After a long moment of silence, one of them said:

"Then the Leviathan family's glass business..."

The man who just knelt down to pray must also be the leader of this group of people. He said in a sad tone:

"There is no other way. If we want to continue the glory of the Leviathan family, we can only help inherit their glass business.

I will change my youngest son's surname to Leviathan and help them continue their business."

No one else raised any objections to his obvious act of robbery.

Ogami thought at that time that other people besides the leader must have had similar experiences - they must have used this method to obtain the properties of other Spring God believers.

The leader's tone was very slow, and the dim light in the basement obscured the venom in his words. Even the people around the rectangular table had a hard time hearing the sharp part of his words:

"We must ensure an adequate supply of blood food needed by the Spring God."

He said seriously:

"But we cannot continue to sacrifice our remaining brothers and sisters."

Everyone nodded in response.

He continued: "The God of Spring needs new roots to draw more nutrients from the ground to survive the long cold winter."

Ogami could understand that what he called "the long cold winter" did not refer to the real winter, but the end of the spring god.

The man glanced at everyone's faces: "Spring God needs new believers, and they will give everything for his survival, just like we have done."

Only when he said this, the faces of the people around the rectangular table showed more or less embarrassment.

"Big root."

One of them called him a strange title, with hesitation in his words:

"Except for us Aiel people, other races have never seen the Spring God at all... How can we serve Him sincerely if we can't even see His great deeds?"

The leader known as "Big Packing" looked at him and replied:

"You might as well say this: Even if the new believers can really see the Spring God from our past memories, they can no longer benefit from the degraded Spring God. So, why should we believe in the Spring God?"

Everyone lowered their heads subconsciously.

This has been a concern for all of them.

People are all realistic, especially in an empire with a large enough population. No one will be loyal to a god who cannot provide benefits, even if that god really represents the beauty that people once recognized - beauty cannot make people hungry.

Nor can one resist the severe cold of winter.

People long for something more practical. If they believe in a certain god, they hope to receive his reward when chanting the name of the god. They long for something for nothing, even if they do not have the concept of "something for nothing" in their hearts.

Da Pangen said to everyone:

"Brothers and sisters."

He scanned everyone's face with his eyes, and then said firmly:

"The world has never witnessed the great deeds of the Spring God, because the Spring God is not an evil god. He adheres to the way of nature. During the countless years when his godhead was still there, he never used his divine power to tempt mortals, but only silently protected us.

Even when our race betrayed Him and assisted foreign nations to tear apart His flesh and blood, He regarded the flesh and blood as a gift, without any resistance, but only mercy.”

He looked at everyone:

"The God of Spring has given us everything, how can we let Him perish?"

His tone became increasingly passionate:

"Those damn Germains dug up the roots of the Spring God and cut off his source of life - the Germains took away our brothers and sisters and brought them into cannibal factories,

They hid in filthy basements in the lower cities of various cities in the empire, letting them sleep hungry and sick every night."

"Before the Spring God was demoted, whenever Al's brothers and sisters fell asleep in pain, the Spring God would give them his life and fill their bellies so that they could sleep in the cold and hunger."

"As a result, the flesh and blood of the Spring God has dried up, and his divine power has also ceased."

"But we have to remember what Spring looked like back at Al Ranch."

Everyone said in unison:

"Spring protects the Ayrs and their pastures, just as a kind father protects his children."

He finished speaking with everyone in unison, his eyes sinking:

"Spring God is too kind.

As His believers, we protect Him within our bodies so that His life can continue.

But we have no more faith to support His life. Even if we devour ourselves, it will only delay His death.

Without faith as nourishment, His remaining life will be exhausted until it disappears completely."

He looked around at everyone again.

"We have to help Him, help Him gain new believers -

His great works are in our bodies, and we can personally demonstrate His great works to new believers."

There was incitement in his words:

"We want to be as arrogant as the believers of the evil gods in the empire, and we will even turn the beautiful relationship between gods and mortals into a transaction.

We will get fresh tree roots from this, let those roots take root and sprout in the land of the empire, absorb the nutrients here to strengthen ourselves, and then completely purify the entire empire!"

His impassioned speech almost pierced Ogami’s eardrums:

"We will have an infinite number of believers!

They will take over the roots of the Spring God, and the Spring God will be reborn in the empire!

His faith will become the basic law that supports the continued fertility of this land, and He himself will once again stand tall on the earth!"

He glanced at everyone again:

"And we."

He solemnly said:

"We are His warriors! We are His preachers! We will be the beginning of the great resurrection of the Spring God!"

The atmosphere in the basement began to become heated, because Da Pangen's words broke the shackles in everyone's hearts.

Everyone present knew that the belief in the Spring God was easy to spread:

The power of the Spring God can treat diseases, expel pain, relieve aging, and even activate certain body parts that have lost their functions.

No one had ever used the Spring God's power at will before, because "using divine power to interfere with the secular world" was something only heretic evil gods would do.

They are the noble descendants of the Spring God, free people from the northern pastures, and they never disdain to use the evil god's methods to develop followers.

This does not stop them from becoming greedy for the way the evil gods spread their faith in this land - exchanging divine power for loyalty. This fast and convenient method far exceeds the "influence people with freedom and beauty" that the Spring God has always insisted on.

Now, Da Packing has apparently found a pretty good reason for them.

This reason is enough for them to use force-even if this reason has gone against the original intention of the Spring God, so what? The Spring God has been sleeping for many years-it has been a full ten years, and no Aier people are listening anymore

It’s time for the voice of the God of Spring.

When they gather enough faith and extend enough roots for the Spring God, even if they are punished by the Spring God and turned into corpses and buried in the soil at the feet of the Spring God to become fertilizer, their lives will not be in vain.

Just when everyone was elated that a big problem had been solved, a discordant voice appeared:

"The Spring God was born because of the faith of the Aiel people."

The person speaking was a woman next to Gotlind. She was shorter than the average Aiel, and her red hair was lighter in color than the other Aiel present.

Her discordant voice immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"If we change our pure faith, even if the Spring God can be reborn, will he still be the same Spring God?"

Gotlind's expression changed, and she pulled the woman quietly, but the woman did not stop speaking.

"The Spring God followed the brothers and sisters of the El people to the empire and walked on the land of the empire.

He has seen what happened to the Aiel people, and he must also know the future of the Aiel people.

His final decision to distribute Himself as blood food to all people is a decision He has already made."

The woman's voice trembled a little when she spoke, and her tone was not as strong as Da Pangen's, but she still said these words, even though she knew what the consequences would be.

Gotlinde seemed to have a good relationship with the woman. In order to protect the woman, she hurriedly explained to Da Packen:

"Attana didn't mean that."

Da Pangen’s expression was already very bad:

"So, Atana, what do you want to express? Do you want us to watch the Spring God die completely?"

He looked at Atana's face with sadness in his eyes:

"Think of our pastures, Atana. They were fertile and springlike all year round.

But after the Spring God left, our pastures were frozen by the bitter cold snow, almost all the crops were frozen to death, and the roots of the big trees were frozen in the frozen soil.

Even if those of us don’t want to come to the empire, we can’t continue to live on the ranch.”
To be continued...