Wall was originally from a small businessman family, and was almost considered a grassroots member of society. He studied martial arts as a young boy, but when he was seventeen or eighteen, something happened to his family. Not only did he lose his family and property, he also owed a large amount of money. In desperation, he had no choice but to venture into the world and become an adventurer. It took him almost ten years and many times of life and death before he could finally pay back the money.
After paying off his debts, he lost interest in taking risks and started a family. I planned to live a peaceful life, but unexpectedly bad luck came. Therefore, there was a legendary story of a black blade unsheathed to kill a nobleman, and a peerless hero who was the most feared by the nobles in the world in the past hundreds of years.
All these past events have passed, but Wall will never forget them. Even though he has become a god, he is still quite unfriendly to merchants and nobles. Instead, he is quite friendly to adventurers, which is quite inconsistent with his "knowledge" priesthood.
In recent years, on the one hand, he has gained insights into self-cultivation, and on the other hand, he has been infected by the power of faith. He has gradually changed and is no longer so hostile to businessmen and nobles. On the contrary, he is interested in businessmen who are interested in learning or willing to help spread culture. The nobles and nobles were also willing to favor him, so his faith gradually spread among the middle and upper classes.
No matter what, knowledge is always an extremely important power. Mastering knowledge means mastering huge resources, which is very helpful in battles and governance. The big aristocrats and big businessmen may not care, but those elites who aspire to the upper class are all keen on learning and actively cultivating their own teams - all of which cannot avoid "knowledge".
Not only that, there are also many people among spellcasters who respect Vol. Especially academic mages, they have always believed that knowledge is the foundation of magic. Mages should first be scholars, and cultivating mages should first start with cultural education. These are all behaviors that are inclined to Wol's belief. Many of them have even become A believer in Wall.
So when Wall came to the Secret Tower Federation and called on his church and believers to start expanding and establish a sphere of influence belonging to the scholar's cultural circle in the once monolithic country of mages, what he got was not Sui Xiong's worried indifference. But a warm welcome and support.
Because of the passing of the spellcaster god Lampelus, the Mystic Tower Federation is now in panic, and everyone is a little uneasy. Especially those mages. For a long time, Imia Lamperus has been the patron saint of the Federation and the anchor of stability in everyone's hearts. No matter how many storms the Federation goes through, as long as he is here, everyone will be confident.
However, He is no longer there.
Since the establishment of the Federation, he has been like a towering mountain, withstanding all kinds of pressure. No matter how dangerous the situation is, he can still make the right choice, or simply rely on his own powerful strength to break the dilemma. Generation after generation, from ancestors to descendants, the people of the Federation have long been accustomed to his existence, and have even developed the habit of "praying to Master Lamperus when they encounter trouble."
This is just like on earth, Easterners often sigh "God", while Westerners love to sigh "My God".
However, He has fallen. The "God" and "God" of the Secret Tower Federation are no longer here.
This makes many people feel empty in their hearts. When people encounter difficulties, they often subconsciously and silently pray to Lamperus for blessings, and then suddenly remember that the patron saint of the Federation is gone...
So many people will suddenly cry and burst into tears.
At this moment, the Church of the God of Knowledge stood up, promoted its own doctrines, and called on everyone to believe in the God of Knowledge. They just seized this opportunity. Those people who were empty-hearted were looking for someone to rely on, and the God of Knowledge favored them both in terms of teachings and experiences. Once the propaganda was launched, many people followed the trend and directly believed in Wo Er.
Of course, Wall is not the only god who saw the opportunity to spread the word. In fact, the churches of various gods took advantage of this opportunity to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to spread the word in the Secret Tower Federation.
However, when it comes to missionary work, it is not certain that you will succeed just by spending manpower and material resources. Faith is not a transaction. If your doctrine cannot be recognized by others, then even if they join your church, they will not be able to become true believers.
This situation is called "hypocrisy," which means "I said I believed it, but actually I didn't."
The situation above it is called "pan-belief", which means "Although I don't believe much at ordinary times, at least I believe when I pray."
Pan-believers can also be considered believers, but their beliefs are not firm, and at least half of the pan-believers believe in several gods at the same time. In various situations, they would choose to pray to different gods in the hope of receiving blessings.
This is like the Eastern people on earth who believe in heaven, gods and ancestors. In short, he will believe in whoever is willing to bless him.
Many Westerners feel that Easterners’ beliefs are hypocritical and they turn their faith into a business. They feel that faith should be a one-sided effort, and as for the blessing of gods, that comes after the effort. In fact, regardless of whether there is blessing or not, it should not affect the dedication.
On this basis, they also developed the idea that "everyone should believe in our gods, and those who don't believe should be dragged out and hacked to death", and then developed to "all believers should worship and worship according to our sect." Understand God, otherwise you will be a heretic and you will be dragged out and hacked to death."
In response to this, most Oriental people just say "haha" twice, silently lamenting that "the brain is sick".
This type of belief certainly exists in this world. Those who only talk about giving without expecting anything in return are called piety; those who think that not believing in one's own gods is a sin are called fanaticism.
In addition, there is a type of people whose life philosophy is basically consistent with the teachings of the gods, so that their actions are basically in line with the teachings. This is the rarest and is called orthodox belief.
Believers between piety and pantheism believe in only one god, but if the god does not bless them, they cannot be expected to be loyal, and they will convert if necessary. This is called "true faith."
Hypocrisy, pan-belief, true belief, and piety, these are the four most common beliefs. Except for the lowest level of hypocrisy, the other three require a certain degree of agreement with the teachings of the gods in order to be realized.
The Secret Tower Federation is a country of mages, and modern mage theory is built on the basis of culture. Therefore, in this country, even old farmers who cannot read a single word know how to respect culture, so the teachings of the God of Knowledge can easily be recognized by everyone, and it is very convenient to preach.
As for other gods, they naturally do not have such advantages, and their missionary efficiency is far less than that of the Church of the God of Knowledge.
And the Church of the God of Knowledge has another huge advantage, they have money.
Rich, very rich, very rich!
When faced with such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Sui Xiong certainly would not care about mere money. In his opinion, spending money logically is also promoting social progress - don't you hear about GDP? Making money and spending money is all GDP!
So he gave the order and a huge amount of money was spent like running water. It can be said that gold coins opened the way.
Making money is not easy, but who doesn’t know how to spend money
With sufficient funds, the Church of the God of Knowledge really does not care about the cost when preaching, and even missionary pastors in some areas have shouted the slogan "We want to promote education for all."
This made the churches of other gods jealous. However, none of them could afford so much money, so they could only be jealous.
In just four or five days, the Church of the God of Knowledge expanded rapidly in the Mystic Tower Federation, adding at least hundreds of thousands of believers, and it is still increasing. Even the rulers of more than one city, the high-level mage sitting at the top of the mage tower, chose to believe in Him.
With the large increase in believers, Wo'er's divine power also increased rapidly, and before he knew it, he actually entered the level of medium divine power.