The other party's words made Todd instantly realize that Tristan must have seen through something and was just taking the opportunity to demand benefits.
"Muxi Town is not wealthy..."
Tristan shook his head: "My teacher regards money as dirt and stones."
"The farmers in the town have grown the 'Gospel Flower'."
Tristan continued to shake his head: "The beauty of flowers is fleeting."
Todd gritted his teeth: "In my lab, there's a microscope that I painstakingly built..."
Tristan clapped his hands and laughed, "This is it! My master will definitely like it..."
uh-huh!
An angry voice came from behind Todd.
He turned around and was surprised to see that Rachel was still there!
The woman, like an enraged lioness, glared fiercely at Tristan.
The envoy's smile vanished, he swallowed hard, and said, "Father, don't forget what you promised me." Then he fled the scene as if his life depended on it.
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Late at night, in the woods north of Muxi Town.
Tristan fell face up and back down, crashing heavily to the ground.
Getting up from the ground, he quickly raised both hands to surrender, looked at the woman a few meters away, and said with a wry smile, "Ratchet, don't you think it's a very dishonorable thing to fight an ordinary person with a supernatural ability?"
“No, I don’t think so.” The nun waved her hand upwards.
Tristan's feet left the ground, rising into the air. As Rachel lowered her hand, his body crashed heavily to the ground again.
The woman sat on the rock, looking at the other person's disheveled figure, her calm tone devoid of any emotion: "You should know that the thing I hate most is getting something for nothing."
"Are you talking about the microscope? Wait! I can explain..."
Rachel gave the man no chance to explain and threw him to the ground again.
Tristan shook his groggy head, gripped the tree roots that had sprouted from the ground, and, seeing the woman's increasingly cold gaze, hurriedly said, "To persuade those masters to come to Twilight Town willingly, my master and I alone are far from enough! We need something to prove everything here to them!"
Rachel's hand froze in mid-air.
A man and a woman, a deacon and a nun, were staring at each other in a strange posture.
Tristan forced a smile, his hands showing no intention of letting go of the tree roots, and said, "By the way, how were the test results tonight?"
“He passed.” The woman glared at the man. “Todd is more responsible than you when it comes to keeping his promises.”
The man gave an awkward laugh and remained silent.
Rachel lowered her hand and looked at the other person: "Do you remember our previous agreement?"
Tristan nodded: "We agreed to help each other and build a sanctuary to protect the enslaved and hunted aliens and to guard the oppressed and persecuted wise men."
“In such a long time, I have seen kings who spout benevolence and righteousness, and I have seen people who are different races but only care about their own interests. In their eyes, the different races are nothing more than a group of handy tools, and no one has ever really cared about our lives.” Rachel sat down on a large rock and looked at the scattered firelight in the south.
Tristan got up from the ground, dusted himself off, and said with a sigh, "My days aren't easy either. The Church is becoming increasingly strict in its control over heretical doctrines. Last week, Professor Adriano, who studies astronomy, was arrested and taken to the First Inquisition. Although he was released thanks to my master's efforts, all his writings and his research room were burned to the ground."
Looking at the woman's lonely and beautiful profile, the man remained silent for a moment before mustering his courage to say, "Ratchet, come back with me. Your parents miss you dearly."
The boulder beneath the nun tumbled into the air and then crashed heavily beside Tristan.
"From the day I left the capital, that woman who lived in a cage has been lying in the cold ground! In this world, only Rachel lives, without family!"
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