Chapter 283: The So-Called God and Faith
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There was a lot of follow-up to yesterday's chapter...... Anyway, you just want Edward and the King, no, is something going to happen to Her Majesty the Spider Queen?
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Cooperation......
Truth be told, this is indeed a very tempting word, after all, what a spirit-sucking lich can provide is undoubtedly necessary for Edward at this stage. ◎ Smart kids remember super fast hand play update  ◎
The problem is that this guy Katzeyek has no credibility basis for him at all - the Spirit Suction Monster Lich is far more dangerous than a ** division, and he will do everything, and cooperation is based on mutual assistance after all, but even if Edward wants to break his head, I'm afraid there is something that can be used as a mutually beneficial condition.
In short, it's better to provoke this kind of guy as little as possible.
The slightest sound of the door interrupted Edward's train of thought.
"What's wrong?" With the help of his mental forehead, he didn't have to look back, and he knew that it was Miss Half-Elf who quietly pushed the door in, but this girl hung her head slightly, and her two small eyebrows frowned slightly, which seemed to be quite thoughtful, which made Edward's heart move: "Are you injured in trouble? Or have you encountered some problems?"
"No, Claudia has some skin injuries or something, but ......" The little girl shook her head, stopped talking, and sat down on a chair beside her.
What's going on?
Edward raised an eyebrow, sat down beside her, picked up a basket of blue berries and black plums from the table, and handed them to her—the fruit of some plant native to the dark region, somewhat similar to mulberries, though jet-black in appearance inferior to those on the surface. However, the skin is thin and juicy, sweet and sour, and it is also quite popular with girls, and Miss Half Elf has eaten it a few times before, and every time she eats it with a face of juice.
"It's nothing, the ......" The little girl didn't pick up the fruit plate, but just raised her gaze: "Edward." Am I useless if you sue me?"
"Huh?" Edward was stunned, "Why do you ask?"
"Because, I feel useless...... This time it's almost holding you back. The ......" little girl bit her lower lip. Opening.
Edward tugged at the corners of his mouth.
Actually, when it comes to the so-called lagging...... The combat power of this half-elf lady is really not high - there are certain similarities between divine magic and arcane arts, but there are actually many differences. The main difference is that it focuses on healing, blessing, defense, and strengthening, and is not good at attacking...... In other words, not good at direct attacks,
If a mage wants to attack an enemy, he will directly throw fireballs, lightning or various killing spells, but if the priest wants to attack the opponent, he will stack various auxiliary magic spells on himself, and then rush up and beat him. Even if there are some gods who are good at destruction. But there are only a few attack magic techniques they can use, and they are far less varied than mages.
There's a joke that a priest full of auxiliaries is more ferocious than a barbarian. Although it is a joke, it is not a fact.
As for the half-elves, her racial bloodline itself is known for its dexterity, and she is young and female, and is not destined to be very aggressive. Even if the ability is excellent, the combat experience is far behind...... Therefore, once the battle starts, the role that can be played is naturally only assistance. It's not impossible to attack, let's say dissociation or something, but. When you encounter some strong enemies, you naturally don't like them very much.
But Edward didn't complain about that.
The weakness of human beings is an objective fact, as long as it is a living being, its first consideration is itself, and all the modes of thinking revolve around itself and start from itself. So cowardice, fear, sluggishness, arrogance...... Any situation can occur, and various methods can only reduce this probability, but it is impossible to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the first place.
So, instead of complaining about your teammates' incompetence, find a way to change the situation on the existing basis. Since human beings are unreliable, we should not count the positive help that human beings may cause, and do it on our own. If someone helps, it is naturally an unexpected surprise, but it is not also in the plan, do not put a continuous uncertainty into the plan, otherwise the plan will not be perfect. Because Murphy's Law will verify a conclusion countless times: any accident in this world can happen......
This is a concept that has long been ingrained in Edward's mind, and it is natural that he will not do anything like complaining about his teammates.
"What's the ...... Aren't you already killed this time...... I've defeated a lot of enemies, so it's very useful. Smiling, Edward reached out and touched her little head, comforting, "That woman has the power of Rose, and we still have to deal with a lich, and it is too much of a loss to fight her, and it is not your responsibility at all." ”
"Really?" the little girl raised her gaze with some surprise in her eyes.
"Of course, if you think about it, that's not your average opponent, it's almost covered by Rose herself, unless the Dark Lady comes to help you herself, otherwise, how can you compare to her?
"Hmm...... Well, yes, those drows are going to cheat, it's annoying!"
The innocent appearance made Edward unaware.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to be as carefree as this girl...... He thought suddenly.
Because of some things he experienced in his last life, Edward's goal has always been to pursue some kind of power to make his life more freewheeling, but now that his power is getting stronger, he has also caused some trouble, and sometimes, he can't be free.
But wouldn't it be better if we gave up the pursuit now?
Obviously not, a certain scholar in my memory, once said that the human mind is making small changes every day, so everyone may not be their previous self, this sentence may have a certain truth, in short, if the current Edward let go of a qiē, and then return to that simple hunter life, he will definitely not do it.
This is probably what it means for people to be involuntary in the rivers and lakes?
It's like a problem I'm having right now.
"Well, speaking of which. Those drows are really troublesome...... The power of the gods comes from believers. Such an inexplicable killing will only weaken his own strength, this majesty, it's really interesting......" The thoughts in his heart were a little messy, Edward said casually......
In fact, he wasn't going to hear the answer. Just to organize your own thoughts. But what he didn't expect was that the half-elf answered.
"What kind of strange idea do you have, and does killing and killing have anything to do with the power of the spider queen?" she blinked. As if he had heard some strange theory: "Edward, you can't learn anything about religion, do you?"
"I'm not a pastor...... But could it be any different?" Edward was stunned.
"Of course it's different, it's the foundation of religion, isn't it?" the little girl raised her voice a little, "the power of the gods." Born from faith. Not believers. This is the foundation of the foundation, huh?"
Edward's belief was thrown to Marxist-Leninist-Mao-Deng as early as middle school, and when he stepped into society, he scattered away, so although he respected the gods of this world, he simply admired their power, and there was no special worship, basically worshipping ghosts and gods and staying away, whether it was a magic god or a psionic god. He didn't have any special impressions. According to the grading standards of this world, he can be regarded as a pan-believer at most, and strictly speaking, he can even be regarded as an untrustworthy person.
But in this world, there are many gods. Moreover, it is true, so there is actually a discipline of religious studies, but most of the content is dedicated to the internal information of various religions - but in fact this is only a part of this knowledge, and the more important research topic is actually the study of the gods.
Of course. Edward couldn't have learned this. His understanding of religion comes mostly from those mercenaries, those guys are low-level, and they only know a few words more than the farmers, except for fighting and killing, that is, drinking and making trouble, naturally there can be no profound research, they believe in a certain god, and what they pursue is just an ability, and then there is a peace of mind, these things, how can they say one, two, three, four?
"Isn't faith the act of every believer's devotion to a god?" he asked.
"Yes, believe in deeds, and if you know it, why do you understand it so well?"
"How do I understand that?"
Edward was confused by this remark, or religion has always been vague and distorted, making people incomprehensible, but the gods in this world really exist, and the teachings are naturally much more plain, so that they will not be like Buddhism, which is equal to nothing, and there is nothing and nothing.
"Oh, I see, do you think that the power of the gods is maintained by those believers, and the more believers a god has, the larger the church, the stronger his power will be?" ”
"Is there something wrong?"
"Of course it's wrong, it's outrageously wrong" Pouting, the little girl said: "To put it simply, you know that the number of human beings is definitely not as good as that of goblins and kobolds, right? According to your understanding, isn't the earth spirit Magrubiya the strongest god? Also, the number of dragons is so small, shouldn't the dragon god be weak?"
Obviously, my own cognition is indeed a bit problematic.
Edward simply sat down and listened intently.
"It's very simple, I'll give you an example, for example, Workin, don't you like money very much, then, do you think that if this goddess of wealth one day, suddenly gets many times, well, a hundred times the number of believers, and then, all these believers, the merchants of the world, pray to him sincerely every day in the temple or at home, morning and evening, Wokin will be happy?"
"What do you mean I like money...... What the hell do you think of me?" Edward was a little speechless, "But, it should be, after all, faith has increased." He said.
"Dangdang, never...... Wrong!" After a pause, the little girl giggled like a little fox who had stolen a chicken: "The answer is, absolutely not! Because at that time, there may soon be no such god as Wokin in the world! Because no one will act!"
"So...... It's an act of believing, and it's not about believing, is it?" Edward shook his head, but quickly seemed to think of something.
"That's right, the power of the gods comes from the priesthood he presides, and the priesthood is the end of faith, the rules, and you can also see it as the final concrete effect of all faiths. ”
Miss Lisa explained, "Actually, there are half of the gods. It is based on rules, as long as that rule is used, they have power, for example, Wokin, if everyone in the world follows the principle of exchanging money when doing things, then her power may reach the level of the main god. On the contrary, even if the number of believers increases tenfold, they still hide at home and pray and worship her all day. She will also be weakened, because her role is not reflected. ”
"The reason why God needs believers, they need pastors. It is not for them to worship and pray verbally, but to promote and implement the ideas or beliefs they represent. Just as the devout followers of Tyre, most of whom were legislators, judges, prosecutors, or lawyers, through whom justice and law were promoted, the followers of 'Ogmar, many of whom were scholars, bards, artists, etc., preserved knowledge, established libraries, and collected anecdotes. Spread the art of poetry. Of course, most of the Tampas priests are war maniacs, the followers of Gonde love to tinker with inventions, and Wokingland's men are good at making money and doing business. ”
The little girl said, "This is a famous mage. Well, it's said to be something said by a mage incarnated by a demon, but it's basically not wrong. ”
"Well, I seem to get a little bit of it. ”
This explanation, if translated simply. In fact, it is a bit of a modern operating system style, the boss hires a group of people to form a company, appoints and dismisses them from various positions, so a large company with a large number of employees can naturally bring more benefits to the boss.
But the premise of the interest is that every employee must do things for the company seriously, otherwise, only receive a salary and do not work hard, verbally saying that I contribute to the company, I love the company's things, although it is impossible to do without, but if it is this kind of thing, where does the benefit come from? So if you have the ability to bring a large order to the company, so that the company's turnover has increased greatly, even if you go to the chairman's office every day to tease the female secretary, I am afraid that the old guy will still welcome you- Of course, the usual practice is that he will give you an office and a female secretary directly.
The so-called believers, especially the devout ones, including the clergy, are used to do their work, not to be busy praying and worshipping, and that means nothing to the gods.
"Of course, you understand. For Rose, it's not wrong, there are many sources of faith, in the words of God, it is their priesthood, which is the root of a god, for example, Bellena is called the Dark Lady, the priesthood is darkness, as long as it is a creature in the dark, it is a source of faith for her. And one of Rose's priesthoods is Drow, so if the number of Drow increases, it will indeed make her power a little stronger. ”
After thinking about it, the little girl added: "However, it is said that elves are creatures that have zài in many planes throughout the multiverse, and where most elves have zài, there are traces of drow, so the number of drow is not so important to Rose." ”
I see......
"In this way, the gods who use nature as their domain are basically powerful?"
Thinking for a moment, Edward asked, but then smiled—in fact, this question does not need to be answered at all, in this world, Ransendel, the god of the dawn, Fontia, the goddess of the earth, and Sivannas, the god of nature...... Which is not the most powerful god? But in fact, except for Lansendel, the rest of the few actually don't have many believers, and if you think about it, this statement is extremely true.
Okay, maybe the operation mode of the world gods in the original memory is also average, otherwise they will just preach, why do they want to make some crusade jihad to fight you to the death? Okay, to say that the gods of the motherland at that time seem to be different, but they are the ascension system, and they are not the same thing as those gods.
All sorts of strange thoughts, a few spins in his mind, Edward tapped his temples, feeling as if he had grasped something, but it was vague.
Forget it, if you think about it like this, you can't get any answer after all, and the things of the gods shouldn't be something that you are a mortal to think about.
Edward shook his head and simply gave up.
However, when his gaze turned to the half-elf, he suddenly remembered another question - this little girl is more or less a senior priest, and it seems a bit ...... to tell this kind of thing to herself Not quite right, huh?
"I said Lisa...... Why are you telling me this? isn't it a secret?" he asked.
Well, I guess, although most pastors are aware of this problem, they generally don't spread it because it makes people doubt God's purpose. Miss Lisa didn't care about it, she picked up a plum fruit from the plate on her left and threw it into her mouth, and said vaguely, "However, I think it's okay for you, if I don't say it, will you believe in the Dark Lady?"
"It should ...... No, it won't. ”
"Anyway, do you know that there will be no change in faith, I don't say it, what does it matter?"
"You don't want me to believe in anything else. ”
Edward sighed and muttered to himself. Knowing that this little girl is jealous of Rose, no, it is Dahny who has become close to herself.
But in fact, no matter what, he doesn't have a good impression of the spider queen, that woman is close to the devil in personality, it's really not very reliable, maybe one day she will stab someone in the back, like this time, her believers almost killed themselves, this kind of teammate, it's better not to be. (To be continued......)
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