Struggle in the Steam Age

Unlike Lawrence's previous life, this world attaches great importance to faith because of the real existence of gods. At least for the vast majority of beings with wisdom, their own beliefs are absolutely indispensable.

But unlike most of Lawrence's previous beliefs, the choice of beliefs by intelligent creatures in this world can be said to be very free.

For example, for the object of belief, gods are naturally the mainstream, but non-god beliefs can also be accepted and recognized as appropriate beliefs.

Druids who believed in nature itself, or godless priests and holy knights who took a certain idea as their object of belief could also walk on the earth openly.

In addition, the believers of the gods basically allow their believers to have multiple beliefs except for the clergy. As long as your other beliefs don't conflict with the god's beliefs.

At the same time, for these gods, believers are free to join or leave the church. It is only required that such a change must come from the person's own will, and at the same time have reasonable reasons.

But the whole society must crack down on a kind of belief, that is a false god. Unlike other beliefs, this belief is called false because these beings use deception to gain belief.

Part of this comes from the powerful devils or demons in the lower planes. Because of their strength, they will naturally attract a large number of people who worship them. At the same time, this powerful existence can also bestow all kinds of spells and supernatural abilities on mortals, just like the gods bestow the ability to cast spells on those priests. It's just that the price is higher than that of the gods.

Others are beings who are not gods but aspire to be gods. For various reasons, they don't want to embark on the difficult path that belongs to regular gods, so they pretend to be gods to trick ordinary people into enshrining themselves.

In this case, they cannot bestow the powers of mortals who enshrine themselves like true gods or those of the lower planes. But he will use all his extraordinary powers to make various disguises and pretend that he is a god.

Obviously, no matter what kind of false god it is, it will have a very adverse impact on the entire world. Therefore, it will naturally be listed as the target of the mainstream crackdown.

For the former type of false god, all you can do is to destroy all the organizations related to it as much as possible. Because the opponent's real body is hidden in the lower plane, it is generally difficult to catch them.

But for the latter kind of false god, once caught, they will be hunted down and beaten. A lot of the raw materials for the divine artifacts of various churches come from these guys who are not very high-level, but are still jumping up and down.

It is also because of the existence of false gods, so those who hope to truly become gods naturally need to be tested to a certain extent.

For example, when Lawrence arrived at New Shaw Island in a fast airship, he saw several large ships with gorgeous decorations and church flags moored at the trestle in the port at this time.

These ships basically came from the churches that Lawrence had made friends with before, and the reason why they came here now is to congratulate the little puppet for igniting the divine fire and becoming a secondary god.

But on a deeper level, this is also an assessment of Nora by the churches belonging to the civilized camp to confirm that she is indeed not a false god.

This custom actually began to appear shortly after the establishment of the civilization camp, and the reason for this was a screening and recognition within the alliance.

For those gods who established the civilization camp back then, they certainly hoped to absorb enough members, because only by constantly absorbing fresh blood can the activity of the entire organization be maintained.

But because they will provide some support and shelter to the joiners, these gods must check the new joiners to avoid letting some dangerous elements mix in.

Of course, because Lawrence had communicated with those churches before, those churches can be regarded as watching the ascension ceremony of the little puppet during this period of time.

During this period of time, they naturally checked and confirmed that the little puppet was not a false god, but from a rule point of view, they had to go through the next procedure.

"Your Excellency, you are finally back!" Just as Lawrence got off the boat, a young man wearing the most common work clothes in the area greeted him directly.

However, unlike those workers, this young man had a logo of a yin and yang fish hanging on his chest. According to what the little puppet just said, this is one of the five priests she found in the recent period.

As a newly ignited divine fire, Nora was very lucky to find five priests in such a short period of time.

And it's normal for Nora to send one of the only five priests to pick up Lawrence. After all, Nora is so busy now that she can't leave her body, so she can only find someone to do the pick-up work for her.

For this pastor, Lawrence is the closest existence to the god he most believes in, and he is also the highest leader of the entire church. So it is very normal to come to greet you.

"...Her Majesty Nora is the guardian of New Saul and the surrounding archipelagoes and islands, and the master of all kinds of microbes. Although her current followers are the jackals in some small world beyond the stars. Lord, but it is not the exclusive god of a certain race, all intelligent creatures can believe in it, and it will bless all the creatures who believe in it..."

Just as they were heading to the city center in a carriage, many people gathered in the square in the city center. And a priest of Nora was standing on a temporary platform made of several boxes, loudly preaching the teachings of the little dolls to the people below.

"What's the effect of this kind of propaganda?" Lawrence asked the priest sitting next to him, seeing the interested expressions of the audience.

"It's very good. In less than a week, more than 90% of the people on the island have chosen to believe in our god." Speaking of this matter, the priest raised his eyebrows and showed excitement.

"In addition to those people on our territory, there are quite a few people on the surrounding islands who choose to believe in our lord Nora, even half of them on some islands. This is actually far more than we expected before. "

Lawrence didn't think there was anything strange about this matter, because the surrounding area was almost a blank area of ​​belief, and the belief in Nora could just fill this gap of belief.

For the matter of spreading beliefs, it is naturally difficult to spread beliefs in places that have their own beliefs, because it requires competition or even war with other existing beliefs.

However, it will be much less difficult to spread one's own beliefs in the surrounding areas with almost no beliefs. As long as these beliefs are useful to the local people, then the local people's beliefs will naturally be obtained.

However, according to the pastor, the believers of the doll now mainly come from the priesthood of her regional patron saint. However, there are not many people who believe in Tianyan and microbes as the main priesthood.

As far as he knew, the believers attracted by these priesthoods were mainly concentrated in hospitals, drug research institutes, and a series of people whose work was related to fermentation and embalming. Because this belief is closely related to their profession.

For example, there are quite a few Noras in those fish processing factories who believe in her because of the priesthood of microbes. Because after faith is beneficial to the preservation of various manufactured products.

In addition, the first miracle shown by the doll after lighting the fire is to use many small fish and shrimps that are usually used as leftovers as raw materials to ferment, and then make a kind of soy sauce called fish sauce or fish sauce. Lu's new condiment.