The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 35: The First Spark of a Revolution Ignites. Part-1.

Chapter 35: The First Spark of a Revolution Ignites. Part-1.

To Alex, the duel was just a mere side quest; the real benefit of it all was the popularity he would get out of it.

Alex himself was a ’Royal Prince’ and the new ’Saint’ of the god of wisdom church, but the church was in a dire state at the moment and didn’t have the money to do publicity stunts at all.

To spread the faith of the god of wisdom, Alex needed something that would catch the attention of many.

If it was usual, he would need to organize various kinds of campaigns to deceive people into becoming believers of the god of wisdom by either giving them food or clothes for free or by giving them something valuable.

But those kinds of methods are very bad for a church, and those kinds of believers are usually not loyal enough and won’t contribute much to the faith of the god of wisdom itself.

Alex needed some other way, and the duel came right on time.

He used the test and trap of his enemy to his advantage and made the duel into a publicity stunt for the Church of Wisdom!

He used the money he got from selling the diamond and asked Ethan to go and hire some people to start spreading rumors and gather as many people as possible.

Alex not only asked Ethan to arrange the arena for the duel but also asked him to put everyone in the church to work and clean up the church and get it ready for the day of the duel.

By defeating Jake, a powerful and talented warrior, with his wisdom, strategy, and tactics alone, Alex proved that intelligence and wisdom are just as important to a person as physical strength!

He proved it all right in front of hundreds of people and horribly terrified them with his insane shrewdness.

This way, not only did he publicly announce his arrival in the city of Ilma, but he also brought a lot of attention to the church of wisdom with his deeds.

At least a few dozen people out of the hundreds will now be tempted to join and learn the teachings of the god of wisdom.

The others, on the other hand, will spread the word of the duel through word of mouth and will unconsciously spread the name of the god of wisdom on their own.

This will attract more people to the church and create a new revival opportunity for the nearly dead faith of the god of wisdom!

Every bit of this plan was calculated and polished by Alex over the course of the past few days.

And it succeeded so well that even a noble related to the count family was attracted over today.

*Clap!* *Clap!* *Clap!*

"I heard a lot about your arrogant nature Prince Alex, but today I personally got to understand that no matter what the rumours say, the person in the centre of it all is definitely not to be trifled with..."

"Greetings! I am Zeil Von Ilma, the third son of Count Foley Von Ilma, the current head of the county." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

As most of the people left the arena, Zeil made his way to Alex’s side with his knights tagging along with him.

"Don’t call me prince here; I got kicked out of the palace by my father. Just call me Saint Alex from now on..."

"Hmm, I won’t mind if you call me the humble and benevolent saint too... I am very kind; I like people who praise me though..."

Alex nodded his head as he patted Zeil on the shoulder with a satisfied smile on his face.

His evil-looking grin made Zeil shiver a bit, and he hurriedly dodged aside, as he wasn’t sure if Alex could curse him by simply touching him.

Zeil had seen how horribly Jake suffered and how much Alex bullied him; that was an incident he would never forget in his life.

"Prince... err.. ahem! Saint Alex, well, I came over after hearing the rumours that the prince of the nation was here-"

Before Zeil could finish his sentence, Alex looked at him and said,

"I am kind of tired right now after having a duel. How about you tell your subordinates to go and ask someone to arrange a tea table for us both?"

"We can talk while sitting peacefully... ugh, after getting hit by that sword attack, my back is killing me!"

Immediately Alex started pretending to be seriously in pain with top-tier-level acting, causing Zeil to be taken aback.

"Wh-what? B-but weren’t you hit in the chest though? How’s your back hurting instead-"

Alex didn’t let Zeil complete his sentence as he shouted,

"Oh!!! My back! My back! I am about to split apart in two! My upper torso will fall on the ground!"

"Hurry! Bring me a chair!"

Zeil hurriedly asked his knights to go and ask someone to arrange a tea table and a chair for the two of them.

Even Zeil’s knights were in shock after seeing this situation and couldn’t find words to say anything.

The moment Zeil’s knights left, Alex stopped pretending as he stood up straight, looked right into Zeil’s eyes and said,

"So? What deal did you want to discuss with me?"

"I have helped you get rid of your surveillance; now say it before your lovely little knights come back and cling to you again..."

Zeil was so taken aback by Alex sudden change in voice and tone that his jaw almost fell on the ground from shock.

"Y-you... you really are quite good at messing up with people..."

"No disrespect intended.... But I kind of feel like punching you for some reason Saint Alex..."

Hearing Zeil’s words, Alex rolled his eyes and replied in a calm voice,

"Don’t worry, I hear that a lot; you are not the first one to feel annoyed by me..."

In fact, Alex was even more annoying in his previous life!

He caused immense headaches for big companies and made several of them go bankrupt!

There were some people who were saying that Alex was purposely researching things that would make companies go bankrupt overnight!

To the tall, handsome CEO’s of the companies, he was a walking nightmare, and many of them saw him laughing at them in their dreams! (Disclaimer: No Female Lead novel alpha wolf CEO’s were harmed in the making of this Chapter.)

"Come on man! We don’t have enough time to be standing here all day like idiots in this scorching heat!"

"Spit out what you wanna say already!"

At Alex’s constant urging, Zeil could only speak out hurriedly in helplessness.

"I want to make a deal with you, not as the prince of the nation, but a deal with the Saint of the church of wisdom..."

What he didn’t know was that putting this urgency and pressure on him was also a trick of Alex to put Zeil on the disadvantageous side.

When in urgency and pressure, people tend to lower their own demands and become more susceptible to taking rash actions.

Alex used that to his advantage, as he wanted a dominant hold of this deal for himself.

He already knew that there was no way Zeil wouldn’t have come over here for some kind of deal; Alex just wanted the advantage to be in his hands.