Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 118 Priest
At night, Ritas and Courtline returned from Earls College and stopped by the Baptismal Cathedral in the northern part of Spring City.

After several months, the completely renovated Baptistery Cathedral now presents a gorgeous and solemn scene with white as the main color, both inside and outside.

And it is precisely because of the contrast with the surrounding objects that the "statue" of the bathing goddess, which looks like a completely white disc and is placed in the core of the nave of the church, does not look much less ridiculous.

But if there is a group of believers now, worshiping the white disc in the white temple, it should still be a very absurd picture, right?

Ritas thought about this and considered whether to sign his name on the altar. Maybe in a few dozen or hundreds of years, everything in this church will become a work of art.

"How's the recent enrollment situation?"

Holding the unfolded white disc, Ritas asked the priest hired by the Church of the Bathing Goddess.

He has been engaged in church-related careers since he was young and is now a middle-aged priest who has been in the profession for decades. His name is Isidor.

This priest, who has a square face, wears a pair of small glasses and looks very serious at first glance, has been very anxious recently.

"Two in total."

Ecidos answered with some difficulty.

The number of two is obviously not suitable to be described by the word "in total".

"Two?"

Ritas was a little surprised.

He thought that a strange church like this, which had basically no special features except that it was suspicious, would only have one person joining before it officially began to expand.

"One of the believers decided to join on the spot after listening to the church's sermon. The other believer was the Earls College student who had been wandering around the church and had entered the church several times before running away. He seemed to have finally made up his mind a few days ago."

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The Bath Goddess Church is a dirty place that requires courage to join.

Although the church itself has problems in all aspects, it is not really that serious.
Seeing that Ritas was silent, Isidor, perhaps feeling that he had neglected his duty, gritted his teeth and spoke.

"Master, if the Bathing Goddess Church really needs believers, I can also become a believer of the church."

"This"

So, joining the Church of the Bath Goddess is torture or something?
"I have been working in the church for almost thirty-five years. During this period, I have served in a total of seventeen churches, and whether as a priest, missionary or anything else, I have never... In short, in order to be worthy of the salary paid by the head of the church, I am willing to take on more responsibilities!"

Isidor, who possesses extremely high professional qualities and ethics, said so.

The priests of the church are not believers of the church, and they can even change jobs as frequently as ordinary people change companies. This kind of situation can only be seen in the Holy Kingdom of Libera.

To be honest, Ecidore enjoyed his work in the Church of the Bath Goddess.

After all, who wouldn't like having a generous leader, having plenty of free time on weekdays, and a job that doesn't put any pressure on them?

It is for this reason that Isis does not want the church's coldness to dampen the enthusiasm of the leader and lead him to dissolve the church.

In other words, even if the Bath Goddess Church was destined to disband, he could not ruin his reputation as a professional church worker and end up not being able to find another job.

"not needed for now."

Ritas shook his head.

In fact, with a little bit of trickery, it is not difficult for the Bath Goddess Church to recruit some fence-sitters. And with more believers, the Bath Goddess Church system may be upgraded again, with more functions that require careful searching to find.

However, for now he must ensure that the Church of the Bath Goddess always maintains its mystery.

Because, soon he will need to contact the "People of the Stars" in the name of "Church of the Bathing Goddess".

Therefore, instead of temporarily accommodating a bunch of believers who would only lower the status of the "Bath Goddess Church" and make them look mercenary, it would be better to leave the church empty and leave more room for the "Star People" and Platina Latras and others to fill in their own blanks.

Ritas could imagine that, apart from Earls College, who joined the church for unknown reasons, the believer who directly joined the church should be the one sent by the "People of the Stars".

I don’t know if the unlucky believer who was sent to investigate the Bathing Goddess Church, after finding nothing for a long time, will find that this church is really just an empty shell or will he sigh, “Wow, this organization has no flaws at all!”

“Father Issidore, please remember that our church is different from those secular churches.”

Ritas came back from his somewhat evil thoughts and said to Ecidoe calmly,

"Only churches that do not have gods, or even fabricate gods, need to attract believers at all costs and create and sell unrealistic fantasies for people."

Ritas said, raising the white disc in his hand a little higher.
"And our church does have gods. A true god won't make promises with people, won't give rewards, and won't do anything. She just exists there, and people will believe in her without permission."

Beside the altar, Father Isidor was slightly absent-minded as he watched Ritas, who seemed to be enveloped by all the firelight in the nave when he said these words.

The leader's words were so firm, confident, unquestionable and persuasive.
In my more than 30 years of clergy career, I have seen countless churches and more. At this moment, I felt that my horizons had become broader and a new path appeared before me.

"I have already crossed the line by building this church for the Goddess of Baths. However, I don't want to be the only one in this world who can receive the blessings of the Goddess of Baths and admire her glory. Fortunately, the Goddess of Baths is very tolerant, so she forgave my unauthorized actions."

Ritas said as he lowered the disc slightly and used his free hand to gently brush off the dust on it.

"Ritas~ not well yet?"

From outside the nave, Courterine's urging voice came.

"Well, I'll be leaving today. Father Isidore doesn't need to stay in the church during non-working hours like now. As for your previous desire to join the church, if it is a decision made after careful consideration, you only need to fill in your name on the application form and agree to it yourself. You don't need to report to me."

After Ritas finished speaking, he thought of another thing.
"If there are still people who want to join the church, please ask Father Isidor to identify them. Our church does not need people with ulterior motives. For example, homeless people who want to occupy the church, or thugs who want to steal church items."

After saying that, after Courtline urged again, Ritas nodded and turned to leave.

Looking at Ritas's departing back, Father Isadore felt that the words just spoken by the leader might be more powerful than his previous lectures.

God doesn't need to do anything. He just needs to exist there, and people will believe in him.
"Too slow. Didn't we just want to go in and take a look? Why is it taking so long? Or rather, your church is too big! I originally thought you built this church just for fun or something."

Outside the Baptistery Cathedral, Courtline complained unhappily.

"I happened to meet the priest who hadn't left yet, so we talked about some things."

Ritas explained.

"It would be unimaginable for you to discuss things with the priest in the past. Rather, is this church you are running really okay? Although you are using your own property to mess around with it, if the teacher knew about this, he would probably be worried."

Compared to the more intimate title of uncle, or the more formal title of head of the family, Courtline obviously prefers to call Ritas's adoptive father Roland "teacher".

"I know my limits." "Hmm, you better know your limits."

Courtline said in a questioning tone.

Unlike other people who may be "persuaded", Ritas, who is always "right", is basically impossible to persuade. So since he was a child, Ritas has been going down the same path most of the time.

But obviously there is no one who never makes mistakes or fails.

Therefore, whenever there is a problem with Ritas, it is usually a very big problem.

"Forget it. These are not things you should think about when you are hungry. Now, we need to figure out what to eat for dinner."

"If you don't have anything in particular you want to eat, Curt, how about we go to the Oasis?"

Ritas slowed down his pace a bit, stared at the landmark building in Spring City and asked.

The Spring Building, named after the city, was completed three years ago. It is a 13-story building. This building also replaced the clock tower in the center of Spring City and became the tallest building in the city.

The Oasis restaurant occupies the eighth to tenth floors of the Spring Building and is one of the most famous restaurants in Spring City.

"Oasis? Isn't that an expensive restaurant? Are you asking me to advance my salary until next year?"

"Just put it on my account this time."

Ritas, who obviously did not make the suggestion to embarrass Courtline, said so.

He didn't know what happened between Courtrine and her family, but he knew that Courtrine had been living independently since graduation.

"I've been studying cooking lately, so it's necessary for me to learn about the dishes of famous chefs. In return for my invitation, you need to fill out two questionnaires after the meal."

".You have quite a wide range of hobbies recently."

If someone else said this to her, Courteney would definitely think that the other person was actively trying to show his or her affection.

But facing Ritas, Courtline could only think hard about how many questions could be crammed into the two questionnaires.

"Well, okay. We agreed to only fill out two!"

After weighing the questionnaire and a delicious meal for a long time, Courtenay finally made a decision, with the help of an empty stomach and delicious food winning out.

"Let's go to the Oasis~"

Courtenay, who hadn't indulged in food for a while, raised her arms high and walked towards the Spring Building with great interest.

And it was at this time
huh~
boom--

A flare exploded in the night sky.

In a remote open space in the northern part of Spring City.

"Hey, Bart! Are the current apprentice mages so difficult to deal with?"

"Who should I ask if you ask me? After all, is he really an apprentice wizard?"

"is her--"

The perverted trio is "fighting hard" against Miriam.

The perverts who could kill Blake almost instantly were obviously not weak.

They don't have any special abilities, but each of them has a body that contains powerful strength far beyond that of ordinary people.

However, even so, they could not capture Miriam who was hiding in the corner in a short time.

Defensive magic and protective wards are just the basics of the basics.

In addition, Miriam also did things like suddenly emitting a strong light with her wand, and then wet the surrounding garbage piles with water elemental magic and then detonated them.

The former caused the other two people, except Ino, to be temporarily blinded. The latter caused injuries to the other two people, except Bart, who had an extremely keen sense of smell, from which they have not recovered to this day.

Whenever the three approached Miriam's corner and saw that they could break through his various defenses, Miriam would come up with a variety of new tricks to temporarily trap the three people who were caught off guard. And as long as there was a slight gap, Miriam, like a loach, would run to other corners and rebuild a new line of defense.

In addition to the "magic" methods he learned from his grade tutor, the not-so-presentable skills he learned through hard work during the holidays, as well as the various small props provided by the Phantom Thief Senior, also played a significant role.

The perverted trio obviously had a big stereotype about mages. They thought mages could only stand still and cast some inaccurate magic. So, they were embarrassed by Miriam, the trainee mage who used all means possible.

In desperation, a pervert even shouted out, "Did you enter the magic academy just to learn these?" This may seem like a reasonable statement, but it should never have come out of his mouth.

"Hey, Bart. He just released a flare. Are we running out of time?"

"Don't worry, there's plenty of time. The guards in the city won't be able to get here so quickly. Besides..."

Even if I come, I can't do anything.

After he finished speaking, Bart, who had become completely serious, started moving the wings behind him again.

The sturdy body seemed to draw a ghostly arc.

He successfully blocked the fleeing Miriam and kicked his opponent hard with a whip kick before he had time to dodge.

Miriam flew out.

Even though he had defensive magic all around him, he could still feel the screams coming from his body as he flew up and hit the wall.

But this time, Miriam, who always stood up and regrouped as soon as possible, lay on the ground and did not stand up for a long time.

"Have you reached your limit? Humph. If you had behaved yourself earlier, you wouldn't have suffered so much. I've said it before, we have principles. As long as you let us confirm what we want to confirm, we won't hurt you."

"Shut up! If I hear one more word from you, I'll get even more sick!"

Miriam continued to breathe heavily, and then simply sat on the ground.

He raised his hand and felt the wind passing through his fingertips and gradually becoming stronger.

"It came a little faster than expected."

As Miriam, who had completely relaxed, whispered, a figure swept by a gust of wind suddenly fell from the sky and hit the center of the open space like a cannonball.

(End of this chapter)