I, The Dragon Overlord - Chapter 356

Chapter 356 – Dragon God’s Birthday

Dragon City thundered with joy. Hundreds of thousands of believers could not hide the elation on their tired faces.

The time it took for Louie to merge with the godhood seemed to be very short, but in reality, it was already a day and a night on the main continent. This was because Louie had analyzed the godhood first and then created a new godhood, so the time he wasted was more than all the other gods.

The believers prayed for a whole day and night without eating or drinking. For powerhouses this was nothing, but for many ordinary civilians, this was very tiring.

They were not only purely kneeling, but also had to pray devoutly. The energy consumed was even more frightening.

In the palace halls, Pope Clooney was finally relieved and whispered the holy name and prayed and kneeled to the huge statue of the Dragon God.

Louie’s ascension time was really too long compared to other gods. It could be said that he was the last out of every god at the moment to ascend. This caused a lot of worries.

Although they had to maintain absolute belief in their god as devotees, human reasoning still told them that the road to godhood must not have been smooth. The vast majority of mortals had failed on this thorny road. There was no return for those who failed, even ancient gods.

Luckily, their great Dragon God had crossed this difficult hurdle and finally become a true god. From this day on, the clergy were true priests of a god.

In the future, as long as they prayed every day, they could even be bestowed with divine arts. These divine arts were different from magic. Although they were not as varied, they were quite powerful and the source of their power came from the faith and devotion of these priests.

The more devout and faithful a clergy was, the higher the level of their divine arts. They corresponded to the ranks of powerhouses. A priest of a god could even obtain divine arts that no mage could replicate with magic.

For example, the Mother Earth Goddess could give divine magic that made harvests abundant, or how Louie was preparing divine arts that were the antithesis of magic.

From this moment on, these clergies were no longer the same as in the past. With their piety and the teachings that they learned, they would become powerful evangelists. Other than having a lack of experience in combat, the power they possessed would not be any worse than powerhouses of the same rank, and they could even surpass mages of the same rank.

“In the future, the first day of the first month will become the Dragon God’s Birthday. As the greatest day of Dragon City, we will hold many events and festivals!”

Clooney stood up from the ground. He once more bowed in prayer to the statue and then loudly shouted to the bishops behind him.

This day would become the festival of the Dragon God, the day the Dragon God was enthroned. It would naturally become the most important celebrated day every year in the future. As long as the god performs a more glorious achievement, there will be a new festival celebrated every year.

Many of the church hierarchy whispered in response. They looked at Clooney who was already in his thirties with envy.

Since the Dragon God had just ascended, they had not yet held a religious mass that would allow them to obtain divine arts, but Clooney seemed to be different. He had already been their Pope for several years, and the entire church was built from scratch by him. Even if he seemed powerless at the moment, he gave an awe-inspiring aura just by standing there.

It was as if he had been blessed by the Dragon God and given the authority to spread God’s name on the world!

As the Pope of the Dragon God Church, Clooney’s life was known by everyone. He was once a small priest of the Theocracy, a petty follower of the Goddess of Morning. After the great Dragon God had captured the territory, the small priest had become a prisoner of the Dragon God.

At first, Clooney knew some healing magic that made him useful to Dragon City as a ’doctor’, but gradually, the Dragon God found his potential as a missionary and entrusted him with the heavy responsibility of the Dragon God Church.

This former believer of the Goddess of Morning changed his faith and began to believe in the Dragon God. In the process of establishing the church, his faith solidified.

Clooney had already worked for the city for more than a decade and sacrificed his youth towards the church’s development.

The Pope’s face was full of coldness. He was just an ordinary man without any rank. Moreover, he had worked hard for the establishment of the church, making him look older than he seemed. There were wrinkles on his forehead, and he had locks of white hair, but his holy aura prevented people from looking straight at him easily.

These bishops of the Dragon God believed that Pope Clooney would receive the reward of the Dragon God. He might not be credited for the development and formation of Dragon City, but the creation and development of the Dragon God’s Church made his contribution the most important.

“Her Highness Alexia is currently not in Dragon City. I will temporarily overstep my boundary and by the Lord’s order, request to open the granary and give all the believers a good meal. They prayed all day and night so they must have been very tired. We cannot neglect the contribution of the believers and wait until Her Highness Alexia returns. I will be held accountable for this.”

Clooney clearly knew his own authority and responsibility. He tried his best to keep out of the political affairs led by the lord of Dragon City. Having the granary be opened for the believers was not something he should have had the right to order.

But the matter was urgent. He could only cross his authority and give his orders. He even explained that he would plead his faults to Alexia at a later date to warn these clergy not to try and extend their reach too much.

For other kingdoms, cases with divine right and a king’s right being together were few. Other kingdoms simply did not have the term ‘state religion’. The king’s faith may not necessarily be the same as his ministers or even the commoners. The king did not have the right or ability to ask the people to change their faith, causing the churches to conflict and compete with each other.

But Dragon City and the Silver Moon Kingdom were part of the exceptions, this was because these two kingdoms were created by the gods themselves before they ascended. With their ability to establish their churches, it became easy for them to combine divine right and royal right into one.

However, Louie knew that once his territory grew larger and larger, the Church of the Dragon God might still remain in Dragon City, but the involvement of other gods would make it impossible for his church to be the only church after expansion.

……

Louie had successfully ascended, causing the Dragon God Church to be busy for a while. Now that he was a true god, the church won’t be limited to preaching anymore. They were now a force of their own and could become a powerful armed group with the gift of the gods.

Moreover, Clooney was busy in the church with changing some policies to better suit the development of the Church of the Dragon God. In the miniature realm, Louie organized his power into a simple table.

Louie Galakrond (God of Dreams)

Godhood level: 4 (low-tier divine power)

Divine authority: Dragon (tentative), Dream, Life, Magic, Earth, Time

Divine Kingdom: None

Louie did not need anything complicated, and he just assembled the most basic data.

The levels of the gods could roughly be divided into 20 stages. 1 to 10 was low tier, 11 to 15 was mid-tier, and 16 to 20 was high-tier. Levels above 20 were meaningless since anything above would make them the god of gods, but no such existence had been born before.

Leveling up godhood was based on the number of true believers, the amount of divinity, and the depth of understanding over the main divine authority of a god. Louie had prepared ten years earlier than other gods. He had Dragon City as the basis of his faith, making the number of believers that he possessed one of the best among the gods. It was even sufficient for him to become a mid-tier divine power.

Unfortunately, Louie was a new god who did not possess enough divinity. He could only barely reach level 4, and most importantly, his divine authority had a huge flaw!

Each god could only take one divine authority as its main divine authority. And the promotion of the godhood was related to this divine authority. Louie’s godhood came from the Five-Colored Dragon God, and the main divine authority was rightfully ‘dragon’.

Just as Selune’s main divine authority was the moon, she was called the Silver Moon Goddess; and Shae’s was darkness, and she was called the Goddess of Darkness.

Gods could not replace the main divine authority at will. This would cause powerful gods to turn weak.

But Louie had no dragon believers at all. He was now a Dragon God in name only which was why he took on the role of the ‘God of Dreams’ as it was the first complete divine authority that he had comprehended the deepest.

But this was not a long-term solution. With the power of a non-dragon divine authority, Louie could only stay as a low-tier god. It would not be possible for him to rise further unless he was willing to give up the divine authority of ‘dragon’. But how could he just give up on such a powerful divine authority?

‘Once I deal with the alliance, I must go find the dragons and preach in person. Fortunately, no other dragon has ascended at the moment. If there was, they would likely come and try to take away my divine authority. I would have to rely on a divine war to retake it. If that happens, my first advantage would disappear and require me to do a fresh start. I might not even be able to reach high-tier.”

The path of the gods was very dangerous. A slight mistake would mean the end of the road, just like how some gods would randomly choose divine authorities leaving them with no future. They would meet their limits there. For example, if Lara ascended to become the Unicorn Goddess, she would not be able to breakfast being a low-tier god.

But for many gods, being able to become one was already quite good. Beggars couldn’t be choosers, so they couldn’t be like Louie who could go to the supermarket to pick what he liked.

If he wanted to preach to dragons, the current Dragon God Church would not help him at all. Having humans preach to dragons was the same as looking for death. This was Louie’s personal battlefield.

After deciding his next target, he turned to look at Alexia, whose face was all tense. He smiled at her, but in the next moment, his smile stiffened—

A spear abruptly came from behind him!