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

Chapter 655 Untitled
The priesthood and divinity of gods are never simple issues. They are the most important core strength of the true God, which is related to the name and power of the gods.

There have been examples of this happening in the multiverse.

There is a god in the material plane called Wojin, the god of trade and money. For a long time, this god has been a god of medium power. There was even a time when trade was severely affected due to frequent wars in the main material plane, and even many commercial cities were looted and plundered.

This directly caused the power of this god to fall to the level of a weaker god. But later, this god was given some advice by some big boss.

Changing the god's name from the God of Trade and Money to the God of Money and Trade directly made this god a god of peak medium power in a short period of time. Later, when Richard left the Motera world, this god had been promoted to a powerful god.

Just by changing the order of the names, it produced such a powerful effect.

The reason for such a big change is that Woking changed the core of his priesthood. His previous priesthood was trade, and money was only second, but trade could easily be disturbed by war or other factors.

This is also the main reason for the fluctuations in its strength.

Money is different. Even in times of war, money is still very important. Money makes the world go round.

After turning his priesthood into money, his divine power also gained a huge boost.

Richard guessed that the main duty of the current monotheistic creator was creation or destruction (creation and destruction are one), everything belonged to Him, He was omniscient and omnipotent, and the duties of the savior who emerged from Him were salvation, suffering and mercy.

These priesthoods are almost opposite, so it is difficult to merge them. Forced fusion will only cause the gods to enter a state similar to schizophrenia.

You know, even after the Spider Queen Rose killed her daughter Eilistraee and devoured her divinity and priesthood, she still gave up a part of her priesthood and godhood.

Although Eilistraee is the god of the drow and has connections with Spider Queen Lolth as racial gods and bloodline gods, the core clergy of Spider Queen Lolth, such as conspiracy, spiders, and evil, are completely opposite to Eilistraee's kindness, dance, and moonlight.

One is the evil camp, and the other is the good camp. Forced fusion will only cause chaos in divine power.

This monotheistic creator wanted to be the best, which resulted in conflicts among the clergy and made it difficult to integrate them. In addition, his church also split, and the split in the church would also affect his divine power.

The Creator is in big trouble now.

Compared with fighting with the polytheistic kingdom of God, He prefers to force His way to the human world, eliminate Richard, and reunify the monotheistic religion.

Because He knew very well that it might take hundreds of years to determine the winner in the battle with the polytheistic gods in the Kingdom of God, and even if He defeated polytheism, He would still have to face the problems of church division and human religion.

Only by solving the religions spread among the people can polytheism truly die out. Otherwise, he can only defeat them now but cannot kill them completely.

In this case, the creator of monotheism must naturally solve the most core problem. He came to the world to solve the problem of the division of monotheism and to solve Richard.

Richard was also very clear about the Creator's plan.

He ordered the complete elimination of monotheism throughout Europe, Africa, Jerusalem, and even the Squid Church.

The squids of this era had been suppressed by the Eastern Roman Empire last time, and their strength had been greatly reduced. They could not cause any trouble at all. In addition, the army under Richard's command directly destroyed the Squid Church by force.

All the priests, bishops and nobles were killed by Richard's order. In order to solve the squid problem, Richard had no intention of letting them go mining.

The Squid Church is very stubborn. If it cannot change these people's minds, it will directly choose physical humanitarian destruction.

As for the remaining squids, Richard did not let them go, but directly ordered that all squids were not allowed to marry within the same race, and then dispersed this race throughout the empire.

Richard banned their own language and writing, forcibly promoted the common language of the empire, and established a collective reporting system.

A series of measures were used to monitor these squids, and at the same time, orders were issued to destroy all books, utensils and various religious items of the squid church.

It was a Roman-style book burning and burying of scholars. And Richard's book burning and burying of scholars was much more cruel than that of the First Emperor.

When the First Emperor burned books and buried scholars alive, he only burned some history books of the Six Kingdoms, as well as books such as "Book of Songs" and "Book of Documents". He then buried alive dozens of alchemists and Confucian scholars who had repeatedly contradicted him.

There aren't that many people in total.

Richard's burning of books and burying of scholars this time killed thousands of people and burned a large number of parchment scrolls, papyrus books, etc.

It can be said that more than 95% of the books of the Squid Church and Monotheism were burned, and the rest were hidden in some corner or nook.

It was unrealistic to completely destroy all the books of Monotheism. After all, this religion had been passed down for thousands of years, and there were still gods. Even if Richard used the power of the emperor, he couldn't do it, unless he could kill the creator and then use the power of time to completely wipe out Monotheism.

The rules of this world do not welcome gods, even gods born in this world. So it is very difficult for that being to descend into this world.

In this case, if He uses divine power to forcibly descend, it will cost a huge price and consume a lot of divine power. Richard only needs to wait for His arrival.

As time went by, the rules of the world had begun to be suppressed by him. It had to be said that the strength of this Creator was indeed very strong. Richard speculated that if he could merge the two aspects of the gods into one, he would basically be able to successfully break through to the level of a mid-level god, and would also be a leader among the mid-level gods.

By that time, if Richard wants to deal with Him, his success rate will only be 50%.

Richard's current strength against this god has about an 80% to 90% chance of winning. If Richard leaves the material plane and fights it in the kingdom of God, the chance of winning is estimated to be only 50%, but he will not give up his advantage.

Richard played with the six Infinity Stones in his hand. The power of the Infinity Stones had all recovered to their peak. Richard had not been idle over the years. He also analyzed the various rules of this world.

Then he added the rules he had analyzed to the Infinity Stones, allowing the Infinity Stones to possess some of the power of the rules in this world.

The superposition of six Infinity Gems increased Richard's power to an extremely high level.

His current challenge level has reached an astonishing level of 75. This level has reached the standard of powerful divine power.

Of course, if it was a powerful god with a kingdom of God, Richard would basically be unable to contend with it. After all, the kingdom of God was a bug, equivalent to having infinite power and an endless army of petitioners. Few gods were defeated and killed in their kingdoms of God.

Even if a god with powerful divine power enters the kingdom of a god with medium divine power, it is still unclear who will win or lose.

In the sky, the kingdom of God belonging to monotheism was getting lower and lower, and the same was true for the kingdom of God belonging to polytheism. There was still no sign of stopping the war between the two sides.

A large number of gods and angels died in this battle, but both sides had an endless supply of troops thrown into the battle.

By this time, several archangels of monotheism had already passed away, and almost all gods of polytheism had also passed away. Only the king of gods Athena of this term was still sitting high on the throne.

Roman Empire.

After Richard declared monotheism illegal, the polytheists immediately celebrated. The grievances between polytheism and monotheism could not be solved by the Empire simply saying peaceful coexistence and freedom of belief.

In fact, the feud between monotheism and polytheism lasted for hundreds of years during the Qing Dynasty.

At first, polytheism suppressed monotheism in various ways, and monotheism could only spread in secret. However, after monotheism gained the upper hand, it directly issued a ban on polytheism. At the same time, believers of polytheism were hunted down and persecuted.

The hatred between the two sides is as deep as the sea.

Richard was able to promote religious balance and freedom of belief entirely because of his strong military power and huge prestige.

Its powerful military strength made the believers of polytheism and monotheism dare not fight each other. In addition, the empire has been vigorously suppressing religious conflicts and vigorously promoting laws, which allowed polytheism and monotheism to live in peace for a period of time.

Richard had issued an order that if there was a religious conflict, both sides would be exiled to mine. Exile to mine was almost a death sentence in this era.

This is why the two sides can barely maintain a balance.

Now, due to the rebellion of monotheism, monotheism was banned by the empire, and a large number of monotheists were forced to convert. The religious problem was almost solved.

After all, there is only one religion, so there is naturally no so-called religious conflict.

After annexing those believers, polytheism started to spend a lot of money in order to gather these beliefs as quickly as possible. It began to distribute various benefits to all believers in the name of the church. A large part of this wealth was obtained from monotheism.

When Richard confiscated the property of the monotheistic religions, he returned part of the property that originally belonged to the polytheistic religions to them.

You know, monotheism was able to get rich quickly in Rome and control a lot of wealth, much of which they directly confiscated from polytheism.

Many polytheistic temples were directly converted into churches by monotheistic religions. Now polytheistic religions are also converting churches back.

The gods of polytheism were fighting a war with monotheism, and they needed a constant supply of faith during this period. So Athena issued an oracle, asking the polytheists to hold more celebrations during this period.

This kind of celebration can strengthen the faith of polytheists and accelerate the conversion of monotheists. With a lot of real money spent, many monotheists began to sincerely believe in polytheism.

Richard was also happy to see these actions. In this way, even if only polytheism existed, it would be difficult for religion to oppress believers.

In order to cope with the coming of the Kingdom of God, Richard also ordered a large number of craftsmen to build a wizard tower.

This wizard tower is almost incomparable to his previous floating city, but it can also provide some help on the battlefield.

Moreover, this wizard tower is another legacy left by Richard to his descendants.

His descendants possess blood power and are born with magic power. Although the suppression of supernatural powers is very strong in this world, after the advent of the Kingdom of God and the decisive battle between Richard and the Monotheism, regardless of victory or defeat, the suppression of the rules of supernatural powers in this world will inevitably loosen.

Even if it is just a little loose, there will definitely be descendants with strong magic power among his descendants. Since these descendants have talents, Richard will leave them a way out.

They can learn all kinds of magic knowledge in this wizard tower, study magic, use magic here, and even open a small magic school with the help of this wizard tower.

Richard planned to hide this wizard tower in the cracks of the world and open up a small demiplane in this world.

This is not difficult for Richard. In the demiplane, there is no suppression of world consciousness, so magic can be used here. Of course, because the energy here is provided by the main material world, the power of magic is also limited.

This wizard tower is not only a stronghold of mages, but also another retreat for the imperial family.

You always have to take care of your own descendants.

After dealing with the creator of monotheism, Richard will hide this wizard tower in the demiplane and leave a token to his descendants.

The Kingdom of God is not coming very fast. From the perspective of the human world, the Kingdom of God is like a star. From the perspective of humans, it is a star that is gradually lowering in the night sky.

In fact, this star is a projection of the Kingdom of God.

The coming of the Kingdom of God requires extreme caution, because if the speed is too fast, the Kingdom of God will fall instead of coming, which will cause great disasters to the world.

When earthquakes and tsunamis occur alternately, it will be no joke. Richard will probably die of laughter.

Of course, this will directly lead to the destruction of the kingdom of God, and the monotheistic religion will be seriously damaged, and its endless divine power will be greatly reduced or even disappear.

Without the assistance of the Kingdom of God, the angel legions in the Kingdom of God would also die in large numbers. By then, without the angel legions and the Kingdom of God, the creator of the monotheism would probably be seriously injured, and there would be no need for Richard to take action. The polytheism could solve it directly.

In the sky, two stars slowly descended. This astronomical wonder was even recorded by the empire's stargazers. However, they did not know that they were recording two real kingdoms of God.

(End of this chapter)