Pressure brings motivation. In the face of the heavy pressure that is already within reach, everyone in the Dahl family is not willing to delay even one night. After eating a little something, they quietly came to the Void Mask Temple under the protection of their most reliable subordinates.
The paladin who was keeping watch discovered them, and at first thought they wanted to attack, and was startled. When Baron Dar came forward and explained the reason, the bear-like paladin understood the truth and took them to see the priest of Kalaba.
The Kabbalist priest slept in a small room with bare walls next to the prayer room. He doesn't like luxury by nature, so there are basically no furnishings in the house, not even tables or chairs. There are just thick wooden boards on the floor, with quilts and books placed on the wooden boards, which serve as both a bed and a desk.
He was very strong. Even when he was sleeping, he felt many people approaching and woke up naturally. I couldn't help but be a little stunned when I learned that Baron Dar was visiting with his close relatives, Wei Ye, to talk about converting his faith.
(I only came here to develop the church. How did it suddenly develop to the point where even the lords wanted to convert to His Majesty? Is this a step too big?)
There is a famous saying on earth that if you step too hard, your balls will be pulled. As a magical healer, the Kabbalah priest is not worried about which part of the ball will be pulled. However, he actually feels a pain in his balls now.
Especially when he had a detailed discussion with Baron Dahl and learned all the causes and consequences, he felt even more painful.
(What the hell! Why do the noble faction and the merchant faction of the Gold Coin Federation fight, but a lord comes to join us? What does this have to do with us? As a lord, shouldn’t you naturally belong to the aristocratic faction? Oh... It seems that he really cannot naturally belong to the aristocratic faction, because his main income comes from business... Then why not temporarily stop the smuggling business! Anyway, if they convert to His Majesty, they will also rectify the various current businesses...)
He thought about it a lot, and his eyes were spinning like mosquito coils, but he still couldn't figure it out.
Sighing deeply, he said to Baron Dar: "Baron, I understand your situation. But this matter is not trivial. I'd better go and ask for your Majesty's instructions... "
"Of course, of course!" Baron Dahl nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face, like a fat chicken eating rice.
The Kabbalah priest came to the dressing room, took a shower and changed clothes. After everything was ready, he went to the prayer room, lit incense wood chips that gave off a reassuring smell, and worshiped in front of the altar in silence amid the slowly burning smoke of the wood chips. pray.
Moments later, Sui Xiong answered his prayer.
"So that's what happened... Yes, as long as they are willing to change their ways, I can protect them." Sui Xiong thought about it for a while and then agreed, "However, my protection for them is limited to preventing nobles or businessmen from attacking and assassinating them. If they have business conflicts or previous grudges, I will not protect them."
The Kabbalah priest told Baron Dahl Sui Xiong's answer. Baron Dahl was silent for a while and expressed that he would discuss it with his tribe again.
So they borrowed a room in the temple and discussed it inside.
This time they did not discuss for a long time. About ten minutes later, Baron Dar visited the Kabbalah priest again and expressed his acceptance of the conditions of His Majesty the Mask of the Void.
Although they were not able to receive complete protection, which always made them feel a little uneasy, the attitude of His Majesty the Mask of the Void confirmed his reliability from another aspect - as an old Jianghu, Baron Dahl and his people all I would rather trust those who carefully discuss the conditions for doing things than trust those who do everything.
Because the more carefully you think about it and the more detailed the conditions are, the more serious your attitude is. As for those guys who talk so much that they seem to be able to run a carriage, you simply can’t believe a word of what they say!
Now that the conditions were negotiated and things were settled, everyone in the Dahl family returned to the castle with peace of mind. Although it was almost dawn, it did not prevent them from having a peaceful sleep now.
On the other side, the clergymen of Masked Void Church were busy.
The Dahl family originally had mixed beliefs. Some believed in the God of Nobles and some believed in the Goddess of Wealth. Now that they wanted to collectively convert to the Mask of the Void, a formal and grand ceremony was naturally required.
Not only that, many people in the Dahl family are bad guys, and to accept these believers, one must arrange atonement for them.
The matter of "atonement" is not something that can be done by buying an indulgence note in the Middle Ages on earth, nor is it like some bearded men who can just kill a few pagans and be free no matter what bad things they have done. Ascend to heaven. In this world, atonement is a very serious and serious matter. It involves a very difficult and costly process.
First of all, the person who decides to atone his sins must first fast and bathe for a period of time to let his body and mind enter a peaceful and peaceful state. Then in this state, he must personally describe his crimes one by one and accept the punishment according to the crimes. Punishment includes, but is not limited to, beatings, burning, and various physical or magical pains.
This painful process sometimes lasts as long as a month. After the entire ceremony is over, they have to accept a task. Only by completing this task with a kind and serious attitude can the entire atonement be truly completed. process.
As long as the whole atonement can be completed, even the heinous villain can change his alignment from evil to neutral. From now on, as long as you do good deeds seriously, you will become a kind person sooner or later.
However... In this world, there are very few bad guys who can truly complete the entire atonement process.
On the one hand, this process is indeed accompanied by a lot of pain. The more serious the crime, the more severe the pain. Most bad guys are the kind of people who are strict with others and lenient with themselves. They are simply unable to bear the pain.
On the other hand, even if they are willing to endure pain, few churches are willing to perform atonement rituals for bad guys, because this means that he will become a member of the church and his actions will be closely related to the honor of the church.
Even if they are willing to atone for their sins, clerics are rarely willing to believe villains.
The only one who is keen on performing atonement rituals for people is the Church of God of Redemption. That group of people preached that "no matter how bad a person is, as long as he is willing to change, he will be able to pay for his sins one day", and they are keen to persuade bad people to atone for their sins and accept redemption - even if they repent before they die.
But the bad guys are not willing to do this, because if they accept "redemption" before death, it means that their souls will belong to the God of Redemption after death, and they will do various good things under His arrangement to redeem themselves. Clear away your sins.
This kind of thing is very difficult.
In the end, only a few of the upper echelons of the Dahl family were willing to accept the atonement ceremony and became the core believers of the Church of the Mask of the Void. The rest of the people just paid homage to the statue of His Majesty the Mask of the Void, accepted the baptism ceremony from the Kabbalah priest, and then left.
"That's fine." Watching them leave, the Kabbalah priest was disappointed, but he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as you are responsible for the atonement of a few people, both the difficulty and the trouble that may be involved in the future will be much smaller.
As for those who left... they walked their own path and made their own choices. No matter what, no one can blame them.