In the early autumn of the 715th year of the Dark Calendar, Saul Drake finally celebrated his fourteen-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, leaving the Phoenix Monastery in Grey Curtain to become a grave keeper in the wilderness.

People who knew a little bit about Thor cast puzzled eyes on Thor's choice.

After all, with Thor's appearance and fairly tall figure, it was not difficult to hook up with a rich widow and have a life without food and clothing, but he chose the grave keeper, a profession that most homeless people would only choose as a last resort when they had nowhere to stay.

In fact, Saul himself did not expect this result.

After leaving the monastery, the first thing is to find a place to live, and the bottom of the well naturally cannot live anymore, unless he chooses to become a handyman and continue to stay in the monastery.

After having a place to stay, he will find a job, as for what he can do and what he should do, Thor has not decided for a while, and is ready to see first.

With this in mind, Thor stepped out of the main entrance of the abbey, leaving the place where he had lived for fourteen years, and came to the sign in the middle of the main street.

There are often a variety of messages here, with the Tribune posting important matters in Grey Curtain on a billboard, the guilds posting recruitment matters, and occasionally risky requests that the factions can't solve on their own but are well paid.

In addition to other general profession recruitment information, hunters, woodcutters, bakers, shop guys, adventurers with a certain combat ability, in short, there are many kinds of variety.

The rest is idle talk about who cut off whose head, who slept with whose woman, and so on.

Soon, in the midst of all this confusion, Thor noticed an inconspicuous message in the corner of the billboard.

"Look at this, we now need a brave grave keeper to guard the tranquility of the dead. He must be strong, agile, and finally, he must be brave and responsible, and if you are interested, please consult the Guardian Corps. "That's what the recruitment information says.

Almost without hesitation, Thor raised his hand and ripped off the recruitment letter, turning around and walking towards the location of the Protectors.

In fact, there is no need to unveil the list to apply, and the reason why Thor ripped off the offer is because it will not be visible to others, although there may be no competitors for this profession at all.

What really attracted Thor to make an instant decision was naturally not the rhetorical nonsense in the recruitment information, let alone the pitiful salary of the grave keeper five silver wolves a month, but the last one.

The Grave Keeper will be granted the right to use and live in a Grave Keeper's Hut, but will not have the right to own it, and will also be obligated to repair the Grave Keeper's Hut.

This meant two things for Thor, one was that he had a place to live, the other was that the hut was built in the wilderness, and the second was especially important.

Grave keepers in Grey Curtain are hardly a profession, as the Grey Curtain administrators have never officially acknowledged this, and their meager income and low status make this dispensable job a disgraceful job in the eyes of most people in the town.

What is even more dissatisfying is that the grave keeper is an extremely dangerous profession like the farmer, and can face the risk and death from the wilderness at any time, because the places where they work are outside the town, closer to the dark wilderness around the town.

The difference is that the farmers are always protected by the town's Guardians, and as long as they are willing to sweat and take certain risks, they can easily live a modest life.

As for the grave keeper, his location is not within the patrol range of the town, and even if he accidentally dies in his own cemetery one day, it is just a pile of bones that no one pays attention to.

The application process was much simpler than expected, and the handler only roughly recorded Thor's name, identity, and whereabouts, and then affirmed the duties and responsibilities of the grave keeper, and handed him a rusty key.

There was no signing of anything on paper, and there was no disdain from the handlers. After all, in this world full of ants, it takes effort to despise others.

So on the day he left the monastery, Thor quickly became a grave keeper and arrived at his new home in the wilderness.

It is a desolate cemetery to the east of Grey Curtain, separated from many of the town's wheat fields.

The cemetery is surrounded by a sloped and disrepaired hedge, and at the end of the hedges stands a lonely log cabin, which is Thor's new home.

The entire cemetery area is not too large, just a few acres of wheat fields.

Tombstones, graves, and crosses are arranged crookedly in the cemetery, and of course, all kinds of weeds and vines and skeleton wanderers crawl out every day, and the whole picture is full of lifeless mess.

Geographically, the cemetery is located between the Sleepy Forest and the Grey Curtain Town, like a nail in the wilderness, but closer to the town. If any monster escapes from the Sleeping Forest, the Graveyard will most likely be the first to fend off the wave.

Since you have chosen this profession, you are naturally prepared to anticipate and accept the threats implied in it. Thor knew very well that if he wanted to be strong, he had to go into the wilderness to hunt for demon souls, which was an unavoidable link.

Thor's mentor, the nameless old man, had already warned him.

"If you want to overcome your fears, go to the most terrible places. ”

Of course, having courage is not the same as being fearless, but it is moving forward even with fear.

In Saul's opinion, when it comes to adventures in the wilderness, the team has the advantage of the team, and the individual also has personal convenience.

Now everyone around them has their own lives, and each other's risk tolerance has changed. So Thor was ready to go it alone, and the grave keeper's hut that appeared in time became a stronghold from which to provide advance and retreat.

Pushing open the wooden door of the hut, Thor inspected the environment and general facilities of the house.

There weren't many things, a bed, a utility cupboard, a small round table and two small round stools, and the floor was a little rotten. Thor was satisfied, it was enough to have these things for survival.

To his surprise, he found a cellar in the corner of the house, although there was nothing underneath it, and the space was smaller than the bottom of the well, but it still gave Thor a sense of familiarity as if he had not left the bottom of the well.

After getting acquainted with it, everything went according to plan, and Thor began his new life.

He spent two days cleaning up everything that could be repaired in the hut, including the cabinet roof and floor. It took another day to reinforce and repair the fence around the cemetery, which was slightly stronger than the furnishings, to at least make them look better.

The overall job of the grave keeper is not complicated, except for cleaning the cemetery of the skeleton wanderers who crawl out of the dawn every day, and making sure that no wild beast climbs over the fence to cut open the grave and gnaw on the corpses of the new buried.

When someone died in the town and chose this cemetery for burial.

Thor also had to use some low-quality linen shrouds to wrap the pale corpse with no expression according to the family's request.

The family believed that only by wrapping it tightly and burying it deep in this way could the deceased be truly isolated from the world and achieve peace. And in Saul's opinion, this ethereal sense of ritual does nothing other than make the corpse decompose faster.

Thor was not at all uncomfortable with dealing with corpses, and although he had lived to be only fourteen years old, he had seen too many corpses he had come into contact with, and he had been involved in burying them many times in the convent.

A freak like him with an atheistic heart, who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, doesn't believe in fate, and doesn't believe in any bullshit past and future lives, those are just sweet illusions made up of the fragile side of human nature in the face of the great fear of death.

Human beings often weave some legends of resurrection from the dead, because we need such stories to inspire the world to walk on the road of reason without collapse, to arouse the world's courage in the face of death.

For Saul, this is understandable, but it is of little use.

In Saul's view, life is just a series of random processes.

Just like when you are still conceived in your mother's womb, it may be that you may not be you who comes into this world, but the probability just falls on your head.

Strictly speaking, there is no luck or misfortune in this world, it is just a chance encounter.

If there is fear, Thor only has the fear of death itself. He didn't care what kind of place to bury his bones, if he was going to die one day, whether it was deserts or wildernesses, mountains and rivers, he would just fall in place.

Because he doesn't believe in anything, Thor only lives for the present, and it is enough for this life to live.

In his eyes, death is the annihilation of matter, the end of everything.

To put it more emotionally, Thor feels that when he is alive, the world exists, and when he dies, the world is actually dead, and that's it.

A few days after Thor became the grave keeper, Shogues, who received the news, rushed in.

Then they dug up some old or forgotten graves overnight, stripped rings and necklaces from the rotting bones, and swept away other valuable funerary goods, and the harvest was not bad.

The two of them never thought that tomb robbing should be combined with any morality, that was something that only God cared about. The dead should have the appearance of the dead, and since he is dead, he should use his possessions to help more people.

However, tomb robbing also depends on luck, after all, those who choose to be buried in the cemetery are poor people who usually look up and don't look down. The best tombs are found in the depths of the wilderness, and those tombs that are hundreds or thousands of years old will have more spacious tombs and more private goods.

Depending on the age of the tombs and the social status of the deceased, the specifications of the tombs will vary. Some have a simple pattern, while others have hidden passages, and the locks are in danger.

In this regard, Hughes's kleptocratic skills are indeed superb, and if it is only in terms of unlocking and disarming traps, he can also firmly rank in the thieves' guild.

For a thief with an unstable income, a successful tomb robbery can allow him to live a prosperous life for a while, and this kind of unearned little game is very addictive to Hughes.

From time to time on, Shogues would always inform Thor that a wealthy man in the town had finally died and would be buried soon. Then the two would take advantage of the quiet night to dig up the grave and call the dead to discuss life.

Later, Shogues even suggested that Saul go back to the monastery with him and dig up all the graveyards in the backyard, which Saul had no interest in.

Tomb robbery is a small game that can be played once in a while, but it's not interesting to be too addicted or a profession.