【Dark Cross Necklace】（I）

Category: Accessories

Grade: Ordinary

Occupation: All occupations

Note: A centuries-old clerical accessory, it finally lost its original luster after its last owner died from a nightmare. If you don't have a special attachment to the cross, I recommend exchanging it for two silver coins at a grocery store, which will buy you a few days' worth of food.

“…, what a loser!”

Nestled in a rotten tree hole, Mark looked at the slightly blackened light silver necklace in his hand and sighed.

In his previous life, he worked as a test writer in a small town for eighteen years. After entering a 211 university, he let himself go, using the teaching building as his dormitory and internet cafes as his home. He passed every exam and eventually worked in a company that was not in line with his major for five or six years.

I happened to be on a business trip to a factory to watch the lifting and mold assembly of large equipment, and as expected, an accident happened.

Now he only remembered the whistling wind above his head and the screams in the distance.

"So you must wear a hard hat at the construction site!..."

Everything in his past life was like a passing cloud, and even if he wanted to go back, he probably couldn't.

It’s best to live in the present moment.

At this time, one hour, thirteen minutes and twenty-five seconds had passed since he traveled to this world called the Holy Dragon Continent.

Well, don't ask him why he knows so much.

Obviously there is a system panel in the upper right corner of his vision.

But the bad news is that everyone has the system. In the original owner's memory, all the highly intelligent life on this continent has this thing.

The good news is that everyone's system isn't very useful except for certain specific functions. It doesn't issue quests, doesn't offer sign-in rewards, doesn't offer newbie gift packs, doesn't help the host identify and find bargains, and certainly doesn't tell others that Mark is a time traveler who has usurped the throne. It's just a small auxiliary system.

Since it is a system, it naturally also has the host's personal attribute panel.

Mark just blinked, and with a thought, his personal attribute panel appeared in front of him in the form of a hexagon.

[Name: Mark Stewart]

[Occupation: Acting Priest (job transfer failed)]

[Level: Lv. 1 (100%) (Job transfer available, please select the job transfer direction)]

【Body: 4】

Strength: 6

Wisdom: 6

【Min: 4】

【Effect: 6】

【Charm: 6】

Skills: None

[Faith Value: 7/100 (On the Verge of Collapse)]

[Property: 2 silver coins and 13 copper coins]

[Special Status: [Holy Light Disgust] (Holy Light hates every bastard who tries to bribe Him with moldy holy wafers)]

As soon as he saw the panel in front of him, the corners of Mark's mouth twitched involuntarily.

All six attributes hover around the standard value of 5 for an average adult, which means he has no special skills at all.

Originally, the Stewart family was a well-known family in Champagne. The direct descendants of the family would generally inherit their father's career and become priests of the Stewart Church.

Mark is the heir of the contemporary Stewart family, and the new generation of priest in Champagne.

But on his eighteenth birthday, his father died of a sudden illness while praying for a country nobleman, and his mother disappeared that night.

Subsequently, the original owner's promotion ceremony to a full-time priest failed repeatedly due to unknown reasons. Now, two years have passed and he is still able to barely make ends meet by relying on the convenience of holding the property rights of Stewart Church.

But in this world, even a farmer must successfully transfer to a corresponding profession such as "gardener" or "botanist" in order to grow and upgrade, and acquire corresponding skills in daily life to improve the convenience of life.

After inheriting the church, he was unable to upgrade. The prayers he prayed could no longer bring holy light to the believers, and the holy water he sold could no longer effectively exorcise demons.

Today, Stuart Church is on the decline and is in danger of extinction.

After all, the fact that the "bishop" of a small town church didn't even have enough money to spend on a good meal in a tavern in Champagne was enough to prove that his church had almost no believers.

“Ding—ding—ding—!”

Three distant bell sounds pierced through the tree trunks and came from a small town in the distance.

Listening to the familiar sound, Mark knew that the newly built St. John's Cathedral in the east of the town should be holding evening prayers. The bells of their church were blessed by a magic circle and could be heard throughout the town of Champagne.

The holy light reflected by the stained glass windows could illuminate half the street, unlike his dilapidated old church, where even the divine stone that gave the candlesticks eternal flames was pawned by the original owner to exchange for bread.

Mark rubbed his thumb over the dark spots on the edge of the cross, listening to the distant twilight bells chime.

"If old Father Stewart knew the original owner had torn the gilded pages of the Holy Scripture to exchange for holy water at St. John's Cathedral, he'd probably crawl out of the graveyard and strangle him to death!"

He smiled bitterly and put the necklace into the pocket of his faded priest robe, where there was still half a bottle of holy water that the original owner had not used up.

This half bottle of holy water was consumed by the original owner when he went to help a country gentleman get rid of a nightmare. On the way back to the old church, the original owner collapsed for unknown reasons.

As for why he failed, Mark couldn't find it from the original owner's memory.

But after knowing that this place was more than 20 miles away from the old church and that there would be wild beasts and monsters roaming around at night in this world, Mark decisively found a tree hole to settle down and decided to rush back to the church at dawn the next day.

With his Lv. 1 physique, he might have a chance to escape if he encountered a wild beast, but if he encountered a monster, he would most likely die.

Mark retreated into the tree hole and covered the hole with his black monk's robe, and then he was in darkness.

At this moment, he no longer wasted his time recalling his past life and the death of the original owner.

Mark began to think about what he should do next.

If he wants to live well in this world with a magical background, changing his job is a big hurdle that he cannot avoid.

Considering Mark's identity and background, changing his job to a priest or paladin related to the church is undoubtedly the most suitable choice.

As long as he can successfully switch to a related profession, he can go to his father's old friends to learn the subsequent skills of the related profession.

But the key is that he now has an aura of [Holy Light Disgust] on his body. If the original owner's job change failed, it could still be considered a normal problem. However, Mark felt that if he chose to change to a profession related to Holy Light in his current state, there was a 90% chance that he would directly trigger "Holy Light, there is a great evil here!"

He is not the original Mark, and there is no need to take such a risk to protect the so-called honor of the Stewart family.

In this world, as long as he can survive, Mark can accept anyone, whether they are a respectable church clergyman or a despicable mercenary bandit.

To survive well in this world, both money and strength are indispensable!

"So, my next career change should be one that can earn money, and it can't be an ordinary job where I can only work like a slave!"