Overnight, most of the mortal world's churches began to move.
Priests, once rarely seen, appeared throughout the streets and alleys. The procurement of supplies, orders for products, and deployment of craftsmen left even guilds specializing in taking commissions somewhat stunned.
At nearly the same time, the Dragon Bond Market also grew busier.
Clergy in all manner of robes appeared at the entrance to the Dragon Bond Market, drawing countless stares.
On the second floor of the Dragon Bond Market.
A staff member looked at the senior priest from the Church of the Light God before him in astonishment. "You mean that the Church of the Light God intends to issue bonds worth twenty million gold coins, with a five-year term, for the purpose of setting up classrooms in Light Church Chapels across the land? And in the future, your Church of Light priests will teach local children to read as a side duty?"
"Yes. The primary focus will be on teaching children, but if believers wish to receive some education as well—for example, learning to recognize basic words—they may attend the fixed classes held every evening." The senior priest of the Church of the Light God spoke with remarkable calm, as though this were an utterly ordinary matter.
Yet in truth, his heart was anything but calm.
It was even trembling slightly.
Twenty million gold coins! Even if they tore down the headquarters of the Church of the Light God and sold it, it would never be worth that much. Yet here they were, borrowing such a sum.
More importantly, after borrowing the money, they were not going to use it to make more money. Instead, they planned to invest it in churches everywhere and have the priests there teach children for free.
Of course, according to their discussions, the