While both the penal colony and the demon world were undergoing drastic changes, the main world was very comfortable.
Since the Advent Saint of the Natural Church walled off the world, most of the remaining areas have returned to a normal pace of life.
After a long period of negotiation, debate, and compromise, various countries finally reached a preliminary joint operations agreement and tariff relaxation agreement.
It sounds beautiful, but in actual implementation, it is still a lot of nonsense.
For example, before the descendant saint sacrificed herself, she did not completely seal all the passages, leaving some areas constructed by the terrain that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Several countries on the southern front have an average of one or two threat points that require long-term garrisoning.
It stands to reason that after signing a joint combat agreement, it is time to rotate or cooperate in garrisoning, but in fact it is still those few countries that are supporting it alone. Others are not threatened, and they only take out a little bit of military supplies when they are occasionally noisy and impatient. and equipment to the front line.
For example, most recently, the remnants of the Thunder Nation received 200 muskets from its northern neighbor.
200 muskets!
The fighting was a little more intense, and this was just the amount of damage on the front line in two days.
Speaking of Thunder Country, this country that once considered itself "advanced" has only half of its previous territory and its population has dropped to one-fifth. It can be said that only an empty shell remains.
If it weren't for the support provided by Life Church and Light Church, the group would have disbanded long ago.
In fact, disbandment is not far away now. The parliament has been completely dissolved. The original border guards are enforcing military control and trying to squeeze some strength out of the broken limbs of Thunder Kingdom to grow again.
Of course, it is impossible to grow again. The establishment of two major dioceses, the Church of Light and the Church of Life, has quickly taken up a large number of educational resource gaps through church schools. The citizens of the future will not agree with this thundering country that has torn itself apart.
The church's power grows during disasters not because the church has greater human power.
Proportionally speaking, the church has more magic talents, but in the final analysis, the total number of the three major churches combined is less than one percent of the total population. Even if it includes believers who only worship the three major churches, it only accounts for about 30%. .
The growth of the church's power is simply because non-clerical countries are so poor at disaster response. Naturally, more and more people will want to find more reliable asylum seekers.
Nature worship groups like the Goddess of Four Seasons are unable to provide safe products. Only the three major churches are truly capable.
These people are just believers and cannot be directly counted as a church force. The real clergy transformation mechanism is more complicated.
Take the Bright Church as an example. The clergy members generally grew up in the church. For example, if the father died and the mother found a job that could not take care of her children while working, the children would be sent to the church to play with their peers. The church In order to expand the number of devout believers, everyone is encouraged to do this.
This form is different from a church school. The church seldom directly participates in teaching. It only sends a few nuns or monks to watch over the children to prevent them from getting lost. In the process, they read church classics to the children as stories.
This method of raising children will produce a larger proportion of devout believers than church schools, but after all, the scale is small and there are some academic deficiencies. Even if there is a chance to join the church later, most of them will be nuns and monks at the bottom.
There is only one situation for adults who want to join the church, and that is if they look particularly friendly, whether they are easily liked by believers or by children. However, the promotion paths are also limited, and they can only reach the level of priests at most... and priests. Women at the corresponding level are still called nuns.
True magic church members are mainly produced in closed-managed church schools.
The Bright Church has three types of church schools, while Lei Mingguo currently only has two types, namely ordinary church schools that are self-financed and closed schools with a public welfare nature. The latter is very low-cost, even a single-parent family can afford it.
The third type of school is similar to the second type, but it does not require payment. Only children who grew up in the church and have no relatives have the opportunity.
One of the functions of these church schools is to screen out children who have the potential to learn magic and have a deep understanding of the doctrine.
All children who have attended church schools, accounting for about 1% of the total, will enter the church system and serve as monks for a period of time. If they can learn some elementary tricks with the help of self-study and other members of the church, they will have the opportunity to enter the "Holy Saint" within the Church of Light. Study at the Academy of Light.
However, this line only reaches the level of priests and regional bishops. It mainly interacts with ordinary people and will not let them face the demons directly.
The backbone of the church comes from the group of abandoned babies.
Ordinary people who have children and feel they cannot support them, or simply do not want to raise them, can pack them up and put them in the church, and the church will raise them together.
The overall growth pattern is also along the line of church schools, which is the main source of students in the third type of church schools. Those who are talented do not need to be priests and can directly transfer to Holy Light College.
Only those who can reach the third ring within the age of twenty-four can continue to climb up. They also need to serve as basic monks for a few years in between. The best performing group, after passing the spiritual test, have the opportunity to become a divine warrior at the age of 32 to 35.
The saints and saints also came out of this group, and they were all pious geniuses.
The term "devout genius" may be a bit strange. In fact, the more geniuses are, the less influenced their minds are by stories about ghosts and gods. They will choose to become "vessels", many of which are because of their sense of mission to "die for the human race."
It doesn't matter if you don't have any talent. Children who are completely raised by the church are important human resources of the church, and various civil affairs of the diocese are also mainly handled by them.
Therefore, in a mature diocese, there will also be a group of godsons between the church and believers. They are responsible for various purchases of churches and schools and the overall administrative affairs of the diocese. Those who are really useless will live around the church like ordinary people. .
When the size of this group reaches a certain level, it may be converted from a parish into a bishopric. Depending on the size of the faithful, a new Holy Light College may be built locally.
All in all, there is still a long way to go from the time when people are in trouble and have to turn to the church for help to the time when they are truly transformed into the power of the church.
If the Advent Saint of the Natural Church had not sealed the wall, based on past experience, the grassroots threshold would have been relaxed during the Three Realms War. Although it would have led to a decrease in purity, it would have at least maintained combat effectiveness to a certain extent.
Now all countries appear to be too lazy because of the existence of the [Great Wall].
But the three major churches, especially the Light Church, are actually tightening their grip.
They suspended the increase in the number of divine warriors, invested more funds in the Holy Light Academy, and slightly accelerated the pace of training combat priests and nuns.
It may not be useful, but due to the astronomical cost of arming the divine warriors, a balance point has to be struck.
Making such a change is partly due to Shanggang.
