Chapter 558

The small ripples stirred up by the half-orc refugees were quickly smoothed over.

A Northwest Republic governor responsible for civil affairs stepped forward and stated that the Republic respected everyone's faith, provided it did not infringe upon the faith of others. If these refugees wished to build altars, they had to negotiate with the local churches and obtain permission.

Of course, that was absolutely impossible. Unless they were die-hard allies like Sui Xiong and the Justice God, even deities with fairly good relations would never allow another god's altars to appear within their own sphere of influence.

Even being on good terms was not enough! This was a matter of principle!

Besides, Sui Xiong and the Orc Pantheon could at most be called acquaintances. They were not even friends; their relationship was utterly ordinary.

In fact, the reason different faiths in the Northwest Republic could coexist peacefully, with altars and temples of all gods staying out of one another's affairs and clergy of every faction living in harmony, lay chiefly in the Republic government's coordination and the Church of Void Mask steering the ship as leader of the alliance. This time, the Republic authorities refused to help coordinate matters, and the Church of Void Mask was unwilling to mediate either. How could the various churches possibly tolerate the Orc Pantheon reaching its hand over?

Thus, the half-orc refugees' plans to establish altars naturally came to nothing.

Strictly speaking, it was not as though they could not establish altars to the Orc Pantheon. As long as they went out and founded a pioneer village of their own, they could build whatever altars they pleased.

But... for some reason, whenever the matter of "going out and building a pioneer village ourselves" came up, those people who had previously shouted themselves hoarse either