"So, even if we let them take advantage of us for a meal or two, it's nothing. After all, they're my subjects."
"Consider it a blessing bestowed upon these children and elderly!" Nalant said.
"My lord, you truly are a kind and benevolent lord!"
Little Sherry immediately offered her adoring praise.
The other girls did the same.
"Hahaha, I've always been this benevolent!"
Nalant burst into laughter.
Days passed one by one, and in the blink of an eye, a week had gone by.
After a week of promotion, the effort to bring his own subjects into the faith had indeed begun to show results.
At first, the subjects had come because of Nalant's orders and the free food.
But as they worshipped more often, ate more free meals, and received the kindness of little Vini's healing—
Gradually, the subjects came to feel that Lord Bone Dragon Knight was actually quite good.
On top of that, Nalant had specially arranged for a silver-tongued male servant to become a temple priest, while the statue performed miracles every day.
Sure enough, golden threads began to appear above the heads of some serfs.
These golden threads naturally represented that those serfs had become devout followers of the Bone Dragon Knight.
Although devout believers currently accounted for only one-twentieth of the total population, Nalant knew this was a good start. Before long, all of his subjects would surely become devout followers of the Bone Dragon Knight.
Then, one morning, Nalant received a report from Mario.
He said they had encountered a commoner merchant caravan from Sacred City that resembled the group Nalant had mentioned before.
He asked Nalant to go and confirm whether it was the very group his lord had instructed them to watch for.
On the other side, Abby Cow