Don't call me evil god

Chapter 278: Fair Promotion Path
There is a huge notice board in the Quest Hall of Warren County, and the information on it will be updated by a dedicated person three times a day.

Once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and once at night.

The specific content of the information is the "contribution value" ranking of outsiders and insiders in the territory of the Church of Knowledge.

This contribution value system was implemented by Nowen with the help of his believers.

The top 200 will be listed on the notice board in the form of "name + value".

At present, the number of new believers absorbed by the Church of Knowledge is 50 per week.

Starting from the first place on the list, priority will be given to the first 1 newcomers who "register to join the Church of Seeking Knowledge".

If you offer your faith and become a member of the Church of Knowledge, your contribution value will be reset to zero, and you will automatically be removed from the list and will no longer participate in the ranking.

If someone has already entered the top 50 but has not yet decided whether to believe in the God of Knowledge, Nowen will give them the opportunity to think about it and make a decision.

The top 50 will not register, their contribution value will be retained, and their quota will be postponed.

for example.

If the outsider ranked first does not sign up, then the 51st applicant will be eligible to join the church.

And so on, until the quota of 50 people is reached.

Nowen also added an additional "anti-top" rule:
"After entering the top 50, if you do not become a follower of the God of Knowledge for two consecutive weeks, your contribution points will be reset to zero."

The significance of this rule is that those who have obtained enough contribution points through various means but "refuse to leave" are obviously not Norman's target believers!
The great God of knowledge has given you 14 days to consider whether or not to become His believer.

If you have been thinking about it for so long and still haven't made up your mind, then reset your contribution value, get off the list and try again.

Fortunately, the process of making renewed efforts can also allow you to carefully consider whether you should devote your faith.

The purpose of the contribution ranking is to attract believers who work hard enough, rather than allowing people to slowly accumulate contribution points and accumulate an astronomical number.

Only by automatically excluding those who do not intend to become believers can the contribution value ranking be more intuitive and accurate.

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Sam had never seen any church that set a "ranking" requirement for becoming a believer.

The solution of other churches is simple:
Just give money.

Initiation ceremonies are held regularly, and if sufficient money is given to "worship" the gods, a specially-designated priest will come to preside over the divine rituals, allowing them to offer their faith to the gods.

It is one thing to offer your faith.

Whether or not one can be blessed after becoming a believer is another matter.

Even if most mortals become believers of the corresponding gods, they are not "qualified" to receive the power bestowed by them.

The Church of Seeking Knowledge is just the opposite.

To become a believer, one needs to meet the contribution ranking requirements and learn and master the doctrine;
If he was not ranked in the top 50, even if he was Monger, the richest businessman in Reyak, he would not be able to become a believer of the God of Knowledge.

However, as long as you can become a believer, you will definitely have the blessing of the great God of knowledge.

……

The two seem to be just reversed in order, but in fact there is a huge difference!
Because the conditions for offering faith in the Church of Knowledge are transparent.

The conditions for receiving blessings from other gods' churches after offering faith are not transparent!

Even the church's own priests could not explain what conditions had to be met to receive the blessing.

Reasons such as piety, mentality, will, and body are not clearly marked at all.

The contribution ranking of the Church of Knowledge is different.

Anyone can clearly calculate their own "progress in conversion".

Sam could roughly estimate that if he continued to move bricks for a while, his contribution value would be able to squeeze into the top 50 of the list. If the people ahead of him were automatically removed from the list because of joining the church, the process might be even faster.

And Sam is sure of this:

Even if he is not a level 1 warrior, but just an ordinary person, he can still gain contribution points by building roads and eventually make it to the top of the list.

The only difference is the length of time it takes.

A mechanism that truly ensures fairness to everyone and rewards for hard work!
It is completely consistent with the teachings of the Church of Seeking Knowledge.

As for what the believers of knowledge-seeking preach, everyone can receive the blessing of the great god of knowledge after joining the religion.

Sam had no doubt about this.

Because the ironclad facts hit him right in the face and there was no room for refutation.

In the territories of several churches of knowledge, as long as you are a believer of knowledge, you are guaranteed to be a level 1 wizard!
It is not uncommon to receive blessings from two or three gods!
Sam saw several farmers working the land near Warren County. He watched them chant the magic of the God of Harvest to bless the land while summoning the "Mage's Hand" to control the farm tools.

These people have become "noble" spellcasters but are still doing farmers' work. There is only one possibility, that is, their identity as mages cannot bring them any preferential treatment here.

Spellcasters are almost becoming an identity symbol for seekers of knowledge.

One or two spellcasters may have noble blood and be favored by the goddess of magic. They can become wizards while believing in the god of knowledge. This is a coincidence and cannot be replicated.

Since everyone is a spellcaster, there must be something common among them that can be replicated.

What is the biggest commonality?
"They are all believers in the god of knowledge."

What else is there to say?

Here is the fairest promotion mechanism Sam has ever seen.

As long as the contribution value requirements are met, you can obtain the status of a believer and gain the power bestowed by the God of Knowledge.

There are even... miracles of resurrection from the dead happening in this mysterious church.

What Sam can do is to find a way to earn enough contributions as quickly as possible and get into the top 50 ranking as soon as possible.

As for the issue of the heresy excommunication order?
"Heresy is heresy!"

"What is the Glorious God Religion? Don't get close to me. When I was born, I was the most devout believer in the God of Knowledge. Now is the time for me to work hard to prove my piety!"

Sam has a plan:

After becoming a follower of the God of Knowledge, even if he sneaks back to the Kingdom of Reyak, as long as his identity as a follower of knowledge is not reported by others and he does not offend the Cult of the God of Light, he will be just an ordinary adventurer who is harmless to humans and animals!
This is not some dangerous belief in an evil god, and the identity that has been contaminated by the evil god can be directly detected by divine magic.

Apart from using fair divine magic to judge the beliefs of mortals, it is impossible to kill heresy by superficial actions in daily life.

Sam is optimistic.

Because he knew nothing about the old gods.

He also didn't know that the Cult of the Light's [Detect Evil] spell would flash red light when used on believers of the God of Knowledge.

Fortunately.

This "flaw" has existed for a long time.

As another group of heretics arrived in Xiwei Territory.

There was a turning point.

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The Church of Illusion is about to join the battlefield. This part of the plot is a bit difficult to handle, and Guozi’s writing is a bit stuck.

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(End of this chapter)