Unknown Knight

After James's diagnosis and treatment, although Axel's symptoms seemed serious due to the deficiency of Qi and blood, fortunately he had a strong foundation. As long as he paid more attention to rest and took some nutritious food and medicine, he would soon recover his previous health.

The most serious thing is that a large amount of toxins have accumulated in his body, and he has suffered from serious sex and drug addiction. Fortunately, he has Nana, the magic weapon. After a burst of sweat, most of the toxins have been discharged.

However, it is not so easy to treat addiction symptoms. After all, the withdrawal of this symptom is more complicated, and there are problems on both the physical and mental levels. Fortunately, Nana has a ready-made plan in her treatment library. However, it will take Nana nearly a month and three courses of electric shock therapy to basically cure it. It is just time-consuming. By that time, the remaining toxins in the body will be basically eliminated, and she can be considered to have completely recovered her health.

After this battle, Aix had a completely new understanding of himself. He was not as he was packaged to be, the only prophet with a divine aura. He was just a strengthened mortal. He also had human weaknesses such as greed, anger, ignorance, and in some aspects he was even better than others. This required him to remind himself from time to time and realize that he was just an ordinary person, not a god, and he had to exercise self-discipline at all times.

In addition, this incident also brought an additional result, which is that Axel has completely bid farewell to his obese body shape and regained his body shape before the head injury. This is the only good news brought about by this incident.

Soon, the news that Saint Armis was pregnant spread from the city lord's mansion. The high priests who planned this matter had originally planned to suppress the news for the time being and observe how the situation developed. However, it somehow got out and became known to everyone in the city. They had no choice but to take advantage of the situation and spread the rumors that they had arranged before: the saint was pregnant with the prophet's child, and that when the child was conceived, the room was filled with rosy clouds, the stars shone, the sun and the moon shone, and so on.

It is said that the prophet in the city lord's mansion was very happy when he heard the news. He not only got drunk, but also rewarded all the servants and slaves in the mansion. In addition, Aix also rewarded the two high priests of Amon and Amu who offered the two saints with a lot of property and land, and also rewarded the temples of local gods and goddesses.

The prophet was happy and notified the clergy of all local temples that the City Lord's Mansion would hold a banquet in five days and let the priests hold a blessing ceremony for the unborn young master. All the clergy who came to participate in the blessing ceremony would be rewarded by Aix according to their levels, namely 100 gold coins for each high priest, 20 gold coins for each priest, and 5 gold coins for each ordinary clergy.

This reward was extremely high. According to the market conditions here, under normal circumstances, the high priest would perform a blessing ceremony, and at most one or two gold coins would be given as a thank you. The highest blessing price of Aix was one hundred gold coins, which could be said to be a sky-high price.

After the news came out, the entire religious community in Berbera was jubilant. Not long ago, Aix had purged the secular rulers in this area with overwhelming military strength.

Fortunately, Aix took into account the beliefs of the locals and did not rush to take action against these religious people. Instead, he adopted a temporary shelving approach and did not continue to target them.

However, these people were no less capable of plunder than the secular elements who were defeated. Given Aix's style of doing things, he would definitely take action against them. Some of them also participated in planning the duel with Magnus, so many people were worried, fearing that one day Aix would turn against them and liquidate their group.

In the eyes of outsiders, Aix's high reward for this blessing ceremony sent a signal that he seemed to be trying to win over local religious forces through this blessing ceremony, so that their faith and property status, which they were originally worried about, could be preserved.

There are also rumors that any clergyman who comes to the dinner and prays for the young master is equivalent to expressing his loyalty to Aix, and only then can he gain Aix's recognition of his religious status and continue to exist in the local area.

How could the priests and clergy not take this seriously? They all made preparations in advance so that they could dress up and attend the dinner at the City Lord's Mansion five days later and show their most respectable side. Those who could afford it even carefully prepared gifts in the hope of pleasing the newly-elected ruler at the dinner five days later.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the dinner, Aix also ordered the strengthening of public security in the entire city of Berbera, and once again confiscated illegally held weapons in the city. At the same time, he tripled the number of security patrol guards, making the entire city have a zero crime record for the first time in history.

Aix also asked James to personally preside over the cleaning and tidying up of the entire city, and carried out a thorough cleanup of the city, especially several main roads, which were cleaned thoroughly and flowers were placed in some conspicuous locations.

This completely put some of the suspicious people at ease. They thought that Aix had mobilized so many people just to make the dinner safer and more grand. Some of the suspicious priests went back with peace of mind to prepare for the dinner.

Time flies, and the banquet was held as scheduled five days later. The City Lord's Mansion was decorated with lights and was bustling with activity. The musicians also played the most cheerful local music, and there seemed to be nothing unusual at all.

In order to ensure that the clergy who came from far away places would not go hungry, the banquet was open to the public from noon, ensuring that the clergy who came from far away to attend the banquet could enter the City Lord's Mansion on schedule to eat and rest.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the distribution of thank-you gold coins, the City Lord's Mansion also registered the participants, and divided the registered high priests, priests, ordinary clergy, attendants and bodyguards, and arranged them in exclusive areas for reception.

When the lights come on and night falls, and the last gate of Berbera is closed, there will be no more priests, clergy, or people related to the temple left in the city. Everyone will gather in the city lord's palace, where a feast exclusively for them will begin.

The fully armed captain of the Prophet's Guard looked at the empty streets. Ever since the occupation of Berbera, Aix had ordered a night curfew. Now the whole city was under curfew, and it seemed that no one would come to attend the banquet at the City Lord's Mansion. The captain of the guard in charge of the gate then ordered the gate of the City Lord's Mansion to be closed.

As the people attending the banquet finished registering, Afanti took the list to Aix, who was sitting at the main seat, and whispered to him:

"Sir, the gates of the mansion are closed. Here is the list."

Axe nodded, took the list and glanced at it briefly. There were a total of twenty-four high priests on the list, belonging to the twenty-four local temples of gods, and were the chief priests of these temples. There were three hundred and fifty-two ordinary priests, which basically matched the number of people he had control of. As for the remaining six hundred or so ordinary clergy and followers, Axe didn't care about the specific number. The big fish had already been caught in the net, so it didn't matter if a few small fish and shrimp slipped through the net.