"Manifestation of the Great Bird Spirit God?" Rubeck, the Ayrou's chief administrator, frowned. His first instinct was to throw this guy out.
The Ayrou had indeed always held an unwavering faith in the Great Bird Spirit God. Before their war with the Fourth Civilization, the Ayrou had effectively been a theocratic society.
But after the Ayrou were defeated by the Fourth Civilization, and the ensuing rebellion was brutally suppressed, the Ayrou Queen was killed, and Ayrou society as a whole became a parliamentary republic under the Fourth Civilization's autocratic rule. For the Fourth Civilization, propping up several opposition parties and letting them take turns in power within the Ayrou government was far better than allowing the Ayrou to remain under monarchical rule like that of the Ayrou Queen.
However, although the Kingdom of Dawn worked hard to dilute the Ayrou's theocratic beliefs, habits formed over countless millennia could not be changed overnight. Among the Ayrou people, devotion and faith toward the so-called Great Bird Spirit God remained deeply rooted.
Yet in the eyes of Rubeck, the Ayrou's chief administrator, the High Priest of the Great Bird Spirit God Temple had come knocking at this time for no reason other than to make a fuss and demand more privileges and benefits.
And this sort of mystification had happened many times over the past four or five years.
'The Great Bird Spirit God is angered, and a great drought will soon sweep across the entire planet...'
'The Great Bird Spirit God shall deliver divine punishment upon all sinners...' Things like that.
And once Rubeck reacted, whether he granted their request, held large-scale sacrificial rites, and sent vast sums of money to the temple, or rejected them and got viciously slandered by the temple in public opinion, none of that mattered. What mattered