Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 503 - 249: The Scorching Sun Siege Battle, Sun Priest
After hearing the Knight Commander’s words, the rest of the Knight Squad Leaders and Apprentice Temple Knights exchanged glances.
Several of the elder knights, who were over five hundred years old, had heard of the important strike the Knight Commander mentioned.
It was a special operation from six hundred years ago, with such a large scale and formation that even a Tier Three Bishop personally led it to prevent any changes.
The intensity of this operation could be compared to the Battle of Obliteration at that time.
Comparable to a national war.
So it was recorded and became a major event within the six thousand years after the Day of the Divine Birth.
Later generations called it the Battle of the Scorching Sun Siege.
It was a destructive strike launched jointly by the Holy See’s three Holy Cities against the Fiery Sun Divine Sect in the wilderness.
The entire process lasted ten years, from the year 6440 to 6450, with more than ten thousand Temple Knight Order members participating, and the Tier Three Bishop stepped in more than ten times.
The scale of the war was several times more intense than another Holy See war that occurred in the following century.
That is, the Holy Spring Sect’s strike against the City of Salvation.
The cause of the Battle of the Scorching Sun Siege was the cultists of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect spreading faith in several Holy Cities of the Holy See and secretly developing followers.
At its peak, nearly five percent of the lower-class people were bewitched by the cultists, becoming followers of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect, and voluntarily absorbing the energy of the Scorching Sun Curse, planting curse bombs in their bodies that could explode at any time.
Don’t underestimate this five percent; it seems small, but the population of a Holy City is in the millions, with no less than a million at the lowest. This million refers to people in each district of the Holy City who boarded the mobile city.
Equivalent to the upper class and servants on the Oasis Battleship.
By a ten-to-one ratio, there are at least six or seven million, or even tens of millions, of people around the entire Holy City.
Among them are two to three million permanent residents following in cars outside the city, while the remaining four to five million are like the deserters near the Oasis, the lowest-tier survivors.
They neither have a fixed place to stay nor means of transportation.
They can only live near the Holy City, picking up leftovers and garbage discarded by the upper class to barely sustain their lives.
Or sell themselves into slavery, in exchange for a small standing space in the cages, and eke out a living below the subsistence level.
This is a vast lower-class population.
The limited and scarce resources destined half of the survivors to not have enough to eat; otherwise, if the upper-tier evolvers were to go hungry, especially the Tier Three Bishops, it would be a more terrifying situation.
It’s one thing for the lower-class to go hungry, as it won’t cause much trouble, but if high-tier evolvers face starvation, they will stop at nothing to plunder food, leading to chaos throughout the settlement.
Thus, keeping more than half of the survivors in a state of not starving to death most effectively activates the positivity of those below and allows for the maximum plundering and collection of resources.
But such a high-pressure regime also leaves room for external forces to exploit.
People always become assertive in dire straits, ambitionists believe they can defy fate, while most ordinary people will seek spiritual solace and become reliant on intangible beliefs.
They hope that the entity they believe in might one day pull them out of the sea of suffering.
On this point, the Holy Spring Sect has done well, spreading the faith of the Master of the Holy Spring to comfort the spirits of over half of the lower-class people.
Meanwhile, the church occasionally distributes welfare.
Including free food rescue and free water sources, ensuring the lower-class doesn’t starve en masse.
But this only maintains overall stability and alleviates the food crisis without solving the underlying problem.
The Holy See never intends to solve it, anyway.
Under these circumstances, the elimination rate of the lower class is much higher than other tiers; they constantly live in deep water and scorching heat, potentially being eliminated directly if they miss one or two meals, becoming either dead or food for others.
The lower-tier marginal people with poor risk resistance need a sense of security even more.
Especially the security that the church cannot provide them.
These people, in order to survive, can’t care about future happenings.
When cultists of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect come here, just one or two full meals can buy their hearts, making these dying lower-class people willing to do anything for them.
Five percent of the population, multiplied by the five million lower-class population, equals as many as two hundred and fifty thousand! 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
Once this group absorbs the Fiery Sun Curse energy, they will experience a slight increase in enhancement level in a short period, and their enhanced cells and evolutionary flesh will be stimulated by the invasion of Fiery Sun energy, unleashing their extreme potential.
Thus, even if the enhanced strength of these lower-class people is only middle to early stage, with an emphasis on early stage, the temporary boost of the Scorching Sun Curse energy allows them to rival Late-stage Enhanced People in a burst state.
Someone may even "ascend" by self-ignition, perishing together with an early Tier One Evolver.
Among them, some "talented" believers, whose genes exhibit a high affinity with the Fiery Sun energy, can also be included in the Fiery Sun Divine Sect for nurturing as seeds.
Collecting fresh blood for the divine sect is also one of the purposes of these cultists lurking in the Holy City to develop followers.
Near a Holy City, as many as two hundred thousand believers are gathered; if only ten thousand among them are die-hard, they can cause a catastrophe among millions.
And the fuse of the outbreak occurred at the end of 6440, after the Holy City had spent a year resting and developing, preparing to embark on a two-month journey of ten thousand kilometers.
