The last day of November.

This is Netheril's Moon Festival, and every family worships their ancestors on this day. Originally, if there is no plan to renovate Linshui Village, Daxia Ling should hold a big one.

However, because the demolition of Linshui Village has already started, the relevant ceremonies are kept as simple as possible. In addition, due to the shortage of death priests, Xia Duo has not approved the independent construction of cemeteries in each village.

The current Netheril cemetery management relies heavily on death priests. A few cemeteries of people with status, status, and even wealth can receive regular blessings from death priests to ensure that no negative energy will be bred.

If handled properly, the corpse can even remain incorruptible for a long time, but ordinary people do not have such good conditions, and being able to dispel negative energy regularly is considered a territorial welfare.

Even the Great Xia Territory, which is more respectful of fairness, is difficult to bless every cemetery, but Xia Duo does not want to be completely determined by status, background or money like other territories.

Instead, according to the merits in front of you, as long as you reach a certain standard, you can get regular blessings in the cemetery for a certain number of years. The higher the merits, the longer the blessing time.

At the same time, the large-scale sacrificial ceremonies every year, in addition to the purpose of the sacrifice, are actually collecting holy power for the death priest. If several large-scale sacrificial ceremonies are cancelled, the holy power may not be able to make ends meet.

Of course, in the ongoing Linshui Village renovation project, the new cemetery has added a lot of magic elements, but Laidun didn't think so much, it was Xia Duo who added it.

The main purpose is to dispel negative energy and save the holy power of the death priest, but the tranquility of the cemetery itself cannot be replaced by magic, which is the result of the power of the death priest.

All in all, all in all, cemetery management in the current era is a very delicate job, but if there is a little pursuit, it is likely to be on the verge of making ends meet.

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Of course, the cremation system can also be used to replace the way of the death priest guarding the tomb, but this kind of view is too advanced. When the territory was first opened up, because there was no death priest to follow, Xia Duo tentatively asked many leaders. civil.

But everyone's answers are very unified, in the memory and protection of their loved ones, looking forward to the afterlife, the living do not want to hurt the dead as much as possible.

This is also an important reason why necromancers are so annoying in Netheril, and even if undead creatures are produced on a large scale, they will be outraged by the public and be strangled by the joint.

Desecrating corpses is intolerable in most places where civilization has developed slightly. After all, no one wants to be treated like this after death. If you tolerate one person today, it may be your turn tomorrow.

But in the long run, Xia Duo still wants to promote the cremation system. On the one hand, it can save land resources, and on the other hand, it can also reduce the soil for the birth of necromancers as much as possible.

This kind of thing is not a psychological burden for him. After all, the cremation system is also popular in his hometown. This is also the result of changing customs, which was not the case at first.

Therefore, Xia Duo needs to improve the lives of most people, improve their knowledge level, so that they can truly understand the natural laws of this world and know what the world after death is like.

Only in this way can the cremation system be accepted by more people.

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After the simplified sacrificial ceremony, Xia Duo asked Mott, the death priest of the territory, "How much holy power has been collected today? Is it enough to last until next year?"

"If there are no new dead, it should be enough."

But how could there be no new dead? Now the total number of people in the territory has exceeded 500,000. With a population of this magnitude, there will be at least a few thousand new natural deaths every year.

Could it be that the simplification of the ceremony was done wrong?

Although a large-scale sacrificial activity can collect a lot of holy power at one time, in terms of quantity, it may not be comparable to the daily accumulation of death priests.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo continued to ask Mott, "How is the recruitment of apprentice priests?"

"Too few. The vast majority of children hope to enter the Tower of Time to learn magic. As for adults, unless they have special experiences, it is very difficult for them to have the opportunity to perceive the Saint of Death."

Mott was the death priest who followed Xia Duo earlier, and he said some things more straightforwardly. After hearing this, Xia Duo also felt that he might have overlooked this part.

Magic can't conquer the whole world, at least not at the current stage. Many matters in the territory need to rely on various priests, such as cemetery management, and temple clinics.

The latter can provide some basic treatment for the people, and because the belief in the Lord of Radiance is very widespread among the Nethers, and the scale of the Midsummer Festival is even more incomparable to the Moon Festival sacrificial activities, so the Radiance Saint Power in the current territory Although it consumes more, it is not to the point where it is stretched.

At the same time, some high-end medical treatment or extremely rough treatment can be replaced by magic, and Xia Duo attaches great importance to it, so the clinic is currently operating fairly well.

Thinking in this way, Xia Duo suddenly thought that in his hometown, the funeral major was actually a very unpopular major, but it was easy to find a job. Unexpectedly, when he changed to the magic world, a similar situation would appear!

"I'll figure out a solution to this problem. After the renovation of Linshui Village is completed next year, I will ask the school to open a course on the theory of death. You can prepare the teaching materials now, and you can teach the class yourself if you want."

"I don't have time for this, but I can let the apprentices pass, and I can also use teaching to deepen their understanding of death."

Mott has longed for supper in the territory for a long time, but the supper course is decided by the lord. There are common sense, laws, and glorious proverbs, but there is no content about the doctrine of death. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Now that the death lessons were allowed to enter the school, Mott's first reaction was not that there would be a lot of grace in doing so, but that he finally had a chance to rest.

For him, the significance of offering such a course in school is that potential priests who are in line with the teachings of death can be selected in batches. He doesn't want to train thousands of people at a time like the Tower of Time, as long as he is given dozens of spiritual priests. Children are enough.

Speaking of which, the total number of death priests in the Great Xia Territory and the Savile Territory combined is not dozens. Now there are ten in the Great Xia Territory, and five of them are still apprentices, and they have not really felt the Holy Spirit of Death.

As for the Savile leader, the number is even smaller. There are only two priests who sense the holy power, and there are more apprentices, but as long as they sense the holy power, they will be sent to the Great Xia leader.

After all, there is a shortage of manpower here.

If dozens of death priests can be trained at one time, it will definitely greatly alleviate the current priest gap in the territory.

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That night, Xia Duo and Mott talked for a long time, and even talked about the future funeral reform. As a death priest who has enough knowledge of the nature of death, Mott agrees with cremation, which directly eliminates the mortal body. .

Because the disappearance of the mortal form does not affect the peace of the soul, and at the same time it can reduce a lot of troubles in the world, it is simply a genius idea.

But like Xia Duo's idea, Mott does not agree with the implementation of the cremation system now, because any reform in the field of death may affect the people's understanding of death, and then affect the income of the holy power.

Unless the cremation is carried out on all past cemeteries at the same time as the reform, if the gap in holy power is too large, it is easy to cause some bad things with the current size of the cemetery in the territory.