Mysterious as the wind, always with me.

Chapter 139 [The Polymath]

The damage caused by a large-scale demonic invasion is astonishing.

When the cultists burp their farts, they burp their farts, and someone will always come to wipe their butts later.

This time the Orthodox Church suffered heavy losses.

People who die in the church do not need to pay pensions, because this is for justice and dedicating their lives for their beliefs.But certain compensation is still needed, for example, orphans and widows need to be supported, for example, children of apologist knights are given priority in being admitted as knight apprentices, trainee priests and so on.

These all require worldly money.

The easiest way is to let believers raise funds to donate.

In addition to active donations, there are also passive ones.

As the top of the food chain, the Orthodox Church Alliance has the right to define "normal". As long as the affected nobles and businessmen come back alive, they must donate enough benefits to the church. Otherwise, whoever is judged as "abnormal" will be regarded as a lunatic , then say goodbye to your wealth, power and status.

In confinement in the church, food, clothing, housing and transportation need to be paid for.

Let the nobles treat the common people equally, how can they bear it?
Moreover, this involves the extremely subtle medical examination of mental examination.

No matter which era, it is extremely expensive to seek medical treatment from a psychiatrist, let alone involving evil spirits and spiritual pollution.

This is not something that can be done simply by knowing how to exorcise evil spirits.The examiner also needs to distinguish whether the victim has been hungry for three days, the negative energy generated in his heart, or whether he was really invaded by evil thoughts.

More than 300 people had an accident at one time, and the major orthodox churches mobilized pastors from the entire province to be sloppy enough.

Fortunately, this is the rich and densely populated St. Leiden area, and it was placed in some remote mountainous area. If it is really uncertain, the church has the right to order the victims to be gathered and burned to death.

Just over a year ago, more than 200 people were burned in the poor province of Morat in the northwest.Because the local reincarnation pastor was merciful and released the victims who were polluted by the spirit of evil spirits without careful investigation. As a result, the teachings of evil gods spread, and finally they had to make such a bad move.

This time, the survivors were not burned indiscriminately, which is already a great kindness.

To some extent, killing evil is also a big business.

Coincidentally, there were enough unlucky people who came back alive this time, nearly a hundred VIPs and more than 200 crew members came back.

The veteran aristocrats gritted their teeth, cut a piece of meat, and lived a normal life.

Rich businessmen are miserable, if you don’t peel off your skin, don’t even think about getting out of the church.

The result is that layers are pressed down.

Orthodox sects fed on the flesh of nobles and wealthy merchants to make ends meet.

The aristocrats and wealthy businessmen were not angry, so they set fire to [Lamington Cruise Company] and sued the tribunal of the orthodox sect, saying that they did not do enough inspection and protection.

In fact, in the final analysis, this company is a bit wronged.

They all went to the Church of the Storm and invited an elite storm squad to garrison it all year round.The ghost knows that it will provoke the knights of the apocalypse, and create an inner world that is later evaluated as SS rank.

The company wanted to ask the Church of the Storm to help carry the thunder, but the Church of the Storm was a bachelor.

Ren, who was in charge of signing the contract at the beginning, smiled.

"Ten of our 12-member elite team died. They have done their best and are worthy of the name of the children of the sea. We can only give you this kind of configuration for your insurance premium. You can't give us this little money and let us send Sequence 10 The strong man from the world will be the bodyguard? Of course, it is not impossible to think that the Church of the Storm must be responsible for this, and I, Renn, decided to take the blame and resign."

The cruise line was dumbfounded.

What else can they say?
What kind of bodyguards should be hired at what price is open to public opinion in the world.

What's more, people even resigned from the war festival, what else can you say?
As a result, the entire cruise company was forced to liquidate, not to mention all the funds in the account, and the assets were also forced to be auctioned.

Here comes the problem.

The largest assets of Lamington Cruise Lines, besides the pier, are two cruise ships.

A good one, at least it cost 700 million Wright dollars.

The rest of the Lamington, the devil wants it!

Not to mention the hundreds of people who died, it has become a giant [abnormality].

If it's not a powerful Extraordinary, who can hold it back?
There are also ordinary crew members and waiters who are affected. For the major churches, this is a proper negative asset.These bitter people are all wage earners.Their family didn't have much money so they came to work as waiters and crew members, so they couldn't squeeze out money.

Several big teachers tried to find a way to kick the ball, but Gemini Goddess always took the lead, so naturally the most negative equity was apportioned to her head.

Mark looked at Albert: "That's why you came to me?"

"Well, everyone knows that your housekeeper, Miss Helena, just made a lot of money in the stock market..."

"So what?" Mark's eyes sharpened, like a stingy rich man protecting his money bag.

"Hey, of course we know that this is your legal income. But you also know that this internal struggle of the Illuminati Church is a victory for our faction, which has won prestige and power, while Brown's faction has suffered heavy losses. So Brown's bastard Eat that broken cruise ship and those crew members and leave it to us to deal with."

Mark wondered: "Can you still do this?"

"Ah! Your grandfather can't leave. He is the only cardinal in the area, so he will naturally negotiate on behalf of the Church of Light." Albert sighed, "Although the family is sorry for you, they have always supported you with all their strength..."

Mark rolled his eyes, with a look of'the weather is so nice today', which made Albert speechless.

In Albert's view, this hatred of seizing the heir is definitely a hatred that cannot be resolved in a lifetime. Who can bear the fact that the main family becomes a split family.It's a shame this kid didn't turn his back on him completely.

Seeing that Mark didn't appreciate it, Albert turned and said: "Mark, you have gained a lot of benefits. Although the Goddess of Light doesn't mind that you get the blood moon cards of John Brown and Judge Charlie, do you want to use them publicly?" , is another matter."

Mark was speechless. It was one thing to use it secretly by himself, but it was another matter for the Gemini Goddess to use it publicly for him.

After all, demons have no human rights, and even if the leader of the Church of Light and Night dies, he can only work for the twin goddesses in theory.

"Then...let's talk."

After some lip service, Mark paid 200 million Wright dollars to buy this 'new boat' that cost more than 1000 million Wright dollars and was launched less than a year ago.This includes cleaning every corner of the entire cruise ship, repairing damaged places on the ship, and receiving more than 200 crew members.

Regardless of whether it is repairing the ship, waiting for the crew to complete the sealing and mental inspection procedures, it will take time.

During this time, Mark was dragged to the academy by Dean Margaret.

What explained to the juniors how to deal with [abnormalities], how to fight against demons, tossed for three days.

This is the price.

Because Margaret said to him: "Mark! You can handle the SS-level world of the Lamington, which proves that you are a real genius! But genius does not mean that you don't need to accumulate, and you can exchange talent for strength. You know the sequence What are the conditions for the Doctor Who of 7 to be promoted to the [Potatician] of Sequence 6?"

"Please tell the teacher clearly." Mark bowed humbly.

"In addition to cracking three S-level [abnormalities] or demons and subduing one of them, you also need to read a thousand extraordinary books."

As the dean's voice fell, Mark immediately received a prompt from the fate dice:

[Discover the branch of the God of Knowledge-the God of Mysticism Level 6 Sequence (Potatic Scholar)'s original version! 】

[Rules of Promotion—A promotion person needs to personally experience the mysterious rules of at least three unknown S-level anomalies or demons, and surrender at least one S-level anomaly (demon) as his own property, and read at least a thousand books about extraordinary Books about things...]

In fact, the promotion requirements are similar to the previous level of Doctor Who, that is, the reading volume is a terrible mark.

When I was in college, there were very few major courses that required 80 class hours each semester.Mark gnawed at this kind of tome, and wanted to die with just one book, let alone a thousand copies.

How much time does this take?

Mark almost gave up the idea of ​​being promoted to this sub-profession.

Margaret's next words saved him: "I don't know what made you so anxious. You have your own reasons, and I won't bother. I can provide a very simple spell [Eye of Knowledge] For you, it can read books for you 24 hours a day without interruption, and you can even multi-task and open multiple [Eye of Knowledge] at the same time.”

Huh?
Could this be the legendary quantum reading method?
Mark was not stupid, and immediately asked, "What's the price?"

"It will consume a lot of your spiritual power and greatly increase the burden on your soul." Dean Margaret rolled her eyes, obviously seeing through a part of someone's spiritual body, and she smiled: "This is a lot of burden for you." An [anomaly] is the same."

"Oh—that's it!" Mark let out a long sigh of relief.

The dean burst out laughing: "You think that everyone is as crazy as you, who dare to suck the purified spirit of the demon general, and face the evil god to exercise their will and soul strength. Extraordinary people with ordinary aptitude already have spiritual power. I lost control and turned into a monster. Either the long-term use of the [Eye of Knowledge] caused my spiritual power to be exhausted or insanity."

Mark smiled sheepishly and touched the back of his head.

"Go to the library. It's very safe for you to read a lot of books below A-level. Don't touch books above A-level, because the books themselves are extraordinary things, and there is a great possibility that they can be reversed through the [Eye of Knowledge]. Corrode your spirit and soul."

"understood."

Isn't it just momentum, this Mark understands.

Margaret put him in the library of the Mystery Academy to study, and half a month passed like this.

From the point of view of technique, Mark can fully open 36 [Eyes of Knowledge] at his limit, but only 12 eyes are opened at the same time, and the overwhelming knowledge pouring into his brain almost drives him crazy.

Even if the filter is turned on, it is still difficult for him to develop and use the brain so intensively.

After half a month of training, in fact, all Mark can do is to read four books at the same time in a sober state.

Even so, it still benefited him a lot—by reading some small books that were not that thick, he managed to collect [-] copies.

"For the rest, take the copy back and read it slowly. People from the Guangming Church have come a few times, so I won't stop you."

"Thank you teacher." Mark knew that even a copy would cost a lot of mysterious points.The teacher divided most of the benefits of this "battle" to him.

"Let's go! Remember to live well and try not to degenerate. The college still needs your golden sign to recruit students."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)