Chapter 1: The Price of Light
"I'm sorry, kid, but you can't prove you're a good follower of the Light, can you? So I'm sorry, but while the Light will be there for you, you will need more tests if you want to serve the Light. ”
Li Ke looked at the old man with a kind face, his beard hung down to his chest, exuding the fragrance of an unknown spice, and it was thick and soft, and at first glance it was a good beard that was often groomed.
On the thick silk robe of the other party, gold threads, precious stones, and broken diamonds together form a gorgeous pattern, which sets off the sacredness and kindness of the other party.
as well as rich.
Blue silk, gold thread, and diamonds, and gems that radiated brilliance were not bargains, and it was clear that this magnificent robe, which an ordinary farmer might not have been able to afford in a lifetime.
But Li Ke knew that this was just the bishop's regular clothes, and he had three identical clothes for his sermons, as well as several more ornate clothes for more important activities.
If you want to say why......
He came almost every week to listen to the sermons and teachings of this one, and every day he came to help the clergy of the church with their work and do some chores, so he naturally knew the situation of this bishop.
And he came here to be able to listen to the Light and to join the monks.
As for why you have to become a monk of the Light.
There are many reasons for this.
The Holy Light Monk is decent, rich, and noble, these are all reasons.
But most importantly, the Light Monks will not be ostracized and will have the opportunity to harness the power of the Light.
These two are the most important to Li Ke.
"Sorry, kid, but isn't that what everyone is doing? If this proves that your faith in the Light is beyond the ordinary, it would be unfair to others. ”
Speaking of this, the old man glanced at Li Ke, as if he was moved by Li Ke's sincerity, and said a method.
"The knights of the monastery are about to return from the bandits and cultists, and when the time comes, their armor will inevitably be torn and bruised, and if anyone can help them with these problems, I think they will be happy to recommend that person to the church."
As soon as he had finished speaking, a servant came up to him and spoke beside him.
"Lord Bishop, where should you go?"
The bishop nodded, and instead of speaking to Li Ke, he walked straight to the gate of the monastery.
It could be seen that the lord was in a hurry to see him.
At the gate, a carriage drawn by four white horses was waiting for the bishop, and he stepped on a soft bench also made of silk to get into the carriage, and then completely disappeared in front of Li Ke's eyes.
Li Ke wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything.
Repairing armor is not as simple as in the game, a simple break requires a lot of man-hours to repair, and it is not enough to say that a random piece of iron is finished, but it must be decorated with various emblems and patterns. Not to mention the long time it takes, the process requirements are also very high, so ......
It's expensive.
But it has to be said that it is indeed a good opportunity.
As long as he repairs the armor for those knights for free, then he can indeed get the friendship of these knights, and at that time, a monk who does odd jobs can still get it.
But he didn't have the money, so he couldn't do the job.
As an ordinary person who used his original body to travel into this world, although his appearance has changed back to the age of sixteen for some reason, and the strength of his body is still maintained at adulthood, his biggest problem is not that his current strength is still not comparable to the farmers here, but that he is a 'foreigner'.
At the beginning, when he crossed here, because he didn't understand the words and language here, he was directly locked up by the militia as a spy, until the lord's mage came and cast a spell on him, and then he mastered some lingua franca and cleared his suspicion of being a spy.
The lord here does not look like a soldier or a spy at all because of Li Ke's exquisite mobile phone and clothes, as well as his calloused hands and feet, but like a scholar and an aristocratic illegitimate child. So the benevolent lord let him go and let him live in his own realm, becoming a citizen of the kingdom called 'Lordaeron'.
But although the lord didn't embarrass him, he still couldn't move an inch here.
Buying food?
You're a foreigner, it's more expensive.
Participate in a group welfare activity?
You are a stranger, and your share belongs to someone else.
Job? You are a foreigner, so there are few job opportunities, and the already meager salary will become even lower.
Because they know you don't dare to say no.
The only solution is to completely integrate into them and become a part of them.
But this method is either money, power, or power.
But Li Ke had nothing, and he couldn't even leave.
Because of his weak physique to the rest of the world, he couldn't survive three days outside of this town - Li Ke saw more than once on the edge of the town a wolf the size of a motorcycle, a spider the size of a beach chair, and his well-behaved, rice cooker-sized spider children.
So he can only be a hard-working old man:
Forgive others when you are bullied, take the initiative to help, do voluntary activities that everyone is not willing to do, do things that everyone participates in, do not complain about things that are isolated and targeted, and then ......
Isolate him with the others when the next outlander comes.
"It's better not to cross this life."
Li Ke sighed, turned and left the monastery, and walked to the blacksmith shop where he worked.
Before he crossed over, he was kind of a handicraft blogger, doing some work to restore armor, or sculpture or something. Make videos every day, make all kinds of strange lists for customers, what ancient swords, ancient armor, light two-dimensional armor or something.
The rest of the time is either fishing or learning various techniques of forging and weaving.
And because everyone is very idle in the modern Internet era, and they all have all kinds of strange hobbies, which directly leads to his relatively chic life.
So after coming to this world, he was illiterate in this world, and instead of selling coolies, he found a job in the blacksmith shop of this world to repair and build.
But in return, he taught the owner of the blacksmith shop the art of making hand armor, a man who kept a dark face all day long and deducted his wages when he had nothing to do.
As he spoke, he saw his boss as he walked towards the blacksmith shop.
Talos, a middle-aged man who was always dirty, did not turn on the stove to the maximum iron now, but leaned against the warm stone wall and looked at Li Ke.
This is not normal, because in normal times they always had weapons and armor that needed to be repaired, but today there is nothing.
"What, our ugly duckling is trying to turn into a swan again?"
Talos looked at Li Ke with a disdainful expression on his face.
Li Ke took a deep breath, Talos didn't say that deducting his salary was the best, he quickly put on his dirty apron, and wanted to go to his place to continue to repair the chain mail that was not repaired yesterday.
However, Talos stretched out his thick arm and stopped him.
"Tell me, how did they reject you this time?"
There was an undoubted color in his eyes, Li Ke knew why, because he didn't want to let himself go to the church, Li Ke knew what he was worried about, it was nothing more than that once he went to the church, some small problems of the knights belonging to the church, such as the maintenance of armor and the repair of small damages, would not come to him again.
This will save him a lot of high-quality orders.
Because of this, Li Ke knew that if he didn't tell the reason, Talos would have to find another reason to deduct his salary.
Life is hard enough, there's no need to give yourself any less money for bread.
"As long as I'm willing to give all the knights a free armor repair, I can ......"
But before he could finish his sentence, Talos burst out laughing.
“…… You can join the church, but unfortunately, you are a poor person, your salary is only enough to eat and drink, and you can't afford to pay that money, so naturally you can't join. ”
Slapped Li Ke on the shoulder, Talos sneered, and then looked at Li Ke with deep meaning.
"But boy, you have to remember, if you steal something and get killed on the spot, no one will trouble me."
Obviously, the other party thinks that Li Ke will steal things.
"You know I won't."
Li Ke was a little annoyed.
"Not necessarily."
Talos began to think about something.
Li Ke didn't argue anything, just shook his slapping shoulder, stepped aside, took a deep breath, sat back in his seat, and began to weave chain mail pieces in the blacksmith's shop with the occasional tinkling sound and the heat wave.
However, just when his eyes were a little sour, and he thought that today would also pass in the heavy labor, Talos, who had not spoken, spoke.
"Boy, if you want to get rich, it's not impossible."
Li Ke raised his head and looked at Talos suspiciously, but the other party showed a smile, and Li Ke found that he didn't know when, the other apprentices in the blacksmith shop came over silently.
He was silent for a moment, glancing at the men's muscles and the hammer in his hand before he looked up at Taros.
"What do you mean?"
Talos walked up to Li Ke, took the awl from his hand, and spoke as he played.
"The reason why you are so difficult is because you are a foreigner, but if you become your own person, wouldn't you not have to go to any Holy Light Church, and you would be able to earn money and live easily?"
Talos's scarred face was smiling horrively, and now he was laughing, horrible.
"Your own people?"
"That's right, your own people, in the true sense of the word, are not the kind of people who can be good as a good man."
Talos looked at Li Ke and smiled.
Li Ke glanced at the expressionless apprentices and took a deep breath.
If you don't agree, you'll be a thief, right?
"Of course I want to be my own."
As he said this, Talos whistled happily, and the apprentices dispersed silently, except for one or two who remained by their side.
"Very good, but you should know that if you want to be your own person, you can't just have superb craftsmanship, you have to make us believe in you."
Talos walked over, his pincer-like arms wrapped around Li Ke's shoulders, making Li Ke feel like he was about to be devoured by something, and Talos's viper-like cold hoarse voice also drilled into his ears again at this time.
"And it just so happens that we have a big business that allows you to be your own person and make you a fortune."
He almost pushed Li Ke and led him out of the inside of the blacksmith shop and into the shed behind the blacksmith shop.
"I'm sure you've heard that the knights who exterminated the cultists are coming back......"