Chapter 402: Occupy the high ground of public opinion advantage
The plan is set.
In addition to the stone tablet pointing to the dwarves in Stone Castle, there is also the suspected connection with the Glorious God Cult, which is the only clue that can be grasped at present.
Pete plans to take a group of people to Stone Castle to investigate.
This is a long-distance operation, and it must be well prepared. It will not be possible to set off for a while.
Investigating their connection with the Glorious God Cult can be solved immediately.
If everything goes well, if nothing unexpected happens, it will just be possible to pull down another bishop!
This is easier to do.
The main reason is that the image of the God of Knowledge, Nowen, has been quietly reversed in the Ceylon region.
Previously, the propaganda of the Glorious God Cult was too serious.
Pete and his team have figured out how the Glorious God Cult was "slandered".
"The followers of the God of Knowledge are obsessed with exploring the unknown and have no taboos. In order to get closer to those 'unknown truths', they will do whatever it takes, ignoring authority, laws, and gods."
"If you get close to them, your own safety cannot be guaranteed, and you may be affected by the punishment of the gods at any time!"
This is what the Glowing God Cult said when warning the people.
Then rumors spread.
Some people began to exaggerate the atmosphere of terror.
"It is said that the brains of babies can accept all the wisdom in the world. Those followers of knowledge will gather together, spread white napkins, light candles, pray to the gods, and then knock open the brains of kidnapped babies and share them."
There are also groundless claims:
"It is said that they will dig out the brains of monsters and eat them raw, so as to obtain the knowledge of the evil gods and become crazy and chaotic!"
In many people's minds, the image of Norman is almost equal to the evil god, and his followers are monsters who eat children raw every meal.
There is no way.
For most ordinary people.
The villages and towns they live in may be the whole world, and the most prosperous place they have been to is Ceylon.
They have little knowledge and believe whatever others say.
Many ordinary people even firmly believe that King Reyak in the west is a god walking on earth.
Otherwise, how can he be king?
The preachers of the Glowing God Cult come to preach, which is an unquestionable authority for them.
They have never been to the territory of the Church of Seeking Knowledge in person, nor have they witnessed the appearance of the believers of Seeking Knowledge with their own eyes. They don’t even know how to distinguish them. They only know that those guys are "very dangerous."
The more backward the place, the more serious this stereotype is.
The outbreak of the Eternal Night Disaster has largely eliminated misunderstandings.
When the rescue just arrived in various villages and towns, especially those villages with a small population, the surviving villagers even discussed privately whose children to give to the believers of Seeking Knowledge as dinner in exchange for shelter during the disaster.
Fortunately, the followers of Nowen used their actions to prove to ordinary people:
"They are not dangerous, and they don't eat children!"
It's just the first step to change from "man-eating monsters" to "normal humans".
During the disaster, they eliminated monsters, protected ordinary people, and provided them with food and water, which made the image of the followers of the God of Knowledge more positive.
In addition, the credit for preventing the disaster.
Yes.
Originally, ordinary people were completely kept in the dark about how the eternal night ended.
They didn't even know why the disaster broke out.
They only knew that the sky suddenly got dark, and then monsters appeared.
Later, rescue came, but it turned out that it was not the Glorious God Church, but the heretics of the Church of Knowledge.
Later, they were taken to Qim Town, and at this time, the Crusaders of the Glorious God Church arrived late.
About the heroes who solved the disaster.
First, the Glorious God Church can be ruled out.
The Crusaders are right in front of us, how could it be them.
The Glorious God Church is currently busy with its own affairs, and it doesn't have the face to deal with public opinion at all.
Some people speculated that it was the believers of the God of Knowledge, but there was no evidence.
After all, they didn't even know how the Eternal Night ended, and no one could explain it clearly.
The high ground of public opinion was there.
The Glorious God Cult had no face to take it, and Norwen certainly wouldn't waste it!
He decisively gave the believers a task.
The one who finally completed the task and popularized this matter to people was the goblin Hugo Xiwei.
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Three days after the end of the Eternal Night.
Qim Town.
A lot of order has been restored here.
For the survivors of the Eternal Night disaster, they have basically accepted the pain brought by "losing their loved ones".
Life has to go on.
You can't indulge in grief every day.
They don't know that their families have been collectively resurrected at the Creation Altar and are about to rush to Qim Town to reunite with them.
The believers of the Seeking of Knowledge, who are insiders, have reached a consensus.
Everyone tacitly concealed the news.
Intend to give them a huge surprise at the right time.
Hugo took the lead and led a group of people to work for a full three days.
Finally, before the resurrected victims arrived at Qim Town, the "surprise" prepared for ordinary people was completed.
That night.
A large open space outside Qim Town was crowded with people.
The arcane light ball generated by [Illumination] was suspended in the air, providing sufficient lighting, making the entire open space as bright as day.
The ordinary people who came here followed the instructions of the Seeking Knowledge believers who maintained order and went to their respective "districts".
The divisions are divided according to towns and villages.
Raven Town is in one area, Chim Town is in another area, and the entire open space is divided into more than a dozen large or small areas.
The large ones are towns with a large population, with hundreds or thousands of people.
The smaller ones correspond to villages, with perhaps only dozens of people.
People received the news in the morning.
They were asked to gather here in the evening, and important things would be announced.
The daily lives of ordinary people are basically very simple.
Apart from eating and sleeping, they work, and there are very few entertainment activities. Moreover, night entertainment requires lighting, which is an additional cost.
Most people can only go home to have children or go to sleep directly after dark if they don’t go to places like pubs.
There are free activities to participate in now, so they naturally have no reason to refuse.
What’s more, this is an activity specially called by the believers of seeking knowledge.
Out of importance, they have to come here too.
The scene of tens of thousands of people gathering in one area is still spectacular.
The believers of seeking knowledge did not ask them to keep quiet.
The noise of people greeting and chatting with each other made the whole area noisy and bustling.
The sound amplification magic didn't have much effect at this time.
In the past, such a large scene basically relied on the more advanced 4th-level [Silent Field] magic or [Solemn Ceremony] such a brilliant magic to force the crowd to be quiet.
However, for this event, Hugo prepared a more appropriate method!
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