Chapter 128 Explosion
The negotiations between the goblins and Lannia are still going on. What were originally thought to be just some minor disagreements are actually much more difficult to resolve than imagined.

Savrina had lost interest in this and had left during the second round of negotiations. The goblins had selected a hundred young "people" who had firm faith in Farui and were preparing for a new pilgrimage, hoping that Farui would be interested in some of them and make them a new group of believers.

Savrina was observing these young "people", most of them were goblins, a few were humans, and there were a few smarter ogres.

They were loading supplies onto the wagons, and this time the team was led by a human from the Foreign Affairs Department, who was studying the map and planning the route for the pilgrimage. Safrina noticed that the route he prepared bypassed all areas controlled by the Sun God Cult.

"Lady Safrina."

Several goblins recognized Savrina, and the surrounding goblins reacted and bowed to Savrina in awe, chanting prayers that evolved from the goblin legends.

A thin stream of power of faith flowed towards Savrina. After being promoted to the tenth level, Savrina could already vaguely sense the existence of the power of faith. Now, the faith flowing to her was much more than what she had received in the entire year of cooperation with the Sun God Cult.

Savrina nodded and walked towards the Chamber of Commerce headquarters in the center of the city-state.

He has not forgotten the main purpose of his visit, which is to find out what has happened on the continent recently.

The intelligence department of the Chamber of Commerce produces a briefing every year, recording what happened on the mainland in that year. Now, the briefings from the past few years are piled on the table in the most central office.

Normally, no one used that office. It was prepared by the goblins for the real owner of the Chamber of Commerce, Fari. Only Fari and his "envoy" Safrina could use it. Usually, except for necessary cleaning and file updates, no one would go in and out of here.

The documents on the table have been organized into categories, allowing Savrina to directly find the content that interests her.

She excluded the intelligence information from the distant kingdoms from her sight and searched for what she wanted. Something must have happened in the Sun God Cult. Although the goblins probably didn't have any information about the Sun God Cult, the external actions summarized could give Savrina some directions for speculation.

"The Sun God Cult has reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Valandi. They will have the right to preach in the kingdom."

Savrina had known this news for a long time. This was their reward for supporting Lannia.

"The number of Sun God believers is growing very fast. Most of the civilians in the areas ravaged by the undead have joined the faith in the Sun God."

Not surprisingly, the free food and welfare homes distributed by the Sun God Cult are extremely attractive to those who have survived the rampage of the undead and have nothing. These poor people will soon regard the brothers in the church as spiritual support and begin to believe in the Sun God like everyone else.

"The Sun God Cult has stopped building churches and proselytizing in new areas, and appears to be trying to slow down the pace of its expansion."

This move was a little strange because the church did not face any external obstacles, and many new nobles even hoped that the church could be more active. These churches greatly reduced their governance costs.

Those displaced people would receive food and simple treatment from the church. After becoming believers, they could easily organize themselves with other believers and start working. Most importantly, these believers still paid taxes to the nobles.

But the Sun Cult still began to stop its expansion, and the goblins added their speculations to the briefing.

“Maybe it’s a shortage of resources?”

But in the next briefing, this speculation was overturned.

"After receiving the news, a large number of displaced refugees flocked to the areas where the church existed, and the number of believers began to increase again. It seems that the church still has sufficient supplies to deal with these refugees." It seems that the church has taken the initiative to stop expanding. Some details in the report show that although the church still provides food and medical treatment to the refugees who came later, it does not actively carry out missionary work.

However, the doctrine continues to spread through the lower-class believers and followers, and the number of people believing in the Sun God Cult continues to increase.

Just then, the content that Safrina was looking for appeared in the briefing.

"There are many voices among the lower-level priests of the Sun God Cult calling for the extermination of the undead."

This is not a rational voice. Large groups of undead have been wiped out, and the remaining undead are scattered in the mountains and forests far away from human settlements, and can no longer cause much impact on humans.

The sensible approach is to focus resources and energy on reconstruction rather than launching a heavy attack on the Undead, which has already declined and can no longer pose a real threat.

Naturally, the church ignored these voices at first, but this group of priests continued to expand as new believers joined, and most of those believers had a fear of the dead engraved in their hearts. Now that they were safe, this fear turned into extreme hatred.

This hatred spread in the Sun God Cult at an extremely fast speed. Even those priests who were transferred here from churches in other kingdoms and had never experienced the ravages of the undead, inexplicably hated the undead as much as those who had suffered from the ravages of the undead. Moreover, many people's hatred was even greater than that of the priests who had suffered from the ravages of the undead.

The church then began to eradicate the undead.

"The attitude of the Sun God Cult towards alien races is extremely deteriorating. They seem to have begun to believe that all alien races, like the Undead, are enemies ready to destroy them."

The recent changes in the Cult of the Sun reminded Savrina of what she had learned on Dragon Island.

“Believers influence the gods, and the gods influence the believers, bringing them closer to the gods.”

Of course, as the dominant party of faith, gods have a dominant influence on believers. Believers of the god of nature will naturally be close to nature, and believers of the god of life will respect the process of life more and will hardly take the initiative to kill.

But when a large number of believers have similar thoughts, the situation will be different. The gods will be more affected, and this influence will be extended to more believers as the gods, reverberating repeatedly like an echo wall and constantly strengthening.

"We need to make some preparations. If the Sun God Cult can't stop in time..."

Most of the dragons' records about gods were placed on the third floor and above. All Savrina could access were fragments of references to gods in other materials. But even from these fragments, Savrina could see that if this echo continued to grow, it would only turn the entire church into a group of lunatics.

"We will restrain the Sun God Cult and make them stop attacking alien races."

In the conference room, the negotiations were in the final stages and it seemed that most of the differences had been resolved.

Just as Lannia was about to sign her name on the document, the guard beside her seemed to notice something and threw Lannia to the ground.

Then, a violent explosion sounded.

(End of this chapter)