Chapter 809: Chapter 605: Church Reform and the Founding of a Nation
The Grand Priest and the Kingdom’s Restoration…
After listening to Alice’s words, Eve was lost in thought.
“Alice, have you ever thought about becoming the Grand Priest?”
She pondered for a mont, then asked back.
The religious leader is the spokesperson of the True God in the secular world.
Although Eve often interfered in church affairs under the guise of Divine Favored Zero, Her original intention was rely to have a body that could move freely and handle so issues when the elves weren’t strong enough.
She never considered, nor intended, to beco Her own spokesperson.
Speaking of it, appointing Popes and similar ranks by the True God was originally for the convenience of spreading and ruling belief, as the religious leader is indeed the strongest “tool” for the True God in managing the church.
If She were to be both the True God and the Grand Priest, honestly… it would be pointless.
It’s like giving oneself unnecessary tasks, re idle boredom.
It would be better to directly issue oracles to the symbolic Holy Daughter to control the church instead.
Speaking of which, we need to ntion the difference between the Holy Daughter and the religious leader.
If the religious leader is the spokesperson of the True God, the supre head and administrator of the church, then the Holy Daughter is the bridge for direct communication between the True God and the church.
Although the religious leader can also obtain oracles from the True God through prayers, generally, they are not as close to the True God as the Holy Daughter.
This is because Holy Daughters are chosen from the most devout believers in each church.
They might not have the managent skills of a religious leader, but they can directly communicate with the True God to convey divine guidance.
From this perspective, though the Holy Daughter is not a religious leader, she always holds a transcendent status within all churches as she can directly communicate with the True God.
They are almost on par with religious leaders and can even influence church decisions.
However, this is under normal circumstances.
The current managent model of Eve’s Life Church is actually “not normal.”
Alice, who is the Holy Daughter, has beco a laborer running around everywhere and even undertakes the task of managing players.
And Eve, under the disguise of Divine Favored Zero, in Her repeated interference in church affairs, has subtly gained a feeling of a religious leader, and even due to frequently issuing oracles, has taken on a bit of the Holy Daughter’s role…
It’s as if the functions of the Grand Priest have been mostly shared by Alice and Eve, and Eve has even taken over so of the Holy Daughter’s duties.
And because of Eve’s assertiveness and Alice’s compliance, the status of Eve’s guise seems to have risen further…
In short, the word is chaos.
Now that Alice ntioned the Grand Priest’s issue, after careful consideration, Eve felt it was ti to decide.
She was quite satisfied with Alice’s work, and the identities of the Holy Daughter and religious leader are not necessarily incompatible.
Previously, Eve frequently intervened in church affairs because of the elves’ inherent stubborn thinking, requiring Eve to personally make the final calls on major decisions, and the ga system being incomplete, only Eve with a clear understanding of everything could control the overall situation…
But now it’s different.
The elves have gradually changed imperceptibly, and the ga system is also getting on the right track, Eve could actually let go now.
So after so thought, Eve intended to have Alice take over everything.
Eventually, She should gradually move to the background, even if acting as the enforcer and Divine Envoy under the guise of Divine Favored Zero!
Hearing Eve’s words, Alice was slightly taken aback.
She forced a smile, then shook her head:
“Lord Ling, you overestimate . As the church’s scale expands, I increasingly feel unfit to be a manager.”
“But haven’t you done a good job?”
Eve said.
“That’s with your and the Chosen One’s support.”
Alice sighed.
After she finished speaking, she paused for a mont, her expression gradually turning serious:
“More importantly, as the church’s scale becos larger and larger, I think it’s ti to restructure and perfect the church’s system and organizational structure.”
Restructuring and perfecting the church’s system and organizational structure…
Eve was contemplative.
Since Eve revived as the World Tree, although she rebuilt the church and gathered the Elf Clan, a comprehensive organizational structure hasn’t actually ford.
Even though the Life Church now has more and more priests and a group of devout high priests have erged, the entire church’s managent and even the hierarchy of priests remain quite chaotic.
Not to ntion anything else, the priest’s functions, promotion standards, and believer managent are still in a rather loose managent mode.
The only thing done well is the players’ refurbishnt of the “Life Scripture.”
In fact, not just the church, the elf’s societal organization is similar, presenting a rather loose and chaotic state now.
They form city-state-like settlents centered around cities like Feilengcui and Cenolan, with daily managent by the church or older Elf Elders, without forming a strong political entity like a nation.
The reason for this situation is partly because the number of elves was too small before, with neither the ability nor necessity to establish such a complete church and administrative structure; and partly due to the player’s appearance completely altering the social order and ecology of the Elf Forest…
When the number of elves was small, and the player scale was not large, a simple church and administrative organization could sustain the entire Elf Forest’s operations, but with the growing fairy numbers and the massive influx of public beta players, it gradually beca sowhat overwhelming.
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