Chapter 255 Extraction
"Are you sure about the medium-rare steak, Sister?"
Behind the counter of the store, the waiter asked Vanya, in this cafeteria where clergy gather, few people would order such a low degree of doneness. You know, a medium-rare steak still has blood inside, and most religious people cannot accept this.
"Well... I've thought about it, so please fry me one that's medium-rare." After thinking for a while, Vanya said to the waiter again, and the other party nodded this time.
"My dear, nun, please find a seat in the front and take a rest. Your meal will be here soon." The waiter responded, and Vanya followed the other party's instructions and found a seat in front of the steak house. Then she began to think with a frown.
'Just now I suddenly felt like eating a medium-rare steak... But I used to eat it medium-rare...
"Hmm, but think about it, I've eaten too much well-done rice, so it's normal to want to change the taste. Forget it this time, next time I'll really order a well-done one to try it out..."
Vanya thought so in her heart, and after careful consideration, she felt that there was nothing wrong with her idea just now. She even regretted asking the waiter to change the steak to medium-rare at the last minute, and decided in her heart that she must order a medium-rare steak next time she comes to try it.
Vanya didn't sit at her seat for long before the quick waiter brought the fried, sizzling steak to her table. After looking at it, Vanya gave the money to the waiter with satisfaction.
Holding a fork, Vanya slowly ate the delicious steak on the table. At this time, a figure holding a plate appeared in front of her.
"Hey, Vanya, you're really fast."
A nun wearing the same dress as Vanya sat in her seat, put the noodles in her hand on the table and greeted Vanya. Vanya raised her head in surprise.
"It's Sister Aurora, so nice."
Vanya started to speak. The nun in front of her could be considered her colleague. They both worked in the History and Classics Department and she was one of the few nuns there. Although Vanya and she did not have a close relationship in the past, they were quite familiar with each other. After all, they saw each other every day.
"Let's eat together. I'm exhausted these past few days. It's more relaxing to eat and talk at the same time."
Aurora said this, and then she started chatting with Vanya. Since they worked in the same company, they talked about things related to their work. However, as they chatted, Aurora gradually changed the topic to gossip about other colleagues and even superiors.
"By the way, Vanya, have you noticed? Deacon Cork has been coming to the site for inspection more often recently. It makes me feel stressed when I see him walking around while I'm working every day."
Aurora lowered her voice slightly and said to Vanya, who nodded in response after taking a bite of the steak with her fork.
"Yeah... that's true. In the past, Deacon Kok preferred to stay in the office and do research."
"Yes, yes, yes. Yuming used to prefer doing academic work in the office. I heard that he wanted to transfer to the position of chief priest or get promoted. I wonder if he has achieved any results now that he has come out?"
Aurora said to Vanya, and Vanya thought for a while before saying.
"It's not easy to become a high priest or get promoted. If you have done some academic research, you may still have a chance to become a high priest. If you want to get promoted, you must not only be spiritual enough, but also have to work hard to a certain extent."
Vanya said this. In the internal hierarchy of the Glowing Church, there are parallel promotion lines, namely the chief priest line and the assistant priest line.
The line of officiants is a leadership position, generally referring to the hierarchical division of the person in charge of the Glorious Church in a region, from the priest and priest-priest of an ordinary church, to the bishop in a large city, to the archbishop in an important city, and finally to the cardinal and pope in Mount Santa. Almost every position on this line corresponds to a leadership position in a diocese of varying sizes.
The assistant priest line refers to other non-leadership or main leadership positions in the Glorious Church, except for the main priest line. They are generally called deacons. They are parallel to the main priest. Deacons are divided into junior deacons, intermediate deacons, senior deacons, director deacons, general director deacons, etc.
Generally speaking, deacons are responsible for assisting the main priests, and those of the same level as the main priests are respected. For example, although bishops and high-level deacons are not of the same level, they both need white-level priests to serve. However, bishops can serve as the main leaders of a region and enjoy greater power and more abundant extraordinary resources, while high-level deacons are much worse.
For example, Vanya is not an ordinary nun. As an extraordinary apprentice nun, she also has the rank of a junior deacon.
While eating, Aurora continued to chat with Vanya, and while chatting, Aurora would often take out one of her pendant boxes and open it to look at it, with a look of nostalgia emerging between her eyes.
"What's wrong with you?" When the food on the plate was almost finished, Vanya asked with a hint of curiosity to Aurora who was staring at her opening the locket, and the other party responded after she reacted.
"Ah... I'm sorry, I just suddenly missed my mom who's out there, so I took out the photo to remember her."
As she spoke, Aurora turned the open locket to show Vanya. Vanya saw a small photo inside. It showed a woman holding a little girl. It seemed to be a photo of Aurora and her mother when they were children.
"I miss my mom..."
Looking at the photos shown by Aurora, Vanya felt a pang in her heart, and suddenly she began to miss her mother a little.
The problem is that Vanya was an orphan who grew up in a religious orphanage. She had no impression of either her father or her mother, and yet she actually missed someone she had never met.
"I feel a little sentimental lately..."
Vanya thought so, and then tried hard to finish the rest of the meal.
After dinner, Vanya rested for a while, and then went to the cathedral to attend evening prayers. After the evening prayers, she finally returned to her own single dormitory.
After returning to the dormitory, Vanya did not rest and sleep immediately, but sat at her desk, took out an old book and began to read.
This is the new secret biography Dorothy gave to Vanya, called "The Whip". It was dropped when they teamed up to fight the vampire Claudius last time. Dorothy read it to Vanya after she finished reading it.
Vanya now reads one of the other secret books every night. Compared with observing the secret books with clumsy instruments during work, she has a much better sense of opening the secret books directly.
After turning over a page of the secret manual, Vanya felt a clear mental discomfort. She closed her eyes as she had done in the past and prayed to A-Ka, asking for the poison to be cleared.
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East of the King's Campus, in No. 17 Green Shade Town, Dorothy was lying on the sofa in her pajamas, reading a novel. She heard the prayers that came as usual every day, and without thinking much, she helped Vanya in the distance to extract all the accumulated poison knowledge into spirituality.
But after the extraction, she frowned slightly, because the spirituality she extracted this time made her feel a little surprised.
"Hmm? This time, the spiritual power extracted includes four types: Shadow, Lamp, Cup, and Awakening? This guy... how come there are so many? Are all the spiritual powers extracted in one go?"
Noticing this scene, Dorothy frowned and said, "Oh!" Then she put down the novel in her hand and began to think carefully.
"I remember the secret book I gave to Vanya last time... the book 'The Whip', which is a secret book with a pure 'shadow' theme. Logically, this spirituality should only be able to extract 'shadow' and 'enlightenment'. Where did this 'cup' and 'lamp' come from?"
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