Chapter 1: The Sydney Priest

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A blinding white light illuminates the entire space.

The reflected light made Doris unable to open her eyes, but she could vaguely see that there were busy white coats all around, she seemed to be sitting on a chair, her right hand was being pulled, Doris couldn't see the other party's face clearly, she only felt disgusted and scared, the violet brooch on the white coat of the doctor opposite shook her eyes, and the other party wiped the artery of her arm with an alcohol ball, but she didn't feel the cold.

She seemed to be a little dizzy, and subconsciously turned her head away.

But Doris felt that she had seen it, and her blood flowed into the glass tube, and the color of the liquid in the glass tube was red and black, but it was refracted in the shaking with a touch of blue.

That's not the blood sheen that a human should have.

Doris tried her best to open her eyes, she wanted to know what was wrong with her, but unfortunately her half-open eyes only saw a faint blue light, the bookshelves that towered to the ceiling, the books that fell to the ground, her right hand seemed to touch some hard surface, she subconsciously wanted to hold on, but found that she couldn't move.

The white walls, the blood that had been drained, it was as if she had just had a dream, and only the cold ground beneath her could make her feel a hint of her true existence.

Doris clutched her aching forehead and tried to stand up, but her left foot, which was crushed by the bookshelf, reminded her master with pain that her instructions were unrealistic.

She, where is this?

"Is it here? Arrest the man immediately. ”

The sound of boots falling to the ground could be heard from afar, but Doris couldn't even move an inch. Her body dutifully reminds her, run!

But the brain is lazy, and it seems to be asking, what to escape?

In the blink of an eye, a group of people rushed in, and Doris was pulled up, "Is that him?" ”

"Yes, yes, he's Occam."

"Take it away." The leader waved his big hand and said loudly.

The window on one side of the library was wide open, but as if she had not seen it at all, she dragged Doris on the floor away.

Doris was pressed out of the place, her dizzy mind making her eyes feel like a fog.

When Doris really regained her senses, she found herself enclosed in a clearing, with a white-robed man in front of her directing the construction of a high platform.

But there was a lot of coral around, even the sand and gravel under his feet, combined with the seaweed floating in the air, and even a group of small fish that had just swam leisurely from a distance, Doris had to come to the conclusion that she was now under the sea.

But why didn't she drown or feel sick?

Doris subconsciously wanted to touch if she had gills like a fish.

"Occam, are you awake?" An old voice, sounding to Doris's left, interrupted Doris's movements.

"You are?"

Doris looked over and saw an old man with gray hair, who had just spoken. Could it be that she wore it again, and this time simply changed her name again, called Occam?

Actually, Doris is a good name, after all, it is ...... Give her a name.

She subconsciously looked at the old man, he called her Occam, she seemed to be male this time?

The old man cautiously approached Doris a little closer, "Doris, don't worry, you just took a sex reassignment potion, and there is a chance to remove it in the future." Doris, I know you're sad right now, but if you think about your mother, how hard it has been for her over the years, and how good she has been to you, even if it's for your mother, you can admit it. ”

Strange dreams, the captors who woke up, and the meaning of the old man's words, Doris, who knew nothing, heard a pain in her head, and couldn't help but touch the back of her head, but she didn't expect her right hand to be stained with blood. No wonder from the moment I woke up, I felt that my head hurt, and it turned out that it was really injured.

Think about the library where she woke up before, it should be that the bookshelf has collapsed, and she was hit on the head by the book, and the bookshelf pressed down to her left leg.

Looking at the blood on Doris's hands, the apology in the old man's eyes was even worse, "I'm sorry, Doris, I think Occam didn't mean it, he was just scared......"

Listening to the old man's words, it seemed that Occam had injured her.

Doris's left wrist was burning and painful, she subconsciously held it with her bloodstained right hand, Doris didn't notice that the inside of her wrist was stained with Doris's blood, and the blood wandered away, and a scroll-shaped tattoo the size of a copper coin was drawn on her wrist.

The cover of the scroll has a beautiful shell, which occupies three-quarters of the cover, and on the four corners of the cover are painted wonderful lines, which seem to be plants and words.

The tattoo scroll was opened in the hot temperature, and the first figure scroll unfolded, and the three blood characters of Doris glowed brightly on it.

Fortunately, Doris covered her wrist in advance and didn't let anyone find out.

As the character scroll completely unfolded, Doris's eyes darkened, and countless remnant memory fragments emerged from her mind, if it weren't for Doris's strong soul, I am afraid that she would be blown up by these memories.

It turned out that she was indeed at the bottom of the sea, to be precise, in a remote sea area under the sea, and all the people she saw now were not humans, but sea creatures.

Doris is a moonfish who has no parents since she was a child, and like many marine races who are only responsible for life and not raising, she has never seen her parents since she was born, and can only survive alone.

Doris can transform at a very young age, even if she is only half-human and half-fish, which is extremely rare in the Butun Sea. The old priest of Butunhai gave Doris to Occam's mother for adoption.

Occam studied with the old priest since he was a child, hoping to become a priest, but when Doris was 14 years old, the old priest was seriously injured because of the fight against the sea beast, and he could no longer serve as the priest of Budun Hai, according to the rules of the temple, only the temple personnel who passed the temple trial were eligible to succeed the priest.

This person can be an apprentice to a priest or a guard of the temple, and of course, under the same conditions, the apprenticeship of the priest takes precedence.

However, none of the old priest's students passed the temple priest assessment, and according to the regulations of the temple, if there was no qualified candidate for the successor priest in the local sea area, they would be randomly sent from among the temple personnel who passed the trial in the adjacent sea area.

Therefore, the temple sent a new priest from the adjacent sea.

The new priest happened to be a Templar from the next sea, and because of the conflict between the two seas over food and other things, he had a personal vendetta with the old priest, and he deliberately asked for the succession as the most stringent blood sacrifice of the temple.

Since the two priests have a new and old succession, there must be a ceremony.

Blood sacrifice is the most brutal ritual in the succession of old and new priests, but hundreds of years ago, it was also recognized as the most orthodox ritual in the succession of priests.

Over time, the temple rarely chose blood sacrifices as a ritual for succession priests.

Unfortunately, the succession ceremony was appointed by the new priest by default, and now the new priest demanded a blood sacrifice, and it was the most cruel blood sacrifice, that is, the old priest, including all the students of the priest, had to sacrifice their own flesh and blood to the gods in order to pray to the gods to bless Bu Dunhai.

This is also the most simply means of maintaining the authority of the new priest and clearing the remnants of the power of the new priest.

And Doris's brother Occam, as a student of the old priest, is naturally also on the list of blood sacrifices.

When the little fool learned of Occam's crisis, he ran to the temple of Butunhai to inform his brother Occam to escape, and even planned to stay and die in place of Doris. Unfortunately, before Doris could speak, her brother suddenly picked up a book and knocked him unconscious, and then his brother fled alone.

The people who came to capture Occam saw Doris fainting in the library and thought she was Occam, but the old priest and the people in the surrounding temples all acquiesced that Doris was Occam.

Now, when the altar is completed, the old priest and his students will return to the arms of God.

Even if Doris jumped out and said that she was not Occam, in the eyes of the new priest and squire, it was just an excuse to be greedy for life and afraid of death.

However, the sight of the white walls she had just seen should have been a dream.

Doris, who fainted in the library, was pressed to the altar by the Templar knights who came to arrest the priest's apprentice, and Doris understood what the old priest said just now.

As soon as the old priest saw that the person who was pressed was Doris and not Occam, he knew that she was the one who replaced Occam, and there was only one explanation for the injury on her head, so the old priest asked Doris to forgive Occam.

In other words, her appearance is supposed to be different from Occam's, but her body has changed to male. The sex reassignment potion, as the name suggests, is to change gender, not replace another person entirely.

Wasn't it just for Doris's adoptive mother's sake, that Doris was afraid that Doris would resent Occam and tell the truth to the Templars?

In fact, Occam was the old priest's most valued apprentice, and Doris understood his desire to protect his apprentice. As for the other apprentices, it would be better to understand if they didn't open their mouths, one was that they didn't dare to offend the old priest, and the other was that they were all going to be sacrificed by blood, so why bother implicating one more person.

But it also proves from the side that the old priest has a strong control over the temple.

"Doris, are you alright?"

Doris shook her head silently, "Sydney priest, I'm fine. ”

She didn't think about persuading the old priest to resist, because this was the tradition of the temple, and even if the succession ceremony chosen by the new priest was too bloody, the old priest, as a believer in the gods, would never resist.

Perhaps for the old priest, it was already his greatest courage to be able to acquiesce that Doris was Occam.

The old priest looked at Doris, as if he wanted to confirm whether her sacrifice for her brother was sincere.

Perhaps Doris's acquiescence was too pitiful, Doris actually found a flash of guilt in the depths of the old priest's eyes, but this guilt instantly became firm for other reasons.

"Occam, there is no way for Lord Priest, who let us not fight, we can't even pass such a simple temple priest qualification assessment, otherwise, Lord Priest doesn't have to take the risk of hunting sea beasts......"

"Still not shut up?" The old priest sternly stopped his apprentice, "This is fate, and it is the fate that God has long recorded on the destiny track. Perhaps, it was me who asked for something that should not belong to me, which is God's punishment and God's forbearance. ”

Doris was a little amused, she was dying, and the old priest was still so devout to God.

However, is a priest who knows that he threatens the little girl with grace really a good person?

And if you suddenly stop your apprentice, what do you want to hide?

Doris suppressed the thoughtfulness in her eyes, and the old priest warned the apprentice who had just almost leaked his mouth after observing that Doris did not seem interested in it.

The apprentice who followed the old priest shrank his neck in fear, and the ordinary people of Bu Dunhai thought that this sea beast attack was Bu Dunhai's bad luck, but they didn't know that the old priest took the initiative to hunt the sea beast, how could he forget about this stubble.

The apprentice who just said the wrong thing is like a baby turtle on the verge of death, and when faced with an invincible fate, he chooses to bury his head back in the thick carapace.

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