Don't call me evil god

Chapter 23 Strange Rules

A few days later, at midnight.

Mooney Brothers Tavern, underground wine cellar.

The basement, which was originally filled with wooden wine barrels, was temporarily cleaned up by Lena to make enough space for the ceremony, but the air was still filled with an intoxicating aroma of wine.

Pete, who came in from the back door carrying a box, felt a little dizzy from the smoke and tried to shake his head to make himself a little more awake.

"The God of Knowledge is really generous. If it were any other god, performing magic in such an occasion would be considered blasphemy at the very least."

Looking at the surrounding environment, Pete couldn't help but complain.

Reina was also a little worried: "Is this environment really okay?"

"It should be fine. I just tried to meditate and ask the God of Knowledge, and He didn't indicate any problem."

Reina had seen deacons from various churches use divine powers before, but they were all in formal occasions. The whole process had to be serious and every step had to be done meticulously.

But what is their current configuration?
The venue was temporarily vacated by the wine cellar, and the wine barrels were not even moved out, but just piled against the wall first;

There was almost no lighting. There was a small skylight in the southeast corner of the basement, but it was almost midnight and the moonlight through the skylight could not illuminate much of the space. The space had to rely on the few candles that Lena brought from upstairs for temporary lighting.

The faint firelight flickered, and the magic circle temporarily painted with blue magic paint was emitting a mysterious glow under the refraction of light. Coupled with the quiet atmosphere around and the two people who met mysteriously...

I don't know what effect this divine ritual will have...

Trying to seek an unknown powerful force...

Pete always felt that this scene was strangely familiar.

Recall it carefully.

Isn't this exactly the same as those crazy people in black robes in the cave!

With the psychological trauma of his previous experience, Pete always felt inexplicably resistant to similar scenes.

“Don’t panic, don’t panic. The God of Knowledge is not an evil god. Evil gods are all irrational and crazy. The God of Knowledge is rational. It’s just that the conditions are limited now, and the ceremony site looks a bit strange!”

"The God of Knowledge is such a powerful god. With more time, there will definitely be many people willing to believe in him. Once there are more believers, things will be on the right track!"

Encouraging himself, Pete took out the things he brought one by one and placed them in the corresponding positions according to the information provided by the God of Knowledge.

"Get ready, the ceremony will begin soon!"

"As long as you can succeed, it means that there is no problem with this hand-rubbing ritual system, and we can make a lot of money in the underground black market in Green Harbor!"

"When the time comes, it won't matter whether he's Dursley or not!"

……

While waiting for the ritual materials to be gathered, Pete and Reina were not idle. They made several attempts and discovered some rules that the God of Knowledge did not explicitly tell them, but did exist:

At Carron Academy, Pete tried to share the casting method of the "Arcane Missiles" spell taught by Nowen through writing or oral narration, but all these attempts failed.

When Pete tried to share relevant knowledge, he seemed to disappear from the world, and people around him automatically ignored his existence;
The knowledge recorded on the carrier will also turn into a messy and disordered graffiti as it is written.

The method was clearly in his mind, and Pete even memorized all the knowledge of [Arcane Missiles] from mobilizing the magic network to calculating the specific spell model;

Pete even suspected that even if he gave up his faith in the God of Knowledge, he should still be able to complete the spell with the memories in his mind, but he just couldn't share them with others. Including the knowledge about the professional talent detection ceremony, Reina also tried to share it with Pete, but the result was the same failure.

This forced Pete to use the 5 knowledge points he gained from completing the task "Our Lord's Truth Shines on the Earth" to exchange for the same knowledge from the God of Knowledge.

As for whether the memory is still there after abandoning faith, and whether it can be shared, Pete did not dare to try because the cost of abandoning faith is too high.

Reina, on her part, discovered some stable ways to gain knowledge points.

By praying earnestly every day, she can get 1 knowledge point. This was discovered first. After all, she also has to pray to the God of Light every day. Now there is just another god.

The intelligent races on the continent of Plantis are generally polytheists, and it is common to worship one god and then another.

In addition, Reina also discovered a special way to gain knowledge points:

When she cleaned her own tavern as usual, a prompt was triggered:
[Complete the task: Labor (Daily) (Repeatable)]

[You gained 1 knowledge point]

Lena told Pete about this, and after trying it, Pete further confirmed this method.

When Pete conducted a serious meditation, prayed to the Goddess of Magic, and strengthened his connection with the Magic Network, he also triggered a similar prompt:
[Complete the task: Meditation (Daily) (Repeatable)]

[You gained 1 knowledge point]

However, when Pete cleaned up like Reina did, he did not trigger the corresponding prompt.

Pete initially guessed that this might be related to their different identities.

Reina is still just an ordinary person, but Pete is already a professional mage.

They have to complete things that are consistent with their status in order to gain knowledge points.

……

Nowen in the Kingdom of God is also very interested in these rules discovered by the two believers.

When he crossed over, apart from being aware of his identity as a god, he seemed to have lost his memory. He knew nothing about his own functions and authority, nor how to gain faith. He had to cross the river by feeling the way among the believers, and he needed to observe, analyze, and summarize everything on his own.

For example, when Rena was cleaning, Nowen felt that the power of faith was emerging from Rena and was transformed into his divine power bit by bit.

Although the causal relationship between the two has not yet been figured out, since the believers' actions can bring more divine power to Nowen, Nowen is not reluctant to give back.

Giving knowledge points will encourage believers to do more things that will allow Norman to gain more divine power.

In addition, Nowen was a little worried that if he directly imparted the spellcasting knowledge, there might be a possibility that the believers would be stuck with bugs.

As long as one believer gains knowledge by praying to him, he can theoretically share it with others. After all, his divine power does not participate in the entire casting process, so Nowen does not seem to be a necessary option.

As a result, from the situation encountered by the believer Pete, Nowen found that things did not seem that simple.

Although there is no divine power involved in helping believers complete spellcasting, the knowledge that Norwen obtained through the authority of the priesthood seems to create a deeper binding relationship when it is passed on to mortals.

It is as if... there is an identification code that can retrieve the situation of believers at any time and anywhere. Only believers who have been given permission by Nowen can possess, remember and understand this knowledge!
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(End of this chapter)