Chapter 195 – 190 Saint Farhists
The final day of submissions for the tournament has arrived.
Isilite and Anne headed to the Northern Farhist Tournament Stadium early in the morning to register for participation, and Hwanin accompanied them to boost their morale and manage their goodwill, although he had other business to do.
The reception process was simple. Submit the application form to the receptionist and you’re done.
However, the process was not ordinary.
The stakes of tournaments in grand festivals are more than half.
On top of this, the last day of reception was featured, and more than tens of thousands of people gathered in front of the North Stadium, shouting and cheering at the players receiving at the reception desk, emitting tremendous heat.
Wow-!!!
Every time each contestant submits an application, a loud cheer erupts from the crowd filling the area.
“…….”
To Hwanin, the sight of men and women wearing all sorts of fancy equipment openly submitting applications while being conscious of their surroundings was no more or less than a ridiculous clown.
It was because I thought that the real talented people do not care about their surroundings.
However, because there are performances like that, it must be positioned as one of the festivals.
Anne, who was watching it with her party, looked back at her visionary and asked.
=Doryeong, how are you?=
“Most of them are weak people.”
If you look at the movement, footwork, and center of gravity of the body, most people have not learned the technique properly. It should be said that she was at the level of Isilite before joining her.
While Isilite’s evaluation was relatively readjusted, Anne, who came in plain clothes as her armor had not yet been mended, looked at her receptionist for a moment, then shrugged her shoulders and stood up.
= We will come too. Dew, let’s go.=
=Didn’t you say you’d wait until the end?=
=Doryeong followed us even though he had something to do. Just register early and go back. =
My anticipation for the tournament has dropped a lot. In the meantime, I often came out and looked at the participants, but I couldn’t find anyone who could be called a strong person.
She wondered if her eyes weren’t good enough, so she even asked Doryeong to go with her on the last day, and he confirmed…….
‘The sword is also weak, so what?’
You’d be better off just signing up early and going back for some more training.
With that thought in mind, Isilite and Anne, who went to submit applications, received slightly different cheers.
Cheers erupted from the men in the crowd, saying that they were pretty and that they were beautiful.
On the other hand, the women were booing that they had come out to seduce men with their faces, but the two women dismissed it with expressions asking where the dog was barking.
=Aren’t you going?=
= Yes. You never know if a strong one will emerge. In case you don’t know, I’m going to watch a little more. =
After submitting her application, Isilite returned, so she did, and then went back to her house, and her Hwanin also left to do what she originally intended to do.
What I was trying to do was to find a Holy Magician colleague.
Hwanin, with Aruru in front, headed for the city with an emergency.
Hwanin, who was riding an emergency with Aruru wearing a hooded cloak, saw a crowd that was three times larger than when he first arrived.
Farkhist was engulfed in a cheerful atmosphere as the great festival approached.
When you leave the house, you can easily see travelers and tourists wandering around the city, and the shops and streets have long since turned into grand festival versions.
Various events were held in the east, west, south, and north of the city, so there were plenty of things to see.
For those who are accustomed to living in quiet villages and villages where there is no entertainment, where yesterday is the same as today and tomorrow is the same as today, it will be an eye-opening sight.
In the eyes of Hwanin who thinks so, a large number of people who are frantically looking around catch his eyes, as if to support his idea.
Anyway, it felt like the whole city was heating up with the festival, but in Hwanin’s eyes, it didn’t look peaceful at all.
A light shadow is visible on one side of the citizen’s face.
There was only one reason. Rumor has it that a farhist idol and goddess of the poor has been murdered. It hurt people’s hearts deeply.
After the festival, whatever happens will happen.
Or, for example, war.
It is said that the envoys came and negotiated, but it was common on Earth in the past for the negotiation results to be overturned.
Even in modern times, there are many cases in which treaties or formal promises between countries are discarded as if they were throwing away a devoted partner for the sake of their own interests.
In legitimate trade, the state intervened and suspended trade with ridiculous excuses and quibbles, but here, Nionebreth was a heroine who did not think it would be different.
Because of that, Hwanin was convinced that the war would break out within 4 years at the most and 2 months at the shortest.
“…….”
Any man of ordinary morality would have felt some burden at the consequences he had caused.
However, Hwanin’s physical condition was literally at its peak every day.
He granted the request of the dead. The body was also recovered. He also took revenge and eliminated the band of robbers who disturbed the labyrinth.
He also revealed the identities of those who were doing nonsense in the labyrinth and saved the face of the Farghist castle lord.
He only used a little bit of the dead man’s reason to secure a little bit of his own safety in return.
Moreover, when he spread rumors, he left out the subject and object.
The reason why this atmosphere was formed was that citizens and high-ranking Farhists created it themselves.
‘…… Do you think rationalization? I’ve changed, but I’ve changed.’
If it was like before, I wouldn’t have cared about a single gram now that things related to myself were over.
=Kyahaha~!=
=Go with me~.=
=Ahahaha!=
Children laugh innocently and run between people.
As the festival approached, an increasing number of travelers, adventurers, mercenaries, and tourists from nearby villages and villages traveled all over the city to see the Farghists.
The downtown area and the downtown area were originally noisy, but now they are more crowded, and the usually quiet changes are also crowded with people visiting the city, such as alleys and stores nearby in quiet residential areas.
It was because countless festival discounts and small bazaars were being held all over the city for such people.
Farghist citizens haggling over souvenirs (rather, practical household items) with tourists who seem to have come from the village at the seemingly small stalls set up in front of their houses.
Citizens who have been granted special business permission to set up temporary stalls on the roads, make snacks and snacks, and spray delicious smells.
People who dance like classical choreography with bizarre movements in front of three people who play musical instruments happily as part of their hobby, and people gather around them to watch.
If you look up, flags of five colors, like the national flags that decorate the roofs, adorn the roads, and in the case of the house of a landlord with a fairly aesthetic sense, there was an example of decorating the exterior walls with colorful flowers.
The white exterior walls of the buildings are decorated with such flowers, and moreover, there are such buildings one by one, so you can definitely feel that it is a festival period.
“…….”
The smell of barbecue came from somewhere and I looked around for a while and found that an entire street was in full swing with a meat & beer festival.
Apparently, it seems to be a kind of concept street in which the residents of the street unite and provide delicious grilled meat and unlimited alcohol for a certain entrance fee.
“There is a lot to see and do.”
= Sure~. In addition, an open-air theater is open in the afternoon and outdoor performances are held. In the eastern part of the city, there is also a water festival organized by the fetish cult. A circus has also arrived outside the west gate of the city. There is also a costume procession every 3 days, so there are endless things to see day and night!=
When Hwanin opens his mouth, Aruru, sitting in front of him, chatters like a lark and eagerly explains where the festival is held and what events are taking place.
“Is it a water festival?”
=Are you interested in water festivals? It’s fun too. It’s a festival led by the cult of fetishes, and with the permission of the lord, everyone splashes water on each other and plays…….=
If you listen to the explanation, it is similar to the Songkran water festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
As a divination of the Church of the Sky God, they anticipate a clear and hot day and pray for blessings and purification by shooting water guns or throwing water bombs at each other on that day.
= The number of people who participate increases every year, and now thousands of people gather. In addition to that, ordinary people also sell hand-made souvenirs that they have made for the grand festival, and there are markets and street stalls, so there are so many things to see!=
Aruru’s reaction was literally that of a child excited and excited about a festival full of things to play.
If it’s a child, just going around a lot of people will make your heart pound and be excited.
Hwanin, who came out to the city with Aruru for the first time in a while, patted Aruru’s head, who was trying to somehow tell him about the greatness of the festival, and headed for the Farghist branch of the cult of fetishes in the east.
He was a Hwanin who visited the Order of the Five Gods in the city one after another in order to recruit a Holy Sorcerer colleague.
But now I was halfway giving up.
It was because she had heard the answer that for each temple she visited, she would guide her on how to dispatch priests and priests for a certain period of time for a fee, and she would never arrange for her companions.
= Brother, I’m sorry. Our church also does not encourage sisters to join the party. Instead, they send sisters who have even received combat training…….=
As expected, the church visited this time also showed a product that dispatched temple priests for a limited time like a manpower dispatch company.
Maybe it was because it was a fetish church with a moderate and rational feeling, and when Hwanin asked a question, he explained the reason.
= A priestess is essential for a high-level party’s labyrinth exploration. A priestess who lacks combat skills can easily become a target for exploitation by the party, and since there are many men in the labyrinth party, cases of sexual abuse may occur. This issue was brought to the fore in the case of Rurik’s priestess exploitation 41 years ago.=
About 78 years ago, a Kirin man from the Inrin tribe named Rurik awakened to the mixed class of a 7th-class fighter, and formed a large-scale guild.
The purpose was clear.
Gathering at least level 5 or higher jobs, organizing 10 parties, organizing 2 groups into 1 team, conducting systematic labyrinth exploration, demon investigation, exploration, etc., And exerting influence on the surroundings.
Among them, the main task was to search for a newly created labyrinth or to destroy a labyrinth at the request of a local baron. As it was a high-level labyrinth, a priestess in charge of treatment was essential, and Ruric recruited such a priestess from the temple.
After that, it was as it was known after the incident occurred.
Only one temple priest was placed per two parties, and the two parties took turns resting, but the temple priest entered the labyrinth as soon as they left the labyrinth without such a thing.
When mental invasion occurs, they are given stimulants, and when phase power runs out, they are given medicine to force them to sleep. If it breaks after using it like that, sell it to a low-level spearman who signed a contract with the guild for money, and get introduced to a new shrine priest from the church.
The reason this was possible for decades was because there were so many priests overflowing in the church at the time.
At the time, it was natural to gather at the local shrine when awakening as a priestess.
Thanks to this, one group monopolized the Holy Wizard. And when you become a monopoly supplier, people are easily corrupted.
Rurik made connections with the local barons and high-ranking priests of the church, and was offered a priest periodically.
Between ranks 2 and 4, relatively weak and problematic priestesses were provided to Ruric, and hundreds of priestesses were treated like scrap in the process.
= After the incident became known, the five major religions suffered from measles. Unscheduled censorship by the Heretic Questioner was carried out throughout Nionebreth, and the Church, noticing that similar things were happening everywhere, set out to purify itself. Most of the high priests and high priests were wiped out en masse.=
As a result of the investigation, it was revealed that tens of thousands of priests were used and abandoned on the continent, and it was revealed that high-ranking temple officials, including cardinals among them, were involved in the incident.
Thousands of high-ranking officials of the temple were killed at the end of the judgment. In a physical sense, the head and neck are separated.
And the law was reformed.
Temples never recruit temple priests as companions. And the shrine priests do not join the party.
If a temple priestess joins the party, the church immediately excommunicates the priestess after investigating the situation.
It’s a somewhat extreme method, but since the head of a four-digit high-ranking priest fell because of this, he was a ghost who wanted to do that.
The reason why the other temples didn’t tell me about that is because it’s a secret part of the church.
=…… In other words, it will be impossible to get a priestess companion in the church. The best thing is to pay a down payment and have a priest or priestess dispatch you for a certain period of time.=
Even so, 10 gold coins a week is a bit…….
Even though the dispatched priest is level 5 or higher and possesses some fighting ability, it is a heavy burden for the current Hwanin.
Hwanin paid a small donation in return for giving the information to the priest of the Fetish Church, then politely declined the dispatch and left the church.
‘It’s not a good thing to burden Anne with the treatment of her party.’
Professionals use phase power as a resource, except for unusual cases like Hwanin himself.
For example, MP and Mana that appear in fantasy novels or games are phase powers.
There is also a loading ceremony, and the esoteric tactic requires a long and complicated hand sign, which takes 10 minutes to memorize, to activate.
For this reason, general magicians memorize the magic method in advance and leave it as a mark to use when needed, just as Hwanin makes and uses soul beads.
This reload consumes the same amount of phase power.
In other words, if Anne takes on the role of the party’s healer, she has to divide one person’s phase power between the use of the fighter’s skill and the use of the holy spell, and uses some of the already insufficient phase power to reload in the morning.
At around 6th grade, there is a lot to spend on skills while dealing with phase power in earnest.
For example, slamming the shield into the ground, shaking the surroundings, and performing a blow-type range attack consumes as much as 1/10 of the total phase power, and to block magical attacks from enemies or heteromorphic species, this also requires the shield to be of the same level. You have to block it with phase power.
To do all of this puts a heavy burden on Anne.
‘I can’t.’
As she had done so far, she had to cover the severity of the wound and use her general-purpose potions by dividing them into high, intermediate, and low-grade potions.
The burden on Anne would be lessened if she relied on Anne’s sexual treatment for things that could not be dealt with with restorative drugs or medicines.
For now, it seems that there is no choice but to do so and slowly search for colleagues.
Returning to her house without much income, Hwan-in finds Anne sitting in her living room with a bad expression on her face.
“Anne’s expression is bad. Did she have any problems at the reception desk?”
When Isilite took off her hood and her cloak and asked, Isilite smiled bitterly, but Hwanin momentarily saw a vision of a flower made of light blooming in front of her eyes.
Is it because the light from her window made Isilite her halo?
=I got into a fight with a participant at the tournament reception area. Receiving cheers and attention from men must have made some women’s eyes look sour.=
“…….”
She looked at Anne again.
Anne, who had a physique that would have appeared in a pornography that felt like a strong female distorted libido just two weeks ago, now she has grown through the layers of pine needles and humus, and is as delicate and neat as an orchid covered with morning dew.
She says she wants to wear a skirt, and she likes to wear a blue dress that is close to a maxi dress, which makes her stand out even more.
In reality, she is a super strong woman who can break her rocks with just a punch with her 100kg compressed muscles, but she doesn’t.
“Because of her appearance, she must have looked down on her partner.”
As she spoke, she laughed, and Anne’s cherry lips pouted out as if to express her displeasure.
Anne, who leaned back against the back of her sofa, lets out a long sigh.
= It was the first time I had ever been challenged, so I couldn’t react properly because I was embarrassed. That’s what pisses me off the most.=
If it wasn’t for that, she would have broken it in a few places, but it’s a look that suits her.
Rather than sympathize with her, her Hwanin gently wrapped her hand around the back of her neck and lightly kissed her on the lips.
=Ah?=
Seeing Anne’s wide-eyed expression, Hwanin grabbed her slender chin, tilted her head back, and kissed her intensely for one minute as if coveting her throat.
= Hey…….=
For one minute, the silver-haired beauty whose lips and tongue were trampled down lets out a female sigh.
Hwanin kept a small smile on her and stroked her hair.
“Anne. Your appearance now is more like a beautiful priest than a fighter. If it was your old self, you wouldn’t have been able to say anything about the intimidation that you were showing on the outside. But now it’s different. You will often get caught up in big and small fights.”
Anne’s expression suddenly calmed down as she listened to her story while blinking her eyes at her heated face.
It’s like he’s realized something, so there’s no need to talk anymore.
Hwanin asked Isilite for a cup of tea and sat in her designated seat. And she pulled out a notebook she had discovered by chance and purchased on the spot the other day.
Paper of the same quality as the earth, with a luxurious black leather cover, like the skin of a black panther.
It is said to be a notebook, but it is similar to a diary.
She struggled with her schedule, feeling the smooth texture of the paper as she opened the notebook, a quality worthy of a silver coin, even though she had paid two silver coins.
‘8 days until the start of the festival and the start of the tournament…….’
The remaining time is really ambiguous.
Will she use this time to visit another labyrinth, or will she train upstream with the help of Yurpa?
Hwan-in handed over her notebook with the part filled in with the information of the labyrinth near Farhist that he obtained while wandering around the city.
Udun = Aside from Gottmogg’s Prison Labyrinth, the closest labyrinth to Farhist is the secret graveyard of the Gargoyle Prince, 2 days away from the city.
The super-large maze-type labyrinth, which is divided into 5 areas on the first basement floor, is made in the shape of an X, and the difficulty of the 4 areas at 2, 5, 7, and 11 o’clock increases as you approach the center.
The outer part is a level 1 labyrinth, and the center is a level 5 labyrinth. However, access to the center is restricted as the core roams around.
‘Assuming that we explore only one area, it takes 3 days round trip by Que, 4 days to explore one area, and 1 day of rest after returning.’
If you go to Labyrinth, the schedule is a bit harsh.
While thinking about which of the two would be better, around the time I thought I should listen to the opinions of Isilite and Anne.
Rattle.
One of the three doors to the private room opened, and Yurpa, with her messy gray hair, shuffled out.
She was holding a small wand with a soft orange halo that flowed from an egg-sized orange jewel set on the tip.
As soon as she found her phantom, Yurpa, who had approached like a zombie, collapsed at her phantom’s feet.
= Heh, heh heh…. Baby, I’m so relieved…….=
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Anne, who swallowed her saliva at the sight of Yu Lepa who was motionless, asked her as she quietly got up from her seat.
=Lord, are you dead?=
