Chapter 1382: The question of the priest

Father Tovia is the priest of the main parish church of Feinan in the Duchy of Rus. He has served as a fire watcher for a long time. He is not an important role in the parish church. He is a fire watcher like him. There are ten priests, and all he needs to do every day is to put enough charcoal into the container of the purification fire so that the purification fire will not be extinguished due to lack of fuel.
In fact, it’s enough for one person to do something like Fireman, but now it requires ten people to do it. This is entirely because the number of clergy in the church has far exceeded the number of positions the church can provide, making an ordinary person. There are more than a dozen or even dozens of clergy in the church.
The main reason for this phenomenon is entirely the divine decree issued by the current pope. This pope’s decree allows the purifying fire in all countries controlled by the Church. Those nobles who cannot inherit the family property can hold that name. Letters of recommendation from nobles, go to the church of their parish to be assessed for clergy, and as long as they pass the assessment, they can be granted the lowest-level clergy status.
The reason why the contemporary Pope will issue such absurd orders is that, besides he himself is a son of a nobleman, it is also because he can become a pope because a large number of sons of nobleman secretly helped, although these sons of nobleman, individually, Power is very small, but when they unite, they can produce extraordinary influence, and even directly affect the pope election of the Purification Fire Church.
When such a decree was promulgated, many people naturally opposed it, but these objections soon disappeared, because the people who made the voice of opposition appeared in politics, business, and various other aspects. These or those accidents, several of them It was because of accidental death, no matter how stupid people knew what happened, they all chose to shut up after being warned.
As a result, this doctrine was quickly implemented. A large number of aristocratic concubines and illegitimate children passed the church assessment with letters of introduction from the aristocracy and became the lowest-level clergy of the church. Some people even performed extremely well in the assessment. Become an official priest, for example, Tovia is such a priest who takes shortcuts.
The reason why aristocratic concubines and illegitimate children value this kind of lowest-level priesthood status is mainly because after possessing such an status, the tax rate can be greatly reduced when paying the sacred tax of the church. Many of them have priesthood status. The illegitimate sons and concubines of the nobles would allow themselves to be affiliated with a certain chamber of commerce and caravans, indirectly helping the chambers of commerce and caravans to deduct part of their taxes, so that they can also get a lot of extra income.
It’s just that, compared to those clergymen who take advantage of the convenience of the clergy and seek benefits, Tovia really wants to be a formal clergyman, so he doesn’t hesitate to give up the privileged life at his fingertips and choose to teach on the edge. The Principality comes to be a fire watcher.
Because of this, his work attitude towards the position of the fire watcher is completely different from those of other fire watchers. He is extremely serious and pious, and will stay on the top of the tower where the fire of purification is located almost all day. It was precisely because of his behavior that he was protected by the purifying fire when the rat tide broke out, and he was not harmed.
It was not until early the next morning that he found that the church and town he was in were almost all dead. Only a few people escaped in the cellar, and he became the backbone of this group of survivors. It wasn't until the fascinating place in front of the relocation road that the survivors he was responsible for management changed from a dozen people to several thousand people. This was entirely due to his clergy status, even if this status was obtained by accident, and it was not. What a high-level clergy, but at this time, the survivors need a hope to live. Religion can give such hope, and there is only one clergyman in the entire Ruth Principality, and he can only carry this burden.
At first Tovia didn’t know that he could survive the rat tide because he was beside the fire of purification. He just thought that the broken wooden door at the top of the tower blocked the rat tide, just like those who survived in the cellar. Same as people.
It was not until he contacted the clergy of the church outside that he figured out that the fire of purification can withstand the rat tide. This also made him thankful that when he moved to the land of the gods, he deliberately completed the fire of purification of the parish church. He moved here, which allowed him to have enough fire to light the bonfires on the wall of the town and build a protection circle composed of purifying fires.
Although Tovia is now one of the most important backbones of the town, many things do not need to be done personally, as long as they are ordered, someone will help him to do it, but he is adding firewood to the fire of purification and taking care of the fire of purification. In the matter, he is still personally responsible.
　　 Same as the previous few days, after entering the night, he held a prayer meeting for the survivors, and then waited on the fence to check the state of the purification fires.
On the road, all the survivors who met him saluted him respectfully, and he paid them back one by one. He seemed very approachable. Now his reputation in the town is very high. This is something he could not imagine before. The feeling of being respected is very good, so good that he has an urge to thank this rat tide, because without this rat tide, he will always be a fire watcher, and he cannot be the current fire bearer. .
　　The fire bearer is the higher priesthood of the fire watcher, and can already be counted as a higher priesthood. To become a fire bearer, there is only one requirement, that is, to be able to separate the fire of purification and create a new fire of purification bonfire.
Under normal circumstances, even if the clergy and non-clergy who are not fire-bearers ignite in the purifying fire, the ignited torch in his hand is not a purifying fire. It is just a normal flame, and only the fire-bearer ignites it. The torch is the real fire of purification.
　　 Therefore, in the purification fire church, the fire bearer is very important. Any new parish or new church needs the fire bearer to separate the purification fire, and lighting the purification fire of the church and the parish can be regarded as completing the establishment of the church.
　　 This is why the fire watchers are the lowest-ranking clergy, while the fire bearers who are only one level apart are powerful figures second only to the red bishops.
Tovia can imagine that once the blockade of the Principality is lifted, then he, the fire-bearer born in the disaster, can better reflect that the doctrine of the purification fire is the doctrine, so he is a non-cultivation and completely relies on the purification fire gift. The fire-bearers of the confession will definitely be reused, especially as it involves the decree issued by the pope that has caused complaints within the church.
Just like the end of the scene, before coming to the container with the purifying fire, Tovia carefully checked the condition of the container, and checked whether the firewood in the container was sufficient, lost some firewood in it, and added some firewood. Then he walked towards the next purifying fire container.
After inspecting several purification fire containers, Tovia came to the place where the last purification fire container was placed, but he saw that standing next to the container was not the survivor he arranged, but a foreigner Strangers on safari.
He immediately recognized who the stranger was. This was mainly because there were only two foreigners in this small town. Of course, it was also because the lady of the two foreigners had a queen-like temperament. A person can leave a very deep impression. He still remembers that when the survivors tried to drive them away as foreigners, the extremely beautiful lady just glanced at them, and everyone was like She didn't dare to speak as if she was pinched by her throat.
As the son of the earl, Tovia has seen many great aristocrats, many of whom rule a country, but he can say with certainty that none of these great princes and great nobles can compete with that foreign country in terms of temperament and power. The noblewoman is comparable, not even one-tenth, so many people speculate that this foreign noblewoman may be a foreign princess or a great noblewoman such as the grand duke.
Compared to the high-profile foreign lady, the foreign man who should be the lady’s husband hasn’t been noticed. Some people even speculate that the foreign man is not the lady’s husband, but just the lady’s guard or something. of.
However, unlike the others in the town, Tovia pays more attention to the foreign male, because the fire of purification tells him that the two foreigners are very dangerous, and the male is more dangerous than the female. .
Since becoming a firebearer, he has been given some magical abilities by the purifying fire that were previously considered to be legends. For example, he no longer fears the cold, for example, he can see many things at night, for example, he can see living creatures. The heat that comes out.
　　 is also precisely because of this ability, so that before moving to the land of the Taoist gods, he avoided several attacks by the rat group through the ability, so that the survivors did not suffer any more losses.
　　 After this disaster is over, he can go to the main church of the Holy Lord Kingdom, where he can learn some magic arts that can only be mastered by senior clergy, and become a true fire bearer.
Now even if he can’t perform some divine arts, he can also use the fire of purification to display some abilities similar to divine arts. This is also the main reason why he can gain such a large prestige and status here. Fire is particularly dependent, and he also attaches great importance to the reminder of the fire of purification.
So he has been observing these two foreigners in secret for the past two days, but what he saw made him puzzled. Every day, these two foreigners took the local girl named Petistan to leave the town and go outside the town. In the forest, they will return to the small town before nightfall. I don’t know what they are doing.
　　 He also wanted to follow up to see what they were doing, but when he thought that he would lose the protection of the purification fire after entering the forest, he became frightened again and gave up the idea of ​​following.
He also asked other people about when the two foreigners came to the town, only to learn that the two foreigners lived with the local girl before others discovered the magic of the town. I was in town. I heard that the girl said that the two foreigners had killed her in the rat group, and then sent her home. She found that everyone in the house was dead. Seeing that she was helpless, she stayed temporarily to take care of her.
　　 Tovia also confirmed this to the girl. Although he got a positive answer, he always felt that the girl was hiding something, but he didn't ask too much.
He originally planned to find an opportunity to have a specific chat with the two foreigners, to see why the two foreigners came to the Duchy of Ruth, and to see if there was anything unusual between them, but he didn't expect to wait for him to find the two. People, one of them has already appeared in front of him.
Tovia originally thought that this foreign man was just curious about the fire of purification. After all, it was impossible to see the fire of purification at such a close distance in other places, but he soon felt that something was wrong, because he was from there. I felt the emotion of fear in the fire of purification.
This feeling really made him a little confused, although after this period of time he has been in constant contact with the fire of purification, he can feel that the fire of purification is more like a special kind of divine life, not just a kind of fire, because he He can feel the emotions of intelligent creatures in the flames, but he has never had such a strong fear of emotions like this. He has never thought that the divine life given by the gods like the fire of purification will affect a mortal. feeling scared.
　　 "What are you doing?" Although Tovia also felt scared and worried, his devotion to the fire of purification made him bold enough to step forward and question the foreign male.
　　 The other party turned his head, looked at the priest calmly, and asked, "Father Tovia, didn't you say on the square that anyone can touch this sacred fire close by?"
　　 "Uh..." Tovia didn't know how to answer for a while.
As Leo said, he used the power of a fire bearer to separate a purifying fire from the source fire he had brought for the first time. When he lit the bonfire on the city wall, he was extremely excited and said Some things that shouldn’t have been said. This is something that anyone can get close to the sacred fire. He hopes to take it back. If he speaks this sentence in other places under the jurisdiction of the Purification Fire Church, it will definitely be triggered very seriously. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Fortunately, it is now a church vacuum zone.
　　 So now Leo used this sentence to ask him back, but he didn't think about how to answer.
　　 However, he soon thought of how to quibble, and said, "Your Excellency is a believer in Purification Fire? What I said was only for believers."
　　 "So, it seems that I misunderstood." The other party smiled and turned and walked under the wall.
　　 "Wait!" Tovia suddenly stopped him, and quickly asked: "May I ask what your purpose is to live here?"
"Purpose?" The other party stopped, turned his head and looked at Tovia with a weird look, and said, "Is there any other safe place besides this in the territory of the Ruth Principality and the surrounding Principality? ?"
　　 Tovia hesitated a little, but did not answer.
The other party asked again: "And in what capacity did you come to ask me this question? You must know that I came here before you. You are the latecomers. In terms of legitimacy, as the only survivor in this small town. Only when Nistan has the legitimacy can she decide who should stay and who should leave. You are not qualified enough. Next time, think about asking what you are talking about, so as not to humiliate yourself like you do now."
　　 After speaking, he didn't look at Tovia's ugly face anymore, turned and walked towards the place where he lived.
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