Chapter 127 We call it efficient

Negotiations between Molaric and Laming have reached a stalemate. The two sides do not seem to have reached an agreement.

The negotiations were paused, and both parties temporarily left the negotiating table and rested on the sofa nearby. The servants pushed in a cart piled with snacks, and the two men grabbed some at random and put them in their mouths.

As time was precious for both parties, they agreed to cancel the dinner and take a short break before starting the next round of negotiations.

These appetizers that were originally served at the dinner party became their main course for the evening.

A servant came in, leaned over and whispered in Moralichi's ear.

"We intercepted a carriage loaded with weapons and armor."

The situation was not too surprising to Morarich. Although he didn't know the reason, the elves obviously wanted to support the rebels.

"Those weapons and armor bear the emblems of the human kingdoms surrounding the Whispering Wind Kingdom."

The attendant continued.

If the rebels had not been tracked before and found to be heading towards the forests surrounding the elves, these armors with emblems of other kingdoms would have been able to confuse Morarich and draw his suspicions to the surrounding human kingdoms.

"Mobilize the surrounding troops and inform the nobles. They will be happy to help capture these resistance fighters."

As long as the elves themselves do not take action, the few resistance members will not be able to pose a threat to Morarichi's rule here. At most, they can establish some simple strongholds in some remote forests and mountains.

But if the elves were to go down, the situation would be different.

"What happened?"

Lemming looked over with concern. Although there were many differences in the negotiations, the priests of the Sun God Cult still believed in their doctrine. "All human beings are under the sun."

"It's not a big problem, there are just some resistance elements active."

High Priest Leiming did not respond, and it was obvious that he did not want to get involved in these matters.

"It's almost break time, why don't we quickly resolve our previous issue so that you have more time to deal with yours."

"Indeed it is."

The two sides returned to the negotiating table.

"We still cannot accept the current missionary area, it is too small."

In terms of allowing the Sun God Cult to preach, the two sides have reached an agreement in previous negotiations. The Sun God Cult paid a considerable price for this. Church personnel in various places need to accept the jurisdiction of the local kingdom department. When necessary, the kingdom can dispatch these local church personnel. Unless it violates doctrine, church personnel cannot refuse these dispatches.

But under these conditions, the missionary area promised by Morari was not large.

"Those nobles still have some doubts about you. If you rashly expand the scope of your missionary work, it may cause them to backlash. You should also be aware of this."

Morari's reply was quite reasonable. When the kingdom was in existence, the Sun God Cult actually expanded its missionary scope step by step in this way.

But now, Laming needs to preach as quickly as possible to offset those grassroots believers who have been affected by excessive hatred. These gradual methods are not suitable for the current situation. Morarichi can certainly see the urgency of the High Priest Laming. Although he doesn't understand why he is so eager to preach on a large scale, this urgency can obviously allow him to appropriately increase the price.

"This time I will need to spend a lot of resources to 'appease' those nobles."

Moralich looked embarrassed. He was acting for Archbishop Laming. Archbishop Laming knew that Moralich was just acting, but he had no other choice. He had tried to preach without the support of the kingdom before, but due to the obstruction of the local nobles, their preaching efficiency was extremely low. The church that was recruiting believers would also be raided by the lord's soldiers. Although they would not do anything after revealing their identities, the church must not think about preaching during this period.

"Tell me what you want."

"It's simple. I hope to quickly reduce the belief in the God of Nature in the territory."

Those believers of the God of Nature are the natural allies of the elves. The investigation reports on several resistance fighters now show that they are all believers of the God of Nature. Reducing the number of believers of the God of Nature will make it more difficult for those resistance fighters to recruit personnel.

"It is difficult to convert a believer."

The kingdom's administrative bodies and nobles will cooperate in the action to shake up those believers.

"If the nobles cooperate and deprive those believers of the opportunity to pray and gather, in the long run, those believers with shallow faith may indeed be shaken."

Lei Ming nodded. Although this was still more difficult than preaching to those non-believers, the work of converting these believers of the God of Nature could be carried out simultaneously. It would just require sending more missionaries.

Since Morari has promised to cooperate, the extra missionaries should not cause any obstruction from them.

As for the Church, it now has more manpower because, due to previous actions, some kingdoms that were already wary of the Cult of the Sun began to exclude the clergy of the Church. Many clergy were driven out of those kingdoms and were left idle.

Given the importance the Pope attaches to this mission, there would be no obstacle in sending more personnel.

"We can send more personnel to specifically convert the believers of the God of Nature."

Morari knew that this was the biggest concession that Archpriest Leming could make. It seemed that they were now very eager to expand the scale of believers and could not waste too much time on such inefficient missionary activities.

"It doesn't matter. The church only needs to give us the list of those people who are very difficult to reform. We have our own 'efficient' methods."

Moralichi has many more efficient tools to eliminate the belief in the God of Nature. The only difficulty is to identify the believers of the God of Nature. Those who make it difficult for the Sun God Cult to convert believers are most likely the believers of the God of Nature. Moralichi only needs to do some simple interrogation to screen them out.

If you want efficiency, you can even skip the interrogation step.

Without believers, there is naturally no faith. The only thing to worry about is that this "efficient" behavior will lead to the intervention of the elves. The God of Nature has no church, and the elves are actually performing the duties of the church.

This is also the reason why the belief in the God of Nature only spreads around the forests of the elves. They rarely leave the forest. If they are too far apart, there is almost no way to maintain organization and connection between believers. Before long, these unorganized beliefs will dissipate.

"Also, I need the church to promise that if the elves intervene..."

"We will of course protect humanity from alien invasions, and the Skitarii will respond. If the situation requires, the Quasi-Legends of the Church will not sit idly by."

"Then let's talk about the scope of missionary work."

This time, most of the old noble territories that surrendered from the original Wind Whisper Kingdom were included in the missionary area. For Laming, this was an acceptable result.

(End of this chapter)