Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 377 The Father of the Pope
The three elves had tried to inquire about the Church of the Earth, but they were very cautious, simply because the Church of the Earth was clearly too deeply entrenched.

The elves did have their share of deity worship, such as elven priests who were responsible for offering sacrifices to ancestral spirits. However, not all elves were priests; they also had mages, warriors, and some simply worshipped ancestral spirits as ancestors rather than as deities.

Simply put, although the church is open, not everyone goes there.

But these bald-eared locals are different.

That so-called Earth Church practically monopolized everything; almost all the bald-eared people were followers of the Earth Church—surprisingly, not a single one of them was not a believer in the Earth Church.

"how did you do that?"

The three elves were quite curious.

It wasn't until they pieced together the history from the drunken patrons that they were able to piece together what had happened recently.

In fact, the Church of the Earth has not existed for very long. Even during the time of the first pope, it was not as powerful as it is now. Unlike the current pope, the first pope united everyone together through force and a common enemy, thus forming the Church of the Earth.

The Earth Church at that time was more like a war mobilization organization, with only two functions: conscription and taxation. If one had to be added, it would be leading everyone to sing hymns to the earth itself.

However, even if they sang praise songs, they couldn't express any real meaning, at least not at that time.

Until the second pope came to power.

It is said that the second pope was originally the enemy of the earth, the target of the first pope's conquest. However, after the first pope established the Earth Church, the second pope was inspired and directly converted to the Earth Church itself. He even began to travel the world on foot, embarking on a journey of asceticism.

Unlike the first pope who lived deep in the city of Tahrir, the second pope was seen by many people. After all, the second pope had always been traveling in the countryside, using his divine power to help everyone he met. This made the second pope's prestige among the people rise higher and higher, and at one point even surpassed that of the first pope.

This directly led to the first pope going insane.

Although the official stance has always been that the first pope was merely suffering from a serious illness, according to unofficial rumors, the reason His Holiness the previous pope fell into madness was because the current pope was too famous at that time—although at that time, the current pope was still labeled as a sinner, everyone knew that the current pope was already an uncrowned king.

The former pope's madness conveniently provided the new king with a reason to ascend to the throne.

The current pope subdued his deranged predecessor on the spot, which directly proved his military strength. This time, even the last link was filled, and everyone supported the new king's ascension to the throne. No one was willing to stand on the side of the previous pope.

After all, compared to the militaristic and aggressive pope of the past, this new generation pope has done far too much for them.

"So this new generation pope... is called something like Godwood I, right? What has he done?"

The other two elves were somewhat puzzled by the information brought back by the elven mage.

"From what you're saying, it sounds like you've done something extraordinary?"

"That is indeed remarkable."

The elven mage took a deep breath; clearly, the news he had just heard had shocked him.

"He did everything."

"What do you mean by 'all of everything'?"

The elven warriors were increasingly puzzled.

"Just tell me, which parts are they?"

"All."

The elven mage raised his finger and pointed to everything around him.

“From houses to public facilities, to water conservancy and agriculture, to the wooden emblems you and I wear now… even the wooden cups we use now were made by him.”

At this point, the elven mage added a sentence.

"He made them all by hand, all of them." "Hiss..."

The elven warrior and the elven priest were speechless.

After all, just thinking about something of this magnitude makes their scalp tingle.

From the houses to the roads, the canals, the fields, from the wooden badge on his chest to the surrounding tables and chairs, even the bowls and spoons he was using, everything was made by the Pope himself.

It's not the same as the Pope doing it, and it's not the same as the Pope doing it himself.

"What the hell is this place?"

The elven warrior and the elven priest suddenly seemed a little confused.

After all, they couldn't even imagine doing something like that, let alone hear about it.

But at that moment, the elven mage pointed to the street corner.

"This is under the rule of the Earth Church; this is their territory."

Following the direction the elven mage pointed, the elven priest and the elven warrior also saw the wooden figure wearing a hood.

They initially thought the wooden figure was just some kind of wooden golem manipulated by the local bald-eared men. They even praised the bald-eared men for their superb golem skills, saying they could even come up with such an application.

But now it seems...

That was a damned golem, that ghostly wooden figure, it was nothing more than an incarnation of the current Pope, Pope John I.

At every intersection, there are wooden figures standing there, ready to respond to anyone's call and generously offer any help they can—of course, there are some things the wooden figures cannot do, such as delivering babies for pregnant women.

No problem, the wooden man will clap his hands on the spot and create a wooden cart, then quickly take the pregnant woman to the medical school of the Church of the Earth.

Along the way, wooden figures cleared the path at numerous intersections, and the wooden carts hardly stopped for a moment.

Such speed made the three elves' scalps tingle.

"This……"

The three elves looked at each other.

They both saw awe of power in each other's eyes.

While their combat prowess is undeniably earth-shattering, their efficiency in handling tasks is simply incompetent.

Furthermore, from this handling of small matters, they could also see just how powerful the Pope of the Earth Church, the so-called Godwood I, truly was.

“Stronger than the Undying Demon King… I’m afraid even two Undying Demon Kings might not be able to defeat him.”

After all, that kind of exquisite control over one's own power is truly unparalleled.

If they could, they really didn't want to fight the Pope of the Earth Church.

"Fortunately, the ally of that Undying Demon King is just that giant serpent. We don't need to fight this wooden man; we just need to kill the giant serpent."

The three elves once thought so.

But soon, they learned some terrible news.

That is, the giant serpent they were going to kill was the father of this Divine Tree King.

(End of this chapter)