He sighed, feeling that this rare period of peace was also a very tiring workday for him.
…
At the same time, in the great library of Eden.
After Elena finished her call with Yang Hao, she went to the roof of the library and looked down at the city area that was being rebuilt below.
Because there are only about 10,000 magic dolls with consciousness backup left, the Kingdom of Eden can rebuild its home now, but it has no way to rebuild all the functions of the entire home.
Taking "industrial production" as an example, under normal circumstances, at least a thousand people are needed to maintain the industrial zone of the Kingdom of Eden.
Just one industrial zone requires a thousand people to maintain it, not to mention all the other things.
"Judgment... It is a foregone conclusion that our country's current population labor force cannot meet the existing demand - we need more cheap individuals to share repetitive labor with us. Expensive magic puppets are not enough, we need golems on the ground."
Elena started talking to herself. A small screen appeared in front of her, and the scene on the screen shifted from Yang Hao's seven figures who were eating to the production workshop of small golems outside Constantinople.
The observation of Yang Hao was due to Elena's own interest, and the investigation of the small golem was to compare the difference between the ground golem and the golem of the Kingdom of Eden.
There is no doubt that the Kingdom of Eden is too focused on quality - the cost of producing one magic puppet is enough to produce a thousand small golems on the ground.
And to put it bluntly, if it was just to meet the needs of industry and labor, the Eden people would not need to add too many functions to their magic puppets...
To use an Earth analogy, at least they shouldn't add a gaming computer and keyboard to the shovel used for digging -
Now, Elena did find a suitable substitute, but how can I put it? It seems that Eden really can't produce it by itself...
"Judgment: It's not that we don't have the production technology, but that we are too rich here and don't even have the necessary materials to produce low-end equipment..."
Elena sighed.
The entire country of Eden is filled with special magical materials; even the soil is higher quality than the most fertile land on earth.
The Eden people would never use the gold that can be exchanged for countless resources in such a place just for a temporary need...
If possible, Elena hopes to trade magic materials on the floating continent with Yang Hao and others for a production line of cheap small golems on land - if not, she also hopes to obtain permission to build a factory on the ground.
In this way, the Kingdom of Eden can produce its own cheap golems on the ground and then send them to the floating continent to realize their value.
That being said...
(At that time, our factory will also provide convenience for Mr. Yang Hao’s country... If possible, it would be better to trade as much as possible to obtain more national resources.)
Elena thought, (This is a win-win situation for both parties. We can get regular resources, the United Nations can get the products produced by our factories, and then we can get cheap labor again... We win twice, he wins once, which is good.)
(But then, wouldn't I be unable to discuss "technical knowledge" with Mr. Yang Hao? If the transaction doesn't make the other party happy, he won't be happy to provide us with knowledge from another world... So... In addition to the Colossus weapons, building factories on the ground, and the artificial magic reactor we agreed on before - what else should we do?)
The little synthetic doll was in distress, and at this moment, the "camera puppet" she sent out to collect intelligence sent back worrying news...
"Hmm? I'm wondering... Is this a Bayezid-style building? Checking the intelligence... Is this the rumored "Saint Petersburg"? "
Unknowingly, the reconnaissance puppets of the Kingdom of Eden had flown to the diocese of the Roman Empire, which was very far away from the United Kingdom.
Elena ignored the densely packed figures on the ground and just stared at the new picture, which was composed of huge churches and was called the "Holy City" by the people of the United Nations.
The city gave her a weird feeling everywhere. If she had to use a metaphor, it was the incongruous feeling of "sacredness and dirt" blended together, or a bowl of milk cereal mixed with shit.
Elena was not quite sure what had happened to religion on earth, but she knew that St. Petersburg no longer belonged to the United Nations and had long been a religious holy place for other countries.
In other words, is this the belief of a country outside the United Nations
Elena frowned, especially when she saw the picture of countless skeleton angels wandering freely in the sky of St. Petersburg, making meaningless songs with the click of their upper and lower jaws.
"Confused: What religion is this wrathful king from? He is not the god we know from records... But in the end, except for the "conceptual gods", other gods are just creatures with stronger individual strength. Some gods are not even as powerful as the Titan demons... The only question is, is the other party our enemy?"
The synthetic doll tilted its head, and Yang Hao's face subconsciously flashed across its eyes.
It would be better to wait until the formal meeting on the 15th to ask whether the other party is an enemy.
Now... it would be better to focus on rebuilding the city.
Elena left the roof of the Great Library. In the distance, the rebuilt Eden presented a thriving scene.
The industrial zone is being rebuilt, and a large number of production lines have to be temporarily shelved in the absence of raw materials. However, as long as enough materials are obtained through future trade, they can quickly produce the various resources needed by Eden.
The construction of the living area is of utmost priority - after all, the last 400 seeds need a good ecological environment to survive.
They need nutritious food, adequate care, and more importantly, suitable partners to contribute to the population growth of Eden.
In order to attract future immigrants, the construction of living areas will inevitably be one of the key points of Eden's reconstruction...
But no matter how important it is, the city defense system on the edge of the floating island has become Eden's top priority for reconstruction.
According to the standards of the Obelisk Colossus, a Colossus weapon needs to be placed on each section of the wall in case of emergency.
But even so, there are still many blind spots in the direction that the floating continent can shoot.
Perhaps we must reshape the entire floating continent based on the structure of the prismatic fortress outside Constantinople
In addition, there is also the "Demon Mine" which stores a large number of demon corpses...
With the help of Elena and the magic doll, the reconstruction of the Kingdom of Eden is moving in a stable and upward direction.
And it was during this rare time of peace that in the mountains outside the village of Scuol, in Theresa's former residence, the underground shrine known as the "sanctuary" had already been lowered into an underground cave hundreds of meters below the surface by the order of the last princess, and was no longer visible to the sun.
The shrine had lost its statues and the most important holy books. All that was left were the endless candles and the classical books that were used to teach the young Teresa.
But even in this underground secret room where there should be no life, a woman emitting a faint silver-white glow was sitting on the table of the shrine in a daze.
If Theresa were here, she would probably be surprised why the woman in front of her looked exactly like her.
But for this glimmering woman, it would actually be a big problem if she looked very different from Theresa.
"Finally... after barely regaining some of my strength, I was finally able to wake up from the nightmare..."
The woman sighed. She had the same face as Theresa, the same long silver-white hair, the same nun's uniform and figure—but her eyes were black. This was a sign that her strength had not yet fully recovered.
"That child is really... She complains every day that I can't bring her more power, but the premise of giving her more power is that she must get out of this place first..."
The woman smiled bitterly. While she was sleeping, she actually received more than one entreaty from Theresa.
Theresa begged me to give her more power while speaking foul language, but the problem is... even if I want to give her power, she has to wake up from her slumber first, right
As a result, she is awake now, but the problem is that she is in a place like this. She can't give Theresa power even if she wants to
In the final analysis, she is still a weak god. She has only regained a tiny bit of her power, and the "Kingdom of Heaven" is still occupied by the betrayers of the past. Even in the application of "divine power", she can only be "a little bit stronger" than Theresa. In general, she is now just a relatively powerful mortal, nothing more.
She wants to return to her past position, to continue to bring peace and happiness to the world, to continue to be the pillar in the hearts of everyone who hopes to live a better life through their own efforts... She still needs to regain her power. Before regaining her power, she must first find a way to leave the underground...
But the thing is—now she is just a slightly more powerful mortal.
Away from the believers, away from the saint, and considering that she was as weak as a famine refugee when she just woke up... there was no way she could leave here.
well!
I can only accumulate some strength and then send a dream to my stupid, cute little believer who likes to insult me all day long.
The woman sighed and jumped down from the shrine table. Her slender, soft white feet were covered with white boots before they touched the cold ground.
Although it was not the first time that she appeared in reality in the form of a woman, the fantasies of the believers in the United Nations about her still made the woman laugh and cry.
"What's with these weird socks that need suspenders to put on? The boots are fine... but this nun's uniform... makes it hard to breathe, and my chest feels tight... Oh. My poor child couldn't even bear to change into new clothes when she was on a mission? It's painful for her, and so am I..."
The woman was troubled by the strange clothes she was wearing. But as she was troubled, she turned around and looked towards where St. Petersburg was.
St. Petersburg, the holy city of the Bayezids, is also the "paradise" for women.
That city is not just a simple "religious holy place"... It is the place where the souls of every Bayerjans will go to reincarnate after their death. In other words, it is the place where every person who believes in light will go after death;
The woman once sat in heaven, praying for every person who died unjustly, praying for their reincarnation, and providing the brave and destitute who sacrificed their lives with a final peace and hope before reincarnation.
But now, "Heaven" was betrayed thousands of years ago. The betrayer was a mortal named "Constantine" -
A baptized believer from a barbaric tribe in the south at that time, a usurper, a madman who was willing to betray everything for a higher position.
"The blasphemer desecrated the bodies of the ancestors of Bayeljas... the blasphemer desecrated the bodies of his own followers, and even his own children and ancestors.
All this is just to become "the best"... and he has persisted fanatically with this goal until now. In a sense, he is also a lunatic with a firm consciousness. "
The woman muttered to herself, turned around and jumped onto another table, then took out Theresa's childhood diary from the depths of the bookshelf.
"In order to seize my power, every Saint of the Church of Light will learn the most ancient manual, which is to take it directly from me, and at most add "God" after the word "Light". Then, after using this as faith to extract power from me, they will transform it through another manual of the leader class, and finally it will become their own power...
In order to achieve all these goals, brainwashing and ignorance are inevitable. Because he knows very well that if people can live better through their own efforts, then there is no need to believe in God anymore.
But as gods, aren't we here to allow mortals to live a happy life without our help? The process of us absorbing faith is just to make believers live better and better...
The process of him absorbing faith is to make himself better... No wonder I hate him so much. Betrayal is just a small matter, but the difference in ideas... is the source of my hatred. "
In ancient times, the purpose of the doctrine of "light" was not to make believers believe in it, but to make its believers eventually become happy people who can live better and better even without believing in it.
Although she failed to achieve her final goal due to various reasons, for Guangming at that time, for her who was born from the vague concept of "hoping for a better life" in all lives, she was working hard towards this direction, and that was enough.
The "light" teachings of the time were dedicated to educating the ignorant, turning barbarians into civilized people, and then turning them from believers into good citizens who fight for their own future.
The reason why the "Light" doctrine became the state religion of Bayer Jansas back then was not because there was countless gold buried in their warehouses where rats could starve to death, but because her doctrine was what everyone desired and was also the education that Bayer Jansas hoped to receive.
But now... what has Constantine, the man who usurped her power and heaven, done
They brainwash the masses, allow the believers to be ignorant and kill each other, and even desecrate the bodies of the dead at all costs, and squeeze out the last soul of every dead person... They are more stupid, arrogant, sad and pitiful than the devil.
The woman hated him from the bottom of her heart. She didn't hate him for his betrayal, but for his stupidity, his brainwashing, and his deception.
But... maybe Constantine's best days have come.
The important premise for "light" to appear here is that the "God of Light" has lost most of his power.
But if you think about it carefully, how many poor people have died in the waves of chaos caused by the God of Light
The God of Light is like a madman who cuts his own flesh just to fill his stomach...
He is courting his own destruction. Although he is still very powerful now, he is indeed courting his own destruction.
The woman sighed.
Looking at Theresa's childhood diary in my hand.
She thought she might have to use her child's past embarrassment as a threat to get Theresa to come and help her...
Chapter 5: The God of Light, the Devil, and the Fleet of Ishgard - 8K
…
at the same time…
In the diocese of the Roman Empire.
Now, the living dead have surrounded the places where the new and old religions are located.
They have not forgotten the fact that they are heretics to each other. Even though they are already in danger, the old religion hopes to use the power of the living dead to destroy the new religion first.
Under the order of Pope Peter, countless troops of the Old Church rode on horses in fear and led the undead hordes in waves towards the Protestant areas.
Although the Protestants had dug trenches more than three meters deep around the controlled area for emergency use, and used the excavated loose soil to reinforce their own height, as more and more zombies died in the trenches, the zombies were already vaguely trying to break through the barrier with the corpses under their feet...
Cecilia did not sit still and wait for death. With the help of her friend, the Night Witch, she organized a group of cavalry composed of ascetics to induce them in return.
Under the powerful magic of the nun, the cavalry of the Old Church was basically defeated at the first touch, and there was no way for them to compete with the nun.
But the problem is—
"Compared to the old church, we have too few horses... Of course, this is also partly because you, Cecilia, chose a place that is considered poor in the parish - but fortunately, the terrain here is higher, and farmland can be cultivated normally."
The Night Witch stated while recording something in her magic book. She had become Cecilia's confidant at this moment. After all, apart from her, there was no one else in the entire Protestant Church who knew how to command the military...
But even so, the witch does not have the ability to conjure up soldiers out of thin air.
Especially the poor land that Cecilia chose, except that it can be cultivated, the terrain is high, there is a water source flowing from high to low, and there is a well on the high ground, it has no value at all...
In this situation, the number of horses of the new religion is at a disadvantage. Although the trained ascetics can exert a stronger strength and guide the living dead to the location of the old religion -
But the Old Church can use its advantage in horses and numbers to continuously lead the living dead in batches to the New Church
In this way, the sisters finally realized that if they went out again, they might not be able to return to the camp...
So in the end, Cecilia had no choice but to give up and instead set up crossbowmen and watchtowers on various high grounds, allowing them to shoot directly at the Old Church people when they saw them, using a passive defensive posture to reduce the number of Old Church cavalry soldiers.
It is hard to say what effect this will have, but at least after ten days of hard work, the number of harassment from the old religion has become less and less.
Although the number of living dead in the surrounding area is increasing, Cecilia has found a way to deal with the living dead after deciding to "ignore the provocation of the old church"...
"So this is why we have to use divine magic to deal with the living dead." Cecilia sighed, standing in front of the trench, looking at the waves made up of countless human heads below.
"We have to prepare for the decay of corpses later - now they will eat every fallen companion, so the problem of corpse decay has not yet appeared... But in the future, decayed corpses will definitely become a problem we must face."
"Although I am good at large-scale strategic night magic, fire magic and the like can also be used."