Chapter 60: Renting a Charm

【A Brief Discussion on Tana City's Religious Forces】 ——by Feng Buxi

After the second round of testing, it feels like the various religious forces in Tana City are becoming increasingly clear.

Based on some current understanding, I will briefly discuss the religious forces of Tana City.

The five major Zheng Shen Churchs in Tana City currently are: Wealth Church; War Church; Wisdom Church; Life Church; Sun God Cult.

The Wealth Church's stronghold, the Golden Church, is Tana City's chamber of commerce. They worship the God of Wealth, and the Gold Ties, who possess Transcendental Power, manage almost all Transcendental Events in Tana City. Once matters related to things like Evil God sacrifices appear in the city, the Gold Ties will mobilize.

They have their own sources of information in every district and have a bar on Bar Street, but because everyone knows this is the Wealth Church's bar, although business is very good, no Transcendental Events occur there.

They have various commercial strongholds in the Rich District and also maintain good relations with the bosses in the Factory District, but they do not know much about Transcendental Events at the grassroots level.

The captain in charge of the Gold Ties is: Feng Buer, who will issue tasks such as scouting for information to players, and the monetary rewards for the tasks are very generous.

The War Church worships the War God, with its stronghold inside the Bing Ying. There is a Bing Ying in the city and one on Beishan. Camp Commander Jili Kainsi is mainly responsible for matters on the border defense line. It is said that Barbarians often come to attack Tana City from the north.

The Bing Ying inside the city is mainly responsible for training and guard patrols. The guard captain is Laiende Huoji. The guards are Tana City's most basic defensive force. Relatively speaking, the Police Station has much less manpower; the entire Tana City only has four police stations, and their manpower is far less than that of the guards.

Usually, guards are ordinary people who have not awakened. Every year, a portion of the guards go to Beishan to participate in battles against the Barbarians after completing their training. The combat casualty ratio is unknown.

After becoming a Warrior, there is a chance to undergo awakening. The War Church will select capable people to drink a Magic Potion, but the number of people is small; only Warriors wearing red armor are Awakened.

The Wisdom Church worships the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, with its stronghold located at Lancaster University in the south of the city. The Bishop is Harriet Badley, who is also the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University. Currently, there are not many personnel in Tana City's Wisdom Church; it is said they are all university teachers.

The Life Church's stronghold is located at a seed company in the west of the city. The boss of this seed company is the only member of the Life Church in Tana City. Whether they have awakened is unknown.

The Sun God Cult's stronghold is near Bar Street. The person in charge is unknown. Although it is a harmless religion recognized by Tana City, they seem to be relatively close to Evil God forces like witches; the specific situation is unknown.

According to the plot speculation of the current version, several major churches have a chance to provide players with Awakening Ability, but the Awakening Ability is unknown, and future career directions are not very clear; it may have to wait until the third test to come out.

However, on the whole, it is still mainly about grinding church reputation. After all, if you want to awaken, the only way to go is the church route if you take the orthodox path.

Unless there are other non-church routes to take.

In addition, the Lord of Calamity currently has no method for awakening, because not a single one of His subordinates has awakened.

Finally, let's talk about the situation of Tana City residents' understanding of Transcendental Power.

I originally thought that for rich people, Transcendental Power was easily accessible.

But through our current boss Fred, we learned some facts.

The major churches do have Transcendental Power, but they are unwilling to give this power to the public casually, even things like protective charms.

Rich people who can afford Transcendental Power are also not very willing to come into contact with Evil Gods and can only directly seek help from the Zheng Shen Church when encountering trouble.

Tana City is quite special. The largest Zheng Shen Church here is not the War Church with strong combat capabilities, nor the more organized Wisdom Church, but the Wealth Church.

For Tana City, a small border town, wealth is the most important thing.

Therefore, the cost of seeking help from the Wealth Church is either extremely high, or it is useless even if you seek help.

After all, these people from the Wealth Church are already overwhelmed just dealing with these remnants of the Evil God in the city.

Like Fred, small businessmen who have no noble status but have a little money often have no way to obtain the protection of Transcendental Power, and they are the ones most afraid of being harmed by Transcendental Power.

As for ordinary people, most people have no chance to come into contact with Transcendental Power; just staying alive is already very hard.

Even if they come into contact with it, they have no interest in most Transcendental Power because awakening is simply too expensive.

It is suggested that casual players who want to scout for Transcendental Power can start by understanding the middle class like Fred; perhaps they can get more information about awakening.

After posting, Feng Buxi didn't even look at the replies and went straight online.

He needs to find You'eryuan to purchase another batch of Rune Charms, and then follow Fred to a private gathering.

It is said that there are many Mystical Items in this gathering. Some merchants from the south and east will bring some things with magical power, or materials. Fred doesn't want to miss such an opportunity; even if he doesn't buy anything, it's good to learn more from these people.

However, Fred didn't dare to go alone, and he immediately thought of his thugs.

Feng Buxi and Yunxiao soon bought ten Defense Talismans from You'eryuan and rented that Calamity Talisman provided by the Lord of Calamity from him.

In You'eryuan's words, he has no chance to use this thing, so it's better to rent it to a good brother first.

Almost everyone on the forum knows that You'eryuan has such a peculiar charm. No one knows what this charm does; they only know the incantation to activate it.

Originally, You'eryuan wanted to sell this charm.

But the players didn't buy it at all. The rat killers thought they wouldn't need it, and it wasn't worth using such a valuable item on rats.

Those bar thugs also felt it was unnecessary; just dealing with some ordinary people, a Defense Talisman was enough.

Fortunately, Feng Buxi proposed the concept of renting. If used, he would give You'eryuan another 1500 Tana; if not used, the daily rent would be 30 Tana.

These will all be completed under the witness of everyone on the forum. During the internal test phase, neither of them is afraid of being cheated. After all, there are not many test players, and if there is an economic dispute, the officials will definitely handle it.

Carrying the Calamity Talisman, Feng Buxi and Yunxiao followed behind Fred.

All three were wearing suits and carrying canes, but from the quality, one could tell that the real big boss was Fred.

It's just that he looked a bit exhausted, and his mental state didn't seem very good.

(End of chapter)