God of Love

The child that Beta was referring to was only about nine years old. He was wearing a brand-new linen shirt.

Seeing that Beta was pointing at him, the little guy was a little shy. He immediately shrank behind his father and timidly looked at Beta with his little face.

The adult who had just asked the question was the child's father. He patted the little guy's head and said, "Hurry up, His Excellency Beta is calling you."

The little guy looked at his father and then slowly walked to Beta.

Beta smiled gently at him and then touched the little guy's head with his right hand. After a faint golden light flashed, he let go of his hand, and then the onlookers exclaimed in unison, "Wow!"

It turned out that a pale golden flame had appeared on the little guy's head, shaking slightly.

This was the fire of faith! It would appear when one's faith reached a certain value. Depending on the deity's priesthood, its color and shape would be slightly different.

Beta pointed at the golden flame and said, "This is the symbol of a believer of the goddess. You usually can't see it, but we, the priests of the goddess, can see it clearly. The family of those who have a flame of this level can receive the blessing and promise of the goddess. Tomorrow, we will send someone to this child's home and build a new stone house for them. And this little guy can learn to read for free, and I will teach him personally. "

The crowd was in an uproar … They had heard other gods boast before that those who believe in me will live forever, but in this world, how many people could live forever? But in the Temple of Woking, there were real benefits, building houses, and teaching people to read. Now they had decided that those who had no faith would directly believe in the goddess Woking, and those who had faith would directly convert!

As the child's father, the adult who had just spoken was so excited that he almost couldn't speak.

"Quiet."

Under the sound protection spell, Beta's unhurried voice suppressed the noise of nearly a thousand people talking loudly, and the crowd soon quieted down.

Beta continued, "I also plan to build a school next to the temple to teach children to read. However, only children who believe in Woking can attend the school. Most importantly, education is free! "

At this time, the surroundings were still very quiet. It was not that they were not excited and happy, but Beta had just asked them to be quiet, so they did not dare to shout, for fear of disobeying the honorable priest in front of them. If they angered him, it would be terrible if he did not let their children learn to read.

Beta looked at the excited people in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. "The temple will open tomorrow morning. Anyone who wishes to come in and pray will be welcomed. But remember my words, Goddess Woking loves clean people. You must take a bath first, then come in with clean clothes. "

After Beta finished speaking, he turned around and entered the temple. As he moved, the gate of the temple slowly closed, isolating all the commoners outside the temple.

Just as the door closed, a deafening cheer came from outside. "Goddess Woking above!"

Beta smiled. With such benefits, more and more people would be willing to believe in Woking. It did not cost much to help them build a stone house, and teaching their children to read and write was a good thing. Because the children were like a piece of blank paper, it was completely possible to instill Woking's faith into their consciousness in the process of teaching them.

When these children grew up, they would be devout believers of Woking. Most importantly, the priests of Woking could be selected from these children.

High loyalty, high intelligence, and high quality! Was there a better deal than this?

Beta was very confident about this.

Because there was already an excellent example. All the children in Reed Village were Woking's believers, and they were all very capable. Six young children, leading a group of people, were able to build the underwater tunnels, roads, and even the Church of God without any mistakes. In this world, this kind of ability and quality was already considered a good talent.

The development of a Church had a lot to do with the priests and helpers under them. Beta knew that if he wanted to develop Woking's temple, he had to train more talents.

He opened the Temple's management system and looked at the number of shallow believers that kept rising. He smiled happily.

Although the shallow believers were still a distance away from becoming true believers, it was already a good thing to have such a huge increase in the number of believers all of a sudden. Moreover, these shallow believers were potential true believers. With a good start, the rest would be much easier.

While Beta was happy, Shirley suddenly pounced on him. She held Beta's right hand with both hands, and her whole body was almost glued to him.

She looked at Beta with a pair of seductive eyes and worshipful eyes. "I can feel a huge amount of faith gathering. I can feel that the goddess is very happy in the paradise. I can also feel that the goddess's strength has increased … Beta, you're really awesome. No wonder the goddess values you so much."

Beta, on the other hand, felt that it was natural. After three months of preparation and planning, if he still couldn't achieve this, he should really reflect on his own ability.

"Shirley, there will be a lot of people coming to pray tomorrow morning. Then you will go to the chanting platform and explain the doctrine of our temple to them."

"Huh? Is that okay?" Shirley's eyes were glittering.

It was no wonder that she was so happy. She was a divine creature created by the goddess Woking. In essence, she was a divine clone of the goddess. To be more precise, she could barely be regarded as Woking's daughter. The two of them were of the same origin. Woking became strong by absorbing the power of faith. Naturally, she could do the same.

As a matter of fact, she had absorbed some of the scattered power of faith just now and gained some benefits. If she went to the chanting platform and led the believers to pray, she would be able to absorb more power of faith, which would be of great help to the improvement of her strength.

That was why she was so happy.

Beta patted Shirley's head. "You can do it if I say so!"

"Wow, Master, you're so nice to me. Let me warm your bed tonight … Ah!"

Beta simply threw Shirley out of the window.

The next day, when it was barely dawn, the gate of the temple was opened. Many poor people who had been waiting outside for most of the night walked in. They sat down one by one and looked at Shirley, who was emitting feeble golden light on the chanting platform. Then, they closed their eyes and listened to Shirley's chanting. Soon, their consciousness became ethereal.

In their soul world, they vaguely saw a woman in golden armor. She looked exactly like Shirley, but she was more elegant and sacred than Shirley. They somehow realized that this woman was Goddess Woking.

Shirley was a divine creature, and it would be easier for her to strengthen the faith connection between God and his followers by chanting the doctrine.

Seeing the goddess' appearance, all the believers felt extremely happy and satisfied. They closed their eyes and shed tears, but they did not cry. About ten minutes later, they stood up with smiles and walked out of the temple, giving their seats to the next believer who came to pray.

The world was full of suffering and hardship, and the hearts of the people were marked with confusion and pain, but the kind gods could guide the hearts of people toward happiness and joy.

From the perspective of a materialist like Beta, this was actually a kind of mental paralysis. To put it more bluntly, it could be regarded as a mental drug. However, he knew that the people in this world couldn't lack faith … Not just in this world, even in a world without gods like Earth, people would imagine a few gods and give their hearts to them.

The mission was very successful. Every day, one or two shallow believers would become true believers. Many ordinary people also became shallow believers.

The news that a temple was built in the slums soon spread throughout the city. After knowing the benefits of believing in Goddess Woking, the ordinary people also went crazy. After asking the people in the slums about the rules of the Woking Temple, they also began to join the trend of believing in Goddess Woking. After all, building houses for free and education for free were enough to attract most ordinary people.

A large number of shallow believers brought a large number of faith contributions. Beta looked at the temple management interface and found the list of divine incantations to exchange. After some consideration, he chose a new divine incantation.

"Guardian of Faith!"

According to the quality of the sacrificial coins, three elemental creatures of different strength could be summoned as guards: Bronze Guard, Silver Swordsman, Gold Knight, and they would assist the summoner in battle.

Beta tested the strength of the three guards. The strength of the three guards was related to his level. The bronze guard was weaker than him in close combat, and the silver swordsman was about the same as him. As for the Gold Knight, judging from the interface, it was much stronger than him. However, Beta could feel that the three elemental creatures were very dull and soulless.

At least, Beta felt that if he wanted to fight the Gold Knight, it would not be difficult to fight two at the same time.

When he was about to do a more detailed test to see what special abilities the three guards had, Shirley told him that there was a bishop outside who claimed to be a believer of the Goddess of Love.

The Goddess of Love?

Beta was a little confused. Was he here to help Claude?

Although he felt that the visitor was not friendly, he still invited him into the temple.

The visitor was a man who seemed to be about the same age as Beta. He was also in his early twenties. It was just that his appearance was ordinary, but when he smiled, it gave people a very sunny feeling.

This time, Betta was even more surprised. The followers of the God of Love were usually women. First, there was an old man like Claude, and now there was a young man. Could it be that the God of Love's doctrine had changed and was now preaching to men?

Before the bishop came in, he was surprised to see Shirley. He could tell that Shirley was a divine creature, but he still held back his surprise and said with a friendly smile: " Your Excellency, let's form an alliance."