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The two chatted for a while, and Ronald took the opportunity to check the information and confirmed the situation in the Sanctuary.
Then clean up.
The two left the hut directly.
The monastery is just a corner of the sacred capital, but when it turns from empty silence to human activities, it still presents a completely different style.
This urban area is quiet and quiet.
Most of the figures that can be seen on the road are slow but firm. Even if the acquaintances are idle, most of them do not say a word, just nodding, reflecting the solemn atmosphere of the monastery.
At this time, the bell rang.
Ronald looked in the sound and found that it was the bell tower in the distance.
Bell towers are set up in all urban areas of the Shengdu. The corresponding number of bells is ringed every hour to inform the people of the city of the time at this moment.
A few minutes later, Ronald followed the young nun on the street and returned to the square of the monastery.
This is the intersection of the monastery roads.
Unlike the sages that were later sealed, this place is the center of the road and finally has some breath of life.
As soon as he walked out of the alley, Ronald saw a priest in black, pushing a wheelbarrow and transporting a black stone tablet from another city.
They dug out a piece of floor in the square and then replaced the newly transported stone tablet.
Stop and look carefully, and you can still see the handwriting engraved on the stone tablet...
"Lili, what are you looking at?"
The little nun on the side noticed Ronald's stop and came over immediately:
"Oh, that's it!"
"It was Mr. Matthew who had just passed away last week. In order to show his pious belief, he donated a lot of money in his will, hoping to inlaid his tombstone in the square of the monastery."
After explaining, the young nun Aphra sighed more:
"It seems he's lucky."
"The ground repairs on the monastery square are only a few times a year, and even this kind of opportunity has been won for him."
Ronald nodded and pretended to be like that.
Bypassing the priest who was changing the floor, under the guidance of the young nun, they turned into another alley.
This time I only walked for a few minutes.
Not far from the square.
They came to the entrance of a larger courtyard.
The young nun Afura took the initiative to knock on the door, and whispered a few words to the monk who opened the door, without having to do more inspections, and the two of them entered smoothly.
It is different from the courtyards used by other monks to live and live.
Within the wall here, there is only an open-air ground similar to the altar terrain. Young or aged monks sat in circles around the center, and a podium in the center, where a gentle and smiling middle-aged man was standing.
man.
Whenever someone walks in from outside the yard.
He will smile at the new arrival to show his welcome.
Entrants often nodded, including Ronald and the young nun.
During this action, Ronald and the man's eyes met.
With just one look, he could feel the other person's specialness.
This is not the original text he senses the other party’s strong body, but the information that can be judged by just the eyes.
Confident temperament, confident eyes, and orderly movements.
The information revealed in this expression is difficult to fake.
Ronald almost subconsciously had an idea.
Can you use the man in front of you to deal with other [Nine Rings Secret Meeting] casters who are in trial?
...
In a quiet atmosphere, time passes.
About a quarter of an hour later, the seats in the courtyard were already sitting.
During this period, no one whispered, and the entire venue always maintained a quiet and solemn atmosphere.
Bang-
At this time, the gate of the courtyard was closed from the inside.
It seems to be a signal that the speech is started.
The middle-aged man standing behind the central podium opened his mouth as the door closed, and the voice was gentle and long:
"Good morning, everyone.
Everyone must also know that yesterday the priest and the holy priest returned to the monastery to select the next priest candidate.
The two adults also exchanged some views with us.
I thought about it and felt that there was a story that should be shared with everyone."
Speaking of this, the middle-aged man paused for a moment and his eyes swept across the crowd around him.
It seemed as if he had confirmed something that he began to tell the story:
"It is said that a thousand years ago, a family made a living by shepherding.
They are hardworking and sincere, kind to others, and have the spirit of hard work and perseverance.
So with the careful care and management of generations, the flock of sheep naturally flourished and flourished, and their family also had no worries about food and clothing and had a happy life.
One day, a neighbor next door came to them who also made a living.
From then on, a peaceful and peaceful life no longer existed. The family fought with their neighbors and fought for territory for the sheep sheep.
After a long confrontation, the family finally won.
Compared to the past, their flock was even larger.
But not only did this family not live a better life, but were more tired than before, as if they were being grazed by lambs."
At this point, the middle-aged man stopped talking, but picked up a cup of water to moisten his throat.
The people in the seats around began to discuss with each other.
After hearing this, Ronald thought it was a metaphor for the struggle between the church and the wizard.
But after he listened carefully to the discussions of other priests, he realized that his views on this era were a bit arrogant and behind.
The story told by the priest is not about fighting.
But it lies in the change in the relationship between the shepherd's family and their flock.
For hundreds of years, the church has gone through various stages in its battle with wizards, and now it has finally won the dawn of victory.
But some problems, or some changes, are also unquestionably occurring in the process. The church's top leaders have discovered and valued this change.
Although not discussed in a blunt way.
But we also face and discuss the significance of this change in a more indirect way.
In the past era, the caster in the church was always human, and the elements and status that humans possessed were undeniable. Spells are just tools in their hands and are a way to confirm faith.
But accompanied by a battle with the heretic wizard.
The proportion of the relationship between man and spell and original text is changing.
In order to win battles, the research and development and application of spells have been continuously tilted. Over the past century, the relationship between humans and art has disappeared.
The power of the spell continues to increase.
Because of this, people have worked hard to study and having strong magical power is the prerequisite for gaining a place in the church.
For the pious believers of the past, this has become the greatest blasphemy.
After all, spells come from the original text, not from the gods.
In the past, people regarded spells as tools, no matter how people were the core, and spells were just auxiliary.
——Man changes but technique remains unchanged.
And excessive fighting has led to the inversion of cause and effect.
Spells became the first power, eternal and unchanging, and people in the church almost became vassals of spells.
——The technique changes but the person remains unchanged.
Although there is no current consequence of this change.
But in the eyes of the thoughtful church people.
In accordance with this trend, unchanging backward things will sooner or later be eliminated, and that will be a result that no one wants to see.
The originally quiet courtyard rarely aroused noise in the tranquility.
As monks in the monastery, it is their innate mission to overcome this dilemma.
This scene was reflected in Ronald's eyes.
He was inevitably brought into this collision of thoughts.
Thinking about the relationship between man and spells is very similar to the alienation of capital.
In contrast, the world outside the seal.
In the reality of pursuing efficiency and technology, no one has discussed this issue yet.
Perhaps in Entroud, the new country with the original text of "Das Kapital" will begin to face such changes?
Ronald felt a little moved.
Just by discussing this story with the priests, he felt that the trial in the temple was worth the trip.
Even against those [Nine Rings Secret Meeting] casters.
It seems that they have become less important details.
At this moment, when the discussion in the courtyard lasted for a quarter of an hour, the young nun Aphra once again invited Ronald:
"Lili, it's almost over here."
"It's time right, let's go to the church to do morning prayers together?"