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‘Let’s go.’

If you are a normal party, you will be able to easily collect souls by following along and stabbing the grave diggers or demonic beasts that pop out along the way.

‘He’s an inspector in name, but it’s strange to stand blankly in front of people who are fighting.’

This system may also have the meaning of providing some help to adventurers. So you have to use it.

“Nice to meet you. This is Irim, a soul patient.”

The receptionist pointed out three people waiting at the entrance and I went over to them and said hello.

“I am Dheable.”

‘Isn’t it hot?’

A large, fur-clad warrior wearing an iron helmet and a skull with cow-like bones, either for taste or religion. Looking at the great sword on his back, he must be strong.

“Nice to meet you. This is Morsling, who also works as a pharmacist. Please take care of me.”

This is Morsling, another man wearing a mask that looks like a bird’s beak. Just looking at his appearance, he looks like a medieval mad scientist.

Thanks to the mask, I couldn’t confirm his age, but his deep voice gave me credibility.

I can’t see anything that looks like a weapon, so I guess there’s probably a weapon under the clothes.

“This is Thistle, a priest who serves Deshade.”

And here is the person of interest. Priest or cult member.

The woman who was said to serve the god Deshade was wearing clothes similar to the nun uniforms I had seen at the cathedral before. However, it looked a little more unique than the typical nun uniform I was familiar with.

Should I say that the original image of the nun’s uniform has been blown away by about 50%, and that it has been modified a lot to look sleeker and more formal? They wear such clothes with iron protectors on their elbows and ankles. The face is vaguely visible behind the thin veil that covers it.

In addition, the role of a priest is to provide treatment and support from the rear, so she often carries a self-defense weapon, but this woman was carrying a claymore on her shoulder.

‘No matter how you look at it, it looks like a full battle line.’

Looking at Thistle’s armament, it looks like he is a combat priest who fights directly.

“So, two warriors and one priest, how are you armed, Morsling?”

“Oh, my weapon is here.”

I didn’t know it because I was wearing a long coat, but when I lifted the coat, I saw a long sword and several medicine bottles inside.

“For now, I think you can think of it as a test. These drugs are for running away when you have to.”

‘Wow, the balance is weird.’

The party now has three warriors.

“I can’t do healing or support spells either.”

“… Aren’t you a priest?”

“That’s right, but I haven’t received that training yet.”

Thanks to the battle priest’s confession, our party became the best party with four warriors.

‘For a priest who can’t heal, it seems like even the Gaia Church’s Holy Knights were at least able to heal their own wounds.’

“Hey priest, is there really nothing in your spell?”

“I became a priest after hearing Deshade’s voice, but so far God has only given me spells to protect myself. It probably means that my abilities are not yet sufficient to help others.”

I’ll go around. I didn’t even want to be a wizard because they were high-class people.

Still, I wanted to at least avoid any danger that might befall me, but it seems difficult to eat it raw.

I realized that this mission would become quite difficult if it required instantaneous firepower or if someone was fatally injured.

“It is actually a good thing to have four warriors. I actually feel at ease because I don’t have to protect cowards who don’t fight directly from behind.”

As if he couldn’t see Dheable clearly, he rattled between his helmet and his skull and spoke while making eye contact.

‘What kind of bullshit is this person talking about again?’

A 5-year adventurer is spouting nonsense like this.

‘After walking around with a skull on my head, did it really become empty inside?’

“No, but isn’t there something to consider just in case? First of all, since you are going to deal with heretics, you should go with someone who knows how to memorize a healing prayer.”

“Hmph. After all, the people in the South are all cowards. I have never seen people braver than me from Rushu.”

‘I secretly don’t like this guy.’

This time, Deheble points his finger at me in front of me and says.

“Especially you soul sick people. Are you saying that, unlike us, they are resurrected even if they die? However, they say that there are only cowards who are always shaking on the battlefield even though they cannot fight bravely. Be ashamed of yourself.”

“This bastard starts a fight from the first moment and it’s a disaster.”

I mourn my fate, having met this bastard from day one.

When I met Enin, I had to think that I had used up all the luck I had accumulated over the years.

Otherwise, there is no way you can meet a believer in death whose head is empty like this.

“You just watch like an inspector. There will be no time for you to be involved in building up this great feat.”

Honestly, I think this would be self-defense even if a knife was inserted.

‘Anyone who treats someone like this from the first meeting will get angry, but the person who tolerates this is a Bodhisattva.’

“You cow-skeleton bastard, I’m putting up with it for now because of the regulations against killing people in the city, but don’t ever talk like that again.”

First of all, I give a warning, but other than that, I hold back for fear that there might be a disadvantage to Enin who dispatched me.

But if he was the kind of person who would stop arguing over words like this, he wouldn’t have even started in the first place.

“Ha! In the end, all a coward does is hide behind the rules and bark?”

‘Should I not hold back?’

“Now, let’s stop. There are many eyes watching.”

A fight might have broken out if Morsling had not intervened.

‘They keep picking on each other’s tail and arguing, but it looks like they received some kind of home education.’

“What are you doing? Hurry up and let’s go!”

Uns, who must have heard the noise, comes from inside, listens to the receptionist, and urges them to leave.

Seeing as he warned Dheble that he would be completely expelled if he caused any trouble again, it seemed like this wasn’t something he had done once or twice.

“I will place your spare body in the carriage. In case you are wiped out due to an unexpected accident, we are putting the carriage and horses back for you to recover immediately after you are resurrected, so please be sure to ask for help.”

“Okay.”

Before departure, I followed the receptionist’s instructions and collected the coffin containing the spare body.

Before placing it on a carriage, a sentence identical to the one on the neck is carved into the coffin.

Now, if anything happens, you can revive right here.

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As you come out of the castle walls, you can see half-made houses scattered all around.

After passing the refugee camp, which is increasing over time as refugees flock from all over, and taking a carriage ride for about 2 hours, you will come to a cemetery.

It rattled. It rattled.

Only the sound of the carriage rolling fills the field.

The children from the refugee camp continued to follow us, hoping we would give them something. Then, after receiving some dried meat that Thistle had taken out of his luggage and a fairy tale that Morsling had thrown, they started further and further away as they fought among themselves for the same.

“…”

“The number of refugees outside the province is increasing.”

“It seems that even small villages in the mountains are gradually reaching their limits.”

Thistle seems to be a silent person except for what he needs to say, and with Dheble driving the carriage, Morsling seemed to be bothered by the quiet atmosphere and told me various stories.

“… So, perhaps the ones digging the grave this time will be pagans from refugee backgrounds who are supposed to sacrifice their dead to the devil, but they don’t have the ability to do so. It is said that the pagans around here worship a devil called Wen Grain like a god. He is one of the great devils of Hell and receives constant offerings from believers in exchange for his strength.”

“Then what do they do with that power?”

“Just… There are some people who seek personal revenge, but most people gather around and plunder to gain greater power. Wen Grain also has the power to amplify desires, so people who receive his power become so greedy that they destroy everything so cruelly that it cannot be considered a human act.◦# ◦

“It would be better to kill them all.”

“That’s right. I, too, had to come out like this because I lost a student I cared about. Even if you live an ordinary life, if you live correctly, great achievements will naturally accumulate, but those who are overly greedy and try to become stronger by taking other people’s lives deserve to be killed.”

‘Is that why the person who said he retired came back?’

Looking at Morsling shaking his hands, I can see how much he hates infidels.

It’s natural to be angry that even the disciple who sent him on an errand died at the hands of those guys.

Two hours went by quickly as we talked. I fought quite a bit with other races, so I had some common sense, but I had no idea about the origins of the heretics, but Morsling was good at talking, so I got quite a bit of information and it was a good time.

It’s really a mess. On the outside, wars with other races are a daily occurrence, and on the inside, traitors, devil worshipers, etc. are a daily occurrence.

‘This must be why there is always a shortage of manpower.’

Fortunately, it is said that heretics rarely gather in military units.

Fortunately, the number of people who practice devil worship is small, so it is possible to organize them among adventurers.

Of course, they say it never ends. They always appear in small groups of 4-5 people, up to 30 people, from somewhere, and the Gaia Church continues to request subjugation and they also do it themselves, so it’s a strangely never-ending cycle.

Meanwhile, Thistle, who was sitting at the end of the carriage and looking around, asked the carriage to stop.

“What’s going on?”

“I think this is the destination.”

We stopped the carriage just before going over the hill, but we still couldn’t see anything.

Thistle unwrapped the cloth wrapped around the claymore and pointed beyond the hill.

“I see heretics.”