I'm really a crispy French

Although no one sent Leon out, he shrugged indifferently, put on his citizen badge, and left the city hall and the castle area by himself.

There were many rental carriages waiting outside the castle area, Leon called one casually, and went directly to the Cathedral of the God of Nature in Diller City.

On the carriage, he took out the little red flower and put it in the small pocket next to the badge.From early spring to early summer, in more than three months, this little flower is still extremely fresh, and it looks like it has just been picked.

The Cathedral of the God of Nature is located in the South District. When the carriage enters the natural avenue, you can smell the pleasant scent of grass and trees - not a smoky scent. Although there is a scent of flowers, there are also grasses, green trees, and dew. The smell is like the woods after the rain.

Leon opened the wooden window of the carriage and couldn't help taking two more breaths.Even the east area where the rich and famous gather in Diller City is only clean, not to mention the northern area where the low-level people live. His avatar does not dare to approach the church's sphere of influence, and has no sense of smell. He doesn't even know that Diller There is another place in the city where the air is so comfortable.

The buildings on both sides of the street are also very interesting, there are crypt-style dwellings under grassy green hills, mushroom houses covered by dense plants, and light tree houses hung with vines among several big trees...

All kinds of birds with gorgeous feathers are playing among the branches. In the shadow of the bushes, in addition to herbivores such as rabbits, wild sheep, and deer, there are also predators such as wolves and bobcats. Leon even clearly saw tigers A flash of black and yellow back.

This place is like a small plant protection area built in the city. I don’t know what method is used to keep the wild animals within the range of the forest. However, the animals are happy here, even pulling carts. The hooves of the horses seem to be more brisk.

"Sir, you have to get off here. The church is already in front of you." The carriage stopped, but even if the carriage ran more briskly, it only traveled a quarter of the street. The church is on the other side of the street.

However, Leon chose this honest coachman because he didn't want any accidents. Although he was not afraid of robbing the coachman, it would be a waste of time if there was an accident.

"Can I just keep going?" Leon paid the fare and gave a little extra tip.

"Yes." The coachman didn't leave immediately, he explained to Leon very seriously, "Yes, Mr. Xiao, you just need to keep walking forward, and you can see the gate of the temple in just 5 minutes, I'm sure You won't miss that door, no one will."

Leon nodded and walked on the lawn sidewalk.

In front of the other cathedrals are places like squares, and most of them are very lively, so Leon's avatar can still be seen from a distance.There is only the Cathedral of Diller City, the God of Nature, and there are extremely few pedestrians entering and leaving this avenue.If it weren't for the small churches of the God of Nature scattered all over the city to be noisy from morning to night every day, I'm afraid it would make people misunderstand that the God of Nature doesn't have many believers.

When Leon saw "that door", he found that he recognized it at a glance.Although it was a little more ordinary than he imagined—it was an extremely huge grape trellis. Leon stood down, looking up, he couldn't see what the top of the grape trellis looked like. The entire shelf was covered from bottom to bottom, and bunches of purple-red grapes fell heavily on it, exuding a charming fragrance.

Now, Leon standing in front of this gate has only one problem.

How to get in?

Is this a door without a handle, push aside the grape leaves, and forcefully rush in?

Leon thought for 2 minutes and picked off the little red flower, held it up, and approached the gate of the vine.The vines rustled, giving Leon a passage just enough for him to enter.

This door is not just a door, but also a long passage. Leon felt that he walked more than 500 meters, or even longer, before finally reaching the end.A church, even a cathedral, would it occupy such a large area?

Leon, who finally walked out of the passage, looked at the scenery he saw, and it seemed that he was not in the city of Diller, but rather that he had returned to a small canyon that was inaccessible in the Lamander forest.There are lush and various plants, clear water pools, various insects, and the calls of different birds and the roars of different beasts can be heard.

"Welcome, my little guest." Leon was still looking around, wondering which direction to go, when Archbishop Josefina Huerta suddenly appeared from behind a tree, her body still entwined Wearing a piece of white linen, the green hair is loose, but the corolla has changed from withered grass and fine wild flowers in early spring to green grass and flourishing flowers in early summer.

Leon was a little scared, the archbishop appeared too suddenly, but now this is not worth paying attention to, Leon respectfully saluted Archbishop Herta: "Good day, Your Excellency Herta, today I Come, hoping to be converted to the radiance of the God of Nature."

His words in turn frightened Archbishop Huerta: "This is really... You are really direct. But who can say that directness is not a virtue? The God of Nature welcomes all believers, but I am here You can't see the belief in nature. What's more, I can see that you already have faith, which is not nature."

"..." It must be the garbage subconsciousness that got stuck, Leon pulled out the subconsciousness in his heart and beat him up, but he was not surprised by Archbishop Herta's doubts, "Maybe he has faith. , but that is definitely not belief in God, but a certain kind of thought? I have a deep affection for the God of Nature, and I still have loyalty, which far exceeds the loyalty of most people."

"Don't you think that what you said is a bit contradictory? If the person who believes in is not a god, how can it be called a belief? If you don't even have faith, how can you talk about loyalty?"

Although the archbishop saved him and helped him, Leon still had to mark her forehead with "backward".

"In this world, more countries are not multi-faith coexistence, but a single-faith country. But do you think that for the monarchs, do they love God more, love the country more, or love power more? It is undeniable , There are monarchs who love gods more, but they are often unqualified monarchs. Monarchs who love the country or subjects more often do not live long. On the contrary, those monarchs who love power more. Between them, I found a balance. These people can convert, why can't I?"

"..." Archbishop Huerta was silent for a while, and she rubbed Leon's head, "Little guest, you are indeed right, but even if kings are not pious, they can bring great benefits to a god. What about you? What can your loyalty bring to nature?"

"What a powerful awakened person can bring to a god is what I can bring to a god. I think you know that my ability is very special."

Archbishop Huerta laughed: "Yes, it is indeed a very special power." She paused, "Then, little guest, I will give you three choices. First, Diller City has a natural power every year. I can recommend you this year, where you will receive the glory of the God of Nature and become a magician in the future."

"...Can I hear about other options?" Leon heard for the first time that there was an academy named after God, but he could guess who this academy cultivated.Leon felt that this kind of academy was not suitable for him...

"Of course." Archbishop Huerta agreed very simply, "I already have a little understanding of your character, and it is only natural that you would refuse. I will put it first, and I am just telling you that you have such a It’s just a choice. Then secondly, you can enter the orphanage funded by the church, of course you are different from ordinary orphans, you will be a child of God who focuses on training.”

After saluting in a certain direction, Archbishop Huerta continued: "As for whether you will become a magician or not, it depends on your choice after the age of 16, but you can get an education equivalent to that of noble children in the orphanage." .No matter how you choose, after the age of 16, you will enter the pruners in Diller City."

"What is a pruner?"

"You have to know that it is not suitable to send priests or divine knights at any time and in any situation. Therefore, there will be a... special operations force in the hands of all major god religions. It should be said so. The difference between them and the official large forces , like the difference between a sheriff in Diller City and a patrolling knight."

"Generally, the pruners come forward to investigate or solve them. If the pruners can't solve the major issues, they will ask their superiors for help?" This is the difference between ordinary police and armed police.

"Yes."

"I see, can I continue to listen to the third option?"

"The last option, I will mark you as a special believer of the God of Nature, and then you leave and live on your own. But after you go back, you have to register at the small church of the God of Nature near your place of residence, and the other party will give you A contact information. Every once in a while, the small church will give you a task. After completing the task, you will get some merit points in the church."

"Before you are 16 years old, the church in daily situations will provide you with the same protection as the pruners, but if you still want to get the same protection after you become an adult, it depends on how many merit points you have accumulated. "

Leon still hesitated for a while between the second and the third: "I choose the third."

Although Archbishop Herta knew that he could turn into a crow, Leon felt that his ability was too weird. With such ability, he entered the church orphanage and then entered the official team. He was not at ease, and he still wandered outside. Freer and safer.

"Okay." Archbishop Huerta nodded with a smile. It seemed that she had already guessed what choice Leon would make, right?After all, Leon's character is not difficult to understand. Emmm...Fernan, who has a pair of eyes but is blind, is not included.She walked to the grape rack on one side, picked only one grape, and handed it to Leon, "Take it, and give it to the priest of the Church of the God of Nature closest to your home."

Obviously this grape was a grape when it was on the vine, Leon came through that "gate", he saw it clearly and touched them, but now it is a grape in Leon's hands Cold amethyst.

But even if it's an amethyst, it still looks delicious, like a crystal raspberry?

But Leon didn't put it in his mouth. He took out a small purse, the one that used to put the little red flowers, and put the sugar and crystal in it.

Archbishop Huerta sighed with some disappointment: "I thought you would try it."

Leon blinked: "I think it's not very friendly to my teeth in terms of its hardness."

Even if he can't taste it, Leon doesn't eat everything. He obviously feels that he loves blood food the most, especially live food. He killed it by himself, and it's acceptable for him to die for a while.If it's a rotting corpse, whether it's due to hygiene habits or something else, he can't talk about it anyway.Blood food is indeed the most satisfying, allowing him to grow faster and split more.

After the experiment of beating Fernan violently, he can also eat part of the ability used by the awakened one, but it is still worse than blood food.In the Lamande forest, Leon also tried to devour plants, soil, and stones, but this kind of devouring required his subjective force, which completely violated his instinct.These things can also give him a small amount of energy, but after eating, his main body will feel unhappy and irritable, and those avatars will be sluggish.

Gem Leon hadn't tried it, he was poor.

When he was raised by Fernan, Leon didn't try to use his gemstones, and when he left, he didn't take a copper coin from Chretien's house, including all the clothes, after all, they didn't belong to him.The clothes he wore later, including the bearded Fernan and the current body, were all picked up by clones, as well as occasional thieves and robbers who robbed - Leon himself would take a little as compensation, and the rest Most were returned to their owners.

Since he hated Fernan for killing him, there was no need to spend his money back.As for reading Fernan's book...that was the price Fernan had to pay for keeping him - if Fernan was a good teacher, maybe Leon would stay by his side longer.

"A wise choice." Archbishop Herta looked at Leon, raised his hand and stroked his cheek, "I really wish I had your calmness many years ago, so my teeth wouldn't suffer."

Leon looked at the archbishop, he was indeed a follower of the God of Nature, so he naturally did not pretend.

"You really don't want to try?"

"what?"

"I think you can try your ability. If you can eat it, then you can eat whatever you want. Just describe to me what it tastes like."

Leon: "..."

The archbishop said it so clearly, which made Leon think in a bad way. After all, if he was a bad person with ulterior motives, he would not be so blatant... right?

"'Beautiful fruits will attract greedy birds, but the birds will also carry the seeds to more distant fertile land' This is the teaching of the God of Nature." Archbishop Huerta said, "So, God's share. The body will thrive at the gate of the cathedral. Whether it is a believer in my lord, a believer in his god, or even an unbeliever, or birds, insects and beasts, they can come to eat. But there is a problem, since God gave him body, no one can eat it."

So this god is hard enough to explain in words, and he also knows that mortals can't eat this thing, right?Isn't it greedy to say such things and put good things in front of everyone?

Seeing Leon's strange expression, Archbishop Huerta laughed: "Is it strange that since anyone can take it away, there are still many fruits on the vine? And I actually use it as a token?"

Leon nodded.

"Because no one can devour it, and no one can use it, and no one on the earth can obtain the energy in it in any way. Long ago, someone made them into ornaments, but there are gems that can be easily obtained everywhere. They cannot be called gemstones, even though they are gifts from gods. Therefore, I don’t know when picking grapes for divine wine has become a taboo not established by gods.

"Don't be confused, it's called divine wine grapes. The gods use them to make wine, but mortals will only lose their teeth. So, you really don't want to try it?"

"...Your Excellency Herta, can you see my ability, my soul? So in your eyes, what do I look like? Can I also have such abilities in the future?" Leon felt, we Let's change the subject and talk about something serious.

"I saw you? Then I'll let you take a look." Archbishop Herta waved to Leon like a kitten or puppy, "Come, come to the water."

Leon walked over, and the Archbishop of Herta was already kneeling happily by the water: "A child, don't be so serious, you should be more lively, like me!"

The beautiful archbishop who didn't know how old was grabbed Leon, and dragged him to kneel by the small pool.Leon now has a lot of clones and bodies, but it looks like a small body, not much lighter than the bearded Leon at the beginning. Archbishop Herta dragged Leon so that he had no power to resist. Her seemingly tender legs Arm, but the strength is not small at all.

"Look at the water." Archbishop Huerta said, tapping the water surface with his finger.

With the soft green light emerging on the surface of the water, fine ripples swayed in circles. In the ripples, the figure of Archbishop Herta disappeared, while the figure of Leon spread distortedly.

Suddenly, Leon realized that he was no longer kneeling on the shore, but kneeling in an infinitely stretching darkness...

Gradually, there are red lights flashing in the darkness again, from sparse dots to dots, to line up and gather into a sea.In this world where there are always two moons, stars are rarely seen. This is the first time for Leon to see such a "starry sky". The darkness is deep and far away, and the red stars are vast and bright, strange but magnificent.

The stars start blinking, blinking, uh...really blinking.The stars grew bigger and clearer, those red flashes turned into red eyes, ears, and mouths, they squirmed in the dark, spied, listened to the world, and then... devoured!

this is me?

Leon returned to the pool, and the ripples on the water surface that were pushed aside by Archbishop Herta didn't even stop.The archbishop looked at Leon with a smile: "See? You can go to some remote villages and pretend to be an evil spirit like this."

Leon broke into a little cold sweat: Is it really okay for an archbishop to say such a thing?

"My weird look, why do you think I'm not a bad person?"

"Because you don't have the aura of a demon. This is very strange. As long as you are an awakened half-demon, you will have the aura of a demon. As your strength increases, the aura of the devil will become stronger and stronger, and will not weaken. Therefore, you are not a half-demon. And therefore, you are a naturally evolved life on earth. As long as you are willing to abide by the rules of the earth, you are welcome. It does not matter whether your appearance is beautiful or ugly, and regardless of the manifestation of your power how it is."

"The breath of the devil, what exactly is it?" It seemed that Archbishop Herta mainly pointed out this thing.

"Do you know why, when the races on the ground face the invasion of demons, they will rise up and resist?"

"Because they eat everything and will devour the life on the ground." How do you think this description is "a bit" like myself, "They also release toxins, bring magma, and completely change the landscape on the ground."

"No, if it's just that, then at least we are willing to accept them, and they will become a part of the natural cycle on the ground. However, what demons bring is not only change and devouring, they also bring excessive madness and distortion. I I know that there are also crazy existences among the various races on the ground, but this is a relatively small minority, and their damage to the ground is limited."

"Oh..." Leon didn't quite understand it. After all, he had seen too many crazy humans, such as Fernan. If this guy was given a certain amount of power and status, he would definitely cause terrible harm.But he has never seen a demon, so he doesn't know much about what this madness and distortion looks like.

But he remembered the story told by Grandpa John. If the stronger half-demon is closer to the devil, what kind of existence is the royal family of the half-demon empire in the past?

"When you grow up, go to the east and take a look." Archbishop Huerta touched Leon's head and said gently, "Part of the bone swamp over there is polluted by the blood of the dragon. The undead are scary to the living, but compared with the demonized undead, ordinary undead creatures are much cuter."

"Thank you, I'll see, sir."

"So... don't you really want to eat and see?" Archbishop Huerta suddenly ran to the edge of the vine, and picked off a large bunch of grapes—if they were real grapes, then this bunch could fill a small basket , "If you want to eat, you can really eat whatever you want!"

"No, thank you very much." We are just meeting for the first time, so it is really hard to accept such enthusiasm.