Chapter 288: Vivien's Dog
Muwan County, Bagpipe Town.
Children from the Kolis Church School will be organized by the school for an annual tour.
After all, there's really no place to play on Glass Island - that's where every inch of land is at a premium. The best place to see the scenery is probably the island in the lake where the Temple of Silver and Tin is located.
But it's important to show the kids the nature outside, and to let them know that not everywhere in Avalon is the smoke-spewing, rumbling factories, and the trains that roar on the tracks.
This will also help children in their future employment.
The priest resources inside the glass island are inherently saturated. Not to mention the priests and deacons who have just graduated, even the bishop is a big handful. There are a total of nine churches on the Glass Island, each of which is guarded by more than one bishop above the fourth level.
But in many places outside, even in a small city, there is only one bishop. Most of the small towns do not have even a bishop, and there is only one priest.
The church needs such a coaxing and deceiving puller, and there is no way to do it. After all, there is still a lot of work content in the Nine Pillars God Church.
The births, weddings, and funerals of the entire township have to be sent to them, and this alone is already too busy...... Especially for funerals, the presence of a true priest of the transcendent rank must be present at the time of burial to avoid the transformation of the deceased into a dead spirit.
They also had to lead the believers in daily prayers, maintain the statue of the Nine Pillars once a week, listen to confessions and do psychological therapy, take care of orphans, make holy water, plant in the fields behind the church, and sanctify ritual utensils...... A few transcendents alone would definitely not be able to keep busy, and this must require the assistance of a large number of ordinary people.
On the contrary, it is the extraordinary work of treating the sick that the doctor cannot cure, dispel the spirits of the dead, and curse, which is only a very small part of the day's work. Not even once for many days.
The priests who graduated from the seminary of the Royal Law University and were directly crowned are less than 100 in a year...... This is certainly not enough. So there are church schools—not universities, but secondary schools.
After graduating from elementary school, you can enter a church school, and after six years of church school, you will basically become an adult.
Then you can go to the church to intern and learn how to be a qualified pastor from the grassroots level.
Those graduates of Wang Li Law University have a minimum of the second level after graduation, and some can reach the third level before graduation. Basically, they intern and train in the church on Glass Island, and after they reach the level of priest and bishop, they directly parachute into various regional churches to serve as administrators or bishop candidates.
After their transcendent rank is further raised, they may even have the opportunity to be transferred back to the Church to receive further promotion above the Bishop. This can be regarded as a kind of professional group, and the life plan is basically going to the bishop - if you can't become a bishop by the age of forty, you will be ridiculed by your classmates.
And these students who come out of the church schools are the overwhelming majority of the clergy in those churches.
Most of them are not even able to become a transcendent until they are thirty years old, and they can barely grasp a certain transcendent skill, that is, the limit.
When they reach adulthood, they are sent to remote towns and villages according to the needs of the church.
And when they just graduate, they are just adults. Suddenly leaving one's parents and being sent to a backward rural place alone can easily make people feel unbalanced.
- After all, if they can't become transcendental, it means that they are not strong in the path of dedication. That means they don't really like giving...... But it is not necessarily, maybe they do not have the foundation and opportunity for "dedication".
This kind of "suffering" experience is actually to forcibly stimulate their dedication qualifications.
If they learn what it means to give in the process of helping people in needy areas, they will have the opportunity to become full-fledged transcendents.
- But that has to be done by letting them really go.
Therefore, in order to reduce the resistance of the students, the church school will regularly arrange a special holiday trip to fool the children.
Take the kids on a holiday trip to the resorts with the best natural scenery.
Let them feel the beauty of nature, and let them realize that "leaving the glass island is not necessarily a bad thing", and even make them look forward to working in the countryside after graduation. So as not to trigger a wide range of resistance after graduation, I don't come directly.
When they do graduate, they can't regret it anymore when they find out that the goods are not right—how can it be that it is also in the countryside, but it is so ordinary here?
But anyway, it's all here, so let's do it for half a year first, right? Maybe after half a year, you will become a true pastor.
Even if you leave after half a year, a new trainee pastor will be transferred in another six months.
- What a pitiful one. Vivi thought at ease.
At this moment, this little girl in a dark blue nun dress, silver hair and silver eyes happened to be smiling and playing with her classmates.
Maybe it's because she has elven ears, or maybe it's just because she's beautiful and cute. Naturally, a large number of people gathered around her, and she would be the focus of everyone's attention wherever she went.
"Then, I'm going to go shopping alone!"
Vivien put one hand behind her back, and the other hand beckoned in front of her, bent down slightly, and smiled smartly: "I'll be back in a while!" ”
"Stay safe, Vivien!"
"We're waiting for you right here!"
Her classmates also responded enthusiastically.
Vivien hummed happily and walked and jumped.
But before she could get far, her steps slowed down. From the innocent cuteness of a little girl to calm and elegant, the carefree and cute smile on her face gradually converged and became calm.
As she walked around a corner, she saw a man with long hair curled and damp like seaweed standing silently.
He was tall and thin, with a gloomy and dangerous aura on him.
- He's the type of person who would be considered a poet if he held a pen, a painter if he held a paintbrush, and a wandering singer when he sang, but if he stood there and did nothing, he would be considered a fugitive.
But Vivien was not the least afraid.
She looked up at the man.
"Looking for me?"
She asked rhetorically, "I remember that I gave you freedom." ”
"Master."
Yeats bent down respectfully, and his words could even be called humble: "I have finally found you." ”
"You don't have to find me."
Vivien said coldly, "You are no longer my dog. ”
"I have something to report to you, my master."
"I don't listen."
Vivien refused without hesitation.
"Relating to the Divine Entity."
“…… Forget it, I'll listen. ”
Vivien changed her words.
(End of chapter)