"Web of Faith?"
Charlotte was stunned for a moment when she saw the new ability appearing on the Blood Scripture.
She closed her eyes and felt it, and then she was surprised to find that she seemed to have actually weaved a huge "network".
Deep in the world of consciousness, the starlight symbolizing believers has changed. A network like a constellation appears around the starlight, connecting all the starlights, and finally converging on Charlotte, who is like the core.
The core of the core is Charlotte's heart, or to be more precise, the crystal of the endogenous flame in the heart that seems real and illusory, just like the godhead and divine fire in Western fantasy stories.
The network is anchored by the idols enshrined in the demihuman tribe, like a base station for mobile devices, and is connected to many believers through the idols.
Charlotte discovered that through this network, she could easily extend her power to every idol "entered into the network", and she could easily project power through the idol to every believer near the idol.
It's like a cell phone signal.
Of course, this is just a simple and crude metaphor.
In Charlotte's perception, every believer is actually a "base station" and can also receive and send her "signal", but it is stronger or weaker.
And no matter how weak the signal is, it is much more efficient than Charlotte's previous simple and crude way of contacting them through the starlight that symbolizes believers and projecting power.
Charlotte tried a little, and through this newly emerged belief network, she cast her sights on the werewolf Luf, the elf Sebastian, and the blood Earl Yurst.
Then I was surprised to find that contacting them through the faith network almost did not consume the divine power of blood!
To use an analogy, in the past, her contact with believers and subordinates was like shouting from a distance, requiring effort to stretch her neck and shout, but now it is like having a mobile phone, and she only needs to speak in a normal tone.
"This web of faith...there's something about it!"
Charlotte couldn't help but exclaim.
And at this moment, a new line of text appeared in her field of vision——
[Blood Sacred Scripture detects the faith network in use——]
[Belief Network Belongs to: Charlotte de Castel (Lord of the Holy Scriptures)]
[Current network status: semi-activated]
[Is it fully activated? 】
Fully activated?
Charlotte was stunned again.
After pondering for a moment, she tried to activate in the depths of her consciousness.
The next moment, the web of faith in her consciousness shimmered, and at the same time, Charlotte felt that the connection between herself and the believers was further strengthened.
She looked curious and planned to study it carefully, but then, overwhelming voices flooded into her consciousness:
"Praise you! Great True Ancestor of Blood, may you bless me to dig more mithril ores today!"
"My Lord! Please listen to the voice of humble believers and give me the possibility of awakening my bloodline!"
"Great True Ancestor of Blood, I want to confess to you..."
"O omnipotent Lord, I..."
"..."
All kinds of prayers penetrated from all directions and penetrated into Charlotte's mind. She couldn't help but exclaimed "Oh shit", and then quickly adjusted the Web of Faith to a semi-activated state again.
This time, the sound of prayer gradually disappeared, and was replaced by the twinkling stars in the web of faith.
Every flickering of the starlight meant that someone was praying to her.
Some are strong, some are weak.
"Phew, it's much cleaner now."
Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief.
She wanted to see how much divine power she had consumed by activating the Web of Faith just now, but when her consciousness went deep into the Blood Sacred Scripture, she discovered that all the blood divine power accumulated in the Sacred Scripture had disappeared.
"Huh? Why is the divine power gone?"
Charlotte frowned slightly.
After thinking about it, Charlotte consciously mobilized the divine power of blood, and then she found that she could still mobilize the power.
However, this power no longer comes from the divine power of blood stored in the Blood Sacred Scripture, but actually comes from her heart!
Or, to be more precise, it was the phantom-like translucent crystal in her heart.
Charlotte's heart moved, she sensed it carefully, and then discovered that the divine power in the Blood Sacred Scripture did not disappear, but was transferred.
The divine power was transferred to the crystal with the golden flame inside, and merged with the divine power remaining in the statue of the ancient temple. They were all concentrated in it, as if forming a pool of divine power.
At the same time, this pool of divine power is also connected to Charlotte's web of faith.
Charlotte sensed that the accumulated divine power in the divine power pool was almost the same as the previous total divine power of the Blood Sacred Scripture and the Ancient Statue. It was about 2,000 points, which was enough for her True Ancestor Liberation to spend more than half an hour.
"So...could this illusory crystal really be the godhead? And the flame is the divine fire?"
Charlotte looked confused.
"Then what am I now? A vampire? The master of the Blood Scripture? Or...am I already a 'god'?"
She mumbled a few words and felt her own strength, and then realized that if she didn't use her divine power, she would still be the weakling with only Silver Moon's strength.
Charlotte is a little confused about her current state.
what is this?
Schrödinger’s god?
Demi god?
False God?
Charlotte looked strange, and at this moment, something suddenly moved in her heart.
In her perception, a star in the web of faith suddenly flickered, and Charlotte keenly sensed that a weak energy flowed along the web of faith into the pool of divine power in her heart.
Although it is very weak, so weak that it cannot be detected at all without careful perception, and so weak that even if it is magnified ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, it will probably not be as much as a little bit of divine power, Charlotte can be sure that the divine power in her own divine power pool So much added.
She suddenly became energetic and realized a certain possibility. Then she quickly sank into consciousness and traced the source of the energy.
Following the web of faith, Charlotte easily traced the twinkling starlight, and when she lost consciousness, her vision changed instantly.
She "saw" a forest. In the forest, the ferocious monster had fallen to the ground with a spear stuck in its body, and a rough-looking werewolf was standing on the corpse of the monster, breathing heavily.
His body was undulating and his breath was erratic, and his whole body seemed to be exuding a strong rhythm of extraordinary power. The ferocious wounds on his body were squirming with granulation, and they were actually slowly healing.
I saw him pulling out the spear with force, causing a splash of blood. Then he stretched out his other hand and drew a symbol of thorns and roses on his chest crookedly, and then said in a deep voice:
"Praise the True Ancestor for giving me courage!"
Sensing the aura of the werewolf, Charlotte suddenly realized what had happened:
"He is a werewolf believer who fights monsters in the forest. He just broke through to the stars in a crisis..."
"So, the power just collected by the Web of Faith was the extraordinary power that exploded the moment he broke through to the stars?"
Charlotte was sure that was not the power of faith.
Or to be more precise, she had no idea what the power of faith was, and she had never heard of it since time traveling.
It is very likely that there is no power of faith in this world like the Western fantasy she had seen in her previous life. The power just now was pure extraordinary power. It was the power that exploded when the energy surged at the moment when the extraordinary person broke through.
With some guesses in her mind, Charlotte carefully perceived the network of faith again.
And this perception really made her discover a lot of things.
For example... her belief network is actually connected to the blood and lives of all believers, and seems to be connected through the soul and body.
And the more devout the believer, the closer the connection.
This connection is the channel of the web of faith. Charlotte can use this channel to give believers power, and at the same time, she can also absorb the power of believers through this channel.
At this time, the information about the Web of Faith in the Blood Sacred Scripture continued to emerge, and it seemed that the verification and loading had finally been completed:
[Web of Faith: As the totem of blood, the Lord of the Sacred Scripture has the ability to weave the web of faith. He can weave the faith network through the faith of believers, build faith anchors, use faith to anchor believers, grant believers divine blessings, cultivate, Absorb supernatural power and recover the soul and divine grace after the believer dies. 】
Cultivate and absorb extraordinary power?
Reclaiming souls and divine grace?
Looking at the description of the new ability, Charlotte was slightly startled.
She squinted her eyes and looked a little confused:
"So... the purpose of the gods developing believers is to establish a close relationship with the believers and let the believers help them practice together?"
"And this...is the secret of the gods?"
Charlotte almost instantly thought of some words Nice once said:
Gods are gods, and faith is faith. Master Mao heard someone say in the past that the gods are just a group of selfish parasites dressed in hypocrisy.
"A parasite... If the gods develop believers really to absorb the extraordinary power of the believers, then it is indeed a kind of parasitism."
Charlotte said to herself.
Of course, having said that, not all believers of gods are extraordinary beings, most of them are actually mortals.
"Mortals...mortals, if they are devout believers, will return to the Kingdom of God after death."
"Hiss, so, for mortals, after their death, their souls are recycled?"
"Soul power is also a kind of extraordinary power. Different people have different strengths and weaknesses..."
"The gods develop believers. Believers who master extraordinary power will give feedback to the gods when they improve their extraordinary power. After the believer dies, the soul will be taken back by the gods."
At this moment, Charlotte finally figured out the secret of the gods:
"No wonder, no wonder the gods want to develop believers. Although there is no such thing as the power of faith, developing believers is part of their efforts to increase their own strength!"
"It's like grazing. During the growth process, extraordinary people are absorbing the magic power escaping around them all the time. In other words... extraordinary power is like a sheep eating grass and growing wool."
"The gods who have established a belief network can absorb part of the energy in this process, similar to shearing sheep."
"And when a believer dies, just like a sheep that has grown and been slaughtered, the gods will reclaim the soul and the remaining supernatural power."
"This is also consistent with the need for funerals after believers die."
"It is preached in various churches that after the funeral, the soul of the deceased can be calmed, and the supernatural power remaining in the corpse can also be purified..."
"But in reality, I am afraid that funerals can 'lead' the souls of believers back to the kingdom of gods, and extraordinary powers can also be recovered with the help of the web of faith!"
"Of course, this is also a win-win situation for mortals and gods, because if the corpse of a transcendent is not processed or recycled, there is a high probability that it will really evolve into an undead."
"God grants believers divine grace and protection in exchange for the believer's soul after death and extraordinary power during his or her lifetime!"
At this moment, Charlotte realized.
Sure enough, if you want to fully understand something, the best way is to get in touch with that thing yourself, or even become that thing.
In the past, Charlotte had always been vague about the secrets of gods and believers, making guesses but not really understanding them.
Now that I have the web of faith, everything falls into place.
"I'm afraid the way the vampire myths enhance their strength is also the same. The gods of the vampire clan rarely care about the spread of faith, but they care very much about the evolution of their descendants..."
"The bloodline of the vampires is originally a web of faith in another sense. The fact that I can swallow the bloodline power of other vampires through the power of the Blood Sacred Scripture is a clear proof."
"In other words, in the vampire clan, the role of blood descendants may very well replace believers!"
For a moment, Charlotte thought of more.
At the same time, she also understood why Nice said that it didn't matter if faith deteriorated, because gods really didn't worry about faith deterioration.
The gods only need believers to believe in them and establish a channel. Even if the belief changes, as long as they still believe in the gods, the channel will still be there.
While the channel is still there, the gods can continue to gain power from believers.
Judging from the role of the web of faith, the status of gods and believers is not equal. Gods can completely control the life and death of believers in their hands. This also confirms the depravity of the gods that Charlotte has seen, and believers going crazy or directly Death story.
But then again, how can the strong and the weak be equal? Mortals who want to gain protection from gods and gain extraordinary power must pay a corresponding price.
"My current state should be one step closer to being a god. Although I am not a true god, I am afraid I cannot treat it as an ordinary life."
"Gods, divine power, faith, the Kingdom of God...if I really want to say it, I don't have the Kingdom of God yet. Maybe...this is the essential difference between me and the real gods now?"
Charlotte thought.
Charlotte still has many unanswered questions about gods.
However, one thing she was sure of.
That is, after having a network of faith, developing believers must also be put on the agenda.
Although there is no evidence, Charlotte has a feeling that she has actually embarked on the real road to becoming a god...
