Hyper-Dimensional Player

Within the Dimension Space.

Duncan had acquired many combat skills, but for the first time, he gained a life skill through a divine position. It was like getting a new toy; he couldn't help but sculpt statues of the Crow Queen - Triss, Anya, and the Guardian Fairies.

At that moment, a sound of footsteps approached. The Crow Queen - Triss, looking at her lifelike statue, asked in surprise, "When did you acquire such remarkable sculpting skills?"

The Crow Queen was very intelligent and immediately connected it to Gwanu's divine position.

Duncan nodded, calmly saying, "Just mastered it."

"This is for you."

The Crow Queen - Triss accepted it joyfully, her expression full of love. The statue was so lifelike, with an almost perfect body proportion, nearly a one-to-one replica. Suddenly, her cheeks blushed for some reason.

A moment later, the Crow Queen seemed to remember something, and said solemnly, "The oracle of Goddess Suliss."

"She wants the faith to build a temple of forging and craftsmanship in the secular world."

Most of the power of the divine position resided with Goddess Suliss; Duncan only seized a small portion.

Is this the construction of a new temple?

Duncan immediately stood up and said, "Then let's send someone to prepare right away."

In the early empire, there were temples for worship everywhere, each one serving different functions of the divine spirit. For the divine position of forging, it should strengthen weapons and equipment, but by adding craftsmanship, it might have some extra functions as well.

Duncan activated the temple marking on the projection page and indeed saw additional temple annotations.

Different from Celtic beliefs.

Suliss's temple was not a sacrificial holy forest, but temples, divine halls, great divine halls, giant divine halls, and the Pantheon — five temple levels, with the last one being extremely grand. The architecture scale matched the Roman Pantheon, but the main deities were the faces of Minerva and Athena.

The empire had been established for hundreds of years.

Rome has a Pantheon where the main deity is Jupiter; constructing this Pantheon would be a headache for Duncan, so for now, he would make do with the temples and divine halls.

Why build wonders for no reason?

Wonders can lead nations astray!

The scale of the Pantheon is grand, almost counting as half a wonder.

— "Temple of Forging and Craftsmanship: After the fusion with Goddess Suliss, the divine position of forging and craftsmanship was acquired. This temple serving her can teach forging skills, cultivate outstanding craftsmen. As the temple level rises, Goddess Suliss can also enhance her influence on the real world and impact her followers and priests, prompting more people to delve into these crafts and skills."

— "Temple Blessing: Forging skill +1 (enhance weapons, armor), Craftsmanship skill +1 (enhance siege engines), produce crafts, artworks, etc. (additional trade goods), additionally providing recruits like blacksmiths, artisans, armor masters. Blessing effects increase with temple level."

Hiss!

This is quite impressive.

Is she bringing out all the treasures of Athena?

Duncan scrolled down slightly and found some additional notes.

— "Can merge the divine position of [War][Victory], enhancing military training skills, Combat skills +1."

— "Can merge the divine position of [Art], providing additional artworks, enhancing trade goods, producing playwrights, composers, poets, etc."

— "Can merge the divine position of [Wisdom], guiding followers in the pursuit of knowledge, enhancing education, and enabling the establishment of universities, institutes, libraries, etc., providing additional scholar talents."

Hiss!

Indeed, the future of the Greek pantheon lies with Athena; she was born to replace Zeus.

Times change.

In a matriarchal society, women are revered; in a patriarchal society, men are revered. In the future, both genders can rise to the throne of a Divine King.

However, why does it feel that Athena has become somewhat different?

Duncan remembered that Greek Athena didn't manage so broadly; the temples there weren't so renowned, perhaps stimulated by the monotheism after the downfall of the Pantheon?

Is this a plan to take a semi-omniscient and omnipotent route?

Since Duncan altered the foundation of faith in Avalon, he found that other divine spirits changed as well, including the Norse Pantheon, where Odin's projection could earnestly listen to his opinions.

If there wasn't some cooperation with Odin, the Valkyrie wouldn't have helped him.

Duncan pondered for a long time, finally deciding to first support Athena's rise. The Guardian Fairy of Avalon was too weak; if facing off against monotheism and the Norse Pantheon, only Athena could confront them head-on.

The temple's effect needs time to settle.

Duncan can't possibly use military funds to build temples, making do for now as Great Britain is quite poor, replacing the old faith for the time being is sufficient.

"However, the development of civilization in this world really does have something to do with faith."

"Roman Greek agrarian techniques are more advanced."

"In the East, the most important sacrifices are to the Sheji, Earth God, and Grain God, and the existence and sacrifices to the Shennong Clan directly turned Huaxia into a farming nation, with farming etched into their very genes."

The Eastern farming deity's top spot definitely belongs to Emperor Shennong, as he initiated the agrarian era.

Sacrificial beliefs invisibly bestowed different ethnic traits over the long years.

In Europe, benefiting from the Mediterranean, agriculture and commerce advanced side by side. Thus, their farming technology was slightly inferior, with Roman farming skills relatively lagging behind the East.

"So, when I support a particular divine spirit, the corresponding divine position has a greater influence on society?"