Chapter 8 Ceremony and Book Distribution (Part 1)
In the past century, Hedi Ailu has known countless friends and helped many people. She was appointed as the Goddess and the divine power sensing can make it known to some people who have respect and admire her.
Therefore, more than a hundred people were immediately willing to become her believers, and six of them directly formed the church ruling level. However, most of them were artists, and none of them seemed to organize a church and manage it.
Don’t worry about these things. Annien’s church immediately dispatched capable personnel and according to divine power, summoned all the believers on the continent - Annien’s church paid to ask them to gather together.
Since Hedi Ailu was appointed gods in Busso Castle, it is natural that the call is here, and all the servants, including the musician Hitar, are busy working - they must change the castle into a temple before all believers arrive.
Buso Castle is not in the north, nor is it an area of ​​influence of the Annien Church. It belongs to the "Mezkan" on the coast of the central coast of the mainland. It was originally a peninsula kingdom, but now it has split into hundreds of small feudal dominations. This division, as well as its unique geographical location, has led to the prevalence of trade.
Buso Castle is located on the outskirts of Bedora City and purchased the territory. Bedora City is located in the peninsula in the northeast of the mainland. It faces the sea three times and is the most important port on the nearby coast. This is not something that Buso City in the north can be compared. No matter how great Buso City is, it is just a city in a barbaric area. But Bedora City is the pride of the mainland port. It is one of the most powerful and richest commercial autonomous lords in the continent. The territory is only 690 square kilometers even in the suburbs. However, the "Bedora Navy" and merchant ships formed and powerful in the past century are the first in the mainland, and the easy kingdom dare not confront it.
There are 50,000 residents with fixed citizenship rights, and the daily traffic of merchants is about 50,000. This is already a very great thing in this era. Although the city is small, it has 120 temples of various styles, 12 towers, and more than 40 large and small palaces (bought and lived by wealthy families and even royal families in various continents).
Of course, the most powerful one here is Danni, the goddess of business. At least half of the temples are her temples. Due to the formation of commercial alliances with the Elf Island and the construction of banks, a large number of spices such as pepper, cinnamon, cloves and other spices produced by the Elf Island are spread to all parts of the mainland. The trade in rice, oranges, apricots, figs, raisins, powders, potions, ash, magenta, alum, cotton, raw silk, wool, etc. is also very lush.
Over the past century, Elf Island has absorbed a large number of weapons (Elf is not good at mining and iron smelting), as well as various precious metals and spell materials, which has also formed a certain trade feature - of course, many human knowledgeable people expressed concern about this behavior, but this still cannot stop the emergence of a large amount of trade.
Out of close relationship with Annien, Hedi Ailu came and was warmly welcomed, so she was able to obtain the right to build territory and castle in a very expensive area. After Hedi Ailu was appointed as the god, the temple organization of the local business goddess Danni, and the city government, all responded immediately, acknowledging her throne, and the Duke's Mansion came forward to donate the first religious donation of 3,000 gold coins - the amount was not large, but it was a political attitude.
The construction of the temple is even more convenient to provide manpower and material resources at preferential prices to ensure that it is completed quickly. The temple was completed in just one month.
The hall is popular with marble and is built in an ancient style. The statue in the center is the statue of Hedi'eru when he was the most perfect. It is gentle and beautiful, and the dress flutters. As an architecture and design, Kashud, wearing a noble silk shirt, is commanding the servants to make the final decoration with great enthusiasm.
Scholar Sebika, in the hall, examined various scrolls - which recorded donations and names of people, and the names of believers. They were the members and leaders of this spontaneous church organization, and there was not much time, the shouts of servants, footsteps, visitors and believers, slowly gathered in the hall...
"Welcome, Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness, the noble princess!" The first one to come was Lan Lanlin, the daughter of Hedi Ailu. Since Hedi Ailu has been named the god, Lan Lanlin can naturally be called His Highness, Your Highness, you can naturally be called His Highness.
Lan Lanlin was only a half-elves before her mother was named God. Her life span was equivalent to 30 years of human beings. She had been married long ago. She took a few children. She smiled gently and said, "Mr. Kashude, you are busy with yours. Although my mother became a goddess, I am still a believer of Annien and I don't want to change. This time I came here to just watch the ceremony."
"Ah, that's it!" Kashude didn't know what to say. At this moment, a new commotion appeared at the door, and he hurriedly greeted him.
"Welcome, Duke of Murans." A man in his thirties appeared the second time in the hall. Although Duke of Murans was only the nominal master of the city and his actual power was in the Presbyterian Church, the duke still occupied one-tenth of the city's land and trade, and should not be underestimated.
"Welcome, dear elders." Kashud welcomed him warmly, and he felt quite proud because he invited four elders from the thirteen elders. You know, these are the leaders of the four major commercial families in the entire continent, which is of great significance.
"Welcome, the Bishop of the Great Danni and the Golden Eye Messenger!" The three messengers representing the business goddess Danni were also warmly welcomed.
"Oh, and the great Annien Rubuetta, welcome you." Cassud bowed repeatedly until he saw Heim's messenger.
"Welcome, on behalf of the church, I would like to express my highest respect to the great Heim!" Kashod said in surprise, and he bowed deeply again, while the three senior clergy of Heim just nodded slightly.
Heim's responsibility is to supervise the emergence of the new God, so the messengers sent here are to witness God.
"Kasud, the believers below have come. You can let them come in and start your first prayer!" At this time, Sebika walked up, and he was a little uncomfortable with it. How could he turn the first temple into the reception and greetings that are now like a trade field?
Kashode was a little unhappy, but he felt that he had already greeted him almost, so he nodded.
Leading by Kashud, hundreds of believers knelt down before the goddess.
"Hedi Ailu, you make paper, print text, spread knowledge. You are the goddess of all novels, newspapers, and news. May you hear our prayers and give us favors."
Since it was the first prayer and the doctrine was not perfect, the ceremony was very simple. However, all witnesses did not care about this. They waited silently - if it was a true god, they would definitely give the magic art in the first prayer - the senior bishop of Heim. Naturally, they would know whether this magic art came from the goddess himself, and then they could tell whether it was a true god.
Among the believers, Hitar, quietly kneeled in the hall. He was even a little dazed. He didn't even have the first prayer. After the first prayer was finished, no one of the hundreds of believers received a response.
The audience waited for a few seconds and looked at each other in a flash. The three senior bishops of Heim remained silent and continued to observe. The leader Kashud suddenly felt sweaty on his face.
"Kashud, lead everyone to come again. Maybe the first time everyone is not used to it!" Sebika said quickly. This was a very serious matter.
If there is no response during the first prayer, generally speaking, there are only two possibilities. The first is that the God prayed for is not the true God, so there is no need to mention the consequences. After the Heim Church was determined immediately, it issued a command to eradicate false religion (all churches without true God are false religions).
The second type is that there is no qualified believer on the spot (of course, as a pastor, you are required to be one level higher than a qualified believer, but you generally do not have such high requirements when praying for the first time). That is also a harsh criticism of the believer on the spot!
"Hedi Ailu, you make paper, print text, and spread knowledge. You are the goddess of all novels, newspapers, and news. May you hear our prayers and give us favors." The second time, all believers began to gather the center and pray. After the brief prayer, everyone held their breath and observed the situation among the hundreds of believers.
Kashud was sweating profusely. No pride of his current state was gone. He just knelt on the ground, waiting for even any little divine grace. He then heard the sound of the viewers breathing a sigh of relief.
Someone has obtained the grace of God. Who is it? Who is it? Who is able to obtain the grace of God more than him? His legs on the ground were weak and almost collapsed on the ground, barely turning back.
At the exit of Hitar's prayer, he felt a force that he had never felt before, but was quite familiar, pouring into his body along a channel that he did not understand, not only filled every inch of his flesh and blood, but also showered his heart. It was the feeling that he was extremely devoted to the music, and it was even more intense.
"It's the real grace of God!" The three Heim's supervisors opened the Eye of Heim at the same time. In the Eye of Heim, behind Hitar, the phantom of Hedi's Ailu appeared, which means that the divine art was not given by other gods, but by Hedi's Ailu himself.
"My mother!" Lan Lanlin murmured with a complicated expression.
"My lord, what is your name?"
"I am Hitar." Hitar said, who was called. He woke up from his feeling just now and was called by Heim's senior bishop.
"Master Hital, can you publicly perform the magic you just obtained? Even the magic trick is 0." Heim's senior bishop said in an official manner, but his tone was still quite polite - as long as there is no Son of God, generally speaking, the first pastor is the legitimate Pope of this emerging church. No matter what, he now represents a true god and must be respected.
He seemed a little confused. You know, Hitar had never received training from a priest or a mage before, but an instinct made him speak sacred language, and then a ball of white light spread out in his hands.
The senior bishop of Heim immediately cut his finger and stretched it out, and Hitar couldn't help but lean forward, and brought the white light closer to his fingers. The wound on it slowly healed.
"It is a mild healing technique, a standard first-level divine technique." After feeling it, the senior bishop of Heim immediately announced, "You must know that the standard divine technique can be given by any god. As a senior bishop, he has a very thorough understanding of this divine technique and will not be mistaken for it at all.
"On behalf of the great Heim, I declare that your God is the true God, and is allowed to preach in the mainland." The three supervisors discussed for a moment, recorded and signed the document, and then announced: "Mr. Hitar, as the first priest of Goddess Hdi Ailu, please complete the final ceremony and lead the goddess' believers to perform the first truly effective prayer."
Hitar woke up at this time. A prepared priest robe had been sent. This priest robe was very gorgeous. It was originally prepared by Kashud for himself. In his opinion, he should be the first pope.
When the priest robe was put on the spot, the sacred power spread to the priest robe. At this time, the two believers had unceremoniously pulled Kashudd, who was sank on the ground, and gave the first one to Hitar.
Hitar stepped forward and, as a pastor, led all believers to a true prayer meeting for the first time.
"Hedi Ai Lu, our noble goddess." When the priest first led the praise, light appeared on the statue, a cherry filled the hall with a low cherry. Facing such miracles, all believers crawled on the ground, and they trembled and burst into tears: "Hedi Ai Lu, our noble goddess."
Not only believers, but also Hitar couldn't help but burst into tears, because he could understand that this song was so familiar to him, that was the "Girl under the Wings of Death" he created, which could become a hymn, which means that he will use this song to achieve immortality in the future.
In the hymns and prayers, two more people shined with light, among which the scholar Sebika, but now, the great thing has been decided, and it has become a foregone conclusion that Hitar is the first pope.
In the hymns, the audience silently withdrew. Since it has been confirmed that it is the true God, the following ritual is what others teach themselves. There may be some divine metaphors, some permanent divine grace, and some doctrines to be published. None of these should be able to participate in outsiders.
Chapter completed!