Job hunting in another world [Western Fantasy]

When Julian and Croft came back, the state between them was obviously different.If what Croft says is true, then it is clear that the deterioration of their relationship stems from an arch wizard with ulterior motives.

Noah thought to himself that being open and honest is really a good thing. In a close relationship, even if two people have different ideas, as long as principles are not involved, they can compromise with each other.Just like between him and Aldridge, there will actually be many disputes, but he always understands the importance and uniqueness of Aldridge in his mind, no matter what their respective personalities and beliefs are.

Noah thought of Aldrich, and smiled involuntarily.

And Evelia sighed with emotion: "Croft is still amazing..." Compared with his elder brother who controls the rhythm of the conversation and dominates, Julian really looks immature.

When Julian walked in, he was a little embarrassed.Noah and Evelia had quickly returned to their original positions, showing him a sincere smile as if they hadn't heard anything.

Julian rolled his eyes: Don't pretend, I don't know you yet.Especially Evelia, she will not miss this kind of fun.Julian always remembered the scene where Evelia pulled him to eavesdrop on Aldrich's confession.

"Now, we can use soul extraction." Evelia asked with a serious face after observing the expressions of both parties.

Croft was about to raise his hand, but Julian stopped him again and said, "Let me do it. Soul extraction is a forbidden magic. If you use it, you will be targeted by the White Tower of Discipline."

"I have done a lot of things that give the White Tower of Commandments a headache, and this one is not bad." Croft smiled: "The White Tower of Commandments does not restrain the great magister, but other people. I am afraid of this kind of thing." I didn't want you to know."

Julian stared at his brother in astonishment, and it took him a moment to understand what he meant.

The great magisters who mastered forbidden magic formed the White Tower of Discipline and formulated many rules, including not allowing magicians to learn forbidden magic that is too powerful.

It turned out to be like this...

While he was thinking, Croft had already used Soul Extraction, and a white light flashed across the corpse.

The corpse started to twitch, and Evelia was startled, and sneaked up to Noah and the others.Then a cloud of black mist ran out from the seven orifices of the corpse, getting bigger and bigger, gradually covering the whole room.

The black mist kept churning and twisting. Could there be screams coming from inside, but when Evelia listened carefully, she couldn't hear anything. She only felt a strong sense of despair and pain.

"It appears he died in despair and pain," Julian said.

"Don't be affected by the emotions of the soul fragments." Noah pinched Evelia's wrist and released a spiritual comfort to her, and Evelia felt better soon.

At this time, some pictures gradually appeared in the black mist. From the perspective of the dead master, they saw a group of people in gray robes, the most conspicuous one was a middle-aged man with a fat body and funny appearance. Wearing a gray robe, but the style is more complicated, with a round and inverted triangle logo on the chest.

"Arabella!" snapped Croft.

"The Church of Chaos." Noah said quickly, and then Croft turned his head and glanced at him. Noah said firmly, "Arabella joined the Church of Chaos."

Julian was shocked and dazed, staring at the scene dumbfounded. Of course he knew about the Church of Chaos. The main reason was that Noah had a strange and indissoluble bond with the Church of Chaos. Most of the time, he had no direct contact with the Church of Chaos.

He never thought that Arabella would be related to the Church of Chaos.

The picture continued, the black mist became more and more distorted, and distorted pictures appeared several times.Arabella was wearing a gray robe and held a torch in his hand. He walked over and said something with a smile. Then the torch fell, and the flames poured out, burning around the lines on the ground, turning from red to black in an instant.

The owner of the soul let out a scream, he kept begging, those pupils hidden under the gray robe were staring at him tightly, their eyes were fanatical and obsessed.No one cared about his pain, but the screams made the gray-robed people even more excited.They believed that as long as the sacrifice was burned to death with the fire of truth, the god of chaos would take care of himself and wash away all sins.

The master of the soul looked at Arabella at the end. Compared with the fanatical gray robes, Arabella looked very calm. He even stared at the believers with a hint of sarcasm.

He knew what the truth of this sacrifice was.

The picture gradually darkened, but the black mist became more and more distorted, and there was even a crackling sound from it.A face that looked ugly due to burns appeared in the cloud and mist. It stared at the four people present, and let out a soul-tearing roar, occasionally accompanied by sharp wailing.

Croft's face changed slightly: "The remaining soul has been affected by emotions and turned into an evil spirit. It will attack all living creatures within the range of perception."

"He is angry, restless, sad, eager for revenge..." Noah raised his head slightly, and he walked over, the black mist quickly wrapped him, and countless black hands grabbed his body.Croft groaned and took out his staff to save him, but was stopped by Julian.

Soon, the sound of Noah's chanting came from the black mist. The voice in the black mist became smaller and smaller, and the face gradually became numb and pale. It looked around blankly and gradually disappeared.

"Noah's a priest," Julian said.

Pacifying souls is one of the most basic jobs of priests, and most of the priests in temples now earn their main source of income from doing this.They are invited to go to the various families to say prayers, so that the hearts of the dead and the living can find peace.Even the poorest sect will work hard to collect such a sum of money.

However, some priests were genuine, like Noah, who relieved the pain of the dead, while some priests were good at bluffing and deceiving, and the dead couldn't complain about them anyway.

Croft also realized that he knew that Noah was a priest, but he could not help but forget about it, probably because Noah was not wearing a priest's robe... After a while, Croft It suddenly dawned on me that although it is the priest's job to appease the soul, it does not include such powerful evil spirits!

But that's not the reason to get hung up on this kind of thing now, Croft said: "He lured us here, and then used this corpse to confuse us. It's all planned by him."

"So, he is still alive and has joined the Church of Chaos." Julian was very puzzled: "How did he join the Church of Chaos? Does the church still accept magicians?"

"The Church of Chaos' income standards have always been nobles, businessmen, and young people." Noah thought to himself that this Arabella didn't look young either: "Maybe they changed their requirements."

Croft asked: "Do you know a lot about the Church of Chaos?"

Noah smiled: "This is a long story. The most important thing now is to find Arabella and the lost staff."

"Let's look outside the basement for clues," Croft said.

The group of them left the basement and went up to find themselves in a farm.Surrounded by a barren farmland, there is still a lot of blood on the ground, traces of the flames, and the remains of humans and monsters.

This is the endgame after the beast tide. The air is filled with the smell of blood mixed with charcoal. Houses and all farmlands have been trampled and destroyed by monsters.

Noah looked at the surrounding situation and asked, "Does the tower master know anything about the Church of Chaos?"

"I didn't clean it up before, but I have dealt with them a few times recently." Croft replied very quickly: "They have been holding sacrifices like crazy recently, and the White Tower has dispatched a lot of people to deal with them."

Evelia asked: "Why... because of the beast tide?"

Croft nodded in agreement: "That's right, the believers believe that the beast tide is their punishment from the God of Chaos, and only continuous sacrifices can appease the anger of the God of Chaos."

Evelia said angrily: "The church is always good at connecting things that have no cause and effect, and attributing the source to God...Damn it, when we were resisting the beast tide, they held sacrifices in the basement!"

Noah said on the side: "The most disgusting thing is that after the beast tide is over, they will not think it is your credit, but because of their sincere sacrifice."

Evelia's face bulged with anger.

Noah patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, and then whispered to the God of Light: [Let God take the blame for everything, you are miserable too. 】

The God of Light replied in seconds as always: [It's none of my business. 】

[That Chaos God, what's going on? ] Noah asked.

【He is not the same as us. 】

But the specific reason why it is different, the God of Light will not say any more.Noah chatted with him a few more words, but got nothing except being ridiculed by the God of Light.

Noah sometimes felt that the God of Light was strange, and He responded very quickly. Although Noah used the language of God to talk to Him, other gods could hear it, and the other gods did not respond.But every time he responded, he always seemed very indifferent.

Tsk tsk, God’s thoughts are really hard to understand.

They didn't gain anything here, Croft said, it was like any other place where sacrifices were held.In the end, Evelia took note of the location here, and then she prepared someone to deal with the situation here, and they returned to Cuibian City.

For the next few days they searched for clues to Arabella, but to no avail.Noah simply returned to Aldrich's yard, and Evelia went to work on her own affairs. Julian had just reconciled with Croft, and moved into the White Tower under Noah's urging.

Julian was a little uneasy and ashamed that his room was still kept in the White Tower.After all, he was the one who was fooled around and looked like a fool.And he let go of his rhetoric many years ago, saying that he would never come back after leaving here, and he was a little embarrassed to appear in front of the magicians for a while.

If it was Noah, he wouldn't care about such things.But Julian also found that those magicians completely ignored him, just like a few years ago.They didn't care about his departure, or his return—an indifference that made Julian feel strangely better.

He intends to talk to Croft again about what he has experienced in these years and the misunderstanding between them.Then he found that Croft was still very busy!

Although he confirmed that his brother didn't hate him, Croft still didn't have much time to listen to him.He used to be very busy managing the White Tower, and now things like the beast tide and the Church of Chaos have happened, and there are more and more dark tides between the kingdoms, and many forces have come to visit. He has to deal with these people, as well as with other White The contact with the Tower, as well as the affairs of the White Tower of Precepts, Croft is even busier now!Every time Julian couldn't say a few words to him, someone would come to disturb him.

Julian saw that his brother was busy all the time, and even took time to practice, so he deeply understood why Croft didn't have time to accompany him.At that time, Croft was not yet in power, and it was troublesome to do anything, so Arabella took advantage of it.

Julian was angry for a few days at first, but soon he figured it out.

Croft has something to do, should he wait foolishly?He also has a lot to do!

After Julian figured it out, he locked himself in Arabella's laboratory all day, studying his ongoing experiments.He is very good at this, and can even vaguely see the character and methods of the laboratory owner. Arabella is never gentle and humorous, never helpful, he is impatient and crazy, and he is an out-and-out careerist.

A few days later, Croft came to Julian and asked him, "Do you want to go to the Magic Club?"

Julian looked up blankly: "Huh?"

"The Magic Creation Club has started, and they gave me an invitation." Croft would usually reject such invitations before, and he also knew that the Magic Creation Club was getting more and more watery, but these days he has been ignoring Julian. , he subconsciously wanted to use this opportunity to appease his younger brother: "Let's go play together, and we can call Noah and the others."

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