The resurrection of Satan is a great joy to the Church of the Mask of the Void. This is not only because the church is in short supply of spellcasters, but also because of Satan’s identity—he is the patriarch who promoted the establishment of the church and has long been appointed as the chief mage.
Not only that, he is also the only teacher in the entire church who has the ability to train spellcasters. Ever since Sui Xiong suppressed the legendary mage "Green Sea Resident" Green in Green Tree Town, the relationship between the Void Mask Church and the Mystic Tower Federation has been bad. Even Rhodes spent a lot of money to recruit middlemen who were willing to serve in the church. Senior mage.
Now that Satan is resurrected, this problem is finally solved.
However, when the old problems are solved, new ones arise. In order to build the altar, the entire church was almost busy during this time. It is now the time of autumn harvest, and winter has come early in the North. The snowy season is about to arrive. It is obviously unrealistic to go north to explore in this kind of weather.
Not only that, it is also very inconvenient to buy food in winter. Although Rhodes patted his chest and said, "With the existing funds, there will definitely be no problem with food supply," but there was another big problem that he couldn't solve - morale.
For ordinary people, being able to grow their own food is considered a guarantee. Just relying on the church to distribute food, even if we see the warehouses full of food, everyone still feels a little uneasy.
As the autumn harvest season approaches, this uneasiness gradually spreads within the church, causing the morale of the entire church to become low.
This is also because the believers are mainly farmers. They are used to getting food from the soil and are not adapted to the life of working for food. Even if it is a little harder, they would rather farm. If there is no land to farm, they will feel panicked.
Sui Xiong couldn't imagine how to change the farmers' concept of attaching importance to land and farming. Even in the 21st century on earth, it has caused countless politicians to scratch their hair. In the end, most of them can only rely on coercive means. solve. If he doesn't want to use coercion, there's really nothing he can do.
In fact, the key to the problem still lies with himself. If he were still the jellyfish god with vast supernatural powers and superior combat power, then many problems can be easily solved. But probably because the previous battle was too hard and the overdraft was too severe. During this period of time, he had been too sick to lift his spirits, and his body was also quite weak, so much so that even a mere resurrection spell had to be recharged for a long time before he could perform it with the help of faith.
He asked his eldest brother, and the God of Justice said, "Just rest and rest." But when he asked about this "rest and rest" time, the God of Justice hesitated and couldn't give an accurate answer. Finally, he said, "It can take as short as thirty or fifty years, and as long as it takes an estimated eight hundred years." That’s pretty much it.” This is the answer.
"The accuracy of this answer is questionable!" Sui Xiong complained at the time, but it still didn't help.
The two battles with the God of Storms and the Goddess of the Sea had left him exhausted. If it weren't for the special nature of his soul, he would probably be exhausted even if he won. In fact, all the powerful gods, including the God of Justice, have always wondered how he could fight so well and be so durable.
If it hadn't been discovered that he would still be injured and exhausted, and that he was so overdrafted, some curious and evil gods would have even proposed to capture him for study.
When Sui Xiong heard the news, he was very worried and imagined many horrific scenes of being sliced into pieces for study. But in the end, nothing happened - because his performance was nothing more than some talent for time, and he used the power of the "future" in advance, which made him so powerful.
Such situations are of course rare, but they have happened in the past years.
Not to mention, among the mythical creatures that have lived from ancient times to today, there are more than one with similar abilities. Some of them even cooperated with the gods in research, but in the end there were no decent results.
This is talent, unimaginable.
Sui Xiong himself was not sure whether his ability "overdraws the power of the future", but he wisely chose to remain silent and acquiesced to this statement.
He's not stupid!
In short, he is now impotent, and will remain impotent for a long time to come. Although he is still very strong and powerful compared to ordinary people, it is absolutely impossible to do anything too exaggerated. Therefore, in order to solve the believers' sense of loss and improve their morale, they can only rely on Lei and others to find a way.
"Let's have a banquet," Gerald suggested. "Eat to your heart's content and drink to your heart's content. I think it will definitely work!"
Sui Xiong sneered and rejected the idea.
He recruits these believers to do pioneering work. These people are here to work, not to be bosses! Drinking wine and eating meat... Do you think you'll go out to rob after you've eaten and drank enough? Is this a Viking? Should each person be given a horned helmet
"It's better to give them concentrated classes and teach them how to read and write." Lei said, "While we have nothing to do now, it's not a waste of time to train a group of church backbones."
Sui Xiong thought his idea was good, so he asked Satan to implement it. Within a week, Satan came to complain.
"Your Majesty... I really can't take it anymore!" Satan, with his hair as messy as a chicken coop, his eye circles as dark as a panda's, looked as haggard as if he had been raped by a group of Steeles in turn, as soon as he opened his mouth Weakly, "Those guys... are simply stupider than pigs!"
Sui Xiong asked what was going on, and Satan could no longer suppress the grief and indignation in his heart. He complained with tears and runny noses - it turned out that the farmers had not had even a little bit of cultural knowledge before, and some of them could not even count from one to twenty. Yes, the most terrifying thing is that they have no desire to learn at all. Satan led a few educated believers and worked hard to teach them for a week. He really couldn't stand these guys who were as stupid as pigs and didn't want to make progress, and he couldn't teach anymore.
"If this continues, I will either blow them up with a fireball, or blow myself up with a fireball... It's up to you, there is no third possibility anyway!"
Faced with Satan who looked hopeless, Sui Xiong had no choice but to give up his education plan.
As a result, Lei's seemingly reliable plan not only failed to improve the morale of the believers, but made them even more depressed. Even Satan, who was originally very morale, became depressed.
Sui Xiong had no choice but to find another way. This time he found Steele, who was always happy.
"To make them happy? It's very simple." Steele laughed, but before she finished speaking, she turned into a pig in the smoke with a "bang".
"Okay, you don't need to say anything, I already understand." Sui Xiong pushed aside Steele who was taking out a wooden board and writing quickly, and sighed deeply.
He should have thought of it a long time ago. Is there anyone in the world who is more unreliable than this guy
So he went to others for advice.
Palin couldn't understand why his morale was so low despite having food, drink and shelter. After Sui Xiong explained, he sighed, "Your Majesty, the scope of your thinking is too high-end. Please forgive me for not understanding it."
Well, I can’t understand it, let alone give me an idea.
Rhodes said: "Without farming, morale is low? This is a problem caused by free time! Let Sir Gerald take them to practice martial arts! National military training, training until exhaustion every day, they will have no time to think nonsense!"
"This seems to be a good idea... but what will happen when we start to open up?" Sui Xiong asked, "After a winter of training, they will almost have the strength of regular soldiers. When the time comes, let them do farm work again, will they feel uncomfortable again? Ignored?"
Rhodes sighed helplessly: "Your Majesty, you are too generous! In my opinion, why should you care about the morale of these people? Devout believers are meant to be slowly sorted out from ordinary people like gold mining. Now these people have low morale. Yes, it’s them who gave up the opportunity to make progress!”
Sui Xiong admitted that what he said made sense, but it was meaningless in solving the problem.
It was his idea to find these people to establish a pioneering territory. In this case, he must be responsible for these people.
Perhaps in Rhode's view, his thoughts were too kind, but since he had the spare power, why not get things done
So he went to the knowledgeable Xuehua for advice.
"It's hard to talk about the issue of morale, but you do have a good idea!" Xuehua nodded in praise, "Always maintaining a relatively high morale among believers will help cultivate more devout believers, and will also help promote the centripetal force of the entire church. … If you don’t mind, why not let them come to Longhou Town to do some work. There is a lot of work to be done here all year round, and there is always a shortage of manpower.”
"Although it is not farm work, I think the positive atmosphere in Longhou Town will be very good for them."
Sui Xiong thought for a moment and thought that this might be a solution, so he decided to try it out for a while.
As Xue Hua said, the people in Longhou Town are filled with a kind of fool-like optimism that is not afraid of anything and will leave a big scar on their head. If believers are allowed to work here, not only can they learn a skill, but it may also help their morale.
Emotions are contagious. If you get along with depressed people, you will become more and more depressed; if you get along with happy people, you will become more and more happy. Even if those farmers have no fields for the time being, they can live with the residents and adventurers of Longhou Town who laugh all day long, and they can be infected by them and become cheerful.
Maybe they will be infected and become stupid and happy all day long, but what's wrong with that
It is better to laugh than to cry, and to be happy than to sigh.
So the matter was settled for the time being, and soon hundreds of believers were sent to Longhou Town one after another. Under Xuehua's arrangement, some of them worked as butchers to help dismantle monsters, while others worked as handymen doing various auxiliary tasks. In short, they were not idle.
Sure enough, as Xuehua said, although the work was not consistent with expectations, these believers were quickly infected by the cheerful and lively atmosphere of Longhou Town and gradually became cheerful.
Seeing that smiles finally appeared on their faces, Sui Xiong breathed a deep sigh of relief.
As a result, the accident happened again.
"Your Majesty Mask of the Void, I have met an interesting talent." When the first snow fell in winter, Wendy woke up the clone sleeping in the magic tower. "I think he will definitely be helpful to your career." helped.”
"Ah? Who is he?"
"His name is Arcane Pasteur." Wendy said with a smile. "He is the son of the teacher's best friend during his lifetime, a druid who is quite accomplished in alchemy."