595 Great Mushroom Charity

As Julia was released, the other imprisoned members of the Mushroom Worship Cult gradually regained their freedom as well.

However, Julia was in no hurry to reorganize the cult and spread its faith.

She gathered the companions who were still willing to follow Puji and announced the establishment of a brand-new organization—the Great Mushroom Charity.

"Charity?" A believer who had only just been released, his face still carrying the pallor of long days without sunlight, repeated the word in confusion. "Do you mean giving out porridge in the streets like the Church of Light used to? But now..."

In the past, whenever natural disasters or man-made calamities struck, the Church of Light would often join forces with local lords to distribute porridge outside churches, relieving the starving while spreading the teachings of the God of Light.

Only now, such scenes could no longer be seen.

It was not that the church was no longer benevolent, but that hunger itself had all but disappeared from the United Kingdom.

Even though the kingdom had lost nearly a third of its territory and countless people had been displaced.

The yield of wild mushrooms had increased even more. Even if the number of these refugees, who could not engage in production for the time being, doubled again, it would still be enough to support them.

Unless a person had lost even the strength to bend down and pick them, it was difficult to imagine anyone truly dying of hunger nowadays.

Naturally, there was no longer any need for people to hand out porridge.

"Similar, but different," Julia explained to the doubtful believers before her. "We will not be giving out food. Instead, we will help the refugees still wandering through the wilderness outside the cities build shelters that can be called homes."

Refugees wandering