Greece Brings Evildoers Chapter 271

Chapter 271 The ancient Greek **** in charge of PUA (4.5k)

 At night, the Great Temple.

Athena, who was working on documents at her desk, heard the familiar footsteps outside the door. The stylus in her hand was drawing forward casually. The restriction on the door was broken, and a figure crept in.

"How did you come?"

 “I couldn't sleep, so I came to you for a drink.”

Lorne smiled and placed the two jars of fairy mead he brought with him on the table. He took out the wine glasses and filled them for the two of them. A rich aroma of wine and sweet fruity aroma filled the temple.

 “My new brew, please try it?”

Athena picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the agate-colored wine. After tasting it carefully, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

 “Not wine?”

 “Well, I used pomegranate.”

As Lorne explained, he picked up the wine jar and filled the empty cup in front of Athena again.

This time, Athena observed and tasted much more carefully.

This novel pomegranate wine has a pure body, bright and transparent color, sweet and sour taste, and retains the sour, sweet, astringent and fresh natural flavors of pomegranate. It also seems to contain some strange effects.

Soon, the goddess of wisdom opened her eyes thoughtfully and looked at Lorne opposite.

 “Does this thing have other effects?”

 “That's right!”

Lorne gave Athena a thumbs up for her keenness, and then told the goddess of wisdom all about the true function of the [Forbidden Fruit], and finally revealed her plan.

“Since it can enlighten the mind and break down class barriers, why not start with Athens and use this miracle to benefit the world and gradually bring changes to the world.”

Hearing this, Athena immediately became interested: "What's the specifics? Tell me about it?"

Lorne nodded and said in a deep voice what he had prepared: "I plan to create a regular gathering to worship the gods, tentatively once every seven days. At that time, there will be divine blood guards to maintain order, and ordinary clergy will be there to maintain order. Listen to the visitors' confessions in a private space, answer their questions appropriately, and provide help. The priest is responsible for presiding over the ceremony, and distributes drinks and food representing divine grace to the believers who come to the gathering to relieve their fatigue from the journey.”

 Immediately, he paused, with a hint of cunning in his eyes.

 “I named this ceremony [Mass].”

 This set of rituals comes from the Last Supper in the Bible. At the supper on the eve of his crucifixion, **** took wheat bread and wine respectively, gave thanks and blessed them, then turned the bread and wine into his body and blood, gave them to the disciples to eat, and asked the disciples to do the same. Remember him. This was the first Mass in the world.

The original meaning of Mass in Latin is "send you away", which also indicates that after the crucifixion of Jesus, the blessed disciples spread out to spread this divine grace and love to all parts of the world. .

Athena's purple eyes glanced at the wine jar on the table, her eyes flickering, her face thoughtful.

“You want to change them subtly?”

Lorne nodded, his eyes dark.

Athena was only half right. This change was not only to eliminate disasters and illnesses for them and activate their divinity, it was also aimed at cultivating psychological identity.

There are too many gods in Greece, the beliefs are too scattered, and the methods of worship are too random.

Even in Athens, Athena was the main object of sacrifice, and the power of faith gained could not be said to be pure and huge.

Although there is an endless stream of people coming to the great temple to worship the gods, they are scattered and disorderly, and most of them are just a formality.

According to Lorne's understanding, the best way is to use a specific time, on a specific occasion, and through systematic rituals to fix the behavior of worship and condense the scattered individuals into a group with a unified label.

In this way, the group, under the control of unified consciousness, will generate a strong and pure power of faith to support the gods.

 The successful religions of the future will often involve some trick of mind control.

For example, the Five Precepts and Ten Good Deeds of Buddhism, the Ten Commandments of Moses of Christianity, and the Ten Commandments and Eight Bans of Islam... these can all be regarded as disciplines for believers.

 Religions with stricter requirements and more frequent rituals tend to have more extreme beliefs.

Taking worship as an example, Christianity requires a gathering every seven days, that is, Sundays are used to worship God and pray together.

According to Islamic teachings, in addition to the Juma prayer at noon every Friday, the five prayers of morning prayer, noon prayer, mid-morning prayer, evening prayer, and evening prayer must be performed every day. Anyone who fails to observe these prayers must , even if it is a serious and punishable crime - unless there is just cause.

Therefore, from the perspective of mental control alone, Islam, which is also from the Abrahamic religions, is more extreme than Christianity, and it is easier to cultivate believers who are prone to extremes.

 Because human energy is limited, once most of the time is taken up by religious rituals and prayers every day, believers will lack room for self-thinking, and will gradually be brainwashed and assimilated, becoming puppets who implement the doctrine.

Moreover, what Lorne listed is only some orthodox sects. Although they have mental control over believers, they are also relatively restrained. They still follow certain game rules and can be tolerated by universal values.

If you go one step further, it will be a cult template.

—Using a large number of rituals and group activities every day to discipline individuals, leaving no room for participants to think, until they are molded into puppets who have lost themselves.

If this technique is applied to the real world, it will be the so-called "pyramid marketing" organization.

—Having repeated meetings every day, giving blood, shouting slogans, and using group consciousness to deceive the target into integrating into it, making them follow the arrangements and teachings of the "teacher" and do anything, even if they lose their fortune, their virginity, and their lives.

 The believers produced by the latter two have strong cohesion and pure beliefs, but they are also highly destructive and can easily lose control.

As a senior PUA master, Lorne naturally disdained this method of exploiting the entire lake, so he basically adopted a milder strategy in his missionary approach.

But once the idea that was beyond the times was thrown out, Athena still hesitated.

“There are so many gods in the world, are you sure that the humans outside will obey your arrangements and take one step at a time?”

 “So, we must provide all-round services.”

Lorne shrugged, showed a subtle smile, and started talking.

"As far as I know, civilian babies have a higher mortality rate after birth because they do not receive comprehensive care and are weak. My suggestion is that Asclepius, the **** of medicine, teach the priestesses medical skills. , let them learn some delivery and rescue skills, and provide regular free clinics for pregnant women who come to worship.

 When the children are born, or after they are one month old, send someone to baptize them, give them divine blessings, and protect them from illness and disaster, so that they can grow up healthily. "

Lorne raised the wine glass filled with pomegranate wine in his hand and shook it gently to signal.

Athena narrowed her eyes, thoughtfully.

 “How will they grow up?”

“The temple will help them check their bodies and test their qualifications. Those with potential can be sent to the Academy of Athens for careful training.”

 “What if I succeed in my studies?”

"Those with average grades will be distributed to the society according to their occupations, such as doctors, warriors, craftsmen, magicians... These high-tech talents are still in short supply in Athens. Those with excellent grades will be directly absorbed into the temple if they choose to have a clean life experience and have nothing to do with anyone behind them. , further cultivate and become a saint warrior who fights for the goddess Athena."

Lorne tapped his fingers on the table, winked and smiled.

“There are still many vacancies in the Eighty-eight Star Palaces and Sanctuary…”

 “Who will control them?”

“Teacher Ma, I suggest giving him another title in addition to the position of principal of Athens College.”

"What?"

“How about the [Pope]? He is responsible for managing and cultivating new Saint Seiyas.”

Lorne smiled and spat out the hilarious answer.

Unfortunately, Athena opposite did not understand the meaning of this. After thinking for a moment, she nodded in agreement and took a deep look at Lorne.

 Although it is too risky to give God's grace to ordinary people.

 But from birth to adulthood, Lorne has made well-organized arrangements for those little ones. If they are advanced in an orderly manner, it will greatly enhance the strength of Athens and Ares Mountain. only…

 “Why don't you sit down with this Pope?”

 “The risk is too high, let's forget it.”

Lorne waved his hand and quickly declined.

In my impression, the pope either turned black, was stabbed in the back, or died in battle. Very few of them had a good ending. For such a high-risk profession, it's better to give Teacher Ma a hard time.

Hearing the rejection, Athena didn't hesitate. She pushed away the empty wine glass, leaned over and took out a bunch of new documents from under the table, put them on the table, and continued working.

 Seeing the number of files that almost overwhelmed Athena, Lorne was immediately speechless.

 “There are so many more?”

"It was fine at first, but now that Themis is lying down, all the judicial issues she was responsible for belong to me."

Athena responded angrily and threw aside a processed judicial document.

Hearing the resentment in those words, Lorne sighed and asked in a deep voice.

 “Then how is she now?”

"Not so good..." Athena shook her head, her tone a little helpless, "I built a temple for her in the sanctuary and sealed her in it. I want to use the small world built by the Eighty-Eight Star Palace, and the inner city of Athens. Her faith helped her stabilize her injuries and restore her divine personality, but the small world constructed by the Star Palace was incomplete and her faith in justice was too weak, so it had little effect so far. "

Lorne rubbed his sore temples and murmured in a low voice: "If I had known this would be the result, I shouldn't have forced her to handle Hera's divorce proceedings."

 “What? Do you regret it?”

 “A little bit.”

“Exchanging a fallen Titan for a rising Olympus, the gains outweigh the losses, and you don't lose at all.”

Athena played with the stylus in her hand and expressed relief.

"You can't settle the accounts like this." Lorne rolled his eyes at the smiling face across from him, and snorted angrily, "What I gave was a partner who could rely on each other, but what I gained was a grudge who wanted to use me to retaliate against Zeus. "Woman, even if she treats me well, I can't expect to wash myself every day and lie in bed waiting for her favor, right?"

“I think you are enjoying it?”

"You think I was forced to do that!"

With a depressed look on his face, Lorne recounted how he and Hera met by chance.

After hearing this bizarre experience, Athena immediately covered her lips and burst into laughter.

“Haha, aren't you the best at lying? Why are you here today?”

“You know what's going on in her mind. The more I said no, the more excited she became. She even dragged me to Hestia to ask for someone. She couldn't stop me.”

Lorne became more and more speechless as he spoke, and finally his face was full of helplessness.

"No, there is really no other way, so I thought of using Themis's power to get rid of Hera through marriage..."

Athena waved her hand and spoke calmly.

"Okay, you don't need to take Themis's affairs too seriously. She has always been stubborn and her ideas are easy to get into dead ends. No one can stop her from making her own decisions."

 Immediately, Athena paused and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Furthermore, when she received your request for help and came to Ares Mountain from the Oceanus Sea, her physical condition seemed to be a little wrong, and she always wanted to fall asleep for no reason. It is precisely because of this reason that she Then she asked me to listen in case she couldn't support herself."

 “Is it because of the Elysée Garden that I am in deep sleep?”

Hearing this, Luo En's face changed slightly. He quickly told Athena everything he had seen and heard in the underworld.

This includes his private relationship with the Queen of Hades and his secret deal with Hades.

“[Real Dream]? So that's what happened? The disappearance of the old gods and the problems that occurred with Themis are indeed no coincidence.”

Athena nodded thoughtfully, and then looked at Lorne with a half-smile.

“You've told all these secrets, aren't you afraid that I might do something bad to you?”

“If you wanted to do this, you would have done it long ago. Why do you have to wait until now?”

Lorne retorted nonchalantly, then glanced at the pile of legal documents on the table and smiled helplessly.

 “Besides, there are things I should have said a long time ago.”

Athena put down the stylus in her hand and looked at Lorne in front of her playfully.

 “So, you figured it out?”

"Um…"

 “Just think about it.”

Athena nodded, looking at her nominal brother with her deep purple eyes, and expressed her long-repressed opinion.

"The problem with you is that you never completely trust anyone around you. No matter how close and sincere your relatives and friends are, you always keep a guard against them in your bones. You never want to reveal your true purpose to the truth. one side, displayed in front of others.

  To be precise, you are wary of everyone, even the whole world, from the bottom of your heart! "

Hearing this, Lorne nodded helplessly.

 That's right, because the soul comes from another world, he is born with a certain distance from this world.

Coupled with the fact that he almost died at the hands of Zeus when he was born, and then was pulled back for training by the woman Hecatena, he was wary of everyone he met next.

Whether it is Medusa and Hestia who believe in him unconditionally, Athena and Themis who share the same goals with him, or Thetis and Astraea who have fought alongside him many times...

 He has never trusted these people without reservation, and has never been completely honest.

 He always likes to use conspiracy methods to achieve his desired results.

However, I rarely think about talking openly about many things, telling my dilemma, and seeking help from people around me in an upright way.

“Although I don't know what you have experienced or what you are afraid of. But sometimes, you don't have to be so cautious. This is your home, and we are your friends and relatives. No one needs you to bear everything alone,”

  The arrogance disappeared from Athena's eyes, and a clear and sincere smile appeared on her face.

 “As long as you ask, we are willing to lend a hand.”

 Looking at the palms stretched out in front of his eyes, Lorne felt a lot in his heart.

The former King Minos was willing to die because of his advice;

　　The previous Themis, because of his invitation, faced the most powerful destiny king;

 Including Hestia, Medusa, Athena...each of them deserves their unreserved trust, rather than just using conspiracy and calculation to achieve their goals.

 Conspiracy has its limits. For those close to you, sincerity is the greatest surefire weapon.

 Because, they are worth it.

With his thoughts flowing smoothly, Lorne felt relieved. He raised his hand to hold Athena's arm, and pulled off the collar on her chest with the other hand, activated Hecate's Wheel, and spoke seriously.

 “I think I may not have much time.”

 (End of this chapter)

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