The clergy of the Holy City have thought about all the tragedies of the Holy City under the rule of the Magic Association, but they have never thought about such a result. According to the past style of the Magic Association, a major purge is inevitable, and the churches have also made preparations, lurking while waiting for support from branches across the mainland.
But this time, the Magic Association no longer acted as they expected.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows who should make the decision this time.
This divine messenger of the Church of Life has often made unexpected moves since he appeared in front of people, and every move can have a huge impact. During the spread of the Church of Life, the Magic Association had unknowingly begun to be accepted by various countries in the mainland. One of the reasons was that Yin Lian persuaded the Black Sage to send businessmen and adventurers to spread rumors about the Magic Association in various countries. Many of these rumors are not about how amiable the Magic Association is, but just legends about some of the achievements and anecdotes of the mages.
However, these rumors can make people better understand the Magic Association and the mages as a group, thus shortening the distance between the two parties and changing the average person's impression of the Mages Association.
Although it's just a tiny bit each time, as long as such rumors overshadow those rumors about who killed people and experimented on people, it will have a positive impact on the Magic Association.
This is an opportunity for others to learn about the Magic Association through another channel, and it is also a means for Yin Lian to try to reshape the public image of the Magic Association. People in this world don't seem to realize the importance of public opinion, especially the Magic Association, an illegal business organization that has been regarded as a villain for many years. Most of them have a completely broken mentality and don't care about reputation at all. Plant something.
The only person who has some vague awareness of this aspect may be the Black Sage, so he has been dedicated to managing the Magic Association's relationship network among the political forces in various countries for more than a hundred years. But Yin Lian felt that his method was still too limited - he underestimated the power of the people too much.
If every individual force is a giant who can make a powerful voice that no one can refuse, then the public is equivalent to the medium. These media themselves rarely speak, and even if they say something, no one may care. But they are the key factors that determine which sounds will be conveyed in the end and how they will be conveyed.
Their abilities may be small and their ideas may be insignificant, but they can influence the thoughts of many people.
So Yin Lian asked people to use vivid stories to describe the various interesting magic props created by the mages, describe some of the mages' daily interesting things, and made some people's stories into legends that were familiar to him but had no idea who they were talking about. The story was spread to the public bit by bit.
And this strategy is clearly working. Because compared to the horror stories about mages that have been spread by the Holy City for hundreds of years, such rumors are obviously more novel and interesting, and can attract more people's attention.
This kind of public opinion building has also had a great impact on the distant Holy City. If not for this, according to the results of the church's brainwashing over the years, it would never have been so smooth when the Magic Association took over the Holy City. Except for the people of the church , almost no ordinary people carry out suicidal resistance because of excessive fear.
And the laws related to faith that have appeared now have surprised many people. Perhaps to ordinary people, this kind of freedom of belief decree is a kind of goodwill of the Magic Association to the people, and only the major churches understand the huge ambitions of the Magic Association buried under these laws and regulations.
He is trying to weaken the influence of the Holy City Church itself, but he is using the name of the believers in the name of it. Once implemented, all churches will be hijacked by the Magic Association - because all people are "protected" by them.
Not only that, in fact, even the church can be "protected" by the Magic Association as long as they are willing to surrender to the Magic Association. What does it mean? This means that all churches will completely lose their own sovereignty, and even future distribution of interests and power struggles will have to be conducted through the Magic Association.
Most powerful sects reacted with scorn to such a decree.
However, some weak or moderate sects inevitably have different views.
"Pastor Rosa asked me to come here for something?"
The female priest in a moon-white robe smiled and said, "Mr. Luther, you have been doing business all over the mainland all year round and are well-informed. I have something to ask you."
When the businessman heard this, he was not surprised and just said respectfully: "Please tell me."
Pastor Rosa said: "Do you know anything about the Life Church and the Magic Association?"
The businessman didn't expect this to be what she asked, so he hesitated for a moment.
Rosa saw the hesitation in his expression and took the initiative to speak: "You don't have to hesitate, just say it. What I want to know is the most real situation of the Life Church, not the exaggerated and alarmist claims of the Sun Church."
Luther said: "I don't know the internal situation of the Life Church. In fact, the rumors circulating about the Life Church are quite exaggerated and may not be taken seriously. But since the saint wants to know, I can naturally tell you."
"It is rumored that the predecessor of the Church of Life was actually a wild sect that farmers believed in. Then one day, an angel suddenly appeared, claiming to be the goddess of life. The angel was quickly worshiped and believed by the farmers. The wonderful thing is , she really brought a lot of unheard of but very useful plant seeds. With her leadership, the nearby villages gradually became rich. After that, for some unknown reason, she led the self-defense groups of the villages all the way to the capital of the sages. , and convinced the Black Sage to let her build a temple in the capital of the sages."
"Persuasion" Rosa pondered for a long time and said, "I don't think the Black Sage is a person who is easily persuaded."
Luther said: "This messenger of mercy is a character like Salmati. You may not know that although the Holy City is in its current state, young people secretly visit her every day. Even For someone as young as me, when I see her, I feel like a goddess has descended upon her. She has an aura about her that makes people unable to help but listen to her."
After hearing this, Rosa frowned and asked, "But magic was used?"
Luther shook his head and said: "It will make people feel like this for a moment. But you know, I have encountered this kind of thing in my early years. I can basically judge that it is not magic. At least it is not a spell that confuses people."
Rosa said, "You mean charisma?"
Luther said: "If you say so, it's not too wrong."
Rosa was silent for a long time and didn't say much. When he came back to his senses, he began to ask Luther some other details. Luther told her about the orphanage, the looms and the miracles.
Rosa has actually heard of most of this content, but after all, she has been in the Holy City, and she does not know the situation in other places as well as Luther, so listening to Luther's detailed explanation at this time also has a certain understanding of the Life Church. I know a lot more about the specific situation.
Finally, she said to Luther sincerely: "Mr. Luther, this conversation is very useful to me. Thank you very much."
Mr. Luther raised his hat, saluted, and said, "It is an honor for me to serve the Moon God."
After Yin Lian spent some time busy, he roughly understood the current form of the Holy City.
Although there are twelve bishop sects in the Holy City, the Sun God Sect and the Aeolian God Sect are the most powerful. In theory, the Sun God Cult and the Luna God Cult should echo each other, but the Luna God Cult ranks last among the twelve bishops and has almost no sense of existence.
In addition to the Sun God Cult and the Fengshen Cult, the relatively influential Vulcan Cult, Poseidon Cult and Martial God Cult are all quite radical and aggressive churches, and they were also damaged in this confrontation with the Magic Association. The most serious churches.
In addition, there are some churches, such as the Moon God Cult, which believes in the moon god, and is dominated by female priests, the Craftsman God Cult believed by craftsmen, and the Shepherd God Cult believed by farmers, for example. The presence of the Church of Life and the Magic Association was relatively peaceful, and there was even a hint of goodwill.
Yin Lian estimated that this was the result of her having people spread her teachings and farming knowledge during this period.
From this reaction, Yin Lian saw the opportunity to divide the Holy City and then conquer them one by one.
She was thinking about it in the temporary magic cabin when she heard someone knocking on the door. She asked: "Who?"
The person outside replied: "It's me, the messenger of God."
Yin Lian waved his hand and the door opened. The person who walked in was a waiter from the Life Cult Temple and said, "God's Envoy, Sir Dale asked me to give this to you."
After Yin Lian took it over, he found it was a list. She thought for a moment and remembered that this list should be the names of believers in the Holy City that she had asked Dale to send people to collect before.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of repairing the church to preach, Yin Lian also recruited a number of believers during this period. However, the character and ability of these believers and who is usable and who is not are still things that require time-consuming investigation to know. She didn't have the time herself, so she gave this task to her priest.
The list we got now is obviously the result of the inspection.
It was densely filled with many small words, detailing the character background, ability level, and the results of the inspections during this period of believers that the pastors considered worthy of use.
And Yin Lian quickly saw several special characters on this list.
She found the waiter and asked, "Did Mr. Murphy's background information say that he was a former cardinal of the Sun God Church?"
After hearing this, the waiter immediately replied: "That's right." Then she said, "Your Excellency Dale was also surprised before, because it is said that Mr. Murphy was the adopted son of the former Pope. Later, the former Pope died unexpectedly, and Mr. Murphy also He was soon removed from his position as bishop because of a mistake in a major ceremony. He had not left his home for almost seven years. He usually made a living by performing spells on people. Unexpectedly, he took the initiative to come to us this time. Here, hoping to get a job.”
