Everyone: Summoners are weak? One gold entry at level 1

Chapter 572: Strengthening the Divine Power
A plan slowly emerged in Shen Fei's mind.

Although Ephesus did have a belief in Artemis, it was mostly a person of hunting and childbearing.

Afterwards, Artemis's status as the Moon was gradually recognized.

"If his character is perfected in advance, he should be able to receive the power of Artemis..."

In this 'Ancient Greece', Shen Fei naturally cannot be in control of everything like he was in the 'Battle of Zhuolu'.

"Compiling divine canons and increasing the status of the divine authority is nothing more than a so-called 'concept'. Strengthening divine authority is also a strengthening of the concept."

"In fact, Artemis's authority as the Moon Goddess has already begun to take shape, but it has not yet been recognized by a large number of people."

Shen Fei just wanted to provide some motivation, which was actually the job of the priest. In addition to the battles between gods, the propaganda of the priest was also the most important part of the god system.

"From fertility traction to the moon."

"We need to have people count the birth times of newborns in Ephesus. We need to find out the probability of successful childbirth at night, and the probability of pregnant women surviving..."

Shen Fei took out the parchment. After all, he was going to compile a book, and using papyrus would be a bit too irregular.

In fact, the original body had tried this kind of work, but the classics compiled in the past had more or less consolidated Artemis' previous divine power, especially Artemis' [hunting] and [fertility].

After all, hunters are still relatively important nowadays, and childbirth has always been a big deal.

Therefore, many priests focus more on the earth and less on heaven.

This is also a limitation of thinking.

"It's called the Artemis Pheasian Codex..." Shen Fei kept adding the connection between fertility and the moon.

At the same time, people were sent to collect data from Ephesus. Today's ancient Greece is not the kind of country that can be fooled, and its beliefs cannot be made just by talking.

There has to be substantial evidence.

……

Two months later.

Inside the largest tavern in Ephesus.

Everyone was talking about many recent events, including the Macedonian Kingdom's attempts to probe many city-states and the Persian Empire's many policies to win them over.

Naturally, there is also some discussion on the many existing gods.

In ancient Greece, gods were indeed feared, but that did not mean they could not be offended. For example, the king of gods, Zeus, was not satisfied with just climbing into people's beds, he also liked to transform into other species.

These romantic stories are also the material for many poets.

"I heard that King Philip of Macedonia once received a prophecy that he would have a firstborn son soon, and that this firstborn son would be a natural king and blessed by the gods."

Someone suddenly spoke mysteriously, and the others who heard it turned their heads away.

After all, the Kingdom of Macedonia is now the country most likely to challenge the long-ruling Persian Empire, and their Greek cities are sandwiched between the two.

Naturally, I am concerned about this.

"I know, it's the blessing of Artemis..." someone suddenly spoke, and this sentence attracted all eyes.

Although there were other temples in Ephesus, Artemis was the most worshipped.

Because there were many hunters in Ephesus, and Ephesus had a large population base, many people gave birth to children.

Artemis, who protects childbirth, is naturally the most worshipped goddess.

"But if he was the king, how did he get Artemis's blessing? Wasn't it Ares?"

This is also everyone's confusion. After all, in their opinion, the king must be born in war. How could he be blessed by Artemis, the goddess of hunting and fertility? "I am a priest. Do you understand or do I understand?

This is God's revelation. The being born in Macedonia will become the true king.

Ares will be jealous of her mastery of war, causing her to be born in the moonlight due to a difficult birth.

This person spoke calmly, and everyone realized that he was wearing the white clothes of the temple priest, especially the many marks on it, symbolizing the Temple of Artemis.

"Hmm? Born in the moonlight? Is there any explanation for this..." At this time someone suddenly doubted, after all, none of God's revelations were nonsense.

"When Selene's sigh pierced the colonnade of Ephesus, Artemis' silver arrow turned into the umbilical cord. The waxing and waning of the moon are the breathing of the womb - the new moon is the virgin's belt, and the full moon is the birthing bed." Theseus said.

"The changes in the phases of the moon are exactly the same as the time of a woman's childbirth, which means that childbirth and the moon are inseparable. The moon is the symbol of women."

"My god is one of the moon gods. Being born in the moonlight will greatly increase the probability of childbirth..."

Theseus said as a matter of course.

This sentence stunned everyone. Living in a world where gods exist, people are extremely sensitive to these things.

Just like when we talk about the god of war, we think of Ares, and when we talk about Artemis, we think of the goddess of hunting, but everyone will default to Selene as the moon goddess.

But this deity rarely appears in the mortal world. It is even said that if you don’t know something about it, you would not know that Selene is the moon goddess.

I feel like even the Moon God doesn’t know who he is.

"And my goddess is the twin sister of Apollo, the god of the sun, so it is natural that she is the goddess of the moon." Theseus added again.

This made everyone fall into deep thought. After all, discussing the matters between gods was more interesting than anything else.

The main thing is that what Theseus said made sense and was not made up out of thin air, just like Artemis's previous divine power of "hunting", which did have some symbolism.

Like some hunters, if they have his protection, they will often get a lot of prey and rarely encounter danger in the mountains and forests.

There was also childbirth. For example, most of the midwives in Ephesus were from the temple. Not only were they virgins, but their midwifery skills were also extremely skilled.

“Indeed, I found that the success rate of childbirth at night is indeed much higher than in the morning. For example, my three sons were all successfully born at night.

I also have a son who was born in the morning but had a difficult birth and eventually died.” Someone shared his own experience, and many others echoed it.

After a while.

Everyone seems to agree that fertility is linked to the moon.

Theseus, who was speaking earlier, had left his seat and came to the back of the tavern. Shen Fei was listening to Therksiopee's investigation of Herostratus.

"Not a craftsman? Who is he?"

"Thrace..." Shen Fei raised his eyebrows slightly. It seemed that he was not the God of Fire, but a believer of Ares.

Is Ares behind this?

The fire that may have burned the temple was no ordinary fire, it could only have been the fire god.

"So what kind of hatred can make the God of Fire put down his cuckold and help Ares?" Shen Fei was stunned for a moment. During this time, Therxiopee had already found Herostratus.

At least according to Shen Fei's description, the scope can be narrowed down a lot.

There were relatively few families in Ephesus who did not believe in Artemis, especially those who already had wives.

This narrows down a large part of the candidates, and there is a high probability that the candidate is an outsider, and has to have a somewhat extreme personality, etc., and in the end, one person is directly locked in.

(End of this chapter)