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Chapter 623 Spread of Faith
In the past, the titles of nobility in Rome were basically distributed and would not decrease unless something happened. Richard's change this time was to directly change the titles to decrease by one level every generation.

If the descendants are incapable, the title will be reduced to knighthood after a few generations, and will no longer be reduced to knighthood.

Sir is an honorary title created by Richard. There is no fiefdom, no tax exemption, but a higher social status. After making contributions, one can become a baron or other titles again.

This system can reduce the stratification of classes.

After setting up a new national framework, the Roman Empire began to regain vitality.

After the collapse of the old Roman Empire, a new empire was established. At this time, the empire was in a state of disrepair and reconstruction, and the various policies implemented by Richard were also to allow the empire to recuperate and recover as soon as possible.

After all, the Roman Empire is now in tatters.

On the other hand, as the druids went to the plague areas to preach, these druids who mastered health knowledge and had some extraordinary abilities were much better than the mediocre doctors of that era.

Through the efforts of these druids, the spread of the local plague was soon under control. Through isolation and sanitation measures, the growth rate of the plague infection was successfully reduced.

Even with the use of healing gems and potions, these druids successfully rescued some local lords who were infected with the plague.

As a result, the local lords became devout believers of the druid priests. At the same time, those nobles whose families were infected with the plague went to seek help.

These druids quickly established themselves in northern Italy and the Balkans, and polytheism spread rapidly.

In this life-and-death crisis, basically everyone will make the same choice.

After all, believing in God cannot save them, but believing in polytheism and druids still gives them a chance to survive. People vote with their feet.

No matter how good your propaganda is, when it comes to a life-and-death crisis, they will naturally believe whoever is useful to them.

Before this, all religions had no way to deal with the plague, and some even claimed that it was a punishment from God on humanity. But at this time, suddenly someone jumped out and said that they could cure the plague.

As long as they want to survive, these people will definitely choose to believe in druids.

A large number of people chose to believe in druids, and they began to obey the druids' orders. It was this behavior of completely obeying the druids that allowed the isolation methods and hygiene standards promoted by Dranos and others to be implemented without compromise.

The spread of the plague is very terrifying, but once the transmission channel is blocked, it becomes controllable. In order to control the spread of the plague, isolation and hygiene standards are the key.

At the request of the druids, the local people began to implement a quarantine system and hygiene standards that could be described as strict.

This approach quickly blocked the spread of the plague. At the same time, with the help of herbs made by the druids, the plague here was really under their control.

Next, the druids began to use herbs to treat those infected with the plague.

To be honest, the healing rate of these druids is not high. Overall, it is only about 30%. However, they are still sought after by the people and nobles.

Those who died of the disease were just unlucky and didn't meet these druids earlier. Because the plague was under control, the people and nobles believed that the druids were really protected by gods, so they became more devout in their faith.

This made it very easy for the Druids to preach here. Not only the Roman Catholic Church, but even the Arians and Gnostics could not compete with the Druids here.

On the other hand, the Roman Catholic Church, which followed the druids to other cities to stop the plague and spread their faith, was not so successful.

When these Roman Catholic priests came to the plague area, they did not have many ways to prevent and control the plague, and could only use divine magic and some simple methods.

The result was that the plague prevention and control effect was not very good. They used divine power to cure some nobles, but the problem was that each cast of divine power required a long period of prayer preparation.

Moreover, only the Pope and the Saints have this ability, and other bishops and priests do not have this ability. This world suppresses spellcasters far more than physical transcendents.

According to the world of Motara, a level 15 spellcaster can only exert the strength of about level 3 here. If you want to cast some powerful spells, you must use the casting ritual.

This results in the caster's power being reduced to a pulp.

The best way for the pope to perform divine magic is to use holy objects. The role of holy objects is equivalent to temporarily blocking most of the suppression of the world's rules.

However, any holy relic is extremely precious to the Holy See, and the Pope did not bring any holy relic with him this time.

This trip to the plague area is likely to be a one-way trip. They dare not bring the holy relics with them. If the holy relics are lost, it will be a huge blow to the current Holy See.

Without the blessing of holy objects, the power of the Pope and others to cast divine spells at one time is very limited, and the energy consumed is also great. Each rescue requires a lot of time to prepare.

But even if they didn't treat the common people, they couldn't just treat the nobles. And to make matters worse, the bishops who were treating the patients also began to be infected with the plague.

These people in the church did not know how to prevent and control the plague. They had no disinfection, no masks, no high-temperature sterilization. In addition, their physical fitness was average, so they were no different from ordinary people when facing the plague.

After these bishops were infected with the plague, it became more difficult to continue treatment.

In order to survive, the nobles panicked and scrambled to ask the Pope to treat their relatives first, which directly led to a more chaotic situation.

How to treat in this situation? Should we treat the nobles with higher status first or the nobles with more piety first? When it comes to life and death, no one will give in.

As a result, the original spread of faith became a mess. Some nobles even almost turned against each other.

Although monotheistic beliefs have spread here to some extent, they are completely incomparable to the druids in other cities.

More importantly, the plague was not contained but continued to spread, and Pope Leo was almost helpless.

The situation of the druids on the other side was much better. Richard gave them prevention and treatment methods, and these druids were strong and powerful, and they also mastered some extraordinary powers, so they were highly resistant to the plague.

Therefore, there was no case of plague infection in the plague area.

This also led to more and more people choosing to believe in the Druid faith, because the Druid priests were not infected with the plague, which made everyone in the city believe that this must be the power of God.

These druids are devout believers of the gods and therefore receive protection from them.

After the plague in the city was brought under control, some people infected with the plague were rescued, and the cloud of death that had shrouded the city gradually dissipated.

After no new patients infected with the plague were found for three consecutive days, Dranos left some druids to continue to preside over the city's plague prevention and control, and he led more druids to the next city.

Because of the prevention and control experience of this city, the druids seemed more skilled. They first isolated the city to block the spread of the plague, and then carried out large-scale disinfection to ensure that the plague would not spread any further.

Then the patient began to be treated with medicine.

In addition, the weather is gradually getting colder, and the low temperature reduces the activity of plague bacteria, making the prevention and control of the plague more effective.

Under these circumstances, the druids quickly brought the plague under control in the cities of northern Italy.

The people in these plague areas also became more devout to the druid priests, and druidic beliefs began to spread explosively in these cities.

In contrast, the faith of Arianism and Gnosticism has dropped precipitously. The situation of the monotheistic Roman Church is better than that of the other two sects, but it is still limited.

Whether they were Arian saints or Noaide saints, they could basically only ensure that the plague in their cities was under control.

Both Saint John and Saint Henry chose their bases, one to protect Milan and the other to protect Byzantium.

Other places can only leave them to fend for themselves.

After all, this is not the first time that plague has broken out in Europe. Although each time there are heavy casualties, it will eventually pass.

As long as they could get through it, the dead population would reproduce again in a few years. In fact, both the high-ranking officials of the Church and the nobles believed this.

Many of those nobles no longer viewed ordinary people as the same as themselves, but instead viewed them as talking tools, cattle and horses.

No, they are worse than cattle and horses. After all, the nobles know how to feed cattle and horses and give them time to rest, but as for the lower-class people, they don’t care about their life or death at all.

The only difference this time is that the scale of the plague is larger than ever before, and there is an additional Druid sect to prevent and control the plague.

With the arrival of winter, the temperature gradually dropped, and the physical resistance of some people gradually overcame the plague. The great plague that swept across Northern Europe and Eastern Europe began to gradually come to an end.

Because of the efforts of the druids, many people believed that it was the druids who dispelled the plague, or that it was the gods that the druid priests believed in who dispelled the plague.

However, this rapidly expanding religious belief made other religions very wary, and they began to use various methods to prevent the spread of Druid beliefs.

The Eastern Roman Empire did the most obvious.

(End of this chapter)