Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 532: Chapter 13: Philis’s Succession and the Dawn Church’s New Holy Land: Mother Earth’s Holy Pool (Part 4)

The Ogham Stone in the center of the pool is entwined with water plants. After submerging in the center of the pool, during every harvest ritual, praying and sacrificing here will bless the territory to have a bountiful harvest in the next season, increasing the yield of the farmland by at least twenty percent.

And the Mother Earth’s Holy Pool is used by the Dawn Goddess Church for baptizing and cleansing its followers. It can absorb and select devout believers for the church, even directly train qualified Apprentice Nuns! This is somewhat like the human Knight’s Squire Training Camp. However, Apprentice Knights require continuous training by an Attendant to awaken. But Reya is recognized as the most generous Divine Spirit in this world. She will directly choose a group of followers, bestowing them with abilities, allowing them to spread her kindness and generosity, bringing more people harvest and wealth. Thus, this Holy Land can directly create a group of the lowest level Apprentice Nuns. If they wish to ascend further, they must rely on their own diligent practice.

After all, Reya has always encouraged generosity and opposed unchecked indulgence.

The Dawn Church has already drawn up the plans for this Holy Land. The Holy Pool is elliptical, symbolizing the perfection of the sun and the inclusiveness of the earth, also representing Mother Earth’s womb, the source of life and abundance.

The pool is built with natural stone, its surface carved with patterns symbolizing harvest and life, such as wheat ears, grapevines, and flowers.

A small island is set up in the center of the pool, on which a giant Ogham Stone stands. The stone is engraved with the teachings and prayers of the Dawn Goddess, surrounded by vibrant water plants and vine sculptures.

The Holy Pool is divided into two layers:

The outer water area is a shallow zone for believers to perform handwashing or simple rituals.

The inner water area is a deep zone, only used during the harvest ritual for sacrifices and sacred prayers.

A lush garden surrounds the Holy Pool, planted with crops symbolizing abundance, such as wheat, corn, grapes, and aromatic plants like lavender and rosemary.

The garden also features small sculptures and fountains, further enhancing the natural and divine atmosphere.

Judging by this complex design alone, it’s clear this project is enormously costly, consuming at least 1000 Golden Crowns, possibly even 1500 Golden Crowns.

If buying Apprentice Nuns, that amount could purchase 50 to 80 of them, or at least 5 Elite Level Druids.

However, the Dawn Church has always advocated for self-reliance, so they prefer to build a training method they can control to train a batch of nuns for the church themselves.

This could not only provide their church with a brighter future but also help the territory attract considerable influx of people coming for fame.

It’s just that, although this plan is good, it doesn’t align with the territory’s investment interests.

The territory naturally hopes to directly invest a sum of money to quickly buy a large number of nuns from slave traders to accelerate production, rather than spending time and effort to build a Holy Land and then gradually nurture nuns. There’s a difference of nearly 100 nuns! The impact on next year’s food production would be hard to estimate, with at least a few percent fluctuation. Clergy in this world differ from those in the Mortal World; they truly can promote production.

Therefore, they can’t get territory investment from the Dawn Church in this regard, so they have to prepare funds themselves and build this Holy Land on their own.

Su Li isn’t exactly stingy with 1000 Gold Coins, but now he can no longer act as recklessly as before, casually aiding any one church.

There are so many churches in the territory now. Apart from subsidizing the Sun Goddess Church, other churches can’t complain. If he donates to any church, it might cause discontent among others, so fairness is essential. But if each church receives 1000 Golden Crowns, Su Li truly doesn’t have that much money.