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005 – Hyde draws a perfect lot #1

“I, Galatea, make a promise on behalf of the church. If you need help with anything, let me know. I will do my best to help in any way I can.”

“Oh… !”

The Bronze Knight Galatea was a great human being who could sympathize with others.

Although his tone seemed a bit harsh and harsh!

In fact, you were hiding a warm, soft, and soft heart beneath your hard armor.

At this level, I was in the top 3 in terms of personality among the people I met during my 5 years of living in this world.

If I had met someone like this earlier, I wouldn’t have been called the horrible name “Rust the Demon!”

I was truly moved by the compassion of another person that I had felt for the first time in a long time, so I readily announced my plan.

“I plan to meet Archbishop Durgien. I want to ask him for guidance. I really want to see in person how I can become a noble and godly priest like him.”

Galatea nodded when I told her that I wanted to meet Archbishop Durgien.

He seemed vaguely impressed by my grand ambitions.

“Ho, that Archbishop Archibald? But he won’t be able to meet anyone. Because he is such a busy and amazing person. I also participated as a security guard at the bishop inauguration event, and all I saw was from afar.”

is it.

Well, it was natural that we couldn’t meet each other easily.

In this united kingdom, “Archbishop” basically has the same title as a great nobleman.

“Archbishop Archibald is a very good man. I heard that this time, high-ranking healers were dispatched at their own expense to the Count Agarpe family, who are like their enemies. I heard how much it cost─.”

“… The Count Agarpe family?”

Galatea raised her eyebrows as if she noticed that my expression had changed at the sudden name.

“Ah, since you are from Midvar, aren’t you familiar with the kingdom’s situation? Count Agarpe was one of the heads of the great noble faction. He was a man of great stature. It was enough to form an in-law relationship with the royal family.”

“ Why did the Archbishop dispatch therapists to the homes of such people? ”

“I heard that someone in the Count’s family was seriously ill. They say that the family is struggling to attract talented healers and apothecaries. I don’t know the details, but… .”

Galatea lowered her voice, looked around, and spoke carefully so that only I could hear.

“Some people say that they received heavenly punishment. It’s like getting sick as a reward for betraying trust.”

Memories of various things flashed through my mind.

At the same time, it was also the moment when my future schedule was planned out.

“Is the Count Agarpe family still looking for a healer?”

“Well, I think that’s probably true. I heard that it is a disease that no one can cure… .”

good.

I keep getting the green light for my plan!

I said, looking seriously into Galatea’s eyes.

“Sister Galatea, if you would like to do me a favor, please fill out my pass so that I will not have any problems when I go to the Agarpe region. If I heal the count’s young lady, I will repay the favor afterwards.”

“Ho, you have great aspirations, right? Did I mention that the person suffering from the curse is a young lady from Count Agarpe? You are more familiar with the kingdom situation than you look.”

Galatea, a female knight with a warmer heart than I expected, wrote me a pass scroll to prove my identity.

I really didn’t know you would write it.

In other words, I had received assurance from a high-ranking public official that “this person is safe.”

As I was being moved, Galatea drove the cart, took the prisoners away, and disappeared.

“I thought she looked simple, but when I looked at her, I saw that she was an attractive woman. Above all, I have a kind heart.”

When men look at a woman, she scores about 6 out of 10 for her looks, but there are times when she gets extra points because she has a kind heart, and female knight Galatea was exactly like that.

I looked around, thinking that it would be nice to meet again later, and I was the only one left in the burned down monastery.

… … …

… …

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“Everyone went, right?”

After confirming that everyone had completely disappeared, I looked around.

I remembered that no ‘money’ was found during the search.

The abbot here was a heretic who made money by selling people as sacrifices.

He must have a considerable amount of money somewhere.

I wondered if he had kept the money in a secret safe, but there were only scrolls in the safe and no money.

“If I were a heretic, where would I hide the money? It must be in a place where it is easy to take it out without being easily detected… . But it’s a place that others don’t easily enter… .”

As I wandered nearby, I saw the charred remains of a cemetery.

As for the cemetery, there were only five tombstones.

As I was holding a shovel and digging through five graves, I felt something getting caught on the tip of the shovel.

Jangle-.

It was a leather bag filled with silver coins.

“… I was like that too, but heretics hide their hard-earned money somewhere. It’s hidden in a grave that people don’t like. I used my brain quite a bit.”

The exact amount in his pocket was 35 silver coins.

It was like 30 silver coins and 1 gold coin, so I got 5 silver coins with just one gold coin.

“If you had one gold coin, you could play and eat for 3 months unless you were extravagant.”

It is said that the average monthly cost of living for a modern person is about 1.6 million won, so the value of one gold coin can be considered to be about 5 million won in cash.

In other words, I had won a huge amount of money that I would never have thought of if I had been there five years ago.

“Even if you take away tithes and gratitude offerings, it’s a lot of money. This money would be enough to go all the way to Agarpe Manor.”

Lady Count Agarpe.

It was clear that if I cured her illness, I would instantly become famous, and then I would also be eligible to meet the Archbishop of Durgien.

This is the plan I came up with and it’s perfect!

# # #

The road to the Agarpe family manor.

I paid 10 silver coins and was able to join a group of merchants.

The name of the merchant specialized in salt and wine was ‘Salt Wine Merchant’.

Although the cost of 10 silver coins was a waste, it was a huge journey, so it was clear that there would be no trouble due to being attacked by highway robbers, and my thoughts were exactly correct.

“Elohim is my Lord and I am His servant. The Lord leads me to green pastures and waters, and watches over me with eyes like a flame of fire.

It’s already been a month since we left the burned down Emiris Monastery.

I recited prayers whenever I had free time.

I don’t know if it was the effect of constantly reciting the prayer, but I felt like there was a strange power in every corner of me, from my fingertips to my toes.

My physical strength has also improved a lot.

To help with the work at the top, he could easily carry heavy loads and not get tired. Also, my lower abdomen was extremely sore every morning.

Could it be that the nonsense physical training I did at the monastery was really effective? Or did the cultivation of divine power have the effect of improving stamina?

“It was an open secret that corrupt high-ranking priests took secret concubines without their wives knowing. If cultivating divine power has the effect of improving stamina, it is somewhat understandable.”

Of course, leaving a loyal wife and having a concubine was a trashy act that could not be tolerated by a priest.

I should never do that.

As I thought about that, I was able to arrive at Agarpe Manor. This was a fairly large village even in the Durjien region.

Rather than saying it is a village, it would be better to say it is a small city.

Saltwine’s executive, the talkative Belmode, told me.

“I don’t know if you came from the wilderness of Midvar, but this manor used to be so crowded with people that it rivaled the royal road, Royal Road.”

Contrary to Belmode’s explanation that it was crowded with people, the entrance was quite quiet due to the lack of visitors to the estate, so I was able to enter the entrance process right away without any special procedures.

“Stop.”

At the direction of the city guard, I stopped and proudly showed my ID card with “Monk Hyde” written on it.

chuck.

One of the benefits that Emiris Monastery, the den of heresy I went through, gave me was that it easily issued this ID card.

I got it issued right away by paying only 1 silver without any special process.

However, this ID card was real and effective.

“Tsk.”

The Agarpe guard looked at my ID card and clicked his tongue.

Thinking that there was something wrong, I took out the identification card I had received from Galatea, the knight of the Bronze Plaque, and presented it to the guard.

“If an ID card is not enough, there is also a pass issued by the Bronze Knight of the Order.”

Sreuk-.

When I unfolded the pass scroll and showed it to him, the guard clicked his tongue again.

Why does this guy keep clicking his tongue like this?

While I was reciting a prayer in my head, the guard asked me.

“Is that you, Hyde, the monk of the wooden tablet?”

“Yes.”

“Are you really a monk? It may be inconvenient, but I would like you to prove that you can read the words of the Bible. Let me get the Bible now.”

Bible.

It meant the Bible.

In this world, Bibles were really expensive, so priests who carried Bibles were held in high esteem.

Also, not everyone could buy it even if they had money.

Of course, it had nothing to do with me.

I confidently spoke to the guard.

“Brother, if there is a Bible verse you would like to hear, please feel free to ask me any verse. There is no need to spend time bringing a Bible.”

“Ask? Hmm… If so, I would like you to talk about Proverbs 16:33. This is my favorite phrase.”

If it was the ‘Book of Proverbs’, it was the part that corresponded to the ‘Proverbs’ in the canon of the world I lived in. Chapter 16, verse 33 was also my favorite verse.

“People cast lots, but the Lord makes the decision. There are many meanings, but it is a verse that says that even if a person plans things perfectly, if there is no heaven’s will, things can go astray.”

“Ho… !?”

The guard seemed very surprised.

Is it any wonder that I memorized verses in my head without even looking at the Bible?

As I am saying now, I have been reading the Bible a lot since I learned how to read, so I have memorized all the Bible verses from the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament.

So, I didn’t really need the most expensive Bibles in the world.

This is the basics of becoming a good priest.

Soon, a guard with a slightly surprised expression under his helmet asked me.

“My goodness, I have never seen anyone other than Archbishop Archibald who memorizes the Bible without looking at the text. Let’s see… Monk Hyde, what brings you to Agarpe?”

There was a lot more respect in his tone.

However, some caution remains.

I said as if driving a wedge.

“If the purpose of your visit is to help with the problems the Agarpe family is experiencing, isn’t it? They say that Lady Psyche of the Agarpe family is suffering from an illness?”

It was like that.

Agarpe’s daughter was Psyche.