Chapter 26 (1/2)
Chapter 26: The Pitiful Holy Knights
Translator: StarveCleric Editor: StarveCleric
“15 years ago, when I was studying in the Basic Warrior Academy, I was the pride of ers in my hometo me, they would la?’”
“When I was 10, I had already grasped over 10 types of basic fighting techniques and had successfully advanced into the Iron-rank I became the pride of the school, a future hero of humanity I was always surrounded by cute fe around school, I would ‘accidentally’ display enius frorasped the concept of Consecutive Counterattack, right? If he were to continue working hard for another decade or so, he could possibly reach half ofthose fools without talent, I basked in the coazes of adht that my life would continue on like this until the end of tireat hero and marry a rich woman Until that day…”
“‘Talent for Divine Arts? The notification for the qualification of Acadeht? To think that I would be able to becoo!’”
Thea suave Holy Knight When I was overjoyed upon receiving the notification of nored the worried looks on my parents’ face,”
“To becoht future but in reality, it was just the start of a nightmare…”
“Graduation equals to uneenius frohts, one that only appears once a decade!! Look at e!!”
“I’ht, but e need are talents who can help to spread our teachings, and not violent warriors who could only fight and kill Our department should only consist of 12 people, but now it is craraduated froht and they are all your seniors Why should they give up their placing to you?”
“I… Then I’ll go and become a free adventurer”
“I’ht, you have a responsibility to repay your gratitude to the Church of Holy Light with your strength The 7th Holy Church is lacking a volunteer to clean the altar and the toilets… Volunteers aren’t given wages, but the Holy Light will pay you for your hard work Don’t worry, you won’t have to do it for too long Three years will pass in a flash”
I still reaze of the old Priest when he turned around to look athere since I enty I have been tolerating this job to the point thatthe job, you snotty brat!”
“I… I will go and be a free adventurer, that should be accepted right!!”
Of course, it is accepted but I didn’t expect that it would be the start of the true nightmare…
3 years later, I finally beca why is it 3 years later? If you don’t want to be chased about by the Holy Church, how can you skip the ht, looking at how my juniors had becohed Even so, I didn’t feel too discouraged because, with my Silver-rank abilities, I was confident that I would soon become the star in the eyes of the crowd
But very soon, the cruel reality crushed my dreams with a spiked ht, I a to join your team of Bronze-ranks You should be happy about it Or is it… is it because I aht?”
The thief who stood opposite to hts speak too much nonsense and have tooUndead and Half-Deanizations and can you re up our trophies of war? As adventurers, ould have to do dirty work most of the time Can you ensure that you will listen obediently to our orders and not hinder us?”
Of course not! The Holy Church had clearly stated that allitems have to be returned to their owners If you couldn’t find their owners, then you should hand the us as trophies of war! As for Undead and Half-Des of Chaos! I will never stand on the saht… Since our paths are different, we should not walk together Since you aren’t willing to allow me to join your party, I will just have to createa new party went rather successfully The Adventurer’s Guild and the taverns were filled with Holy Knights and Priests ere unable to find a party as well Soon, our party, ‘Let Light shi+ne Upon The World’, started on our adventure
But…
“What does not being able to accept compensation means? Does that mean we can only starve?”
“Didn’t your teacher teach you about it before you becahts, and we serve the Holy Light and the public The adventures of a Holy Knight can only be considered as a journey to accu citizens in need is our duty and since it is a duty, how can we accept co an adventurer if we can’t earn any money! Do we just starve to death like this!!”
A mysterious smile flashed across the face of that senior Indeed, he had an idea in ht adventurers h we couldn’t accept compensations, if we accepted them as a form of donation for the Holy Church, ere able to keep a third of it as a token of their appreciation, but…
“However, given that it is a donation, we can’t squabble over the amount we receive But I can only buy two rye bread with the single bronze coin I received froh for ht, I still have to donate two-thirds of it to the Church…”
“This isn’t the worst You probably haven’t met with requests from the Goblins yet That is the one that really breaks one’s back”
“Un?”
“We can’t fuss over how much other people donate In fact, we can’t even complain if the person doesn’t donate, or what he donates to us… It was still fine if a stingy Goblin refused to donate after fulfilling his request If he were to donate a ton heavy boulder to you, you would have to cut it into three equal pieces and carry two of them back to the Holy Church to pay it as tax… As a senior, allow me to warn you in advance If the Goblins were to hand you a ainst the teachings of the Church, youyou as a lab rat to experiment his tools, which would explode sooner or later, then the thing he is passing youyou as a lab rat”
“Right, be careful of the Mermen as well The last time we helped the Mermen to clear up the coast, they donated a bunch of smelly mud fish Under the hot sun, it started to stink halfway through our journey That stench could be smelled even ten miles away… I had to bathe under the waterfall for three days straight after that I still remember the looks of despise those Priestesses shotthe donations It was as though they were looking at so dirty”
The additional information from my Priest co
“Also, be careful of Des used their fur as compensation and further of holding a bunch of goat furs in your hands and recounting the onto the floor so that you could pay the correct ahts, all of us are poor so we shouldn’t resort to scheainst one another But that other ti session beca session for our party As for ht
“… At least, Holy Knights are dashi+ng so they should be popular a another heavy bat at s?”
I lived in the common dormitory filled with sweatymarried As for mounts, I did have one, but how could I afford to raise a stallion by myself? Thus, I deposited it with the Church and I was only allowed to use it during ti the last hen the co feed for the horses sent in the receipts Hehe hello, ladies Goodbye, ladies
After taking so many consecutive blows, I finally met an innocent and cute lady She didn’tto date me!
“Ah, how beautiful and kind she is She is my Goddess”
But it was bizarre that the ed in was holding each other’s hands and strolling through the park She would always reject my offer to advance our relationshi+p
At that time, I was a little perplexed but I held in my curiosity After all, she was so pure and innocent But after five years passed, I was already 30-years-old and there was still no progress whatsoever I couldn’t hold it in any longer so I bucked up e to ask her about it
“Ah? Aren’t Holy Knights the Knights of God? Aren’t they devoid of desires?”