Volume 1 The Land of the Dead Chapter 148 The Promised Land
What, if you have something to say, you can't say it well, you have to be so startled. β
Ignoring Linda's complaints, and glancing at the characters on the rubbing, Roger placed the parchment roll on Jimmy's desk, who had his head down again.
Seeing that the young hunter's breathing gradually stabilized, and his mood seemed to have stabilized, Roger also walked back to the table.
"I don't think this inscription in your hand is like a legend or anecdote recorded by previous people, or an unrealistic fantasy of some people, but I feel that it is more like a ....... Well, research notes. Taking a sip of the cooled 'tea', Roger expressed his opinion.
In fact, he originally planned to say that this was an academic paper about dragons, but after hesitating, considering Jimmy's acceptance, he chose a more conservative statement.
After a little recollection of Roger's translation of the rubbing, Linda asked suspiciously, "How do I feel that what is written on it is some speculative statement? Where did you see that this is a research note?"
"Don't you also look at the absurd legends about the gods in the various churches as non-fiction?" Roger said to Linda in a mocking tone, "The priests of the gods of each family are eager to quote the scriptures and press them on their own gods when they hear a wild legend, as if they can sing the glory of their gods with the help of this childish behavior, am I right?"
"This ......"
Linda's eyes dodged, she didn't want to back down in the realm of the gods, but the actual situation of the church was indeed as Roger said, perhaps because the Dark Ages were too far away now, and there were no miracles in the world except for the Holy Light God Edda in the past thousand years, what should she do if she wanted to expand her belief in the gods?
Whether it is a large church, the Church of the Light, the Storm Church, or those small churches, in short, the priests and monks of each family do their best to praise their gods. This is a tacit act that is tacitly approved by the churches, and at best it is only a matter of writing and talking to increase the number of believers in the gods, so why not?
After all, no one will really study what kind of great achievements those high gods have had, since they have become gods, it is not an exaggeration to have some more mystery on their bodies.
As the most widespread and well-known belief in the pan-continent, the monks of the Holy Light Church are even more masters.
After so many years of accumulation, the volumes of the Holy Light Church are so vast that it is difficult for even their own pastors to read them all, if you really have the leisure and elegance to read all the religious texts of the Holy Light Church in full, you will be surprised to find that at the end of that distant dark age, the Holy Light God Edda guided the final battle to expel the end dragon Tasia, and also worked tirelessly to run around the pan-continent, today to bless this territory with good weather, tomorrow to bless that legion with a hundred victories, and even a certain imperial queen gave birth to a big fat boy can be counted above Edda's protection, really worthy of the good leader of the gods of the new era, the title of a good god dedicated to all sentient beingsγ
It was precisely because she understood what kind of urine her priests were, Linda couldn't find any reason to refute Roger for a long time, so she had to mutter, "You...... You're a strong word!God...... Can the things of the gods be counted as making up stories?" One after another is the difficult words, such as "the light is salvation", what "the gods have no objection", and so on.
"Ann, blah, don't play with these old stalks. β
Roger stopped Linda's fragmented thoughts, and successfully took the topic away from the authenticity of the rubbing, and said to Jimmy instead: "Why don't we get here for the time being today, and everyone calm down, can you tell us about what happened to your father and the situation in your village tomorrow?" β
He had indeed planned to ask the details of Jimmy's father's abduction by the dragon, but thinking of the young hunter's excited reaction to seeing the portrait of the holy dragon before, Roger felt that Jimmy still needed to relax, and there was no need to rush this moment, after all, ......
Feeling his empty magic reserves and the broken spiritual world, Roger smiled bitterly, although he was able to escape smoothly from the hands of the Holy Domain, and paying such a price was considered a blood gain, but in our state, there was no condition or ability to support himself to return to the Pan Continent.
Smoothing out the folds of the parchment, Jimmy nodded slightly, and the moment he looked up, Roger could faintly see the reddened corners of his eyes.
Outside the hut, it was already pitch black, and the faint wolf howls before gradually became clear, as if they were approaching the cabin, Linda rubbed against Roger.
Seeing Linda's reaction, Jimmy wiped away his tears and said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, although my cabin is not big, but there are animal traps arranged around it, although the back of the house thinks that there are a few fewer reasons for falling rocks, but the impact is not big, you can rest assured." β
Speaking of this, Jimmy suddenly looked at Linda suspiciously, and asked curiously: "Speaking of which, I still want to ask you, how did you drag a fainting person in such a dense animal trap around my house and buried in a secret place." β
Seeing that Roger, who was fiddling with the bonfire, also looked at him, Linda shrunk her neck and smiled awkwardly, "What kind of trap, I don't know, I don't know, maybe I'm lucky, I didn't step on those clips, haha~haha~"
"Don't talk about this, you just said that there is a village around here, right?" Seeing that Jimmy had the intention of asking again, even Roger touched his ass with a strange expression, Linda hurriedly diverted the topic, "Then the pastor in your village doesn't know that the church? It should be the Earth Goddess Church, right?"
The church of the goddess of the earth, Gaia, can be regarded as the second largest church in the pan-continent after the Church of the Holy Light, and the priests who believe in Gaia may be regarded as agronomists of this era, who teach farmers simple knowledge such as mixing specific crops to increase yields, using crop roots, stems and leaves and other waste to make fertilizer, and making reasonable use of land fertility. After donating, they can also bless the land to increase production, although they also have the same bad habits as the Church of the Gods, but compared to the Church of the Light, they are more pragmatic churches.
After all, in this day and age, whether it is a village or a city, there will always be a priest who is responsible for handling Mass prayers, and Linda will think that it is reasonable for Gaia to exist here, but Jimmy's next words surprise Linda.
"What priest? What kind of gods did I just hear you say, the church, I want to ask, are these your specialties?"
"Wait a minute, don't you have gods to believe in?"
"Why are you more excited than me, what are you doing to me as a religious person?"
Recalling the voice in his head before, Roger frowned deeply, and immersed his mind in the sudden task.
'Receiving the information of the subordinate prayers, the signal source is in the undiscovered frequency band, and after identification, the signal source race is at the minimum survival level, the corresponding gods are requested to send the corresponding rangers to deal with the anomaly as soon as possible, and if the number of races to support the study cannot be saved, the corresponding specimens are collected and submitted to the central database
Additional note: Due to the death of the subordinate observer, only observer 9527 (A3 native) exists, and the task is automatically assigned to 9527, and the Pantheon will not accept any form of negative evaluation.
Ignoring the second half of the task description, which was very informative and undisciplined, Roger looked left and right, isn't this clearly written, receiving the prayers of his subordinates? Isn't this the kind of task source that the boss said before, listening to the prayers of all beings? But people here don't believe in their own boss, how did this task get to their heads?
Seeing Amy's face, I am just a poor little hunter who lives alone in the forest and is committed to avenging his father who was taken away by the evil dragon, don't have such a high demand on me, Roger knows that it is okay to ask him about it.
What seemed like a simple problem suddenly changed, and it was in the least likely place to go wrong, which made Roger go to reason?
Seeing that Linda and Roger were both grim-faced, as if they were talking about something incredible, Jimmy asked curiously, "What is a god? Is it something very important to you?"
"Gods? gods have never been important. β
Linda, who had been quiet, frowned, Roger didn't dislike the church jokes before, but when it came to the gods, this was her bottom line, and she was about to say something, Roger's second half of the sentence sounded slowly.
"Faith is the most important thing. β
The fluttering words landed in the ears of the two, bringing a completely different effect, Jimmy's confusion deepened, but Linda was frozen there.
Jimmy thought for a while and said, "Maybe I can take you to Uto Village early tomorrow morning, the village has not been visited by outsiders for many years, the bearded village chief is the most knowledgeable person in the village, maybe he knows what a god is." β
The voice of the previous prayer did sound a little tired and vicissitudes, could it really be an old man?, Roger muttered and nodded.
After talking about this, the three unfamiliar strangers had no more to talk about, and the room fell silent, and Roger simply left his place, poked the bonfire, raised the flame a little, and began to bake the cold roast chicken.
"How I feel like you've made this your own home. Jimmy's brow twitched, but that didn't stop Roger.
"Oops, there's not enough firewood, I'll go outside and pick up some more. Roger patted his head very exaggeratedly and said 'unpretentiously'.
Jimmy didn't doubt him, nodded and didn't forget to advise: "Remember to stick to the wall, don't walk the small stone path at the door, if you don't want to be trapped by a beast for a night." If you're really caught, I'm not going to save you, and I don't know where I put the trap in the dark. β
Waving his hand to show that he understood, Roger staggered out the door, and under the 'insight' of his right eye, the traps were as obvious as the glowing ones.
Leisurely shuttling between traps, Roger reflexively went into the forest without collecting firewood, but the dark and terrifying forest seemed like daylight in his eyes.
"Huh~ It's really the Pope's imprint of power on me, it seems that that old man is not an ordinary Sanctuary rank, except for the strange concept that Caesar guy caused me to postpone my rebirth, this is the second thing that can be immune to my 'initial' reset. β
Roger held an irregular crystal in his hand, even in the dark night, it still emitted a warm shimmer, and it was completely impossible to tell that this thing almost killed Roger yesterday.
"But it just so happens that I originally planned to go to the elemental plane to catch a light elf, but with this power crystal, it doesn't have to be so troublesome, oh no, maybe it's better......."
Luring the Demon Monarch into a fight with the Pope of the Church of Light?heh~ It's really exciting, but I'm more curious about what is hidden on this mountain...... Why don't you go up the hill and take a spin?
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