Faith Life of a Former Scammer

020. What is an exchange meeting?

After that, the sparring continued.

The first Dalian and the Dalian after that were completely different.

As soon as I started, the situation where I was thrown into a room was gone, but that wasn’t good news.

“What, what kind of intimidation… … .”

Unlike the first time, the children dealt with Philip seriously and were not attacked first.

“come-! Come and show your strength!”

As if to accept the attack, Philip even opened his guard and provoked him.

“This bear!”

A wooden sword is swung at Philip.

puck!

hit, but

“Hahaha!”

It was to no avail.

Rather, Philip laughed cheerfully.

“fight! It is a struggle!”

“Go away!”

The body Philip had trained was like armor. The wooden sword only aroused Philip’s excitement.

puck! puck! puck!

“Feel so good! great!”

A sparring opponent who never collapses no matter how hard he hits, and rather smiles.

“Hee, hee!”

It was like a nightmare for them.

“If you don’t come, I will go!”

“Oh, don’t come!”

I try to swing my wooden sword at the approaching Philip.

Kwajik.

Philip’s fist pierced the wooden sword.

jump!

hit the head

Dalian ended with that.

“fight-!”

Philip’s ceremony continued. he roared like a beast.

It was a look that I couldn’t see with the usual Philip.

‘Did I put the struggle too much?’

Although Leon, who was watching the scene, thought about it for a while.

‘Well, it doesn’t matter. exciting and good This is the opposite charm.’

Good is good, and that level of excitement is rather attractive.

“next!”

Leone sent in the next slave to gather more data.

I would like to ask who would volunteer for such a sparring, but the applicant immediately jumped out.

“1 gold indemnity! It only takes one hit!”

Human greed overcomes even fear.

So the sparring continued.

While the sparring continued, Rion checked how the skill worked.

‘The conditions for being recognized as a skill are difficult.’

I thought of mass-producing skills through a combination of membership registration and training, but that seemed difficult.

‘It was just luck.’

Except for the first time, the skill did not appear.

‘The growth rate after a tree is planted, this is the key.’

It was the first time Philip attacked a person after the tree was planted.

The skills accumulated through training were used for the first time through the first sparring, so it was judged as a ‘growth device’.

‘First battle, skills accumulated so far. It’s luck that got caught when the two things interlocked.’

In the case of Philip, it was as if the skill was created by chance due to a lot of luck.

‘To acquire skills, it would be more effective to invest in children with greater potential for growth than adults.’

I got a rough idea of how it was going. It’s a little disappointing, but even this much was enough.

Besides, the real jackpot is different.

‘Planting seeds is great.’

Seeds available to those who have registered as members.

This skill was really great.

‘How did you sow? If this happens, it’s really great.’

Observing Dalian, I could roughly see how it was sowed.

The children who planted seeds had something in common.

‘If you lose to Philip, the seeds will be planted.’

Seeds were planted in all the children who fought against Philip and were defeated.

The reason for the sparring was simple, considering the tree planted by Philip.

‘I’m sure this is because of the emotions contained in the tree.’

The emotion contained in the tree planted by Philip is ‘struggle’. This struggle is radiated through combat.

‘If you share or accept the same feelings, it becomes seeding. That should be enough.’

It seems like a complicated condition, but rather, it was a good condition.

‘Belonging to something usually shares the same feelings.’

To the combat priest, struggle was an essential element that everyone had.

‘This is enough data.’

It would be possible to plant seeds for everyone if pushed, but it was a waste to indemnify 1 gold per seed.

“Enough for today!”

The sparring of ‘today’ ends here.

Tomorrow is tomorrow’s Dalian.

“Starting tomorrow, the swordsmanship instructor will officially add sparring time. go for it!”

“… … What?!”

“why?”

“Wait a minute. Really?”

The children’s faces hardened. A gift prepared before coming here.

This was the gift Leon had prepared.

“Wait a minute! So, starting tomorrow, we have to fight regardless of the debt?!”

“crazy!”

don’t support that

A deep smile appeared on Leon’s face. That was a devilish smile.

* * *

Several days passed after that.

The sparring between Philip and the reserve combat priests continued every day, and the seeds were growing rapidly.

In the meantime, Lyon was also busy.

“Ed, what do you need most for your research?”

“I wish I had better concentration.”

“concentration?”

“yes. essential for research.”

“Are you Charles?”

“I wish I had a little more composure.”

“That request, this junior will fulfill it!”

To get the most out of the tree, it had to be used on people who were just starting out, not people who were finished.

In that sense, the dormitory children were the best ‘members’.

Focus on Ed.

Compassion for Charles.

I packed them in branches and planted them in my heart.

‘It will help you grow, and the seeds will spread.’

After that, I observed Ed and Charles for several days.

Ed liked to be alone, and Charles was the youngest member of the finance department, busy with his day-to-day work.

‘It’s not a big deal because I can set up a team later.’

Even if you couldn’t sow the seeds, just absorbing the growth rate was completely beneficial.

By the time the skill analysis was over, Charles brought new news.

“Junior, there will be an exchange meeting soon.”

“An exchange meeting?”

It was the first time I had heard of it.

“What exchange meeting?”

“The Church of Hope, a branch of our church, is visiting.”

“sect?”

The Church of Hope was a church that Leon also knew.

“Isn’t the Church of Hope a famous church in its own way? I know the holy relic there is very famous.”

“you’re right.”

The Church of Hope started to become famous for its sacred objects and made a name for itself.

Before returning, the Church of Dawn was destroyed, but the Church of Hope survived.

This meant that it was no mere sect.

“Wait a minute. Did you say sect? But why is the name different?”

“It seems to have its own circumstances.”

Usually, it was strange to open a branch denomination, but to send out a separate faction altogether.

“Well, besides that, why is that exchange meeting?”

“Battle Priests and Healing Priests engage in friendly sparring.”

“Even if it’s a battle, what about the healing priests?”

It wasn’t impossible to attack with divine power, but it wasn’t mainstream in the first place.

“In the case of healing priests, the amount of holy power is compared.”

It wasn’t that he was good at healing because he had a lot of divine power, but it wasn’t something I couldn’t understand.

“Well, faith is no different from divine power, so it’s reasonable.”

“you’re right.”

For the priests, belief in God was power.

It was the field that Leon was most confident in.

“What are the results every year?”

“… … I was devastated.”

“The main school to the sect?”

“… … yes.”

Charles knew that Leone would be angry, but Leone’s reaction was completely different from what he expected.

Rion came up with a question, not an angry one.

“So, a denomination that grows better than us and goes well is a sect?”

It was common sense. I would have done it even if I had been independent earlier. It was something that Leon could not understand.

“I heard roughly from the Ministry of Finance how that happened.”

“Ohh. Senior Charles, did you do something?”

It was rewarding to insert it into the core of the church.

“It’s a sect, so I’m not sick of it. It is said that they visit every year to use the sacred object.”

“ah!”

Then all doubts were cleared.

“Are you going to have an exchange meeting with both sides?”

“That’s right.”

I got a rough idea why the Church of Dawn had disappeared.

“I’m asking just in case, is our church receiving gold from factions?”

“How did you know?”

As expected, it was as Leon thought.

It was strange that the Church of Dawn was holding out in the first place.

‘Treatment is almost free. It’s definitely strange that they don’t receive a lot of donations, and they don’t go bankrupt even though they train priests in the meantime. I wondered where the gold came from… … .’

There was no special income.

“No way, I thought I was holding out with the faction subsidies.”

“I now understand why the faction looked down on us so much.”

The Church of Dawn was maintained thanks to the Church of Hope.

“Well, from their point of view, we wouldn’t look pretty.”

It would not be very pleasant for them to have to maintain this relationship because of their sickness.

‘If I do this well, a good picture will come out?’

The Church of Hope is a church that has expanded and survived to the end in its own way.

It was certain that if I put it on the spittle, it would help forever.

‘Should I make up a story like the halo?’

He had to catch not only the High Priest of the Church of Hope, but also the High Priest of the Church of Dawn all at once.

‘Looking at the estimate, I don’t think it’s going to work in one room… … .’

If so, you need to be prepared.

“Seniors.”

“Yes.”

Leon called out to Charles with a spleen expression.

“I will give you special training.”

“… … Suddenly?”

Charles was startled by the unexpected flow.

“So, are you going to be ignored again? Do you think I would be watching it even if it happened?”

“no! I have to give up my soul!”

“Excellent, senior. It’s to show fakes the power of genuine. Do you understand?”

“Yes!”

“I will roll so that I will never lose. Do you believe me?”

“I believe!”

There was no need to delay starting.

“We’ll assemble everything this evening.”

“You mean everything?”

“Yes. I will gather not only combat priests, but also healer priests.”

“… … Are you okay?”

Charles seemed worried when he was told to gather all the trainees.

“it’s okay. The high priest will allow it.”

“Yes? Have you already planned integration training?”

plan? It wasn’t.

“I’m going to ask permission now.”

Charles, who had been staring blankly at Leon, came to his senses and immediately asked again.

“How can I convey the contents of the training?”

“Noooyeok! If you work hard, you can win. All you have to do is tell them to put in the effort.”

“… … Do you preach like that?”

Of course, you shouldn’t spread it like that.

“How to win. Just tell them you have it.”

“Also! I believed in you, junior! I will tell you right away that this is the way to win!”

Charles, misunderstanding something, ran ahead of Leon.

“Well, if you die and roll, you will win. That’s the way to win, but is there another way to win?”

No oh oh power!

Die and roll and try.

That is the winning method.