Noble Emblem

There are more than a dozen female elves with brands on their bodies... It is unrealistic for them to walk back to the forest elves by themselves. It is very likely that they will become the trophies of other slave-catching teams halfway.

If Beta took them back to the forest elves, there would be no problem, but the journey was too far. At least a month had passed since they came and went. It would be nice if there were some teleportation nodes, but the problem is that in the game, he did not participate in the forest goddess massacre, and in the second half of the period, he has been taking care of his own territory, and has never been to the forest elves, even near the forest elves. I have never been to any country. Because it is impossible to teleport near the forest elves.

Now he is still on an epic mission, and there are a lot of things waiting for him to deal with in his own territory, so he has time to escort these elves back to the Elf Forest.

But he didn't have time, but someone did.

Granton...this half-elf.

Beta took a short rest, recovered enough mental strength, continued to activate the teleportation magic, and returned to the outskirts of Bronze Drum City in a few seconds.

It was already late at night. Because of the eldest lady Alice, Beta easily passed through the city gate without wasting time to report. He soon met the legendary strongman, Granton.

Looking at the female elf slaves lined up in front of him, Granton hid the murderous intent in his eyes well. He smiled and asked the butler to take these dozen elves to the best room to rest, and sent almost all the elf slaves in the castle to The maids went to serve them, help them bathe, change clothes, etc.

After all the female elves left, his murderous intent burst out unabashedly, and the porcelain in the room shattered one by one.

Beta, Shirley, and Emma sat quietly drinking sweet fruit wine amidst this amazing momentum.

After a while, Granton finally calmed down. He did not ask Beta where he rescued the people from. He just said directly: "I am planning to leave for the Elf Forest. I will take these fellows back. Not one of them." It will fall.”

Granton is a legendary lancer. With such strength, he is always a guest wherever he goes. But if he can bring back more than a dozen elf slave girls, he will not only be welcomed by the elves, but also be grateful by them.

Although Granton did not appreciate such gratitude.

"Weren't you on a mission? Why did you come back so quickly?" Granton knew the mission function of the Knights of the Round Table system: "Or is rescuing these elves a part of the mission?"

Beta waved his hand: "It's just along the way. Take a short rest and we will teleport back immediately."

"So urgent?" Granton frowned and said, "Then there is something I have to tell you... Waking Temple, the past two days have been a bit strange."

Beta narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this. The Woking Temple is an important part of his strength, and he now has a good relationship with Shirley and the goddess Woking. Due to emotions and reasons, there can't be any problems in the Woking Temple. .

"What a strange method?"

Granton said calmly: "Then you have to check it out yourself. You also know very well that there are some things that it is not convenient for me to get involved."

A slight nod of understanding. Beta got up and took Shirley and Emma into the mansion's magic space, and then left the city lord's mansion.

Compared with the desert night, the temperature in Tonggu City is obviously much warmer. The main streets here are still very lively even late at night.

Beta did not stop, but went directly to the sub-temple controlled by Kati.

The Wojin Cult has now taken root in Tonggu City. Even late at night, there are still believers praying outside the temple.

Beta walked straight into the temple. The guards responsible for guarding the temple were all Kati's people. Two newcomers saw Beta and were about to stop him from entering the temple, but an old team member next to him shook his head at them and let Beta go. Swagger in.

The orange candlelight illuminated the entire study room, and Katie was correcting the plan at her desk. It was very difficult for her to watch. After all, not long ago, she was just an illiterate killer, and now she suddenly became a dark archon. It was normal for her to be stressed.

Goddess Wojin forcibly raised her level to master. Higher levels will naturally bring improvement in intelligence. Therefore, her learning ability has undergone a qualitative change, and learning words has become a very simple matter.

However, the improvement of intelligence does not mean that her knowledge, experience, and knowledge will be rapidly improved. These things still need time to accumulate little by little. At most, she will just learn new knowledge more easily than ordinary people.

At this time, she was looking at the income and cashier's table of Waking Temple during this period, and there were some other trivial matters that needed her to deal with. These things seemed simple, but if you think about it from the overall perspective, it would be a bit troublesome. To put it more simply, Katie has no real management experience. She cannot directly see clearly what kind of reaction it will have on the future direction of the temple or the reaction of the surrounding forces after she makes a decision. .

She had to think about these one by one, so it was a waste of energy and brain power. Only at such times will she feel that Beta is a great person. She really doesn't understand how he makes decisions that she thinks are very wise.

Just as she sighed in her heart, there was a knock on the door behind her. Katie was a little unhappy. She had already told her not to disturb her if there was nothing important after night.

Could there be trouble? With such doubts, Katie opened the door. After seeing the person outside the door clearly, her pretty face showed a slight joy.

"Lord Beta, you are finally back." Katie's eyes became brighter: "Come in and sit down, I have something very important that I want to talk to you about."

During the mansion spell, Emma looked at Katie's pretty face and said with some dissatisfaction: "It's so late now, and this woman is so happy to invite Beta into the house. It seems like she has bad intentions."

Shirley smiled and said, "I don't know who it was. He ran into Beta's room late at night and was thrown out of the window by him."

"Ah... don't talk about this anymore." Emma's face was red, she was dancing, and she was even a little angry.

Beta didn't know what was going on in the mansion. He generously found a place to sit down, looked around, and said with a smile: "You are still so simple. Our goddess is the God of Wealth, you dark archon If the place is too crude, spreading it may damage the reputation of the goddess."

Katie chuckled lightly, and she understood that Beta was joking. Although the place where she handled affairs did look average, her personal income was actually not low. And this income is not black income, but the rules set by Beta. In fact, everyone in the Woking Temple has a high income, from the lowest priest to the bishop, all have an income. On the one hand, this money comes from the offerings of believers, and on the other hand, it comes from the 'rewards' of the goddess Watkin.

In the small treasury of each temple, a small amount of gold coins will suddenly appear regularly. There is no one else who can put a sum of money in the temple without anyone noticing except the goddess.

"I know you came late at night, it must be for temple affairs." Katie sighed slightly: "Actually, I also feel that something is wrong, and I have been thinking of ways to find you, but your whereabouts are really difficult to trace. So it’s been postponed until now.”

Judging from Beta's perspective, Katie is not a very qualified manager because she currently lacks the necessary overall view. But Jakadi felt that something was wrong, and the matter must have been serious.

"What's going on?" Beta looked at him and said, "Tell me about it. If even you, the Dark Archon, think something is wrong, then there must be some trouble."

Katie leaned forward slightly, fully revealing the bulging curves of her chest: "The side of the main temple was built in a slum, but now, there are fewer and fewer poor people there, and more and more nobles are living in it. .”

Hearing this, Beta moved her fingers slightly: "What about the houses we built for those people for free? Those houses are very ordinary, and the nobles cannot live in them... Or maybe they bought the houses of the poor and demolished them in large numbers. Fall and start building your own mansion?"

Katie nodded: "That's true. Many nobles suddenly bought houses and land, and they gave a lot of money to the poor. Now a large number of houses have been demolished, and the land is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and mansions are being built."

"Did this happen all of a sudden?"

Katie sighed: "It should be! Because there are other people managing the main temple, and I didn't pay too much attention to it. By the time I discovered something was wrong, at least half of the land had fallen into the hands of other nobles. Now, probably It’s almost two-thirds of the way there.”

It would be a good thing for other religions to have a large number of nobles believing in them. After all, nobles have a lot of money and influence, and can donate a lot of money.

But the current Waking Temple is different. The goddess in charge of wealth does not lack money, but lacks faith. Moreover, its teachings have been changed by Beta and are following the popular line. If the main temple is surrounded by nobles, turns that place into a rich area, and then excludes a large number of poor people and people, then the temple's preaching speed will definitely be greatly affected.

And most importantly, Beta smelled a conspiracy from this matter.

In addition, Granton's reminder can illustrate this point from the side. An elf who has lived for nearly four hundred years must have a stronger political sense than most people. Since he has spoken out, it is very likely that someone is targeting the Waking Temple.

I don’t know if it’s just for the temple, or for the goddess Watkin.

If it's the former, then it's just a pure competition among believers between temples. If it's the latter, haha, things will have to develop in a life-or-death direction.