THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE 673 Solution

Supreme Pontiff continued, "The second topic is very important issue as well. If the first topic was about which could be considered as finding treasures, then the second topic is about the face and prestige of our Church. Even His Holiness is disappointed with the way our people handled the situation in the Celestial Central Market. I presume you people have already learned about the mess in the Celestial Central Market. So what are your views regarding this?"

The Archbishop stood up and said, "Your Highness! This isn't any ordinary issue. We indeed neglected the talent of the candidates who held poor family background. I heard that that Unknown Genius has tried to join our Church. But because of our rules which were more favourable for the candidates with rich family background, it became impossible for us to find this Supreme genius. This was the case with every other top cla.s.s churches as well."

"What's your point?" ,Supreme Pontiff asked directly.

Archbishop said, "My point is that we were concentrating only on the candidates from the rich family background. We were neglecting the candidates from the poor family background. We are under the impression that only the candidates with rich family background are worth our efforts. We were neglecting the poor family background candidates. Maybe because we became proud for our Church's prosperity and rich environment which turned us into negligent people."

"So you are saying that we should give equal importance to both poor and rich family background candidates?" ,Supreme Pontiff sighed as he asked, "Won't that be equal to wasting all our stored resources? Don't you know that even the resources that which we use for poor family background candidates on their examinations would cost us too much? Then why would you say that we need to give equal importance to both rich and poor family background candidates?"

"Your Highness! We should not forget about our primary goal in establis.h.i.+ng the church." ,Archbishop replied, "Our primary objective is to gather as many devotees as possible for His Holiness! In the process, if we had to waste some resources, then why would we need to hold back?"

Supreme Pontiff raised his eyebrows. He was impressed with the reasoning of his Archbishop. What Archbishop wanted to say was obvious. The top priority for the existence of a Church is to gather as many devotees as possible. This is the primary and most important goal for the existence of any Church.

And how could one attract the devotees? There are many ways. One is to fulfil one's desires in their life. They could even attract a customer by spreading the ideas and greatness of a G.o.d. There are many ways. But the best possible way to attract a devotee is to save someone from most desperate situation.

But doesn't rejecting candidates from poor family background is equal to losing future possible devotees? That means till now because of their negligence, how many devotees they have neglected so far? Even though the Sovereign of Knowledge is one of the Sovereigns who has highest flow of Positive Divine Essence, it doesn't mean that he wasn't affected by the Negative Divine Essence.

Be it a G.o.d or a human, everyone has the one who loves you. And everyone has the haters as well. The Sovereign of Knowledge was no different in this aspect. Even the Sovereign of Knowledge also has haters. The only difference is that compared with the Sovereign of Deception, the haters for the Sovereign of Knowledge is very low. That means the flow of Negative Divine Essence for the Sovereign of Knowledge is very less compared to the flow of Positive Divine Essence.

So for a Church, the most important thing is that to attract more number of devotees for their G.o.d. This is their primary job.

"Well, you are right. The primary goal for a Church is to gather as many devotees as possible. As for the materials to grow poor family background candidates, it should be a secondary issue. We made a mistake. We should start thinking in the prospect of the Supreme Pontiff of the Church of Deception. We should think as if our Church is facing a serious issue just like the Church of Deception. Only then we stop being casual with our approach." , Supreme Pontiff said.

"What are your orders, Your Highness!" ,Archbishop asked.

Supreme Pontiff said, "First of all, we should stop being stingy with our examinations conduct. We should start conducting the examinations fairly on equal basis. From now on stop showing partiality towards rich family candidates. Secondly, we should find a way to grow the quant.i.ty of the materials required for the examinations. This is very important."

"Then how are we going to arrange for the materials, Your Highness? Every year the number of candidates that partic.i.p.ate in the examinations are simply mind blowing. Since our Church has the fame for especially Lifestyle Masters. It's not easy to arrange materials for every candidates." ,Someone else from the room asked.

"It's not a problem." , Supreme Pontiff replied, "Announce that all those candidates who wants to join our Church needs to bring their materials with them. If the candidates could bring their own materials, then their difficulty in the examinations will decrease a little. Since it is impossible for the Church to produce materials for all the candidates, make sure to clear this point. All of them had to bring their materials if they wish to join our Church. It's not like we are showing partiality towards rich people. It's because every year the people who wished to join our Church are too many. And we can't afford to provide materials and resources for everyone who wished to partic.i.p.ate in the examinations. As for people who couldn't afford to bring materials and resources, they will be provided by the Church. But the difficulty for their examinations will not decrease. This is the most possible solution our Church has come up with."

"Excellent!" ,Archbishop replied in agreement, "Your Highness! Your idea is excellent. I think the people will understand the situation we are in. With this, not only the crisis for the resources during the examinations will be solved, but it will also force poor family background candidates to understand the reason why our Church has to show partiality towards the rich family background candidates. It will solve two problems."

"That's an excellent idea."

"This is the best possible solution."

Everyone agreed with their Supreme Pontiff. But at that time the Priest of the Church of Knowledge said, "But Your Highness! What about that Unknown Genius from the Church of Deception?"