Chapter 178 – 174 Saint Farhists
There were various incidents in the past two weeks, but the Gilles-Bexel Prison labyrinth, which had stirred up the entire Farghist movement, was overshadowed by a few announcements and funeral events.
Perhaps he kissed the envoy from Crabberry.
First of all, the death of Yona=Aslid=Farhist, the third daughter of the lord of the Farhist castle, was announced ‘externally’ as an unfortunate ‘accident’ that occurred in conjunction with an unknown reason why the core was separated due to the growth of the labyrinth.
Subsequently, it was officially announced that Gilles-Bexle’s visit to Farkhist was just a visit to enjoy a grand festival to be held a month later…….
=Who believes that?=
= Damn you cravery bastards. Because we’re doing well, it’s very embarrassing. =
=What should we do, poor Jonah? ….=
= Seongju-nim must be in the worst situation right now…….=
People were pretending to believe on the outside, but on the inside, they were building up their dissatisfaction with Crabberry.
The disbelief had already dug deep into the bones.
‘This kind of dissatisfaction and anger is the beginning of regional conflict.’
Hwanin muttered to himself as he lay on the sunbed on the rooftop of the priest or priest of the Land God Order and listened to the conversation coming from below.
This incident must have deeply rooted distrust towards Crabberry.
Right now, I’m just dissatisfied, but if something similar happens again or if I commit a problematic act in Cravely, the emotional goal will deepen and burn like a telephone battle in the past.
Anyway, as if they knew what the citizens were thinking, the Farhist administration quickly announced the funeral schedule for Jonah = Aslid = Farhist.
It is to divert the attention and attention of citizens to other places.
The reason was no different. The more citizens keep focusing on Gilles = Bexle and Crabery, the more likely it is that the reality of the castle owner will be illuminated.
There are a total of 30 members of the Royal Guard, known as the sword of the Parhist castle lord.
It was revealed that 9 of them had so-called honeymoon relationships with the lord of another city or with a powerful family of a similar level.
As a farhist castle lord, it was like the ax that he believed was stamped in his foot. In addition, it would have damaged face and dignity.
In the midst of this, if the true state of the castle owner is exposed in the way that the citizens burn their anger toward Crabberry and then catch a mouse while walking backwards, it becomes a problem.
Anyway, when the funeral schedule was announced, the citizens who were angry at Crabberry’s atrocities wondered how the funeral of the three daughters who had an accident in the labyrinth would be held.
Funeral is a ceremony to return the body of the dead to the ground. If you had an accident in the labyrinth, you wouldn’t have found the body, right?
Citizens gathered at the Millennium Square in the main street in front of the main castle, and the administration clearly cleared up such questions in front of tens of thousands of people who filled the square.
It is said that adventurers with a ‘righteous heart’ were able to safely return to the ground thanks to Yona=Aslid=Farhist’s body recovered from the danger of the growth of the labyrinth, and Yona dressed in a coffin filled with thousands of flowers. = Aslid = Disclosure of Farhist’s body.
And it was also revealed that the adventurer with that righteous heart was none other than a member of the Land God Church.
People did not hesitate to raise their thumbs, saying that it was indeed the land god church known as the guardian of the labyrinth, and the citizens’ consciousness at once turned from anger toward Crabberry to an adventurer with an unidentified ‘righteous heart’.
All that was known was the fact that he was an adventurer related to the Church of the Land God, but that was enough.
For the rest, you can visit the temple and ask.
People immediately gathered around the temple of the Church of the Earth God located in the west of the city, and some of them visited the temple and made offerings in person, asking about the righteous adventurer.
=Because the parties vehemently refused to disclose it, saying that they only did it because they felt sorry for the children being sacrificed…… I can’t tell you.=
Priests and priests skillfully deflected such questions and did not reveal the identities of the Hwanin party.
Thanks to this, numerous people gathered around the shrine of the Church of the Land God, then scattered and gathered again, and the population density increased by about three times than usual.
This was also the reason why Hwanin was lying on a sunbed on the roof. Even when he was lying still, the people gathered were carrying information on their own.
The lodgings of the temples of the cult of land gods are 5 stories high, which is rare in Farhist, where most of the 1st to 3rd floors are.
Lying on the roof here, he was able to collect information without being conscious of people’s eyes, so Hwan-in goes up to the rooftop to spend time whenever he has time.
=The employer of our shop is really overdoing it.=
=Why? What else is going on?=
= No. There’s Jonah’s funeral tomorrow, right? I want to participate in it, but they beg me saying that work won’t work if I’m absent, hey…….=
= Kick kick kick. That’s why you should be good enough. If you do too well, you’ll only get tired. =
= But they say they pay you as much as you work hard. =
‘Is tomorrow a funeral?’
Hwanin turned his head to the conversation between the unknown women below and looked at the Farghist Castle in the distance.
It seems there are people in the castle who know how to manipulate public opinion to some extent…… Still, for Hwan-in, it’s a level where he feels clumsy. The intention to divert the attention of the residents was felt too plainly.
Rather than intentionally inducing citizens to distrust Cravery, I got the feeling that they really tried to put an end to rumors related to Crabberry.
If you are…….
‘No, even thinking about it is meaningless.’
Instead of worrying about useless things, lie down on a sunbed and enjoy the warm sunlight with the cool breeze blowing.
Since there are no high-rise buildings, only the blue sky and flock of clouds are visible.
The feeling of enjoying the hustle and bustle of the city. Over the past two weeks, I feel that my patience and irritation, which have been worn out by running into people, are gradually recovering.
= I, brother…….=
At that moment, a thin voice came from the stairs leading up to the roof.
Hwanin looked that way and could see a woman wearing a well-trimmed amber priestly uniform with a unicorn’s horn on the border of her forehead and head, hesitating, unable to come closer.
She is a priestly lady who runs small errands for herself while staying at the inn.
“Elmes.”
= Stir…… Chief Shin is looking for…… Shah. =
“Ah, thank you for telling me. I will go down immediately.”
=Yes, yes!=
When I got up from the sunbed and tried to get closer, the startled Elmes quickly ran away.
“…….”
Why does she run away every time I try to approach her?
He could talk at least from a distance, but when he tried to get close like he did now, he ran away like a timid cat.
She understands if she did something disrespectful, but she just behaved as normal as usual.
I wouldn’t have cared if he had a communication problem because he’s shy, but he gets along well with Isilite and Anne, laughing and chatting often.
Come to think of it….
‘Isilite said that Priest Elmes’s horn is the horn of a unicorn.’
Did she really inherit that unicorn’s blood? Then the reason why she avoids Priest El Meth is…….
In the eyes of Priest Elmes, he must have seen himself as a huge pile of filth that had slept with hundreds of women.
‘I can understand why Priest Elmes became a priest who couldn’t marry.’
Finding a virgin is a very difficult thing in this world. She wouldn’t have had her options.
Her phantom smiled and moved her steps toward her temple.
Hwanin, who entered the back of the temple through a passage that was not accessible to outsiders, moved to the office of the head of the temple while listening to the buzzing noises from the shrine seats and transepts inside the temple.
Most of the voices heard are voices curious about righteous adventurers.
Thanks to the high wall and the passage blocking the outside gaze, the identity of the adventurer with the ‘righteous heart’ is still unknown, but if they continue to stay like this, it will only be a matter of time before they become known.
The situation has come to an end and the atmosphere seems to be turning towards the grand festival again…….
‘I’ll have to talk to Anne.’
Organizing her thoughts, Hwanin arrived in front of the temple chief’s office and tried to knock on the door, but hesitated when he saw the door open by itself.
Anne stood beyond the open door. When Anne sees Hwan-in standing in front of her door, she hesitates, then smiles and steps aside.
= She was just about to call, but she came looking for her on her own. Come in.=
“Well.”
Upon entering the place Anne had moved out of the way, the desolate office made of lime-gray stone greeted her.
In a dry landscape with only two bookcases, a reception table and a sofa, and a desk for office work, a finely aged woman greeted her with a slight smile.
=Welcome, Hwanin.=
“You said you were looking for me.”
There is no horn, but the blonde haired salvage chief with the eyes split horizontally like a goat stands up and replies.
=Yes. I have two duties. First of all, the sincerity and handwritten letter of the lord of the castle, which the general butler of the white castle talked about, arrived.=
“…… Is that it?”
When I asked while looking at the luxurious jewelry box on the table, the head of the temple nodded.
=And the dean of Acclamento is waiting in the next room. They say there is a story that I have to tell Hwanin earnestly.=
“It would rather be an apology than a story.”
Shinjang-jang smiled without answering.
Hwanin sat on the reception sofa with the chief priest and Anne, and took a moment to look at the jewelry box that the chief priest had pushed toward him.
A golden pattern reminiscent of fur embroiders the white arched lid, and a blue fist-sized jewel embedded in the center of the lid sparkles in the light streaming in from the window.
The body is also made of wood from Labyrinth.
Along the edge of the box, small grains that do not know whether they are diamonds or crystals are densely studded, emphasizing luxury that is not vulgar.
To sum it up in a word, it is a jewel box that has reached the level of art.
“…….”
When I opened the lid with a click, the first thing I noticed was a green grape and gardenia purple velvet pouch filled with purple velvet.
No, those two pockets are all.
When I take out the gardenia purple velvet pouch, I feel a strange feeling passing through the fabric.
“…… ?”
Hwanin, who opened his mouth, opened his eyes, narrowing his eyes.
=Hey, it’s pretty big?=
=It’s a 6th grade phase stone. It’s orange…… It’s related to energy and vigor.=
Hearing the priest’s warm voice, Hwanin nodded softly to her and tried holding the phase stone with his bare hand. Then, along with a tingling feeling, energy welled up to the point that the drowsy feeling, which was slightly different from the blood-colored phase stone, ran away at once.
‘Really, at level 6, can the effect be obtained through a thin cloth? If it’s a 6th grade phase stone, the market price would be over 200 gold coins.’
Level 2 is 32 silver coins, level 4 is about 7.5 gold coins, level 5 is 37 gold coins.
This is the market price of the phase stone found in Wayford.
The blood phase stone he has is 3rd grade, usually 2 gold coins, but it is about 10 gold coins because it is related to wounds and physical strength regeneration, and the pearl phase stone is 4.5 grade, so it is about 12 gold coins because it has a skill power amplification effect.
=The lord of the castle was very sincere.=
Passing her orange phase stone to her Anne, she opened the green grape-colored pouch this time.
Inside her was about 50 gold coins. The pocket is also a subspace coin pocket, so I don’t feel the weight at all.
Hwanin, without hesitation, tightened the green grape-colored bag again and politely pushed it in front of her temple head.
At that, the golden eyes of the head of the temple widened slightly, and Anne threw her phase stone like a stone and almost dropped it in an instant.
=Hwanin-nim, this is…….=
“I would appreciate it if you were moved by the friendship shown by the Church of the Earth God and consider it an offering to the Earth God. I’d like to give the phase stone as well, but the lord of the castle seems to have given it for a special purpose…….”
50 gold coins. That’s a lot of money.
However, considering the help he received from the Church of the Land God, it was not expensive, so Hwanin willingly offered it as an offering.
Of course, it wasn’t that he paid 50 gold coins in gratitude.
Even though Anne asked for help and she said that there was negligence on the other side, things were easily resolved, but only with strength can you protest and ask for an apology.
She must have responded by revealing that she was her soul mate and wringing her hair out for her to get this kind of compensation and apology.
Of course, all sorts of annoying things would have followed as a bonus.
However, thanks to the Church of the Earth God moving the parish head of the city at the provincial level, the incident was finished cleanly without any need to worry about future remorse.
If he had tried to receive this kind of help by paying in gold coins, he would have had to spend hundreds of coins.
More than anything…….
‘There’s nothing as scary as free.’
If there is something coming, there must be something going, and if there is something giving, there must be something receiving. It is an eternal truth.
In order to save only 50 gold coins, it is not acceptable to wear the tag of ‘Help me, but he doesn’t even return it’, and even the tag with the official seal of the main body of the Church of the Earth God made in it.
Furthermore, this action will also rise up the ranks through the report of the new commander.
Anne’s reputation, as well as her own, would rise to some extent.
The head of the shrine looked at Hwanin with warm eyes while holding the money pouch her Hwanin had pushed her with both hands. Then, looking back at Anne, she smiles meaningfully.
=Anne. If it’s a party, she hates you, but she seems to know why she follows this person. =
= Oh really……. Don’t say anything weird If you’re going to make a fuss, we’ll leave. =
Anne hated it, but the head of the temple did not stop laughing.
= Whoop whoop. She never expected to see Anne embarrassed. =
=Mrs. Yoon!=
Anne shouted at her barak, but the head of the temple did not raise an eyebrow and asked her Hwanin.
= Hwanin. Our Anne, please take good care of us. She is a heavenly gorilla on the outside, but inside she is a kind and warm girl.
=Profit!=
She couldn’t communicate with her words, so she reached out her hand and covered the mouth of the head of her temple. Her hands were so big that they seemed to be gripping her face rather than covering her mouth.
Hwanin smiled lightly and said while taking a jewel box and an orange phase stone.
“Now that Anne is there, she can bring up a story. Now that the atmosphere in the city has calmed down to some extent, she is about to leave the lodging.”
= Oops. You can stay longer.=
= Right. You can stay longer I won’t say anything even if I spend a month or two, half a year.
Anne, who let go of the face of the head of the temple, helped her by asking when she was excited.
“No. If we stay longer, our identities will be revealed, and the Labyrinth will soon be reopened, so we must resume our activities to help Anne with her duties.”
= Oh, indeed. The number of visitors to the temple has increased a lot lately, right?=
= That’s how much the offerings and donations have increased. Certainly more and more people are curious about who you are, so it wouldn’t be bad to do as Hwanin-nim said. However…….=
The head of the temple, who placed her hand lightly on her cheek, continued her words with a smile that reminded her of her age.
= I’m sorry. I wanted Hwanin-nim to give the children a baby.=
Hwanin didn’t answer and just smiled.
After finishing her interview with the head of the temple, Hwanin summoned Isilite and met the Aclamate people with the three of them, including Anne.
The person who visited was Dean Munder and one other person. She was the person she would have guessed her identity in in the conference room that day.
No word came.
=I deeply apologize for committing an unforgivable rudeness to a righteous person due to insufficient confirmation.=
“I was very disappointed that day. In Acclamento, when it comes to learning, people who can be counted on one hand make such an unfortunate decision. In addition, it is too late to apologize, so I think you should come at a time when sincerity can be damaged and doubt my intentions.”
=Really…… I don’t know what to say.=
Seeing Dean Monder answer with a gloomy expression, Hwanin lowered his scolding stance, sighed slightly, and spoke calmly.
“…… You guys must have received a considerable penalty for that, so I won’t talk about it any more. I will accept your apologies.”
Dean Monder and the other professors bowed their heads with serious faces.
I don’t know the details of the inside story, but the news that a person from the white castle visited Acclamento and severely criticized it spread.
‘Even the scolding wouldn’t have ended with words.’
There must have been some sanctions involved. Anyone who knows there knows. The fact that the professors of Acclamento pressured the adventurer with a ‘righteous heart’.
If you strongly criticize a person whose honor has fallen to the ground, the aftertaste will not be clean.
After arguing at an appropriate level, Hwanin looked at Anne as if showing off to them.
=…… ?=
=…….=
=…….=
Anne looked at her ghost as if asking why she was staring at her, but Dean Monder and her professors saw Anne’s long ears, a characteristic of the Fleur tribe, and she blurred her face again.
=Don’t worry. We are strictly managing Hwanin’s identity so that it is not disclosed to the outside world. In addition, Professor Rixiewini Gerger was also sanctioned for disclosing the confidential information of others…….=
It’s nice that Hwanin noticed that he’s a professional, but Rixie Weenie = Gerger, the man with the hedgehog’s head, who caused this incident by recklessly spilling words, explains that he is receiving splendid sanctions, from salary cuts to home detention and career deletion.
Then, Dean Monder carefully put his hand into his bosom and put down a staff similar to the soul stick on the table.
It doesn’t look fancy on the outside, but if you look closely, it’s an ink-colored stick that exudes an unusual feeling.
=It is a magic weapon that has an affinity effect on all attributes. It is a luxury product that can activate the function of strengthening strength and restoring durability by inserting a phase stone into the groove of the handle. We would appreciate it if you would consider it our apology and sincerity and accept it.=
Hwanin pondered for a moment whether he should receive this.
If you think about it normally, you should get it, but if you think about it mechanically, it’s like receiving the castle lord’s sincerity and robbing them of the reward.
As for why that was a problem, it’s safe to say that everything in the farhists belonged to the lord of the castle.
The land, the house, the citizens, and everything on it are the property of the castle lord.
In other words, if you receive sincere apologies from Dean Monder, you will receive double compensation from the lord of the castle.
Perhaps seeing Hwanin’s troubles, Anne touched Hwanin’s feet so as not to be seen.
The fact that Anne came out like this must mean that she knew something. Hwanin stretched out his hand and grabbed a staff with a shape similar to the length of the soul stick.
She then felt a subtle warmth and chill seep into her hand as she held the soul stick in her hand.
Can this also be used for soul magic? Hwanin bowed slightly.
“I will write it well. Thank you.”
= No. We are truly grateful…….=
With that, the conversation ended, and the dean left the temple with a much relieved expression.
Hwanin, who was watching the scene from the window, thought that maybe it was too late for not running immediately after the accident, while waiting for a chance to deliver the apology after preparing a gift for his apology.
‘I must have thought of all sorts of things.’
It was because there was a big man who moved the Church of the Land God next to the person who touched it without any confirmation procedure.
Hwanin asked Anne, who was examining the scale, a magic weapon of a color she liked, with Isilite.
“Is there a reason you asked me to accept it?”
= Did you think about whether to accept it or not? If you refuse the gift of apology, it becomes a signal that you and I will make a life-and-death decision from then on. Of course you should. =
“I know that. However, if you receive this, wouldn’t it be like receiving it with the sincerity of the lord of the castle?”
= You don’t have to worry about it that much. This must be a gift that the old man just prepared with his own money.
“…….”
Hwanin gave him a small nod and took his balance and looked closely at it. Why is the name Libra? Because it raises all attributes equally like a scale?
In any case, Hwanin, who had packed the magic weapon, gave Anne a small smile.
“Thanks for letting me know.”
Feeling that it was a greeting she wouldn’t easily hear, Anne was in a very good mood. Hmmmm, asked Anne, who cleared her throat and controlled the smile on her lips.
=What are you going to do now?=
“Leave the dorm and find a new place to stay. Miss Aruru will come to visit in a while, so pack your things until then. And…….”
=And?=
“Let’s go out of the castle for a while tonight.”
=Outside the castle? What business do you have?=
Isilite, who had been quietly guarding her seat until this point, slightly revealed her curiosity.
“Okay. Time for level 6 bird hunting.”
