The Truth of Magic

Chapter 334

334 Sensing the target

In the following search process, even the sky-chasing team couldn’t follow them, let alone Ellington, who was just a follower.

in the end, reyan reported to the church, and their application was quickly approved by the church.

the team was led by a priest from the magistrate, reyan and another high-level priest were disguised as followers, and zhao xu was the secretary.

The four of them, through the list given by the church’s higher-ups, found the priests recorded on the list in order to have an interview.

Basically, such ” routine interviews ” were held regularly every year. The high-level clergymen of each Cathedral would be assigned to the Sacred Heart Cathedral to report on their work in a fixed month every year.

Among the gods, only the priests of Mystra could rely on the teleportation portals that the wizard Association had all over the world to come back and report on their work every year.

The church would also gather the high-level clergymen of the local churches who were sent back from other places to report on their work. They would hold concentrated talks in these limited few days.

these clergymen who had just returned from other places were also the first suspects and were the priority targets of investigation.

Reyan’s team, on the other hand, only had the priest team leader and Zhao Xu’s own level not high enough, so they were only assigned to check for people who were less likely to be in the team.

After a roundabout route, the team arrived at a quiet room according to the itinerary of the people on the list.

On the stage was a three-ring female priest. She looked innocent and was sitting cross-legged at the front desk, mumbling to herself as she taught.

And below them were all trainee priests, who were imitating the priest’s instructor, maintaining the same movements and breathing with the rhythm of the other person.

When Zhao Xu saw this, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

the female priest in charge of teaching was teaching the most basic way of ” prayer. ” These actions were strictly regulated in the church’s ‘morning prayer’ and ‘Evening Prayer’ rituals.

priests also usually prayed to the gods for divine spells at these two fixed stages.

Because Zhao Xu hadn’t been using 1st circle divine spells as a cleric for a long time, he kept the 1st circle divine spells he had on him. Naturally, he didn’t go through any more prayers the next day to get more divine spells.

Unlike other devout priests, the main purpose of the prayer ceremony was to praise the God and confess one’s own sins. As for obtaining divine power, it was just an additional bonus.

So, Zhao Xu didn’t need any divine spells, so he naturally left the ritual behind.

As for the ” prayer ” ritual, it was initially done according to one’s heart. One could even directly kneel down and shout the honorific name of the God.

however, after the churches were organized, the various gods ‘churches also began to specify the requirements for their own prayer rituals.

Even in the church, a specific location was set up, accompanied by the corresponding incense and heavenly language choir.

Of course, Zhao Xu hadn’t gone through this sort of education back then. He had started to think about hugging his goddess’s leg with his eyes closed, so he was listening to her with great interest right now.

the priest leading the team,”matthew,” had an old-fashioned look on his face. from the moment he first came into contact with them, he had not spoken or smiled, as if he was an ice sculpture.

in fact, a fourth-circle priest like matthew was the main force of the church’s law enforcement agency, the ” ruling magistrate. ”

He had also just been urgently recalled by the church from outside to participate in this operation. Of the four members of the team, he was the only one who was truly in this line of work. and at this moment, only a priest like matthew, who was completely outside of mystra, could rule out suspicion.

The four of them had established a common spiritual connection, and Matthew followed Reyan’s instructions. He waited until the female cleric let the trainee cleric practice on his own before he waved for her to come out.

when the pure-looking female priest saw the other priests in black robes, she immediately understood what was going on.

Even though she knew that there was nothing wrong with her moral integrity, she still couldn’t help but feel her heart skip a beat. Then, she left with the trainee cleric and walked out.

The group of five directly found another empty room in the corridor and sat down to discuss in detail.

“hazel, a level 5 priest?” As the leader, Matthew was the one who asked questions throughout the entire process, and Reyan guided him through the mental link at critical moments.

Hazel took a deep breath and nodded slowly. She then answered Matthew’s questions one by one.

Zhao Xu was using his pen to quickly write down the contents of their conversation, and then this word-by-word draft would be signed and confirmed by both parties.

During the entire process, although everyone was thinking about where the succubus priest was, it still went according to the normal process. It was just a brief interview with low-risk personnel.

after spending more than ten minutes together.

reyan then asked in his heart, zhongxia, what do you think?

“nothing out of the ordinary,” zhao xu replied quietly.

According to the predictions of the higher-ups in the church and the Association, if Zhao Xu didn’t have any reaction after interacting with them for more than ten minutes, then there was a 90% chance that they would be able to eliminate him.

“I’m fine with it too.” Matthew replied in his heart.

as a priest who had been practicing for more than ten years, matthew’s observation skills had also been trained enough. He was purely making a judgment from the perspective of the interviewee.

“no problem,” he said. Blanch, the other female priest who was sitting in the last corner and also an attendant like Lyan, said the same thing. Her hair was already a little pale from old age, but her face still had some of her former exquisiteness.

“then eliminate the suspicion. next.” Reyan said.

Generally speaking, failure was the norm for such investigations. Just the name list in Reyan’s hands alone was no less than 50 people.

it was basically impossible for it to be used in one shot.

Then, Matthew politely thanked the other party for accepting the interview. After getting “Hazel” to sign the expulsion draft, Reyan’s team went straight to find their next target.

in the following process, reyan’s team, based on the principle of proximity, first screened the teaching staff who were in charge of the trainee priest.

because the training of the trainee priests was mostly concentrated in the same building, it basically prevented them from running around and wasting time on the road.

It was just that basically, the trainee priests who could take on teaching positions had already been heavily reviewed, and it was not realistic to look at it from the point of disguising for many years.

if he was to replace her today, they would not be able to make a judgment for the time being since they had not come into contact with her before.

so most of the time, they had to rely on zhao xu’s abyssal divine power to sense things.

The answer was no.

when they arrived at a classroom, an old priest was sitting in front of the desk. his old body was still very strong, and he was reciting the greatness of the goddess ‘doctrine.

Especially the key parts, he even explained it over and over again, making the ten or so earth players below the stage drowsy.

“Yes, you know someone?”

reyan’s team had already followed the basic etiquette and were waiting at the door for the other party’s explanation to end.

but he noticed that zhao xu’s eyes were fixed on a certain student at the bottom of the classroom, and he couldn’t help but ask.

“Yes, an acquaintance.” Zhao Xu said simply.

the temple itself was filled with the will of the goddess ‘divine power. zhao xu had lost track of zheng xinyun the moment she had entered the temple.

Now that he was within a certain distance, he managed to relocate the other party.

he was like a radio. once the direction was right, the other party’s signal could be heard again.

at this moment, zheng xinyun was sitting below the stage. however, unlike the other drowsy students, she tilted her head and curiously pondered over the old priest’s explanation on the stage.

“your friend has quite the character.” reyan said jokingly.

Zhao Xu didn’t say anything after he heard this.

That was true. In the world of Arthur, most priests chose to believe in gods.

The number of camp priests was extremely small, because it was far more difficult to get a response from a camp than from a God.

the training of faction priests in arthur was usually done by the gods ‘churches of neighboring factions. after these priests completed basic level 1 training, they would find a faction organization or live and die on their own.

at the same time, many players who were unable to determine their faith in the early stages but chose to be a priest would also be set as a camp priest and trained according to the treatment of a camp priest.

Most of the priests would become the priest of the God in this cultivation process, and the elderly priest on the stage would play this role of guidance.

The class in front of Zhao Xu was filled with trainee priests, and that was why Reyan was making fun of them.

“Who are those people outside the door?” At this time, the players sitting below couldn’t help but Mutter.

as priest players who were still undergoing the initial training here in the third month, half of them were ‘pure newbies’ like zheng xinyun who had just entered the game, and the other half were ‘old foxes’ who had deleted their accounts and started all over again.

especially in the current player parties, the priest class could get a huge premium.

Even the most powerful Level 3 party at the moment was not stingy with forming a party with Level 1 or 2 priests.

There were even some rich players who would spend money outside of the game to get priest players to use healing spells on them in-game.

This also made most of the studios that were desperate for money invest in the priest profession, but only a few succeeded. Some players even left the studio after becoming a priest.

in the face of the rise of the priest and wizard classes, gossip related to them had become a daily occurrence on the forum. Therefore, many people were talking about the situation that the church had encountered with great relish.

“i’m sure they’re a group of high-level priests. didn’t you see that old priest who was preaching about the goddess’s profound meaning suddenly spoke with a firm and powerful tone?”

“Hey, that’s a group of walking RMB.” One of the players from the studio looked at the four people at the door enviously. if I could level up to their level, how awesome would that be? ”

“Don’t let your imagination run wild. You wouldn’t even be qualified to stand at the door even if you were given two years. those in black robes were from the judicial office. they were probably here for the next year’s routine conversation. the priests who can enter that department are all above level 7, the kind that can cast fourth-circle divine spells.” Another unlucky priest player who had used up five Lifestones said. He basically knew everything that they had encountered today.

sigh, you don’t say. I think this account can be passed on to my grandson. The short priest who had just been ridiculed was also dejected. It was a common understanding among Arthur’s players that it was difficult for spellcasters to level up.

In fact, in a game where you might not be able to level up by killing monsters, leveling up itself was a very metaphysical thing.

in the end, after the elderly priest finished speaking, he took a sip of water and walked out the door to be interviewed by zhao xu and the others.

“You three talk to him. I’ll stand here for a while.” Zhao Xu said.

at this moment, he decided to sense the relationship between the distance between him and zheng xinyun and the fluctuation of divine power.

But Reyan thought that Zhao Xu had made a new discovery, so he immediately perked up and tried to communicate with Zhao Xu in his mind.”i’ll be waiting for your good news.”

“this yingluo.”