Don't call me evil god

Chapter 277 No Qualification Required
Although the hunting month has officially begun.

But this year, Sam Doug did not contact his past teammates and organize a team to hunt monsters in the Dark Forest like he did last year and the year before. Instead, he was working hard outside several territories of the Church of Knowledge - building roads!
The reason why I didn't go and destroy the monsters.

The main reason is that the reward for road construction is quite tempting to Sam!
Hugo Xivi paid a very high salary to Sam, a level 1 warrior with better physical strength than ordinary people!

Sam was not very good at math, so he picked up some small stones and broken branches on the ground and used them as "silver and copper coins" and counted them carefully several times.

"The money earned from road construction is as good as that from hunting monsters!"

“And there’s basically no danger!”

Last year, his companions who teamed up with him to destroy monsters in the Hunting Moon were unfortunately ambushed by monsters.

In the end, he managed to save his life, but at the cost of losing his right arm.

If you want to ask a priest of the Church of the God of Light to cast a 4th-tier spell to regenerate severed limbs, you need to prepare nearly a hundred gold coins.

For ordinary level 1 warrior adventurers like them, it is considered good if they can earn 100 gold coins in this lifetime!

A broken arm is basically equivalent to a disabled person.

In comparison, simple labor like road construction is just moving bricks!
In previous years, he could get about 50 silver coins from the monsters he could kill in a hunting month and the distorted materials he could collect and sell to merchants if he was lucky, and then share the profits with his teammates.

The additional reward given by the king usually ranges from 30 to 50 silver.

The amount you can earn in a month is about 1 gold coin.

The reward for building roads in the territory of the Church of Knowledge was paid in cash. As long as he worked diligently for a day, he could get about 3 silver coins in the end, plus some miscellaneous copper coins.

It depends on how much work he has done that day.

Sam didn't know how the people of Xiwei, that is, the believers of the God of Knowledge, "supervised" the work.

On the second day, a few guys who wanted to take advantage of the situation pretended to work hard, but in fact they didn't put in much effort.

When the wages were settled, these opportunistic guys received more than half less than Sam!

Those guys were trying to make trouble at that time.

They shouted things like "unfair treatment", "withholding of wages", and "bullying honest people".

Of course, the result of the riot was useless.

No matter how they "protested", they were not given a single extra penny.

They were also disqualified from the job.

The reason is that passive resistance has slowed down the progress of the project.

This surprised Sam quite a bit.

His father was a traditional ordinary farmer who used to go to Ceylon City during the slack season to take on some purely physical jobs such as repairing city walls or renovating roads.

At that time, little Sam heard his father complain after he returned home, saying that some lazy guys did not do much work but ended up getting the same amount of wages as him, and some could even be assigned to easier positions by building good relationships with supervisors.

However, in several territories of the Church of Seeking Knowledge, this situation did not occur at all.

Not just Sam, but anyone.

You get paid based on how much work you do.

Treat everyone equally.

The only thing that can change the outcome is how much effort you put in.

More work, more reward.

The less work, the less gain.

Sam was sure of this because the way the wages were paid here was to directly transfer money into their accounts in "Xiwei Savings", and there was no real gold involved in the whole process.

The person in charge of providing the rewards read out everyone's rewards in front of everyone, and said that they could go to the savings hall in the territory to withdraw cash at any time.

You can also just leave the money in your own account. Anyway, in almost all places in Xiweiling, transactions can be completed quickly by showing your ID card.

At that time, Sam inexplicably felt some "feelings" about the teachings of the so-called Church of Knowledge.

Because when he was seeking the way to learn, he heard the believer who was in charge of preaching there mentioned a saying:
"Efforts should be rewarded!"

“A truly noble and great existence, an existence that is truly worth following, an existence that should truly be believed in.”

"He will certainly take note of the efforts and contributions made by every mortal."

"Even if their efforts are minimal, they will be rewarded accordingly!"

"..."

When Sam first heard this teaching, he found it incredible.

This is contrary to what he has always believed.

God is the supreme and great being. In the eyes of God, mortals are insignificant and like mayflies.

Mortals’ faith and offerings are what they should do. If you fail to receive blessings from the gods, it means you are “not qualified”.

The interpretation of “qualification” varies.

In the teachings of the Glorious God Cult, it means that believers are not devout enough and need to reflect on whether they have not worked hard enough;

In the minds of the nobles of the kingdom, they believed that one needed to have sufficiently noble blood, and those of humble origins certainly would not have the opportunity to be blessed;
Other explanations, such as the Church of the Just God, would say: "Because you did not abide by the way of justice, your mentality made you not have the opportunity to qualify."

Others say that their awareness is not firm enough, their bodies are not strong enough, and their wills are not strong enough.

In short, different churches have different interpretations.

But there is one thing in common in their statements, which is that mortals need to have the corresponding qualifications first before they are worthy of the great power that belongs to the gods.

However, the teachings of the Church of Knowledge put forward a completely opposite concept:
“Everyone should be entitled to be rewarded for their hard work.”

“The difference that hard work makes is not in whether or not, but in how much.”

Sam pondered over what he had seen and heard in the Territories of Siwei and Warren, and vaguely discovered that the people here seemed to really be following this doctrine.

Even outsiders like them are treated equally.

In addition to wages, Sam can also earn contribution points for participating in the road construction project.

When asking the territory clerk about his contribution, Sam learned that because he had completed a sufficient amount of work, after two days of "moving bricks", he received more contribution points than other people who were building roads.

Even a job that anyone can do, like road construction, can still earn contributions.

Sam has the foundation of a level 1 warrior, so he works more efficiently, completes more work, and contributes more than ordinary people.

At this rate, Sam estimated that if he worked hard for another week, he would be able to enter the top 50 in the contribution value ranking.

If he passes the test of understanding doctrine, he will have the opportunity to offer his faith to the God of Knowledge.

According to the followers of the God of Knowledge, as long as one can offer faith and become a believer of the Lord, one can obtain all His blessings.

This blessing is something that everyone is eligible to obtain, regardless of birth, bloodline, or anything else.

The only limitation is the identity of believers.

And there is an extremely clear, intuitive, and computable way to satisfy this constraint.

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(End of this chapter)