Sarah was very confident in herself. She felt that she was a member of the lower class and understood the poor very well. Therefore, she believed that the ordinary people who had not yet believed in the Woking Church would soon be converted by her.
She now completely saw herself as a member of the Woking Church. Many things were already considered from the perspective of the Woking Church. After receiving Beta's permission, she led ten members of the church and pushed a donkey cart loaded with flint toward the South Sector.
Betta, on the other hand, went to the branch temple again.
He and Katie sat facing each other again. At this moment, Katie was no longer as dejected as she had been the last time. She took out two bottles of fruit wine, shook them, and asked, "Want two?"
Beta raised his eyebrows. "Forget it."
Due to what happened a few days ago, Beta no longer dared to drink with Katie casually. This woman's alcohol tolerance was not very good. She would act recklessly if she drank too much. If what happened before happened again, it would be hard to talk business.
Katie put down the wine bottles. Her face was slightly red. She must have been embarrassed.
"This time, I want to talk to you about the bishop of the Church."
Katie smiled bitterly. "If you have something to say, just say it. I can take it."
"Alright, I'll be straightforward." Beta nodded. "After observing you for a while, I found that you really don't have the talent to manage the Church. Your ability should be in gathering intelligence and controlling the underground forces. Therefore, I plan to take away your bishop position and give you complete control of the church's guards. "
"Without the bishop position, I'll have full command of the church's guards." Katie smiled bitterly. "Is this compensation?"
"It's not compensation. It's just a reasonable use of human resources." Beta explained seriously, "You're not good at civil management, so I'll give you military power. This way, I can relax a little. "
"Aren't you afraid that I'll run away with the church's guards?" Katie said half-jokingly. "After all, you know that with a powerful army or mercenary group, you'll be able to find a good master no matter where you go."
In this world, Katie's words sounded like a joke, but most of the time they were the truth. Countless examples had warned the world that once a subordinate grasped great power, it was easy for them to bite back at their master.
But Beta smiled. "Is there a force that treats you better than the Woking Church?"
Katie smiled. "That's true."
Beta knew very well that Katie would never betray the Woking Temple. He might even leave the Woking Temple himself, but Katie would never do that, because she was a rare fanatic.
Zealots never doubted the words of the gods. They would carry out the gods' orders completely, even at the cost of their own lives. Zealots would never doubt the gods' words. They would carry out the orders of the gods.
Katie was secretly delighted. After all, Beta didn't think that she was useless and was still willing to give her another heavy responsibility. This was a sign of affirmation of her abilities.
"Since you've agreed, I'll be staying in this shrine for a while." Beta heaved a long sigh. "When Sarah and her brother Harris grow up, the two temples will be managed by them."
"You don't want to personally manage a divine hall?" Katie was rather curious and confused.
It could be said that Beta had single-handedly established and conquered these divine halls. Due to his limited energy, it was impossible for him to manage every single divine hall. Kati understood this, but Beta was unwilling to manage a single divine hall. This was rather strange.
Beta looked into the distance and said, "I still have a territory, you should know about it."
Katie clapped her hands. "Right, I almost forgot about that."
"When Harris grows up, I'll leave with Shirley." Beta said with some nostalgia, "I've decided to build the wetland into the most prosperous and largest city in the world, and then I'll set up Goddess Woking's sacred realm there."
"Why not here?" Katie asked, somewhat puzzled.
Beta said matter-of-factly, "Bronze Drum City is someone else's territory. If we set up our sacred realm here, what do you think Mayor Grinton would think? He's the only Legendary human being that we know for now. If a sacred realm of the Church appears in his territory, what do you think the other lords and nobles will think of him? "
Katie nodded. The more she thought about it, the more she realized the huge gap between her and Beta. He had already considered such a trivial matter and knew how to avoid trouble for the temple. If it were her, she would've established her sacred realm here without hesitation and then had an open or secret conflict with the Legendary expert Grinton.
"When do you plan to go to your territory?" Katie asked.
"In about half a year," Beta said casually. "By then, Harris will probably have grown up."
Katie held her smooth chin and looked at the man in front of her quietly for a while. Then she suddenly asked, "Then what about the guards of the church?"
"That's up to you." Beta chuckled. "You can choose to continue recruiting and expand the number of guards of the church. Of course, you have to keep up with the training and rules. Or you can go the elite route and control the number of guards of the church to a certain level. That way, they won't be weak in combat and will be easy to manage. "
Katie asked, "Which one do you think is suitable for me?"
Beta smiled. "Of course it's the second."
"Then the second one." Katie got up and brought a bottle of fruit wine. "Have a drink. Consider it an early farewell for you."
About a few minutes later, Beta came out of Katie's room and found a random room next door. This temple was very large, and there were many rooms. Also, every room was well decorated. There was no need to buy or decorate additional furniture. He could move in with just a bag.
Besides, even if Beta didn't have a house to live in, he still had Mystra's Mansion, which was quite comfortable.
The next day, after Beta went to school, he brought Harris back to the temple and personally taught him how to be a competent bishop. Sarah was very happy about that. The girl was truly capable. With a simple explanation of the doctrine and a small favor of free flint, she actually converted more than half of the remaining non- Woking believers in one go.
Beta estimated that after two or three more times, only the nobles in Bronze Drum City wouldn't believe in Goddess Woking.
Time passed day by day in a regular life. Soon, another half a year had passed. Winter snow came, and the whole Bronze Drum City was enveloped in a cold wind. If it were in Bronze Drum City in the past, a large number of poor people would've frozen to death or starved to death. But over the past year, Beta had worked hard to build infrastructure in and around the city. A large number of poor people participated in the construction and earned a lot of money.
After a year, as long as they weren't too lazy, they could save nearly one or two silver coins. They had extra money to buy winter clothes and enough money to buy food.
All the poor people knew that all this was brought about by the Woking Temple. Because they increasingly believed in Goddess Woking, many people became orthodox believers, which greatly increased Beta's temple contribution. Then, he exchanged for a very special divine spell, Golden Body!
This divine spell was actually a passive skill. It would be automatically triggered in battle at the cost of one gold coin each time, allowing the holder of this skill to receive a certain increase in physical strength and skin toughness. Without gold coins, the effect of this divine spell wouldn't be triggered.
Back in the game, Beta's bloodline was the Silver Dragon bloodline. He had a passive talent called Dragon Scales, which could harden a part of his skin into scales when necessary to resist enemy attacks. This greatly improved his survivability.
However, the Cloud Dragon bloodline didn't have this talent, so Beta had to find other ways to obtain similar abilities.
At this time, except for a small number of nobles in Bronze Drum City, the rest of the people had already believed in Goddess Woking. At the very least, they were shallow believers, and the orthodox believers accounted for half of the total number of believers. After Beta's serious teaching, Harris now had the necessary ability to manage the temple. Although he was still a little inexperienced, he would become a very qualified bishop after a few years of training.
As for Sarah, she was much more outstanding than Harris. She was more than enough to manage a temple.
After handing over the affairs of the temple to the siblings, Beta quietly left Bronze Drum City with Shirley.
Apart from the siblings, only Grinton and Katie knew that they were leaving.
Katie climbed to the top of the Temple of Light in the cold wind. She watched Beta and Shirley activate the teleportation magic array outside of the city and disappear into it. Then, she heaved a long sigh, feeling lost.
After returning to Reed Village and hearing about Belin's recent situation, Beta said, "You can try to accept some beggars and refugees from Winterwind. There's a lot of empty land outside of Reed Village where they can feed themselves. That will solve the shortage of population in the village. "
After the suggestion, Beta began to pack his things. Watching him, Belin asked, "Master, you're leaving, aren't you? Aren't you going to inform Kail?"
"That's unnecessary." Beta smiled. "Kail and Barbara are planning to get married. If I tell him about it, Kail will definitely offer his help and follow me to the wetland. I don't want to break them up. "
Belin heaved a long sigh after hearing about Kail. She envied Barbara very much.
At this moment, she already wanted to let go of this relationship. After all, there was no chance of winning no matter how she looked at it. Not to mention that Barbara was already outstanding enough, now there was another elf. This elf's ability, appearance, and background were all superior to Barbara's.
Belin felt that she was nothing compared to them.
Beta didn't understand what was on a girl's mind. He packed his things and went to the back of the temple with Shirley and Jessica.
The light of magic disappeared, and the three of them followed the magic into the wetland, which was the worst living environment in Hollevin.