Chapter 9: The Master is Humiliated, the Servant Dies with More Than Humiliation

Serai and Ses were watching from a distance at this time, and left immediately after confirming the arrival of the tax collectors.

They also have a bad impression of the tax collectors. Before becoming cultists, they were ordinary villagers, living an ordinary and hard life.

Serai still remembered that time when his family was almost in dire straits because the lord collected excessive rent. In order to make a living, he risked his life to hunt rabbits, but was accidentally discovered by the lord's men and almost lost his life.

Although Seth was an orphan, the fact that he had to steal bread might have been due to excessive taxation.

Although life was not very good after becoming a cultist, it became much better after the arrival of God's messenger.

It turned out that believing in the Mother Goddess was the truth of this world. At least, under the leadership of God's messenger, their lives seemed to have hope.

Now that they have observed the appearance of the tax collector, their task now is to report to Lord Taner. They have no complaints about this strange man named Taner suddenly appearing as their immediate superior.

This Taner never slacked off when working, and would study the doctrine carefully after finishing his work.

They have recently taken advantage of their free time at work to learn some doctrines from Taner. They are illiterate, otherwise they would like to copy down some of the content.

They believe that they will have a better life under the guidance of the Mother Goddess's messenger.

And now, these people who call themselves tax collectors are going to take away a part of it on behalf of their lords. After they finish collecting this village, the next one will be their hideout.

They naturally felt anger and resentment in their hearts, but they also understood that although the power of the hideout was increasing, even if the Lord Messenger of God took action personally, he would not be able to compete with the army of the nobles.

If they impulsively killed the tax collector at this time, not only would it not change anything, but it would also definitely bring disaster to the hideout.

Back at hideout No. 2, they reported the mission to Taner who was standing at the door of Rand.

After listening, Taner realized that his fourth opportunity to show off had come! Although he had never heard of the saying "the master humiliates the servant, and the servant dies", he still had the corresponding awareness. The arrival of this tax collector would inevitably lead to Rand being humiliated, although this envoy of God was unexpectedly flexible.

But as a paladin, he could not accept letting his leader be humiliated.

Although he is now undercover, he decides to take Rand's place as the village chief to deal with the tax collector.

He whispered to Serai and Seth, "When you were villagers, what did the village chief do?"

Taner was naturally aware of the fact that Ses and Serai were senior villagers. Since he had decided to replace Rand as the second-in-command of the village, he naturally had to learn from them.

Just after recalling with Taner what their former village chief had done, they realized what Taner was going to do.

They seem more suitable than Taner to play the chief of a desperately poor village.

They were originally villagers and knew how to take on this position better than Taner did.

They saw with their own eyes how the village chief of the neighboring village was ignored and bullied by the tax collector. It seemed inappropriate to let Taner or the Lord Messenger of God do such a thing.

Although they had never heard of the saying "If the master is humiliated, the minister will die", they could not accept it if they imagined that their boss was humiliated.

In their eyes, Taner should be pious and upright, and the envoy of God should be noble and far-sighted.

How could I bow down before the tax collector who was nothing and even be bullied!

After Taner had some conversation with the two young cultists, he allowed them to leave.

But after a while, seeing the two young men standing there, hesitant to speak, he asked in confusion, "Is there anything else?"

"We can do the job of being the village chief!" They immediately expressed their idea.

Taner raised his eyebrows. It seemed that these young people had good ideas and seemed to want to make progress. Unfortunately, it was not possible this time. "The idea is good, but the tax collector is likely to carry the church's ritual objects, so I'll do it this time."

As he spoke, he pinched Sers's right hand, which could transform into a tentacle. Such a change would definitely be detected.

As a paladin of the highest rank, he didn't even need any ritual implements to sense the evil energy brewing from afar.

However, this power did not seem to affect their personality. During this period, he worked with these two young men and assigned them tasks, and he did not feel that there was anything evil about them.

After the two young believers left somewhat disappointed, Taner wrote down all the previous questions in his notes and prepared to review them before going to bed.

After finishing the record, Taner turned around and knocked on the door of the Lord God's Messenger.

At this time, Rand was planning the development of the hideout. Hearing a knock on the door, he shouted, "Come in," and saw the paladin in black armor walk in.

"I want to be the chief of this village!" said the Paladin.

"Ah?" Rand was stunned. He looked carefully at the Paladin's face, but couldn't tell what he was thinking.

The No. 2 hideout would only be used as an outpost and was not of much value. Why did Taner suddenly volunteer to take on this position?

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Taner certainly wouldn't say that he didn't want to see the envoy of God being humiliated. He still had some emotional intelligence. He just said, "Recently, I have benefited a lot from the leadership of the envoy of God, so I want to exercise my abilities. Please give me this opportunity!"

After saying that, Taner bowed.

Rand stroked his forehead with his right hand and adjusted his hairline. The Paladin had performed very well during this period and had made many contributions, so it was completely possible to promote him.

Although he didn't understand why Taner did this, since he had taken the initiative to apply, and based on his observation, the paladin's relevant abilities were completely sufficient.

"I approve." Rand nodded.

When Taner heard the permission, he was delighted and subconsciously wanted to salute, but halfway through he remembered that this was the etiquette of a paladin, and it would be all over if he was discovered to be a paladin.

During this period of time, because he really didn't feel that there was anything evil here, he became lazy and lost his sense of crisis.

He forced himself to straighten his posture, performed some seemingly polite manners, and retreated under Rand's puzzled gaze.

…

The elf had heard most of the conversation just now! As a top-level elf ranger, she naturally had a pair of clever and sharp ears.

At least when Taner and Rand didn't deliberately lower their voices, she could still hear their conversation.

Good opportunity! Since Taner is going to be the village chief of this second hideout, he definitely cannot be inseparable from Rand.

She just needed to wait patiently, and the opportunity to face this terrible and evil sadist alone was right in front of her! When she thought of this, she shuddered all over, gently stroking her chest with her hands, and then reaching her lower abdomen.

This time, as the elves deliberately hid themselves, Rand, who was not familiar with the goddess' blessing, naturally did not notice it and had no idea that he had revealed a flaw.

(End of this chapter)