief awakenings will only notify the upper echelons of the Dawn Church. For the last 3,000 years, almost only legendary priests have occasionally listened to the Goddess's voice.

After a professional ignites the divine fire and successfully seals the gods, the kingdom of the gods can generally stay in the main plane for five hundred years.

Five hundred years later, the kingdom of God will be relegated to the Lord's plane.

The five hundred years after the canonization of the gods is also the period when a god has the greatest influence on the main plane, because the kingdom of God remains in the main plane, the power of the gods can be exerted by ten, and the gods of other gods who have ascended cannot compete at all.

The reason why this world is named the Dawn Plane is because the Goddess of Dawn is the strongest after being canonized, not only does the Kingdom of God stay in the main plane, but also manipulates part of the power of the World Tree, expelling rule wizards in the fiercest wars in hundreds of years, killing the undead king, and even winning the religious wars.

Even the god of radiance, the god of fairness and justice, who is powerful and powerful, was not as majestic as the goddess of the dawn more than three thousand years ago.

After the victory of the Great War, the goddess of the dawn fell asleep, and decades later, the kingdom of God flew high in the sky of the main plane, and its influence in this world gradually fell short of that of the god of radiance.

Although the Radiant God Kingdom is not yet in the Dawn Plane, and it has a great disadvantage in fighting with the native gods, because the Dawn Plane has degenerated from a high demon to a middle demon, there are many legendary professionals in the Radiance Church, and they quickly gained an advantage in the struggle, established the Divine Radiance Empire, and suppressed other gods.

Today, there are more than a billion followers of the God of Radiance in the Dawn Plane.

The believers of a billion people are also extremely important to the God of Radiance, and they are the third-highest level in the Holy See of the God of Light. For more than a thousand years, two incarnations of the God of Radiance have resided in the Dawn Plane.

A few years ago, the God of Radiance lost an avatar, so he contracted his strength and withdrew his troops from the Red Moon plane.

Abandoning the Red Moon Plane, the God of Radiance could easily make up his mind. However, if the God of Radiance is defeated in the Divine War and his life is endangered, it is possible to give up the Dawn Plane for three thousand years.

Although the goddess of Dawn was majestic and made a name for herself in this world, her management of the plane was not actually successful. Today's Dawn Church is only ranked third in the Church of the Seven Gods.

The reason why the goddess of Dawn woke up a few years earlier was played by Richard. Over the years, as the Harland Church has grown and grown, the number of believers in the Dawn Church has increased greatly.

After all, the Dawn Church is the only official church in the Harland Territory, and it is difficult for the other major churches to even get approval from the Harland Leader to build churches. Even the royal church, which was the favorite of the aristocracy, had difficulty developing in Haraland.

Although Richard does not directly prohibit other churches from entering the Harland Consulate to preach, the Religious Affairs Bureau will also devise various means to suppress the development of other religions. It is very difficult for other religions to develop believers, and they can only retain the pious.

From scratch, the Haaland Territory has a population of 14 million, the vast majority of whom are from the three East Coast countries, and the vast majority of this population does not believe in the goddess of the dawn. After entering the religiously controlled country of Haaland, the shallow believers quickly converted. This part of the power of faith played a key role in the early awakening of the goddess.

According to the standards set by the major churches of the Dawn Plane, a believer has different faith powers for the gods according to their degree of belief and soul power.

Generally speaking, the church divides believers into four types according to their level of faith.

The lowest number of believers is called shallow, accounting for eighty or ninety percent of the total number of believers. Although shallow believers occasionally pray and participate in religious activities, they do not believe in gods and spirits in their hearts. I don't usually burn incense, and I'm basically this kind of person who crams Buddha's feet temporarily.

Although there are gods in this world, and the gods will occasionally appear and even respond to prayers, there are still very few believers who can really get the attention of the gods.

For example, the goddess of the dawn has nearly 200 million believers. It is equivalent to 200 million believers calling the goddess every day, and the goddess simply does not have the time and energy to connect one by one, and will block the vast majority of people.

As a deity, despite having two incarnations, he is actually still too busy.

Although the gods are powerful, they have to face a mess every day, and the most important point is to protect the sphere of influence and block the invasion of evil gods, alien gods, undead lords, demon lords, and rule wizards.

In the same way, the gods need to refine the power of faith, refine artifacts, cultivate gods, and run the kingdom of gods, so they don't have much spare time to answer the phone.

Even if the goddess of the dawn had not been asleep, the 200 million believers would not have been able to get a response. Even if a deity likes to communicate directly with believers, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people who can answer prayers a year.

Those who get a response from the gods are basically the ones that the goddess focuses on. Especially for shallow believers, it is impossible for ordinary people to call the goddess.

The upper level of shallow believers is true believers, who believe in gods from the heart, and hardly violate the canons formulated by the gods, and provide ten times the power of faith than shallow believers, and pray to the gods almost every day.

Generally speaking, a true believer in a good god must be a good person in terms of moral character. There are nearly 200 million believers in the goddess of Dawn, and it is estimated that there are 1780 million shallow believers, and there may be 20 million true believers.

Above the true believers are fanatical believers, and generally speaking, the same person, one fanatic believer provides the same faith as ten true believers and one hundred shallow believers. Fanatical believers not only do not violate the canons formulated by the gods, but even use the canons to demand others to follow, they are the backbone of the missionaries, willing to sacrifice their lives for the gods, whether the church can develop well, in fact, mainly depends on the fanatical believers to promote.

In the case of the Dawn Church, for example, the number of fanatical believers is just over a million people.

Above the fanatical believers are the saints, and the so-called saints are the disciples of the saints, and this kind of believers play a vital role in the development of the church and the promotion of doctrines.

For example, Duke Richard of Haaland is a saint publicly certified by the Dawn Church and a divine servant, who has played a very key role in the development and growth of the Dawn Church.

In the last thirty years, through the development of the Harland Domain, the number of followers of the goddess has increased by more than 10 million, and this number will increase significantly when the Duke of Ricks takes control of it. However, Richard's belief in the goddess of the dawn was not religious, and could only be regarded as a shallow believer in the goddess.

Another example is the Archbishop of the Diocese of Grant, who is also a saint. Senna was cultivated by the church, promoted to a legendary mage, and entered the decision-making level of the Dawn Church, and was the real high-level of the Dawn Church, but Senna went too far in magic, and what he pursued in his heart was knowledge, and he was also just a shallow believer in the goddess.

People like Richard and Senna, they only believe in themselves, and it is difficult for them to believe in the gods wholeheartedly. The real strong people who can ignite the divine fire and master the rules have this kind of mentality.

In addition to the level of faith, the strength of a believer's soul varies and the power of faith provided to the goddess is also different.

For example, Archbishop Senna, although he is a shallow believer, his soul power is extremely strong, and the power of faith that he can provide alone is a few points stronger than that of a fanatical low-level professional.

Richard possessed a powerful divinity, and after being promoted to a legend, his soul essence was much stronger than Senna's, roughly equivalent to a demigod, and the power of faith he provided to the goddess of dawn was actually a few points higher than that of a high-level professional fanatic.

As a believer, the higher the power of faith provided on a daily basis, the more devout you are to the Goddess, the more the Goddess will naturally value you.

Of course, there are some special believers who can even help the goddess, and the goddess will give the goddess. These gods are often the most important foundation of a church.

Because of the sleeping goddess in the Dawn Church, the number of divine favorites is pitiful, and on the side of the Red Moon Plane, there are only four people in a hundred years.

Among them, the legendary priest Marvila has died, and her soul has entered the kingdom of the goddess. There are only three of the gods who remain in the material plane, plus Richard.

After the goddess of dawn woke up, she immediately transmitted the news to Richard's mind.

The goddess's kingdom is located above the Dawn plane, and through the power of faith channel, she can transmit her thoughts to the minds of every believer.

This ability is far superior to that of Haaland Leading the Dream Tree, which is equivalent to a telegraph group of up to 200 million people. Of course, the telegram group has strict permissions, and it is estimated that only a few hundred people can send messages to the goddess.

The rest of the people can only send spam messages, which occupy a lot of the memory of the telegram group.

After receiving the message that the goddess of dawn had awakened, Richard settled down on government affairs and immediately prepared to rush to the headquarters of the Dawn Church to see if the goddess had any next move.

The princess mausoleum of the Harland Lord, the nest of the dead in the northern part of the Burton Forest, can only be solved smoothly if the goddess of the dawn comes forward in person, and both things are big things for the Harland Lord.

The Castle of Auxerre in the Kingdom of Palamé is the headquarters of the Holy See of Dawn, and the population of this country is basically made up of followers of the Church of Dawn, and the ecclesiastical authority is far greater than the royal power.

It is rumored that the goddess of dawn is a virgin goddess who has never married in her life, let alone left any descendants.

The first Queen of Paramet, a student of the goddess of the dawn, was famous more than 3,000 years ago.

From the secret information he had read, Richard vaguely found out from the ancient family collection that the original Queen Paramet should not have died, and it was likely that she was hidden in the divine kingdom of the goddess of Dawn and promoted to a demigod.

Judging from the canonical specifications of the Dawn Church, the status of the original Queen Parame is equivalent to that of the goddess of Dawn.

According to the published canon, Richard found that the seven saints were of very high status, similar to the subordinate gods of the gods. These statues and images of the gods are placed in churches, and they are very large in the canon. According to Richard's information, two of the seven saints were incarnations of the goddess's apparitions, and the remaining five were followers of the goddess, including the goddess's former companions and early students.

Richard was not the core of the Dawn Church, and he didn't know how many demigods the Dawn Church currently has.

But logically guessing, it is estimated that the number will not be too much, otherwise it would be impossible for the Red Moon Goddess to escape the seal.

Professionals have been promoted to demigods and already possess a not weak divinity. The spiritual power of the demigods is already very powerful, and they can break free from the shackles of the physical body and have permanent life to a certain extent. Even if you are killed in battle, as long as you still have the faith of believers, you can still be resurrected.

Therefore, the war between the gods and spirits, against the believers of the church, must be the top priority, and it will inevitably involve the secular kingdom.

There are gods in this crystalline universe, and the status of the church is naturally the most important. Ninety-nine percent of ordinary people believe in gods, and although most of them are shallow believers, the Pope's influence is far greater than that of Richard's previous life.

Religion has a powerful influence, and religious wars are naturally extremely cruel, far heavier than the killing of secular kingdoms. With the awakening of the Goddess of Dawn, the power at the highest level once again upset the balance, and this situation made Richard secretly worried.

(End of chapter)