Although Beta felt that he would definitely win the secret contest between him and Bard, he didn't just sleep and do nothing.
Shirley was very talented in preaching and deepening the faith of her believers. She was a divine creature, and the believers could feel Woking's divine aura as long as they stayed a certain distance away from her. For the believers, it was a great gift to be able to feel the aura of God, and it would naturally strengthen their faith in God.
Shirley was in charge of preaching every day. She rarely stuck to Beta now, but when the two of them were alone, Shirley's affectionate eyes could melt most men's hearts. Ever since Beta saved her from Woking, she seemed to be becoming more and more independent, but in fact, she became more and more dependent on Beta.
Beta had almost endless things to do now. Not only did he have to instruct the students to build better stone houses for the believers, but he also had to control the overall situation. There were more and more people who believed in Woking, and there were good and bad people mixed among them. Many of them wouldn't turn over a new leaf just because they believed in Woking.
Many of them even deceived other believers or bullied ordinary civilians under the guise of believers.
These people were definitely targets to be cleaned up. Therefore, Beta wanted Katie and her team to temporarily establish the church's guards, so that they could walk from the world of darkness to the light, from logistics to the front desk.
Beta made a series of rules and regulations for them, but when he brought them to Katie, some people objected.
Katie read the rules and regulations book for a while, and then put it aside. Her subordinates immediately grabbed it and flipped through it. Then, their expressions became more and more serious.
In Beta's eyes, it was a very standard and humane rule book, but in the eyes of Kati and her subordinates, it was not very humane.
"Sir, can you change it?" Can it be changed? "Katie looked at Betta and asked," This system is really too much. "
Beta didn't expect her to object. He asked, "For example, what's the rule?"
"Here, all the guards of the church. They can't drink on duty. Also, the guards were not allowed to leave their posts for more than ten kilometers. There's also this one … "Katie went on for nearly five minutes in one breath. In Beta's opinion, the list of items she had listed was not worth mentioning. These were all very necessary rules, but in their opinion, such a clause was indeed a bit too much.
"That's it?" Beta asked. "Is there anything else?"
Katie shook her head. "No."
It had to be said that humans in the information age on Earth and humans in this world had very different ideas.
Earthlings believed that a powerful army must go through a detailed system. It could only be built with the little bit of standard daily practice. Therefore, in the game, Beta's troops were trained and restricted according to this rule. Although he was opposed by Grinton and the others in the early stages of the game, he persisted and cultivated an elite army.
That was why Katie and the others objected. In fact, from a certain point of view, they just wanted to live more comfortably.
However, in Beta's vision, the Guard of the Church was not only the protection force of the Temple. It was also one of the Temple's publicity windows. Not only did they have to be capable of fighting, but they also had to be disciplined, similar to the role of a disciple soldier.
Beta glanced at Katie and the others. Then he said, "I won't change the rules again. What do you think?"
"You think you won't change them just because you say so?" said a man standing on the side rather arrogantly. "Who do you think you are? It's naturally Ms. Shirley who manages the affairs of the Temple, and it's naturally Ms. Katie who manages the combat forces of the Temple. You're relying on Ms. Shirley, so you can talk nonsense here. Don't think that you can order us around just because you have some strength. "
"Shut up!" Katie roared at the man, and then she said to Beta awkwardly, "This is really a bit difficult. You should also know that they are mercenaries, and it's indeed a bit unreasonable to restrict them with strict rules. "
Beta waved his hand. "I don't have to make them abide by these rules. They can choose not to join the Guard of the Church, but the Guard of the Church must act according to the rules and regulations I wrote. "
Katie finally understood something. "You mean, let them leave?"
As soon as this was said, the mercenaries all turned pale with fright. Two or three of them even looked at Beta with hatred in their eyes.
Beta didn't care about the hostile looks of these mercenaries at all. He nodded and said, "If they can abide by the rules I set, then they will naturally be part of the core of the Guard of the Church. If they can't, then they will naturally have to leave. Of course, I'm not a heartless person. You've been working hard for the Temple during this time, even if you haven't done anything meritorious, so I will give each of you a severance payment of 20 gold coins as a token of my appreciation. "
At this point, Beta felt that he had already done his best.
However, Katie and the others didn't look too good. The person who had just spoken against Beta continued to retort, "What right do you have to decide the rules and regulations of the Guard of the Church? If there really is a system to decide, it should be our Boss Katie, not you."
Beta looked at him and said with a smile, "If I can't decide the system of the Guard of the Church, then who can? You? You're not even a follower of Goddess Woking, what right do you have to question my decisions? "
The person was immediately speechless.
Beta looked at Katie. "I know you're very emotional, and these people were recruited by you, so you must be worried about their future."
This was what Katie was thinking, and she nodded in agreement with what Beta said.
Beta continued, "But the Guard of the Church is different. This is the power to guard the Temple, and also the foundation of our existence. Now that the power of the church was slowly growing, it was necessary to have a strong and self-restraining guard. If our core, that is, the person who leads them, can't do these things, then the army that we lead will definitely be vulnerable. "
The person clamored again, "You toy boy, do you know how to lead an army? Let me teach you, of course, when I was in the army and led a hundred people in a charge … "
A golden pillar of light swept past the person, and the powerful magic electric current numbed his whole body.
Beta withdrew his hand and said casually, "Back then, when I led thousands of people in a battle with tens of thousands of people, you weren't even born yet."
These words immediately rendered everyone speechless. They didn't really believe it, but they didn't dare to not believe it. In many cases, strength could change all objections. Beta revealed his strength with this move, and then they remembered that not long ago, one of their companions was beaten by this toy boy in their eyes. His face was swollen, and he couldn't fight back at all.
"Katie, you talk to them," Beta said expressionlessly. "If they are willing to accept my system, then they can stay. If not, tell them to come to me for twenty gold coins. "
Then Beta left.
The next day. Katie came with her subordinates, and half of them immediately left after receiving twenty gold coins. With these people gone, Beta immediately selected the strong young men with relatively high faith among the believers and formed a hundred and twenty guards of the Church.
Then came the hard training. The few professionals who stayed were mixed with the ordinary guards and received Beta's "education." This was because Beta's training method was based on the drill methods of the Earth army, especially military discipline. It was almost a complete copy of a certain red team, so the people who were trained at first were full of complaints, but they soon got used to it, and their spirits gradually changed.
The training of more than a hundred people naturally couldn't be hidden from the observant people, and soon the news of the Temple of Woking training guards reached the ears of Bard of the Temple of Light.
He was sitting in his study with a happy expression on his face.
The Temple of Light had been built, and after spending a lot of gold coins, it was bigger than the Temple of Woking. It was more imposing. And now Bard had converted nearly thirty nobles, becoming shallow believers of the Goddess of Light.
And these shallow believers had all donated a lot of money, the gold coins spent on the early construction of the Temple of Light. He immediately reclaimed a third of it.
It was easy to do things with money! Bard chuckled. Next, he planned to continue converting to the nobles as a shallow believer. As long as he worked hard, he would be able to recoup all the money spent on building the shrine. That would be a great contribution, and he might even be promoted to an archbishop.
Like the Temple of Woking. Idiots who only knew how to throw money around would never run the Temple. What awaited them was only bankruptcy.
The priests of the Temple had to eat, the Temple had to mend, and the Temple had to build guards. All of these required money. And once the Temple of Woking ran out of money, it would face the tragedy of the people leaving and the tea cooling. Even if the young man understood the importance of money in advance, they had already made an oath that he wouldn't preach to the poor, and Bard couldn't preach to the nobles.
When the Temple of Woking ran out of money, it naturally had to preach to the nobles, and the poor had no money to donate to them. And because of the oath, once Beta took the initiative to come to the noble district, then Bard would have a chance to make things difficult for him.
Indeed, having a lot of believers was of great benefit to the gods. But if the Temple itself couldn't sustain itself, no matter how many believers it had, it would be useless. Therefore, all the Temples preached to the nobles first. Only if the Temple could sustain itself, things like faith would be useful.
Only those young and inexperienced youths would be eager to preach to the poor. In Bard's eyes, Beta was quite capable, but he was too young and inexperienced.
How long could the Temple of Woking last? Half a year?
Bard stood up, guessing as he went out and boarded the carriage, ready to be a guest at a certain noble's house. This person was also a target for him to preach to, because he was very rich. As long as he could become a shallow believer, he would definitely donate a large sum of money.
The carriage soon reached its destination. After Bard got off, the butler standing at the door told him that his master had gone to the Temple of Woking.
To the Temple of Woking? Bard's first reaction was anger, but it was immediately joy. Did Beta preach to this noble? Then he would have a reason to cause trouble for the Temple of Woking.
He hurriedly returned to the carriage and shouted, "Quick, take me to the Temple of Woking."
The person Bard was going to preach to was called Joyce. His family used to be rich merchants. After four generations of hard work, they finally became a noble and were accepted as a member of the noble class.
At this moment, Joyce was looking at Shirley with infatuation in his eyes.
Any normal man would like beautiful women, and Shirley's appearance was definitely the number one beauty in Bronze Drum City. There was no doubt about it.
However, Joyce wasn't here to flirt with the beautiful woman. He was here to ask the Temple of Woking to perform a gold coin sacrifice for him.
All the nobles knew that Mayor Grinton had become a Legendary through the gold coin sacrifice. They had also heard that the gold coin sacrifice cost a lot of gold coins, but if it was only to turn oneself into a professional, the cost was still acceptable.
Many people were quite interested in it, but because they weren't familiar with the Temple of Woking, they didn't dare to come, fearing that they would be killed if they failed. After all, most of them were just ordinary people, not as strong as the mayor. Also, the slums were dirty and smelly. They didn't want to go to such a lowly place.
However, there were more and more people who worshiped Woking recently. After worshiping Woking, not only did the originally dirty and smelly poor people become clean, but they also gained a strange aura.
Because of his family business, Joyce had more contact with the civilians. After a while, he learned about the doctrines of the Temple of Woking. Then, he discovered, to his surprise, that the doctrines of the Temple of Woking were completely the dogma of noble etiquette.
Although there were other inexplicable rules mixed in, the core content was indeed the dogma of noble etiquette.
For example, love of cleanliness, rules for eating, things to pay attention to when speaking, walking, and persuading people to read and write. The so-called noble etiquette was actually the accumulation of these small details, which would slowly change a person's way of doing things, so that they would become more cultured and sensible.
Usually, only nobles would teach them these things … They wouldn't let the commoners know about this kind of teaching. After all, this was the simplest and most direct way for them to differentiate themselves from the commoners.
Joey felt this was an incredible discovery, but he didn't share it with anyone. Instead, he went to learn about it, reading the teachings of the Woking Temple, and then he made a bold decision to perform a gold coin sacrifice. If it was successful, he decided to believe in Woking, if it failed, it didn't matter, as long as he was alive, anything could be done.