After enjoying the breakfast prepared by the maids, Ulysses went alone to the only church in the village.

Since the village itself is small, even the largest building in the village actually occupies only a small corner. There are also strings of salted fish hanging next to the church, which is full of the taste of a small seaside village.

After gathering his mood, Ulysses took a deep breath and pushed the church door open.

Behind the door is a simple but modest hall, where the cross, the symbol of the church, stands peacefully above the altar, emitting a soft white light peculiar to divine magic.

A few small candles are lit in front of the cross, indicating that there are people who are always taking care of the church, not just a remote church that prays on festivals.

"Welcome to God's dwelling-place. A very young priest drew a cross on his chest and looked at Ulysses with calm eyes.

"May the light of God always be with us. Ulysses returned with the same cross, representing his status as a believer.

"There are very few people here at this time, you were a guest last night. The priest looked at Ulysses curiously, for there had been a great commotion in the village last night because of these guests.

He could hear the noise when he lived in the church, as if the girls in the village were all bustling to join the "maid team".

"Hmm. Ulysses didn't know how Sissi had managed to assemble an entire team of maids in such a short period of time, but since the maid's girls were voluntary, he had nothing to say.

With such a huge number of people at ease, it gives people a sense of absolute trust, which may be the charm of Sissi. I remember that in the ranks of the Apostles, she also quickly made many friends.

"It's hard for the girls here to wear that kind of beautiful dress all year round, that's why they're so happy. Don't think they love money, just because the clothes are so beautiful, and if you stay here a little longer, you'll know that they're good kids. The young clergyman felt that he ought to tell Ulysses this, lest he despise the maids too much.

"Really?" Ulysses didn't doubt the words of the priest in front of him, maybe girls instinctively like those pretty and cute things, so those maid clothes are indeed quite tempting.

"The people of this village are very kind, they live by the sea, they depend on the sea for their livelihood, and when they die, they return to the sea. For the vast majority of them, this is the whole world. ”

"Of course, the world is not so small, but for them, the area around here is basically the limit of what they can go. The girls here, except in the books, have never seen such beautiful clothes in their lives. To them, you're probably like the prince in the story. ”

"Prince?" Ulysses looked at the aristocratic dress he was wearing, and he didn't feel that he had any aristocratic demeanor on him—the aura of the demon king was a little bit more or less.

"That's right, the value of this dress on your body is enough to buy the whole village, you don't know it. I am not mistaken, at the aristocratic banquets where I used to work, this kind of clothing was only suitable for the noblest nobles, and it represented the highest class. The priest smiled and pointed to the ornamentation on Ulysses' clothes.

"The golden scales, that represents the supreme wealth, are you Sophia's man?"

"No, it was just a friend who sent it. Of course, Ulysses himself would not buy this kind of dress, and he vaguely remembered that this dress was a gift from Fari, and the specific source was probably that of the Heroic King Yuke.

"Then it's even more difficult, as far as I know, there are only five people in the whole of Sophia who are qualified to give this kind of clothes as a gift......" As if to see through Ulysses' identity, the priest began to examine his whole body carefully.

"Huh...... You...... Could it be ......" Looking at Ulysses's black hair and dark eyes, which were exactly the same as his own, and the expression that seemed to be naturally quiet in the church, the priest suddenly remembered a person, someone very important to him.

Although in fact they had only met once, for him, that encounter changed his fate.

"Ulysses?" the priest hesitated and said Ulysses' name.

"Ahh

"Sure enough, it's you. The priest smiled wistfully, then took a book out of his bosom.

"Remember? ”

"The Cultivation of the Priests" - This is a ubiquitous canon of priests, mainly writing about some common sense that priests should have and ways to cultivate their own cultivation, and it is a book that Ulysses can already memorize.

On the cover of the book, a time is written, which is a very important time for Ulysses, the time when the third priesthood exam begins.

This book, which has accompanied him for many nights, can be said to be a book that Ulysses is all too familiar with.

In the end, he gave the book to a teenager a few years younger than himself, a teenager who had the same dream of being a priest as he was.

"Joshua?" Ulysses did not forget the name of the young man, the friend he had met when he had just gained the power of Astarot and was worried about his future in the church of Taji.

He still remembered the scene when the two met, when Joshua was dressed in the clothes of an ordinary servant, but he looked at the priest standing on the altar to give a teaching, but he looked very seriously.

It was not the reverent gaze of ordinary people, but a fiery gaze mixed with reverence, envy, and longing. Seeing that look, Ulysses thought of himself and the ideals he had always adhered to.

"It's been a long time, thank you for the books, these books have helped me a lot. Joshua thanked Ulysses with all sincerity.

It was those precious books that opened the door to another world for him, so that he could be here at this moment and realize his dreams.

"No, that's nothing. Are you here now, have you become a priest?" Ulysses looked at Joshua with some confusion, judging from the fact that he was the only one in this church, he should already be the owner of this church, and he belonged directly to the Supreme God Cult.

"Of course not, I haven't passed the priesthood exam, so it's impossible to become an official priest. Because of the teacher's recommendation, I came here for the time being as a trainee priest. Joshua shook his head, it was not easy to become a priest, he was not qualified yet.

(To be continued)