Chapter 501 - Religious Reform (1/2)

Chapter 501: Religious Reform

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu

The next day, this teh the sun had barely rose All the experienced travelers knew that ti out early in thewas a co their preparations for setting out, a certain individual ran over to say goodbye to me

“You want to stay behind to help reconstruct the village? Sure”

I agreed quite readily, to the point where Thor was rather astonished

Actually, there wasn’tbehind for another reason besides siin spreading the teachings of Law, of course he would need to carefully protect the seed he’d just planted as it would wilt quite easily if he left it alone

And, the villagers would only dare to return to their original homes with the protection of the Silver-ranked Thor After all, bandits weren’t the only threat in this world Violent wild beasts or ical beasts would also be fatal encounters

When the Swift Sword bandit gang attacked, the village militia that was only sufficient to deal with some olves had all been instantly slain After that, since the bandit group wasn’t nuers, all the adult ht be troublesome to deal ere killed off as well Only the elderly were kept alive as sacrifices to be sold off, together with the children and women ere ers wouldtheir village, not to ht encounter

Not only that; if they didn’t have any guarantee of safety, they would only be able to try going to a larger city to ers with certain skills would be able tothere, but it would be ars or prostitutes there

They would obviously prefer to try reconstructing their homes instead Their fields had been left untouched by the bandits, and perhaps they would even have an abundant harvest this year Plus, they received the Swift Sword gang’s belongings as compensation, so at least they didn’t have to worry about food and clothing for the ti If they could have a decent life in their hoe, ould want to leave?

“What about your two coether with you?”

“No, I discussed it with theo to the ruins Their power is likely to be needed there”

I nodded as this was so I’d expected as well I then handed him a slip of paper

“Take soe will require a lot of physical labor Mercenaries should be quite good for that Once the reconstruction is finished, hire the mercenaries to protect the town for a while It’ll be i yourself”

“Baten—owes 17 gold coins? This paper is a list of gaiven Thor a list of so debts that thearound in old coins to Thor

“Yes, that’s the money they owe me, which will be used to pay for their salaries This ave you is the additional pay with me I personally picked these mercenaries, they’re all trustworthy veterans that are reliable You can rest assured rateful expression, and was about to say goodbye and set off when I continued speaking “It’s such a pity Miracle Hand Tiineer in the entire world It’s said that he’s already developed a brand-new path of goblin engineering…”

For any goblin engineer, being able to ineer would be an incredibly valuable chance It would be the sarand of one’s idol, it would be a chance for great progress through discussion

And, Tienius engineer at the center of the entirerevolution He was revered as the wisest person of all by countless goblins and gnomes If Thor ht then, Thor’s earlier grateful expression instantly turned aard I could feel that his goblin passion had instantly transfor me to chuckle happily

“Hmph, since I have to pay h spirits?”

“…You really are a twisted individual Since you’ve paid the ood guy?”

“Tsk, I’ood person, a good person who’s been single for ood person for the rest of your life”

“What a vicious curse! I also bless you to becoood cat for your entire life!”

The silly cat shook her head, appearing to lose interest in our eleument

“Still, that little brat is really lucky Since you wrote a letter of recommendation for him to Xueti, doesn’t that mean his future path will be quite easy?”

“Ha, you don’t understand the bastards in the Church of Law at all In their eyes, ‘a valuable potential sprouting seed’ is the equivalent of ‘a novice that needs extra trials and tribulations’ Anyone I personally recoo ‘the harshest trials possible’ Thor wants to get proinable first”

Although I indeed felt rather helpless to comment on Thor’s previous behavior and actions, I was at least quite satisfied with how he acted last night That hy I had written a recohest-ranked priest of the Church of Law

“He’s no longer called the high priest I received news last h judge Every priest in the Law job classes shall all now be referred to by terhtthe level 1, level 2 judge, and so on syste it obvious that we’rea break from the old Gods’ Churches’ systee-scale religious refore, but it was far ht it over carefully This represented the fact that the Law job classas their statuses in the Law profession rather than in a religious profession This was a ious refor divine authority

This alsoin the Concept of Law itself, not the God of Law While this e difference This was basically a declaration of war against traditional religions in Eich It was easily predictable that there would be a great backlash

“…There was no reaction Not a single church member at Cardinal level or above h this was clearly supposed to be a success that was happy news, Harloys’ ee was filled orry as if this was the worst possible result

“No reaction? How is that possible? Oh… they decided on having a reckoning with us later!”

If the Gods’ Churches didn’t issue any official opinion on this, that was the equivalent of a tacit acceptance of the Church of Law’s religious refor upon the taboo of the Gods’ Churches Believing in a Concept and believing in a God were already two ideological factions that were mortal ene with the Concept, there would always be a war in the end