Mage Veigar

Chapter 909 Fishing from the Lake
What is mandatory belief?

It is difficult to control a person's thoughts, but it is easy to control a person's thoughts.

It is difficult because humans are intelligent and advanced creatures. It is almost impossible to make them loyal to you with just a few words or a little favor. Therefore, it is almost impossible to make the civilians in the occupied areas believe in Carol through conventional means.

Of course, it is simple to say the least.

Since conventional means don’t work, aren’t there unconventional means?

If you have something against a person, you can force him or her to do something to you. If you brainwash a person day by day, you can also change his or her mind and turn him or her into a tool for you.

The people around Carol are well versed in these unconventional practices.

They suggested that Carroll use an addictive tobacco to control the civilian population.

During their investigation, they found that there is a kind of tobacco in the underground world that is so addictive that people cannot stop.

As long as this kind of tobacco is widely spread in the market, and at the same time the origin and source of this tobacco are controlled, after the trend is formed, the supply will be cut off, and then it will be provided free of charge to believers who are willing to offer their faith in the name of the Holy See, telling them that only by believing in God will God give them what they want.

By this means, faith can be easily gained.

But there is no doubt that this is a method of exhausting the resources.

Because tobacco is addictive, once you become addicted it is difficult to quit. Long-term use will destroy a person's body and spirit, and have immeasurable impact on individuals and the country.

without any exaggeration.

Once everyone becomes addicted, the entire country will collapse within ten years.

But Carol didn't care.

Because for him, his goal is just to defeat Vega and take back Sia Saint Laurent.

The life and death of foreigners has nothing to do with him.

It is better to say that as long as he can achieve his goal, he will not hesitate even if all the people in this world die.

Therefore, Carol directly ordered the implementation of this method.

With official promotion and taking advantage of people's curiosity, the effect is simply beyond words.

One pass ten, ten pass a hundred.

Just like a virus, this tobacco became a trend in a short period of time. Anyone who came into contact with it once, except for magicians who had awakened their spiritual power, even professionals would become captives of this tobacco.

After confirming that at least 60 percent of people had been exposed at least once.

Carroll began ordering the tobacco supply to be cut off.

In just one day, people across the country were in mourning, as if they were drowning. The price of a gram of tobacco stock was driven up to a sky-high price, and there was no demand for it.

Seeing that the effect had been achieved, Carol began to order the Vatican branches that had been established previously for missionary work to take action again. Anyone who was willing to offer their faith and pray sincerely to God could receive God's grace.

This gift was three days' supply of tobacco.

If you want to get tobacco, you must go to the Vatican to pray every three days, and you must work hard during these three days. If you fail to meet the standards and are found to be unqualified by the Vatican, the supply of tobacco may be cut off.

As soon as this announcement came out, civilians went crazy.

They frantically flocked to the various local branches of the Church to offer their faith to the gods together. In fact, at this time, let alone asking them to pray to the gods, it would not matter even if they offered their faith to the devil.

As long as the devil can give them tobacco, then the devil is a god.

As his faith increased, Carol's strength began to soar. In a short period of time, he broke through from a high-level wizard back to the star level, and then rose to the saint level. Moreover, this trend showed no sign of abating.

"Vega Saint Laurent, please wait for me."

Carol's face was full of madness. He was still waiting, waiting for the day when he would be promoted to the throne of God.

Now 60% of the people in the country have become addicted. When the day comes when 100% of the people have become addicted, it will be a sure thing for them to be promoted to the position of God. In order to speed up the process, Carol began to force the people of the Church to become addicted. The so-called forced addiction.

That is to force people who have never smoked tobacco to become addicted to smoking, thereby increasing the speed of spread.

The introduction of this policy.

Eventually, Carol gained complete control of the entire country.

Now no one would oppose any of his orders, and his words were like oracles.

The civilians have completely become mindless beasts.

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Of course, Carol's big move could not be hidden from other forces.

After hearing the news, King Strachey of the Free Alliance immediately issued a decree prohibiting any civilians from crossing the border of the Free Alliance and strictly prohibiting the spread of this special tobacco in the country. Anyone who dares to spread this tobacco will be punished by having their property confiscated and their clan exterminated.

As kings, they understood this kind of thing too well.

Once this kind of thing is allowed to spread in the country, it will be tantamount to the destruction of the entire country.

Strachey never thought that Carol would do such a cruel thing. This Carol was not a messenger of God or the Pope of Justice. He was completely an apostle of the devil.

Less than ten years.

Strachey dared to guarantee that the entire city-state of Gangti would become a hell on earth, and more than 1.5 billion civilians would be buried in it. That madman was completely different from him.

If Vega controls the world, he represents the will of the world.

And he will act as a challenger, fight against the world, and defeat the world's will.

Then Carol is a destroyer.

Strachey couldn't understand why the Jialan Continent, which had remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years, had so many monsters and demons emerging in this era. Some were trying to control the world, while others wanted to destroy it...

Regardless, it has become a reality.

Strachey accepted this reality and started his plan.

He pulled the big landowners and the aristocracy onto his chariot.

Strachey explained the current serious situation to these people with reason and emotion. For those who were willing to contribute to the war, Strachey treated them with courtesy, and for those who were only interested in their own interests and unwilling to contribute, Strachey used special means to forcibly erase these discordant voices.

That's why.

In a short period of time, the Free Alliance's advanced military forces increased several times, and it no longer had to worry about armaments and war resources.

For the first time in history, the great nobility and the great landowners united to deal with the common people.

After all, common people cannot live without food, clothing, housing and transportation, and human beings are selfish creatures. The nobles and landlords who occupy 90% of social resources can easily win over a large number of traitors from the common people to deal with them, as long as they are willing to pay some price and sacrifice some interests, thereby causing the common people to fight among themselves.

If the common people fight each other, the domestic situation will become stable.

Some revolutionary and insurgent armies will also be firmly restricted.

The power of money, a weapon used by the great nobility and the landlord class, is unimaginable.

But the three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight.

In order to achieve these goals, both the Gangti City-State and the Free Alliance will need to spend a lot of time.

So by the time they had achieved their goal, the three months had passed quickly.

Now, the ice and snow in the Jialan Mountains are beginning to melt...

(End of this chapter)