Chapter 154: Monster Intelligence UP

  Although the goddess's followers are now only monsters, these monsters are the most devout followers. These creatures that unconditionally follow the leader's orders will faithfully execute the Minotaur's order to make them devoutly worship the goddess, even if they don't know what the concept of a goddess is.

  Nowadays, the demons staying in Lei Ting Cliff have all received the small books distributed by Mo Yan. Although they can't understand the words on it, they still hold the book with one hand every day, kneel down with their hands together and pray, thinking of the goddess's words to grant us wisdom and strength.

  As the lower-level commanders of the legion, the werewolves and minotaurs were brought to the grand cathedral in batches by Mo Yan to receive Christian-style religious rituals. The demons lined up one by one in front of a statue of a goddess symbolizing wisdom, with long hair and glasses, holding a thick book, and were pressed into the water basin in front of them by the cow-headed people.

  Until they are almost out of breath and forced to drink a few mouthfuls of the supposedly blessed holy water from the basin, will the Minotaur release their pressed-down heads. Coughing violently, they still have to kneel down and watch as the Minotaur's hand draws crosses in the air, saying a bunch of things like "May the goddess of wisdom fool you".

  This kind of tormenting religious ritual was so boring to Mo Yan that he handed it over to the White Wolf people, and only then did it see a great improvement. Although there were still many holy waters splashed on them, at least no monsters would drown in such situations. However, even with this chaotic method, an unexpected result emerged. The monsters who prayed every morning gradually showed significant improvements in their intelligence.

  Some of the baptized demons even directly increased their intelligence. They were more rational and less beastly in what they did, and when Mo Yan asked them questions, they no longer acted like idiots, but could clearly express their own thoughts and perceptions. Although this change was still relatively slow, it had already made Mo Yan extremely excited.

  For this, Mo Yan gathered all these slightly enlightened demons and concentrated them on a training session to teach them the words and meanings of the Bible, giving them the identity of goddess singers. These were originally low-level commanders of demons, who would return to perform baptisms for all the demons under their command and conduct some more formal group prayers.

  Outstanding demons were left in the temple to become bishops, replacing the Minotaurs who had grown tired of religious games. Every day, they would direct the demons who came to the cathedral according to the Minotaur's orders to perform baptisms or, during their free time, surround the simple pool behind the church, holding a cross to pray for blessings and make holy water.

  These magical creatures, which were originally outstanding in intelligence, grew faster in various attributes as they stayed in the temple for a longer period of time. After several months, they had already reached the level of human intelligence, and their strength and physical agility had also increased significantly. If they stayed in the temple without leaving for ten or twenty years, it was possible that they would reach the level of a divine warrior.

  As the demons in Thunder Cliff began to be civilized, the craftsmen of ornaments, stone carvings and wood carvings in Thunder Cliff received a large number of orders. According to Mo Yan's drawings, each workshop started producing relevant cross pendants and some small goddess statues made of stone or wood, so that they could be distributed to the demon army for use.

  However, what made Mo Yan uncertain was that even if such a phenomenon appeared, the goddess still hadn't contacted him in the normal world. This also made Mo Yan unsure whether his method was effective or not. But Mo Yan didn't dwell on this issue too much, anyway he had already tasted the sweetness of it, so just consider it as effective then.

  After the baptism had a significant effect, Mo Yan began to vigorously promote the worship of the goddess. Not only did he bring back most of the magical creatures' armor and have the blacksmiths engrave various elaborate cross patterns that Mo Yan had copied, but later even produced many branding irons with beautiful cross patterns, giving each of the magical creatures on Thunder Cliff a branded cross pattern on both arms.

  At that time, the people of Thundercliff, Sart and Dwarf. Even if they didn't know what their lord was doing specifically, they roughly understood that this was some kind of religion. As for religious matters, the dwarves had no opinion, after all, they did not believe in any gods at present. The Sart people only had some guesses about this mysterious god, but also had no big opinions.

  The continent of Xier is a place with many gods, and there are not a few gods. They don't even know the names of all the gods, so it's possible that this god is just some unknown minor deity. What they're more curious about is whether this god will grant blessings to demons. After all, the attitude of the gods towards demons has always been one of rejection.

  Those divine warriors, although they do not take the initiative to attack and participate in the clearing of demons in various places, but whenever a particularly powerful demon appears, which may cause great harm to all ethnic groups, they will appear and strangle it. In history, those demons who were crowned with the name of Demon King were all abnormally strong.

  In general, Mo Yan's new deity is relatively low-key, so it hasn't caused too much attention. This goddess, who doesn't even have a specific name, has only been promoted among the demons. The other residents of Lei Ting Cliff haven't been affected much. According to the consistent laws of the continent, freedom of belief is everyone's most basic right, which was established by all gods after several deities fell due to religious conflicts in history.

  After Mo Yan spent a lot of effort to settle the faith issue of the Thundercliff monsters and gave them a BUFF that slowly increased their intelligence attributes, he began to deal with the training of the Thundercliff sailors while building a miniature Cologne Cathedral. Mo Yan sent Aruba to the coastal city on the west side of Elanxi to start recruiting sailors, and the conditions he offered were so bizarre that others thought he had gone crazy.

  "It's utter madness." The yellow-skinned, thin old sailor looked at Aruba leading the way ahead and some of the magical creatures that had come to escort them to Thunder Cliff, and said with a mouthful of almost toothless gums: "Who would hire us old sailors who can barely move? We're good for nothing now."

  "Who knows?" An old sailor with a wooden leg, limping along beside him, shrugged and said: "You're at least whole, but I'm a cripple missing my left leg. No ship will take someone like me."

  On the mountain path, this group of one hundred people was advancing. Apart from the werewolves, goblins and minotaurs serving as guards, there were some sailors who were either old and weak or disabled. Some of them were found by Aruba in taverns, while others were recruited by Aruba after he received information from taverns and went to their homes specifically for that purpose.

  The recruitment of these sailors for Aruba was met with astonishment, as most of them were living in poverty and now someone was willing to hire them at a decent salary to go to the prosperous Thunder Bluff, making them feel like they were dreaming. They were all people who could hardly do anything except be sailors.

  After all, who would go to sea and endure such a wretched existence when he could stay on land and live comfortably? The scurvy that ate away at men until they were nothing but skin and bones, the monstrous creatures of the deep that could swallow a ship whole, these things made anyone with a steady meal think twice about becoming a sailor.

  These were either guilty of some crime and sentenced to be sailors, or bankrupt men who could no longer live on land and had gone to sea in search of a livelihood. When they grew old and were incapacitated by various causes, nobody cared how they lived. The profession of sailor was one that made it impossible to save money, and if they did not die at sea they died of hunger.

  The original sailors in the team all knew that Thunder Cliff was a city built by demons, but they didn't have much to worry about. There were quite a number of Salt people there, and if anything happened, it would have come out already. Recently, an Elan New Federation was even established, which also included several surrounding Salt cities.

  If one really had to say it, that monster could even be considered half a Salter. Although everyone was astonished, the monster did indeed marry a Salter girl. This was initially considered a strange rumor in the port, and some people even opened betting pools on it, with a group of sailors putting all their newly-received wages on it, and of course there were those who were happy and those who were worried after the news was confirmed.

  Now this small team has been walking for nearly a month, and in order to take care of these disabled people and the elderly who are already quite old, Aruba has to rest for one or two days every time they arrive at a village, so that these physically unfit people can catch their breath. Now they are finally about to enter the territory of New Eland Federation.

  "Up ahead is the checkpoint." Aruba looked at the road ahead and turned back to shout loudly to the group, "In a little while, someone will come to check you for any infectious diseases and issue you an entry permit. Everyone follow the instructions of the person wearing blue clothes, don't panic, it's just like the examination I gave you when I recruited you."

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