"May the Goddess protect you, devout believer."

Joshua placed his hand on the believer's shoulder, and the restlessness and fear in the other's heart turned into the power of original sin and was absorbed by Joshua.

The death of a lord, the inexplicable army, the town under martial law, the resurrected dead...... More and more rumors are circulating these days with the arrival of the surrounding residents who have been accepted.

Fear is growing among the people, but fortunately, Adolf has been on guard to the limit these days.

Don't talk about cultists, it's that some petty thieves have disappeared without a trace, which barely makes people feel at ease, and of course, there are some people with fragile hearts who come to Joshua's side to seek comfort.

This also allowed Joshua to accumulate a large amount of original sin power in a short period of time, and counting the power he had previously transformed from Juno, it was enough for him to squander.

[As the sun sinks, the ravens sing on the branches to welcome the arrival of the goddess of the night, the god of death sharpens his scythe, the conspiracy lurks in the shadows, and when the stars disappear and the moon hangs high, Joshua can ascend to the stage of his destiny. 】

"Juno, as a doppelganger of the gods, can you sense the crisis?"

Joshua really didn't have the heart to play a guessing game with the fate text, and all he could conclude with all the was that something big was going on tonight.

Although it is precious to have such a reminder, it is the case that the human heart is insufficient, and if there is a little, there will be more.

"It's not impossible, but I don't want to waste my power, and if you can open your sixth sense through the power of original sin, you should also know how much power this near-prophetic ability will consume."

Juno directly rejected Joshua's offer.

It is not a wise choice to waste the power of original sin without adding any believers.

"I see."

["It's such a stingy female ghost, since this is the case, when she finds a new body, she will completely limit her boobs to cup A. ”】

Good and vicious.

Although Juno understood that Joshua was so vicious, it was the first time she had seen it to this extent, and she covered her chest and endured it after thinking about it.

Anyway, before taking away the ontology, we must "level" the world, and after taking the ontology, we must "gather" people's hearts.

Momentary gains and losses are not enough to worry about.

"Juno, you...... What are you doing with your stomach covered? ”

"That's boobs."

Juno jumped to her feet angrily, if she had a physical body now, she would definitely build the blasphemous in front of her into a stone statue.

"Joshua, do you have an incident now?"

The doors of the church slowly opened, and the light of the setting sun shone on Anna's body, coating her body with a layer of glow, and a faint smoke filled the air, apparently she had just prepared the children's lunch.

"I have something I want to tell you before dinner."

Anna seemed a little hesitant, but Joshua could see that it was definitely not a trivial matter.

"Where are you going?"

"Priest's side."

Father? Joshua is the only priest in Montenegro, and Anna doesn't use that title to refer to Joshua when there are only two of them, so there's only one answer.

"Okay, I didn't take you with me last time I went alone, so let's go over together this time."

Joshua pinned the steel sword to his waist, and at this point he had raised his attention to the extreme, waiting for unknown danger to befall him.

"Joshua, it's really time for us to leave this time."

Due to martial law imposed by the Templars, the streets of Black Mountain were as quiet as an empty city, and even the footsteps of patrolling in the distance could be heard.

"Leave...... Is it? ”

Joshua knew that leaving the place was already a must, and that staying in this remote town would be devastating for Juno's sake.

Leaving was the best way to go, but he didn't expect that leaving here would make him feel a little uncomfortable.

This is probably the labor pain of leaving the comfort zone, even if Joshua has memories of his previous life, it is inevitable that he will feel this way at this time, but ......

"Where does Anna want to go?"

In fact, Joshua also noticed that this time Anna was going to see the priest, probably saying goodbye.

In this day and age, once you make up your mind to leave your hometown, you may never come back.

"I went wherever Joshua went, as I did when I was a kid and will be like that ever since."

"When I was a child."

Joshua's memories were brought back by the words, and Joshua's thoughts were disturbed by the weak body and biting cold.

I have to work hard to survive every day, and I see that except for Anna, I am the one who grabs food with myself.

At that time, Anna was thin and was bullied, that is, she and Joshua huddled together to keep warm, and it was probably at that time that the relationship between the two was determined.

Anna dealt with the little things, and Joshua took the idea of the big things.

"Let's go to Fei Leng Cui first, we can't leave these children here, if we don't have a job, the money will soon be insufficient, and when we get to Fei Leng Cui with the help of the church, we will continue to run a newspaper."

Although Joshua never left Montenegro much, that didn't mean he had cut ties with the church.

Every month Joshua writes to Bishop Jacob of Philemerald, who has been attending the annual prayer for the blessing of Father André since his death.

Now Joshua is even more involved with the Holy Maiden, and with this background here, it will definitely be much more convenient to develop in Feilencui.

"Emerald? I thought ......"

"You're worried about me going to the Papal Palace?"

Joshua could naturally see Anna's worries, although her strength had increased, Anna was still the same Anna.

"Didn't I say that? I won't go there, and if I do, I won't be able to return the favor. ”

The Papal Palace is indeed an ideal target, although Lilith's purpose is unknown, but judging from the current situation, the other party is indeed a kind person.

But Joshua wasn't in the habit of picking up a good man's wool all the time.

Sell magic books, get magic spells, and fight against cultists...... With Lilith's help in all of these matters, if Joshua had spoken, it would have been no problem to go to the Papal Palace.

But looking at Anna's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, I think I'm thinking about whether she has become a drag.

"Anna, you have also cultivated Dou Qi to the Grandmaster, if you want to go to the Pope's Palace, it is not a difficult task, do you think those children are a drag?"

"No, of course not."

Anna hurriedly replied that she was born as an orphan and how she didn't understand the suffering of orphans.

Although there is a group of people in this world who get out of trouble and immediately step back on it, it is clear that neither Anna nor Joshua are such people.

"That's right, they've never been a drag on us, and it's no other reason why I don't want to go to the Papal Palace, because if I do, it's absolutely on my own."

Joshua understands the truth that the female college is three thousand in the immortal class, but that is when he has no possibility of continuing to develop.

Although Joshua in this life is a little unreliable, he is a person with a plug-in.

Don't look at the people of this era who choose to lie flat one by two, this is just a helpless move, but whenever these people have a plug-in, they can't wait to bounce up from the bed and become the king of rolls.

Can you sleep at your age?

"As long as we survive this catastrophe, we will leave here."

In fact, Joshua also felt that the entire town of Montenegro had become bait for the church to fish at this time.

Even if it's emotionally unacceptable, Joshua admits that fishing is often the easiest and most practical way to deal with those who hide in the shadows.

As for whether the church was transferred to fishing in the end, or whether the fisherman directly made a nest in the flesh, it depends on the respective abilities of both parties.

"Hmm."

Anna agreed, their pace was slow, the sun had completely set, and there was only a little afterglow left on the horizon.

[After this battle, Joshua is going to get married to Anna. 】

Damn, don't talk about such a death flag.

Joshua would have laughed if someone else had said such a thing, but this time it was a prophetic text of fate, which really didn't bode well.

[The cemetery in Black Mountain Town is getting closer and closer, and the vigilant Joshua immediately noticed the problem, and there seem to be too many footprints here. 】

Joshua stopped and looked down at the ground, where messy footprints appeared, apparently not for long.

"Joshua, what's wrong with you?"

"Anna, has anyone been buried in the last few days?"

"You mean Mr. Glass? About five days ago......"

No, the timing is not right.

Of course, Joshua knew that Mr. Glass, the old man who had been dissolved by Lilith with the corpse explosion technique, but the footprints in front of him were definitely not left five days ago.

Three days...... No, maybe even this morning.

Joshua, as the only priest in the town of Montenegro, had to pass through his hands for any funeral in the town, except for the time he was in a coma.

There can't be a funeral that he doesn't know, and the people of Black Mountain have been panicking recently, and it is impossible for anyone to hold a funeral secretly.

[What was once sturdy suddenly began to soften, and this happened not just in one place, but in almost all tombstones.] 】

"Anna, dig me up the coffin."

Joshua went to the priest's tombstone and grabbed a handful of dirt, though he didn't want to admit it.

"Coffin...... Priest's? ”

"Well, as soon as possible, if anything goes wrong, I'll take the responsibility."

Although Joshua often said things like "old things burst gold" when Father André was still alive, Anna knew that Joshua still respected the old priest who saved their lives.

If it weren't necessary, I would never say anything like digging a grave, so you can imagine the seriousness of the matter.

Anna directly released the Dou Qi out of her body to condense the form, and as the Dou Qi went deep into the ground, she also felt that the soil here was not firm.

After determining this, Anna's speed began to pick up, and soon an old coffin appeared in front of Joshua.

Gently push open the coffin, and it was empty.

It was already dark, the stars could not illuminate Joshua's face, and the crows on the dead branches let out a bitter "mockery", as if to satirize Joshua's incompetence.

"They ......"

For Father Andre, who raised herself and taught her vindictiveness, Anna naturally respected the other party, and the more she respected her, the more angry she was at this time.

"Anna dig a few more."

"Okay."

Joshua wondered if Andre was alone in the problem, and that the Templars hadn't pulled down the cemetery since the Ghouls had been in Black Mountain.

Under normal circumstances, no one would be able to take so many corpses on a large scale, unless ...... The Templars had inner ghosts.

Figuring it out is more important than going back right away.

It didn't take long for Anna to dig up several more coffins, which were still empty when they were opened.

"I see."

As soon as Joshua was sure of this, he took Anna in the direction of the church, while thinking about the situation in his mind.

It is impossible for the corpse rituals in the cemetery to be completed one after another, after all, the Templars are not wineries, and it is impossible for ghosts to occupy the vast majority.

The frequent theft of corpses only increases the risk.

The only possibility is that today, after the Templars have inspected the cemetery, the plan was implemented.

This shows that the other party's status among these Templars is not low, and at the same time, it happened that Adolf invited Joshua to the grove some time ago.

Based on Adolf's situation at that time, if Doris hadn't arrived in time, it would definitely not have ended so simply.

Firelight, shouting, crying...... Various voices began to echo, and the Templars were fighting ghouls out of nowhere on the streets.

This time they faced a different enemy than the ghouls they had been able to fight before, and each of them had excellent mobility, far surpassing the average human.

"Joshua."

A slight call reached Joshua's ears, and at the same time Anna sensed the source of the sound, which was in an overlooked alley.

Doris's armor shattered, and scarlet blood flowed from a piercing wound from her back.

"Doris? You ......"

"I don't matter, you guys hurry up to the church, Adolf guy...... Sorry, I saw the wrong person. ”

Doris's face was pale, and she had an apologetic look on her face.

"Adolf attacked you?"

"Well, he said before that he found some remnants of the Predator Brotherhood, and it takes me to go over to make sure it's safe, it's just ......"

"Needless to say, I'll let Anna take you around the Templars' eyeliner and find Lilith as quietly as possible."

Joshua understood that if Adolf was indeed an inner ghost, then there must be other inner ghosts among the Templars.

Then he came to Anna's ear and instructed some precautions in the lowest possible voice.

Hearing this, Anna's expression became serious, and she led Doris into the shadows of the alley with her to make sure that she would be absolutely careful.

"That's my business next."

Joshua clenched his steel sword, and he finally came to this point as he watched the chaotic situation in front of him.

Just as a farewell, it's too noisy.