Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 248 The Current Situation of the Goddess

In fact, Tia and Lind had a more blasphemous speculation in their minds. If death was a state, then what was the current state of the gods in the world, especially the goddess who had not responded to her believers for a long time?

Is the goddess also playing in the resurrection match?

Bernice said to herself, "There is no record of such an event in the classics. At least, there is no record of the resurrection of the Outer Gods in the classics we collected in the Lantern Dream."

But then Bernice also saw the expression on Lind's face and asked, "Governor, do you have any questions?"

Linde and Tia looked at each other and asked, "What is the goddess' current condition?"

Before the lantern dream, they knew that Lind had holy water in his hands, but their understanding of the holy water in Lind's hands was "a golden age potion with effects similar to the goddess' holy water", and they didn't know how the holy water was produced.

He didn't know that Linde was taking advantage of the goddess, but the goddess never responded.

Bernice explained: "The goddess is different from those false gods. She needs to rest. Now she is just sleeping. When she wakes up, she will respond to her loyal believers again."

Upon hearing the word "false god", Tia sneered: "At least our God of Nature doesn't need to sleep and can occasionally respond to believers. Why don't you just stop believing in this sleeping god and believe in our God of Nature?"

I thought Bernice would be furious even if Hong Wen didn't break the defense, but unexpectedly, Bernice said calmly: "Thank you for your kindness, but the God you understand is not the same as the God we believe in. Don't apply the concept of a false God to the goddess."

Bernice's expression was like that of an adult who was arguing with a little kid who didn't understand anything. She even sighed after she finished speaking, and it seemed that she was going to comfort Tia.

"Heh, who knows if your goddess is just like those so-called Outer Gods, a corpse waiting to be resurrected?"

Tia still refused to give in, but Bernice continued to explain patiently: "Even if the goddess is asleep, the believers can still use divine magic. That is the difference between the goddess and those false gods."

"you..."

Seeing that Bernice was not moved at all, Tia wanted to continue arguing, but Linde patted her on the shoulder, and she finally calmed down. After all, Linde had reminded Tia a long time ago that the Lantern Dream Realm had mastered many ancient scriptures, but they were also a group of fanatics. Arguing with fanatics on such issues would definitely not be beneficial.

Seeing that Lind was curious, Bernice gave a more detailed explanation.

The lantern dream does not deny that the goddess is not active now. The internal explanation is that the goddess is temporarily asleep, but the goddess is different from other gods. Even when asleep, she can still respond to believers using magic, but she cannot send down oracles.

Tia was quite disdainful of this explanation. In Tia's view, it was nothing more than a self-deception among the fanatics. Many cultists had a set of explanations that were different from the real world view, but could justify themselves.

But after listening to it, Linde began to ponder. He could not issue oracles, but he could automatically respond to the magic of his believers.

Lind has looked up the official definition of divine magic by the Vatican, as well as the explanation of divine magic in the lantern dream. Divine magic relies on faith to establish a connection with the gods, and is essentially borrowing the power of the gods.

And what can I say about the goddess' performance...it's a bit too smart.

Lind even had a guess that maybe the view in the lantern dream was correct. The goddess might have entered some kind of idle state, and all requests for divine arts were processed automatically, so Lind took advantage of the loophole to continuously produce holy water.

But this brings up a new question: why is only the goddess different? Although the goddess is a very special existence even among a group of gods, from the perspective of the lantern dream, the goddess is fundamentally different from other gods. The need to rest is not something other gods would do, not to mention the current idle state of automatically processing divine spell requests.

What exactly is a goddess?

Lind looked up at the sky, of course there was no sky here, only a ceiling.

Then Lind looked at the mass of beating flesh and blood again. Is the God in this world not just a concept, but a real entity?

After the meeting, Lind asked Bernice to collect all the oracles issued by the goddess. Bernice guessed that Lind, a man from the Golden Age, had found some clues about the goddess, so she readily agreed. However, not all oracles of the goddess were issued in written form, and many oracles are now in the hands of the Vatican, so the process may be a bit difficult.

Lind also understood what he meant. After all, most of the information now was provided unilaterally by Lantern Dream. Such cooperation would definitely not last long, even if Lantern Dream firmly believed that Lind was a person from the Golden Age.

Therefore, Lind also decided to give priority to providing Lantern Dream with some revealing technologies. After all, from the perspective of various forces, Lantern Dream might be the most friendly and easiest to satisfy Lind. Of course, it was impossible to let Lantern Dream come to preach, even if Lantern Dream agreed to be under Lind's management.

"Anything gained?"

Linde glanced at Tia who was in deep thought.

"These guys are really a bunch of fanatics."

Tia gritted her teeth as she looked at her notes.

"But they do know a lot. Where did they get all these books from other churches?"

However, Tia soon shook her head helplessly. Just as the lantern dream said, the goddess was indeed very special among the many gods. In the past, the Goddess Church was the only dominant religion on the continent. Some religions even split from the Goddess Church. It was normal to have scriptures from other churches.

"In any case, this so-called foreign god who polluted the land must be our enemy. We will also reveal some of the things that can be revealed to other countries. It is obvious that this god of the demon tribe is the enemy of all religions."

Tia looks confident, but Lind feels that things will not go so smoothly. Even if Lind and Tia really have the flesh and blood of the demon in their hands, and a big battle has just been fought in the Golden Spike Plains, will other people on the continent really take it seriously?

Even if the gods really responded and issued an oracle, how would other religions fight against these monsters of the demon clan? Would they send troops to the northern border of the Kingdom of Capet? Or would they directly enter the northern border from the elves' Gog Empire? No matter how they thought about it, it was impossible. In the end, they might only get sporadic help.

Moreover, in the eyes of most people this may not be a big problem. After all, the demons were blocked in the north by Linde. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, many people would have no idea how powerful those monsters of the demons were.

Even in the Kingdom of Capet, there are many people who think that Linde’s threat is much greater than that of the demons. After all, there is a northern border between the demons and the royal capital, but the northern border is actually squatting behind the royal capital.

If he wants to solve this problem, he still has to talk to Her Majesty the Queen. In addition to his daily affairs, Lind has been writing letters to various forces these days, and finally finalized the specific meeting date and some specific details with the king.