Back at home at No. 47 Red Rose Street, Angel sat on the single sofa by the convex window, holding today's harvest in her hand and counting again and again, and was extremely happy.
After selling the "barbarian" formula and homemade bullets, she now has as much as 900 pounds in cash, which is about to break through the four-digit number and reach the peak of her former wealth.
Although the remaining 100 pounds in this amount belongs to the pharmacist Dakwell, it is still in her hands, and Angel unceremoniously counted it together.
"Before going to Daqiao South District tomorrow, go to the bank to save it. It's too easy to be stolen if you leave it at home. Well, if I run away and don't have time to take the money away, it will be all lost."
She is going to go to the Harvest Church in the South District of the Bridge tomorrow, Saturday, to find Bishop Utravsky in the clues provided by the pharmacist, and try to complete his task and get the "pharmacist" formula.
"If, as the other party said, as long as you complete the task and don't need to pay, then the formula is equivalent to buying it for 200 pounds. I can sell it to the viscount for 300 pounds. He is so anxious that he should accept it, and may even be grateful to me..."
"In this way, my savings have exceeded three digits and reached 1,200 pounds, which is equivalent to half a sequence 6 formula."
Although Angel's "Joy Witch" formula and main materials have been settled, and as the task is close to Miss Audrey is completed, it can be obtained from Sevria, she also needs to consider the possibility of mission failure and even identity exposure.
At that time, we will use the backup plan, try to buy the formula from Lola, and then get the magic potion materials at the extraordinary party.
The formula of sequence 6 may cost 1,500 pounds or even 2,000 pounds to buy, and the main material of each magic potion will not be less than this number. The money you save is just a glass of water and a car's salary.
"By the way, one of the main materials promised by Sevria can be picked up at the weekend. If everything goes well tomorrow, I will go to her house the day after tomorrow. It can't be delayed. It's safest to get it..."
After arranging the weekend trip, Angel came to the basement and was ready to make bullets from the star crystal she bought today to supplement the combat effectiveness and complete the "task" of the bishop tomorrow.
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Taking the subway, crossing the Tasok River from the underground to the south of the bridge, Angel walked out of the smog-shrouded subway station and took a hired carriage to Yuejihua Street.
She is fully armed today. Except for not bringing the contaminated "crimson eye", she has all other magical items, weapons, ammunition and props.
Before going out, she even gave herself a fortune-telling with the spiritual pendulum method to confirm that it was not dangerous to go to the south district of the bridge to meet the bishop of Utravsky.
After getting off the carriage at the street, Angel saw the Harvest Church in the distance through the thick haze.
The exterior of the church is golden, and the outer wall is engraved with the emblem of life composed of babies surrounded by wheat ears, flowers and spring symbols. The main building is spire-topped, which is out of place with the Rune-style street.
The South District is also one of the most crowded areas, but it is not as chaotic and poor as the East District. It is similar to the Tingen West District where Angel has stayed. Although it is not as magnificent as several other rich areas, the streets are clean and the crowds are busy without being chaotic.
At this moment, the morning mass was completed. The main door of the church opened and the believers walked out in groups. Angel went forward against the crowd and entered the church hall.
Rows of seats inside are neatly arranged, and there is a huge emblem of life in front of it, which is consistent with the shape of the outer wall, and a row of candles is lit on both sides.
A man in a brown priest's uniform and more than two meters tall stood in front of the altar.
"Bishop Utravsky?"
After seeing all the believers left, Angel stepped forward and asked tentatively.
The man turned around and looked at Angel.
He was wearing a bishop's soft hat, with sparse eyebrows and a wrinkled face. He looked like he was in his forties and fifty years old. His light blue eyes surrounded by crow's feet revealed a trace of kindness.
"It's me, but everyone usually calls me priest."
"Hello, Father Utravsky," Angel changed his name and said straight to the point. "I heard that you have something you want to entrust, and the reward is the magic potion formula of the 'pharmsicist'?"
The tall priest was silent. Just when Angel thought that the other party would deny it, he pointed to the seat beside him, and then took the lead in walking over and sitting down.
Angel followed him and sat next to him. Even though she was taller than the Ruen people, she sat next to the priest who was obviously of Fusak blood like an underage child. The latter bent over with his back, his elbows on his knees, and said:
"Yes, although I don't know where you got the news, I do need help, but..." He looked sideways at Angel. "This matter is very dangerous. I think it's difficult for you to finish it. Are you sure you want to try it?"
"If it can be solved through the gold pound, of course I will choose not to take risks."
Angel replied with a smile. Before coming to the South District today, she went to the Hilston District and deposited a large part of her huge wealth in an unaccounted account. In order to cope with possible expenses, she left 300 pounds in her pocket. At this time, she was so rich and louder.What's more, you can ask the viscount for reimbursement...
She added in her heart.
"It's a pity that I won't sell the formula. This is a precept."
The priest shook his head.
"Then tell me about your commission. Maybe I'm more powerful than you think?"
Angel raised his legs and looked at the burly priest in a listening posture. The latter sighed, gave up persuasion, and began to tell his story.
"I was born in Indo along the intersea coast. When I was young, I loved fighting and killing. I did a lot of absurd things in Fusak. Finally, I committed a crime that even the empire could not bear. I escaped to the sea and became a pirate."
"In the Sunya Sea, I continued my evil deeds until I met a missionary of the Mother God. Under his teachings, I understood the preciousness of life and the charm of the growth of all things. I made a vow in front of the holy emblem of the Mother God: in order to make up for the sins of the past, I will spread His faith to other countries."
"So you came to Rune to preach in the capital of a country that already has a mainstream religion?"
Angel asked at the right time.
Indo is a port city of the Fusak Empire across the sea from the northwestern coast of the Kingdom of Rune. It seems that the bishop is indeed a Fusak. Unexpectedly, he finally believed in the Mother God of the Earth and came to Rune to preach.
The mainstream belief in the Kingdom of Rune is the goddess of the night, the lord of the storm and the god of steam and machinery. The mother god of the earth only has the right to preach, but the number of churches is strictly limited. Only a few big cities have churches and believers, and they can't even form their own extraordinary weapons.
Father Utravsky chose to preach here, as if he sincerely repented for his past behavior.
"Yes, this is the only meaning of my survival."
The priest stood up from the seat and faced Angel. The difference in height and posture made him like a legendary giant.
"My commission is for you to kill me."
Huh?
Angel almost suspected that he had heard it wrong. Did the priest who changed his ways to reform suddenly feel that he could not wash away his sins by preaching alone?
"Kill me in the past, the evil-doing me with bloody hands."
The priest repeated.
It seems that I heard it right, but it seems to be more difficult...
She looked up at the priest and waited for his explanation.
"In the past, I, who was crazy about killing and fighting, is still deep in my heart and has never really died." The priest continued, "He is still insisting and wants to regain control of his body and return to the previous state. Although I believe in the Mother God, I use asterity and missionary to influence him and make him re-one with me, but it has no effect."
"It sounds like schizophrenia. Shouldn't you find a psychiatrist for a good look?"
"I have tried. There is also a sequence of 'doctors' in the Mother Church. They once tried to help me, but finally found that this was not a mental illness, but a tendency to lose control. If I was finally replaced by the past, my body would be out of control and become a monster that only knew how to kill."
"So, there are two Utravskis in your body. You are good now, and you are evil in your heart," Angel concluded. "But how to kill that 'past you'? Since you have proposed this commission, you must have some way, right?"
"Yes," Father Utravsky nodded. "I have been looking for a real solution to him all these years. God bless me. I got a magical item, which is said to be a relic of an ancient dragon."
"It can let the holder enter the depths of the goal's heart and materialize the corresponding scene, where you can see me in the past and fight with it. Once he really dies, he will not appear again.
The priest took out a candle with only half of it left from the pocket of the priest's uniform. Its outer layer seemed to be wrapped in a layer of biological skin, wrinkled, and even had several terrible bumps. The candle stails were slightly protruding, and the dark surface had a fine scaly pattern.
Holding this candle, the priest looked at Angel with expectant eyes.