Swamp Lord: I have an intelligence system.

When more than 5 gray-headed hyena people became believers, Lear could clearly feel the power of faith flowing into the godhead like a river.

But at the same time, countless noises were heard. The believers' prayers, wishes, and expectations were mixed in.

Every force of faith is the will of a believer.

As long as you listen carefully, you can sense the believers through the power of faith.

But this is too many. Together with the more than 7 residents of the City of Dew, the number of Lear's followers has now exceeded !
Even with 24-hour nonstop attention, it is still difficult to sort out.

And according to the current plan, the number of believers will continue to increase in the future, until it reaches hundreds of thousands or even millions.
It is impossible to recover now, and it will be impossible in the future.

No wonder it is difficult for ordinary believers to get a response from the gods.

How can one person respond to a group chat with hundreds of thousands or millions of people?

Lear forced himself to withdraw from the noisy voice, his eyes becoming deep.

He suddenly remembered the ancient goblin god's previous advice, that he should not rely too much on the power of faith, as this would limit his upper limit.

The murmurs of believers may be the main reason?

This problem needs to be solved.
While thinking, my mind moved slightly.

The void in front suddenly blurred, and a human girl quietly appeared in front of him.

Mana, the third-ranked level 16 swamp banshee, immediately lost her panic when she saw Li'er, and saluted respectfully with her hands on her chest.

"Greetings, Your Majesty"

Lear nodded.

Stretch out your right hand and place it on the other person's head.

The next moment, a unique power surged into his body.

The swamp banshee immediately felt something extra in her mind. She concentrated and could hear prayers.

After coming to his senses, he looked at Lear excitedly.

"Your Majesty, this, this is a believer praying?!"

Lear said slowly.

"I grant you the power to answer the prayers of my believers on my behalf."

"Their emotions should also be your food"

The swamp witch fell to her knees with a trembling heart.

"Your Majesty."

How glorious it is to respond to believers on behalf of the great Spirit of God!

She didn't even dare to think about such a thing.
Li Er thought for a moment and then spoke slowly.

"Go back and discuss this with Bain. Set up a feedback mechanism. As long as the believers' piety reaches a certain level, you can grant them some power."

"Either to clear diseases from their bodies, or to heal injuries, or to repair broken limbs."

"Give believers positive feedback to promote their faith and the spread of the Swamp Cult."

"In addition, those who spread the faith of the Swamp Cult can use their own faith as a mark to guide new believers. As long as the same aura of faith reaches a certain level, the believer can receive an additional reward."

"This kind of reward should be more substantial, don't skimp!"

Why do believers believe in gods?
Naturally, I hope to get something from it.

To seek power, to seek shelter, or to calm fear
Deities that cannot offer anything to their believers often have very few believers.

Positive feedback can greatly promote the piety of believers and their willingness to spread the sect.

This is work for the gods, for the glory of our Lord! Preaching, that is the right thing to do!

Of course, corresponding to the positive rewards, there must also be negative punishments. Once the doctrine is violated or apostasy occurs, severe punishment must be imposed.

Only by combining rewards and punishments can the sect develop in a healthy and normal manner.

Lear had no feelings about being a high god, and he only regarded missionary work as a way to gain power.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you believe in him or not, as long as you can provide him with strength.

It is precisely because of this that Lear can better understand the pros and cons and is willing to give up power.

There is nothing special about the believers' prayers. They just make a wish after praying, hoping that the great gods can help them realize it.

But how can normal gods take care of hundreds of thousands, millions or even tens of millions of believers, so most of the believers' prayers are in vain.

But if it is handed over to someone to manage, energetic swamp banshees can choose to fulfill some wishes that are beneficial to the sect's beliefs.

This undoubtedly greatly facilitated the spread of the sect.

But for other gods, responding to believers' prayers is often a symbol of their authority. It is a core interest that they simply cannot give up.

I would rather let it rot in my hands.

There is no one else as daring as Lear.

But he soon discovered that it was too much for one swamp banshee to handle the prayers of his followers.

We still need to recruit more talents.

While thinking, he looked towards the believers in the City of Wisdom.
Believers are classified into shallow believers, deep believers, devout believers and fanatical believers.

Among them, the faith of the fanatics has reached its peak. Their faith is as firm as a mountain. No matter what happens, even if the gods fall, their faith will not be shaken.

There are more than 3,000 such fanatics in Weilu City.
The rest have almost reached the pinnacle of devout believers and are not far from being fanatics.

This is the result of living with the gods every day and bathing in their divine light, accumulated over time.

After screening, Lear looked at 30 of them.

With a gentle wave of the hand, these fanatics immediately disappeared from their jobs.

Appeared in front of him.

When these believers saw their god calling them, they were immediately so excited that they could not control themselves and prostrated themselves on the ground and began to worship devoutly.

"Great and immortal being, your light shines upon the whole world. Praise you!"

The fiery tone made people look sideways.

Li Er nodded slightly, and after a slight perception, he raised his eyebrows.

The faith is strong enough, but the strength is far from enough.
While thinking, his eyes looked in a certain direction of the territory.

The next moment, the extraordinary orc possessed by the Soul-Eating Demon cut through the sky like an arrow and rushed over at an extremely fast speed.

When he saw Lear, he immediately knelt down in flattery.

"Your Majesty."

His face was full of a servile smile.

His attitude is much lower than that of a fanatic.

Lear didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.

"Can you devour some of their souls and increase their soul power?"

The Soul Eater glanced at the fanatics not far away and patted his chest confidently.

"piece of cake!"

"I can sneak into their bodies and use their souls to devour their lives, which will naturally strengthen their souls."

"As long as their will is not destroyed, their souls will grow stronger after I leave."

Controlling souls is the Soul Eater's specialty.

But this is of no benefit to him. If he had come to the swamp, he would not have done such a thankless task even if he was sick.

But now, it is his honor to serve Lear!

Lear nodded.

"Take them to the Undead Plane immediately and let the Flesh Slaughterer help you devour some of the undead to increase their soul strength."

The Soul Eater didn't dare to say a word and immediately took 30 fanatics through the space rift to the undead plane.

In the City of Death, the Flesh Slayer took the time to capture a group of undead to serve as a temporary emergency granary.

The number is not large, about 20,000 to 30,000.

Anyway, the undead don’t need any food to consume, so just keep them in the dungeon and don’t worry about anything.

It just comes in handy now.

The Soul-Eating Demon controlled the fanatics to devour 20,000 of them, and only returned when their souls could no longer bear it.

Upon seeing this, Lear directly mobilized the power of the swamp to promote these 30 fanatics to level 12.

This wave of consumption is not small.

At the same time, with the nourishment of 16 undead, their soul strength is already comparable to that of level creatures.

With this group of fanatical believers joining us, it will be more than enough to cope with the prayers of the current believers.

Lear then announced the establishment of a special department - the Vatican's Faith Department, a secret department of the Swamp Cult, which would be under his exclusive management.

He brought the crowd to the basement of the church and set aside a large area as an office.

In the future, this department will continue to expand and be used specifically to respond to the prayers of believers.

For safety reasons, Lear solidified the power of authority in the basement, so that if he left, he would no longer be able to hear the prayers of his believers.

To prevent any accidents.

Put safety at the highest level.

After some operations, the 30 fanatics immediately got to work.

It didn’t take long for the believers to feel the difference and that their prayers had been answered.

Praise, reward, compliment.

Although no oracle descended, they could feel the emotions coming from God. That great existence had its gaze fixed on them!
After this battle, the faith of those shallow believers increased rapidly, and they felt extremely glorious.

This is God’s gaze!

This shows that they are extremely talented, and as soon as they joined the sect, they received the attention of the immortal beings!!

So excited.

After doing this, Lear completely transferred this part of the burden.

Now, he only needs to enjoy the power of faith provided by believers.

For other gods, responding to believers' prayers is a manifestation of their own existence as gods.

It is one of the most important and core forces, and it is impossible to let others respond to believers.

This is blasphemy, a disgrace, and even a manifestation of power grabbing.

But for Lear, he does not value the so-called identity of gods, he values ​​the power they can bring.

It is difficult for a life that has been living and growing in this world to understand this idea.
In this way, the sect entered a new stage. Lear got rid of this huge burden and began to fight lightly.

When the majestic power of faith gathers into the godhead and becomes concentrated to a certain degree, it will be transformed into divine power that matches Lear.

After his divine power reaches a certain level, a new panel appears on his attribute panel——

权柄：沼泽(100%)、湿地(100%)、孕育(3%)、腐烂（1%）、生命（0.1）

Rank: Weak Divine Power (to advance to weak Divine Power, you need to gather 100 points of divinity)
Divine power: 50 points

Divinity: 10 points (1000 points of divine power can be converted into 1 point of divinity)
This has transcended the ordinary panel properties and truly possesses a panel of a god.

Lear was delighted.

I always feel like I have completed a transformation and am one step closer to becoming a big boss.

He slightly sensed that the power of faith from tens of thousands of devout believers praying for a day could accumulate 1 point of divine power for him.

It takes 100 shallow believers or 10 deep believers to be equal to one devout believer.

These 50 points of divine power have been accumulated over this period of time and are already a very good number.

Divine power is a higher-level power than magic power, and involves the original power of the world.

It is also necessary to mobilize authority.

Li Er glanced at the requirements for advancement to a lesser divine power.

100 points of divinity.

It takes 1000 points of divine power to condense into 1 point of divinity. This number may not seem like much, but it makes countless gods with weak divine power sigh.

It is not easy to cultivate devout believers.

Shallow believers are the mainstream in most sects. Some gods have a large number of believers, but the quality is too poor and it is difficult to gather divine power.

According to the current development trend, the total number of believers exceeds 100,000, and the majority of them are devout believers. It is not a big problem to accumulate ten points of divine power every day.

The quality of his preaching is not comparable to that of ordinary gods.

By the time I finished my work here, it was already February 2th.

The intelligence update on the 25th two days ago still only had one 2-star intelligence of slight value. 50 kilometers to the north, a group of barbarians will wander over.

They were taken into the territory on the 26th. The size of two thousand people was quite good, which increased the population a bit.

But it has little impact on the current situation.

At this time, the wilderness surrounding the swamp was unexpectedly not very turbulent.

The Titan Temple hundreds of kilometers away was still quiet. Apart from the fact that it was difficult for outsiders to enter, there was no sign of the Titans' whereabouts.

At the same time, after the evil gods escaped, the expected great turmoil did not occur.

After the few remaining remnants of the evil god were wiped out, no more strange monsters were seen.

Everything fell into a strange silence.

But Lear could feel that the rules of heaven and earth were still changing, and every day was different.
Silent, but no one can ignore it.

While perfecting the sect, Lear did not stop what he was doing.

Taking advantage of the change in rules, the mud swamp quietly extended outward a long way, making the diameter of the swamp reach 130 kilometers!

The foggy death zone forms an area 20 kilometers wide.

The entire swamp area has quietly increased significantly.

The Swamp God Kingdom was also counter-attacked as a result, and its area was also expanding outward.

Outside the kingdom of God is nothingness and chaos. As long as the plane barriers are thick enough, there is no need to worry about being targeted by other gods and you can develop freely.

Both are the source of Lear's power. At this moment, they increase their area at the same time, which is very comfortable.

The expansion of the kingdom of God also brought the transformation of the swamp gods into a new stage.

Tens of thousands of two-headed ogres had moss growing all over their bodies. At the same time, the secondary heads on their shoulders began to shrink gradually and showed a tendency to disappear.

The aura on his body is also getting stronger day by day.

At this rate, the transformation may be completely completed in three or two months.

This is exciting news.

Lear's expectations for this race unique to the swamp are almost maxed out.

Two days later, on February 2, Lear quietly sensed that new believers began to pray to him. The Buffalo Tribe.

The swamp banshee's mission has extended to the second target, and more than a thousand shallow believers were born that day.

After the last attempt by the gray hyena people, this missionary work has become more stable.

By the morning of February 2, the number of shallow believers in the Buffalo Tribe had increased to 30, while the total number of the other side was just over 7000. Obviously, the effect was excellent.

In a day or two, that tribe would completely become followers of the Swamp Cult.

Lear even went to the church basement and told the people who responded to the believers' prayers to pay special attention to the Buffalo Tribe.

Mani, the person in charge, also knows what are the priorities and devotes most of her energy to this.

When the buffalo people's prayers were answered, they were extremely excited and their level of faith increased greatly.

The effect is immediate.

The effect of timely feedback is perfectly demonstrated.

At noon, Lear, who was watching fish in the fish pond in the north and mobilizing the swamp to erode the wilderness, suddenly saw Bain coming excitedly.

"Your Majesty, good news!!"

Looking at the excited Swampman hero, he found it somewhat amusing.

"What good news is so exciting?"

"Your Majesty, there is a hardwood forest 30 kilometers south of the City of Dew. The patrol team just found a group of dragon flies nesting in it."

Lear's eyes lit up.

The dragon fly is a creature unique to the swamp tribe. It has some blood of the mythical creature, the Chaos Dragon, in its body, and is extremely powerful.

It is a high-level soldier that is born at level 15, and as it grows, its level can reach level 18!
More importantly, the dragon fly has a very large production rate. As long as there is enough food, one dragon fly can produce forty or fifty young in a year.

Moreover, these creatures reproduce parthenogenetically and do not require any pairing. It only takes one month for their cubs to reach adulthood!

When the swamp god was still alive, he could just wave his hand and hundreds or even tens of millions of dragon flies would swarm out.

The skeleton army, which is no less powerful than the undead, is the nightmare of many races.

With the decline of the Swamp Tribe, the Dragon Flies are also rapidly declining, until now, these troops are no longer seen in most swamps.

There are even rumors that the dragon fly has become extinct.

Unexpectedly, a group of dragon flies would take the initiative to enter the mud swamp to build nests!
I became excited at the moment.

"Come on, follow me and take a look"

He immediately took Bane to the small hardwood forest in the south.

Looking down from the ground, the hardwood forest is about 30 meters high and consists of more than a hundred large trees.

This size of forest is considered to be relatively large in the swamp, and the special terrain makes it difficult to grow too wide a forest.

Looking carefully, those unique creatures appeared before our eyes.

The most obvious thing is the wings, which are small and inserted into the thick back. The color and appearance are exactly the same as those of fly wings, but they are magnified countless times.

The wingspan is about three meters and the body length reaches 5 meters!
Its body proportions are the same as those of a dragon, and its four claws are particularly ferocious.

The end of its tail is not a dragon's tail, but a sharp barb like a scorpion.

Flashing with a cold and eerie light.

What is striking is that its head looks like an extended version of a giant dragon's skull, and its mouth is full of sharp teeth, like daggers embedded in it.

You can feel its brutality even from a distance.

Judging from their number, there are at least four or five hundred.

This small forest is filled to the brim, and if you look closely, you can see that the bellies of these dragon flies are all bulging, with obvious signs of pregnancy.

Dragonfly, Level: Level 15, Military Talent: 1. Bloodthirsty. After tasting blood, all attributes will be increased by 70% until leaving the battle.

2. Swamp creatures, as long as they are in the swamp, their flight speed increases by 70%, their attack power increases by 70%, and their tail stings carry armor-piercing damage.
At this moment, the intelligence system quietly refreshed a new piece of information.

[The silt swamp attracted a group of dragon flies to build a nest. Extra information was obtained - you can use your authority to subdue these swamp creatures and let them stay freely in the swamp. After half a month, these dragon flies will give birth. Dragon flies give birth twice a year, and each time can produce up to 30 dragon fly cubs. You only need to provide enough food, and they will become the guardians of the swamp and obey your orders.]

Lear looked at it with mixed surprise and joy, and was in a very good mood.

Wow, it really is true that planting a paulownia tree will attract the phoenix.

I haven't done anything yet, and yet such a large group of high-level soldiers have arrived at my doorstep. I'm so happy.

It would be great if there were another hundred or so black dragons. (End of this chapter)