Chapter 539 The Change of Divine Power Druid
The morning sunlight illuminates the earth.
A sudden rain last night left Miya's face with a misty red glow, and her beautiful face was full of laziness.
Richard got up and came to the balcony, and smoke had already risen outside the window. After Richard's re-planning, the camp became organized.
After a few days of rest, he relied on strong force and fairness in his work, which had convinced these people. The next step is to train these people to understand the military formation, cooperate, and have the ability to protect themselves.
Among these fugitives were not only slaves, servants, but also some gladiators and deserters. Logically speaking, the combat skills of these gladiators and deserters should be good.
But in fact, this is not the case. Gladiators may be stronger when fighting alone, but on the battlefield, an army that can cooperate with each other can completely abuse those gladiators.
Personal force does not have an advantage in front of the army.
Richard was preparing to teach these people some simple military formation training. As for more complex military formations, they could not be done without long-term training.
On the other hand, Miya also began to wander among the women in the camp. She looked beautiful and noble, so people dared not look at her. However, with her first-hand healing ability, these peasant women quickly bowed to her. Worship.
Miya successfully spreads her faith here.
These slaves did not have any clear beliefs. After all, before this, they were all slaves. No one would care about the beliefs of slaves, and no priest would preach to them.
They worship their ancestors more.
These people couldn't even eat, so they naturally didn't care about their beliefs. After Richard became the leader here, these people quickly accepted Miya's belief.
They don’t care about faith. Whoever allows them to survive and have enough food will believe in whoever they believe.
Monotheism was not very popular at the beginning, and was even persecuted by the believers of polytheism. Note that polytheism here does not refer to one sect, but almost all believers of sects that believe in multiple gods unite to persecute monotheists.
One of the reasons is that the Monotheistic Church advocates that only their Lord is the only true God, and the gods of other sects are false Gods, and another reason is that they do not worship their ancestors.
The Roman Empire was also free of belief. Although there were conflicts between religions, it could still exist in the Pantheon.
But the emergence of the Monodiac Cult breaks this rule, just like another person who ran to you and said that you believe in an evil god, you are possessed by the devil, you are going to hell, your ancestors have all gone to hell, and you don’t want to go to hell We must believe in my Lord.
Normal people must take action when they hear this, and this is not a victim's theory of guilt. After all, it is possible to make all polytheistic sects reject and persecut him, and the monotheistic sect is also unique.
After the Monotheistic Church is recognized by the empire, whether out of faith or hatred, it will inevitably retaliate against other polytheistic churches.
Next, Richard conducted a simple queue training on these people, and did not teach them more skills, but just asked them to practice stabbing with spears.
There is not much room for maneuver in the military formation, it just depends on who is faster and who is more accurate, and does not need too much.
It is not realistic to expect these slaves and servant farmers to train their martial arts skillfully.
Therefore, Richard used these simplest training methods, and after being equipped with crossbowmen and cavalry, he formed a regular battle formation, which was enough to deal with the German barbarians.
The Germanic barbarians were able to defeat the Roman Empire not because of how powerful they were, but because of the decay of Rome itself.
Many of the Roman Empire's garrisons are barbarian mercenaries, bankrupt peasants, and slaves. There are very few real Roman citizens. It is not a small difference from the Roman legion at its peak.
Otherwise, the Roman legion would not have swept across Europe and established a powerful empire.
Richard selected several people from these refugees, slaves and deserters, named Serne, Cruise, and Betley. These three people are the three most promising in these camps.
Sain was born as a gladiator. He used to be a self-protected gladiator from the Frankish aristocrats. His martial arts are the best among these people, and he is also considered smart.
Cruise was a runaway slave and basically had nothing, but he had managed three teams with Richard before and did a good job.
As for Bethel, he was a bankrupt farmer and was forced to join the army. Later, he could not bear the exploitation from the superiors and seized the opportunity to escape.
Although the three of them have very low backgrounds, they have one advantage that they are easy to learn. The three of them learned the fastest things that Richard taught, so Richard handed over the army he formed to lead.
Then Richard ordered people to build defense. In fact, there were not many places that needed to be built. This camp was originally chosen as easy to defend but difficult to attack, so you just need to build a stone wall next to it.
Besides, no one came back to encircle them.
Richard stayed here for a week, leading the entire camp on track, and then began searching for other rebels.
There are many refugee uprising troops in the Gaul area. Even if tens of thousands of them were killed in the suppression, many still hide in the mountains and forests. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the barbarians were able to quickly establish a kingdom, and these people made great contributions.
Richard took Miya to the forest. With Miya communicating with animals in the mountains and forests, Richard and the others soon received news from other rebels.
Then Richard and his two crossed the ridge and soon arrived in the other side of the forest. Then Richard activated his mental power and quickly found a simple camp.
But what surprised Richard was that this camp seemed to be more than just first-class people and slaves. Richard actually sensed some faint natural force.
Richard led Miya to the camp. The closer he got to the camp, the more trees and thorns there were around, and it seemed that these people deliberately built the camp here.
Although the road is difficult to walk, it is nothing to Miya and Richard. As natural spirits, even if they have become humans, they still have some power.
The forest trees and thorns will take the initiative to avoid her.
When the two came nearby, Richard found that although there were only one or two hundred people in the camp in front of him, many of them were obviously professional soldiers.
The most powerful one is a middle-aged man with lush hair and beard like a tree root. The man was sturdy, covered in animal skin and an antler helmet. He was carrying an oak shield on his back, and a dagger and a one-handed hammer hung around his waist.
Richard faintly felt some natural power from him.
"Druid?" Miya's eyes lit up and she recognized the person's identity.
The Druid inheritance is the belief of the Celtics. At first, these Celtics lived in the Gallic, Munich, and Germany. After the rise of the Roman Empire, the Celtics were defeated by the Romans.
Some of the Celtics were conquered by the Romans and surrendered to the empire, but some of them migrated to the British Islands.
The Celtic faith was also integrated into the Roman Empire. Influenced by the Roman Empire, the druid faith began to give up the blood sacrifice.
Later, the Pantheon was closed, and many druids were forced to give up their faith and become pharmacists. But there are also some druids who are unwilling to give up their faith and are chased by the Semitism.
The camp in front of us should be some Celtics who are unwilling to give up their druid faith.
Richard and Miya soon arrived near the camp, and the person in charge of the guards immediately discovered them.
A sound of bowstring sounded, and the next second a bow and arrow fell from the sky and pierced on the ground three meters ahead of the two.
"Stop, what are you?"
Miya stepped forward and said, "Don't be nervous, my child, I'm Miya, I want to talk to your priests."
Seeing Miya's appearance, the man was slightly stunned, obviously shocked by his beauty.
He looked at Richard next to him again, then nodded and said, "You guys are waiting here, I'll send someone back to report!"
After about a few minutes, the druid hurried over.
After seeing Mia, the druid was slightly stunned, then a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he said, "Are you a natural elf?"
"As you can see, yes." Miya said with a smile.
"Can you leave your territory? Is the god responding to you?" After hearing Miya admit it, the druid said excitedly.
Since the Pantheon was closed and the Olympia fire was extinguished, these priests had lost the power given by the gods, and no gods had responded to them anymore.
Due to the rules of this world, it is difficult for humans to master magic, and only sacrifices can master some magic.
According to this era, people who must have unique talents or be favored by gods can have the ability to perform witchcraft.
There is no complete inheritance of witchcraft here.
More of the gifts from those gods.
"The Romans abandoned their gods, and the gods no longer responded to me." Miya said in a low voice.
During the conquest of the Roman Empire, they would let the Roman gods devour the gods of the nations they conquered, and let the Roman gods with similar divinities devour other gods.
For example, the Roman god Diana fuses Hecate after Rome defeated Greece. Hecate became a face of Diana.
When hearing Miya's words, these Celtic expressions were very complicated. When there was a pantheon in the past, they were able to believe in their own gods. Now that the pantheon is closed, they have become pagans.
He began to be hunted, judged, and killed by the Monarchy. For this reason, they had to escape into the mountains and forests.
Before the Pantheon was closed, they were priests and had a high social status. After the Pantheon was closed, they became rats crossing the street, everyone shouted and beat them, and could only hide in the deep forest to survive.
As for resistance, the Pantheon and the Polytheist Cult have resisted more than once, but the result is failure every time. Many people are already desperate.
The gods in this world exist. The Universal God Cult can fight so many gods one by one and achieve the ultimate victory, which shows that the strength of both sides is not at the same level at all.