Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 746 - 73: The Approaching Festival and Su Li’s Advantage

Oliver mentioned the territory’s Celebration Competition Festival, and Su Li immediately turned his attention to it.

This is indeed the most important festivity in the territory for the upcoming period.

By that time, many Knights, Priests, and adventurers, even nobles from all over the world, will gather here to participate in this crucial celebration of the Sun Goddess Church.

Su Li decisively said, "We must make this celebration extremely grand, turning our unique territorial activity into a renowned festival throughout the Sun Goddess faction and even the entire Empire, attracting a large number of people for pilgrimage and revelry every year in the future."

Su Li’s goal is undoubtedly to organize an event similar to the Spanish Bullfighting Festival or Brazilian Carnival. Although these are regional specialty events of a particular country, their global fame enables them to attract people from all over the world to the locality for revelry and dancing during the festival period.

This world already has such successful cases, such as the Summer Solstice Burning City Festival in Marle Castle.

Every Summer Solstice, the Eternal Flame Cathedral holds a grand Summer Solstice Burning City Festival. On that day, the Knight Order parades in flaming chariots throughout the city, lighting gigantic stone fire pillars along the way. The Knights duel in front of the Great Cathedral with unsharpened but phosphorus-covered weapons, and the victor’s sword is ignited by the Holy Fire, becoming the ’Blade of the Goddess’ in the ceremony. The Grand Leader then throws this Blade of the Goddess onto the map, and the territory where the blade lands is the "Ash Prophesy." Subsequently, the Knight Order issues a ’Holy Expedition Order,’ and the believers of the Sun Goddess Church will converge in that direction to extinguish the monsters or Evil God Cult there.

Every late spring and early summer, a large number of Sun Goddess believers participate in the Marle Castle festival with a pilgrim’s mindset, singing and dancing.

However, this festival has a significant limitation, as only the Knights and believers of the Sun Goddess Church participate in this grand ceremony. After all, the Flame Sun Knight Order’s burly men are responsible for organizing the event.

But the Sun Goddess’ believers are still too few compared to the Empire’s overall scale. Within the Empire, the Order Divine Spirit is already vast, and their followers are countless.

Not to mention others, just the Divine Spirits overseeing war include Yurik, Redema, and Violet as the three main deities, along with other less prominent Order Divine Spirits.

Among them, Yurik has the most followers, Redema has the greatest influence, and Violet’s followers are the strongest (Note: This is a claim by the Sun Goddess Church, which Yurik’s followers and Redema’s followers have differing views on).

As a staunch believer of the Sun Goddess, Su Li naturally endorses the Church’s claim. However, in any case, Violet’s followers, even among the Knight rank, are the fewest.

This is mainly because Violet’s faith has just emerged and only received its first elector vote in recent years.

However, what encourages the believers is the continuous growth and expansion of faith in the Sun Goddess Church, with more and more Imperial People beginning to follow this powerful and civilized Goddess.

As a Preparatory Chosen Knight of the Sunfire Church, Su Li naturally needs to enhance the Church’s dissemination and propagation of the faith. And this Radiant Competition Festival is a prime opportunity.

This competition festival is inherently suitable for all Knights’ participation, irrespective of their beliefs or sects.

Especially for those Knights of the Yurik and Redema Churches who love to compete for supremacy, this is their greatest festival; pursuing honor alone is enough to draw them in droves.

The darker and more desperate the times, the more people idolize heroes.

An artist or a singer can amass countless fervent fans, let alone these more potent, more rapid arena champions?

By then, there will be countless fervent believers from the Churches descending upon the territory, wildly supporting their Church Knights. Their numbers will surely surpass those of the Knights, possibly even by tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times more!

At this moment, if a Church’s Knight wins the championship in the competition, it wouldn’t just be an incomparable personal glory. It would inevitably receive Divine Spirit’s Divine Grace! Winning in such an event greatly elevates the associated Church’s honor and promotes its dissemination, attracting more believers.

That’s how practical this world is; if you’re powerful, more people will believe in you. The siphon effect will reach its pinnacle at this moment.

If any Church achieves a three-peat in the year, winning championships in all three categories of official Knight, Elite Knight, and Champion Knight, it will surely trigger extreme fervor among its followers, immediately drawing in numerous converts.

Therefore, Su Li naturally places great importance on this Radiant Competition Festival.

Oliver immediately said, "Lord, we are making every effort to prepare for this event. For this festival, the School of Engineering and Engineer’s Guild have specifically assembled large teams to enhance the standard arenas from Lion Ring Arena to various villages and towns, ensuring the smooth execution of the celebration."

"At the same time, the Provincial Affairs Council has formed a special team led by High Tier Attendant Chief Sir Hilude, in conjunction with the territory’s Bishop’s Council, Cabinet Ministers, and village and town Noble Families, to oversee the festivities’ safety, stability, and procedures."