Mystery: Time Travelers of the Fourth Era

Chapter 487 The Kingdom of God on Earth

The day after Audrey's birthday banquet, the Northern Continent received its second divine oracle since the Fifth Era.

The first divine oracle was issued by the God of Craftsmen to the Church of Craftsmen, announcing that the Church of Craftsmen would henceforth be renamed the Church of Steam and Machinery.

The second oracle came from the Earth Mother Goddess.

The content is very simple: Mother Earth has given birth to a new divine child, and Mother Earth is very happy. This is a great event worth celebrating. Of course, she has not forgotten the children on earth. If we are to celebrate, we will celebrate together. Therefore, the land of the Kingdom of Feneport will receive the blessing of Mother Earth and will usher in three years of great harvest.

This was only secondary; the Earth Mother Goddess directly designated this child as the next Pope of the Earth Mother Goddess Church, and the Kingdom of Feneport was officially established as the Earth Goddess's divine kingdom.

This divine oracle seems perfectly normal; it's simply a mother giving away a kingdom to her child in her joy. But perhaps this mother got too carried away and thought of her other children on earth, so she just waved her hand...

The kingdom of Fenneport, the kingdom's nobility and wealthy merchants, suddenly collapsed.

Because the Kingdom of Feneport was gone, it became the earthly papacy of the Mother Earth Goddess. All the land of the kingdom belonged to God and was managed by the church. When the Mother Goddess's youngest son grew up, he would inherit the position of Pope and the entire earthly divine kingdom.

The Kingdom of Fenneport is unlike the Kingdom of Intis, which, under Roselle's meddling, became a republic. Nor is it like the Kingdom of Loen, where the traditional nobles, after the collapse of the Grain Act, were overwhelmed by the cheap grains of the Kingdom of Fenneport.

The nobles of the Kingdom of Fenneport were living a very comfortable life, making a living by collecting rent. The kingdom already had good land, and with the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess there, the kingdom was responsible for most of the grain market in the entire Northern Continent. This stable income could have lasted forever.

But now, it's all gone, everything is gone.

These nobles were all restless, completely disregarding their past dignity. They surrounded the royal palace in Fenneport and the cathedral of the Church of the Earth Mother, hoping that the Castilian royal family and the archbishops with whom they had once had close ties would come out and give an explanation.

This is so sudden. It's perfectly good land, the family's private property. How could it be confiscated just like that?

But none of these nobles dared to cause trouble, because they could not find a legitimate reason to do so. The Kingdom of Feneport only had the Church of the Earth Mother, and they were all devout believers of the Church of the Earth Mother. The symbol and authority of the Earth Mother was the earth.

Then the earth naturally belongs to the Mother Earth.

Throughout the entire kingdom of Feneport, Mother Earth felt that it belonged to her. She was happy to have a divine child, so she took it upon herself to make the decision. What's wrong with that?

Which nobleman would dare to stand up and shout, unafraid of being detained in the church and tried by the devout believers of the Mother Goddess?

In reality, within the royal palace of the Kingdom of Feneport, the current King of Feneport also wore a bewildered expression. If it weren't for the appearance of his family's ancestor, who emphasized that it was real, he would almost have thought it was a joke.

Is he, the king... really going to be out of a job?

Although nominally, in reality, the kingdom of Feneport does indeed belong to the Earth Mother Goddess.

But according to the covenant and agreement signed at the beginning of the Fifth Age between the seven orthodox churches and the four angelic families, wasn't the earthly kingdom supposed to be managed by members of these angelic families?

"Ancestor, this..."

The honest king, a Sequence 5 ruler, wore a mournful expression, never expecting to wake up one day to find himself unemployed.

"Do as the oracle commands."

Castile appeared in the palace, his solemn face exuding authority. Influenced by this aura, the king suppressed his bitterness and nodded solemnly in agreement.

Before long, the entire Kingdom of Feneport was mobilized. Almost every city in the kingdom had a church of the Kingdom of Feneport, and extraordinary individuals directly under the Church of Mother Earth. These extraordinary individuals, who were previously only responsible for extraordinary events, were now mobilized and began to collect basic land information for each city.

The Church of the Earth Mother Goddess received the divine decree, and of course no one dared to neglect it. Everyone used their specialties, which can be simply referred to as the control of the Earth God.

Before abdicating, King Feneport used a special device to clearly announce the kingdom's transformation to the entire kingdom of Feneport and other northern continental nations. He also incorporated the system of land ownership and hierarchical distribution into the revised but not abolished constitution.

All the land, unified as a gift from the Mother Goddess, is managed by the Church, which organizes the common people of the kingdom to cultivate it.

The original government departments were dissolved and merged into the church structures of various cities.

Each local church is responsible for all resource allocation and personnel management within its area. It operates independently and is regionally autonomous, only requiring coordination from the higher-level cathedral.

A more rigorous clergy system was re-established, incorporating former government officials, social elites, and landed nobles. A three-tiered hierarchy was established, consisting of the Pope, other clergy, and all other believers. The Pope was the owner of the divine kingdom, the clergy were the managers and coordinators of the divine kingdom, and the believers were the laborers and producers of the divine kingdom.

Priests were appointed according to their respective functions, and the position was hereditary. Those who had responsibilities had positions, and those who did not had no positions.

All priests enjoy corresponding resource quotas according to their respective ranks. Succession is uniformly inherited by the eldest son. Within their duties, priests can allocate their own resource quotas to establish new positions, but this requires the permission of the next generation of successors and the approval of the superior priests.

Everything in the entire earthly divine kingdom belongs to the Earth Mother Goddess (the Pope), and resources are distributed according to a three-tiered hierarchy.

The land belongs to the gods, the priests are in charge of managing it, and the believers cultivate it.

The believers give half of the proceeds to their respective churches.

The church will divide the proceeds into three parts: 20% will be handed over to the superior church, 40% will be distributed to the church's subordinate priests, and the remaining 40% will be used as the overall operating fund for the local diocese.

The diocese is autonomous, with the church responsible for all work including education, healthcare, and law. Education and healthcare are funded and managed by the local church using its own funds. Laws are enforced in accordance with the highest law of God and local customary law. The former police department and the official extraordinary individuals are combined to handle police and other related work.

All believers are permitted to possess weapons privately and, outside of working hours, receive military training in batches under the direction of priests at their respective churches...

All natural resources in the earthly divine kingdom belong to the Pope (the divine), and are managed by priests and developed by believers, and so on.

Within five years, the original financial system of the Kingdom of Fenneport will be gradually abolished, all stocks and all listed companies will be delisted from the city of Fenneport.

The gold lisso, the official currency of the former Kingdom of Fennepot, will continue to be used.

All local dioceses take inventory of their assets and submit them to the church. The church then collects or issues new paper currency based on the total amount, eliminating any inflated figures. Subsequently, the amount of currency issued is uniformly linked to physical assets.