Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Lindsay panicked.

An unfamiliar feeling of panic came over me.

The magic goddess, who has had almost no rivals since birth, rarely panics. In most cases, she is confident that she can control the situation.

But now, she doesn't even know who her opponent is.

Everything happened so suddenly.

The faith that was about to solidify into a entity began to collapse irreversibly.

What's even more terrible is that her consciousness is now bound to her collapsing faith. If this continues, her own consciousness will probably dissipate in this space.

Lindsay tried to exit this space of consciousness and let his consciousness return to his body first. Although his immortality would fail, at least he would have a chance to figure out what had happened and correct his mistakes.

But after trying several times, I found that I couldn't exit the game at all.

The exit button was completely unresponsive, and after a few interactions it simply disappeared, not even showing up.

The game has been rigged!
Lindsay knew immediately that there was something wrong with Drogo.

But why would Drogo have a problem? I had clearly explored Drogo's memories and thoughts, and the red dragon clearly only wanted to make money, and I had promised him countless money.

Why did he betray, and how did he do it?
Lindsay's mind was full of questions, which could only be clarified after escaping.

She began trying to disassemble the spells used in the consciousness space.

The spells used in the Lord of the Rings games are far more complex than those in The Pilgrim's Way.

But she was confident that as long as it was magic, she could figure out how it worked and find a way to crack it.

However, a bigger problem emerged.

She couldn't even see all the spells in the game. The inscriptions and models were all covered by a thick fog that could not be dispelled or disassembled.

Panic grew into fear, and now Lindsay was truly scared.

The magic she trusted most didn't work.

"Who is it! Who! Come out! Face me!"

Lindsay yelled.

As obsessed with eternal life as she is with death.

When fear reaches a certain level, one will either be completely unable to move, or begin to become impotent and furious.

The magic goddess entered a state of rage.

The collapse of her faith led to a continuous decline in her mental strength, and her control over magic quickly declined. Her existence to this day was maintained by spells. If the spells got out of control, she would quickly perish.

For the first time in thousands of years of life, the countdown began.

In her last moments, all she wanted to know was who had done it.

"Come out and face me..."

She thought she would just die like this, with doubts.

At this moment, a voice suddenly responded to her.

"Eternal life is irrational."

Lindsay looked over sharply.

The one who spoke was NONO, the player assistant who had been following him?

Before she could react, NONO's cute round image began to change. It pushed away the white shell and turned into a twisted, shapeless, strange object floating in the air.

Lindsay's eyes widened, she knew all too well what this was.

She and other "gods" once began to proclaim themselves gods after killing these original gods.

This is also the so-called common dark history of the gods.

Just because they suspected that these original gods who brought knowledge did not share the most important knowledge of eternal life, they rebelled and killed them, killing these former teachers.

Why, why did these primordial gods appear again.

Lindsay lost his mind and had very strange thoughts. His reaction after seeing the original god was, "You really concealed the knowledge of eternal life, you really concealed it! You are not worthy of receiving faith..."

She was still accusing the original gods of "concealment".

Faced with Lindsay's madness, the soul engineers did not react much. Creatures like them did not have very complicated emotions.

"We are not immortal. The me you killed is not the same me as I am now."

"You hypocritical maggots!"

Lindsay was getting crazier, but at the same time, she wasn't as frightened as before.

If she could defeat the original god the first time, she could do it a second time.

The Magic Goddess began to think.

The existence of the original gods had not been discovered before, which proved that they did not appear in Feilin in physical form, but existed attached to the network.

Since they can exist on the Internet and rely on people's faith to survive, then so can I.

Lindsay figured it out and started his final attempt...

……

At this time, Waterdeep.

Drogo breathed a sigh of relief, his memory finally complete.

During that period of time, I always felt that my mind was not very clear, as if I had forgotten something.

It turns out that my intuition is very accurate.

It is true that she had forgotten a lot of things, which she had deliberately cleared out in order to prevent the Magic Goddess from discovering her plans.

The feeling of always feeling like you have forgotten something but not being able to remember what you have forgotten is very uncomfortable.

It feels like there is something suddenly blocking my ears, and I can hear something but it seems like it is too far away and I can't hear it clearly.

Now it's finally unblocked.

Comfortable.

And the plan is still going smoothly.

The consciousness of the Goddess of Magic is collapsing due to the gathering of too many beliefs.

This is the underlying mechanism of the world provided by Soul Engineers.

If a god accepts too much faith, he will be struck by the iron fist of the world's will.

It seems that the will of this world does not allow monotheism.

Drogo deeply agreed with this. Religion itself is weird enough, and the belief in one god is the weirdest of all.

Currently, the Soul Engineer is watching the collapse of the Goddess of Magic in the consciousness space, and Drogo's mission is to take down the church.

This task sounds difficult, but it is actually not complicated.

Compared to the Roman Empire, which barely kept up with the development of the times, the armaments of the Papal States controlled by the church can be said to be very "traditional".

It's not like they haven't purchased new weapons from the Drogo Group before, but the purchase process is this: a bag of nuts worth five copper coins requires a purchase receipt worth fifty gold coins.

This is a bigger appetite than those old nobles.

The reason why he can still act arrogantly on the mainland is entirely because of the trick of "I have someone above me".

The Sutton army was on the move and it was easier to flatten the Papal States than the Roman Empire had done with the surrounding small countries.

The only problem was to mobilize Sutton's army and make them believe, or at least make Figesin believe, that the goddess of magic was really no longer capable.

So, Drogo ignored the frantic messages from the Pope and went straight to Figithin.

It is not difficult to imagine that the church is in chaos now. After the magic goddess lost control of magic, her body should have begun to age rapidly, and she went from a relatively energetic old lady to a withered dying person.

It would be strange if the people in the church did not panic when seeing this situation.

Soon, in Prime Minister Sutton's office.

Figesin has been informed of what happened in the Lord of the Rings game.

In the world's powerful enemy crusade, when the player is about to be defeated, a prompt to pray to the goddess appears, and then it seems that the goddess is coming to save the situation, but the goddess suddenly begins to break down and the game crashes immediately afterwards. As for why the game becomes like that, the church has not yet given an explanation.

So when he met Drogo, Figosin had many, many questions to ask.

"The goddess has been controlled and is not expected to live long. Now is our chance to destroy the church."

Drogo said straight to the point.

"The goddess is under control?"

Figosin couldn't believe it, but if it was true, it would definitely be great news.

Feilin has been in the church for a long time.

If the church's control measures continue, it is only a matter of time before civilization and technology regress, not to mention development.

"How did you do it?"

"Well, it's complicated. Basically, this world does not allow the existence of a single god who controls all beliefs. If a god absorbs too much faith, he will be blown up by the faith. The goddess of magic is exploding now. I will tell you the detailed process later." Drogo said quickly.

"So now, the church has no backing, and they have to take responsibility for all the bad things they did before."

"Are you absolutely sure?"

Figesin asked again.

To take action against the church would be to risk the destruction of the country. If the goddess is not overwhelmed by the faith and recovers, she will inevitably launch a crazy revenge on Sutton.

"Even if you are not sure, believe me," Drogo answered seriously, "Based on my understanding of the goddess of magic, whether it succeeds in the end or not, Sutton will not be spared. If Sutton's army does not go out, Drogo's group will also try its best to complete this matter."

Seeing Drogo's serious expression, Figosin was silent for a few seconds, then said to his secretary: "Notify the generals and prepare to execute the battle plan."

"Yes."

"Battle plan?"

Drogo was stunned. The plan didn't even have a name, so he just notified everyone directly.

He reacted immediately.

It turns out that Figesin is not "honest" either, and has long been planning to destroy the Papal States.

"Well, since you are so prepared, I will go to the Holy City to deal with the remains of the goddess. If I succeed, you can fight with confidence. If not, it will be an honor to work with you."

Afterwards, Drogo immediately set out for the Holy City.

The core area of ​​the church's holy city, where the cathedral and key church personnel were located, was in chaos, just as he had expected.

Although the news that the goddess' body was beginning to age and decay was blocked, the few people who knew about it, including the Pope, the saint, and several archbishops, showed strange behavior, and the things that happened in the game that were circulated were enough to stimulate the imagination of other people who were not in the know.

And it mainly plays in a bad direction.

In this case, Drogo descended from the sky.

When the Pope saw Drogo, he felt like he had seen a savior.

"Bishop Drogo, you are finally back. There may be some problems with the virtual mask, and the game..."

"I know."

Drogo interrupted the Pope's chattering.

"It's good to know that the goddess is not in danger now."

"of course."

"That's good."

"It's extremely dangerous."

"what?"

Drogo made a sudden turn, which completely put the Pope's heart at ease.

"What do you mean the goddess is extremely dangerous?" The Pope trembled and wanted to confirm it again.

"She's going to die, and I want to speed up the process."

Drogo also stopped acting when communicating with church members and no longer called the goddess "He".

"Why, how could..."

While the Pope was in a trance, Drogo continued, "I suggest that you do not put up any resistance. First, you do not have enough men for me to fight. Second, the Sutton army is ready to fight at any time. I suggest that the Papal State do not put up any unnecessary resistance."

After saying this, he left the Pope, who was about to faint, to look for the remains of the Goddess of Magic.

In the goddess' room, the shriveled body, except for the mask on its head, looked nothing like the original Lindsay. It looked like a mummy.

In terms of physical strength, the goddess is not invincible.

Her invincibility is highly dependent on magic. After losing the protection of magic, although her physical strength is not bad, it is far from being as difficult to break through as before.

As Drogo was preparing to deal with the claws, the news of the Soul Engineer suddenly came to his mind.

"Things have changed."

Drogo's heart skipped a beat.

"The Goddess's consciousness can no longer return to reality, nor can it form a physical entity."

Drogo breathed a sigh of relief, horrified.

"But its consciousness has not completely disappeared. It has been merged into the consciousness space network and has become a part of the network."

and many more!

This was something Drogo had not expected.

The Goddess's consciousness becomes part of the network?

The Soul Engineer continued to explain: "The role of its consciousness now is similar to that of the divine body in the network, that is, the role of my state before recovery in the network."

"You mean, the Magic Goddess has now become a server?"

"That's understandable."

“Can it be separated?”

“There is no plan at the moment.”

"Is there any way to eliminate it?"

The Soul Engineer fell into a brief silence, and after a few seconds, gave his answer.

"The amount of data that a server can carry is limited. Theoretically, if the limit is exceeded, it will cause another crash."

"So, we can use data to overwhelm the goddess! How much data would that require? No, the more the better. I have to mobilize all Internet users."

After saying this, Drogo realized another key problem.

If the goddess's consciousness has become a server, then she also has high authority on the network, which means that there is no way to hide from network users that they are attacking the goddess.

This is a big trouble and may seriously affect enthusiasm. Not everyone dares to resist the goddess.

Even if there is just the slightest possibility of resuscitation, the Magic Goddess is enough to scare countless people.

If you want Internet users all over the world to participate in the project of fighting the goddess without hesitation, you have to build their confidence. It would be best if they completely believe that the goddess is dead, and what is left is something like an unwilling obsession.

This way players should be able to participate.

As for how to make players believe that the goddess is dead and what is left in the game is just a remnant soul, Drogo came up with a plan.

He looked at the goddess's recliner. The remains of this dried corpse could probably be put to good use.

……

Soon, Drogo left the room and found the Pope who was still in shock.

"You know enough about the crimes you committed..."

Before Drogo could finish his threats, the Pope said directly: "We were all forced."

"No, I don't care about persecution or not, nor do the nations oppressed by the church. I am here to give you a chance to make amends."

"what chance?"

"It's like this, a live broadcast is about to begin..." (End of this chapter)