133. The Contractor
This was the first time Talos set foot on the land of the Rhine Kingdom, although he was on the run.
The human camp has three powerful divine powers, the god of order and knights, the god of agriculture and harvest, and the goddess of love. The headquarters of the three temples are located in the Golden Empire Saraphus, the Kingdom of Rhine, and the Kingdom of Farrow, which has also become the name of the three major kingdoms.
The Rhine Kingdom is the base camp of the agricultural church. What appears to Talos is a quiet, leisurely, beautiful and harmonious pastoral scenery.
The neatly planned and neatly ordered land is planted with various crops and flowers that cannot be named, and are thriving - even if winter is now in the northern hemisphere - farms and pastures are everywhere, and they look quite prosperous, not like the "a remote, small place suitable for seclusion" mentioned by Anistora.
It seems to be seeing the doubt in Talos's eyes. The female bishop introduced: "This is Yorkshire, so you can also see relatively backward large-scale farms and pastures. If it is a city, what you see is a three-dimensional agriculture that is very different from the traditional agricultural pastors. It is said that it can use the least manpower, and produce better quality and more numerous crops - an explanation from a pastor of an agricultural church."
Talos nodded, knowing that it was all the credit of the Agricultural Church.
The main material plane, with many professionals, they will not engage in agricultural labor at all. Compared to labor, they are more willing to pursue strength, power, money, reputation, and beauty (handsome men). In this environment, the agricultural church unites the vast majority of farmers to support the foundation of the entire Sionce.
From the most basic planting industry to the animal husbandry, forestry, fishery and side businesses that adapt to local conditions, they are all areas of agricultural churches. The Kingdom of Faro has also gained fame such as "the world's granary", "the country of food", "the kingdom of flowers", and "the country of sweet wine".
Speaking of which, Richard, who is still sleeping in the wooden house in the world, is a native Rhine. The Parker family where he lives is engaged in wine business and started his business, but he only believes in the god of order and knights and the goddess of wealth.
After enjoying the scenery outside the carriage for a while, Talos suddenly remembered the members of the Illuminati mentioned by Anistora before. To be honest, he had never seen those two members in the game.
"An old man and a girl."
"girl?"
"Well—" Anistora dragged her tone, thought for a while, and said, "It may be a female dwarf. I was afraid of being discovered, so I was a little far away."
"By the way, the old man from the Light Association operated a huge arm to grab me. The right hand of God should be this name. The high priest Fenrod of the Temple of the Sea also mentioned the evil deeds. Do you know what happened?"
After walking together for about two hours, Talos finally couldn't help asking for the news.
"How many professional systems are there in the main material plane?" The female bishop did not directly answer Talos's question, but instead asked a very common question.
"The three major profession systems are clergy, bloodline, and spellcaster, but when you ask me this, it seems that it is not that simple to suggest the truth."
"That's right, in fact, there are 3.5 profession systems, which are well known to clergy, bloodline and spell casters. Only some clergymen know the last 0.5 profession systems."
This was the first time Talos heard about the 3.5 occupational systems, and he became interested: "I guess the extra 0.5 occupational systems refer to the evil deeds?"
"Yes, not." Anistora explained, "The evil deeds are for the Illuminati and Spider Cult, which is a scorn, ironic meaning. The name within our church is the Covenant."
The combination of the two is the contractor. Talos suddenly realized that who is good and who is evil, who is good and who is evil, who is good and who is evil, and it is true that it is clear at a glance.
“Is there any condition that limits the mass birth of the Covenant?”
Otherwise, with the consistent manner of the church, one will definitely promote covenants to enhance the influence of the church, and it will not be still half a professional system.
You should know that the current pattern of the main material plane is that the clergy belongs to the church exclusively, and some bloodlines join the church to become the Knights of the Templars, and only the caster is independent.
“Yes, you can understand that the Covenant exists on the clergy or the Knights of the Templars, on the one hand.” Anistora continued to explain, “On the other hand, the Covenant uses not his own power—”
The power of the clergy is not itself, it comes from the gods. Talos silently complained in his heart, and then remembered the words of the old voice before, and a light of inspiration flashed in his mind: "I understand that the covenant needs to borrow the divine power of the gods!"
The so-called right hand of God is formed by members of the Light Society using the divine power of Hercules. It is not part of the body of some powerful creature, but is most likely a divine power itself.
Although Talos didn't know what kind of clerical priesthood the Hercules of this universe held, since he used "power" as his name, he would inevitably have a clerical priest related to [power]. It's no wonder that the first feeling that God's right hand gave him was "absolute power", which could smash the deep-sea cube of advanced divine art with one punch and kill Maeve.
Similarly, because contractors need to borrow divine power, or the basis of contractors is divine power, no matter how powerful the blood family, the royal families of various countries, or the Nine Rings Council that inherits the knowledge of the ancient arcane empire, they cannot give birth to their own contractors, and there are no gods behind them.
There are gods in the major temples, and there will be evil gods in the light. After the Spider Sect has Death Spider, it is therefore that there are covenants and evil deeds.
Anistora nodded: "The Covenant borrows the power of the gods exclusively, so it is extremely powerful. Just like the member of the Illuminati was just a great knight, but the right hand of the gods, which was used by the Hercules divine power, has the fifth-level combat power and can compete with the epic knight in a short time."
If he had taken it as soon as he came up, Talos might have been brought back to the Light Club headquarters to Black Stars in a fainting state.
"Fifth-level combat power..."
Talos thought about it, and he could temporarily increase his strength to level 5 in a short period of time and burn the divine power of the ancient giant god. He just didn't know how the evil deeds and the covenant borrowed divine power. If he could refer to one or two, he might be inspired. His utilization rate of divine power was too low.
"Are you very envious?"
Talos admitted very simply: "Yes, who doesn't envy?"
"Maybe I'm one."
Talos looked at Anistora in surprise, he couldn't figure it out.
"After all, divine power is not the power of the main material plane. If you use it too many times, you can easily get lost in the inflated power. Once the mind is lost, it is no longer the covenant who uses divine power, but the divine power controls the covenant."
Although Anistora did not say it clearly, it is obvious that at least the Archbishop or the Grand Knight of the Temple who can make a covenant with the gods is the archbishop or the Grand Knight of the Temple who has reached the fourth level, and are both core figures of the church.
Talos was shocked. So far, this seemed to have not happened to him. But then again, he had only used the ancient giant god's divine power three times in his dream. It should be fine.
"I don't know how the Illuminati and the evil deeds of the Spider Cult avoid the risks of divine power, but within our church, the covenant system has gradually improved over the years to minimize the risks." Anistora showed off with a hint of flaunting, just like one side showing power and wealth to the other side in love. "If I want to borrow the power of the goddess, I must be promoted to Cardinal."
The female bishop's words reminded Talos very well that the fourth-level divine power can temporarily exert the fifth-level combat power, so how powerful the Cardinal should be after borrowing divine power!
The Church of Gods has such a trump card, and the essence of the main material plane of the divine system cannot be changed easily.
Talos asked: "I'm really curious about how the love church avoids the risks of divine power."
"Of course, it's no big deal, the answer is the divine vow." Anistora replied, "In fact, not only our love church, but basically all the churches of gods do this."
The so-called divine oath is to make a covenant with the gods of faith, give up part of the secular life, and to pursue lofty ideals to restrain and protect the soul and prevent losing direction in the vast divine power.
"One of the primitive sacred vows of our joyful sect is the ban on the vows, which eliminates all alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, anesthetics, stimulants, and all drinks and medicines that stimulate the brain and the spirit in life."
"The most famous thing about the chastity school is the chastity oath. The covenant must be a virgin/male. After the covenant is made, no longer entangled with love, abandon love, are not allowed to get married, and are not allowed to have surname relationships in any way, including self-blame."
"What if the oath is violated?"
"This is a vow made with the gods. If you violate it, you will naturally be punished by divine power."
"Suppose that an archbishop who made a vow of ban was forced to drink a glass of rum, would it be considered a violation of the vow?"
"Calculate."
"But subjectively, he did not intentionally, but was artificially forced."
"So he will not be punished too seriously, and if he can hold a ritual of atonement in the temple, he can continue to make a covenant with the gods."
Within the next half hour, Talos learned through Anistora several vows that are relatively popular in the church of the gods:
The peace pledge does not allow provoking a battle in any way;
Compassion vows, and does not allow harm to any living intelligent creature;
The pledge of poverty does not allow any property other than normal life to be retained;
True oath, no lying is allowed;
Ordinary vows are not allowed to pursue fame and fortune, and must be hidden...
In these divine vows, the greater the restraint, the more it can protect the soul and prevent loss. If multiple vows can be made at the same time, the more divine power the covenant himself borrows from the gods.
"The last question, is Paphos V the Covenant?"
Paphos V is the pope of the Church of Love, from the Pleasures.
"No. The covenant is too restricted. Generally, those who make divine vows are ascetics. There are only two covenants in our joyful faction."
Anistora's words made Talos suddenly realize how he forgot the ascetic.
Chapter completed!