Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

Chapter 358: Adding Settings to God

Schnee has become stronger. This is not Linde's illusion. This morning, Schnee's movements have become much more agile and her hunting speed has also become much faster. This is indeed the blessing of the Mother Earth Goddess.

Not only Schnee became stronger, but also Fran, who had endured most of the firepower of the Son of God. The Earth Mother Goddess also gave Fran a lot of power, much more than Schnee. There was no need to show it, just by looking at the emerald green light in Fran's palm, Lind could feel that Fran's power had obviously increased.

This is not okay! How can it be possible that as long as I slept with the Son of God, I could obtain the gift of the Earth Mother Goddess?! What if this gets out? Would all the followers of the Earth Mother Goddess line up to slept with me in order to obtain the divine power bestowed by the Earth Mother Goddess?!

It's not just females who believe in the Mother Earth, there are males too! Just thinking about it made Linde break out in a cold sweat.

In order to nip this possibility in the bud, Lind asked Fran to carry him on her back for a while, as he needed to communicate with the Earth Mother. Fran agreed reluctantly and carried Lind on her back like a grandmother carrying her grandson.

It was still the same green grass, the same thick tree that required more than a dozen people to hug, and the indescribable void beyond the green grass. Linde was very curious about what that void was, but now was not the time to delve into it.

The Earth Mother was obviously in a good mood, and even the human face simulated on the tree trunk was smiling brightly. This was not surprising, her own son, who was not related by blood, finally attacked her believers, and killed two at a time. How could this not make the Earth Mother happy?

"Son, you're here~" Mother Earth greeted Lind with a bright smile. "How was your night?"

"Not bad." Linde blushed. It was obvious that the Earth Mother Goddess already knew what happened last night, and she might have watched the live broadcast.

"How is it? The new beastman tastes good, right?" Mother Earth said in a strange aunt's tone.

The Earth Mother Goddess had always been worried that Linde would no longer believe in her, although Linde had never truly believed in himself. Linde had always treated the Earth Mother Goddess with a pragmatic attitude. The power of the Earth Mother Goddess was useful, especially in food planting. If it was useful, then he would keep it first, unlike resisting the power of the evil god.

Although Lind wears the hat of the son of Mother Earth and has received many blessings from her, his faith seems to be very strong. However, only Mother Earth herself knows that the connection between herself and Lind is very fragile.

"Auntie, please behave yourself." Linde was upset at the teasing of the Earth Mother. "Have you blessed Fran and Schnee?"

"Yes~" Mother Earth shook the dense tree canopy.

"why."

"Isn't it normal for a mother-in-law to give gifts to her daughter-in-law?" said the Mother Earth in a matter-of-fact tone.

"I'm not your son!"

"Yes, I know, dear Linde." Mother Earth responded with a smile.

"... From now on, you are not allowed to grant divine power to believers in such matters."

"What's the matter~" Mother Earth said with a smile. She knew what Linde meant but pretended not to know.

"Just with me (mute-)." Lind just gave up.

"Yes, okay, no problem." The Mother Earth did not refuse and agreed straightforwardly.

It is a very explosive thing for believers to interfere with the way God acts in any religion. Even if they do this, they will not say it directly, let alone speak to God himself in an imperative tone.

But the Earth Mother Goddess didn't care. She agreed to it first. She would not bless them on the spot. She could find a reason to make up for it later. The Earth Mother Goddess had already given a hint to all the new beastmen believers: Come on! Give me a grandson!

"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first." Although Mother Earth agreed on the surface, Linde could feel that Mother Earth would most likely take advantage of the situation.

After exiting the spiritual world, Linde got off Fran's back and asked her if she had brought the scriptures of Mother Earth.

"I brought it, but it's not finished yet." Fran took out an unfinished book from her backpack. Judging from the outer packaging, it looked very similar to the "Words of the Divine Emperor" of the Divine Emperor Church.

"Let me see it." Lin De took the scripture.

He took the unfinished book on Mother Earth, which looked completely copied from the "Divine Emperor's Words", and opened it. He flipped through the first few pages, and the first thing that started was an introduction to Mother Earth.

In addition to introducing the Mother Earth's duties, divine powers, and what she can bestow upon her believers, there is also a description of the Mother Earth's appearance: a huge, towering tree that never withers.

"Add a paragraph here." Lind pointed to the paragraph describing the appearance of the Earth Mother and said to Fran. "In addition to the original body, the Earth Mother also has an avatar. Since the original body is difficult to move, in order to better show herself in front of devout believers, the Earth Mother usually appears in another form."

"The incarnation of the Earth Mother is a young and beautiful woman with long green hair like willow branches and wearing a translucent tulle dress. She has a broad mind, like the kindest mother, and can breastfeed thousands of babies at the same time... What? Is there a problem?"

"This..." At first, Fran was taking notes seriously. After listening for a while, Fran stopped and looked at Lind with a frown. "Are you serious?"

"Do you think I'm joking?" Lind looked at Fran seriously.

"...why don't you ask your mother first?" Fran suggested with a smile. Fran had never heard of the person that Linde described.

"What? I'm her son, how could I not know what my mother is like?" Lin De raised his eyebrows.

"No, no, no, of course not." Seeing that Linde was about to get angry, Fran immediately backed down and wrote down every word of Linde's words.

Although her immediate superior is the Earth Mother, Fran dares not to offend Lind even more than the Earth Mother. What if she displeases Lind and cannot obtain the gene seed of the Son of God in the future?

As for whether the incarnation of the Earth Mother Goddess mentioned by the Son of God really existed, it was not something that a small shaman like me could interfere in. Even if I was a daughter-in-law, I could not interfere in the problems between mother and son, especially when I was just one of the daughters-in-law.

Linde created a non-existent clone for the Earth Mother Goddess, and wrote this content in the unfinished scripture of the Earth Mother Goddess. This was not Linde's intention to cause trouble, or rather, it was not just to cause trouble. This was also an experiment, an experiment on the relationship between God and believers.

In a series of episodes, the reconnaissance team arrived near the city of Vickro.

Chapter 359: Subsidiary Village

Lind planned to establish a church at the camp.

To be honest, Lind doesn't like religion, no matter what kind of religion it is. Not only because Lind has been disgusted by religious believers, but also because Lind hates the super-logical setting of God, which is explained for the sake of explanation.

But that was the world before the time travel, and the situation in this world is different. Gods really exist in this world, and they can appear in spirits. Just this point alone makes Lind's attitude towards the religion of this world completely different.

Although gods really exist, gods and religions should be distinguished. For example, as Cynthia said, whether a god can be placed on the blacklist or whitelist is not decided by the Emperor of God, but by the Pope. After several exchanges with the Emperor of God, Lind clearly felt that the Emperor of God Neos had limited control over the Emperor of God Church.

God exists, but God cannot completely manage the actions of believers or religions, which is very annoying. At first, Lind did not want to establish a religion, but he changed his mind after he accidentally heard that the new beastmen said that the reason why crops grow so fast is because the Son of God used his life essence to irrigate the earth.

After commissioning the War Sister and the former Chaos Shaman to repeatedly confirm that the new beastmen were not followers of the evil god, Linde decided to establish a cult of the Earth Mother. He had to come up with a normative doctrine and absolutely could not let these imaginative new beastmen freely come up with some heavy-tasting stories.

The journey from Dundalk to Velcro took about half a month. The new beastmen were slightly stronger than humans, so the scouting team arrived at the vicinity of Velcro in about ten days. After approaching Velcro, the scouting team did not continue along the main road, but hid in the forest, taking advantage of the beastmen and approaching carefully.

During these ten days, Lind did not exchange genetic factors with Fran or Schnee. Although the power of Mother Earth greatly increased Lind's physical strength, it was not a good idea to do this before a war could break out at any time.

There must be sex scenes before a war, but that is artistic creation. Having sex scenes before a war will only lead to a faster death.

According to Lind's experience, the reclamation team would not all be concentrated in Vickro. There would definitely be a portion of the immigrants who would be assigned to the surrounding areas to reclaim land and establish affiliated villages.

A standard Bartoran knight territory is composed of a central knight's manor and surrounding villages.

"Report to His Majesty the Son of God!" The wolf rider who was in charge of scouting the front came back. "A group of humans was spotted ahead!"

"Well, how many people are there on the other side and what is their personnel composition?" Lind nodded and asked.

"There are not too many people, about seventy or eighty. Most of them should be the serfs you mentioned, Son of God. There are also seven or eight people wearing armor and carrying weapons." The little rabbit riding on the wolf's shoulder said, waving a mace.

A rabbit riding a wolf, is this rabbit cavalry or wolf cavalry? Lind has been thinking about this question all the way, but still has no reasonable answer.

Rabbit Wolf Cavalry, Linde temporarily called it this in his heart.

"It looks like it should be a subsidiary village." Linde lowered his head and thought for a moment. "Those seven or eight armed men should be the knights' attendants in charge of oversight."

"Knight squire? Like you, Son of God?" Fran asked curiously.

"Only knights and knight squires are qualified to bear arms in Batoran." Linde smiled. "But don't worry, they are not the same as me."

"Then how should we deal with them? Launch an attack?" asked the little rabbit Judy with her ears perked up.

"Get ready for battle." Linde thought for a moment and gave the order. "But please note that our targets are those knights' attendants, and all the serfs must stay behind."

"Ah?" Fran beside Linde was stunned.

"The serfs in Batoran are good at farming," Lind said with a smile. "And I believe that those serfs are also victims."

"You will understand when the time comes." Seeing the confused looks on the faces of the new beastmen around him, Lind was not in a hurry to explain it immediately. They would understand when the time comes.

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About two days' journey northeast of the ruins of Vickro City, near the woods, a simple camp was set up. A total of eighty-eight people, eighty serfs, and eight knight attendants gathered in the camp.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! You bunch of lazy guys! Go cut down trees! Build houses! We want to live in warm wooden houses before dark!" The knight's servants waved whips, urging the serfs to work.

All these serfs were originally refugees. Due to various reasons, they lost their land and could not pay taxes, so they were driven out of the territory by the lords like garbage. For most lords, refugees were not resources, but burdens, especially in the season before winter.

After winter comes, the supplies of the entire territory will enter the stage of consuming stocks. Every additional refugee means one more mouth to feed in the territory. Therefore, at this time, almost no lord will be willing to accept refugees, even the Bartolan Knights who claim to be the protectors of the peasants.

The only hope for the refugees was to get into the uninhabited forest and try to survive the cold winter. This process was extremely difficult, and 90% of the refugees would die in the process, either freezing to death, starving to death, or being eaten by the Chaos Beastmen as winter food.

But this group of refugees were lucky. The Proyes family of Aquitaine formed an immigration team for the first time and recruited refugees. In order to survive, the refugees did not care about their destination and all crowded in, and then set foot on a strange land.

Under the supervision of the knight's attendants, the serfs were building a new camp. With the labor of the serfs, a simple camp had been established. The old tents and stone piles were surrounded by a circle of equally shabby fences. The effect of this fence was only slightly better than nothing. The fence was so strong that it couldn't even stop rabbits.

"The meat is ready." said a girl who was grilling meat.

"It's finally ready! Give it to me quickly!" Upon hearing that the meat was ready, the knights' servants, who had been waiting impatiently, snatched the roasted rabbit meat from the girl's hands rudely with actions that had nothing to do with etiquette.

The rabbit meat that was caught from the woods with great difficulty was eaten up in no time by the knights' servants. The black-haired girl said nothing, but silently stood up from the ground and walked towards a girl curled up on the ground.

"Sister, come, let's eat barbecue." The black-haired girl took a small piece of rabbit meat out of her sleeve and stuffed it into the girl's mouth.

"Sister Ranna, your hand..."

"It's okay." The girl named Ranna smiled.

Chapter 360: Don't Attack the Serfs

Ranna, female, seventeen years old, is a serf.

Before becoming a serf, Jana was a shepherdess, her daily job was to herd sheep for the knight of the territory. Although life was hard, she could still get by, until one day, her flock of sheep was attacked by wild beasts.

There are a lot of undeveloped forests in Batoran, and beastmen hide in the forests. Sometimes beastmen rush out of the forest and attack human villages. Facing the attack of beastmen, Ranna bravely drew her sword to fight. After successfully killing three minotaurs who wanted to invade her, Ranna survived.

Jana survived, but all her sheep were lost. Then Jana lost her job, but the reason was not that she lost the lord's sheep, but that she dared to hide and use the sacred knight's sword!

Although Ranna repeatedly insisted that she picked up her sword from the ground and learned swordsmanship by observing the knights, it would have been fine if she hadn't said it. Once she did, it was even more terrible. Ranna was directly expelled from the territory and became a member of the Batoran refugees along with her sister.

Later, by chance, Jeanna and her sister Hespin joined the immigration team organized by the heirs of the Pluis family, boarded an ocean-going ship, and headed to the Island of Ivogene.

Then Ranna felt that it would be better not to come.

The roasted rabbit meat was snatched away by several knight attendants who were supervising the work, but Ranna was not angry, or she had long been accustomed to the rudeness of the self-proclaimed noble knights. However, before the roasted rabbit meat was snatched away, Ranna quickly tore off a piece and hid it in her sleeve to leave it for her sister.

Due to the long journey, Hespin fell ill and had a low fever. Although she was sick, the knights and servants asked Hespin to continue working. Fortunately, Jana knew how to hunt and went to the forest to shoot a rabbit, so that her sister could rest.

"Is it delicious?" Looking at her weak sister swallowing the rabbit meat, a warm smile appeared on Ranna's dirty face.

"Delicious." Hespan swallowed the rabbit meat without chewing it. "Do you have any more, sister?"

Looking up at the knights and servants who were eating voraciously, a trace of disgust flashed across Ranna's face.

Unlike other serfs in Batoran, Ranna did not like the so-called noble knights. On the contrary, she only felt disgust towards them.

The virtues of chivalry sound nice, but in Ranna's eyes, the so-called knights would only take away 90% of their harvest, and then when the peasants were about to starve to death, they would generously return part of the food to the serfs, as if it was a great favor.

Those so-called noble martial arts of knights were nothing mysterious in Ranna's eyes. She could learn them at a glance. They were no different from shepherding and hunting techniques.

"I'll go to the forest again." Ranna looked at the sun in the sky and estimated the time. "I'll be back in a bit."

"Yes." Hespan nodded obediently. "Don't worry, sister. I won't die before you come back."

"...Yeah." Ranna's pupils dilated for a while, and then she nodded calmly.

Hespin's leg was injured while on the road, bitten by a jackal. Although the wound was not deep, Hespin had a fever, and Ranna knew that this was a sign of infection.

It's almost impossible to survive if you get infected in this place with a lack of medical care and medicine. As for asking those knights to treat you? Don't be silly...

There were two other people bitten along with Hespan, and both of them died of illness yesterday. As compensation for the families, the knights' servants generously gave each of them half a bag of unmilled wheat.

Standing up from her sister's side, Ranna glared at the knights and attendants with anger, but she just glared at them. Glancing at her sister reluctantly, Ranna picked up the bow and arrow, turned around and walked towards the forest not far away.

As a village girl who knows everything except farming, Ranna has good hunting skills. Rich hunting experience made Ranna aware of the abnormality of this place. The beasts here are not in the right state, as if someone has come to hunt them.

Is it that group of strange beastmen? Ran Na thought.

Not long ago, Jiyang IX led his men to attack a tribe of beastmen and destroyed the entire tribe according to the code of chivalry. Ranna had no objection to the beastmen doing this, but she soon discovered that the beastmen here were different.

Although she discovered the abnormality of the beastmen here, there was nothing she could do. She was just a serf, and her words were no more than farts in the knight's ears.

No matter what those beastmen were, they had nothing to do with Ranna now. She had to go hunting now to keep her sister alive as long as possible.

Then, not long after entering the forest, Ranna suddenly stopped.

It's so quiet.

It's so quiet here.

There are small animals active in the forest. Every time Ranna enters the forest, the small animals nearby will be frightened and become agitated.

But this time, nothing happened. It was completely silent. No birds flew or small animals ran around.

The only explanation is that someone came here first.

In fact, Ranna's feeling was not wrong, someone had indeed arrived here first.