Wizards are mighty

Is what the bishop said true?

The old man didn't know.

But he tried to make himself believe it.

Because the person who was chosen by the church to be the sacrifice could not refuse.

Of course he wanted his grandson and granddaughter to be alive and to participate in the sacrifice himself.

But the church didn't let him.

Therefore, the old man could only keep convincing himself in his heart that his grandson and granddaughter had gone to the kingdom of God.

They were all living a good life!

If they stayed in this world, they would suffer a lot like him.

It's not good.

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After that day, the people of the church rarely came to see him.

The old man's life continued as before.

He didn't see any changes in this world.

As for the effect of the "sacrifice of God"?

I don't know.

But the days that followed seemed to become a little vague in his memory.

Not long after his grandson and granddaughter disappeared in the white light of the sacrifice of God, his old partner also died of grief.

He was left alone in this world, lonely and helpless.

Although there was only one mouth left to feed in the family, the old man's life was not much better.

The reason is simple, he is old.

He couldn't do the car repair work before, and he couldn't compete with the young people in various jobs after the advent of the new era.

In the end, he could only go to the street or the market, pick up some unwanted things and sell them in the scrapyard, and then barely make ends meet with the church's subsidies.

He had a really hard time during that time.

Fortunately, the church and God did not abandon him.

In a later census, he successfully made it onto the church's assistance list.

Elderly people like him who have made certain contributions to the church only need to pray for two hours a day, and then silently recite the church's scriptures for eight hours in front of the statue of God, and they can get a good meal and more subsidies, enough for his daily food and drink expenses.

It sounds like it takes a long time and seems very boring.

But if you stand in front of the statue of God, or in some special places specified by the church.

The consciousness of the praying person will enter a special state.

In that state, the time perceived by the old man seems to have become countless times faster.

Just a little concentration, the sun in the sky will soon sink into the sky, and in the blink of an eye it will go from afternoon to night.

Then they had a free dinner in the church cafeteria or other places, and continued to read the Bible at night.

Although the regulations required them to do these activities for only ten hours a day, almost everyone would spend several extra hours in the church.

The reason was simple: this was the pastor's requirement.

When the pastor of the church saw old people like them, he never showed a bad look, but patiently solved their problems and said that this was all God's grace.

In order to repay God's grace, people naturally cannot come to the church with the mentality of doing tasks, but should regard these matters as part of their lives.

Although it was not stated explicitly, if someone dared to leave at the appointed time every time, then it would not take long for him to disappear from the church's assistance list and lose a series of preferential treatments.

In such days, the old man gradually forgot the pain of the past.

Because time passed too quickly, so quickly that he came to this day in a trance.

There is nothing to say about what happened later.

He survived day by day until now he was completely unable to move, lying in bed because of a minor illness, waiting for death to come.

I wonder if he can go to the kingdom of God after his death?    ……

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The fluctuation of magic power ripples in the air.

Vic's soul floated beside the old man, reading his memory bit by bit.

Compared with asking around for various things, it is obviously a better way to directly check the memory of the person who experienced it personally.

Even if one person's memory is biased, if you can look at a few more people, you can easily get a relatively complete history.

…

From the memory of this old man and many residents that Vic had checked before, this world was obviously also an indigenous world.

It was just that one day, the Xinbo civilization crossed the world barrier and suddenly descended here, bringing a new life to the indigenous people of this world.

And this old man, like countless ordinary people in this period of history, experienced the changes between the old society and the new society, and finally had his own ending-dying miserably after being drained of the power of faith.

Yes, in Vic's view, the benefits given by the church are nothing at all.

Even for a rule-level multiverse civilization, ordinary matter under the rules can be created out of thin air with a wave of the hand.

Not to mention supplying ordinary people on a planet, it wouldn't take much effort to fill up the entire universe.

The reason why the church did that is actually very simple.

That is to control these natives through this means, so that they can continuously provide the power of faith.

These natives may also think that it is a good thing for the church to give them various resources for no reason, even if they pray for a while.

But in fact, letting people spend a lot of time on various religious affairs is the purpose of the church itself.

It is also their biggest source of profit.

Because they control the lives of these believers and their souls at the same time, they can continuously obtain the power of faith from them.

In most civilizations with belief systems, belief is the most valuable currency.

Of course, it is limited to souls naturally bred in a world with special soul rules.

In such a world, the naturally born soul itself is part of the rules of the world and a valuable resource.

Managers usually ask large resources to produce more small resources for their use.

This is the world.

The church takes advantage of the indigenous people's ignorant belief that their faith is worthless to continuously exploit their souls.

Vic could even see from the layout of the city that even if these believers died, their souls would be used again.

In fact, there is no kingdom of God at all.

Some are just belief machines similar to generators.

Turn them into batteries until the soul is completely gone.

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"Sacrifice? It's interesting."

Looking through the old man's memories again, Vic was aroused by a piece of history in his memory.

Although I have also seen things related to that "divine sacrifice" in other people's memories.

But the images in those people's memories were not as clear as this old man's.

Because he was looking at the memories of people from the middle and lower classes of society.

Among them, the only ones who are closest to the "sacrifice" and know the most about it are those whose family members have become "sacrifice".

Judging from the arrangement of the so-called "divine sacrifice" in the old man's memory, that special ceremony seems to be related to the world will of this world.

Maybe he wants to erode and replace the world's will to completely occupy this world?