Father Tovia is the priest of the Archdiocese of Fenan in the Rusian Principality. He has served as a firekeeper for a long time, and his role in the parish church is not an important one. For someone like him who holds the position of firekeeper

There are ten priests. What he needs to do every day is to put enough charcoal into the container of the purifying fire so that the purifying fire will not go out due to lack of fuel.

In fact, it is enough for one person to do such a thing as firewatching, but now ten people are needed to do it. This is entirely because the number of clergy in the church has far exceeded the number of positions that the church can provide, making an ordinary person

There are more than a dozen or even dozens of clergymen holding church positions.

The main reason for this phenomenon is entirely the divine decree issued by the current Pope. This papal decree allows those bastards, illegitimate children, etc. of nobles who cannot inherit the family property in all countries controlled by the Purifying Fire Church to bear that name.

Letters of recommendation from nobles are sent to the church in their diocese for a clergy assessment. As long as they pass the assessment, they can be granted the lowest-level clergy status.

The reason why the contemporary pope would issue such a ridiculous decree is not only that he himself is a descendant of a common nobleman, but also because he was able to become the pope because of the secret help of a large number of common descendants of the nobles. Although individually speaking, these common descendants of the nobles,

The power is very small, but when they unite, they can produce extraordinary influence, and even directly affect the election of the Pope of the Purifying Fire Church.

After such a decree was promulgated, many people naturally opposed it, but these objections soon disappeared, because those who raised objections in politics, business and other aspects all had these or other accidents, and several of them

It was because of the accidental death. No matter how stupid people were, they knew what happened, so they all chose to shut up after being warned.

As a result, this decree was quickly implemented. A large number of concubines and illegitimate sons of nobles passed the church examination with letters of introduction from nobles and became the lowest clergy of the church. Some of them performed extremely well in the assessment.

Becoming an official priest, Tovia, for example, is such a priest who takes shortcuts.

The reason why concubines and illegitimate sons of nobles value the lowest clerical status so much is mainly because having such a status can significantly reduce the tax rate when paying the church's sacred tax. Many clergy status

Illegitimate sons and concubines of nobles will affiliate themselves with certain chambers of commerce and caravans, indirectly helping chambers of commerce and caravans to reduce part of their taxes, so that they can also get a lot of extra income.

However, unlike those clergy who use the convenience of clergy status to seek benefits as a shortcut, Tovia really wants to be a formal clergy, so he does not hesitate to give up the easy and generous life and choose to teach in this fringe.

The principality came to be a firekeeper.

Because of this, his work attitude towards the position of firekeeper is completely different from other firekeepers who are just dawdling. He is extremely serious and pious, and he will stay at the top of the tower where the purifying fire is located almost all day long.

, it was precisely because of his behavior that when the rat tide broke out, he was protected by the purifying fire and was not harmed.

It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that he discovered that almost all the people in the church and town he was in were dead. Only a few people escaped by hiding in the cellar, and he became the backbone of this group of survivors.

It wasn't until he moved to the land of gods before him that the number of survivors he was responsible for managing changed from a dozen to several thousand. This was entirely due to his status as a clergyman, even if this status was obtained by chance, and it was not

What a high-ranking cleric, but at this time, the survivors need a hope of survival, and religion can give such hope, and he is the only clergyman in the entire Rusian Principality, so he can only shoulder this burden.

At first, Tovia didn't know that he could survive the rat tide because he was next to the purifying fire. He just thought that the broken wooden door on the top of the tower blocked the rat tide, just like those who survived hiding in the cellar.

Just like people.

It wasn't until he contacted the church clergy from the outside that he figured out that the purifying fire could resist the rat tide. This also made him glad that when he moved to the land of God's favor, he deliberately kept the purifying fire of the diocese's main church intact.

Having moved here, he had enough fire to light the bonfires on the town walls and build a protective circle composed of purifying fires.

Although Tovia is now one of the most important backbones of the town, many things do not need to be done personally. As long as he is told, someone will do it for him, but when it comes to adding fuel to the purification fire and guarding the purification fire,

In fact, he is still personally responsible.

Just like the previous few days, he held a prayer meeting for the survivors after nightfall, and then carried the waiter to the wall to check the status of the purifying fires.

On the road, the survivors who met him saluted him respectfully, and he returned the salute one by one, appearing very approachable. Now his reputation in the town is very high, which is something he could not imagine before. This kind of

It felt so good to be respected, so much so that he had the urge to thank this rat tide, because without this rat tide, he would always only be a firekeeper and would never be the fire bearer he is now.

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The fire bearer is the superior priesthood of the fire watcher, and can be regarded as a high-level priesthood. There is only one requirement for becoming a fire bearer, and that is to be able to separate the purifying fire and create a new purifying fire bonfire.

Under normal circumstances, even if clergy and non-clergy who are not fire bearers are ignited in the purifying fire, the ignited torch in their hands is not a purifying fire, but an ordinary flame. Only the fire holder can light it.

The torch is the true purifying fire.

Therefore, in the Church of Purifying Fire, fire bearers are very important. Any new parish or new church requires fire bearers to separate the purifying fire and ignite the purifying fire of the church and parish to complete the establishment of the church.

This is why the fire watchers are the lowest clergy, while the fire bearers, who are only one level lower, are the most powerful figures after the red archbishops.

Tovia can imagine that once the blockade of the Principality is lifted, then he, the fire bearer who was born in the disaster, will be able to embody the teachings of the Purifying Fire. Therefore, as a non-educated person, he completely relies on the gift of the Purifying Fire.

The fire bearer will definitely be reused, especially when it comes to the decree issued by the Pope that caused complaints within the church.

Just like the end of the scene, Tovia came to the container containing the purifying fire. He carefully checked the status of the container and whether there was enough firewood in the container. He threw some firewood in and added some firewood.

Then he walked towards the next purifying fire container.

After checking several Purifying Fire containers, Tovia came to the place where the last Purifying Fire container was placed. However, he saw that the person standing next to the container was not the survivor he arranged, but a man wearing a foreign suit.

Stranger in hunting suit.

He immediately recognized who this stranger was. This was mainly because there were only two foreigners in this small town. Of course, it was also because the lady among the two foreigners had a queen-like temperament.

One glance can leave an extremely deep impression on people. He still remembers that when the survivors tried to drive them away because they were foreigners, the extremely beautiful lady just glanced at them, and everyone was like

It was as if his throat was being strangled and he didn't dare to speak.

As the concubine of an earl, Tovia has seen many high-ranking nobles, including many grand dukes who rule a country, but he can say with certainty that none of these grand dukes and nobles can match the temperament and power of that foreign country.

It is comparable to that of a noble lady, not even one-tenth, so many people speculate that this foreign noble lady may be a foreign princess or a grand duchess or other great noble.

Compared to the high-profile foreign lady, no one paid much attention to the foreign man who was supposed to be the lady's husband. Some people even speculated that the foreign man was not the lady's husband, but just the lady's bodyguard.

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However, unlike other people in the town, Tovia paid more attention to the foreign man, because the purifying fire told him that the two foreigners were very dangerous existences, and the man was more dangerous than the woman.

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Since becoming a fire bearer, he has been given some magical abilities by the purifying fire that were previously thought to be just legends. For example, he is no longer afraid of the cold. For example, he can see many things at night. For example, he can see living things.

The heat emanating from it.

It is precisely because of this ability that he used his ability to avoid several attacks by rats before moving to the land of the gods, so that the survivors did not suffer any further losses.

After this disaster has passed, he can go to the main church of the Holy Lord, where he can learn some magical skills that only senior clergy can master, and become a true fire bearer.

Now, even if he cannot cast some divine spells, he can still cast some abilities similar to divine spells through the fire of purification. This is also the main reason why he can gain such a great reputation and status here. This also makes him very interested in the purification fire.

He is particularly dependent on fire, and he attaches great importance to the reminder of the purifying fire.

So he has been secretly observing these two foreigners for the past two days, but what he saw made him confused. These two foreigners would leave the town with the local girl named Pennistan every day and go outside the town.

In the forest, they would return to the small town before nightfall, wondering what they were doing.

He also thought about following them to see what they were doing, but when he thought that he would lose the protection of the purifying fire after entering the forest, he became afraid and gave up the idea of ​​following them.

He also asked other people about when the two foreigners came to the town, only to learn that before others discovered the magic of this town, the two foreigners had already lived with the local girl.

When we got to town, we heard from the girl that the two foreigners killed her among the rats and then sent her home. They found that everyone in the house was dead. Seeing that she was helpless, they temporarily stayed to take care of her.

Tovia also confirmed this with the girl. Although he got a positive answer, he always felt that the girl was hiding something, but he was not very good at asking questions.

He originally planned to find an opportunity to talk to the two foreigners in detail to see why the two foreigners came to the Principality of Russ Church and to see if there was anything unusual about them. However, he did not expect to find the two foreigners before he could.

People, one of them had already appeared in front of him.

Tovia originally thought that this foreign man was just curious about the purifying fire. After all, it was impossible to see the purifying fire at such a close distance in other places, but he soon felt something was wrong, because he started from there.

I felt the emotion of fear in the purifying fire.

This feeling really made him a little confused. Although after this period of continuous exposure to the purifying fire, he could feel that the purifying fire was more like a special divine life, not just a kind of fire, because he

He can feel the emotions that only intelligent creatures can have in the flames, but he has never felt such a strong fear like now. He never thought that the divine life given by the gods, such as the purifying fire, would do anything to a mortal.

feeling scared.

"What are you doing?" Although Tovia was also scared and worried, his devotion to the purifying fire still gave him the courage to step forward and question the foreign male.

The other party turned his head, looked at the priest calmly, and asked: "Father Tovia, didn't you say in the square that anyone can touch this sacred fire at close range?"

"Uh..." Tovia didn't know how to answer for a while.

As Leo said, when he used the ability of the fire bearer for the first time to separate a purifying fire from the source fire he brought, and lit the bonfire on the city wall, he was extremely excited and said

Some words that should not have been said. Anyone can get close to the sacred fire is what he wants to take back. If he said these words in other places under the jurisdiction of the Purifying Fire Church, he would definitely be very seriously triggered.

Fortunately, there is now a church vacuum zone.

So now Leo used this sentence to ask him back, and he didn't think about how to answer.

However, he quickly thought of how to quibble and said, "Are you a believer in the Purifying Fire? I only spoke to believers."

"I see, it seems I misunderstood." The other party smiled, turned around and walked towards the wall.

"Wait!" Tovia suddenly stopped the other party and asked quickly: "Excuse me, what is your purpose of living here?"

"Purpose?" The other party stopped, turned around and looked at Tovia with a strange expression, and said: "Are there any other safe places besides here in the Principality of Rus and the surrounding principalities?

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Tovia hesitated for a moment and did not answer.

The other party asked again: "And in what capacity are you asking me this question? You must know that I got here before you, and you are the latecomers. In terms of legality, Pei, who is the only survivor of this town,

Only Nistan has the legitimacy, and she can decide who should stay and who should leave. You are not qualified enough. Next time, you will ask yourself why you are speaking, so as not to humiliate yourself like you are now."
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