Goddess Wanhua Mirror

Captain Jie Gang nodded. The earl was very angry about this incident, so the consequences were naturally very serious.

The Earl's meaning is very clear, since you God of War Cult sneaked up on Lao Tzu's work and allowed him to catch them making small moves in private, then this matter can be discussed properly.

The count directly summoned the bishop and conveyed his meaning to the other party. As long as the Ares Cult remains neutral and withdraws the missionary missions that the Ares Cult sent to the border areas before, he can pretend that nothing happened this time, otherwise don’t blame himself Don't forgive me!

Those who believed in the Holy Sect of Light and the Goddess of the Four Seasons Sect would be happy to stand up at this time and help themselves to fight against the God of War Sect.

So in order to save his face and ease the relationship with a local tycoon like the Earl of Lumley, the bishop was forced to agree to his conditions, and just at this time, another thing happened, which made the entire Church of God of War The Diocese of Durham was in a state of being overwhelmed.

Archbishop Geralis of the Diocese of Durham has passed away suddenly!

The incident happened five days ago. A letter from the bird sent the news of Narad's death back to the capital. The elderly archbishop Geralis died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 88 because of excessive grief.

Since the God of War teaches the entire Duran Diocese, only the archbishop Geralis himself has the ability to use the great resurrection technique, so after he died, no one could save him.

Some priests who were loyal to the archbishop thought that there were archbishops from other sects in the capital, and they should be able to save Geralis, but this proposal was immediately rejected by another group of people on the grounds that it would hurt face.

In short, the Geralis was gone, and the post of Archbishop of Duran Diocese was suddenly vacant.According to the old tradition of God of War, in the absence of a successor appointed by the previous archbishop, the position of archbishop will be selected from among the bishops of each diocese.

This belongs to the "internal affairs" of the diocese. As the headquarters of the Aegis Capital, at least they will not interfere on the surface, as long as they recognize the core position of the Aegis Capital in the entire God of War Cult.

In a sense, this can probably be called religious enfeoffment!

It was Earl Lumley's instruction that Jie Gang took the initiative to disclose this information to Lude.The earl is well aware of the power of religion to control people's hearts, and the cooperation between church and state is beneficial to governance.But this kind of cooperation mode must be cautious and choose a suitable partner.

And a rich and powerful big religion like the War God Sect is obviously not the ideal partner in his mind. The other party is too powerful and wants too much.Therefore, the earl fell in love with Lude's God of Medicine Sect. After all, such a small sect is much easier to control.

End of this chapter

On behalf of the Earl, Jie Gang chatted casually with Lu De for a while, and then went back to manage the army he brought.They are only expected to stay there for two days before heading home.

Jie Gang promised to Lu De that before he left, he would give some of the rations they brought to the locals.And this batch of food will be managed and distributed by Lude's God of Medicine to show the count's trust.

And not long after Jiegang left, people from God of War came to the door, and it was the bishop who "condescended" to the border came.

The bishop, who calls himself "Ural Donte", is the current patriarch of the Lumli diocese and a native of the region.

When the other party introduced himself, he deliberately brought his last name, and Lu De couldn't help but glance at him more.Because according to the rules of this world, the clergy of the major denominations must abandon their original surnames after becoming priests, even if they get married and have children, they cannot be restored casually.

The other party brought up the surname at this time, probably to convey some kind of information behind the surname to Lu De, or just simply wanted to pretend to be aggressive.But it's a pity that he didn't know that Lu De was a complete "husband" in this respect, and he declared himself in front of him, so he couldn't play any pretentious role at all.

"Oh, I've been looking forward to it for a long time."

After a few polite words, Ural saw that Lude's reaction was neither salty nor dull, his face twitched a few times, and he didn't get too entangled in it.

The other party said that he came here to take back the remains of Narad and others and the remaining missionary group, and to convey his gratitude to the God of Medicine Sect.

He had already learned about the incident from other witnesses just now. Ural was very grateful for Lude's efforts, and even helped to maintain the face of the God of War Cult afterwards.

However, after saying the thanks, Ural immediately changed the subject and asked Lud about the potion.

Ural had just learned about this miraculous potion, so he had the same idea as Narad before his death.But compared to Narad who is too strong and arrogant, Ural has to be more tactful, smiling all the time, and has a very gentle attitude.

And he seemed to understand what Lude was worried about, and said proactively.

"Priest Lude, I'm here just to discuss a business, and I don't intend to do other superfluous things. There are so many mortals and gods in this world. I'm not like Narad and the others, who are greedy enough to dream Let everyone in this world only believe in the God of War."

In front of Lude, Ural stated that their War God missionary group would withdraw from Pine Tree Village in two days, and would not build a temple there, but only keep a small meeting place that functions as an office.

In addition, from what he said just now, Lude also got an important message, that is, Ural and Narad are not from the same faction.

As a large international religion with more than 2000 million believers and a sphere of influence spread across three continents, the God of War Sect is not monolithic. Priests and bishops in various places have to be subdivided into several different factions due to differences in ideas, interests, and ethnicities. The relationship between them can even be said to be like fire and water.

Regarding the God of War religion, Lude also learned a lot from Hume who "inquired" before. In the current Kingdom of Duran, there are two main factions within the God of War religion, namely the Carter faction headed by the former archbishop Geralis, and The Doug faction headed by several diocesan bishops.

The former belongs to the radical faction, advocating that the God of War is supreme!To take an active offensive stance in preaching, not only must compete with other sects for territory, do everything possible to suppress dissidents, but also actively intervene in the internal affairs of the kingdom, striving to gradually turn the Duran Kingdom into a theocracy.

The latter belongs to the moderate faction. Most of its members are natives of the Duran Kingdom and have a certain network of connections in the local area. They are more inclined to cooperate with the nobles rather than confront them, and their attitude towards other sects will not be blindly screaming. .

certainly!This so-called mildness is largely relative.Like Ural in front of Lude, he is a member of the Doug faction, but he also placed an eyeliner on the lord's side, and in this border incident, he provided a lot of assistance to Narad of the Carter faction.

Lude himself does not intend to participate in the power disputes within the God of War Cult, not because he has no interest, but because he simply does not have the strength.

However, judging from the various information obtained so far, the God of War Sect in the Duran Kingdom may not have time to take care of him for a long time in the future. The bishops of the six major dioceses should be facing the sudden empty The position of the archbishop who came out was eyeing.

In contrast, who would pay attention to a border village with only 3000 people?

good news!Absolutely great news!

Therefore, the business negotiations between Ludd and Ural went very smoothly. The two parties signed a sales agreement. The God of Medicine would provide at least two hundred bottles of "Evelina's Tears" every year. This figure was equivalent to more than half of Ludd's disclosed annual output. And Ural paid Lud two thousand and five hundred gold coins.

When the average unit price is calculated, it is more than twice as expensive as the previous merchants, but it is Ural who took the initiative to raise the price, and he has two conditions.

The first condition is on the surface, which is directly implemented in the contract. Ural requires priority in supplying goods. After all, the price he charged is high, and the newly produced medicines every year must be given to him in full before they can be given to others.

And the second condition is in secret, the two agreed verbally in private, not to let the third person know.

Ural hopes that the paper figure on the contract can be written as three thousand.

As soon as the other party made this request, Lu De was shocked on the spot!

"Brother! You know how to play!"

After the contract was signed, Ural put away the documents with satisfaction, then looked up at the ceiling of the temple and said.

"Priest Lude, this temple should be quite old, right?"

"It's been a while."

"That's fine. Since my church has decided not to set up a temple in the local area, many of the building materials brought in before will be useless. Why don't you give it to you as a contract deposit? I have inquired about the materials, and the value is about About one thousand gold coins, that’s not counting the shipping fee, let’s take it as one thousand!”

Ural smiled and said it as if he was very generous, but in fact these materials were not spent on his money, but on the activity funds allocated by the former archbishop Geralis to his disciple Narad, and even Duke Ganmaling I also helped to subsidize some, the actual value is probably more than [-] gold coins.

But Ural didn't care, and it wasn't his money, so it was extra generous to give it away.He can even try to pour dirty water on Geralis and Narad on the source of this funding.

After all, it is very difficult for a dead person to rise up and refute him.

That's really hard!

End of this chapter

After nightfall that day, Lude's temple welcomed the third wave of guests, just like the time period specially chosen by the other party, it is indeed not suitable for seeing the light.

"Good evening, my lord priest."

"Good evening, Mr. Erwin."

In the study, Lu De looked at the notorious second-generation official adventurer in front of him.In the previous battle against the Lizardmen, Erwin and his Hydrangea Blade team contributed a lot.Although they said that the whole team was almost all scumbags, the strength of this group of scumbags was really not bad.

During the crusade of the brave army, Lu De secretly reached some agreements with Erwin, and this guy took the initiative to disclose some very interesting information.

Erwin's father is the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom, but his position in the Masdak family is very embarrassing. Among the four brothers, he is the second eldest, with one elder brother who is higher than himself in line, and two talented people below him. The younger brothers who are stronger than himself, one has become a magician, and the other is preparing to become a priest.

So Erwin became the most useless child in the family, and was sent to do some "dirty work" by his own father just like "waste recycling"!

There is one thing to say, Erwin really enjoys the feeling of being a bad guy, because he is not a good bird, but he is unwilling to play such a bad role all his life, so he secretly took refuge in Duke Ganmerin.

Lude didn't like Erwin's behavior, but he had to admit that this scumbag was not completely useless to him, and it was said that he had a wide network among noble children and knew many rich bastards.

In his own words, he was treating people like dogs anyway, so why not choose a master who is the best for him?

Coming out of the woods, although Erwin himself stayed in the village, Lude noticed that two people in his team disappeared, presumably leaving the village to deliver a letter to Duke Ganmerin.

And the other party suddenly came to visit late at night, presumably the Duke gave him some instructions, asking him to convey some messages to himself or something.

So Lude asked straight to the point.

"Duke asked you to bring me a message?"

"Well, you guessed right."

"What did the Duke say?"

"It's nothing, just a word...he paid double!"

"..."

Lu De was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this was Duke Ganmaling's bid.One or two of these people are all greedy for his medicine!

In contrast, everyone was not interested in the escaped lizardmen.

After thinking about it, Lude took out the agreement signed with Ural during the day and showed it to Erwin. His Excellency the Duke was indeed generous, but it was a pity that he was one step too late after all.And if strength really matters, your Duke's family may not be as tyrannical as taught by God of War.

Erwin naturally understood this truth, so when he saw the written agreement Lude took out, he scratched his head in embarrassment.

"That's a bit of a hassle."

"Actually... you can ask the Duke for me if he is interested in other types of potions. I just have some new ones here."

"Ok?"

As Lude said, he took out a small flat medicine jar from his arms and handed it to Erwin.

"What is this? Wipe it off?"

Opening the small medicine bottle, Erwin found that there was an egg-yellow fragrance ointment in the bottle, a bit like the antifreeze ointment used by their adventurers.

Lude pointed to the ointment with a serious face and said.

"This ointment, I call it...mysterious oil, it's for smearing."

"What's the effect?"

"Internal administration can improve the user's strength and endurance, and enter a highly excited state for a short time. If it is applied externally, it can make the smeared area bigger and harder."

After Lude finished speaking, the room fell into a bewildered silence for a while. Erwin's expression was indifferent at first, then gradually turned into doubt, and finally figured it out slowly, with a slutty smile on the corner of his mouth.

"My lord, I really can't see it!"

"As a by-product of the research, I originally wanted to make a powerful stimulant without side effects, but unexpectedly discovered other effects."

Lude explained with a straight face, but at this moment, there was an obvious disdainful hum at the door, which was obviously Hume who was guarding outside.

In fact, the initial birth of this ointment was indeed an accident, but what was shown to Erwin at this time was already a "mature product" after many improvements and adjustments.

Out of bad taste, Lu De planned to name this ointment "Yi Mo Duo" or "Mo Mo Da" at first, but later found that this Chinese-based homophonic stalk doesn't work well here, and it doesn't People can get to his point, so in the end it was named "mysterious oil".

Because this kind of oil that you touch around is indeed very mysterious!

Originally, Lude didn't want to have anything to do with Irwin and the Duke Ganmerin behind him, but he couldn't just go against each other directly, at least now he didn't have the capital of a big nobleman like a hard anus.

So Luther was going to do what he liked and give the Duke some "good things" that he might desperately need.

Judging from the information that Lu De currently has, Duke Ganmerin is a lustful man. He has a lot of wives and concubines at home, and he often goes out to look for flowers and women. It would be great to give him this kind of ointment that I "unintentionally" developed to sell him as a favor.

And Erwin is not stupid, so he naturally thought of this joint. He is now convinced that if he really takes this thing to go on a business trip, the Duke will definitely be happier than seeing him go back with the recovery potion.

"How much of this thing is there now? How is the output?"

"It's not too high at this stage. I can give you some for free first, so that you can give it to those who need it and can afford it for a try. How about it? Will you help the old man to promote it among your friends? I can give it to you." You get a commission!"

With the "sample" given by Lude, Erwin left the temple satisfied.

Looking at the figure of the other party disappearing into the night, Lu De suddenly had a feeling that he was now eating both black and white.

"Subtle, a little uncomfortable."

"With the benefits of the three families, are you hypocritical?"

In the darkness, Hume came from the shadows and stood side by side with Lude.

In this incident, Lude's series of means and handling have shown enough ability to impress even a god of robbers.According to Hume's original speculation, they must have offended some people in the end, so that they could keep the fruits of victory of the God of Medicine Cult in Pine Tree Village.

But it turned out that Lu De managed to attack his opponents at the same time, and at the same time, no one was offended in the end. This is a very remarkable method.

But Lude sighed and said earnestly.

"It's because of me now that no one dares to offend me, so I don't feel very happy!"

End of this chapter

Before I knew it, it was June.As the outside temperature continues to rise, summer is coming quietly without people noticing.

After going through a series of events from last winter to this spring, although there were many twists and turns in the process, the people living in Songshu Village survived those bad days smoothly in the end.

Everything will continue to develop in a good direction, and the vast majority of the village believe so firmly, because their village is blessed by gods!