1437 What is the most important thing in human eyes?
For ordinary soldiers in the city-states of Olympus, is it more worthwhile to serve the nobles than to serve the gods?
And the most important thing is the Holy Knights, but they have publicly stated that they do not need the people's worship, but will hire people to build temples. What does this mean?
The most direct thing is that the new God King not only restrains his agents, the Holy Knights, but may also not care about money at all, let alone gold, silver and jewelry.
To put it more deeply, you may not even care about the beliefs of mortals.
Because in the past, the presiding priests of the temple used a large part of the criteria to evaluate the piety of the believers based on how much money the believers contributed to the temple.
The priests make money and the gods gain faith, but money is something that cannot be parted from since humans had this concept.
If you have money, or are willing to donate to the temple, it's okay, but in a slave society with such low productivity, the temple and the nobles often join forces to use various names to make money from the bottom class who have trouble eating.
This makes it impossible not to hate the gods.
As for city-state soldiers like them, those who lay down their swords and are above the ninth floor are at the bottom.
Therefore, under the pressure of 50,000 barbarians, and after hearing that there were 34 reserve knights in the Paladin Order, some soldiers left the camp that night to see if they could be lucky enough to join the Paladins.
Fortunately, everyone knew about William's miracle, and no one of the soldiers who arrived at the square dared to attack the hotel where the Paladins lived two blocks away.
I can only hide quietly in the corners around the square and wait for dawn.
As a result of this waiting, it didn't take long for someone to leave the camp.
And if someone takes the lead, it will get out of hand. Even the commanders, centurions and other senior officials are silently calculating in their hearts whether the treatment of the commander or the status of a paladin is better.
As for the commander who rarely came to the camp, let alone that he was gone, even if he was there, he would not dare to force the soldiers to return to camp at night and under such circumstances.
Once a camp roar breaks out and the camp becomes a river of blood, there is a 100% chance that the soldiers who killed people will continue to riot in the city and escape from Hell City with money.
From early morning to early morning, the soldiers ran out of the camp one group after another to try their luck.
When they saw that almost all the people in the battalion were gone, empty-handed and not even wearing armor, the captains and centurions who dared to show their faces rushed over together.
Then someone suggested that everyone work together and try to fill the 34 places by relying on the advantage of numbers.
And everyone also made it clear that as long as they get 34 places, they will suppress the punishment of the nobles as a Paladin and with the mentality of not punishing the crowd.
At the same time, these 34 knights must take care of their unelected colleagues from now on.
Even if the Holy Knights were really rich, the soldiers would even be willing to directly attach themselves to the Holy Knights.
And if the knights don't want them, then they will move closer to the city lord Palau who has become a trainee paladin.
With the title of city lord, anyone who dares to be nagging will be killed.
Therefore, when William got up early in the morning, heard Strauss's prayer, and understood the whole story, he felt happy at first.
But then he thought that if the Holy Knights had a large number of soldiers, it would be equivalent to starting a war mode.
The result was an Olympian version of the Crusades.
Moreover, William was sure that the old guy Strauss and the ascetic knights from the earth would be willing to help him conquer the entire mortal world of Olympus.
However, the commanders and centurions in this army were all willing to join the Holy Knights, which also made William understand that
The reason why mortals turned against Zeus and the other gods was because the gods had usurped human interests.
And once the gods are no longer exploiters, ordinary people and soldiers, as long as they can live a life of food and clothing,
Not to mention causing trouble, at least not strongly resisting belief in the gods.
You can even gain their admiration easily.
But if William wants to rule the world, he won't use paladins, or even use war. Moreover, he is a god king, so why should he be a king?
Since there is no need and no mood to unify ancient Greece in Olympus, let's order the old man Strauss to accept these two thousand soldiers today.
The Holy Knights will not be able to easily enter other city-states in the future, so there is no need for Athena and Arthenis, who looked worried, to remind them.
William had an idea and opened a portal over Hell City. Soon the entire sky was covered with dark clouds and lightning flashed.
The frightened more than two thousand soldiers and the nobles who came over quickly knelt on the ground and begged William to calm down.
Soon, people in the entire city were so frightened by the thunder that they knelt on the ground and prayed loudly.
What followed was a huge power of faith, which unexpectedly appeared around William out of thin air.
In just a few thoughts, William, who had put away this huge power of faith, understood that the coming of the Holy Light yesterday only made the people of Hell City believe in the existence of the God King, but today's thunder in the sky was like a punishment from heaven.
hanging over the heads of the entire city's citizens.
Grace and power, it seems that means are more important.
Moreover, hundreds of thousands of people knelt down and worshiped him at the same time, which gave William a sudden feeling of relief and a strange feeling of being in control of everything.
Fortunately, caution and laziness dominated his character, and he quickly recovered from his thoughts of manipulating all sentient beings.
Simply select 34 young believers with the highest piety and at least fanaticism in the entire city, and teleport them outside the hotel where the Paladin lives.
After the initial panic, these 34 people received the Holy Light into their bodies in public. After improving their physical fitness, they easily burst out with stronger faith. After all, they were all reserve knights personally selected by the God King William.
Fortunately, those two thousand soldiers were not all speculators. Among the hundreds of people whose piety reached the level of believers, there were actually five soldiers who fanatically hoped to follow him.
This also caused other soldiers to panic for a while before calming down.
After William dispersed the thunder in the sky, Strauss led 66 knights wearing paladin armor and neatly walked out of the hotel. While receiving 34 new companions, he spoke to comfort the nobles and soldiers on the street.
and civilians.
Reserve knights appeared among both civilians and soldiers. These two largest groups quickly stabilized and the entire city returned to normal.
On the contrary, the nobles who used to hold power and high positions began to worry about their future.
No one dared to question it at this time, but the nobles simply did not dare to express this idea.
In addition, the Holy Knights have not made any remarks against the aristocracy, and there is still the threat of the barbarian enemy, so everyone can only wait and see for a while.
Two days later, Strauss, who was watching ten earth-born paladins teaching other knights how to practice holy light magic or healing techniques,
After hearing the clash of armors and the sound of footsteps, it didn't take long to figure out that the barbarians were already here.