Chapter 708
In this magical world, the word "saintess" couldn't be just used casually .
This was a generation of divine authority . Pure holiness was something that belonged only to the Gods .
In that case, only women beloved by the Gods would be allowed to have the title of "saintess" . Only the True God Churches' chosen women would have this title .
How pure they really were didn't actually matter . What mattered was that they would represent their chosen church . Basically, they were important spokespersons for their churches .
Most of these saintesses would be young and beautiful . They were typically orphans that the church had raised . Most of them were also priestesses at the same time . While some saintesses would have noble status, most of them wouldn't, as having too high of a status would make it inconvenient for them to be paraded around .
Being a saintess wasn't something all that special .
Not only would they have to run around everywhere spreading their church's teachings, they would often have to appear on the battlefield in order to help raise their side's morale . It wasn't like saintesses were all that rare, nor would they be all that safe . Maybe their death would actually raise morale even more as the soldiers would want to take revenge for her sake .
Moreover, as the women beloved by the Gods, how could they possibly be allowed to fall in love with mortals? While you were a saintess, not only would love be forbidden, you wouldn't even be allowed to get close to a man .
It would be impossible for anyone to forever appear young and beautiful, yet saintesses had to be young and beautiful… Which meant that this job was something only the young and beautiful could do .
It was common for saintesses to lose their position when they were around 30 years old . Their beauty would decrease by then, yet they would still be restricted from marrying, which was rather pitiful .
This was why female priestesses who truly had good career opportunities would never choose to become a saintess even if they had the chance to . Only priestesses who were orphans or commoners by birth would choose to take on the seemingly glorious job of saintess .
Although each church would likely treat their saintesses slightly differently, in my memories, the majority of saintesses would appear to be young and beautiful and seem so glorious . Yet, they were actually pitiful women who were destined to forever remain single .
This time, the incident occurred to Saintess Leona from the Church of Sword and Thunder . She was 30 years old . When considering how people were allowed to get married starting at age 14 in this world, she truly was an old spinster by now…
"I've never even heard of this church or saintess before . "
The Church of Sword and Thunder's God was named Shirvan, and was a recently born God who had ascended just a few decades ago . His Divine Concepts included Swords and Thunder, which were two completely unrelated Concepts .
"I sympathize with Shirvan's head priest . Just how is the head priest supposed to teach two Concepts so different?"
"A holy sword that brings the judgement of thunder? Sword techniques that are as fast as lightning? This sounds more and more like the plot of an unpopular knight story . "
Divine Concepts weren't that easy to obtain . If there were two Gods who had similar divinities, for instance a God with the title of "Knowledge Holder" and another God with the title of "Holder of Books", it was certain that these two Gods would have a deathmatch battle against each other .
Similar natures and similar Divine Concepts meant that there were two people sitting on the same throne and sharing the same resources . That would always end in a fight until one died .
Not all Gods would be capable of creating their own brand-new Divine Concept like Wumianzhe .
For most SemiGods, they would be quite satisfied already with being able to reach Godhood . They would already be quite lucky to be able to gain a Divine Concept . They couldn't be picky about what the Divine Concept was .
However, writing the teachings of a new God's church would be quite a headache .
"Our God holds the divine thunder sword of judgement . Swordsmen who worship our God shall act with the speed of lightning, swing their swords with the speed of lightning, and obtain thunderous sword techniques…"
When I saw the Church of Sword and Thunder's religious teachings, I felt as if I was reading something that I had randomly made up . I did my very best to refrain from laughing, while the silly cat unhesitatingly started rolling around on the floor while laughing out loud .
I had purchased all of the thieves guild's information on the Church of Sword and Thunder . What really surprised me was that when the incident happened to Leona, she had still been a saintess even then .
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