Game of the World Tree Chapter 605: Church reform and nation-building issues
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The high priest and the restoration of the kingdom...
After listening to Alice's words, Eve was thoughtful.
"Alice, have you ever thought about becoming a high priest?"
He pondered for a moment and then asked.
Religious leaders are the spokespersons of the true God in the secular world.
Although Eve often interferes in church affairs with the vest of God's Favorite Zero, her original intention is actually just to have a body that can move freely and be able to deal with some problems that the elves cannot handle when they are not strong enough. .
He did not think about it, nor did he intend to become his own spokesperson.
Speaking of which, the true God originally appointed the Pope and the like to facilitate the spread and rule of his own faith. Religious leaders are the strongest "tools" for the true God to manage the church.
If you think of yourself as both the true **** and the high priest, to be honest... it would be boring.
It’s completely up to me to find work for myself, it’s so boring.
It would be better to directly use the identity of the true God to issue oracles to the symbolic saint to control the church.
At this point, we need to mention the difference between a saint and a religious leader.
If religious leaders are the spokesperson of the true God and the supreme leader and administrator of the church, then the saint is the bridge between the true God and the church.
Although religious leaders can also obtain oracles from the true God through prayer, generally they are far less close to the true God than saints.
This is because the saints of each church are selected from the most devout believers.
They may not have the ability to manage churches as religious leaders should, but they can communicate directly with the true God and convey the true God's guidance.
From this perspective, although the saint is not a religious leader, as a being who can communicate directly with the true God, she has always had a transcendent status in various churches.
They are almost equal to religious leaders and can even influence the church's decision-making.
However, this is normal.
The current management model of Eve’s Life Church is actually “abnormal”.
As a saint, Alice has completely become a busy worker running around, and even takes on the task of managing players.
Eve, who wears the vest of God's Favorite Zero, also has a vague feeling of a religious leader in her interference in church affairs time and time again. She even has a bit of a saint because she always issues oracles. ……
This is equivalent to the functions of the high priest being shared between Alice and Eve. Eve even took over some of the functions of the saint.
And because of Eve's strength and Alice's obedience, the status of Eve's vest has become even higher...
In one word, it's chaos.
Now that Alice mentioned the matter of the high priest, Eve thought about it carefully and felt that it was time to make a decision.
He is still very satisfied with Alice's work, and the identities of the saint and the religious leader are not incompatible.
Eve has repeatedly intervened in church affairs before, because the inherent thinking of the elves is sometimes too pedantic. When making some major decisions, Eve needs to personally make the decision, and the game system has not yet been perfected, and only Eve knows everything. Only in this way can we control the overall situation...
But things are different now.
The elves have changed subtly, and the game system is gradually getting on the right track. Eve can actually let go.
So after thinking about it, Eve decided to let Alice take care of everything.
After all, I will gradually become a behind-the-scenes person. Even if I am acting as a vest of God's Favorite Zero, it is best to just act as a thug and an envoy of God!
After hearing Eve's words, Alice was slightly stunned.
She smiled bitterly, then shook her head:
"Lord Ling, you think highly of me. As the church expands, I feel more and more that I am not suitable as a manager."
"But didn't you do a good job?"
Eve said.
"That's with the help of you and the Chosen One."
Alice sighed.
After speaking, she paused and her expression gradually became solemn:
“More importantly, the church is getting bigger and bigger now, and I think it’s time to rebuild a complete church system and organizational structure.”
Rebuild a complete church system and organizational structure...
Eve was thoughtful.
Since Eve resurrected into the World Tree, although the church has been rebuilt and the elves have been gathered together, a complete organizational structure has not actually been formed.
Although the Life Church now has more and more priests, and a group of devout chief priests have been born, the management of the entire church and even the hierarchy of priests are still quite chaotic.
If nothing else, the functions of priests, the standards for promotion and the management of believers are still in a relatively extensive management mode.
The only one that has done well is the "Sacred Scripture of Life" that has been renovated by the players.
In fact, it is not just the church, but also the social organization of the elves, which is now in a rather loose and chaotic state.
In other words, cities such as Feilengcui and Kenoran are the centers, forming city-state-like settlements. The daily management is handled by the church or older elf elders, and there is no political power as strong as the country. entity.
The reason why this is the case is that on the one hand, the number of elves was too small before, and there was neither the ability nor the need to form such a complete church organization and administrative agency; on the other hand, the emergence of players has completely changed the elves. The social order and ecology of the forest...
When the number of elves is small and the scale of players is not large, simple church organizations and administrative agencies can still maintain the operation of the entire Elf Forest. However, as the number of elves increases and the number of open beta players increases, There was a large influx, and gradually it became a bit stretched.
This was also the case before when the Chosen City exceeded its population carrying capacity.
Eve opened the construction of new cities to players not only because of the supply constraints of the Chosen City's productivity, but also because the existing church management could no longer sustain it and required players to branch out and spontaneously form new ones. Management organization...
After thinking about everything clearly, Eve said:
"So...are you saying that we need to appoint a high priest and further improve the church structure?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I want to say, and I think you can do it."
Alice replied.
Me?
I'd better forget it, I just want to fish.
Eve complained in her heart.
She pondered for a moment and said:
"Life Church does need reform, but I have no intention of becoming a high priest."
"Why?"
Alice asked.
"Lazy."
Eve is concise and to the point.
Alice:......
This... is really speechless.
After a moment of pause, Eve spoke again:
"What do you think... Thranduil?"
"Thrandil?"
Alice was slightly startled.
She hesitated and said:
"Lord Thranduil has been too close to many female chosen ones recently, and the comments about him within the clan seem to be a bit subtle..."
After finishing speaking, she lowered her head again and said with some self-blame:
"It's all my fault. I didn't teach him well. He seemed to have been taught some strange knowledge by the Chosen One..."
After hearing what Alice said, Eve looked strange.
She also thought about the scene when she was conveying the oracle to a certain original elf, and she saw him being served by a group of pretty female players.
That guy... seems to have been raised a bit crookedly.
The ability is not bad, but he does not look like an elf in the traditional sense, but more like the black-bellied dragon Aotian wearing elf skin.
If Eve had not eliminated their ghs ability as early as the first batch of players, otherwise Thranduil might have started a harem among the players...
In a sense, it's quite eye-catching.
After all, he is not a human, but an elf.
I don’t think I was beaten by male players thanks to the NPC protection mechanism.
Let this guy be the high priest, even if he is capable enough, he still has to weigh it carefully.
Thrandil can’t do it. Eve pondered for a moment, and another name appeared in her mind:
"What do you think of Taylor?"
"Tyler?"
Alice was slightly startled.
However, she soon remembered who Eve was talking about.
Taylor Yansha.
The first elf to purify blood from the demiplane of Oros, and also the first group of life priests from the demiplane of Oros.
His beliefs are extremely devout and he is a fanatical believer in the goddess. At the same time, he does not have the stubborn thinking of traditional elves.
Not only that, although he is an elf from the demiplane, he is extremely passionate about elf culture. After purifying his bloodline, he quickly became involved with the elves in the demiplane of Segas.
Now, he is already the chief priest who manages the Life Church of the Oros demiplane, and he manages the Life Church of the Oros demiplane in an orderly manner. Surprisingly, he is a natural managerial talent.
At this thought, Alice's heart skipped a beat.
The most important thing for a religious leader in a church is to have excellent management skills.
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The candidate proposed by Lord Zero is indeed a good one.
If there is any shortcoming, it is that his background is still too weak and his reputation is not enough.
To become a high priest, you also need to have a certain reputation, so that you can convince the public.
"Taylor is indeed good, but his reputation within the clan does not seem to be enough to become a religious leader, and his strength is also somewhat insufficient."
Alice thought for a while and said.
Although Taylor's strength has skyrocketed after becoming a real elf, he has not yet become Silver.
Among the elves in the Elf Forest, there are already many silver-level elves.
"There is no problem with reputation and strength. As long as His Majesty True God approves, everything can be solved. We only need to inform His Majesty True God of the candidate, and the rest will naturally be decided by His Majesty True God."
Eve said.
Alice was startled, then nodded:
"Indeed, if His Majesty the True God approves, this won't be a problem."
The more Eve thought about it, the more she felt that Taylor was good. At this moment, she had almost determined that he was the one in her heart.
But only the kind and simple elves can do this.
If it were another intelligent race, "outsiders" like Taylor would not be accepted as faith leaders at all.
"Then Taylor, I will report the matter to Her Majesty the Goddess, and everything will be decided by Her Majesty."
Eve said.
Alice had no objections.
The Saint of Life thought for a while and then said:
"In addition, I think that the former natural church system is no longer suitable for the current Elf Forest. The emergence of the Chosen One has changed the structure of the church. If the church is reformed, I think it should be based on the original church. to explore new mechanisms for ordinary elves and chosen ones."
"The Chosen Ones are very capable. I think we can gather the Chosen Ones in the form of issuing tasks as before, and optimize the existing model based on our existing church structure."
Eve nodded in approval, and at the same time secretly said in her heart that Alice's way of speaking was becoming more and more Blue Star-like.
"It is indeed a good way to involve the chosen ones. The previous "Sacred Scripture of Life" was good, but this matter still needs to be reported to Her Majesty the Goddess. Only Her Majesty the Goddess can maximize the enthusiasm of the Chosen Ones. ”
Eve said.
"I thought so too."
Alice smiled sweetly.
Eve nodded and said:
"That's it, let's decide the second thing like this. As for the founding of the country... our current population is actually far from enough, but it can also be taken into consideration in advance."
Sooner or later, Eve will purify all the elves and hybrid humans on the demiplane of Oros, and the speed will only get faster and faster. Therefore, although the population of the elves is not large now, it will be in the future It will definitely increase explosively.
Ideally, even close to three million.
As for players, there are even more.
In Eve's view, players can also be counted as a population.
"Elf Kingdom" is running well in Blue Star. She has already planned to operate it for a long time. She has even made plans to pull the souls who are willing to reincarnate into another world after the player's death to the world of Segas to reshape their bodies and become real The preparation of the elves.
Of course, hundreds of thousands of players on Blue Star have not died yet. As for whether the memory will be retained after the player dies, and whether other restrictions will be added if the memory is retained, that is another matter.
But one thing is certain, with the development of the Elf Forest, Eve feels that if the elves really want to restore their country, there is no need to build a "kingdom" as before.
Historically, the Elf Kingdom was established spontaneously by the Elf Royal Family, with royal power as the center. There was the Elf Kingdom first, and then there was the Natural Church that spontaneously believed in the World Tree, and was recognized by its predecessors, eventually forming the well-known Elf Civilization. .
But the situation now is different from before.
Religion and royal power have always been in an antagonistic relationship, conflicting with each other.
Eve didn't think deeply about it before, but now that she thinks about it, for the true god, a country with unified government is actually the best.
Of course, this is not absolute.
Just like the human world, there are many gods and churches, and it is impossible for the whole race to have a single political unity.
Even if there is one, it is only a small human country.
But, who told the elves to only believe in Eve as the true god?
This is the best soil for the unity of the clan and government!
Not only that, when Eve connects the game system and the belief network, the system of political integration also helps her to better control the players.
Of course, all this can only be considered after the church system is further improved.
Thinking of this, Eve said:
"If we want to build a country... don't rush it. Let's complete the church reform first. When the population increases, we can then pray to the goddess and ask for the oracle."