Chapter 16 The Priest Recruitment Order of the Dark Temple
Emilia has lived in this small town since she was a child. The relationship between the neighbors has always been harmonious, and she can call most people by name.
In her impression, there were no such people as Allen, Merlins, and Selina.
"Is it a new neighbor?" she secretly guessed.
Thinking of this, Amelia immediately turned around, raised the note high, and shouted to the crowd: "Is there anyone named Allen? Here is a note for you!"
Everyone turned their heads and glanced at her, but no one responded to her.
Emilia pondered for a moment, then shouted: "So Selina Solomon is here? The note you wrote was given to the wrong person! My name is Emilia, not Allen!"
Still no one paid attention to her.
Emilia sighed and felt that the person who passed the note was really irresponsible. He simply walked away without even checking whether the note was delivered to the right person.
In desperation, she could only put the note into her pocket, planning to go home and show it to her mother - she didn't know if her mother recognized the three names on the note.
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Plane of Pain, Kingdom of Green Valley, Temple of the Forest Goddess.
The temple of the Forest Goddess is a wooden tree house built on a towering tree canopy, hidden among dense foliage and surrounded by flowering vines. Without careful observation, you cannot discover the existence of this temple.
At this moment, in this temple, a white-haired old man was kneeling in front of a wooden statue of the forest goddess, praying silently to the statue.
"...Great forest goddess, I hope you can hear my voice. My son has an incurable disease and I don't know if he can survive this winter. His only wish now is to be able to see it with his own eyes next spring.
The roses in the courtyard will bloom. If you can grant his trivial wish..."
However, before the white-haired old man could finish his prayer, he saw a piece of paper appear out of thin air in front of him, spinning and falling to the ground like a leaf.
"Is this the response of the forest goddess?" the old man thought in surprise, "could it be that my piety finally moved the great forest goddess and caused her to perform a miracle?"
This was not his first visit to the temple of the forest goddess.
Every time he came here before, he just knelt in front of the statue to pray. No matter how sad his words were or how sincere his attitude was, he never got a response from the forest goddess.
Sometimes he even suspected that the forest goddess was never as "merciful and loving" as her priests described her.
She just lives high in the Kingdom of God, overlooking all living beings with the attitude of looking at ants, and never cares about their life and death.
But today, this note that suddenly appeared in front of him made all the doubts in the old man's mind go away.
Now, he is the only one in the hall of this temple.
It is difficult to explain the sudden appearance of this note other than a miracle.
When he saw this note, the old man felt very guilty in his heart - he was blaming himself for why he doubted the kindness of the forest goddess; those priests were right, the goddess has always been paying attention to her believers since ancient times.
Never changed.
With awe, the old man picked up the note from the ground, unfolded it carefully, and began to read the contents carefully word by word.
But the content on the note left him confused.
"Alan?"
"My name is 'Oswald', not 'Alan'. Why does this note call me that?"
"And this 'Lord Merlins', is he a priest who serves the goddess? He is in trouble and wants to ask for help from others?"
"Selena Solomon...could this be the goddess's real name?"
"No, I remember very clearly that the goddess's real name is Sylvia."
"..."
The more the old man thought about it, the more confused he became.
But at the same time, he also guessed whether this was some kind of test given to him by the Forest Goddess. As long as he could find the troubled "Lord Merlins" and help him solve the problem, the Goddess would fulfill his wish.
"It seems that after I leave the temple later, I have to find someone to find out who this 'Merlins' is. Whether my son can survive this winter depends on this."
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The same thing happens in many places on the plane of Pain.
On a steep mountainous area, a furry brown bear stared at the white note that suddenly appeared in front of him out of thin air, showing a vigilant expression and remaining motionless.
In a gorgeous villa, a newborn orange cat saw the white note in front of it. It jumped up from the ground again and again, stretched out its paws and pounced on the flying note, but it always missed it.
Looking at it, it looks like a small orange ball bouncing on the ground.
In a lush forest, a group of young people were singing and dancing around a campfire - the note here was not so lucky. It had just experienced a journey across dimensions, and before it had time to rest, it fell directly into the raging
In the raging fire, it became a little bit of insignificant fuel.
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All in all, in order to ensure that Allen could see the message as much as possible, Selina copied the same content on hundreds of notes, and then used the magic circle created by Walder to send the notes to the distant plane of Payne
.
She didn't expect the notes to reach Allen's hands directly.
She only hoped that the news on the note could be spread by word of mouth among people in the alien plane and eventually reach Allen's ears.
"These notes of yours remind me of something," Walder joked next to Selina, "I was a playful child when I was a child. I lived on a farm at that time and often sneaked out of the house during the day.
Playing and not going home even after dark.
"Whenever it was time for dinner, my mother couldn't find me, so she asked the neighbors to look for me.
"In just a few minutes, the whole field was shouting, 'James, stop playing around and go home with your mother for dinner.'"
"I have to admit, that must have been the most embarrassing time for me.
"I just hope these notes don't cause unnecessary trouble to Alan."
"I hope so." Selena responded.
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Until now, Selina's note has not had the slightest impact on Allen's life.
He was still disguised as a wealthy businessman, lurking in Castle Greyhawk, secretly thinking about how to teach the disobedient little kid King Mayfield I, so that he could maintain due respect for the Black Temple.
At this moment, his eyes suddenly fell on the bulletin board on the roadside.
All I saw was the title:
"His Majesty the King will recruit one hundred new priests for the Black Temple."