Chapter 28 – Episode 26 – The Church!
“Treatment and treatment of monsters is the church’s specialty. Ordinary healing is possible at the church, but recovery-related skills are not magic, so the consumption of Esser is enormous, so unless you are seriously injured, the church won’t accept it. It depends on what skill you have, but I heard that a representative-level priest of a moderately sized church can only treat 1-2 times a day.”
As she runs to Ladia, Lisbeth tells her that she needs to go to the church, then she gives her explanation of the church.
“As a result, the cost of treatment is quite high. There are only a few priests who can provide high-quality treatment, and there are severe restrictions on the number of times they can be used. I’ve heard that the priest’s skills are not tempered, but that you have to pray to the goddess with strong faith to become stronger, but she says it’s not easy to keep that faith steady.”
It seems that the job of a priest in another world is a little different from the commonly thought RPG priest. It’s not that there aren’t any priests who lead an adventurer’s life, but for that reason, most priests are at the level of helping someone for a while.
Since the training method is different, the stats will have stats that are not suitable for an adventurer in the first place, and since you learn skills only with the power that comes from faith, living an adventurer’s life will not make your priestly ability stronger. In the meantime, there was no one among the adventurers who looked like a priest, so I thought it was a rare job, but it seems that was not the case.
“Because Ladia’s church is one of the largest in the kingdom, it should be able to treat Ars. I’m a mage, so I can only roughly feel the tesser, but what I feel in Als’s body looks like tesser’s energy, so maybe it’s the church…”
Lisbeth said she would be able to cure Als, as if she were talking to herself.
“Yes. If it’s that large, it’ll be able to treat Als. It’s all over, Lisbeth. She tells me which way to go.”
As she gazed at the gates of Ladia, with a view of the setting sun behind her, she asked Lisbeth for directions to her church.
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“Are you there! You are an emergency patient! I’m here to ask for a cure!”
After briefly explaining to the soldiers who were surprised to see us in front of the city gate, we quickly passed through and arrived at the church. The church, which was in a place I had never been to, was a large and splendid building enough to admire a little. Looking at the building behind the main gate, as if looking at a famous cathedral in Europe from Earth, entered the open main gate and looked around and shouted.
Soon, in a small building nearby, two women dressed like nuns approached me and gasped at me. After reassuring them by explaining that I was a divine beast who came to Radia not long ago, I showed them Ars on the back, gave a rough explanation, and asked for treatment.
The two nuns would figure out the situation, one would run straight away and the other would lead us somewhere. However, even after I explained my true identity, the frightened expressions on the faces of the two nuns did not disappear. Even though they look like this, they can talk… The nuns are a bit timid.
Soon after entering a building according to the guidance, a place that looked like a ward appeared. After laying Als down in the room he guided me to, I waited for a while, and then several people who looked like priests appeared and checked Als’ condition. Among them, the spectacled priest wearing the most fancy clothes put his hand on Ars’ chest and muttered something, and something holy seemed to emanate from that hand.
After staring in admiration at the light, when the light disappeared, Ars’ expression seemed to have returned to some extent. The priest wearing glasses exhaled, wiping the sweat from his forehead, then looked back at us and said:
“I think you can rest assured. We still have to look at the condition a bit more, but we have passed the danger.”
Upon hearing that, Lisbeth was relieved and her expression relaxed. Well… I don’t really care…
“It’s surprising that the hero came so injured… But the energy felt inside the body is a bit unusual. Could you please elaborate?”
After answering that he knew the priest, he followed the priest to another building. Lisbeth was a little hesitant about leaving Als, but when she saw the other priests sticking around to check on her condition, she seemed relieved and moved along.
She followed the priest into a small building attached to the side of what looked like a cathedral in the center, and she came out of a room with a parlor-like atmosphere. There, the priest offered Lisbeth her chair, and I knelt down next to her, leveling her face.
“First I should introduce myself. I am Mother Paul, the bishop of the Ladia branch of the Goddess Church.”
Bishop? I thought the clothes were more fancy than the other priests, and the rank was quite high. But isn’t a bishop a position that is only held by quite old grandfathers? Paul in front of me looks quite young. He’s probably in his early to mid-30s at best, but he’s a bishop…
For now, I skipped the question of Bishop Paul’s age, and explained what I had been through to Paul, who asked what was going on. Paul listened to our conversation with serious eyes over his glasses, then he sighed a little and started talking.
“Whoa… I see… The information about that Hero Eater was also delivered to the church. It was not clear whether it was a simple monster or a monster, so I was wondering if the church should move, but I didn’t think it would be like this…”
Paul, who says that, looks a little sad.
“Even so, no matter how brave they are, those who are still beginners were too impatient. To chase after a guy who killed a high-level hero like that. It’s fortunate that it ended like this, but it could have cost you your life.”
“Sorry…”
That’s what it says, so there’s no excuse. Lisbeth lowered her head and said. Paul grinned and she said.
“Until I’m sorry. I just meant to save myself. Adventurers can always encounter dangerous situations, so it is essential to consider and avoid risks as much as possible. If an adventurer does not have a sense of crisis, he will regret it greatly at some point.”
Paul, who said that, seemed to have a strange conviction.
“Uh… Somehow you feel like you know me well?”
“Aha, you don’t know. I’ve been an adventurer for quite some time. Recognized for his activities at that time, he became a bishop at a young age and was appointed the representative of the Ladia branch. It looks like this, but I am also a warrior. Haha”
OMG warrior! A priest too! This is kind of surprising. I thought of the warrior as a warrior carrying a sword, but I thought there was a priest warrior. It seems that there is no such thing as a standard for becoming a hero. Uh, then, isn’t there no limit to treatment because Esser is infinite? I thought so and asked, and Paul answered.
“No matter how much they lead an adventurer’s life, the priests’ work is what they do, so even if they level up, their stats don’t increase to the point of being at all. Thanks to that, no matter how much you level up, in most cases your stats are lower than that of a novice adventurer. In addition, since the skills used by priests consume quite a bit of physical strength and mental power, even if Esser is an infinite warrior, the number of times is quite limited. I can do it three or four times a day.”
It seems that the symptoms of being a physical tester felt by Als are common to all warriors.
“Speaking again, Hero Eater… This guy’s identity is still unclear. The aura I feel from Ars-ssi is a little different to simply call it Tesser. Also, judging from the two of you, it doesn’t seem that there was any pollution around you… Hmm?”
“Uh?”
Lisbeth, who had been listening to Paul who was saying that, looked at me with her doubts for a moment.
“…Come to think of it, Shinsu-nim also has quite a different aura.”
“Um… Similar to Semane’s energy… Is it?”
What? Could it be that I am the same as him? Could it be that this reincarnated horse body is the same kind as the hero eater that brings about destruction? Paul immediately excused himself, put his hand on my horse’s body, and began to sense something with his eyes closed.
“Hmm… It’s a little different compared to the aura I felt from Ars-san. If you say that the aura felt by Als-Ci is tesser, but only contamination is not occurring, then the aura felt by the new water source is esser, but it is similar to tesser…”
“Um… I’m not sure why I have this energy…”
“We, the priests, don’t know much about Shinsu, so we can’t give a definite answer… But it doesn’t seem like something to worry about. First of all, I can definitely feel that it is Esser.”
Thank god. If I were a monster that brings destruction, I would have been sad.
“First of all, aside from the new water… Mr. Als is the problem, but I think we will have to go to the hospital and see how long the treatment will take. It is still too much to be cured.”
Upon hearing that, Lisbeth’s expression changed to a worried one.
“Tesser was shaking inside my body, probably because of the foreign energy, but since you came quickly, I was able to stabilize it with first aid. However, perhaps because the tesser is heterogeneous, I can still feel the tesser in my body even though I have used the purification and recovery skills to the level that should be healed.”
“That… The aftereffects left on the body…?”
Lisbeth asked Paul with her concerned expression, and Paul answered with a smile as if to reassure Lisbeth.
“I don’t think you need to worry about that. It’s just that the tesser hasn’t completely escaped, and it’s not that the body is seriously injured or the internal organs are affected by contamination. It only requires hospitalization until the tesser can be completely cleansed.”
With that said, Lisbeth let out a sigh of relief.
“I think you can rest assured that Mr. Als is entrusted to us. The night is almost over, so I think it would be a good idea for you two to first deliver information about the Hero Eater to the Guild Management Office and then go back and rest. She writes the address to the nun at the entrance of the church ward, so she will be able to reach Mr. Ars when he wakes up.”
After saying thank you to Paul and Lisbeth, as she was about to get up from her seat, someone opened the door and came in.
“Paul. Are you here?”
Following the sound of the door opening, a clear voice with a sense of transparency found Paul. The moment the door opened and she saw a blonde beauty in a nun’s uniform, she gasped and exclaimed.
Brilliant blonde hair covered in a black veil. Her breasts, which seemed to be larger than her own head, were flaunted so that the loose-fitting nun’s uniform felt tight. The three-pronged skirt has white lines and gold patterns engraved on the black background on the middle of the fabric. The split skirt was supposed to be able to be locked inside, but only slightly opened around the ankles. It is the appearance of a beautiful woman in a neat black nun’s uniform that seems to radiate sexual energy.
In particular, the face with her closed eyes is a face that feels so gentle that one might be mistaken for feeling her benevolence and stability. She is a beautiful woman with clean skin and sparkling lips that can be thought of as transparent, and a sexiness that makes you feel sacred.
“Oh, I’m sorry, Paul. Were there any guests…!?”
But after looking around her room, she saw that her benevolent, benign face contorted with fear as the color of her face changed in an instant.
“Kyaaaaa!!!!!”
She shows the greatest fright of all the women I’ve seen, and the beauty collapses with her hands on her floor as she screams. That’s so really…
