Unknown Knight

The gradual decline of the City of Zion is inevitable. In terms of core competitiveness, they are far behind Fort Standstill. However, how can they, who have been entrenched here for many years, be willing to fail? Axe knows this very well. He repeatedly emphasizes this matter to his subordinates, asking them to remain vigilant at all times, especially in terms of armaments and training, and never relax.

He also dug a water diversion tunnel in the direction of Zion City, set up a final vertical shaft at a location of three miles, and built a bunker on the vertical shaft to guard against Zion City. At the same time, he also used the seven-meter-high bunker to clearly tell the bigwigs in Zion City that he was guarding against them, which served as a warning and deterrent.

Perhaps it was the powerful force demonstrated by the series of operations outside Fort Standstill that was so shocking that for a time the City of Zion became unusually peaceful and no unexpected incidents occurred.

In fact, the great power displayed by X during this period was not only external. Compared with the many bunkers that quickly sprang up on the periphery, the great power displayed internally was even more shocking, shocking people to the point that X was really about to become a god this time, and he had to become a god.

The cause came from Zion City. In order to balance the population gap between the territory and Zion City, Aix desperately bought slaves from the neutral family Ogbai Rogge, and even hinted to Rogge that he was willing to spend more money, as long as he could increase the mortality rate of slaves in the city, the price of the "dead" slaves on the account could be raised.

Rogge was so blinded by greed that he actually increased the number of slaves who died of illness by 20% in the family's accounts. He also found a bunch of excuses, saying that the prisons in the fortress were seriously damaged due to disrepair, and the imprisoned slaves could not stand the wind and sun, and suddenly died in large numbers. He also used this as an excuse to hypocritically ask the family for a large sum of money for repairs.

Later, after killing the bandit Hassan in Tianshuijing Town and getting a large sum of money, Aix still felt that the slaves he bought were not enough, so he simply bought slaves directly from the Rogge family at normal prices.

After two or three months, the number of slaves purchased by Aix reached more than one thousand, causing the total population of the entire territory to surge to more than two thousand.

Among these surging slaves, about three hundred of them were recorded as dead in Rogge's account, and the money went directly into Rogge's pocket. There were also more than four hundred who were on the verge of death and were given to Aix by Rogge as dead slaves.

When these 400+ dying slaves were brought to Fort Standing by boat, almost all of them were saved by Aix using Nana. However, from the beginning, the old charlatan Velen advised Aix to make good use of Nana as a magical artifact to gather people's hearts.

The reasons he gave were also very sufficient. Except for the core leaders who were absolutely loyal to Aix and the territory was completely stable, it was difficult to judge the attitudes of other residents towards Aix.

The main reason is that the personnel composition of these subjects is very complex. For example, there are outsiders from Calradia, Gronia and even the Eastern Continent. Even if they are from the same continent, they belong to different countries on these continents.

The origins of the slaves were even more confusing. The races alone included four major categories: black, white, yellow, and red. Each race belonged to various countries, large and small, as well as unknown tribes. The current composition of the territory's residents was probably only comparable to the great Beautiful Country in the original world.

Such a complex personnel composition makes the people in the territory like a pile of loose sand. At present, the territory uses the three core elements of being well fed, well clothed and well housed to bring everyone together. It is stable in the short term, but over time these people will definitely form small groups based on skin color, language, religion, type of work, and even hobbies. Conflicts and contradictions are inevitable at that time.

Once the territory's current cohesive advantage is gone, or something unexpected happens, the territory will immediately fall into great chaos.

What Velen meant was that instead of letting the territory fall into internal conflicts and the chaos that is likely to occur, it would be better to take the initiative, control the direction of public opinion, and guide and unite the people of the territory.

Currently, the quality of most of the people in the territory is very low. Most of them are illiterate, with a very low cultural level and backward cognitive concepts. The most effective way to unite these people is religion. Velen means to establish a religious system with Aix as the core and God.

However, Aix immediately opposed this suggestion. He thought that the idea of ​​becoming a god in the flesh was too absurd. It was possible that he would be mistaken for Tang Monk's flesh in the future and be surrounded and eaten by others. This was no joke.

As a result, Velen proposed an alternative plan, that is, the plan of incarnation sanctification, which is to make Aix the only true God in the world - the creator of the universe, omnipotent and omniscient, merciful, rewarding the good and punishing the evil, the only prophet of the Supreme God in the world, to represent the Supreme God in exercising His gospel on earth.

Aix could accept this plan. From the beginning, he only intended to use this place as a temporary base. As long as he could rally the people's morale in a short period of time, he would achieve his goal.

In addition, this place is relatively closed, and even if this monotheistic religion is established, the influence will not expand without restraint. Just treat it as an ancient version of a religious social practice class, so he nodded and agreed to Verenti's plan to sanctify his body.

After receiving the "royal order" from Aix, Velen quickly started to work on it. He first built a holy hall that was thirty meters long and twenty meters wide in the middle of the mound, on the north side of the central hall.

At the innermost part of the hall there is an altar, with a skylight on the wall behind it. The entire altar is 30 centimeters higher than other places. When the believers below look at Aix on the altar, his backlight will be particularly strong because of the skylight, giving him a sacred feeling as if he is shrouded in a halo. At the same time, the strong light contrast makes it difficult for the believers below to see the details of his face, adding a hazy sense of mystery to him.

In front of the altar is a rectangular altar, which is used to place patients who need treatment. There is a hidden groove in the middle of the altar, which is just the right size to hold the nano core machine. There is a lid with a small hole on it. Once the pre-set Nana lid is placed on it, the patient on it can be punctured through the small hole and injected with a nano micro robot for treatment.

The altar is usually covered with a thick wool blanket, and only Aix's core team members can touch it easily. It is impossible for others to know the mechanism under the altar.

Not only the altar, but the entire holy hall is open to the public except for sermons and healing of the sick. At other times, other outsiders are strictly prohibited from entering. The door is guarded by the loyal, reliable and powerful Prophet Guards.

This is usually Aix's private lounge and office. There are two side rooms on the left and right of the Holy Hall, which are where Aix usually rests, works and convenes core members for meetings.

After all the hardware facilities were ready, Velen began to rehearse the ceremony according to the pre-set rituals and asked Aix and the core personnel to do so. After they became proficient, he prepared to arrange for Aix to show off.