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What do you do when you unfortunately become a member of a cult where everyone shouts and beats you?

Method one, find an opportunity to leave the organization quickly and draw a clear line.

Thanks this path is not working.

Because every person who enters the Holy See will be branded with the brand of the Holy See when he is baptized. Yannick's brand is on the right wrist, a silver, very conspicuous emblem of light.

No matter what method you use, you can't make this coat of arms disappear. The mages even invented a special spell to detect this coat of arms. Like natural enemies.

The second method is to build a good relationship with the top management of the organization.

Thanks this path doesn't work either.

If the adoptive father and godfather of the bishop were still there, Yannick would not have been in such a miserable state. Although countries are becoming more and more alienated from the Holy See, the Principality of Santos, where the bishop's adoptive father is located, is a staunch supporter and conservative of the Holy See. , so if you stay in the Principality of Santos, your life safety index will be relatively higher.

But the bad thing is that the adoptive father of the bishop died of illness not long ago, and the cause of death is unknown.

Yannick's chance to climb up as the "second generation official" of a cult organization was cut off.

What's even more tragic is that he was appointed by his adoptive father before he was alive, and he had been reported to the Holy See, and he was also the candidate for the successor bishop of the Principality of Santos with the tacit approval of a cardinal archbishop.

A "second-generation official" who has neither deep connections nor the strength of an archbishop, in the face of numerous assassinations day and night, he can only be forced to give up that coveted position, and even leave the Principality of Santos to start his own life. life on the run.

On the way to escape, the unlucky Yannick died of serious injuries and lost his breath. When he woke up in the wilderness again, the soul inside had been replaced by another person.

The third method is to overthrow the leader of the cult organization, that is, the pope, and then become the boss himself.

... This one is even more unreliable. I heard that the strength of the Pope is comparable to that of the Holy Spirit. He was chased and killed by a few middle-level priests and ran around the world. He still wants to overthrow the Pope?

Hurry up and go to bed.

So it's not easy being a villain!

Those chasers seemed to have lost interest in him since they entered the Principality of Mecklen, but Yannick didn't dare to be careless, and still changed several places.So far, the town of Jed looks the safest.If there is no accident, he also hopes to settle down temporarily. After all, although this small town is a bit remote, it is safe and the people here are good.

The most important thing is that he is really fed up with the life of homelessness and lack of meals. Yannick still remembers how embarrassed he was at that time, which is definitely a world of difference from the well-dressed appearance now.

Letting his thoughts fly wildly, while propping his chin and staring at the kettle and water cup in front of him, Yannick finally gave up the plan to use magic to make it pour water automatically, and resignedly picked up the kettle and poured water by himself.

The kettle is made of clay, and its shape is relatively ugly. Here, not everyone can afford exquisite porcelain, only the nobles can enjoy it. Even this clay pot was "sponsored" by the residents of the town. When I first came here , he was almost penniless, and now...

Still very poor.

When he just crossed over, apart from being shocked and troubled, he actually had a little bit of secret joy. After all, he is a priest and can do magic. Does that mean that he can use magic as described in many Western magic stories An elephant turns into a chair, and then manipulates a staff to call the wind and rain or something? ...Well, summoning wind and calling rain seems to be an Eastern system of magic, but Western magic should not be far behind!

But soon, after searching and digesting all the original body's memories, he had the urge to vomit blood.

Indeed, as a priest, from the day he was branded with the brand of light on his body, he has the blessing of the goddess of light and can use light magic.

But the problem is that the magic of light is very different from the magic he knows.

Light magic can heal all wounds. A low-level priest like him can only heal one person at a time, and the speed is relatively slow, and the magic power consumed will be relatively large, but a priest who has reached the bishop level can heal multiple people at the same time. Healing, even bringing the dead back to life.

To put it simply, light magic is a type of healing magic.

Yes, you read that right, it is not an offensive magic system, so Yannick can't even command a kettle to pour water automatically!

However, according to the original memory of this body, he knew that there is also an offensive spell in light magic, called light all-encompassing. The only offensive magic in light magic.

Unfortunately, this spell can only be used by high-level priests, and Yannick is only a low-level priest now, or a low-level priest who was hunted down and seriously injured, and his magic power almost collapsed.

In other words, he is now a vase that wants to fight but has no combat power, and is not useful. The only low-level healing technique that can be used can only heal the minor illnesses and pains of the townspeople. Otherwise, the only thing left is to be tortured and wait to die.

Now for the sake of his own life, he needs to buy more time to heal his wounds and become more proficient in magic practice. Although they are just some healing spells, they are better than nothing, at least they can be used when he is injured. Before that, He has to continue his magic stick in this small town, oh no, it's the career of a priest.

Fleeing all the way from the Principality of Santos to the present Principality of Mecklen, and breaking into the small town of Jed, where few outsiders set foot, what Yannick faced was a pair of suspicious and wary eyes towards the Holy See, and he was almost killed. They were beaten to death with sticks.

Thanks to this appearance and his touching and sincere words, the residents finally agreed to let Yannick stay. With his unremitting efforts, the residents of the small town finally broke the impression of the extremely corrupt priests of the Holy See, and now they finally officially accepted him Becoming a part of the small town, the Goddess of Light blesses him to live here longer, otherwise all the previous efforts will be in vain.

The population of the town is very small, and it is impossible to have an idle house, but the previous owner of this house is a bit special, that is, Jenny's uncle Hughes who was burned to death by the Holy See. After his death, this red brick house was vacant After that, it took Yannick three days to clean the house covered in dust and cobwebs—since the light magic did not have a spell for general cleaning, all the work could only be done by hand.

Life in a small town is undeniably peaceful and laid-back.

Yannick does not preach, and the residents here do not believe in the Holy See. His only job is to heal a resident when they accidentally cut their feet while chopping wood, or when Amy's grandma hit her head just now, kind little The residents of the town would send some food from time to time, and occasionally a few copper coins as a reward. Poor Priest Yannick's current property is six copper coins.

Plus these ingredients in front of you.

Yannick is not used to long and hard bread, and even those colorful salads are not too cold. He boiled a pot of water, kneaded the flour sent by Amy a few days ago with water, and then used his own paring Roll out flat and cut strips of wooden sticks into the pot, beat an egg, and put some moonshine grass, and a pot of "noodles" shaped lunch is complete, and the taste is not bad.

Moonlight grass is a very common plant on the mainland. It is often used as a food spice. You don’t even need to buy it. There is a large forest behind the town. It tastes a bit like the parsley that Yannick had eaten before. After opening, it is mixed with the aroma of fried eggplant.

After enjoying a delicious meal, just as he was about to practice those unskilled light magic, there was a knock on the door, and there were a few knocks, which seemed a bit hasty.

Outside the door stood Suzie, one of the young women I had just met on the road.

Her expression was a little nervous: "Priest Hill, Tal is back, and he brought back news from outside, do you want to go and listen?"

Tal, her husband, was an apprentice in a blacksmith's shop in Tumaco and didn't come back often.

As soon as Yannick saw her expression, he guessed seven or eight points: "Is it related to the Black Death or the Holy See?"

"Yes, it's all related." Susie swallowed, "You'd better go there."

"Okay." Yannick's priest's robe was still on his body neatly, without a single wrinkle. He didn't need to take care of his appearance at all. He just picked up the cloak and put it on his body. "let's go."

The meeting place was at the mayor's house. When Yannick and Susie arrived, there were already many people sitting there.

The mayor is an old man in his 60s, with white hair and slurred speech. To be honest, sometimes Yannick can't understand the words coming out of his mouth at all.

"Priest Hill is here!"

"Priest Hill!"

"Priest Hill!"

The townspeople greeted him as soon as they saw him coming.

Yannick nodded in greeting and raised his "friendly yet noble" smile that he had practiced in private for a long time, which indeed attracted a lot of admiring gazes.

"Okay, Tal, Priest Hill has come, now you should tell me what you saw in Tumaco City!" The mayor spoke slowly, and everyone gradually became quiet, accompanied by occasional whispers.

Yannick noticed a young man sitting next to the mayor, with messy brown hair and a pale face, as if he had just escaped from a catastrophe and was still in shock.

Tal said: "Yes, I just came back from Tumaco City, and I don't want to go back, it was a disaster, really!"

"Tal, calm down, it will be difficult for us to know what happened!" Suzy comforted him while stroking his back.

Tal seemed a little calmer, but he was still trembling a little: "The curse of the devil, I mean the Black Death, more and more people are getting sick. In the blacksmith shop where I was, an apprentice also got sick. It's terrible, his whole body is festered, covered with blisters, his eyes are so swollen that they almost fell off... In our area, at least dozens of people have already fallen ill!"

The crowd was in an uproar. Although they had never seen the Black Death patient with their own eyes, this did not prevent them from hearing about the horror of this disease. Everything Tal said made them feel the nameless fear.

Yannick once saw the appearance of the Black Death patient in Tumaco City when he was sick, and it was indeed the same as Tarr described. "As far as I know, the priest's healing technique can cure the Black Death patient. Is the condition so serious that even the priest can't do anything?"

Speaking of this, Tal's expression became even more panicked, "Now there are many mages in Tumaco City, and they are killing priests wantonly. The Holy See has retreated from Tumaco City, so now there is no priest there, and there is no one there. It can cure the Black Death!"

"What, why did they hunt and kill the priest!" Anna asked in surprise.

Tal took a breath: "Just ten days ago, the bishop of Tumaco announced that the Black Death was caused by evil mages, and ordered the arrest of the mages in the city. It turned out that a large number of members of the magic guild suddenly came. People, defeated the people of the Holy See, and many priests were killed, so the people of the Holy See withdrew from Tumaco City!"

Susie was tongue-tied: "The priests are gone, what about those patients?"

Tal said dejectedly: "I heard that those great mages brought a magic potion that can control the disease...God! It's fine no matter what, I don't want to go back!"

The residents of the small town are self-sufficient, even if Tal did not go to Tumaco City as an apprentice, life would not be too sad, but Tal wanted to give his wife a better life, so he left the town at first, and now this kind of Things, of course he would never want to go back to Tumaco City.

Susie hugged him quickly: "Honey, even if you want, I won't let you go!"

Tal said to Yannick: "Priest Hill, now Tumaco City is completely decided by the mages. I don't know if they will come to this town to arrest people. Do you want to hide for a while?"

Others also persuaded: "Yes, Priest Hill, why don't you come to our house?"

Yannick was still calm: "The house I live in has a cellar, and people can live in it after cleaning it out. It's relatively remote, and it's still two or three days away from the main city. They shouldn't arrive so soon."

But Yannick forgot that two or three days' journey is for ordinary people, but for mages...they don't have such obstacles.

So that night, when he was lying on the bed drowsy, he was unprepared when a cold staff was pressed against his throat, and a malicious laugh sounded in his ears: "Oh look, what did we find?" , a priest?"

It's really bad luck!Yannick thought to himself.

This day was called "the beginning of all greatness" by later historians, but for Priest Yannick, it was an unlucky day.