39. The priests in the temple
"You met that Naga killer?"
Jasper was startled, leaning back in his chair and staring at Roy with wide eyes.
"Hmm!"
He leaned over, stared at the linen bandage on Roy's body, and said:
"Let me see your wounds."
Seeing the hemostatic cream drying up and some scabs on his back, Jasper began to panic a little.
There was a hint of embarrassment on his face:
"Roy, that ...... I have a private job to go out and purify tonight, so I need to keep some of the power of the Light, and you know that when you pray now, it is difficult to condense the Light, so ...... This is not for me to shirk, I really need to keep a little light. ”
Jasper patted his forehead and continued:
"Let's call Abt, this guy has been praying day and night lately, and he may be a little rewarding."
Roy didn't expect Jasper to get a private job, so he had to go to Abt.
"I've seen Abt in the porter, I'll go look for him now."
Probably because he felt that he rejected Roy, which made Jasper a little uncomfortable, he took the initiative to say to Roy, "I'll accompany you to ......"
The two walked out of the study room and stood in the hallway of the dormitory, and Roy asked Jasper:
"Jasper, are you going to treat someone at night?"
After Jasper closed the door, he turned and walked downstairs with Roy, saying as he went:
"It is generally difficult to receive this kind of work, the ordinary healing potion in the pharmacy only costs fifty kollers, if the injured is a silver moon elf, there is no need for it, in addition to being able to receive the sap of the tree of life from the moon god, the sacrifices in the moon god temple also have healing magic skills, and they will not find us at all."
Before Roy could ask again, Jasper continued:
"It's to go to the ship to purify the ghosts."
There were several large ships moored on the docks, and Roy knew it.
Jasper didn't hide anything, and he already regarded Roy as his own.
He said to Roy: "There are often ships in port, and when these ships are sailing on the sea, some of the crew will die on the ship due to various accidents, and often there will be souls who cannot cross the Styx, and will become wandering spirits on the ship, and then we priests will use the holy light to purify it. ”
Roy didn't know how many times he had heard the story of the River Styx and the ferryman.
It is said that behind the River Styx is a place known as the Plains of Despair, which is overgrown with the flower of the Yellow Spring, the Flower of the Other Bank.
All souls who cannot enter the kingdom of God after death must enter here......
Roy was also very curious about the wandering ghosts.
It is said that souls with great resentment after death, or souls who have not been brought in after death, will remain in this world as lost souls, and these souls will either be purified or wait for the soul fire to burn out and dissipate with the wind.
Obviously, Jasper's private job is to purify these souls.
Roy hesitated for a moment before trying to make a request to Jasper:
"Jasper, can you take me with you at night?"
Jasper didn't expect Roy to make such a request......
"Do you want to see it?"
Roy nodded and said, "Well, I'm a little curious. ”
Jasper hesitated slightly.
But looking back, since Roy is already a trainee priest in the temple, he naturally can't hide these things from Roy in the future.
"Well, in fact, when you learn to purify in the future, you can join us, of course, you can also go it alone, as long as you are in Castletown Harbor, you won't have to worry about no business." Jasper said frankly to Roy.
The two of them passed by the well and walked into the courtyard in front of the temple.
Priest Andison, who was sitting on the edge of the pool, was no longer there, and Roy glanced back at the main hall of the temple, which was also quiet.
The whole temple was very quiet when there was no assembly, no one was running, no one was noisy or noisy.
Jasper looked at the statue of Liberty in the center of the pool, his steps slowed suddenly, his eyes rested on the stone carved sacred prayer in her hand, and asked Roy:
"Roy, what's your dream?"
Roy also followed Jasper to slow down and said casually:
"I want to learn as much as I can about this world, to see if this world is connected to other worlds......
"Of course there is, but there are quite a few!"
Jasper gave Roy an answer without hesitation, and then said in a flat voice:
"But...... We don't call them other worlds, we usually call them planes, as far as I know, there are at least a thousand planes of all sizes that we have discovered so far, some planes are extremely rich, some planes are full of disasters, and even if we find some new planes, we usually don't easily change their environment, at most we transplant the tree of life to it. ”
Roy followed behind Jasper and couldn't help but ask:
"Jasper, do you know where to learn about these planes?"
Jasper shook his head and patted Roy on the shoulder comfortingly:
"Those are the things that only the high-level elves of the upper class will come into contact with, and it is not easy for half-blood elves like you and me to enter that circle, and even if they enter that circle, it is not realistic to know the situation of all planes, because the information of each plane is very precious, and those nobles are not willing to share it with others."
"That's it!"
It was the first time anyone had talked to Roy about this, and it was very new for Roy.
Jasper came to the gatehouse at the gate of the temple, where Abt was still praying earnestly.
knocked on the knocking door.
Abt opened his eyes and saw Jasper, with confusion in his eyes:
"Jasper, didn't that group change their minds, didn't they make an appointment for the night?"
"There's no change in the agreement over there." Jasper walked in and said, "Abt, there's something I want you to help me with, Roy was a little injured in the morning, and you know how I'm doing, so I'm afraid I'll ask you to ...... this time."
"Oh, why didn't you just tell me directly, is my 'secondary healing' worse than Jasper's?"
Abt didn't excuse himself, but laughed at Roy and joked.
Roy stood in the doorway and explained, somewhat awkwardly:
"I saw you praying in the concierge just now, so I didn't bother you......"
Abt asked Roy to sit in the porter.
There was no room for three people in this cramped space, and Jasper could only stand outside.
Abt picked up the prayer book from the side and examined Roy's wounds. While complaining to him, he said:
"Hey, this holy light has been getting more and more difficult to condense recently, no matter how much you pray, it won't have any effect, Roy, how the hell did you manage to advance under such circumstances......"
Roy felt that even if he told the truth again, the two of them wouldn't believe it.
Even if someone does believe it, it is very likely that they will think of themselves as outliers......
Whether it is a human or an elf, everyone always likes to find those who have something in common to be friends with, and is used to excluding dissent.
Roy said vaguely:
"I just felt those holy light particles around me constantly merge into my body, and then I was promoted unconsciously."
Abt slapped the table hard and said loudly:
"It's really the same as I guessed, it's completely because the power of the Holy Light naturally integrates into Roy's body and causes the promotion, this situation can only occur in low-level trainee priests, if the two of us want to rely on this promotion, it is estimated that it will take decades ......"
Jasper was also a little dumbfounded: "It can't be so exaggerated. ”
"Why not!" Abt said with despair again: "Originally, I thought that the Holy Radiance of the goddess might have slipped through the net and shone into the Elven Continent, but I didn't expect everything to be my fantasy. ”
Seeing that Abt was depressed, Jasper hurriedly reminded:
"Hey, be careful, failure is the biggest waste."
Abt patted the book of prayers and said with confidence, "There is this...... How could it fail! ”
The three of them chatted, and in the narrow gatehouse at the entrance of the temple, Abt finished treating Roy.
The secondary treatment fell on Roy, and Roy could clearly feel that the scabbed wounds were beginning to heal rapidly again.
Just as Roy stood up and tried to move his body, Jasper said to Roy:
"Roy, try not to ask Grand Priest Reed to do this kind of thing in the future......"
Roy looked at Jasper with some confusion.
Jasper said, "You just have to go to Grand Priest Reed, I guess he will probably not refuse, but next week's meeting at the temple will depend on him to pour the power of holy light into the pool to maintain the basic efficacy of the holy water in the pool......
Abt sat back down in the porter and asked in a low voice:
"Teacher Addison's holy light hasn't been restored yet?"
Jasper, who was nominally a student of Officer Andison and knew more about Officer Andison's affairs, had a look of worry on his face, and said:
"Lately, the teacher's mood has been a little wrong, and I think he seems to look at everyone like he is looking at the Holy Grail thief......"
Abt also sighed and muttered in a low voice:
"If the Holy Grail were still around, life wouldn't have been so difficult!"
Roy suddenly remembered that there were three priests in the temple, so he asked:
"What about Priest Theodore?"
Abt smiled and said casually:
"He is now the golden sign of the temple, if the elf nobles in the city have this need, almost all of them are he who comes forward to solve it, so the teacher is out almost all day long, and even if you can meet him in the temple, most of them will still refuse, even if I can't ask for it, he will not easily waste the power of holy light, a few days ago because of this, he also quarreled with Teacher Andison."
Jasper put his arm around Roy's shoulder, waved to Abt, and walked with Roy to the backyard, saying as he went:
"So it's right to find us for this kind of thing, if you can help us, you will definitely help, of course, it's best that you can learn the 'secondary healing technique' yourself, the primary magic technique is not difficult, just practice it more."