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Chapter 620

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The blazing priest fire illuminated the entire Pantheon.

The shadows of gods appeared in the clouds, and they looked at the king before them.

In the Pantheon, after the changes, the statue of Jupiter has disappeared, replaced by Athena. Richard directly made Athena the king of the Pantheon.

At the same time, other gods were also reorganized, leaving only a few gods such as the god of agriculture and hunting, the god of love and beauty, and the sun god.

Among them, Athena's portfolio has expanded the most, including war, wisdom, justice, law, medicine, thunder and other portfolios.

Almost one person occupies more than half of the clergy positions in the entire pantheon.

One of the important reasons why polytheism was defeated by monotheism was that the faith was not concentrated enough and there were many contradictions between the gods.

Zeus's stupid actions caused the Roman gods to become fragmented. When Richard was carrying out the reform, he directly eliminated Zeus and nailed the nail in his coffin.

He placed all of Zeus's throne and duties on Athena. If Zeus was still alive, Richard would have to fight Zeus if he did this.

And it was a fight to the death. But who made Zeus be overthrown by the monotheistic religion? Now there was no power to resist, the faith was severed, and it had fallen into silence. Even if the priesthood and the throne were taken away, there was no power to resist.

Richard easily placed it on Athena.

After two years, Athena, who had successfully revived, had become the king of gods in polytheism.

The shadows of gods appeared in the Pantheon.

In Richard's eyes, several gods connected the kingdom of God with this place, and on one side, angels appeared in the clouds.

The two kingdoms of God continued to fight in the sky. Although polytheism was still at a disadvantage, it managed to withstand the attack of the monotheistic kingdom.

Even after the divine fire of the polytheistic Pantheon was ignited, the polytheistic kingdom of God could begin to fight back.

Above the Roman Catholic Church, figures appeared one after another, staring in Richard's direction. These were saints from the past dynasties. Richard had the authority of the emperor, and these people could not resist him.

If Richard ordered the ban on monotheism, these saints could still fight to the death with the help of the power of gods, but Richard did not do so.

In the absence of a life-or-death crisis, the gods would not pay such a huge price to interfere with reality. Let the mythological era come.

This practice violates the world consciousness and world rules. The god of monotheism does have this power, but once he uses it, whether he wins or loses, he will pay a heavy price.

So He will not use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

And even if it was used, the current strength of monotheism is not enough to completely defeat polytheism.

Richard ignited the sacred fire of polytheism and restored the polytheistic faith. He also recognized the faith of monotheism and allowed them to preach in the empire.

The next step is to see which side is better at preaching.

After Richard's secret split, Monotheism has been divided into three parts, and its strength has been greatly reduced. If the polytheistic missionary work is still not as good as Monotheistic, then Polytheism does not need to continue to exist.

After lighting the sacrificial fire, Richard left the Pantheon and returned to the palace.

The next step is to recuperate, and then destroy the surrounding countries to restore the glory of the Roman Empire. Over the years, the Roman Empire has been in war for years, and with the invasion of the Huns and Vandals, Rome is now seriously underpopulated. The long-term war has also caused a significant reduction in Rome's production. Although Richard can completely forcibly destroy small countries such as the Visigothic Kingdom with his army, it will also cause heavy losses to the Roman Empire.

This did not fit in with his idea of ​​restoring the Roman Empire.

Richard ordered a period of recuperation, encouraged farming, encouraged trade, and allowed the empire to begin to recover from the war. At the same time, he ordered northern Italy to defend and not allow them to interfere in the civil war between the Huns in the north.

The civil war between the Huns was extremely brutal, and even the Balkan Peninsula was plunged into war. It can be said that except for the area controlled by Richard, there were wars all over Europe.

The successive wars left the entire continent filled with death, and the fierce war meant that many corpses could not be buried or burned in time, so they could only be hastily buried.

However, the large number of deaths was not dealt with, which directly led to the outbreak of plague in some places. With the medical level of this era, there was almost no way to deal with the plague.

The plague broke out not only in the north and the Balkans, but also in northern Italy.

After learning about the outbreak of the plague, Richard directly ordered the blocking of roads and the closure of the area where the plague occurred.

All caravans had to undergo strict inspections, and all cities began to clean up the areas. If anyone was found to be infected with the plague, they would be quarantined immediately.

The level of sanitation in this era was difficult to describe. Richard ordered that all cities must be disinfected with lime.

At the same time, druids were called in and asked to research treatment methods because they were good at using herbs.

The druids believed in polytheism, and Athena also gave them medical abilities. However, facing the plague, they still had few means to use.

Fortunately, Italy was not a severely affected area, and after isolation and the druids' various control measures, the plague in northern Italy was gradually brought under control.

At the same time, the army strictly followed Richard's orders to prevent and control the epidemic. Richard ordered people to make masks, distribute them to soldiers and druids, and use salt water to disinfect them.

All water sources must be boiled before drinking, and residential areas and public areas are all disinfected with quicklime.

All suspected patients were isolated. Through his methods, there was no large-scale spread of the plague in the army, and only a few people died of the disease.

All those who died of the disease were cremated to prevent the spread of the plague.

The druids' performance during the plague caused them to spread rapidly in the northern cities of Italy, including Milan.

In just one plague, the Druids established a firm foothold in the Arian territory.

After the Roman Empire used various methods to control the spread of the plague, the Balkan Peninsula and the Eastern Roman Empire suffered.

Due to the lack of means to fight the plague, it spread rapidly here.

In some towns, plague killed more than half of the population, and there was no one to deal with the bodies because there were so many deaths. The same was true of the Hun Empire.

Some towns even became ghost towns, with large numbers of people dying and the survivors fleeing, bringing the plague to other cities.

There are even rumors that "plague banshees" and "bird monsters" have appeared in the Balkan Peninsula and many parts of Europe.

(End of this chapter)