"Okay, then, let's go register with the Faithful Union now," Bernice agreed. She had long wanted to recruit more priests to replace Eryi in the tedious tasks of baptisms, worship, and scripture interpretation. In larger churches, the head priests were so relaxed that they didn't need to do such things.
"Bring the money." Bernice said to the butler.
Poaching requires a fine, and it's quite a large one. At the priest level, it's at least thirty gold coins.
Eryi hadn't expected that the matter would be settled so easily after she had just said it casually. Only then did she begin to consider what job she should assign to Qiao Li and what salary she should give him.
"You're responsible for baptisms, services, and daily prayers." Since the church was newly established, these things weren't a big deal. Baptisms were rare, and services were held once a week for an hour. Daily prayers were held once a day for ten minutes.
Jory responded casually just now, but when he saw that Bernice and Eryi were serious, he finally put down his crossed legs, looked at the faces of the two priests in front of him, and began to think seriously.
Baptisms were always performed by those of higher status within the church, as were worship services. Daily prayers were led by ordinary priests in turn. While he was at the Church of the Harvest Goddess, his turn was once every ten days, so it wasn't a heavy workload.
As for faith, for Jory, this question does not exist.
"Yes," Jory answered seriously this time.
Eryi took out the agreement. This time, she was careful, setting the duration for at least a year. She hired Qiao Li for a monthly salary of one gold coin to handle baptisms, worship services, and daily prayers. Other matters would be added later.
After signing the agreement, Bernice, as Maria's representative, led Jori to report to the Believers' Union.
The staff inside welcomed them warmly.
After confirming Qiao Li's rank, the staff announced the amount of the fine: "Thirty gold coins."
Bernice glanced at Jory with a hint of dissatisfaction: "You're useless." Thirty gold coins was the fine for the lowest-ranking priest. Jory had no ambition and was happy to stay at the bottom and had never been promoted.
Qiao Li hadn't reported back to the temple for a few days, so the head priest of the Harvest Goddess thought he wasn't very reliable to begin with, so she let him go for a couple of days. However, instead of waiting for Qiao Li to return, she received news that he had changed jobs.
The head priest had long anticipated that Jory's personality would lead him to leave the church one day to pursue other pursuits. However, he hadn't expected Jory to choose to remain a priest even after leaving the church, only to serve a different deity.
This incident caused him to be collectively ridiculed at the meeting of the head priests, but he remained calm and didn't care.
The Baroness's alliance with Maria's divine guide was irreversible. The head priests belatedly realized that they might have made a wrong decision.
The young priests, unaware of the seriousness of the situation, were too relaxed in their recruitment efforts. Some hadn't even met Eryi himself, let alone recruit him.
Some people secretly decided to proceed with the next plan.
While the two of them were reporting to the Believers' Union, Eryi opened the employee panel and fell into deep thought.
Bernice Schultz
HP 100%, Fatigue 17/100, Mana: Not enabled
Affinity for Holy Elements: 85 (maximum value 100), receiving any healing spell will gain healing power.
[Maria's Asylum]
Provides total faith power: 50015
Faith: 13
Jory
HP 100% Fatigue 32/100 Mana: 55/55
Holy Element Affinity: 55, click to assign skills.
[Maria's Asylum]
Provides total faith power: 2001
Faith: 5
The faith of these two is so low that they look like they can run away at any time.
Bernice has been very busy since she gave up her faith, and Eryi has not found a chance to talk to her in detail about the skills.
Jori has just changed his faith, and his previous prayers are no longer usable, so he needs to reallocate his skills.
Click on Jori's assignable skills column and a window of learnable skills will pop up.
Healing: Heals any physical or internal injuries. Each use consumes 20 points of Faith (or Mana). Casting requires chanting the corresponding formula. Upon successful casting, the target's health will heal at a rate of 0.55% (depending on Holy Element affinity) every 20 seconds, lasting 200 seconds. This restores a total of 5.5% of the target's health. Each 100 points of proficiency increases the skill's duration by 20 seconds.
Confirm the assigned skill and deduct 2000 Faith Points. (You can learn if you provide a total Faith Point of 100)
Soothing: Reduces the negative effects of various ailments by 25.5%, lasting 24 hours. Each cast consumes 10 Faith (or Mana). Each increase in proficiency by 100 increases the effect by 1%, capped at 55%. (Learn this skill only when you have a total Faith of 50.)
Confirm the assigned skills and deduct 1000 faith points.
Protective Shield: Each use consumes 30 points of personal Faith (or Mana). Casting it on yourself grants a defensive barrier that absorbs 55% of damage (related to Holy Element affinity). The barrier lasts for 100 seconds, and each 100 points of proficiency increase increases the barrier's duration by 10 seconds. After reaching 1000 proficiency, this skill can be cast on others, with the effect reduced by half. (Learn this skill only after providing a total of 50 Faith.)
Confirm the assigned skills and deduct 500 faith points.
Prayer: This prayer is longer, and casting does not require personal faith. It stabilizes emotions, reduces fatigue from physical exertion by half, and lasts for 2 hours. (No learning threshold.) Each 100-point increase in proficiency increases the duration by 20 minutes.
Confirm the assigned skills without deducting faith power.
Repair: The total faith provided by this employee is insufficient and cannot be learned.
Curse Dispelling: The total Faith provided by this staff is insufficient and cannot be learned.
Tip: After assigning skills, you need to teach the magic formula. If there is enough holy element magic, magic will be deducted first.
These assignable skills are basically weakened versions of the skills that Eryi has learned herself. Each skill has a corresponding spell that needs to be chanted, but the spell is not the same as the one she uses.
The spell they used had an additional prelude and praise prayer than the one used by Eryi himself, and the prelude included the name of Mary.
Since we officially started recruiting believers, during daily prayer time, our faith has been growing as fast as three meals a day, as if it were free.
Now his total Faith Points had reached 54,903, exceeding 50,000, granting him a 1% boost to all skill effects. Eryi didn't care and gave Qiao Li every skill he could learn.
[Skill Assignment... Success. Please obtain the corresponding Skill Transmission Stone in the store.] Several prompts popped up.
Open the mall, select the Healing Sound Stone, and click to obtain.
A stone the size of a quail egg appeared in Eryi's hand. There was a button in the middle. Once pressed, the full version of the spell would appear.
The sound of the spells echoed in Eryi's personal lounge, "Can I use these spells?" Eryi asked Ling Lingba.
【Host, you can't use this. 】
Eryi didn't believe it. She remembered that when a priest of the God of Light prayed in front of her, she followed his words and the elements reacted just the same.
(Long prayer), My beloved Mary, please give me the power to protect everything.
After a spell ended, there was no elemental gathering reaction, and a prompt box popped up in front of Eryi.
【Please do not perform any illegal operations.】
All right.
After Qiao Li came back, Er Yi stuffed a bunch of voice stones into his hands and asked him to study. He felt that he seemed to have underestimated this young boss.
Each church has a few phonograph stones filled with standard prayers, kept in a confidential place within each church. However, prayers are mostly taught by senior priests to new priests, and phonograph stones are not used because it would be difficult to deal with if lost.
Bernice was a little surprised.
As far as she knew, Eryi hadn't even prepared the holy scriptures at first, and even the baptismal utensils were prepared by her. Unexpectedly, she did not neglect the key part.
"Bernice, why not learn it together?" Eryi said.
"good."
As Eryi chanted the spell, a familiar sense of spiritual connection floated into Bernice's body. She closed her eyes and saw the holy elements surrounding her again.
Several years ago, she had also received power from a certain god. It was a god she had personally supported, and also a god she had personally driven away.
Maria gave her a different feeling than Garcia. Garcia was strong and confident, while Maria was warmer and freer, washing away the shadow left by Garcia.
For the first time, she expressed genuine gratitude: "Maria."
[Faith Power 50]
Faith: 25↑
She was a believer personally recruited by the head of the Temple of the God of Light. Her call to the God was enough to equal the daily prayers of an ordinary priest, and her prayers were enough to support a newborn god.
Eryi quickly assigned all his skills to Bernice.
Bernice's initial magic value is 85.
Bernice's extremely high personal faith unlocked the curse dispelling skill, but the repair skill still cannot be learned.
Curse Dispel: Reduces the effect of a curse to 50%. Each use costs 30 points of Faith and lasts for 10 days. The effect increases by 1% for every 100 points of proficiency gained, capped at 85%.
Other skills have also been adjusted based on Bernice's high holy elemental affinity, and Bernice's spellcasting effect is much better than Jory's.
Only the three of them knew that Bernice had become Mary's priestess. The others had always thought that Bernice was just a new believer in Mary.
Since Jori joined, Bernice has become increasingly busy, focusing on publicity and rarely showing up at the treatment station.
I have to say that Jori’s role as a priest wasn’t for nothing.
Eryi's recruitment advertisement on the Adventure Guild Street was useless, but he used his previous connections to find several civilians who had no faith at the moment to work for Eryi.
One of the older women is also a kindergarten teacher who can provide early childhood education for the children.
Today's healing stations are no longer purely profit-making shops. Since they provide faith and allow for prayer, worship, and baptism, they can no longer casually use believers of other gods as they did in the past, otherwise they will be reported and punished.
Eryi built the new building, the 'Confessional', next to the prayer room on the first floor.
The confessional is a two-square-meter room with a board in the middle that allows voices to pass through but prevents people from seeing each other's faces. A priest sits on one side while believers use the other.
Jory seems to be reading some kind of book lately, which is always mysterious and does not let people see the title on the cover. The confessional, where no one can see anything behind the closed door, is perfect for him.
Unbeknownst to him, Jory had put the confessional into official use.
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