Chapter 67: The Epilogue in the Jungle (Part II)
Finn really couldn't remember who the Johnson priest of Hanks Sheehan was referring to, but that didn't stop him from listening to the story Sheehan was going to tell him next, about how the priest went on the path of a healer.
Next, from the words of the young doctor, the young paladin learned that Sheen was originally born into a wealthy family in Hanks.
As the second son in his family, he was unable to inherit the family business, so he chose to become the pastor of the Templar Church as his future path, hoping that he would be able to use the Church's magic to help the sick and wounded.
Sheehan, who was a pastor and now had this not-so-noble, but outright-kind, idea—but it didn't last long, and after working in a church in Hanks for a while, he found that the church's magic could not help everyone in the city to heal the sick and heal their wounds, because the pastor was not a gesture of the church to the sick, but a semi-profitable means that the patient had to pay a certain amount of money to the church.
If someone dies in someone's house, then the priest prays for the deceased to "rest the arts", and the cost of holding the rest ceremony is even more expensive - in Finn's opinion, this is one of the reasons why the Dark Alliance army advanced south so quickly in the early days of the Demon Tide War, after all, for the undead, the place where there are corpses is the barracks of bones and pork belly, and the accompanying wizards from the Calamity Wizards Guild have evil spells that can easily transform corpses into undead soldiers in large quantities.
Unable to accept the church's rule of restricting pastors from giving gratuitous favors to the sick and wounded, Sheehan repeatedly ignored the warnings of the church administrator, the local priest of the local church named Johnson, and secretly and persistently provided free charity services to the poor in Hanks and the surrounding suburban villages.
For a long time, his actions infringed on the interests of the local church, and naturally angered the offending priest Johnson and many of his fellow pastors who belonged to the same church.
There is no doubt that the former pastor has been isolated and ostracized by his colleagues since then.
Ultimately. One day, he was completely disillusioned with the church he had longed for, and he chose to leave.
But after that, whenever he heard the painful moans of an injured or sick person, he also remembered this memory that had been lost for a while, and then realized that this experience had unconsciously become a nightmare shadow in his heart.
"So. When one day, after you stumbled upon medical skills, you completely gave up your role as a priest and chose to take another path to treat the wounded? Sitting by the campfire, Finn tilted his head sideways at the brown-haired young doctor, bridging the doctor's story with a guessed ending.
"yes...... When I found out one day after the doctor, I was like a lost person who had been walking in the desert for days and found an oasis. Sheehan looked up and looked at the silver moon in the night sky with his eyes intent, "I still remember that feeling...... It's like being redeemed. I rediscovered the ideals I wanted to pursue, and vowed to one day pass on this skill to more people who could master it without the need for divine talent...... Of course, the prerequisite is that I have to master the technique myself before then. ”
"It's going to be tough." The young man kindly reminded.
"But maybe it's great, too." The doctor lowered his gaze, "Unfamiliar fields always need pioneers to explore the way, we are not prophets, who can see through the future?" ”
As he spoke, a bright light flashed in his eyes, confirming that his determination and self-confidence were more than just three points of enthusiasm.
Fein looked at his new friend, who looked to be only a few years older than him.
Half a day. He wanted to say "you can do it" to the other party, but then he thought about it. What the other party really needs from now on may no longer be the encouragement to support ideals.
It's time.
Sheehan had just said that neither he nor he was a prophet, but Fein had memories from the future, and he knew that when the haze of war faded from the shores of St. Fren, the time of change would come.
Time will witness all this, and he, as a traverser, will inevitably flap the wings of the butterfly in some necessary places. In order to achieve his desire to reverse the bleak fate of the human kingdom in the Demon Tide War.
"Do you have any new plans after tonight?" The young paladin asked him again, "As you know, my companions and I intend to go to the north of the kingdom. If you would like to travel with us, I welcome you. ”
"Thank you for having me. Friend. But just as you plan to go north, I already have a clear plan. The brown-haired young doctor smiled and politely declined Finn's invitation, "I have heard that in the Far East, the Far Easterners have established their empire at the eastern end of the continent, and that they also possess the most advanced medical knowledge in the world—therefore, I intend to follow the coastline of the Sea of St. Fern from Violet to Faentan, then through the Republic of Istan across the strait to Sishland, through the great desert there to the Far East, and finally to bring the most advanced medical skills back to us from there." ”
"Sounds like a very distant journey." As a former legend, Finn certainly knows what Sheehan's idea means, "but it's not impossible to realize...... Then good luck. ”
As he spoke, he raised his right arm toward Sheehan and clenched five fingers into a fist.
Sheehan blinked, and it took half a second to make sense of the gesture.
“…… Well, each other. ”
Half a second later, he realized something, so he kept a smile on his face, raised his hand, and punched Finn.
Just then, the curtain at the door of the tent where Arya was resting was lifted by Lilith from the inside.
The black-haired warlock girl emerged from the tent and calmly walked behind the two young men. Fein and Sheen heard her footsteps, then turned their heads to look at her.
"Finn." Lilith spoke to the young man.
"Lilith?" Finn raised his gaze to meet him, "What, what's the matter?" ”
"Arya wants to talk to you." The girl relayed to him, "Alone." ”
……
The elven maiden's resting place was no different from the other tents in the camp, these makeshift tents were nothing more than a wide old linen supported by sticks of a certain hardness such as tree branches, and the ground inside the tent was still a muddy ground with many weeds growing in the forest.
Fein reached out from outside the tent and lifted the curtain from the entrance to the tent, bent down and stuck his head into the tent, and then saw Arya sitting on a rudimentary grass bed made of weeds and staring at him.
"Uh...... Feeling better, Arya? The young man's gaze met that of the elven girl.
"Hmm." The elf girl also looked at him sideways and nodded, "At least the head is much clearer." ”
As she seemed to feel some soreness in her shoulders, she lifted a hand, brushed away the blonde hair that had fallen from the side of her head and was on the side of her neck, and carefully loosened one of the bandages on her shoulders with two fingers.
She had surgery on her chest not long ago, so she was not wearing a shirt at this time, and several rolls of bandages wrapped around her chest now served as a temporary cover for the private parts of her upper body.
This makes her already slim body curves look faintly alluring.
Fein looked at her for a moment, and for a moment turned his face to the side in embarrassment.
Fortunately, although Arya initially made a little awkward when she learned that her carcass had been seen by someone, it seemed that she didn't care about the rude behavior of Fein, Sheehan, and Vercidis to her as a last resort.
So, although her face was still a little red until now, after adjusting her mentality a little, she still opened the first step of the topic to the young man seriously, and said, "Let's sit in first...... There's something I'd like to tell you. (To be continued.) )