Chapter 66: The Epilogue in the Jungle (Part I)
"In other words, Miss Arya and the Poison Man, the Patriarch of the Demon Shepherd, have had a deep enmity since ten years ago?" Sheehan sat on the side of the campfire, pausing his pen for a moment to take notes in his medical notes, and turned his head to look at Finn who was sitting by the campfire with him.
"To be precise, it was the poisonous vine that unilaterally committed an unforgivable crime against the elves of Tengluo Village." Hearing Sheen's inquiry, Finn raised his gaze, and first put down the parchment map in his hand for a moment and replied to the brown-haired young doctor, "And Arya has always taken this hatred too seriously, so that when we were attacked by wolves before, she probably saw the shadow of poisonous vines in the woods, so she lost her mind. β
ββ¦β¦ Understandable. Sheen was silent for a long time, and sighed softly at the elven girl's past misery.
After the operation, Finn and Lilith awoke from the two magic circles drawn by the old witch Barthra of Tieflin, and after Arya ended her nightmare with her own hands, she also lay on the grass in the dense forest for a long time and opened her emerald green eyes that reflected the cold light of the moon.
After that, Vercidis left with the old Tiflin Witch who followed him, along with the lizardmen of the Greenpaw Tribe, from around the camp of the Young and Sideburns Adventurers. On the other hand, Fein, Lilith, and Sheen also returned to the camp with Arya, who had just been operated on by the young doctor, and Lilith took care of Arya and helped the elf girl to rest in a tent.
However, Sheehan, a doctor who was rare on the coast of St. Fren's Sea, did not rush to sleep at this time, but planned to quickly record the operation he presided over in his notebook while his memory was not blurred, after all, tonight's memories were valuable medical experience for him.
It wasn't until just now, when he had written down all the details of what he had experienced during the operation, in a small notebook in his hand, that he remembered the story in the dream that Fein had told him. Then curiously asked the young paladin about the festival between Arya and the poison vine.
"Speaking of which, Sheehan." After answering Sheen's question, Finn suddenly thought of something, and looked into the young doctor's eyes.
"What's wrong?" Sheehan looked back at the young man.
"You ......" looked at the other man, and Finn hesitated.
before. When the young doctor saw Arya wake up, he noticed a line of tears soaking out of the corner of Sheehan's eye, which was immediately erased by Sheehan lifting his sleeve.
Fein guessed that Sheehan had probably experienced some kind of disappointing experience in the past, so much so that he gave up his pastor and took another path to treat the wounded.
This choice was not an easy decision for a Templar clergyman, who was at least a dream profession for many secular civilians, and priests and paladins were allowed to eat the free communion provided by the Church every day and wear the same uniform and white robes provided by the Church.
It's the same as saying that Sheehan is for some reason. And the already very good living conditions, at least for the civilian population, were abandoned.
In this regard, Finn is still the same as when he was a player in the previous life, and always has a unique curiosity about unusual things.
So he thought about it, hesitated in his mind, and then asked Sheehan euphemistically, "I heard that you used to be the pastor of the church?" β
Sheehan looked at him, his expression glazed for a moment.
"Well, it used to be." Then, he admitted, explaining: "But now it's a doctor." β
"Why?" The young man asked.
This time, the brown-haired young doctor chose to remain silent.
Half an hour later. He lifted the middle and forefinger of his right hand and pushed the single-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and took a gentle breath. In a calm tone, he asked Finn, "Are you a paladin?" β
"I am." No hesitation in answering.
"Before?"
"And now, too."
"Why?"
"For justice."
In the last life, many players in the game asked Finn a lot of similar questions, and young people are very skilled in dealing with this kind of thing.
So, without a pause, he answered Sheehan's question smoothly.
Then he heard Sheen then ask him, "Since you have chosen the doctrine of the Paladin for the sake of justice, then. Why don't you follow the path of Mithril as represented by the Silver Lion, and instead follow in the footsteps of Nightblade and bring glory into the shadow of light? β
Obviously, the Silver Lion of the Church refers to Roderick and the Nightblade refers to Versidisβtwo special appellations that are common knowledge to the Templars of this era.
Sheehan's question this time was a bit sensitive for a traditional paladin. Fein turned his head around for a moment.
He remembered that Leah had fallen asleep by this time.
After confirming that his beautiful colleague was not around, the young paladin turned his head back, refocused his gaze on the young doctor's eyes, lowered his voice and confessed, "I had a falling out with one of the priestesses in person. β
"Lord Priest?" Sheen was stunned, "Which Lord Priest?" β
"Marshallese Priest." Finn smiled wryly, "I was inexplicably labeled as a heretic on my head, and the Lord Priest wanted to arrest me, so we broke up. You may not believe it when you say it, but it's what it is. β
After speaking, the young man shrugged helplessly, saying that he was also quite aggrieved.
Sheen looked at the young paladin and felt as if the single-rimmed glasses he was wearing had dropped a little from the bridge of his nose.
Suddenly, he raised his hand to support the frame of his glasses, then lowered his hand and stared blankly at Finn for a few seconds.
Then, somehow, he suddenly burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" Finn's curiosity was immediately aroused by him again.
"I also fell out with one of the priests." Sheen suppressed his laughter, and then looked at the young paladin with a different set of eyes as if he had found a soulmate, "It's just that I don't have as much weight as yours. β
"Tell me?"
"Priest Johnson of Hanks, I don't know if you've heard of it."
Finn immediately recalled the memories of his previous life in his mind.
Soon, he remembered Hanks City, a county city built near White Harbor on the western coastline of the northern Violet Kingdom, under the jurisdiction of Duke Conlot, who owned the entire dukedom of the Golantian Plain.
As for Johnson's officiating priest...... He wasn't too familiar with this character, so he guessed that the priest of the church who fell out with Sheehan was probably not a famous person, otherwise he couldn't have left an impression in his memory that would remind him of something at this time. (To be continued.) )