"Let me be Bishop of Roseburg?"
Annan's eyes widened in surprise when he heard this, "Is it the Orthodox Bishop?"
Although he did think that Bishop Darryl should do him some favors.
But he didn't expect that this bald and fat man would directly give up his position...
Soon, Annan realized something.
He slowed down and asked softly, "What about you?"
"Of course I want to go back to the capital. I'm not from Beihai. The climate here is too humid and cold for an old man like me."
Darryl shrugged and took out his pocket watch to check the time. He raised his head again, and looked at Annan eagerly: "How about it, my lord
"You just need to name it, and you don't need to really change your beliefs—Silver Sir doesn't force such ceremonial things, as long as it is good for the development of the church. And the beliefs of Silver Sir and Lady Cold-Blooded are not the same. conflict."
"Um… "
Annan mused.
He thought for a moment, stretched himself, got up and put on his clothes and coat.
He opened the window of the room, and the cold air rushed in, and the air in the bedroom could make the brain sober.
Annan squinted his eyes and took a few deep breaths of the cold wind.
He turned his head and looked again at Bishop Darryl who was waiting for the answer.
There was no trace of sleepiness in his eyes anymore, and he became calm and indifferent again.
Annan pointed to the stool next to the tea table in the bedroom, motioning Bishop Darryl to sit down.
"Please sit down... My Lord Bishop."
He said respectfully, then walked to the door: "I'll make you a cup of tea."
At this time, Annan did not choose a more intimate address, but adopted a business-like attitude.
Afterwards, Annan temporarily left his bedroom.
He walked on the road, thinking secretly.
Annan could see clearly.
Although it may be that most of the reasons for this invitation are because he has received the holy light imprint of the silver knight.
— But Bishop Darryl's words did indeed hide a temptation.
His invitation was actually divided into two parts.
One is "named in Sir Silver's church", while the other is "served as a district bishop in Beihai Territory".
That's all for the front one.
But "Annan Coldwinter" would not accept the latter one.
Because he is the sole heir of Duke Winter, the future Duke.
He could not have held such a high office in a church in a neighboring country—or even in an enemy country.
This will definitely make the winter people doubt Annan's decision. It will even become an excuse for others to attack Annan... It will even become the motivation for the political behavior of the old grandmother's priests in the Duke of Winter, who decided to leave the Grand Duke's camp and at the same time begin to weaken the authority of the Grand Duke.
Of course, there are benefits as well.
The biggest advantage is that he can get the strong support of Sir Silver and the protection of the entire church.
No one dared to attack a righteous bishop, let alone a district bishop who was half a level higher than the bishop.
After all, they are different from nobles.
If a noble is successfully assassinated, it is possible that other nobles will then turn around and start making up for the victim's family after they jointly issue a wanted arrest. After all, their interests far outweigh their responsibilities.
But the church is different.
All righteous priests have the priority of purifying nightmares.
All priests who died outside the nightmare were a great waste of resources.
Because not everyone has the talent to become a priest.
If someone kills a priest, it is equivalent to other priests being suddenly notified to work overtime: to finish the work content of your belching colleague, and you can't get off work if you don't finish it.
No doubt this attracts the hatred of all priests.
—We are busy, what are you doing
Therefore, even if they don't know each other, and they are not even priests who believe in the same orthodox god. But once he heard that someone in his diocese had killed a priest of the righteous god, the bishop of this diocese would also find a way to find out the murderer, kill him directly or transfer him to the diocese where the incident occurred.
The bishop's responsibilities are even heavier than that of the priests.
Their task is to regularly clean up the nightmares above the silver level in the parish, and prevent ordinary people and innocent transcendents from straying into nightmares.
In other words, they are all playing high and difficult books.
Freezing Water Harbor is a special case.
According to Salvatore, this nightmare was tried and failed forty-five years ago.
In the end, the bishop had no choice but to lock up the "key". That's why only an ordinary priest, Louis, was needed to guard the place.
It's a pleasant surprise to be able to purify, but it doesn't matter if it can't be purified, anyway, I don't count on him.
After all, it is a distortion-level nightmare.
Nightmares at this level can easily be life-threatening. Either be corroded by a curse and turn into a monster that is neither human nor ghost, or get an extremely harsh curse and be haunted by the curse to death.
Bishop is a real high-risk occupation.
It will naturally be respected by people.
Annan learned from Salvatore that twelve years ago in the Noah Kingdom, nobles hired killers and murdered the bishop—because his plan to hoard goods was deliberately sabotaged by the bishop, and he lost everything.
In the end, the killer was wanted all over the country, and he was arrested and brought to justice within five days. Even the nobles involved in the murder were confiscated, stripped of their titles, and exiled from the country.
Even if bishops really have bad conduct, or have committed heinous laws, they will usually be arrested after the trial, and they will be sent to "distortion" level or even higher-level nightmares, and the nightmares will be continuously purified.
In this way, the last value of existence is squeezed out.
— and kill them before they turn into monsters.
So murdering a bishop who is healthy and sane is a very serious sin.
This is real "waste" behavior.
Because not all nightmare "keys" are materialized.
A nightmare of Twisted and above, the key is usually something outlandish.
For example, "Say the word 'Skeleton'" or "Hold a frozen fish over seven pounds and open the door" or "Name twenty-three different fish in one day. Name" and other weird conditions.
The job of the bishop is to solve this nightmare.
Because if the key to entering the nightmare is announced, ordinary people will try to become superhumans, break into the super-difficult nightmare and die miserably; or some people will simply use these strange conditions to carry out silent and deliberate murders.
Although at sunrise, the nightmare will be dispelled.
But not everyone who enters the nightmare for the first time can survive until the sunrise...
And ordinary people are almost unconscious in their nightmares. It's like really in a dream.
For them, this is just a more real "death" nightmare.
And if there are ordinary people who become superhumans... They will often lose control, be counter-cursed, or die by accident, becoming a new nightmare.
—In this way, the number of nightmares increased instead!
So, control the number of nightmares and keep cutting back. It is a very important and long work.
As Salvatore said.
If you want to step into the path of the extraordinary, you must have the corresponding talent and determination.
The Beihai Territory is sparsely populated because of the cold weather. Nightmares are not common here, so the bishop is not too busy.
Just Daryl, a district bishop, is enough to suppress all high-level nightmares in the diocese, without the assistance of other bishops.
on the other hand…
That is, if their bishop died suddenly, the entire Beihai Territory might be in chaos.
Therefore, as long as Annan becomes the bishop of the Beihai Territory.
Whether it's the enemies from Noah's kingdom or the hostility from the Duke of Winter, it will stop here. The premise is that as long as Annan does not resign.
Then the conclusion is clear.
If Annan accepted this condition, it would be tantamount to revealing that he was not sent by the Duke of Winter.
— but is being hunted down by the Duchy of Winter.