Unknowingly, more than half a month has passed in the new semester. After a period of adjustment, many students have begun to slowly adapt to the new college life. Compared with the first graders who have more group activities, today's second graders are more focused on
Personal direction.
The most obvious example is the arrangement of courses. 80% of the first-year course schedules are the same, but now only 40% are the same. And as the course progresses, there will be fewer and fewer common courses.
As you become more and more specialized in a certain aspect, perhaps in the end, combat class will be the only place where classmates will definitely meet.
The class Rocher took today was the ‘Church Affairs Course’ that is required for the second graders in Temple College, and the teaching location was nowhere else but a cemetery halfway up the mountain on the north side of the college.
The teacher wearing a black robe walked in front, followed by more than 80 second-grade students, all wearing uniform black or white robes.
There was a slight drizzle in the sky, and the students' hoods were pulled up one by one. As the procession entered the cemetery, everyone rarely spoke, and the atmosphere became slightly more solemn. If an outsider who didn't know what was going on saw this group of people dressed in
People in black and white robes gathered together, thinking they were going to hold some special religious ceremony.
The stone tablets in the cemetery are arranged in an orderly manner one by one. On them are engraved names, personal deeds, and some have small portraits embedded in the stone tablets. When walking in the cemetery, you can see many green trees growing on the paths.
Green grass, half-withered and rotten fallen leaves on the ground, incomplete pine nuts, half-cut branches buried in the soil, etc. Occasionally, a few yellow-green feathered birds landed on the branches, looking at the crowd below, making chirping sounds, and then
Then he flew away with his companions.
The teacher walked in front, talking as he walked.
"Many people buried here graduated from Emenas. Some of them lived a wonderful life, some lived a mediocre life, and some died young."
"The tombstone roughly records the trajectory of his life, but most of it is an abbreviation. If you really want to know more about it, you have to look through the archives kept in the college."
"If you look and understand more, you will understand that perhaps these lost lives and stories are your future."
At this point, the teacher paused. "But even if I say this, I'm afraid you won't have any special insights. Maybe when you return to school 30 years after graduation, you will come here and there will be more."
harvest."
"Today I will explain to you the planting and cultivation of the 'Nether Light Flower'. Generally speaking, Temple College does not focus on the cultivation of plants like the Walled City College, but there are a few that must be learned, 'Nether Light Flower'
Flower' is."
"This plant grows in cemeteries or near churches. It is named after it emits a faint fluorescence at night."
Then the teacher picked a new sprout from the cemetery and showed it to the students.
"This kind of flowers and plants can absorb the remaining magic power in the mana and corpses, and extract a relatively pure necromantic sequence magic power."
"Compared with the past when necromancers roughly awakened corpses and used them to form armies, the 'Ghost Flower' is much gentler and easier to be accepted by the world."
"I think you may not have experienced that desolate era, and you don't understand how shocking and scary it is to see your dead relatives standing up with carrion, stench, and corpse insects."
"In order to maintain the magic consumption of this undead army, the necromancer must continue to fight with war, killing and capturing more ancient cemeteries."
"This is also the reason why the Mercury Dynasty collapsed in the later period, because after they conquered the continent, they could no longer find a large number of new corpses."
"In addition, the 'Nether Light Flower' also has the function of requiem and purification. Nowadays, it is rare to hear that corpses and undead may cause chaos in cemeteries, also because of its effect. The cemetery after being absorbed and purified by the 'Nether Light Flower',
When other wild necromancers come, it will be difficult to use the corpses among them."
"It's like the firewood has been burned cleanly and can no longer be burned."
At this time, a student raised his hand, the teacher nodded in approval, and then the student asked.
"Does that mean that the 'Ghost Flower' will absorb the souls of the dead? In other words, these flowers are the blooming souls of the dead. I think this is even more terrifying."
"This question is very classic. It has been discussed within the church before. Later, special extraordinary people conducted exploration and experiments. The final conclusion is that the 'Nether Light Flower' will not affect the soul. It simply refines the scattered mana and corpses.
The magic power of Zhong Shen Za. If it must be related to the soul, it is that it has the effect of reassuring souls, making ghosts calm down and less likely to become manic."
"If this were not the case, other people, including the church itself, would have long been opposed to the planting of the 'Nether Light Flower'. There is actually not much difference between killing souls and killing people."
Lorraine Hill walked aside and slowly squatted down, looking at the small flower and plant next to her. She closed her eyes and slowly sensed, while her consciousness gradually sank into the ground. After being promoted to Sequence 4, her perception ability became stronger again.
Some.
Most of the dead in the cemetery have decayed over time, leaving only the bones in the coffins, which are no different. However, the few who have just entered this place still have some magic power and fragments of consciousness. Unfortunately, the souls are gone.
Like a mirror, after it is broken with death, even if it is put back together again, it is no longer the same person. Even if it is resurrected as a ghost, only a larger part of it wakes up. Most of them have simple emotions, and very few have any.
The wisdom of a living person.
The white and slender petals are blooming in a quiet cemetery. At night, they emit a faint blue fluorescence, which is not obvious. You may not be able to see this faint light with a candle.
The teacher's voice continued to be heard in the distance.
"Although the 'Ghost Flower' was originally used to purify cemeteries and refine magic power to prevent necromancers or chaotic disasters from eating it, for now, its biggest role is in another aspect."
"That's wine making." There was a hint of excitement in the teacher's voice, while the students around him looked confused.
"Yes, just like the Angel Church was originally established to suppress and eliminate the remnants of local chaos, but later became a place for medical treatment and prayer. The development of things is always so wonderful."
"It costs a lot of money to maintain churches and monasteries in various places. Although church priests can earn a certain amount of income through treatment, after all, most people are civilians and cannot set prices too high. Selling wine is
Another source of income for the church.”
"After graduation, if you go to work in the church, most of you will become the chief priests of churches in various places. Naturally, you will also have to worry about income and expenditure. Planting flowers and making wine are the subjects you must learn."
As Lorraine Hill listened to the teacher's increasingly exciting words, it was hard to imagine that the teacher was not a wine lover. At the same time, all the good expectations the students had for the Church of Angels in the past were shattered, and their ideals finally entered the world.
Reality.
In the past, everyone thought that if they became a high priest in the future, they would save lives, win all kinds of gratitude, support from front to back, and occasionally get a few big nobles to sponsor a sum of money. They would not only live a high-status life, but also a wealthy and nourishing life.
The fact is that in the backcountry, there is not even a mud-legged baron for hundreds of miles. They are all farmers or miners in the fields and mountains. To build a church, you have to lay bricks and find resources yourself.
Although the students of Emenas will definitely not be wasted by the church in such a small place after graduation, it is undeniable that most church pastors are not actually that wealthy. Making money by making wine is also the livelihood and stability of the lower-level priests.
income.
It may be difficult for everyone to understand, but in fact it is not uncommon for priests to make wine.
The first is famine. For a long time after the chaos disaster, the land was eroded and it was difficult to plant. Food was often in short supply. Occasionally in good harvest years, wine would be brewed for storage. Many nutrients in the grains were incorporated into the wine, so it could
Longer-term storage without rot and insects.
Secondly, there is hygiene. Alcohol has anti-virus effects. In this world without universal water treatment methods, the drinking water in most areas is actually not very hygienic, but alcohol is much hygienic and cleaner, with few germs.
Finally, there is the church's means of comfort. After the collapse of past beliefs, angels quickly became the spiritual sustenance of many people at the bottom. The church, which was originally used to receive various chaos-related news, also became a place for many people to talk and pray.
The pastors of the church are also happy to see the success, because they can receive a certain amount of donations. However, the pastors cannot solve the various demands of the general public, so low-alcohol alcohol with a stabilizing effect has also become a good medicine to relieve anxiety.
So in the new semester, what the students of Temple College first learned was not the philosophy of life, religious classics, life-saving and medical knowledge, but how to have a stable ability to make money first.
After all, without solving the most basic problems of life, it is difficult for people to have time to think about those profound philosophies.