Struggle in the Steam Age

In front of a huge pyramid, Lawrence was carrying the little puppet Nora on his shoulders, thinking about something nervously, while in front of him, hundreds of jackals were all standing there respectfully, expressing admiration and envy Staring at him with longing eyes, no one even blinked.

"Okay, I thought of one." Looking at the little puppet happily holding the book charm she just called out from the space bag, it played with the book charm like a child playing with a puppet Together. Lawrence suddenly saw a familiar shadow from his previous life in Nora's long curly brown hair, red and green eyes, and her green Bavarian-style natural Lolita dress with a white lace headscarf.

"What is it?" Nora asked curiously as soon as she heard the words, she hugged the book charm in her arms. "Let me listen, if I'm not satisfied, I'll still ask for a replacement."

"You will be satisfied." Lawrence smiled. "What do you think of the title Heart of Emerald Jade? It matches your image and your abilities very well, and it also sounds nice."

"The Emerald Heart—" Nora lowered her head and thought for a while, then turned to look at Lawrence, with a bright smile on her face. "Ah, this name sounds nice, and both the meaning contained in it and the origin of this name are very suitable for my current situation. From now on, this will be my title."

Having said that, she let go of the book charm and floated in front of Lawrence, and then spoke to the jackals in front of her with a crisp and clear voice. "From today onwards, my appellation is Emerald Heart, I hope you can remember this appellation in the future."

"See the Emerald Heart of our Lord! The noble and great protector of the jackals." The jackals below became excited immediately after receiving Nola's answer, followed by another round of salutations.

"Fortunately, the clan god of the jackals, Hanubis, the god of death in the ancient Nile civilization, has long since fallen, and the Harpy god who protected them before has also fallen. Now they don't have any race gods anymore. Protector of God, so accepting a large group of jackals as believers under this premise will not cause trouble, otherwise it will be miserable if they are regarded as false gods." After hearing the names of these jackals to Nola, Lawrence felt that it was really a little bit Fortunately.

In this world of gods, all the gods are very vigilant against the false gods of illegal preaching. Because apart from a very small number of false gods who belong to powerful transcendents and are worshiped by others, most of them are strong people in the lower planes like hell or purgatory, or some people want to take shortcuts or simply pretend to be gods and ghosts for their own benefit. A guy who pretends to be a god.

Obviously, the existence of this type of guy can only bring serious harm, not the slightest benefit. Therefore, churches are often very vigilant against the occurrence of such things. This is especially important for races with racial gods.

Now, Nora's behavior is like a false god. Fortunately, her title is only the protector of the jackals, and her followers are only jackals. So as long as she doesn't go to preach to other races without permission, and don't cause any anger, the gods of other races will treat it as if they didn't see it.

Not to mention that Nora has another identity as the soul of the earth, and human society allows the belief in the soul of the earth to exist. For example, in Lawrence's memory, there are many places that organize each year before planting, after harvest, and on some important days. A very lively ceremony was held to offer sacrifices to existences such as the local soul of the earth and the spirit of the ancestors. There are even some recognized souls of the earth and ancestors who can imitate the church to establish their own church and cultivate believers.

In fact, when he first crossed over, Lawrence was indeed taken aback by the tolerance of the gods of the civilized races in this world. After all, in the many books he has read before, the gods often place great value on beliefs, wishing that all the people in the world believe in themselves, and will not allow all kinds of things to come out to steal beliefs.

Fortunately, after inquiring about Peter, who had just become an official priest, he learned that the gods of the civilized race in this world allowed some souls of the earth and the spirits of the ancestors to establish churches, train believers, and even become priests. The most important reason for the gods is that the savage forces are too powerful in this world.

So that not only the various civilized races as ordinary people need to hold together to keep warm, but even the gods need to unite to face various problems and crises.

On the other hand, this world has a huge area. At the same time, it is also connected to countless astral planes. In this case, as long as you are willing to spend time cultivating, you can always develop a source of faith from the wilderness, and for the gods, the most they need is time to wait.

Not to mention the most important thing is that ordinary people in this world, except for priests, tend to believe in multiple gods, and the largest number of shallow believers and true believers can also provide faith for multiple gods, and only a very small proportion of devout believers And fanatics will believe in a single god. Therefore, the gods in this world are obviously much gentler than the gods Lawrence learned from literature and games in his previous life, and conflicts or even wars rarely break out because of this.

Even so, there are not many souls of the earth or spirits of the ancestors who can obtain the permission of various orthodox churches to preach. Because in order to avoid the birth of evil gods and even some more dangerous things, the major churches are very strict in reviewing this aspect.

Just as Lawrence was thinking about these things, the jackal's worship was over, and then the leading white jackal ordered his subordinates to lift out a large platform with very gorgeous decoration, which required 64 people to lift, and asked Nora to sit on it. Go to the temple in front of the pyramid.

However, this offer was rejected by Nora. In the end, the little doll sat on Lawrence's shoulder and walked into the huge temple surrounded by a group of jackals with an average height of 2.5 meters.

After entering the temple, Nora was greeted by these jackals and floated onto a beautifully carved stone platform in the center of the temple. Then the temple and the square in front of the temple were full of jackals and started a very formal battle. During the prayer ceremony, she worshiped Nora who was flying on the stone platform, and sang various songs of praise at the same time.

It's just that to Lawrence, these songs are purely a replacement of the old title of the Harpy God in the old songs praising the Harpy God with Nora's title.

"Long live, Heart of Emeralds! Thou hast appeared upon the earth, and made it fertile, and gave life to all that is upon it. A journey down from heaven, master of the Nile, grower of papyrus and lotus, fertile land Teach us to fish with nets and harpoons. Teach us to dig ditches and irrigate fields. Jade Heart, you bring life to every house—"

The jackals came to Nora in batches and bowed respectfully, and then prayed devoutly with their hands crossed on their chests. Lawrence could feel invisible threads protruding from these pious and devout jackals and connected to the little dolls. This should be the legendary thread of faith.

It's a pity that the little puppet has neither godhead nor godfire, and its extraordinary level is not high. Therefore, it is basically impossible to make perfect use of these powers of faith. And she doesn't want to directly absorb the power of faith like some guys whose brains are completely flooded, and gain temporary strength at the cost of cutting off the future.

Fortunately, she is still a soul of the earth with a divine nature, so she simply injected these precious powers of faith into the astral plane. Use the various frictions between this astral plane and the outer astral plane to wear away the impurities in those beliefs, and then harvest the pure power of faith that can be used directly.

This is actually a very inefficient approach, because the gods can directly temper the power of faith with divine fire. However, for Nora who has no divine fire for the time being and is not in a hurry to ascend to the gods, this plan of collecting power of faith with only 1/10 left after tempering is already the best plan for her.

At the same time, the impurities in the power of faith can reduce the erosion of the astral plane by various turbulence in the astral plane during the burning process, and reduce the energy consumption of the plane itself from another aspect. When Nora is temporarily unable to modify the underlying rules of the plane because her extraordinary level is too low, it can be used to increase the magic concentration of the astral plane.