The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 553: Creation of 'Saints'

Richard didn't expect that Aleiya would bring him this surprise.

While he was busy building his territory, an official came with a group of Roman soldiers and announced his appointment.

Richard officially became a legionary under the Roman garrison, and he also became an imperial general. Although he had to recruit all the soldiers under his command, he also raised his own military pay and food.

But he also had almost complete freedom, and it was legitimate for him to occupy these territories.

Sometimes, the name of justice is not important, but sometimes this name is very important. Just like when he wanted to recruit those Germanic barbarians as foreign mercenaries, it would be much easier to have the name of Rome.

Although the Germanic barbarians were barbarians, they also had a chain of contempt. The naturalized Germanic barbarians despised the Germanic barbarians, the Germanic barbarians despised the Celts, the Celts despised the Welsh, and so on, and then the Romans despised everyone around them.

These Germanic peoples could surrender to the Romans and join their army, but they would not join the barbarians whom they despised.

Although Rome was already crumbling, it did not prevent Richard from using the name of the Romans to recruit those Germans.

With Valenza's endorsement, Richard's rule over the surrounding land was legalized. At the same time, trade in the territory became much smoother.

Of course, Richard also rewarded Alea, and as a result, Alea got up later and later during this period.

With Richard's physical fitness, if he let loose, not to mention humans, even succubi would not be able to withstand it. So after galloping on horseback for a few days, she could no longer bear it.

Finally, his legs began to tremble when he walked, and then he found an excuse to deal with Roman property and ran away.

In the following period of time, Richard became very busy. Due to the lack of a large number of mid- and low-level management talents, many things in the territory needed him to manage.

At the same time, he also plans to enhance the strength of the army.

According to the development of history, more and more barbarians will move south, and eventually the province of Gaul will be submerged by those Germanic barbarians.

He had too few soldiers, and faced with the almost endless barbarian invasions that would follow, if he could not increase the strength of his army as soon as possible, his territory would eventually be exhausted.

There are many ways to quickly improve your strength, but few can be used in this world.

Richard has tried the Knight Breathing Method. Due to the different rules of the world, the Knight Breathing Method here can only be regarded as a way of physical exercise. It cannot make humans reach extraordinary levels. Its effect is slightly better than gymnastics.

The reason is that there is too little elemental energy in this world, and there is not enough energy to temper the body.

Richard understood the history of this world, and the upper limit of power in this world was gradually decreasing. In the mythological era, humans and gods lived together on earth, and later the gods returned to heaven, but at that time there were still various heroes and demigods.

Later, the gods no longer descended, and even the demigods and heroes of the mythological age no longer appeared, and the mythological age ended.

Then came the rise of Rome and the beginning of the human era, when priests of gods and various monsters left over from the mythological era came onto the stage.

Now that the Roman era is coming to an end, supernatural powers will become less and less. However, in some places, there are still monsters left over from the mythological era.

Of course, these monsters are not unkillable, it just requires a huge price to pay.

If you want to improve the strength of your army, in addition to strengthening training and enhancing weapons and equipment, the fastest way is to use the power of these monsters.

Richard planned to find some monsters, extract their blood, and then make blood potion to integrate into the bodies of his men.

The blood of these monsters originally belonged to this world, and there was no external power, so they would not be hostile to the world consciousness of this world. If Richard took out other extraordinary bloods, they would be discovered by this world at the first time.

At that time, under the influence of the world consciousness, those who use extraordinary blood will encounter various accidents. The real version of Final Destination.

Therefore, Richard planned to use the extraordinary bloodline that already existed in this world.

In fact, if he could find the relics of the Son of God, Richard could even try to create a few 'saints'.

And the 'saints' he created were different from other saints. Other saints could only borrow some divine power at most, but these saints with the blood of the Son of God even possessed divine power themselves.

I wonder what expression the monotheists would have when they see these saints.

Thinking of this, Richard suddenly felt that it might be possible to do so. There were many branches of monotheism in this era, and the one with the greatest disagreement was Arianism.

There are two biggest differences between Arianism and monotheism. The first is that Arianism believes that the Creator is the supreme God, the only God, and the Savior of the New Testament is inferior to the Creator.

Monotheism believes that the Creator and the Savior of the New Testament are one and the same; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are the Trinity.

Of course, these conflicts alone are nothing. After all, there are even greater conflicts in the scriptures of monotheism. In the Old Testament, only the squids are the chosen people of the Creator. This alone makes it impossible for monotheism to spread.

After all, the Bible claims that squids are the chosen people of the Creator, so what are the others? The implicit meaning in the Old Testament is that except for squids, others are not considered human beings, not even slaves.

Even Moses is the only saint, the other squids are servants.

Moreover, the Creator recorded in the Old Testament is not a kind and benevolent God. The description above is simply an evil God who is dictatorial, cruel, and petty.

In the Old Testament of the Bible, the Creator is either killing people or on the way to killing people. If you do not believe in him, he will kill you, regardless of gender, age or status. At the same time, he will destroy the world at any time.

This image is completely different from what is recorded in the New Testament. In the New Testament, squids are no longer regarded as God's chosen savior, but everyone can become God's chosen one.

One of the most important reasons why monotheism has so many branches is that the difference between the New Testament and the Old Testament is so great. It is like forcing a cruel and suspicious god and a benevolent and sacrificial god together.

This situation will inevitably lead to various contradictions and conflicts.

The rise of monotheism was only possible after the Holy Son Savior carried out a comprehensive reform of religion, turning a religion that was only spread secretly among squids into a universal religion.

However, the reforms of this Holy Son also touched the foundation of Judaism, which led to the Jewish priests trying their best to kill him.

Although the views of the Arian sect conflict, they are not serious. For example, the Marcion sect directly said that the Creator in the Old Testament is a fallen and evil Creator, and only the God of the New Testament is the true God. Another Gnostic idea is the same.

There are many problems among monotheistic religions, but after several church reforms and the suppression of heresy, monotheism has gained an absolute advantage.

Arianism could no longer oppose Monotheism.

In fact, in Richard's opinion, the biggest conflict between Arius and monotheism was not about the Trinity, but that Arianism believed that the church should not own a large amount of property.

They believe that the church should place more emphasis on the practice of body and mind rather than worldly possessions.

But how can monotheism give up worldly property? Not only do monotheism not give up these properties, but it even goes further.

In monotheism, there has always been a voice that not only wants to spread the faith, but also wants to establish a kingdom of God on earth controlled by the church.

In this way, the contradiction between monotheism and Arianism is completely irreconcilable.

As a result, Arianism was regarded as a heresy by monotheism and was suppressed in various ways, but Arianism was widely supported in the monotheistic monastic orders.

Unlike monotheistic religions, most of the monks in monastic orders are ascetics. These ascetics devote their bodies and minds to their Lord, practice asceticism, and do not value material things.

It can be said that this coincides with Arianism.

However, the Priory was not a universal practice after all, but a secret organization within the church that ordinary people had no idea about. Therefore, the Arian sect was doomed to not receive widespread support, and its eventual demise was only a matter of time.

Richard wanted to give Arianism a chance to survive. If a saint really emerged from the Arian sect, what would Monotheism do?
Should we directly label saints as heretics?
I'm sure the expressions of those people in the monotheistic religion must be very interesting. Of course, it's also possible that the monotheistic religion will directly declare that the saints are fake. After all, the squids have done this kind of thing in the past.

Thinking of this, Richard decided that if he had the chance, he must give it a try. Aren't there a lot of holy objects left by the Son of God? Even if he couldn't find his holy objects, it wouldn't be difficult to create a saint with these holy objects.

As for whether the holy object would be destroyed, Richard was sure that it would be destroyed. As for what to do if the holy object was destroyed, Richard said that it was none of his business whether the holy object was destroyed or not.

He is only concerned with digging holes now and doesn't care about anything else.

Next, Richard began to have people collect traces of the legendary monster. At the same time, he used suggestion to control some believers of monotheism and asked them to help him find out the news about the holy relics.

The magic of suggestion is very difficult to detect. It cannot forcibly modify people's cognition, but can only make some subtle changes, making people subconsciously think and act in this way.

But it won't make people behave in a way that is completely contrary to their daily behavior. Moreover, the person using this suggestion technique is a powerful being like Richard.

It can be said that in this world, only the Creator himself would be able to discover some clues.

The rules of this world are such that it is impossible for the creator to come down. Moreover, even if he did, it would be useless. Once he uses his divine power, he will be directly bounced out by the power of the world.

Richard felt deeply about this.

This world has very strict restrictions on divine power. There are also many restrictions on gods in the Motera world and the Faerun world. For example, the real bodies of gods cannot descend into the world.

Whether it was Morterra or Feren, the gods could only descend in the form of incarnation or possession. Although these two methods were powerful, they were not invincible.

During the turbulent years, many gods died.

If the Creator were to descend to this world, the power he could mobilize would not be more than level three, any more would be ejected by the power of the world.

In addition to training spies in monotheism, Richard even planned to add some sand in it. In Gaul, the belief in monotheism has spread widely.

The Franks, Gauls, and Goths all believed in monotheism, and Richard could easily cultivate some believers of other sects among these people.

At that time, let the monotheism and these other sects fight directly, and let the monotheism fight among themselves first.

They may even play a trick of lending a chicken to lay eggs, and let polytheists pretend to join a monotheistic religion. After all, as long as they don't tell you about their beliefs, how do you know who they believe in?

Of course, the purpose of doing this is to weaken the monotheism, and at the same time to buy time for himself. Richard now needs time to grow stronger as soon as possible.

Richard did not tell anyone else about this plan. After all, the fewer people who knew about this kind of thing, the better. Richard directly selected some Celtic Druid priests, disguised them, and then asked them to join Monotheism.

Among the three small towns occupied by Richard, there is a church in one of the cities, but the church is very small and there are not many people.

This small church is very welcoming to these people who want to join the church. Richard's method is an open conspiracy. There were not many people in this small church to begin with, but now more people have joined, and the original number of believers has been directly diluted.

Those who joined the church later made up the majority, and after they had adapted for a period of time, they could rely on their numerical advantage to take over the church.

At that time, let these people directly support their own people to become bishops and then take control of the power of the church.

Richard had seen this method too many times in his previous life.

Isn’t that how so-called democratic votes work? Europe accepted a lot of refugees back then, and when the number of refugees increased, after democratic voting, the result would naturally become what the refugees wanted.

Coupled with the support of some white leftists, this kind of thing has happened many times in Europe.

Not only this, but also the so-called referendum. This kind of operation has become a well-known thing in later generations, but no one has done it in this era.

Richard planned to conduct an experiment here first. Once he succeeded here, he could proceed to other places.

By then, the monotheism would be torn into pieces by him, and a large number of sects would want to unite, but as a result, the sects would start fighting each other first.

The victory of monotheism was largely due to the support of the Roman emperor. Now Rome is about to perish, and without the support of the emperor, it has been divided into this terrible state. Let's see how they will deal with it.

Anyway, Richard is the kind of person who enjoys watching the fun and doesn't mind getting involved.

(End of this chapter)