It was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with the usual false smile of a priest, with mediocre mental strength. The cross on his body... After observation, there were three life-saving crosses in total.
Benjamin hid beside the vegetable stall and nodded thoughtfully.
The ordinary coolie priest has only one cross, the foreman priest has three crosses. The church is really a hierarchical place. Each class is so clearly divided. If you want to climb up, you can only rely on your own talent and strength.
Benjamin couldn't help but sigh.
To be able to cultivate so many divine spellcasters with clear hierarchies, the church should have a very mature talent training system. However, in the Kingdom of Hori, the church was completely kept secret from the outside world, so Benjamin didn’t know exactly how they did it.
Looking at myself again, although I have some people under my command, their training depends on fate. They cannot even be called immature, let alone mature.
If conditions permit in the future, he will have to work more on this aspect...
While thinking this, Benjamin locked onto the priest and followed him from a distance. The priest seemed to be preaching to the vendors. In the chaotic and noisy vegetable market, his eloquence was in sharp contrast to the confused expressions of the vendors.
"No...you have said so much, do you want to buy my fish?"
The priest shook his head: "I don't buy it."
Suddenly, the vendor was so angry: "You... why are you here if you don't want to buy? It's a waste of time. No other customers will come. Go, go! Don't make trouble here. Find someone to talk nonsense to you somewhere else." go!"
Seeing this, Benjamin also shook his head in his mind.
This guy is not very talented! No wonder I can only be responsible for such a small town and have no chance to squeeze into a big city.
In this way, the priest stayed here for fifteen minutes, but was eventually forcibly driven away by the merchant. Benjamin had been observing secretly. When he saw this scene, he followed behind and left quietly.
It was probably because of his frustration with the merchants that he lost the motivation to preach for a while. After leaving the vegetable market, the priest walked straight ahead, not caring about the people he met on the way who might be proselytizing.
Five minutes later, he arrived at a three-story cabin.
Benjamin followed here, first swept aside the water element induction method, and then nodded secretly.
This should be their residence.
Unlike the head priests in Riley City, the priests here all live together. Therefore, Benjamin had some troubles when he started. In addition to the leader, there were three priests in the hut at this moment. The three priests lived in the same room, and the chief priest dragged his tired steps upstairs and returned to another room.
After thinking for a moment, Benjamin suddenly walked out of the darkness and walked directly to the door of the cabin.
He knocked on the door.
Soon, a priest came down, opened the door, and looked at Benjamin suspiciously.
"Who are you?"
Benjamin looked a little cowed and stammered, "Then... um, is the priest who came back just now here?"
The priest frowned, but professional training brought him back to his senses. He put away his guarded and impatient expression and showed a friendly smile.
"There are thousands of God's wills, and we are very busy working on them every day, so sometimes we cannot pay attention to every believer's response. Please forgive me."
Translated into adult language, it probably means: "He is here, but he has no time to pay attention to you."
So, Benjamin showed a disappointed expression and spoke hesitantly: "But... But what I was just over there and heard everything the priest said made me feel completely new. I... I have a lot of questions, and I want to Ask the priest!"
Hearing this, the priest who opened the door lit up.
"Oh? Have you felt God's call and decided to throw yourself into God's arms?" He suddenly took Benjamin's hand and said, "What questions do you have? Just tell them and I will answer them for you one by one."
But Benjamin looked wary and kept shaking his head: "No... you are not the priest just now. Only the priest just now can make me feel the glory of God. Who are you? I don't want to ask you."
At that moment, the smile on the priest's face froze.
However, he still held back, forced a smile, and said, "Okay, the priest just now is in the room, I will take you there now."
Benjamin nodded confusedly.
In this way, he successfully entered the hut.
He followed the priest up to the second floor and came to the door of the chief priest's room. After knocking on the door, the two priests whispered and explained the situation. Then, the leading priest also smiled at Benjamin with a sense of accomplishment.
"What problems do you have? Come on, come in and talk about it."
Benjamin showed a flattered expression and said, "Thank you, thank you, Father! You are really amazing!"
Upon seeing this, the priest who opened the door nodded, made a prayer gesture, and returned to his room. Benjamin walked into the room of the leading priest while talking incoherently with various words of reverence.
He closed the door to the room smoothly and without leaving a trace.
"What questions do you have? Just ask. We are God's servants, born to answer your questions." The leading priest clasped his hands and said devoutly.
Benjamin turned around, suddenly put away the tension on his face, and showed a smile.
At this moment, his speaking speed suddenly slowed down and became smooth and smooth, tearing away the surprise and incoherent cloak:
"My question is, do you yourselves truly believe in the existence of God?"
The priest was stunned.
His reaction was a bit slow, but the cross on his body made him react faster.
I saw a huge water ball suddenly appear in the room and enveloped the priest in it. The priest was caught off guard. If the life-saving cross hadn't shattered and opened a shield to keep the water out, he would have been submerged in it at this moment.
"You... you are a mage?"
Trapped in the water ball, the priest said this with his eyes widened in disbelief. However, from Benjamin's perspective, the priest only had an exaggerated mouth and no sound could be heard.
Obviously, there were other people in the whole house, so how could he let the sound get out
In order to prevent others from noticing, Benjamin did not hesitate. While wrapping the priest inside, the inside of the water balloon began to rotate rapidly. His control has increased much more than before. At this moment, he can even condense a blade-like water flow inside the water ball and hit the shield, producing a more powerful impact.
—He doesn’t have that much time and must make a quick decision.
Just like that, within a few seconds, before the priest could react, the three life-saving crosses on his body shattered. And he himself was directly exposed to the raging water.
However, Benjamin did not intend to end the other party in this way.
After using the Water Vortex Prison to grind away the cross, he summoned an ice blade and dispersed the water balls at the same time. The leading priest was first submerged by the water, and was suddenly exposed to the air again. A hint of hope could not help but appear on his panicked face.
However, with the hope of just leaving the water polo, he was sliced through the throat by a lightning-fast ice blade!
thump!
The priest fell to the ground from mid-air, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
Benjamin looked at the priest, his face showing neither sadness nor joy. Around him, circles of water vapor formed an air shield, which had long covered the entire room, preventing any sound from being heard in the room.
After the blood spurted out so much, Benjamin walked over.
"Your god has not come to save you."
He looked at the priest who had blood on his neck and his whole body was still twitching, and said softly.
The priest didn't make any reaction, he just had a painful expression, twitching, bleeding, and groaning. I don't know if he heard these words.
Seeing this, Benjamin shook his head and suddenly picked up the ice blade on the ground that cut the opponent's throat.
After thinking for a while, he leaned down. To the left of where the priest fell, he held the ice blade and carved it hard, carving a palm-sized triangle on the wooden floor.
- An equilateral triangle that looks neat but only has a gap on one corner, like a triangle.
After doing all this, he looked at the priest again.
The priest's blood had almost drained out, and now it was only seeping out from the wound bit by bit. His pupils were stagnant, and even his painful moans had disappeared.
Seeing this, Benjamin nodded.
The first mission objective has been completed.
He revoked the magic, turned around, opened the door, and walked out of the room. He closed the door and went down the stairs, where he met the priest who opened the door for him. He showed an excited and excited expression, chatted casually with the priest, waved goodbye, and slowly left the hut with the other party's prayers and blessings.