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Chapter 438 Who preaches without a musket?

Most people in the port of Valencia did not have any special feelings about the fact that they had become citizens of New Castile. After all, in Solon's world, people in some places could change their nationality three times a day, as long as they could survive.

In other words, in this era, there are not many countries that can figure out the household registration system. Anyway, everyone farms for the nobles, and generally only the local nobles know clearly how many people are in their territory.

Except for the fleet docked outside the port, the harbor seemed no different from usual. Workers were still busy at the dock, and there seemed to be more passenger ships coming and going than usual, making the harbor seem a little more crowded.

If there is any difference, it is probably that the empire's priests and nuns began to preach in the port.

"May the goddess protect you."

In an open space surrounded by various equipment and stones, a priest nodded and saluted to a disheveled beggar, then handed an egg to him.

"thanks, thanks."

The beggar wanted to kneel down and kiss the ground at the priest's feet, but the priest bent down and helped him up.

"That's not necessary. Neither our sect nor our empire practices kneeling."

The pastor continued, "We are going to build a church in the harbor. If you don't have a job, come here tomorrow. There will always be something you can do. We will provide you with meals."

When the beggar heard that he had a job and free food, he was at a loss for a moment and continued to say in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, thank you."

He didn't know many words, so he could only keep repeating this sentence to the pastor.

In this era, the church that gives eggs to believers can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack. Not to mention Sauron with low productivity, even in Mu Continent, this strategy is invincible.

It’s just that most of the people attracted here are shallow believers, and some may not even be believers. They come here simply for the eggs. But this doesn’t matter to the people of the Goddess Church. After all, the important thing now is to expand their influence first.

Unlike the continent of Sauron where there is no divine magic, the priests and nuns feel that the goddess's eyes are on this continent, so these clergy are not even in a hurry, and they will accept all applicants even if they know that there are many undercover agents among them.

Why was the Dragon Church able to quickly defeat local religions and become the largest church on the continent of Sauron? Because other religions do not really have gods, but the Dragon Church does have dragons.

The same is true for the Goddess Church. Above the clergy there really is a god who has awakened and is becoming more and more active.

Some local gangs in Valennia Port are gathering people and preparing to go to the Goddess Church to cause trouble. After all, the church is very disrespectful to local gangs. Those gangs have lowered themselves to cooperate with the Goddess Church, but the Goddess Church has ignored them. Not to mention that the shops that believe in the Goddess Church have begun to refuse to pay protection fees.

If this continues, the local bosses will be left with nothing.

The air in the harbor was filled with the salty sea breeze and the noisy sounds from the tavern. Black Shark had just had some cheap wine in the tavern with his gang brothers. Although the wine had no taste at all and everyone knew how much water had been added to it, the psychological hint was there. After drinking the wine, those minions would seem to become fearless and unafraid of death.

At this time, Black Shark went to the street, constantly fiddling with the musket in his hand. Although he was a professional, his class was not high, and for him, this thing was still useful.

"Let's go, brothers, let's show those guys who are pretending to be ghosts how powerful we are!"

Black Shark couldn't figure out such complicated things as the Imperial Fleet and New Castile. He only knew that his superiors had given him an order to mess up those missionaries' affairs, so Black Shark would do it, just like usual.

Black Shark led a group of unfriendly men out of the alley. They were armed with sticks and knives, and their target was very clear, not the missionaries, but the ordinary people who were receiving eggs, as well as the strange equipment prepared by the missionaries and the stones used to build the church.

After all, we may have to cooperate with these missionaries in the future, and it would be bad if we hurt anyone.

"You, what are you going to do?"

A peasant woman who was queuing up to get eggs had just asked when she immediately realized who these thugs were. She was about to run away when she was caught by them and thrown to the ground. The eggs she had received before were also thrown on the ground and stepped on. Her vegetable basket was even snatched away by several thugs.

The chaos spread quickly, and this group of people immediately began to smash, loot and burn ordinary people as well as equipment and stones. Black Shark knew very well that as long as chaos was stirred up, the people in the harbor who had just received eggs would soon join in the looting. As long as the people were coerced, the other side would not be able to resist. After several times, this church could no longer operate in the harbor and could only cooperate with the higher-ups.

But at this moment, a crisp gunshot seemed to penetrate the crowd, causing everyone to stop moving.

Soon, more and more gunshots began to ring out, so dense that Black Shark found it a little unbelievable. After all, their muskets had to be fired and reloaded one by one.

As the crowd screamed, Black Shark soon saw the scene ahead.

He saw all his brothers lying on the ground wailing, with bullet wounds all over their bodies, and some of them died on the spot.

A priest still held the scriptures in his left hand, and had already finished reloading with his right hand. He blew out the gun smoke and said, "Who preaches without a musket?"

The pastor looked up and saw the black shark.

"Am I right?"

It was only then that Black Shark noticed that although this group of missionaries seemed unprepared, in fact everyone was fully armed.

"Yes, yes."

The fat-faced Black Shark showed an awkward smile and stopped fiddling with the musket in his hand. Instead, he quietly placed the musket behind him.

"Who, who preaches without a musket?"

Not only did the empire's merchants carry muskets, but unexpectedly, the empire's missionaries also carried muskets. Not only that, the missionaries' muskets seemed to be even more terrifying and advanced, and the missionaries themselves were also better trained than those merchants.

A nun in a red robe suddenly appeared among the priests and nuns and said, "Gather the injured people for treatment. We must compensate them and let them feel the grace of the goddess."

Then, the red-robed nun said to the black shark in the distance: "Hey! You come and deal with the bodies!"

When he heard his name being called, Black Shark shuddered for some reason.

"Okay, okay sir."

Soon after, a crackdown on gangsters was launched in the port. The tug-of-war and exchange of interests that the local tyrants had imagined did not happen. Countless gangs were wiped out in the fight. The empire began to bloodily purge those disobedient people in an unreasonable way, killing those so-called local tyrants until they obeyed obediently. Some people speculated that it was the gray-robed imperial master who took action, but some brave people only saw a nun in a blood-red robe and several soldiers in huge armor at the scene.