God's choice, a word whose meaning can be understood by looking at the literal meaning, is a person chosen by the gods.
But every time Lu Yu introduced himself as the Chosen God of Glory to Serra, he felt it was awkward, or rather... abrupt.
First of all, Serra does not believe in God, secondly, he has learned from Segro that there is no god in this world, and finally... Serra feels that many people in the higher echelons of the Theocracy also feel that the God of Radiance is a lie.
A divine choice without a god, which is comical and absurd.
A person who does not believe in God and does not respect God has become the chosen one, which makes this absurd feeling even more like stepping on the accelerator when racing on a straight road, suddenly pulling it to the fullest.
Although the young fragment of Lawrence was paranoid, he told the truth about the belief in the God of Glory.
This is a lie weaved for the ignorant majority. It is a dream that has long comforted the people at the bottom and anesthetized them to spend this painful life. It is a placebo that makes the bottom people with no human form and personality willingly act like cattle and horses.
There is only one reason for its creation - to facilitate governance.
"A continent that can give birth to seventh-level magicians, knowledge inheritance, and civilization should be very glorious."
Lu Yu did not continue the topic of divine selection and religion, but instead talked about seemingly unrelated things, but this made Sera smile, and she knew that Lu Yu had already vaguely felt it.
“The largest number of people in the splendid aristocratic mansions are not the aristocrats wearing luxurious dresses and not eating fireworks, but the slaves and servants huddled in small, dirty and smelly little houses. They can enter the mansion or go far away.
They could glimpse the luxurious aroma coming from the door and see the warm yellow light shining through the curtains, but they could not approach the dining car or approach the long table to take away a piece of clean, non-mouldy bread, nor could they dress like they were.
He walked with his head held high like a decent gentleman, his eyes intersecting with those noble ladies."
Serra said meaningfully: "There are many people in the mansion, but the group of people who define what 'people' are can't see it. Maybe they have good intentions, maybe they have forgotten. I hope it is the latter, but history tells me
, they are more of the former.”
Seeing that Lu Yu and Sera were chatting animatedly, Sigrid brought the yellow juice and left.
Sierra raised the glass filled with juice, shook it, and watched the finely chopped pulp settle. The bright orange-yellow juice rolled up a wave on the wall of the glass. On a whim, she twisted the glass with two fingers and narrowed her eyes slightly.
, and took a sip of the juice as if tasting wine.
To be honest, it was very artificial, but seeing the delicate look on Sera's lips raised, Lu Yu could only think of the two words elegance and beauty.
He has good looks and can really do whatever he wants.
"Do you think this action is contrived and disgusting, and you feel uncomfortable all over?"
"right."
"That's what they do. I don't cater to them and I'm said to have a 'personality' because of my identity. Therefore, many people who want to pursue me also do this deliberately... Do you know why Lulu wants to escape? Except for Tanya,
She doesn't like these people either, because she has never belonged to that camp. A person who comes from a lower class background and can empathize with the lower class will find it difficult to endure their hypocrisy and pretentiousness. If she could endure it... I wouldn't get close to her."
Lu Yu let out a long sigh and started talking about unrelated things again.
"I thought what I'd seen was bad enough."
"The lower limit is meant to be broken. If you go to Mela, I can show you how to experience it. If Clorons is still alive, his decay may accelerate."
"Sigrid, I forgot to bring a change of clothes, help me!!"
Lu Yu and Sera covered their foreheads at the same time.
When Lulu met Lu Yu in the tree hole, her nerves were always tense because of the sudden disaster, so she always gave Lu Yu a powerful, wise and knowledgeable feeling. However, as the contact lasted for a long time, this ***
, plus she was trained by Tanya to subconsciously like to rely on others... In short, when Lu Yu and Sera are both here, Lulu behaves like a big child. She and the little child Wu Yao, this...
The biggest advantage of curious babies who lack common sense is that they don’t treat them like encyclopedias and ask questions...
"Is it hard to take care of children?" Sierra teased.
Lu Yu sighed: "It's okay, I'm used to it. The mist demon has passed the stage where all the weird problems were thrown at me. Now it only needs to be solved for a moment. As for Lulu... let's complement each other. She is an idiot sometimes in life.
I often appear to be mentally retarded when it comes to magic, and no one can laugh at me."
Anna and Isko have already come up with a charter for establishing an orphanage, and they will hand over the drafted content to Sera.
Sierra glanced over and looked at Anna with interest.
"Recruiting a small number of local people will give the local people a higher sense of identity with the orphanage. I agree with this, but you wrote in the recruitment column that 'a small number of slaves can be recruited', which I am very interested in." Serra said.
, "Compared to ordinary people with families, slaves are not easy to grasp. The source of money for the orphanage and the secret of the moon-carved barrier are not trivial matters. Try to convince me, otherwise I will cross this item out."
Anna and Isko glanced at Lu Yu from time to time, and used the corner of their eyes to pay attention to Sigrid who was wiping Lulu's hair.
"What are you targeting Lu Yu for? What did he teach you?"
Anna answered truthfully: "We heard from Sigrid about her being chosen by Lu Yu, and then we suddenly thought we could give it a try..."
Sigrid, who didn't hear everything, raised her head blankly: "What's wrong with me?"
Anna recounted what she heard from Sigrid. Sierra blinked, looked at Lu Yu, and then at Sigrid: "I didn't expect Sigrid picked it up like this. You have to have a spirit of resistance."
, Thank you for daring to take this risk."
"I'm confident about the contract, and I can't just buy a walking dead. If you use someone who is in awe of everyone, you don't dare to entrust more important things. If you can obey quickly, you can
They quickly obeyed others. Under the circumstances at that time, Lulu and I wanted to supplement our combat power and have a good helper, so we had no choice but to make this choice."
"What you said makes sense. Let me take a look at the contract."
Sera twisted the tattered contract with two fingers in disgust. She couldn't help but complain: "A soul contract of this level, what magician can take out such a thing and sell it, is it really effective...
"
Sigrid thought for a while: "It seems so. I remember that something unexpected happened after I drank Lulu's potion for the first time. It was Lu Yu who used the scroll to calm me down."
The potion was said by Lu Yu to be very unpleasant to drink and ridiculed by Sera. Lulu could no longer maintain her dignity as a pharmacist.
"Please be clear, it's not that you had an accident after drinking my potion, it's that you didn't explain your physical condition clearly, and you experienced rejection after drinking the effect I specially prepared for you!"
"Repulsion... You learned my hybrid furnace. It's obviously a human-dragon hybrid. Even after drinking a race-specific potion, it still repels you. Is it possible that there are other bloodlines? Forget it, let's not mention that, let's talk about this contract."
He shook the contract in his hand and said, "This contract will be damaged at any time. Do you want to replace it with a new one? Collet can buy a good one."
Sigrid glanced at Lu Yu quietly, and Lulu also stopped wiping her hair.
"Tear it up for me, I won't use it anymore."
"Sure?"
"I stopped treating Sigrid as my slave a long time ago. Have you ever seen a slave who can eat at the table with his master and call him by his name?"
Sera quickly and neatly lit the contract, and as the contract turned into ashes, Sigrid's vague restraints disappeared.
"Now it's your turn to answer a question." Sera looked at Sigrid, "Are you following Lu Yu just to undo the contract? I think the binding force of the contract on you should be quite low. You have to put in the effort
, should be able to break free."
Sigrid was flexing her muscles and seemed to be savoring the feeling of being free again.
"At first, I wanted to run away. Anyway, these two people looked stupid..."
Lu Yu and Lulu both frowned.
Sigrid took a step back: "First impression, first impression!"
Lu Yu and Lulu stood up at the same time.
Sigrid said quickly: "But what Lu Yu said is quite interesting. At least it's different from other slave buyers I've seen... In his words, he's a bit mean?"
Seeing Lu Yu looking back and forth on her, Sigrid immediately made up for it: "But he rarely did that after that. It gave me the feeling that he had never dealt with slaves before and was not very familiar with everything around him.
.So I planned to follow and have a look. I didn’t expect to end up here. I didn’t expect to go so far. How can I put it... It’s a very novel experience. After all, I never dared to imagine leaving the land I am familiar with before.
, even when I was a slave, my fantasy was to escape back to the forest to find companions. Going to a foreign country and seeing so many strange people and things was like a dream."
"Lulu is also very strange. Anyway, she is different from the magicians I have met... I can't say anything specific, but she is very special anyway. In short, I feel that it doesn't matter whether I have a contract or not, it doesn't affect me wandering around with them. I'm used to it.
."
Sierra clapped her hands and grinned: "Okay, okay, I understand. In this case, please do me a favor. Please help Anna when she chooses a slave."
Sierra turned the page and saw the inspection content written by Anna.
There are also welfare homes in Beaune City, and they are official welfare homes. The two welfare homes basically rely on some funds from local guilds and trade alliances. When she came to Beaune City to preach, Anna found that these welfare homes were basically full.
They are unable to provide a stable place for the orphans to live, and can only barely maintain the manpower and space to distribute relief, and provide a shelter for those patients who are in urgent need.
The deepest impression on Anna when she was preaching there was that the terminally ill old man held his own hand with his withered hands, and kept silently reciting the word "God of radiance illuminates all things", over and over again, until he lost all breath.
People who are dying here hope to catch something. The God of Glory is very popular. In the eyes of these sick, weak and lonely people, they are willing to believe in whatever god it is.
Or I hope that if there is an afterlife, I can live a better life.
Or you want to hold on to the last hope of survival.
There are also several private welfare homes, but the existence of these welfare homes is more of a facade. The owners behind them are also local wealthy businessmen and some low-status nobles. The welfare homes can earn them a certain reputation.
You don’t have to pay too much money, so why not?
Sierra moved her fingers over the words. After reading it, he passed the document to others. After everyone had read it, she looked at Lu Yu and asked, "What problems do you think our orphanage will face."
Seeing Lulu holding her chin and looking at him, Lu Yu said without hesitation: "The interests of the nobles and businessmen have been disturbed by us. Originally, they regarded the welfare home as a place to gain fame. They only needed to make a gesture to get cheap praise.
. But the welfare home that Lawrence asked us to set up was a real investment without getting anything in return. We are destroying someone else's show."
Lulu, who wanted to show off in front of Lu Yu, joined the discussion as expected.
"But what we do should be what the City of Beaune and the Collet Local Trade Federation want to see, and they will support it."
"Any support other than help?" Lu Yu said, "They will encourage thankless things like welfare, but what about friction with those nobles and big businessmen? They will not help clearly."
Sierra turned to look at Anna and Isko: "Tell me, how do you plan to solve it?"
Anna thought for a moment: "Report to the Trade Alliance in advance to let them end early?"
Looking at the dissatisfied look on Sera's face, Anna quickly said: "Cooperate with the local nobles and give them the reputation of relief, so that they can get a large reward for a small amount of effort."
Lulu immediately understood Sera's intention. She naturally understood that Anna was compromising with local forces in exchange for the stability of the orphanage. She could understand this approach, but she felt a little uncomfortable with it.
Serra asked again: "After the orphanage is built, what kind of relief food should be distributed to the hungry people?"
Anna didn't hesitate at this point. There were Theocracy standards for reference on this point: "Rye crops, slightly improved during festivals."
Unexpectedly, Sera, Lu Yu, and even Lulu all shook their heads, and even Isco looked a little helpless.
Xu Mo, who was having fun with the mist demon behind Lu Yu's back, was confused for a moment.
"It's just a compromise, and I don't even care about the relief. Although Lawrence was evil, his repentance at the last moment came from the bottom of his heart. The last wish he left should at least be respected."
Lu Yu did not answer immediately. He was curious as to why Lulu immediately expressed her objection. According to past experience, she should express her objection simply.
Sierra saw what Lu Yu was thinking and interjected: "Tanya took her with her to increase her presence when she was distributing food to the victims. Do you think she has ever seen Tanya arrange for her subordinates to make a fuss about the food?
."
Lulu wanted to be proud for a while, but Sera exposed her. She glared at Sera dissatisfied.
"For a moment, Clorance's last wish was actually a bit of his stubbornness. He hoped that we could understand the 'decay' that happened to him and respect the decisions we made after seeing the decay. Even if we gave up in the end, he would
Not surprisingly, at the moment of his death, he reconciled with everything in the past."
"What does this have to do with relief food?"
"Yes, because you will understand at this time that the only lucky ones saved by the orphanage are the lucky ones." Lu Yu calmly said a cruel reality. "At the same time, you will also know that you are not a saint, let alone a god, and you cannot save everyone.
."
"What he wanted to tell us was not just an orphanage, but more."
This is a fact that can only be realized deeply after thinking carefully about the completion of the orphanage. It is also the motto that Lawrence buried behind his last wish.