The Truth of Magic

Chapter 334 Sensing Target

In the following search process, not to mention Elleton as a follower, even the empty squad could no longer follow behind.

Finally, after Leian reported it to the church, their application was quickly approved by the church.

A priest from the tribunal was the leader, Leian and another high-ranking priest pretended to be followers, and Zhao Xu was the clerk.

The four of them, through the list given by the church's senior management, successively searched for the pastors recorded on the list for interviews.

Basically, this kind of "routine interview" will be carried out regularly every year. The high-level clergy of each church will come to the Sacred Heart Cathedral for a debriefing in a fixed month every year after being diverted.

Among the gods, the priest of Mystra can rely on the portals of the Mage Association all over the place to come back regularly every year to report on his duties.

And the church will also focus on the high-level clergy of these local churches who have returned to report after being dispatched from other places, and will conduct intensive interviews during these limited days.

These priests who came back from other places were also the first to be suspected this time, and they were all prioritized for investigation.

Because the lead priest and Zhao Xu were not high enough level, Leian's team only arranged for them to investigate people who were less likely to be investigated.

After a roundabout journey, the team came to a quiet room according to the itinerary notes of the people on the list today.

On the stage was a female priest with three rings, with a pure appearance, who was sitting cross-legged on the front desk at the moment, muttering words to teach.

And below are all the trainee priests, imitating the practice of the pastor's teacher, maintaining the same movements, breathing intermittently with the other party's rhythm.

When Zhao Xu saw it, he felt a little embarrassed.

The female priest in charge of teaching is teaching the most basic way of "prayer". These actions are strictly regulated in the two ceremonies of "morning prayer" and "evening prayer" in the church.

Clerics generally pray to the gods to obtain divine spells during these two fixed stages.

Because Zhao Xu seldom used the priest's first ring of magic recently, he kept the first ring of magic on him. Naturally, he didn't perform a prayer ceremony to obtain the magic the next day.

Unlike other pious priests, the main purpose of the prayer ceremony is to praise the gods and repent of one's own crimes. As for obtaining divine spells, it is just an additional bonus.

So Zhao Xu didn't need any magic skills, so he naturally left the ceremony behind.

And the ceremony of "prayer", at first, each of them could do whatever he wanted, even kneeling down and shouting the god's honorable name could be achieved.

It was only later that when the churches formed an organization, the churches of the gods also began to clarify their own prayer ritual needs.

It was even carried out at a specially arranged place in the church, accompanied by corresponding incense and Celestial language choirs.

Of course, Zhao Xu hadn't had this kind of education at the beginning, and he started to meditate on hugging the goddess' thighs with his eyes closed, so he listened with interest now.

And the priest "Matthew" of the Judgment Office who led the team had a staid look on his face. From the moment he first came into contact with them, he was unsmiling, like an ice sculpture.

In fact, priests with four rings like Matthew are the mainstream of the church's law enforcement agency, the "Judgment Tribunal".

He had also just been recalled urgently by the church from the outside to participate in this operation, and he was the only one of the four in the team who really did this job. And at this moment, only a priest like Matthew, who is completely outside of Mystra, can rule out the suspicion.

The four of them had established a common spiritual connection. According to Leian's instructions, Matthew waited until the female pastor asked the trainee pastors in the audience to practice by themselves before beckoning her to come out.

And the pure-looking female priest saw several other priests wearing black sacrificial robes, and immediately understood what was going on.

Even though she knew that she had no problem with her moral integrity, she still couldn't help but feel a jump in her heart, and then she bid farewell to the trainee pastors in the audience and walked outside slowly.

A group of five people also directly found another vacant quiet room in the corridor to sit down and talk in detail.

"Hazel, level 5 priest?" Matthew was the team leader, and he asked the other party throughout the whole process, and Leian guided him through the soul link at critical moments.

After taking a deep breath, Hazel nodded slowly, and then answered the questions one by one according to Matthew's questions.

Zhao Xu jotted down the content of the conversation between the two sides with a pen, and the verbatim draft will be signed and confirmed by both parties.

Throughout the whole process, although everyone was wondering where the succubus priest was, they still followed the normal process, and only conducted brief interviews with low-risk personnel.

Until after getting along for more than ten minutes.

Lei An asked in his heart: "Zhong Xia, what do you say?"

Zhao Xu replied silently, "Nothing unusual."

According to the inferences of the church and the association's senior management, if Zhao Xu, who had been in contact with the divine power of the abyss, did not respond after more than 10 minutes of getting along, then 90% of the possibilities could be checked out.

"I have no problem." Matthew replied in his heart at the same time.

As a pastor who has practiced for more than ten years, Matthew's own sense of words and emotions has also been sufficiently tempered. He judged purely from the perspective of the interviewee.

"No problem." Sitting in the last corner, another female priest, Blanche, who served as an attendant like Lai'an, said the same. Her hair color was a little old and pale, but her complexion could still barely recognize the exquisiteness of the past. feel.

"Then get rid of the suspicion and replace him." Leian said.

Generally speaking, failure is the normal state of this kind of investigation. The list in Leian's hands alone does not exceed fifty people.

It's basically impossible to hit it with one hit.

Then Matthew and the other party were polite, thanking the other party for accepting this interview, and after "Hazel" signed the verbatim draft, Leian's team went straight to find the next target candidate.

In the following process, Leian's team, based on the principle of proximity, first screened those teaching staff who are trainee priests.

Because most of the training for trainee pastors is also concentrated in the same building, it basically prevents them from running around and wasting time on the road.

It's just that the trainee pastors who are basically able to serve as teaching positions have undergone numerous reviews, so it's not realistic from the perspective of pretending for many years.

And if it was a hasty replacement today, they had no contact with them themselves, so it would be difficult to judge for a while.

So in most cases, it had to rely on Zhao Xu's" abyss power" induction.

The answer is no all the way.

When they came to a certain classroom, an old priest was sitting in front of the stage, but his old body was still very vigorous, and he was chanting the greatness of the Goddess' teachings.

Especially the key points, he explained it over and over again, which made the more than ten Earth players in the audience drowsy.

"Well, do you know someone?"

Leian's team has been adhering to the basic etiquette at the moment, waiting at the door for the other party's explanation to come to an end.

However, he noticed that Zhao Xu's gaze was circling a certain student at the bottom of the classroom, which made him ask curiously.

"Well, an acquaintance." Zhao Xu said simply.

The temple itself was full of the will of the goddess' divine power, and Zhao Xu lost track of Zheng Xinyun the moment he entered the temple.

At this moment, when he got close to a certain distance, he recaptured the opponent's location.

He is like a radio, once the direction is aligned, the other party's signal can be resounded in the channel.

At this time, Zheng Xinyun was sitting under the stage, but unlike other drowsy students, he turned his head sideways, thinking curiously about the explanation of the old pastor on the stage.

"Your friend has a personality." Leian joked.

Zhao Xu didn't respond after listening.

Indeed, in Arthur's world, the vast majority of priests choose to believe in gods.

The number of faction priests is extremely rare, because it is far more difficult to obtain the response of the camp than the response of the gods.

As for Arthur's cultivation of camp priests, the church of gods of similar camps is generally responsible. After these priests complete the basic level 1 training, they will find camp organizations or fend for themselves.

At the same time, if many players were unable to determine their beliefs in the early stage, but chose priests, they would also be set as faction priests and be trained according to the treatment of camp priests.

Most of the priests will be transformed into the priests of the god during this training process, and the elderly priests on the stage will act as the guides.

The class in front of Zhao Xu was all this kind of trainee priest, which was why Leian made a joke.

"What are the backgrounds of those people outside the door?" At this moment, the extremely player sitting below couldn't help muttering.

As the priest players who are still receiving the initial training here in the third month, half of them are "pure rookies" like Zheng Xinyun who have just entered the game, and the other half are "old fritters" who deleted their accounts and restarted.

Especially in the current player team, the priest profession itself can get a huge premium.

Even the current strongest level 3 team is not stingy about teaming up with level 1 and level 2 priests.

Even some local tyrants directly spend money outside the game to allow priests and players to use healing spells on them in the game.

This also makes most of the money-hungry studios invest heavily in the priest profession, but there are very few successful ones, and some players even quit the studio directly after becoming priests.

Faced with the rising tide of the priest profession and the mage profession, their related gossip has also become the daily routine of the forum. Therefore, many people are fond of talking about some situations encountered in the church.

"I must be a group of senior priests. Didn't you see that old priest who was preaching the Goddess's mysteries, suddenly his tone was sonorous and forceful?"

"Hey, those are a group of walking renminbi." One of the players in the studio looked at the four people at the door enviously, "If I can level up to their level, how cool it would be."

"Don't think about it, you won't be qualified to stand at the door for two years. Those wearing black sacrificial robes are from the Judgment Tribunal, and they probably have a routine conversation in the coming year. The priests who can enter that department are all above level 7 on average. The kind that can cast four-ring magical spells." Another unlucky player priest who used up five resurrection stones said that basically everything he encountered today was clear to him.

"Hey, don't tell me, I think this account can be passed on to my grandson to play." The short priest who was just complained about was also dejected. It is basically the consensus of Arthur players that it is difficult to upgrade spellcasters.

In fact, for a game that can't be upgraded by fighting monsters, it becomes a very metaphysical thing to upgrade itself.

In the end, the old pastor took a sip of water after he had finished speaking, and then walked out to accept an interview with Zhao Xu and others.

"The three of you make an appointment with him. I'll stand here for a meeting," Zhao Xu said.

At this time, he planned to perceive the relationship between the distance between him and Zheng Xinyun and the fluctuation of divine power.

However, Lei An thought that Zhao Xu had made a new discovery, so he was shocked and hurriedly communicated: "I'll wait for your good news."

"this……"