"Glo, I just found out that what you have in your hands is actually [Justice and Righteousness]!"

After performing the blessing ceremony of the Holy Radiance with old Hugo, Bishop Vera was already feeling a deep mental weariness, and a wave of sleepiness came to his mind like a tidal wave, but today, witnessing the appearance of a glorious knight, this devout believer felt a strong excitement from the bottom of his heart. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He knew that currently in the Church, due to the loss of [Justice and Righteousness] and [Soul of Sincerity], only five of the original seven Shining Knights remained. In the past hundred years, except for the [Righteousness] taken away by Tony Stuart, who has fallen into the dead, the [Soul of Sincerity] has disappeared. The Church has been searching for these two artifacts, and now that the Righteousness of Justice has suddenly appeared, it is undoubtedly a very great news for every clergyman.

The Shining Knights, in the Church of the Holy Radiance, belong to the high-end core combatants. If there are no accidents, every Shining Knight can at least step into the [Transcendent Realm] in their lifetime. Needless to say, this meant to the Church on the continent of Ellandia - Bishop Vera looked at Glo, knowing that the young man in front of him had a great future.

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To the east of Afron, under the moon, is a vast expanse of silver, sparkling sea. The lights and moonlight poured down on the docks, and as the tide rose and fell, the reflection was fragmented, and after a few moments, the sea calmed down, and all of this was restored to its entirety.

The wind was loud, and in the darkness in the distance, a sporadic string of orange light could occasionally be seen from the other side of the lighthouse—merchant ships from the overseas islands, usually organized together by a few small merchants, to come to the port city of Afron to purchase and sell all kinds of supplies: grain, cloth, iron ore, and some of the daily necessities needed by their customers; Precious stones, spices, pearls, and some carvings were among the most popular goods in the Elantre Kingdom.

It takes about two months to make such a round trip, and after deducting the high port tax of 30 percent of the net profits, a small fleet of three to five brigs can still earn thousands of raels, which is even multiplied several times when it comes to cargo marketing!

This also made merchants eager to trade by sea.

And this night, the bustle of the docklands was not deserted by the fighting in the city during the day.

The cold sea breeze blew in the distance.

The waves crashed on the pier, instantly turning into a puff of mist, fine white foam rising from the water, the sound of clattering as if something had been crumbled, and a sticky fishy smell wafting through the air. In the port city of Afron, which is known to be sleepless, some dockers still wait here in the middle of the night, looking out to sea, hoping to find some work from the merchants who have sailed away—

At this moment, the wharf suddenly became noisy, the high lighthouse illuminated the merchant ships that were preparing to dock, and the sailors hired by the merchants on the deck also raised the signal lights to enter the port, and the dock workers hurriedly ran over, they shouted and slapped their shriveled chests fiercely, showing good strength to the merchants, and then stretched out a palm to gessy. They couldn't write, they didn't know how to write, and the strange language of the people overseas made communication a lot more troublesome, but gestures were certainly an easy way to communicate with each other—the countless fingers in the dense arms swayed in mid-air like aquatic plants at the bottom of the sea, which was dazzling to look at, but these perennial maritime traders had the ability to easily find the cheapest and strongest dock workers among them.

The mercenary Mickey squeezed inside, and with the advantage of being the incumbent, he squeezed to the front of the crowd. Five stout, sturdy fingers like sun-dried turnips waved incessantly, and he wore a short-sleeved linen robe that was easy to work on, and looked like any other dock worker.

But this time, once again, he did not get the job of unloading, and these dock workers were more familiar with the merchants than he was—his round face, his features were as sorrowful as a crumpled pancake, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh as he looked at Norman, Rowan, and Ranke behind him.

"I knew those old men didn't have a good thing."

He complained loudly in hatred - after the lucky escape from the dungeons of Graveyard City, they finally returned to the surface world, and then provided a valuable message to the Church -

Here's what the priest said: Their news is important, and the Church of the Radiance is sincerely grateful for their contributions.

But what's the use of these thanks? After the five mercenaries arrived in Afron, only the last copper sol remained in the total of the entire family. Before that, they had dreamed that the Church of Radiance would offer them a reward—and when it came to it, Mickey didn't even see a shadow of Rael.

After questioning the five of them, they were allowed to leave the church, and a young lady who was a probationary priest told them that there was something that needed to be verified, and that they should wait a few days.

Few days? How many days exactly?

After leaving the church, Mitch, Angela, and three other companions arrived at the Mercenary Guild in Afron, where they once again received bad news from the hateful steward of the Mercenary Guild: mercenary status recertification is not free, and each person needs to pay two rael if they go through the re-certification process.

And yet they only have one copper plate!

If they don't find a solution, they are destined to drink the cold sea breeze for a few days - after some discussion, the five of them decided to find some lucrative work first: four men have been mixed up from mercenaries to dock workers who sell coolies, and Angela, who is good-looking, has been offered a job as a waitress in a tavern.

It was a difficult time – in Afron, a port city with a thriving maritime trade, there was fierce competition among dock workers. In the past few days, the little money that the four of them have earned, except for the food and drink to fill their bellies, there is almost no surplus.

Of the five of them, the loud-spoken Mickey had the largest amount of food - five slices of black bread and a piece of gray bacon would make him half full in one meal.

Norman and Rowan were silent when they heard Mickey's complaints, while Rank, looking up in a certain direction in the city.

In the vast darkness of the night, the four mercenaries suddenly opened their mouths, they saw the white light shining into the entire starry sky, the position where the white light rose, and they still had the impression that the place was the local Church of the Holy Radiance in Afron.