Encyclopedia of Feanor Continent

"The priest is sick. I'm the pastor here." Secia lit a short candle and led them upstairs. The room was clean, just as Secia said—except for a few wooden beds Nothing else.

"I have nothing else to do, I'm leaving first." Secia was polite with a coldness that shouldn't be there at his age, but there are many people who have suffered these years, and this kind of face numb due to suffering can be seen everywhere .

"Wait a minute, why is this a church here?" Palos was still a little concerned about this matter, he thought it was just an ordinary residence, if he had known it was a church, he wouldn't have come in.

"...Everything is God's will." Secia left the candle behind, turned and went downstairs.

"It's this sentence again." Evandel said, "Every time I hear this, I feel like rolling my eyes. Fortunately, you never use this to prevaricate me."

Yes, this is a standard prevarication, the clergy are not allowed to lie, but there will always be some questions that they don’t want to answer or are inconvenient to answer. Whenever they encounter such a situation, they will come up with this empty sentence If the words come, it implicitly means that the topic is over.

Phils didn't think about it that much, he had already laid out his sleeping bag, and asked, "So, what about dinner?"

Alkai obviously had no plans to go hunting, and he couldn't expect to buy anything to eat in this small village. Avondel took out a bag of cereal and a large piece of frozen meat from his bag-this is the hard work of an enthusiastic savage. One of their parting gifts.

"Let's borrow their kitchen to cook porridge, and leave the rest of the ingredients to them. I think those children are a little malnourished."

"Okay." Palos took the ingredients and went downstairs. When they went upstairs just now, they all saw those little heads poking through the cracks in the door. There were at least ten orphans downstairs, but in such a poor and run-down In the small town, the church apparently did not receive much donations, so one can imagine their living conditions.

Evandel never liked children. The mage thought they were noisy, capricious, unreasonable, trouble-making, and possessed excessive curiosity and destructive power. However, even if he didn't like to get along with children, he was still willing to show them what he had. Food to let these strangers eat a few good meals.

The children's eyes lit up when they saw the food, and they gathered around the stove and refused to leave. The teenage girl kept busy helping him add firewood for the fire. Palos took the opportunity to ask her: "What are you doing?" What is your name?"

"Amy," said the little girl.

"Amy, can you tell me why this town is so desolate and dilapidated, and why the church was set up here?"

"This used to be the mayor's house." For the sake of food, Amy was finally willing to say a few more words, "I heard that the youngest daughter of the last mayor was a girl with a talent for a mage, and he didn't want her to be raped. The church took her away and hid her daughter. Then the Knights Templar came. The mayor's daughter and the mayor who protected her were burned to death. The mayor's wife went crazy. Huo... the master of the religious order came over and took a look, and told us to treat this place as a temporary church."

"How long ago was that?"

"It's been more than ten years, and I've heard it from the old people. Later, it gradually became dilapidated. The crops can't grow, the livestock will die strangely, and the well water will become salty and bitter. People say that this land Cursed, everything that can be moved is removed."

"Has there been no one from the church to build a new church?"

"No one cares about this place." Amy said, "Only the priest and Secia are still taking care of us. People in the town occasionally kindly send us some food, but they don't have much of their own."

Palos helped Amy deliver the cooked food to the priest. The priest is an old man who has been lingering for a long time, and seems to be a little delirious. Secia is taking care of him. The young priest is polite to Palos Thank you, took the food and slowly fed it to the old priest.

Evandel lit a few candles he had brought with him. When Palos went upstairs with the food, he was writing his encyclopedia by the bright candlelight. Arkay sat silently at the window and looked out. Phil Si went to play somewhere, even though the mage told him that there might not be any "prey" to see around here. Natalie tasted a few mouthfuls of the porridge that the mage gave her on the plate, and uttered a sigh of relief. The "chirp" complained, and she didn't stop until Evandel took out the dried fish from the bag.

During the meal, Palos roughly told Evandel what he had found out: "That curse sounds weird. I have never heard of a similar curse. Do you know anything?"

"I'll go take a look later."

The mage has had a good rest these days, so he is not in a hurry to go to bed. After dinner, Evandel took a candlestick and brought the bats down the stairs with Palos. There is a well in the backyard of this house, which may have been used for domestic water in the past. Source, now it can only be used to wash some things, Palos brought a bucket of water up, the mage leaned over to smell it, and even licked it, then spit out the salty and bitter well water from the bag I took out a small bottle and filled some, and grabbed a handful of soil from the nearby vegetable field.

There wasn't much space in the room they lived in, so Evandel chose the prayer hall where apparently no one would come. He took out some experimental equipment such as crucibles, flasks, and test tubes from his bag, and dissolved the soil into them. Shake it in the water, and after a long time of tinkering, I pulled out some chairs and stools, and piled up some things in a corner of the room.

"Tell those little kids not to touch anything in here," Evandel said to Palos.

"Any conclusions?"

"Not yet. It will take some time. Let's leave it for another day tomorrow, since you care so much about their affairs."

"...Sorry for the delay." Palos didn't deny that he really cared about things here, Evandel whistled, and asked Natalie, who was parked on his shoulder, to watch outside the door, so that no one would come to disturb them , and then he lazily leaned on the altar, patted the place beside him: "Come here, I have something to talk to you about."

Palos walked over without knowing why. It was obviously very impolite to sit on the altar like Evandel. He didn't correct the mage, but just stood beside him politely: "What's the matter?"

"You know I'm planning a war to overthrow the Church, right?"

"I know." Palos lowered his head to avoid the mage's gaze. This matter has always made him a little entangled, but he really couldn't figure out what was going on, so he kept avoiding it.

"You also know that after the war, the people in these small churches, priests, priests, and Templars-whether they are mage-stalkers who deserve to go to hell or those simple colleagues like you, will become our enemies. ,Right."

"……Yes."

"But you still want to help them?"

Palos was silent for a moment, organized his words before saying: "Both Secia and the priest are good people. Before the priest fell ill and they still had the ability to leave, they chose to stay and take care of these orphans, and let the remaining The townspeople can have a psychological support."

"I don't deny this, but in the future, when these 'good people' know that we are the enemies of the cult, they may confess to God that they used dishonorable means while poisoning our food and ventilating it. Reporting someone to arrest us, or stabbing us in the back with a knife when we are not paying attention, this is not because of viciousness or revenge, but because they think it is just."

"If that day really comes, I will kill as soon as I need to, and I will not be soft." Palos said, "But before they take the initiative to murder us, I hope to help them wherever I can, just like you said, Good deeds that don’t consider the future are just self-deception. If you just give them food and money, they will have to eat and use up one day. But if we can solve the curse on this land, these children and townspeople will rely on their own strength As for whether they appreciate it or not, it is their business, and I want to do it because I think it is right."

"...It's easy for you to think like this." Evandel smiled, "Maybe I think too much. War is bound to be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice, but some cancers cannot be removed without war. I am always worried about you now. If you think too little, when you really confront the church head-on in the future, facing the blood and death, you will start to doubt your own correctness, and you will feel entangled, painful, and in a dilemma."

"I'm not very good at thinking about these things." Palos said seriously, "I used to believe in the church without any distractions, but now I believe in you wholeheartedly. I will never hesitate or question what you ask me to do. .”

After leaving that scar on his wrist, Avondel would never trust anyone unreservedly again, but it didn't feel bad for someone to trust him so wholeheartedly, looking at the black-haired St. With the handsome face of the Templar, Evandel suddenly wanted to kiss him, so he did.

Palos hugged Evandel and responded to the kiss. Warm love flowed in his chest. This feeling was more beautiful than anything. Other good qualities such as faith, courage, loyalty, persistence, and friendship are lacking in interest. Now that he has experienced it, he understands that if those things can give people the warmth of sunshine, love is as hot and charming as flames.

This warm emotion didn't change until Evandel deliberately squeezed and rubbed his thighs with his thighs. Palos panted and frowned and asked, "Evandel, what are you doing?"

"Do what you think." Evandel said confidently.

"But... Alkai is still in the room..." Although he is numb to the corners of his teammates, no matter how thick-skinned Palos is, he can't do that in front of Alkai. Erles may come back when he doesn't know when, and he will definitely watch and comment with great interest. Just thinking about Palos makes him feel bad.

"Who said I want to go back to the room? It's quite suitable here." Evandel touched Palos who suddenly became stiff and said, "Don't be nervous, Natalie is watching outside the door, no one will come in to disturb us .”