Work Prophet
Chapter 571 - 3 Morning Meeting

Chapter 571: Chapter 3 Morning Meeting

As the Lady set out on her journey home and successfully rendezvoused outside the city with Zhu Zhigang and the "deceased" Duren, Li Yu’s work in Bratis also came to an end, and he started to relax.

Until Ireya returned to Green Field, he only needed to come back occasionally, speak to the followers about the doctrines and teachings of the Double Rest Sect, and replenish some medicinal supplies.

Furthermore, before leaving, Li Yu left two Sabbath members in the Royal Capital, one of whom was primarily in charge of missionary work. Due to the Lady’s outstanding performance at the martial arts tournament, the people of the Royal Capital were all aware of the reputation of Saturday.

Meanwhile, Cornelia also went to the Northern Territory with her new sovereign.

Allister married Duke Schroder’s second daughter, Kelly, on the fourth day after his brother Gars ascended the Skeleton Throne.

Because Edward II had just died and they did not want to overshadow the New Emperor, their wedding ceremony was low-key, with less than a hundred guests invited.

However, though the guests were few, they were significant.

Important figures from all eleven Noble Families attended, and the ceremony was officiated by Duke Theodore, the Family Head of the Campbell Family.

The wedding was held entirely in accordance with Northern customs. The couple made vows to each other, after which Allister personally slaughtered a rock sheep.

He slit open the creature’s chest with a small knife, removed its heart, and offered it to a snow leopard that was incessantly licking its lips beside them.

After the snow leopard finished enjoying the rock sheep’s heart, Duke Theodore announced Allister and Kelly officially husband and wife, and the guests applauded and offered their blessings.

The next morning, the newlyweds and the Female Priest departed the Royal Capital, even faster than Miss Rabbit.

With Cornelia’s departure, the ruling position of the Life Church in Lion Heart Castle would also be affected, giving the Double Rest Sect more room to operate.

As for the other Sabbath member, he was primarily responsible for gathering and transmitting intelligence.

Lion Heart Castle is the political center of the Red Lion Empire, with the most and most important information, so Li Yu chose Redio, who had been involved in the operation to rescue Clara before.

He equipped him with a wireless radio and left him three hundred Gold Lions for operational expenses.

Apart from that, Li Yu also left two minstrels, Golden Voice and Silver Hand, in the Royal Capital.

Kieren was not very satisfied with this arrangement. Although he preferred Lion Heart Castle to the remote Western Territory, especially Green Field, which most people had never heard of and did not know where it was, Ireya and Li Yu were his sources of inspiration. Since clinging to the Double Rest Sect, he had never lacked for creative material.

But now, with the departure of Li Yu and Ireya, he was going to be knocked back to square one.

It might appear that he was popular in the Royal Capital now, but the competition here was also fierce. Young minstrels aspiring for fame sprouted up like weeds in a wheat field—no matter how they were cut, they kept popping up endlessly.

There were many instances of fleeting popularity due to a lack of new works or failing to impress with new material. Kieren still felt a strong sense of crisis.

Yet, Li Yu felt that bringing Kieren and Silver Hand back to Green Field was a bit of a waste. Although internal propaganda was important, the Double Rest Sect was in a period of rapid growth. There was still a need for someone to sing about the deeds of Saturday and its followers to a wider audience.

Therefore, Li Yu made an arrangement with Kieren and Silver Hand, asking them to stay in the Royal Capital for a while longer. As for new creative material, Li Yu could send it to them through the wireless radio.

Thus, Kieren and Silver Hand were able to obtain firsthand information before other minstrels.

"Is this... Is this a divine oracle?" Silver Hand asked, shaken after listening, "An oracle specifically guiding us on how to write poetry?"

He couldn’t understand how a square box could receive voices from a thousand miles away, and after much thought, the concept of a divine oracle seemed the closest explanation.

Kieren was equally astonished, but he handled it slightly better than Silver Hand, having pledged allegiance to Li Yu earlier and having witnessed the Prophet of the Double Rest Sect display his mighty power on more than one occasion.

Yet even so, he found it incredible each time he saw it.

If it weren’t for Li Yu instructing them not to spread word of this, Kieren would probably have already taken out his pen and begun creating poetry on the spot.

After arranging for the people staying at the Royal Capital and shopping for a batch of goods and livestock at the market, Li Yu clocked out from work.

And for the following two weeks, he primarily focused more on his company affairs.

As a result, Ma Yuhan and others noticed that Li Yu had been showing up more frequently in recent times.

The company seemed a bit more normal.

Li Yu even gathered everyone on a Tuesday morning for an early meeting, mainly to discuss matters of making money.

He had no choice, for he had been spending too fiercely lately, just the purchase of a large batch of medicine, wireless communication devices, and solar batteries was a significant expense.

This month’s budget had already been blown, but since missionary work requires it and attracting new believers generates faith that can be converted into bonuses.

Li Yu couldn’t resist splurging, moreover, the establishment of intelligence and communication systems was crucial, and it was rare to go on a long trip, not knowing when the next one might be.

Li Yu planned to wait for next month’s budget to come out before he filed for reimbursement.

Although he now had a higher income, and the reimbursements from the Third Era were always swift, such behavior was still not to be encouraged.

And next month, new expenses would arise both at Bratis and the branch offices, so ultimately, finding ways to generate revenue was necessary.

Unfortunately, Li Yu’s previous plan to make money by copying songs wasn’t going very smoothly, apart from the early days when Lu Weijia’s fans and Ying Man’s fans would make some requests, there weren’t many listeners afterward.

The clicks weren’t even enough to open a creator’s revenue account, the data from several neighboring video uploaders who specialized in old songs were hundreds of times that of Li Yu’s.

"It’s still too high a barrier," Che Haishen later reflected, "The composition was actually not bad, and Ying Man sang it well too, but it lacked entertainment value.

"Although Teacher Gong Linna has the viral song ’Disturbed,’ that song actually went viral along with her expressions. We just have the song alone, and after people listen to the first two lines and find that they can’t understand it, they switch off, not even bothering to check the lyrics."

Li Yu knew Che Haishen was right, modern society wants everything fast. There was a saying in 2019 that forty percent of viewers would drop a TV series within the first three episodes.

It’s certainly not like that now, many people now decide within just the first seven minutes of the first episode, or even less, whether they want to continue watching. And it’s not just TV series, but novels, games, and music as well.

Complaining was meaningless; Li Yu himself was part of that society. After completing several jobs, he would go home so exhausted that even movies weren’t appealing, preferring to unwind by scrolling through short videos.