Chapter 136: Selecting Believers

"The goblins attacked Lania, causing her severe injuries. Is her life or death in doubt?"

Those who were interested in the church spread the news of Lania's attack. Lania had a high reputation in the kingdom, and this news caused a wave of expelling goblins in the kingdom.

"The goblins would never do such a thing."

There are still quite a few people in the kingdom who know something about goblins, and many of them have fought alongside the goblins against the undead.

But in the face of surging public opinion, anyone who dared to speak for the goblins was labeled a sympathizer of foreign races and a traitor.

"Fifty-eight trading points were besieged in the past week, causing considerable losses."

"The kingdom's diplomatic department sent a formal inquiry, asking us to give a reasonable explanation."

In the goblin city-state, ministers from various departments are holding an emergency meeting.

"Fortunately, our evacuation has already started for some time."

The goblins acted quickly, and before this anti-imperialist wave broke out in the kingdom, important personnel and property had already returned to the goblin city-state.

Now they have a lot of transportation capacity to transport those who are not members of the Chamber of Commerce. Many of the goblins have been frightened and are willing to pay a high price to buy a place to go to the goblin city-state.

"Although we have made some preparations, losing the trade of an entire kingdom will still make the next few years difficult. The profits from trade with the Kingdom of Valandi account for 20% of the Chamber of Commerce's annual profits."

The Minister of Finance was making calculations on paper.

After introducing some new variables obtained from the meeting just now, he calculated the losses that the Chamber of Commerce would suffer in the next few years after losing trade with the Kingdom of Valandi.

"Even taking into account the reduction in related costs, the Chamber of Commerce's profits may drop by about 10 percent in the next five years."

This sentence made all the ministers frown. A profit of about 10% is not a small amount of money for a goblin city-state of this size.

"Can we ask the survivors of the delegation brought by Lania to clarify? If possible, we still have to try to preserve trade in the kingdom."

The new Minister of Foreign Affairs smiled wryly and shook his head.

"How can I clarify this? Should I tell them that there are clergymen of the Church hiding in the delegation and that they were the ones who attacked Lannia? Even I don't dare to believe such a thing."

The Sun God Cult still has a very high reputation among ordinary people, and most people don’t particularly understand what they have done to alien races.

After all, the alien races that were exterminated by the Sun God Cult lived too far away from the activities of ordinary humans.

And even among those who do understand, most don't care.

"We can only wait until Lania wakes up completely and gives a speech to the people in person, then there will be a chance to retain some trade in the kingdom."

Lania was still in a coma. Thanks to the efforts of the priests of the Church of Life, her vital signs had stabilized. But it would take time for her to wake up completely.

"We can only hope that the new nobles can control the situation."

Although he did not dare to clarify what happened in the city-state to the outside world, Lannia's envoys still contacted several of his most trusted new nobles and informed them of the information they knew about the attack.

The fact that the kingdom's army has not assembled and attacked the goblin city-states is thanks to these new nobles. "I propose to revise this year's budget. Increase the budget for hiring adventurers and mercenaries to 8% of the total budget expenditure, just in case."

"agree."

The ministers quickly agreed to the proposal, and only the finance department seemed unhappy. This meant that they would have to work overtime again, and the annual budget was limited. After increasing the budget for hiring mercenaries and adventurers, the budgets of all other departments would have to be adjusted accordingly.

"Where is the pilgrim team? At this time, we need more guidance from the master."

"Based on the time, we should have arrived early."

Fary looked at the team in front of him, and the situation of this team did not look very good.

The wounded and sick accounted for nearly 20% of the entire team.

In order to minimize conflicts with humans, this team avoided most of the existing human gathering points. However, the environment outside the human settlements was not good. The humid forests and large numbers of mosquitoes were the best helpers in the spread of diseases.

Even though they avoided human settlements, they were still discovered by the Crusader reconnaissance teams several times, and each time there were conflicts of varying degrees.

The alliance between the Kingdom and the Goblins has expired. Now the Skitarii, who have an inexplicable hatred for the alien race, have one less thing to worry about, and their hatred and hostility towards the Goblins are no longer concealed.

"Is that so? Kralele is dead."

The goblin leader had already stated his intention. Fary looked at the team in front of him. The white lines of faith floating from the goblins were very stable. Much better than when Kalalailai became a believer.

Just from their belief in Farai, these people can become believers.

"Give me a detailed list of them. A detailed list with their special abilities, mutant bloodlines, and strength levels."

However, Rui couldn't convert all of them into believers. He wasn't even a quasi-legend now, even though the dragon race was special. And he seemed to be a special one even among the dragons. He didn't dare to have too many believers rashly.

During his sleep he had felt the influence of those who were connected to him through faith.

Those ordinary believers who are just relatively firm in their faith were able to constantly squeeze into Fari's mind during his last sleep, and the influence of believers would only be greater.

When Kalalailai prayed, Farui could clearly feel his thoughts and intentions, and sometimes, when the two had similar views on things, Farui would even have some illusions that these thoughts and intentions were his own. This is probably the influence that believers have on "gods".

Although the influence of one believer, Kalalailai, has become very weak as his power grows, if the number of believers increases significantly, the situation may be very different.

Fari decided to act cautiously and select only the best few "people" in the team to be converted into believers.

In short, let’s take a look at the resumes of these “people” first.

The so-called gods in this world have a rather rough way of accepting believers. Most of them can become a believer as long as you have a firm enough faith, are willing to follow the teachings and scriptures of the gods, are recognized by the priests in the church, and are baptized.

Those so-called gods will not screen whether to accept a believer.

"That's not okay."

This is almost like throwing all the power of personnel to subordinates. Farui doesn't intend to do this.

(End of this chapter)