Chapter 39 (2/2)

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“Then please stay inside this manor for now. If you leave without permission, you will be considered to have confessed guilty to the crime and Reya’s enforcers will have the right to execute you on sight” Yadley put Chris on house-arrest inside a manor. It was not that he didn’t want to put him directly into jail, but with the Church of Divine Grace and the Interkam merchants on his side, Yadley would find it hard to accomplish that.

“I truly hope your side will be able to capture the real culprit soon” Augustin said with a gentle smile as he stood on one side: “May Lord Comoros rest in peace”

A few moments later, one of the Knights of Divine Grace brought Isabella and her daughter to his manor. As the young knight looked at the main road from afar that quickly regained its prosperity, he seemed a bit puzzled.

Even in the Interkam Kingdom’s capital, quite a few people died from diseases every day. Although the priests of Divine Grace had the Grace of Salvation that could cure the majority of diseases, the Church of Divine Grace itself only had so many priests who could use the Grace, and each use drained them of their stamina and strength, so they couldn’t afford to use their Grace without restraint to heal those civilians.

What caused the knight’s interest to be piqued was that during his little trip around Reya to pick up Isabella and her daughter, he found that most of the people here were at their top physical state, as if diseases didn’t exist here at all.

“Myerson, what are you thinking about?” a voice called out to the young knight, as he turned to look, he saw that it was Augustin’s disciple, Luen Donner.

“Luen, thank you for always coming with me to heal those poor folks” Myerson sincerely offered his gratitude. He was born within the slums of the capital, only when he was found to have the appropriate constitution to accept a Grace was he brought outside.

But even now he still remembered what happened at the time. A plague broke out in the royal capital that year, and the place that faced the worst afflictions were the slums. People died every day without being buried, rotting corpses littered the streets.

At the time, Myerson was also afflicted with the plague, only when a group of Divine Grace priests came into the slums to help alleviate the issue was Myerson saved and discovered to have the potential to become a Knight of Divine Grace.

Unfortunately, the Grace suitable for him was a combat-oriented one, not the healing Grace of Salvation. After becoming a Knight of Divine Grace and earning enough for himself, whenever he had the time, Myerson would return to the slums and help out those poor souls.

Whenever he did, he would try to ask the priests with the Grace of Salvation to come with him and heal those in the slums, but the majority of them weren’t willing to waste time for such things. Healing the aristocrats would at least earn them a large sum of money, while healing the poor people made it so that they had to enter the slums. The dirty, chaotic slums were filled with various stenches, random defecation and even rotting bodies. How could the priests who exerted themselves as ‘superior people’ be willing to go to such places?

“That is only my duty, the Lord’s Grace should not be limited to only nobles and merchants” Luen Donner smiled and replied. Unlike Myerson, he was born in an aristocratic family and received higher education, he was also a devout believer in the Lord. With an ambitious and confident grin, he said: “Later on, if I ever become one of the upper echelons of the Church, I will surely set up rules to include voluntary treatment as part of a priest’s commitment”

Compared to Myerson, as he was born a noble, Luen seemed a bit more interested in power and authority, but Myerson could tell that Luen truly wanted the Grace of the Lord to reach everyone.

“Then you’re going to have to work even harder Luen, I’ll be waiting for that day” Myerson said with complete sincerity. Due to his family’s background and him being Cardinal Augustin’s disciple, coupled with the fact that he showed excellent abilities, many people were optimistic that he would certainly become a high-ranking member of the Church of Divine Grace in the future.

After parting ways with Luen, Myerson felt a bit guilty for no reason. He glanced back at the prosperous streets in the distance and felt slightly at