Chapter 568: Safuri’s thoughts, farming training meeting
At this moment, she suddenly thought of Zong Shen.
The man who had saved her from being chased by the Dragonborn Knights by riding a big wild boar!
Although they didn't have many contacts, Zong Shen left a deep impression on Safuli's heart.
He is different from the believers, deacons, church elders and even the archbishop in the church.
Most of the people in the Calamity Raven Church are fanatical and persistent.
The respect for her is only based on her status as a saint.
Saffli even felt like a tool every time she faced the Archbishop.
On the contrary, His Majesty the Pope was very kind to her, making her feel some family affection.
Before that, Safuri had also determined to dedicate everything she had to the development of the Calamity Raven Church.
Every mission she performs rarely fails, and most of the missions are successfully completed.
The only real crisis in which he was almost captured was the time in Odo Village.
As for Zong Shen, he gave Safuli a completely different feeling.
Sally seemed to see the outside world from him.
Yes, it’s the outside world!
The same, fanatical, and persistent church life is like a prison.
When she first had such an idea, Safuri was still very frightened.
I felt like my piety and certain beliefs were shattered, and I felt guilty.
But after this period of thinking, Safuri was able to accept her thoughts peacefully.
Her thoughts on Zong Shen are actually very complicated, but she will not use the fanatic believer's transformation ritual on Zong Shen no matter what!
This is a belief transformation ritual with extremely overbearing effects.
Once the ceremony is completed, anyone will have fanatical belief and worship of the Raven God.
In Safuri's heart, she still hopes that the operation of Lentax Giant City will be successful!
But she didn't want Zong Shen to turn into a fanatical believer.
Safuli didn't want Zong Shen to become an inhumane guy.
Thinking of this, her mood became heavier and heavier.
This feeling was like when she had just turned fourteen and followed the apostles to attack the churches of other churches for the first time. She watched with her own eyes the jackdaw and halberd warriors chop off the heads of other church priests.
As for the deacons, they were burned at the stake in public.
Even now, when she closes her eyes, she can still clearly recall the faces of those deacons who were distorted by pain during the fire. She smells it gently, and there still seems to be a lingering smell of burning in the air, and the sound of chanting echoes in her ears. and curses and heart-rending wails.
The village where the church belongs was trampled by the iron hooves of the heretic giant knight.
Kill all the believers of the opposing church.
The soil in the North that had been frozen hard all year round was softened by the warm blood. It was stepped on by the heavily armored Shima and mixed into red and black mud.
Even the air smelled of blood and rust.
At that time, she did not feel the joy of victory.
I just feel sick.
The feeling of vomiting went from the stomach to the throat and finally rose into the head.
All of this made Sally feel queasy and dizzy.
This was her true reaction at the time.
Although Sally has accepted the church's beliefs and indoctrination since she was a child.
But at that time, Sally discovered something.
Even though she had already sworn an oath and made up her mind to fight for the church in this life.
But seeing this scene, I still feel uncomfortable in my heart.
It took her a long time to get used to this feeling.
It wasn't until she got used to seeing life and death and could look at death and killing calmly that this nauseating feeling completely disappeared.
Now, Zong Shen made her feel tangled in her heart.
This feeling has nothing to do with the relationship between men and women.
She just has a window.
A window looking out into the church.
"call…"
Sally exhaled heavily.
The warm breath spreads slowly like white mist in the cold air.
Raven Saint Safuri turned around and continued to lean on the stone stacks on the tower.
The stone wall has been covered with a layer of solid ice, glowing palely under the moonlight.
The church tower here is the quietest place in the entire Jackdaw Valley.
It is also a commanding height with excellent views.
Standing on it, you can almost overlook the entire valley.
Jackdaw Valley looks particularly quiet under the night sky.
Under the silver-white moonlight, Safuri could even see the surrounding frozen soil and the silver-covered forest.
It's not yet the coldest winter in the North.
The silvery white on the forest is all condensed rime and ice.
In the dead of winter, Jackdaw Valley will be covered in heavy snow.
The cold winter period in the north will last for about four months.
Heavy snow can accumulate to a depth of one or two meters without being cleared.
Every year, there are many cases of houses collapsed due to snow.
There will also be violent ice and snow winds and biting frost cyclones in the sky.
So the reason why there is no city wall in Jackdaw Valley is also very simple.
It's because this is actually an isolated and remote area.
Going south requires passing through an extremely vast forest.
Powerful monsters and various ice beasts live in the forest.
There are ice plateaus to the north, and those northern barbarians are not vegetarians.
There are no hard straight roads built from here to the outside.
The most convenient way to enter and exit is to use the space teleportation array.
Otherwise, you have to pass through the ice plateau or frozen forest.
When winter comes, it will be difficult to reach Jackdaw Valley either on the ground or in the sky.
This is not like the main giant city of the Kingdom of Visia, where the Kingdom Highway has been built.
It can be regarded as an independent place.
Of course, Jackdaw Valley has not completely cut off communication with the outside world.
Although it is difficult for a large-scale army to be deployed directly here.
But those refugees and small-scale traveling traders can still get here.
Traveling merchants are the most active group of people on this continent.
As long as there are humans living, there will be active traders.
So when Safuli asked Zong Shen to come as a guest, it was not entirely polite.
If Zong Shen followed the traveling merchant team with her token in hand, he would not be harmed.
Although the Calamity Raven Church is not a philanthropic church, it is also in urgent need of expanding its followers.
But they will not attack traveling merchants and refugees easily.
This is a well-established rule.
Once it is destroyed, there will be no refugees or traveling traders here, and eventually it will lose its vitality for development.
And the so-called believers in most churches are just the kind of believers who have been transformed through preaching.
Most of them are refugees who accepted faith because of a mouthful of hot porridge.
This kind of belief is not strong and needs constant strengthening and brainwashing.
There will also be a selection process from among these believers.
Recruit into a church or a group of believers.
As for what Archbishop Byron mentioned earlier as being transformed by the rituals of fanatics, that is the so-called fanatics.
There is a price to pay for performing fanatic rituals.
If Zong Shen came simply as a visitor, he would not be forcibly converted into a fanatical believer.
Moreover, Archbishop Byron also said that if Sally insists on wanting Zong Shen to participate in church affairs.
You must first turn it into a fanatical believer.
In other words, as long as Zong Shen is not involved, there is no need to convert him.
Safuri looked at the scenery of Jackdaw Valley and fell into deep thought.
There are still more than 20 days until the banquet in the giant city of Lentax begins.
To be on the safe side, she will leave in a week.
First, rush to the secret stronghold of the church in the east of Avalon through the teleportation array.
Then ride the Frost Raven and rush to the nearest state city.
This operation can be regarded as a kind of beheading operation.
The real purpose is to take care of all the nobles and nobles attending the banquet, and use this as an opportunity to quickly take control of the giant city and its subordinate states.
In order to cooperate with the operation, the church will deploy an entire apostolic group to hibernate in the mountains and forests.
It is convenient for the church to quickly control all cities.
Operations within the giant city do not require too many manpower.
Cooperating with Safuri's actions will be a squadron of church elites.
These elites are not like the jackdaw and halberd warriors and heretic giant knights of the believers.
They are the true elite of the church.
They are the Frost Judgment Army and the Disaster Arbitration Army.
In the Church of Calamity Raven, these are the most powerful warriors that can only be found in a million.
Equivalent to a sixth-level soldier in the kingdom.
In order to attend the banquet smoothly, they have been preparing for several months in advance.
Enough invitations were obtained through various channels.
It doesn’t take so many people to get into the party.
At that time, most of the elite warriors will be on standby near the central castle.
There are not many ways to qualify for the banquet.
In addition to the normal invitation letters, the only way to obtain a quota is to participate in the competitive competition.
It is also unrealistic to obtain a quota by participating in the conference. In addition, it is easy to expose your strength.
So they prepared camouflage props that could change their appearance and body shape.
Sneak into the state city under the giant city of Lentax in advance.
Controlled the local ruling nobles and obtained an invitation.
This kind of control carries certain risks.
Especially when the state's military force has not been lifted.
There is a possibility of exposure at any time.
But the church doesn’t care about that much anymore.
If you deliberately delay it, there is still no problem in hiding it for a month or two.
After getting the invitation letter, Safuri disguised herself again, and then she could attend the banquet as a matter of course.
After the party begins, their final plan can be completed.
As long as they can successfully hijack and control the Marquis Henry of Lancaster and the small nobles who are attending the banquet and in charge of the major cities, then there is no need to worry about the soldiers and the Dragonborn Knights in the giant city.
Even so, this plan is still very risky, and it can be said to be an act of seeking wealth through risk.
This operation goes far beyond the giant city of Lentax.
The church's targets selected three giant cities in Avalon.
The other two will have different archbishops in charge.
Savory is just one branch of the plan.
If they fail, just two teams of sixth-level elite Judgment Army and Arbitration Army will not be able to fight against all the warriors in the entire giant city.
But Sally had no choice.
The Church needs to drive the nails into the Kingdom of Avalon.
And as far as she knew, the Calamity Raven Church was not the only force that observed the conflicts at the top of the major kingdoms.
If the current continent is like a calm lake, then real waves will soon appear, and the major kingdoms will be overwhelmed!
Thinking of this, Safuri's eyes gradually became deeper.
She stared at the cold wind, as if she were one with the northern night.
…
At the same time, in Zong Shen’s territory.
It took him more than half an hour to finally answer the soldiers' suggestions and doubts.
This is the result of his deliberate decision to allow each branch of the military to send only one spokesperson.
By the time all the soldiers had finished speaking, his mouth was already dry.
The suggestions from the soldiers were varied.
Most of them are suggestions for life in the territory.
Almost all the masters strongly requested to build one more [Magic Palace].
Although the [Mage Training Ground] also has a meditation room, the effect is not as good as the ten meditation rooms in the [Magic Palace].
Therefore, the most popular one among magicians is the [Magic Palace].
It's just that Zong Shen can't solve this problem in a short time.
He did not have a suitable rare grade [Building Replica Stone] in his hand, so he could only wait and see if there would be a chance in the future.
As for the requirements of other soldiers, they are also very unreasonable.
There are both daily food issues and suggestions on the warrior team.
There's also the matter of housing.
Zong Shen's head was buzzing, as if he had been hit by a hammer from the "Roaring Hammer in the Skull".
After he listened to the suggestions of the soldiers.
He quickly handed it over to Luna, Vereesa and Doris to deal with the aftermath. .
They will make detailed statistics on today's equipment loss.
Zong Shen himself took the opportunity to escape and directly drove the loader mecha to find Howie and Mariel.
When he arrived at the open space on the other side of the living area, he discovered that the farming meeting was not over yet.
You know, it's already past ten o'clock in the evening.
This farming training conference has no intention of stopping yet.
This made him feel a little surprised.
"Good guy! Can training sessions still be held to get addicted?"
He muttered a sigh.
According to the original plan, the evening training session would end on time at ten o'clock, but now it has obviously exceeded the time limit.
I saw a large circle of farmers outside.
The scale of more than a thousand people seemed quite impressive.
At a glance, Zong Shen could only see a crowd of shaking heads, and he could also vaguely see the tall campfire jumping out of sparks in the crowd.
As for Mariel and Howie, he didn't see anyone at all.
Except for the two of them, this training session will be held.
The two heroic talents from the previous refugees and the seven heroic talents recruited from the unclaimed territory are also here.
After these two additions, there are a total of eleven heroic talents in the territory's logistics department.
As long as they get familiar with and get used to each other over a period of time, these newly added heroic talents can quickly get involved in the construction and development of the territory.
By then, the territory’s logistical efficiency will reach a new level.
These heroic talents will also form the foundation of the territory’s future city hall.
Zong Shen parked the loader mecha outside the crowd.
The farming training conference was bustling with people. The farmers had no idea that the lord was here in person. Zong Shen looked at the crowd and did not want to use brute force to enter, so he took out the [Leiluo Horn] and cast the [Levitation Technique] 】.
His body floated up and flew directly from above the crowd to the middle.
There is approximately hundreds of square meters of free space in the center circle of the crowd.
When you are in it, you actually have the illusion of being surrounded by a vast ocean of people.
At this time, heroic talents led by Howie and Mariel.
He was taking Erya and Xiaoping, who were in charge of farming, as well as the farmers who had learned the rare talents of farming books, and grabbed the hoe forged by the dwarf uncle and carved out a small plot of several square meters on the ground. In the square field, he was demonstrating and talking about farming techniques attentively.
Issues such as how deep to dig, how many seeds to bury, and how to distribute drainage ditches.
When Zong Shen fell down.
The first ones to react were Howie and Mariel.
"Sir! You are here!"
Haoyi was the first to bow and salute Zong Shen.
Mariel on the side opened her mouth, but did not speak.
When Zong Shen heard Haoyi's voice, he couldn't help showing a strange expression.
"What the hell, Howie, why did your voice sound like a crow?"
"Why did your voice suddenly become hoarse?"
At this time, Howie's voice was astringent and hoarse, like iron blocks rubbing against each other.
Hearing Zong Shen ask this, Haoyi showed a wry smile on his face.
He turned to look at Mariel, and then the two of them turned around at the same time and explained awkwardly.
"Sir, because of the farming training meeting..."
"Our voices are basically mute."
"At least I can still talk."
"Mariel can't even speak now."
"It will take at least two or three days to recover."
After Howie said this, Zong Shen also looked at Mariel.
The little girl nodded vigorously, and the tense expression on her face finally relaxed a little.
It was too hard for her not to be able to speak.
Fortunately, Howie was her translator.
Zong Shen was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile.
"You guys are working too hard!"
"Go to the central area in a moment and ask Mariel to get you some [Moon Spring]."
"I hope the spring water can heal your injuries."
Zong Shen really didn't expect that they would fight to this extent.
All the heroic talents knelt on one knee and saluted Zong Shen to express their respect.
"Welcome to you, Lord Lord!"
The surrounding farmers also knelt on one knee and saluted him.
The scene looked like falling dominoes, with the crowd kneeling from the inside out.
Zong Shen's arrival interrupted the farming training conference.
He waved his hand, indicating that everyone could get up.
The etiquette of the other world is somewhat fancy and cumbersome for him.
But when facing farmers and warriors in the territory.
Accepting their respect is also a way of ensuring authority.
At his nod, all the farmers stood up.
Zong Shen raised his hands and pressed them down, signaling everyone to stay quiet and prepare to lecture.
Perhaps due to loyalty, or perhaps due to other factors, all farmers have entered a state of silence.
"Ahem..."
He whispered softly, and then began to speak loudly again.
"I think tonight's farming meeting can be over."
"Sir Mariel, everyone must have said that the territory is not suitable for full-scale farming at the moment."
"We have to wait at least another seven or eight days!"
"I guarantee that everyone will have a proper job."
“Those who don’t have a job will also be given a field!”
