Devil's Bible

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Unless a decisive victory or defeat is achieved.

Therefore, this means that the war of the gods has begun!

At this moment, the more than two hundred floating whales controlled by the God of Discipline, and all the Discipline Churches on them, were displaying their divine power.

Central Earth Source Whale Region, Discipline Church Headquarters.

The Pope knelt on the ground, enduring divine punishment.

While the Pope was not entirely wrong in general, the bigger problem was that the God of discipline had not awakened.

But if God is disgraced because of this, it is the believers' mistake.

However, at this moment, the God of Discipline did not intend to harm the Pope, so he quickly stopped the divine punishment and then issued a divine decree.

The entire Discipline Church was mobilized, and at all costs, they destroyed the false god Nemus!

"As you command." The Pope showed no resentment at being punished and responded devoutly immediately upon hearing the divine oracle.

Although the Pope is not a saint, he is absolutely devout.

This is the structural mechanism in most churches.

The top-tier Golden Seeds become the core, while the Saints form another system.

The two systems check and balance each other, yet also integrate with each other.

The key figure in all of this is the Pope.

The Pope has a special status. Although he is not a saint, he can use divine powers like a saint, and the quality of his divine powers is even higher than that of holy powers.

However, at the same time, the Pope does not possess a pure soul; he is capable of contemplating all sorts of complex and dark things.

Because of their purity, saints, though equally intelligent, find it difficult to compromise and manipulate politics.

This is detrimental to church management.

At this time, the presence of the Pope becomes very important.

Phaethon undoubtedly possessed this quality.

At this moment, Phaethon, who had just been promoted to the Gold-class, began to rapidly improve.

The power of faith rapidly gathered at that moment, then invaded his body, raising his stats to a terrifying level.

"It's a god!" Phaethon's keen sensitivity to divine power allowed him to receive this power perfectly.

Even his contracted beast, the Secret Traveling Giant Spider, benefited greatly from this.

The fictional power of transformation rapidly enhanced his mastery of dream magic.

This is the Pope's privilege.

As the church leaders chosen by God, they are, to a certain extent, better able to represent God in the material plane than saints.

This is essentially a ritual formed by all of us.

Because all churches have this mechanism, the pope's status becomes special.

Although Nemus is not a god now, in some places he is not far from being a god.

The fictional power of "change" constructed by Nemus is also very compatible with dream abilities.

Fahrenheit could sense that as long as he adapted more, his strength would experience a rapid improvement.

Soon, he was able to rival a saint, and even suppress a saint to a certain extent.

This is also what makes the Pope special.

After assuming the papacy, Phaethon began to reform the fictitious agreement according to Nemes's wishes, making its system more in line with the current fictitious church.

First, there is the orthodox training of priests and paladins.

Secondly, there is the transformation of the three major legions: the Fictionalists, the Whale-like Beings, and the Swordsmen.

Then there's the villainous detective team, and their arrangements for sealing the demon.

Finally, there were the thousands of gold seeds.

Chapter 792 Faith Groups

At the same time, the previous aspect of public self-governance has also been strengthened.

The church has established a civil affairs department, which exists within the church but has a certain degree of autonomy.

Their core criterion for existence is that the civil service is dedicated to serving the people.

The aim is to increase the population, improve people's quality of life, and ensure that people do not commit crimes, among other things.

In general, it separated a portion of the civil affairs that were previously highly tied to faith within the church.

It is no longer a belief-based ideology.

Or, to put it another way, the fictional church believes that this system can make the people under its rule more prosperous and provide a higher quality of believers.

Of course, this will inevitably cause some of the general public to stop believing in God.

Sometimes faith is such a strange thing.

If one has a sound personality, a healthy mindset, and a strong spirit, then there is no need to project one's personality onto others or to worship other things.

Because their sound personality is fully capable of supporting them in facing the hardships and difficulties in life.

In this situation, faith can only serve as a form of psychological comfort.

Some of them believe that happiness is the result of their own efforts, ignoring the help that the environment provides.

Forgetting one's roots seems to be an inherent trait.

Such people can hardly be considered even superficial believers; they can only indirectly provide a little bit of faith.

In comparison, placing the people under one's rule in a state of inescapable suffering is an extremely efficient way of operating.

Under hardship, people's faith and devotion will increase significantly.

If we categorize faith by intensity, the faith of a saint is 100 points, while the faith of an unbeliever is 0 points.

The people under such a happy rule may only provide about five to ten points of faith.

Believers who know how to be grateful have a faith score of 15 to 30.

However, if we follow the church's logic of treating suffering believers, then most believers in suffering would have a faith score between 30 and 50.

Of course, in this situation, the stronger one's abilities and the more knowledge one has, the more difficult it is for a believer to be born who can generate higher quality faith power.

Therefore, the number of believers in the Discipline Church who can generate more than 50 points of faith power is relatively small.

It's even possible that most of the Gold-type individuals, even those with sublimated spiritual power, only generate around 50 to 60 points of faith.

Because they understood the essence of faith.

The Fury pantheon, on the other hand, uses pure calamity to intimidate and gain faith.

Treat faith as a necessity for survival; without fear and faith, disaster will make it impossible for you to survive.

In this way, many people's faith can reach 50 to 70 points.

Naim had roughly budgeted for this method of governance.

As the church becomes more stable, the number of believers may decrease, but once they commit to the faith, there will be a relatively larger number of high-quality believers who score between 50 and 90.

As their knowledge expands and they experience different places, they will come to understand where their own happiness comes from.

They will know why they are fighting.

"Overall, we will have to shoulder much more responsibility."

"There are also potential hidden dangers."

"But the total amount of faith will decrease."

This is a very real problem; faith often depends on a large number of people.

“It may take us decades to build up the base of believers and increase the total number of believers as the quality of life improves, the population grows generation by generation, and education and other means are provided.”

As a pope, Phaethon was able to roughly perceive the rate of growth and accumulation of faith.

After analyzing these points, he finally understood the other churches.

Why is it that even if they treated the people under their rule better, many problems could be solved, but those intelligent church leaders just don't do it?

If we treat population, believers, and the power of faith as mere numbers for calculation.

According to mathematical expectation, the other party's choice is the normal one.

The choice of creating a fictitious church feels like a thankless task.

Furthermore, the idea that the total number of believers will increase after several generations is still an ideal scenario.

Human nature is too complex, and no one can be sure what kind of changes in the mentality of these people living under rule will occur decades later.

Perhaps some noble servants will begin to miss the old church era.

They would believe that their lives would have been better during the old church era than they are now.

At that time, they might have claimed that their ancestors were from a noble family, and that in the past, you people would have been lowly commoners who didn't even have the right to meet them.

They even began to assume that if they were in that era, they would be among those in high positions of power, enslaving others.

If churches in other places were to slightly incite unrest during this process, it could potentially create a large number of rebels who enjoy the benefits of the fictitious church but resent the restrictions imposed on them by it.

Phaethon could have foreseen this.

"In the world of numerology, if you want to live a 'better' life than others, you have to meet mathematical expectations to a certain extent."

"Numbers are often cold and do not change according to human will."

"This is the essence of this world."

Logically speaking, if they want to develop the church, they should also act in accordance with this mathematical expectation and establish a corresponding mathematical model.

However, Nemes had told Phaethon about it.

"This world itself has reached its end."

"This approach may have worked in the past, but continuing down that path now will only lead us to our doom along with the world."

"Therefore, we need to find another way out. It is difficult, but it is something we must do."

"The end of the world will be like a giant wave, and we will use this giant wave as our stage to show everything we have!"

Nemes’ words are the will of Phaethon.

With the establishment of the church and the assistance of Phaethon and others, various departments are being rapidly established.

Of course, they are now also aware of one thing: even if the church is fully established, it can only play a supporting role at present.

Now, here comes the important part.

The attack came from the comprehensive encirclement and suppression by the Discipline Church, as well as the sabotage and covetousness of other cults.

And there is the real battlefield—the Astral Plane.

Nemus wants to become the Demon Prince, and he wants to truly ascend to godhood.

The key is to elevate the throne of God in the astral plane.

There will be too much resistance in this process.

Furthermore, Phaethon knew that Lord Nemus's true purpose was never as simple as becoming a demon prince through that bit of divine power.

Hunt down the God of Discipline.

Just thinking about those few words made Phaethon tremble with excitement.

That is, three days after the fictitious church was established.

The blue-sky whale suddenly cried out.

A large number of similar creatures are approaching.

Chapter 793 The Beginning of the Divine War

Phaethon's expression turned solemn, and he immediately issued an emergency battle order.