The young bishop smiled and said in a friendly tone, "Your Excellency, let's form an alliance."
Strategically speaking, the weak could only survive in this chaotic world by forming an alliance. Although Woking used to be a righteous god, from the perspective of a god, she was indeed a weakling now. The Goddess of Love wasn't much stronger, and her target audience was even smaller. Besides, Woking had reminded Beta not long ago that she wanted him to find the Pope of the weak gods and form an alliance.
But now, before he could leave, the other party had found him first.
Naturally, Beta was very interested in forming an alliance. He invited the young bishop to sit and asked, "May I know your name, Your Excellency?"
"You can call me Parker." The young bishop sized up the temple and said enviously, "Your Excellency is so young, but you're already in charge of such a large temple. Unlike me, I don't even have a small temple. "
Not all bishops could have their own shrines. The construction cost of a large shrine was very high, so every large shrine would cause benign or vicious competition among bishops of the same sect.
For the gods with a wide range of beliefs, it might be easier for them to build a large temple. But for the gods that were weak or had insufficient believers, it wasn't easy for their bishop to think of a large temple. After all, not all bishops were like Beta, who could run around with nearly a thousand gold bars, and not like him, who knew how to make money and rob money.
"The host of this temple is Shirley, not me." Beta didn't want to fight with Shirley for the management of the temple anymore. "Your Excellency Parker, can we talk about the alliance in detail?"
Shirley suddenly interrupted and said, "I'm indeed the bishop of this temple, but you're my master."
Parker looked at Shirley in surprise. He didn't understand why a divine creature would call a human master. Divine creatures in the temple were usually the messengers of the gods, and only the gods were qualified to be their masters. Could this young man be a god?
Parker looked at Shirley carefully and found that in her eyes, when she looked at Beta, there was not only admiration, but also some tenderness.
If a woman had tender feelings for a man, then things couldn't be simpler. Parker felt that this was a way of flirting between a man and a woman. In other words, Beta was a man who knew how to play.
Parker was so envious that he was almost jealous when he thought about this. Divine creatures themselves had extremely noble statuses, and Shirley was also extremely beautiful. This kind of subverting status and desecrating nobility made people tremble uncontrollably.
Parker desperately suppressed the throbbing in his heart and said, "I have an idea about the alliance."
"Go ahead." Betta spread his hands at him.
"Let's establish an offensive and defensive alliance first." Parker shifted his gaze from Shirley to Beta's face. He observed Beta's expression and continued, "After all, we will soon have a common enemy. When one side is attacked, the other side will send people to help. Of course, we'll discuss the details later. "
"Now, I just want to ask, how many cities do you have temples?" Parker asked.
Beta smiled. "About this, we can talk about it later. Just establishing an offensive and defensive alliance doesn't seem to make much sense."
After spending eight years in the game, Beta already knew the methods that nobles, or big shots, often used like the back of his hand. First, they would throw out a big picture and trick you into falling for it. Later on, they would slowly devour your power or interests. This was a very common thing.
An offensive and defensive alliance sounded great, but Betta wouldn't agree to it so easily if he didn't show some real "goods."
Parker looked at Beta strangely. "If we don't establish an offensive and defensive alliance, then there's no point in what happens next."
"You can't say that." Beta shook his head. "In an offensive and defensive alliance, if we work together to resist the enemy, who will be the leader? You didn't say anything about the spoils of war after victory, or how the power will be divided, or which god will be the leader. It seems that you don't want to talk about these things. How can I agree so casually? "
Parker nodded. "I understand what you mean, but this matter really has to be discussed later. Because before that, our goddess has a suggestion! "
"Please continue."
Parker took a slight breath and then said, "Regarding the matter of preaching, our goddess wants to unify the two religions!"
"Unify the two religions?" Hearing this, Beta was a little surprised. "This is your goddess' idea?"
Parker nodded. "Yes. That's what our goddess means. After the two religions unify, our power will increase greatly, and most importantly, after the two religions unify, the divine power of the two goddesses will be shared, and many things will become much easier. "
Beta closed his eyes. After a while, he looked at Parker with a face full of sarcasm. "Divine power sharing, you might as well say that it's divinity sharing! This way, our goddess will suffer a great loss. What will you compensate her with? "
"The right to survival." Parker said without hesitation. "Actually, before coming, we have already asked around. The Temple of Woking only has one temple in Reed Village and another here. It can be said that the divinity of your goddess is about to disappear. If we unify the two religions, then Goddess Woking will be able to survive. Isn't that a good thing? "
On the surface, it sounded like Parker was really thinking for Woking, but in fact, it was a complete conspiracy. Beta could imagine that after the two religions unify, the Goddess of Love, who had a slight upper hand, would definitely slowly steal away the believers that Woking had painstakingly accumulated, and then devour Woking's divinity.
Beta stood up. "We have nothing to talk about. Shirley, see our guest out."
Parker was not annoyed. He smiled and said, "I believe that you will change your mind soon. The two religions unify is imperative. "
After saying that, Parker walked away, very quietly. But Beta could see the arrogance and conceit in the man's back.
If it was 300 years ago, a weak god like the Goddess of Love would not even have the courage to appear in front of Woking. But now, he swaggered over and asked for the two religions to unify. And before he left, he even dared to leave some harsh words.
Life really was full of ups and downs!
But Beta remembered that a few days ago, Wendy had said that someone would come to make trouble during the opening ceremony of the temple.
Now, it seemed that her prophecy was indeed correct, but because Beta was here, there was a deviation. Instead, Parker came to Luke's door to act as a lobbyist, instead of fighting directly.
Beta asked Joan Of Arc to track Parker in the air and figure out where he was. Then, he went to Caesar's house.
He did not bring Shirley for this operation, because Shirley was still responsible for managing the temple and had a lot of things to do.
Caesar was somewhat surprised by Beta's arrival. After learning that he was looking for his wife, he immediately returned to the inner chamber and called Wendy out. Then, he sat down and watched the two of them. To be honest, he was somewhat worried about Beta, worried that the powerful young man would hurt his wife.
Wendy's vitality was not very good. She seemed to have not slept for many days.
Looking at her, Beta said, "Ms. Wendy, the prophecy you gave to the temple not long ago has come true. Although the time isn't right, someone has indeed come to cause trouble for the temple. I want to ask you, what else did you see? I know that prophecy is very exhausting, but this is my reward. "
A gold brick was placed on the table.
Caesar was surprised. Although prophecy was indeed very useful, it seemed very generous of Beta to offer more than a hundred gold coins as a reward.
There was no such thing as "virtuous" in this world. A hundred gold coins was more than enough to persuade Wendy to make a prophecy. But she looked at the gold on the table with some pity and said helplessly, "No, as long as you stay in Bronze Drum City, in the temple, I won't be able to see anything at all."
"Then how can you see that someone will come to cause trouble for the opening ceremony of the temple?" Beta found it odd. "According to you, you shouldn't be able to prophesy anywhere I am, so you shouldn't be able to see this."
Wendy hesitated. After a moment, she said embarrassedly, "Actually, I didn't 'see' the opening ceremony, but guessed it."
Beta frowned. "Why do you say that?"
"'Seeing' is an ability given to us by the goddess, but guessing is common sense. Everybody can do it." Wendy said awkwardly, "Actually, I didn't see anything about the Temple of Woking. I just happened to see a certain young bishop of the God of Love. He said 'on the day of the opening ceremony', and then I used this image to infer that they were going to harm you."
Now that he put it that way, Beta explained everything. In fact, Wendy couldn't see any lines of fate for herself at all. She only saw fragments of other people's lines of fate, and then used logical thinking or intelligence to guess what the other party might do in the future.
"Then help me see what that bishop of the God of Love will do later." Beta pointed at the gold brick. "This is your reward."
Wendy nodded and closed her eyes. At this moment, Caesar retreated as if he were facing a great enemy, as if he were very scared. Beta, on the other hand, didn't see anything unusual, or even feel anything at all. He didn't understand why Caesar had such an attitude and behavior.
After a while, Wendy opened her eyes, and Caesar finally relaxed.
"I only saw one image. The young bishop was talking to a woman with light blue hair," said Wendy somewhat disappointedly. "Unfortunately, they set up a soundproof barrier. I couldn't hear what they were saying at all, nor could I see what the blue-haired woman looked like. She seemed to be covered by a layer of mist."