Inside a building.
"Will the judgment be successful?" a woman asked uncertainly.
"It worked several times before," the man replied confidently, "and it will work this time too."
"There are already too many gods in this world. People no longer need new gods." A man sitting in a chair with his eyes closed stated the fact.
The woman began pacing back and forth, feeling slightly uneasy. "I finally managed to talk to the Baroness. Because of the recent church incident, she's been struggling and needs to find a new deity to worship. I sensed during our earlier conversation that she seemed a little wavering. Rather than the well-known gods, she's more inclined to worship a new deity, one that doesn't yet have any noble support."
"It's okay. I believe she will make the right decision soon."
The Guild of Believers.
"We meet again." Susan didn't seem surprised to see Eryi again. "It was pretty quick, wasn't it?"
Eryi smiled friendly and said, "Perhaps we will have more opportunities to meet in the future."
"No, believe me," Susan shook her head disapprovingly, "that's not a good thing."
"It's okay, we can turn it into a good thing." Eryi waved to Susan, turned his back, and followed the staff member who had led the others in into an office.
The office is well-lit and spacious, giving it a relaxed and comfortable feel. To the left, there's a chair. Underneath it, a magic circle is woven into the carpet, giving it an air of expensive quality.
"Has this Marian priest ever pressured you to abandon your original faith and switch?" A staff member guided Judy to a chair on the magic circle, a friendly expression on his face. This was a routine question. Long ago, when the continent was still in chaos, the church at that time would resort to all sorts of tactics to win over believers, including but not limited to blackmail, deception, coercion, and financial inducements.
"No," Judy answered truthfully. The staff member looked at the magic circle, saw no reaction, and then scribbled a few notes in his notebook.
"Please stay here and silently recite the prayer to the Harvest Goddess in your heart."
"Okay." Judith nervously sat up straight. After entering the healing station, she continued to pray to the Harvest Goddess every day. But at the same time, she also inadvertently paid attention to news about Maria. Although she had not found any information about this deity, she was not sure whether this would be considered a betrayal of the deity.
Faith is a very mysterious thing. It closely connects every believer with their god.
Different churches have different requirements for believers. The typical gods of light and gods of curse require absolute faith and even have mandatory regulations on the number of prayers.
The God of War and the Goddess of Life are slightly more relaxed, requiring independent beliefs, but prayers are not as strictly controlled.
The Harvest Goddess, the Blessing Goddess, the Goddess of Love, etc., are much more relaxed. What they can bestow upon their believers is not so direct, so sometimes the believers of the Harvest Goddess occasionally go to the church of the God of Love to pray for a happy relationship, and the priests turn a blind eye and do not care.
"Thank you, Goddess of Harvest, for giving us..." Judy closed her eyes and clasped her hands together, praying as she did every day before dinner. As Judy recited the prayer, Eryi opened her personal dashboard to observe the situation.
From the moment Judy uttered the name of the god, her status panel began to flash a new status. [Prayer] Harvest Goddess Faith: 56
As she prayed halfway, her faith began to rise little by little until the prayer ended and her faith stopped at 65.
As Judy recited the prayer, the magic circle on the carpet began to glow, and finally formed the shape of a handful of golden rice, and finally dispersed. Judy breathed a sigh of relief, believing that this meant that the Harvest Goddess still had her faith and responded.
But before she could leave the chair, the staff member said again: "Next, please pray to Mary."
"This..." Judy couldn't help but look at Eryi.
Eryi stopped reading the Faithful Union regulations and quickly replied, "Maria doesn't have a prayer."
"Huh?" the staff member was visibly stunned. He'd never heard of a deity without a prayer. How could one gain faith without prayer? But this didn't faze him. He quickly recalled the instructions in the onboarding guide and rummaged through a nearby cabinet. "We have a universal prayer. Just replace the name with the corresponding deity's name."
They need to be evaluated, and often there is a buffer period when believers switch their faith. During this time, the new faith is forming, but the old faith is still lingering in the believer's heart. During this time, if the believer goes to the believers' union to register to change their faith, if the original faith is higher, the change of faith will fail and an additional processing fee will be required.
Honestly, this is actually a loophole, a tacit agreement between the old gods and the believers' union.
The old gods can use this buffer period to win back the hearts of believers, and the believers' union can obtain handling fees.
Simply put, if a change of faith is not registered, and the new faith is higher than the old one, and if it lasts for more than one day and is reported (the believer's union has a special communication spell to check the faith time), a fine will be imposed. After the fine is paid, we will help the believer change their faith, and there is no handling fee for this.
In the event of a failed report, the reporter will be fined according to the severity of the situation.
When you prepare to register, if your new faith power is lower than your old faith power, you will have to pay a handling fee.
It was indeed very complicated, and because of its complexity, the source of the conflict between the churches was quickly stopped. — The members of the Faithful Union explained the terms clearly and logically, leaving the priests feeling overwhelmed. However, the Faithful Union's actions were supported by the various monarchs and even the gods they believed in. In the end, everyone was punished so badly that they finally stopped.
But it must be said that this is very unfriendly to the new gods.
That’s right, whether it’s the monarchs or the gods, they no longer want new gods to be born.
After Judy took the prayer handed to her by the staff, she began to recite it haltingly.
Then she gained another status: [Prayer] Maria Faith: 3.
As the prayer began and ended, the Faith Point gradually rose to 5, and the magic circle on the carpet began to emit a faint light, which soon dissipated. Fluffy, lying beside Eryi, raised his eyelids to glance at the remaining light and yawned nonchalantly.
"Hmm..." The staff member seemed to be thinking about something. Judy had never changed her faith before, nor had she considered the issue of changing her faith. She was not very familiar with the rules of the Believers' Union and seemed very uneasy.
Eryi walked up to Judy, patted her on the shoulder, and said to the staff, "I want to talk to your person in charge."
Judy felt a little dizzy when she walked out of the Believers' Union. She usually looked smart and hardworking, but she was easily frightened when she met important people and big occasions.
"No fine?" Judy asked uncertainly. "I hope I didn't cause you any trouble."
"Don't worry," Er Yi said mysteriously, "We are definitely not the ones who will be fined, and we will never be fined again."
"oh."
After the incident, those involved kept silent about the fines. Even the priest who reported the incident was very vague: "Of course, what they did was wrong." But he didn't say much about the fines, so others naturally assumed that it was Maria's priests who were fined, after all, this was always the case.
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No one has bought the elemental crystals placed at the door yet, but Eryi is not in a hurry for the time being. The potions in the pharmacy are in short supply, and the elemental crystals are more effective in replenishing magic power. After the magicians use them, there will be no worries about sales.
Since her healing inn opened, most of the transactions had been related to mana acquisition, while her main business had been deserted. She even began to think about distributing flyers at the Adventurer's Guild.
That day, Judy asked for leave: "Sorry, the neighbor's aunt said my sister had a fight with other children in church and hurt them, and asked me to go and see them quickly."
"Are you hurt?"
"Yes."
"Okay, I'll go with you." She wanted to take the opportunity to see the healing power of the native gods of this plane.
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