When the plot-skips players into the game world

Chapter 380: Chapter 288: Vivian’s Dog Chapter 380: Chapter 288: Vivian’s Dog Shepherd Bay County, Flute Town.

The children from the church school on Glass Island would be organized by the school to come here for their annual trip.

After all, there isn’t much to do on Glass Island—it’s an exorbitantly expensive place.

The place with the best scenery is probably the island in the lake where the Hall of Silver and Tin is located.

But the children still need to see the natural beauty outside, to know that not everywhere in Avalon is filled with factories spewing smoke and the constant rumble of trains running on the tracks.

This is helpful for the children’s future employment as well.

The supply of priests within Glass Island is already saturated.

Not to mention newly graduated Priests and Assistant Priests, even Bishops are a dime a dozen.

There are nine churches on Glass Island, and each church has more than one Bishop of at least the fourth Energy Level overseeing it.

But in many other places, even a not-so-small city might only have one Bishop.

Most small towns do not have a single Bishop, and some only have one Priest.

The church needs to coax and deceive people to join because the workload of the Nine Pillars Divine Church is quite hefty.

Managing the rites of birth, weddings, and funerals for the entire town is already overwhelmingly busy…

especially funerals.

A true Priest with Transcendent abilities must be present during burial to prevent the dead from turning into the Undead.

They also need to lead believers in daily prayers, maintain the statues of the Nine Pillar Gods weekly, provide psychological treatment through confessions, care for orphans, create Holy Water, farm the fields behind the church, sanctify ritual implements…

A few Transcendents alone definitely couldn’t handle all this, so there’s a definite need for a large number of ordinary people to assist.

On the other hand, treating patients that doctors can’t heal, dispelling Undead and curses—their core Extraordinary work—only accounts for a tiny part of their daily workload.

Some days, they might not even encounter it once.

The Priests who graduate from the Theological Seminary at the University of Law and receive their Mitre number less than a hundred a year…

and definitely not enough to meet the demand.

Hence, there are church schools—not universities, but a form of secondary education.

One can enter church school after primary school, and after completing the six-year church school education, they are basically adults.

Then they can start an internship at the church, starting from the bottom and learning how to become a qualified Priest.

The graduates from the University of Law, who have at least a second Energy Level upon graduating and some who reach the third Energy Level before graduation, typically intern and train in the churches of Glass Island.

After advancing to Priest and Bishop levels, they are directly parachuted into regional churches to become administrative personnel or Bishop candidates.

With further promotion of their Transcendent levels, they may even have a chance to be called back to the Holy Nation for further elevation beyond Bishop.

This is almost considered a career track, with life plans basically aimed toward becoming a Bishop—if one hasn’t become a Bishop by the age of forty, they’ll be ridiculed by their peers.

And these students from church schools make up the vast majority of clergy in the churches.

The majority of them can’t even become Transcendents by the age of thirty, and barely managing to master a single Extraordinary Skill is often their limit.

After they become adults, they will be deployed to various remote towns according to the needs of the church.

And when they graduate, they are just of age.

Being sent away to a backward rural area, away from their parents and all alone, can easily upset their mental balance.

—After all, their inability to become Transcendents indicates that their Dedication talent is weak.@@novelbin@@

This means they probably don’t enjoy acts of Dedication…

but not necessarily, it might be that they lacked the foundation and opportunity for “Dedication.”

This kind of “suffering” experience is actually meant to forcibly awaken their Dedication qualities.

If they come to understand what Dedication is while helping the impoverished populations, they may also have a chance to become official Transcendents.

—But they have to actually go there for that to happen.

So, to reduce the students’ reluctance, the church school would regularly arrange a special vacation trip meant to entice the children.

Taking them on trips to the most naturally beautiful resorts during holidays.

Letting them experience the beauty of nature, and making them realize that “leaving Glass Island might not be so bad” and even look forward to working in the countryside after graduation.

This is to prevent a widespread resistance after graduation, leading them not to show up at all.

When they truly graduate and realize things are not as advertised, it’s already too late for regrets—how come this rural area is so ordinary compared to the others?

But now that they’ve arrived, why not just start working for half a year?

Maybe after half a year, they might become True Priests.

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Even if she quit after half a year, another intern priest would be transferred here in another six months.

——Truly pitiable.

Vivian thought to herself.

At this moment, the little girl clad in a deep blue nun’s dress, with silvery hair and eyes, was playing merrily with her classmates.

Perhaps it was because of her elven ears, or maybe just because of her fair and lovely appearance.

She naturally attracted a large crowd, becoming the focus of attention wherever she went.

“Then, I’ll go for a stroll by myself!”

Vivian, one hand behind her back and the other waving in front, bent slightly at the waist with a mischievous smile, “I’ll be right back!”

“Be careful, Vivian!”

“We’ll wait for you right here!”

Her classmates responded enthusiastically.

Vivian hummed a tune cheerfully, bouncing as she walked.

But before she had gone far, her steps gradually slowed down.

From the innocence and cuteness of a little girl, she transformed into someone calm and graceful, and the carefree lovely smile on her face receded, becoming serene.

As she turned a corner, she saw a man with long hair as curly and damp as seaweed silently standing there.

He was thin and tall, emitting a somber and dangerous aura.

——He was the type who, if holding a pen would be thought a poet, with a paintbrush considered a painter, singing a song seen as a wandering singer, but standing still doing nothing, he’d be taken for a fugitive.

But Vivian showed no fear whatsoever.

She lifted her head to look at the man.

“Have you got something for me?”

She retorted, “I remember I gave you your freedom.”

“Master.”

Ye Zhi bowed deeply, his words almost meek, “I have finally found you.”

“You didn’t need to find me.”

Vivian spoke coldly, “You’re no longer my dog.”

“I have something to report to you, my master.”

“I’m not listening.”

Vivian rejected unhesitantly.

“It’s about the Holy Entity.”

“…Fine, I’ll listen.”

Vivian relented.

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