Chapter 161: The Arming and Departure of the Priests
When the priest here went to a new hidden room to get the priest's weapons and equipment, Priest Batal rubbed his hands nervously and said to Kiel: "Actually, I have practiced the long and short staff in the church before. Although it is not outstanding."
Kil was curious about this and replied: "Oh, how do you use a long staff or a short staff? Tell me. I have come into contact with the Saturn Priest before, but I don't know much about this kind of staff weapon. "
"It's like this. Generally speaking, powerful local churches will prepare their own weapons and equipment for the priests. But, well, village priests like me usually don't have weapons and equipment distributed by the church, but we ourselves Get ready. The old one will be taken back."
He then made a simple gesture and saw that the other priests around him didn't pay much attention to him, so he said to Kil: "There are usually some useful blessings attached to the staff. Just like what Priest Minggu said before, these blessings are all made of weapons. The priest master prepares it according to his own needs. Generally speaking, a long staff that is easy to use needs to be prepared for several years, and then gradually strengthened in the following days, so that it can be used for a lifetime. "
Kil gently touched the tip of his nose with his fingers: "So, the long and short staffs themselves will not be used as weapons, but will use the blessings on them to fight?"
But Batar still waved his hand: "No, I will still fight directly with weapons, but only young priests like me do this. After all, you know, as you get older, some heavy long staffs will not be able to be wielded anyway." Get up."
Priest Ming Gu, who had been standing silently with his eyes closed, said rudely at this time: "You can't swing it. Priest Batal, if you have time, can you and I find a place to practice with a practice stick? Humph, ordinary priests When you get old, you may not be able to use the weapons you used when you were young, and you may have to change to a wooden cane. But I am different, do you want to try it? "
Priest Minggu did not say what the specific differences were.
"Don't dare, don't dare, there are companions of Kiel warriors waiting for us outside the city. We have to set off after getting our things, so that by night we should have passed the White Stone City Wall pass and entered the southern province to spend the night. "
"Well, I'll forgive you. But after arriving in the southern province, be careful when spending the night in the wild. The security there has become increasingly bad recently. Even when spending the night in towns and villages, be careful."
Kil poked his head over: "Old Priest of the Ming Dynasty, has the situation in the southern provinces become like this? What should we be careful about?"
The priest didn't say much but said: "Be careful about everything."
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Another priest who went to get weapons and equipment came over pushing a wooden frame on wheels containing many items.
Several priest's staffs were hung on the upper end of the wooden frame, and several priest's staffs were hung on the bottom. Several one-handed small bucklers of different materials were hung on the side of the wooden frame, and in the middle of the wooden frame were several sets of light leather shoulder armor with breast shields.
"Please choose for yourself." This middle-aged priest was not as enthusiastic as the previous one.
Priest Batal stepped forward and looked closely at what he needed. Kil also came over curiously. He pointed to one of the long sticks with a wooden body and a top and bottom made of green metal and asked, "Is there anything special about this one?"
After hearing Kiel's inquiry, the middle-aged priest next to him said: "The main body of ironwood and the two ends of snake-green steel. The snake-green steel can spontaneously repel mosquitoes, which is more suitable for adventure. At the same time, there are two kinds of blessing magic inside the ironwood. , one can drive a beast with weak resistance, and the other can turn vegetation, branches and vines into venomous snakes under the influence of divine magic, and attack the enemy in a controlled manner."
"Um?"
Keir's eyes widened: "Is the poisonous snake that turned into really poisonous?"
The middle-aged priest rolled his eyes: "Of course it's poisonous. Isn't it just to scare people? Doesn't it become a liar's trick?"
Kil heyed twice and looked to the side. Priest Batal was touching each long staff with his hands. It is estimated that a lot of what the middle-aged priest said could be understood by touching them with his hands.
So Kiel pointed to the short staff and said, "We already have a long staff, why do we need a short staff?"
"Not every priest has good strength and physical strength. The short staff is lighter. Although it cannot be used for direct combat, the blessing magic in it is not bad at all. At the same time, if you use it with one hand, you can also hold a lighter one. The shield is used for defense. Of course, holding a protective statue in hand also works.”
Kil noticed that although the materials of the small one-handed buckler hanging next to them were different, they didn't look very heavy.
He curiously poked it with his finger and found one of the shields that looked like metal. Although it was not as light as his elf metal shield, it was not much heavier.
"What kind of material is this? It's very light!"
The middle-aged priest smiled and said: "This is made of a magic material. I heard that it is a heavy mucus secreted by a special tree species in the swamps of the central province. After collection and processing, a very light metal powder can be produced from it. . After re-smelting, it becomes this magic material. It can produce strong buoyancy in the water. Holding this magic material metal the size of a shield, you don't have to worry about drowning after falling into the water. It will not sink. "
Kil's eyes lit up and he quickly asked what the name of this magic metal was.
This was not confidential news, so the middle-aged priest said: "I heard it is called buoyant light steel. It is not easy to buy locally in Montoka City, but it is sold in small quantities."
The middle-aged priest looked at Kiel and knew that the armor-clad Kiel was interested in the effect of this thing: "I recommend that you go to the capital of the central province to buy it when you have time. The price will definitely be cheaper there, and it will be sold in the market of the origin. There will also be more quantity.”
"Thank you, is it buoyant light steel? If I have time in the future, I will make a trip to the central province."
During the discussion, Priest Batal chose the long staff he needed. After all, he was a young male priest, so he could still use the long staff well.
He chose a long, slender staff made entirely of metal, with only a spherical mesh cage at the top, which was wrapped with a spherical amber.
The amber gave off an orange-yellow shimmer, and what was wrapped in the ancient resin were several leaves of ancient plants, as well as several small insects.
"Is there anything special about this?"
Kil asked Batal, who nodded and said: "The processed amber gem on the long staff has its own ability, which can make the environment around the staff spontaneously ensure the survival of human beings. For example, when the weather is cold, the environment around it will It is warmer, and when the weather is hot, the surrounding area is cooler. When it rains, the light rain will not fall around the long pole, and the heavy rain will not make people feel particularly wet, and the fog will disperse around it."
"It's very useful. Do you have any more?"
"In addition, the priest who made it can use divine power to temporarily immobilize a person, but the strength should not be too strong, so I can use it to assist you in fighting."
"Good idea. This way, with fewer enemies, the battle can end faster."
Snapped! Keir clapped his palms, making a metallic clang sound.
"Hurry up and pick the others!"
Kil stopped disturbing Baatar and let him concentrate on selecting weapons.
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Because the long staff was chosen, the short staff and shield cannot be selected according to the rules of the church. So next, Baatar can choose another life-saving light shoulder armor with a goggles.
This is a piece of equipment worn under a cloak, and is mainly used to protect the priest himself when adventuring alone or with a small number of people.
Unlike priests who participate in wars, who do not need weapons and equipment, the enemies of priests in adventures do not care about the identity of the priests, so the protection is good.
In a war, if there is no religious dispute, the two sides of the war will not harm the church's priests, because most of the churches and gods behind the priests often span the territory of the country and the nobility. A small number of gods and churches have even crossed species, and they have the power of both sides among different races.
Even if you participate in a war, you will not be attacked.
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For the shoulder armor and goggles, Batar chose a lighter armor with a skeleton of leather and metal strips. The leather of an unknown animal was in a messy color, with the emblem of the God of Agriculture faintly emerging on it.
When Kil asked, he learned that this shoulder armor can provide the user with a lot of additional physical and strength enhancements in addition to the basic divine protection.
It works as soon as you put it on, very convenient.
And this matching breast shield has a powerful protective magic blessing. According to the middle-aged priest next to him, even if a knight rides a war horse and stabs him with a heavy lance, the protective magic on this breast shield can protect him. Block one or two to give the priests a chance to escape and evacuate.
"Aren't you going to fight back?"
The middle-aged priest rolled his eyes at Kil and said angrily: "The church does not recommend that powerful priests challenge knights in battle."
Keir didn't ask why, he wasn't that ungrateful yet.
After selecting all the items, Batar directly put on the shoulder armor and goggles. This thing is easy to put on, just put the shoulder armor on the left and right shoulders, and the goggles are fixed on the shoulder armor with a belt.
Just like the previous process, Batar also had to register documents to use these equipment, and he also had to leave his own mark of divine power.
There is no need to worry about things being defrauded and priest Batar not returning the things. The local parish can seek the god of agriculture to locate priest Batar.
All priests can communicate with the gods. Not only can priests contact gods upwards, but gods can also know the priests' location and communicate with them downwards to obtain information.
Priests can do this, but believers cannot do this at all. Therefore, there were followers of the God of Agriculture among the villagers in Changmai Village before, but even the God of Agriculture had no way of knowing where the villagers, including the believers, were taken.
The gods know a lot. They have been around for a long time and know countless truths that mortals cannot seek in their lifetimes, but they are not omniscient.
The gods are powerful, their power is infinite, and they command countless mortals to rush and fight under their control, but they are not omnipotent.
The God of the Ocean cannot peer into the depths of the land, the Mother of the Earth cannot manipulate the creatures of the ocean, the Lord of the Sky cannot know the splendor of the underground world, and the Lord of Lava cannot touch the brightest stars.
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After the two of them walked out of the stone room at the top of the underground storage hall, they formally bid farewell to the priest Ming Gu who had led them there. The old priest just nodded, put his hands in his sleeves and walked away slowly.
Batal paused for a moment at the long metal staff in his hand, and looked at the round amber in the metal mesh at the top of the staff with satisfaction: "Kyle Warriors, shall we set off now?"
Kil, who had put some auxiliary props in his waist pocket, was holding two plant hiding cloaks in his left hand. Hearing Priest Batal's words, he raised his head and looked at the sun.
It was almost noon, and it was time to return to the city gate.
Nodding, Kil walked towards the gate of the Church of the God of Saturn, led by Priest Batal.
When passing by the central ceremony venue located in the center of the church, Kil saw many priests who had not been here before gathered here curiously. Some people were sitting cross-legged in the illusory wheat field of divine power generated by the ceremony, as if they were experiencing something.
Some people listened honestly at the feet of the statue of the God of Saturn, listening to His Excellency the Vice-Prince's explanation of the ritual blessings.
"It would be great if our southern province had a priest as powerful as this Vice-Priest."
Batal looked quite envious as he watched the young priests receiving wisdom.
"Maybe there was, but you didn't see it at the time? Or didn't you care?"
Kil's guess made Priest Batal quite embarrassed, so he had to walk away quickly.
At the church gate, the two men led the horses back. Kiel's blood-licking grass seems to particularly like the green grass where the Saturn Church's horses are tied. Kiel saw that the grass was gnawed clean wherever his horse's mouth could reach it.
Seeing Kiel and Batal, who had returned but were obviously very different at this time, Priest Morel, who was guarding the church door, sent them blessings for the travelers: "May you defeat the enemy and be safe. Return."
"Thank you for your blessing."
Kil led the horse out of the gate of the Church of Saturn, while Priest Batal turned to look at the place where he had lived for some time.
Before yesterday, he thought this place was gloomy and indifferent, but after just two days, looking at it again, he had a different perception. Under the command of the great god of agriculture, he and other priests whom he did not know may not be family members, but the help they provided was far better than family members.
Arrange a quiet room for him so that he can regain his composure in the past few days.
To prepare a potion for him to stabilize his mood, so that he can go to the tavern to wait for the visitor every day as the gods told him, so that he will not really miss it.
In addition, every local priest who met him tolerated his cold face and bad temper, as well as the encouragement and reprimands given to him by the high-ranking deputy dean.
Of course, there was also the plant on the bedside, the little plant that listened to his countless complaints day and night.
Thinking of this, Priest Batal shook his head, hoping that the plant would forgive him for pouring the potion on it.
"Kiel, wait for me."
Priest Batal quickly took the borrowed prairie horse and followed quickly.
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Passing through the city, when leaving the city this time, after seeing the attire of Priest Batal, the soldiers at the city gate consciously moved away the horses blocking the way, and took the initiative to let Kiel and the two ride out of the city.
The city gate of Montauca was also very lively.
Although this place is right under the noses of the tax officials, locals and outsiders do not dare to openly do business here. But other than direct transactions, other things can be done in this open and safe place.
Next to the city gate, no one really dared to use violence, so many small businessmen and outsiders gathered at the city gate to discuss transactions.
They do not conduct transactions directly, but often hold samples of the main products they want to trade, shouting, or holding up a sign with the name and information of the goods.
It seems that there is no transaction, but in fact most of the transaction process is completed.
When people meet each other, first look up and see what the other person is holding or on the sign. If you are interested, ask. The first thing to say is nice blessings, such as wishing you a hundred times of business opening that day, wishing you good weather today, wishing you the blessing of the God of Wealth, etc.
Why wish for fine weather?
Because as long as it rains, there will be very few small businessmen willing to carry out such a transaction preparation process outside the city gate.
Most people would rather sleep in a hotel outside the city, or go to a familiar tavern to inquire about the most popular products on the market or news from various places.
Of course, there are also stingy guys simply because they don’t want their samples of goods to get wet in the rain. They would rather get wet themselves than lose the value of their goods if they get wet.
It is simply stingy to the point of not thinking about the time cost lost after getting sick, the cost of treatment, the virtual income lost if not earned, etc., which must be far more than the value of a sample.
Having said that, when Kiel and Priest Batal left the city, they were faced with the bustle of many small businessmen talking about transactions. They were suddenly in trouble. They didn't know where Bloodfangster had parked the carriage.
The city gate was definitely not working, there were people everywhere, and parking the carriage here was obviously to hinder these people's transactions. Probably out of fear of causing trouble, Bloody Fangster parked the carriage farther away.
"Look for it!" Kil shrugged.