God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 465: The Right to Interpret Religion!

The Pastoral Pope broke out in a cold sweat.

Right!

The right to interpret religious texts, right now it was in their hands.

They could interpret however they wanted.

Just like modern sheep farming operations, how could that stuff possibly align with the Church of Shepherding’s doctrine?

The God of Shepherding probably never imagined there’d be sheep farming methods like this in the world.

But so what?

Faced with the current situation, they had no choice but to go along with it.

But what if in the future they refused to join Roster Academy, and the Academy’s School of Theology opened its own Church of Shepherding major?

What if they started conducting a series of interpretations and revisions over there?

What if Viscount Roster deliberately hired a bunch of people to study and believe in the God of Shepherding?

Wouldn’t that mean the Shepherding faith would split into two factions!?

Just like many gods who had two or even three different denominations.

So what if the Church of Shepherding major invented by Viscount Roster cooperated with the School of Agriculture and School of Business, developed new breeds, and started popularizing them all over the continent?

Before long, most people who believed in the God of Shepherding would start believing in Viscount Roster’s version of the Church of Shepherding.

What would the God of Shepherding choose then?

Everything was already self-evident.

If they didn’t choose to join Roster Academy now, endless troubles might follow later.

Even though they knew Viscount Roster probably wasn’t very interested in this kind of thing, and Viscount Roster was an important figure in the Church of Technology. Many even considered him the Technology Pope, so he probably wouldn’t do these things, but what if?

It seemed only one path lay before them.

Almost at the same time, many churches realized this. Quite a few people started contacting Viscount Roster, wanting to discuss moving into the academy.

Almost at the same time.

In the Gray Fort Empire palace.

The Gray Fort Emperor stared blankly at the Magic Net, not knowing what to say for a long time.

"Your Majesty!"

After who knows how long, several people walked in from outside, all bowing to the Gray Fort Emperor.

"Did you hear about Roster Academy?" After a moment of silence, the Gray Fort Emperor finally spoke, without any of the usual pleasantries.

"This matter is destined to affect the entire continent’s power structure." The Gray Fort Empire’s Supreme Justice Minister’s tone was very bad.

"We must be on guard. We can’t let our Gray Fort Empire’s elite go to Roster Academy, otherwise they might leak our empire’s core secrets."

The Gray Fort Empire’s Army Marshal was silent for a while. "I suggest establishing a Gray Fort Empire Military Academy, modeled after Roster Academy, establishing School of Magic, Knight Academy, Magic Equipment Academy, Servant Academy, and many other subordinate secondary schools beneficial to national defense."

"And recruiting large numbers of talented people in all areas to enter the academy for teaching, ensuring the fastest possible cultivation of a large batch of talent to deal with possible future crises."

Several other ministers spoke up one after another.

The new Finance Minister remained silent the whole time. After who knows how long, when the others’ voices had died down, he finally spoke:

"Your Majesty, I don’t think we need to be overly nervous. Viscount Roster isn’t someone who likes war. We can see that Viscount Roster has always been seeking to complete various cooperations to push forward magic-tech industrialization."

"We can perhaps view him as a high-level believer who has supreme authority in the Kingdom of Dawn."

"This high-level believer can never be loyal to their country; he’ll only be loyal to the God of Technology."

"What the God of Technology wants is nothing more than spreading Magic Conductors across the entire continent. Then He can use these Magic Conductors as a foundation to attract more believers."

"In other words, our Gray Fort Empire has no fundamental conflict with Viscount Roster. We even have some pretty good friendly relations with him."

"Isn’t the car factory we’re planning to cooperate on building an example?"

"If that’s the case, why should we be so nervous about Roster Academy?"

"If you ask me, we should send large numbers of exchange students to Roster Academy to study, try to learn more Magic Conductor technology, even recruit some supernatural beings..."

"Bullshit!!!" The Gray Fort Empire’s Army Marshal was the first who couldn’t stand the Finance Minister’s words, shouting angrily on the spot. "How can national security be treated so carelessly!?"

"No matter what, the establishment of Roster Academy will give the Kingdom of Dawn stronger talent reserves. Even our advantageous supernatural military corps will start declining in this action."

"We must find ways to curb Roster Academy’s development, not send people there."

"I think you have persecution complex. If Viscount Roster really wanted to attack us, he could just have Church of Technology people come kill us directly. You believe it or not, your people wouldn’t have even a bit of courage to fight when facing Church of Technology warriors."

For a moment, several people were arguing loudly, nobody able to convince anyone else.

"We should prepare two plans."

The Gray Fort Emperor’s brow furrowed deeper and deeper. Finally he sighed. "Establishing our own military academy, we must do that."

"Not just a military academy. We also need to make an academy specifically for research, just like Roster Academy’s nature."

The Finance Minister’s expression wasn’t great.

But just then, the Gray Fort Emperor spoke again. "We also don’t need to obstruct Roster Academy’s establishment. We need to see their results. We also need to imitate them."

"Not only that, I need to send large numbers of exchange students to Roster Academy. Whether ordinary people or clerics, all can go. I hope they can study seriously and bring some things back."

Since the Gray Fort Emperor had spoken, naturally they had no way to keep arguing. They thought along with the Gray Fort Emperor’s words.

"There’s another problem here. If we send so many exchange students to Roster Academy, we definitely can’t ensure every single person is loyal. What if some of them want to stay there?"

The Supreme Justice Minister had seen all kinds of strange things and strange people. He instantly discovered the biggest problem here.

"Try to pick people with family members, with parents and children, to go. That should greatly increase the proportion mixed in."

"If under these circumstances there are still people who don’t want to come back, then don’t come back. This kind of thing will always have some loss."

"Honestly, even if we sent all your children here to study, I couldn’t guarantee they’d all come back."

"After all, they’re more advanced over there!"