Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1278 1250. Church Hunter Cathedral

"May the sacred blood guide our path."

Speaking of the Healing Church's actions, Mark, who always had a calm expression, took out a necklace from under his collar, held it in his hand and praised it in a low voice.

Lan En pursed his lips. He finally understood why the old Yharnam suddenly broke out in the mouth of Henrik in the "future" and was infected with a large-scale beast disease that destroyed the city.

The last time he came to Yharnam, he had already determined that the so-called "holy blood" was not a good thing at all.

Gray blood disease has infected a large area of ​​the population, and [blood therapy] has injected sacred blood into these seriously ill patients to save their lives. The affected area is no different from that of a plague, right?

Could it be that the root cause of that night of hunting that burned down the city was here?

Lan remained silent, but Henrik, who was sitting on a chair, echoed Mark.

"May the sacred blood guide our path."

As he spoke, he was still looking at the necklace held in Mark's hand.

"Sword Hunter Badge? It seems that you have passed the test. Are you now a hunter of the church?"

"It's just the persistent training and the help of the Holy Blood." Mark shook his head and said modestly, "Besides, the church is in need of hunters right now. I always feel that my assessment standards are too low."

Henrik chuckled softly.

"Even if it's lower, it's still a pass. Congratulations. Hehe."

If Lan En didn't know that they had a good relationship, he would probably think that Henrik's laugh was a malicious sneer.

But this is actually just the habitual tone of their Yharnam hunters.

The demon hunter, who also saw the sword hunter badge that represented his identity, had a deep look in his eyes.

His eyes moved between the badge and Mark.

He seemed to understand something about the clergy, the badge, and their relationship with Henrik.

After bringing Lann here, Henrik left not long after. Hunters usually work at night and rest during the day.

And Mark, according to Henrik, "has a schedule similar to that of a hunter," but that was in the past.

Now that he has passed the assessment and become a hunter directly under the church, there are still many procedures to go through.

"Rest here if you need to."

Mark spoke to Lan with a calm expression.

"This was originally the house I rented with Henrik, but he later became a hunter, and his benefits and income increased, so he moved out."

"I'm about to move out now. If you don't have a place to stay in Yharnam, this place is available to you."

"Thank you." Lan En responded to Mark while looking around the room with interest.

"By the way, if the queue for Blood Healing is really troublesome, you can put it aside for later. Before deciding whether to become a hunter in Yharnam, I want to learn more about this city."

"Ah." Mark was relatively calm at first, but then he showed an understanding expression. "It seems that you heard some bad words from the Yharnam people last night."

The clergyman shook his head and said, "Yharnam is xenophobic, and even the church can't do anything about it. But since you've come to Yharnam to seek [blood therapy], then for the sake of your own body and life, a little gossip shouldn't matter, right?"

"That's what I mean." Lan En smiled, "But who can really not care?"

"If this is your wish, then I will do it."

Without saying anything or suggesting anything, Mark was just prepared to do as Lan asked.

As he spoke, Mark had already adjusted his Healing Church clergy uniform.

This uniform is a robe made of silk material. It looks good as a uniform, but it is also difficult to maintain.

It took him a lot of effort to get the long white strip of cloth with the Healing Church logo embroidered in gold thread to hang right from the center of his back.

Then he put on his hood again and prepared to turn around and leave.

Just as Mark's hand was on the door lock, Lan En asked him casually from behind.

"I heard Henrik say on the way that the Good Golden Cup Church is the current administrator of Yharnam, and the Healing Church wants to take over the management?"

Mark, who had already put on the hood on the back of his uniform, turned his head and asked: "So you are worried about unrest?"

"But that's not necessary. After all, Henrik can already tell you about it, right?"

"The Good Gold Cup Church will inevitably be eliminated because they are not enterprising, so they will inevitably be replaced by the healing church that can make progress and save people from the plague."

"If this process goes smoothly, there will be no violence and no conflict. Because in today's Yharnam, who will support the useless Golden Cup of Kindness?"

"If they don't want to hand over the management of this great city, then the Yharnam people will come after them."

"Does this answer put you at ease?"

Lan En stood by the window, looking at the spot of light coming in from the narrow window, and said noncommittally: "It's okay."

Seeing that he still didn't change his words, Mark still didn't say anything more, just unlocked the door and walked outside.

Lan En looked at the spot of light, and followed the light to the small window for lighting. This floor was located in the canal, so there was no hope for lighting.

Even this small window was vaguely covered with a lot of grease and dirt, making the sunlight coming in look turbid.

But is it really true that the sunlight appears turbid only because the windows are dirty?

Lan didn't say much, not even talking to the Mentos in his mind.

He simply pulled on the hood of his cloak as well and walked out of the room.

The old Yharnam from decades ago, and a short period of memory that he inexplicably lost. If all this was just a simple "coincidence", then Lan En felt that he could also take off his head and kick it like a ball.

"Keep the map open, Mentos."

Opening the door, the witcher raised the brim of his hood and looked up at the sky whose view was limited by the canal.

“We have a lot to figure out.”
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Yanan, church town.

Church Town is a town built by the Healing Church on Yharnam. People once speculated that this was a sign that the Healing Church was dissatisfied with the current situation of Yharnam being managed by the Good Golden Cup Church and was preparing to start a new business.

Because now, the Healing Church, which is kind, selfless, and courageous in research, has sent many clergy to Yharnam to maintain the medical treatment center in order to solve the gray blood disease.

Moreover, a town cannot be built out of thin air. In fact, all the manpower and material resources are hired and purchased from Yharnam.

Even the clergy of the Healing Church are mostly Yharnamese.

However, the top leaders of the Healing Church still built their main buildings, such as the cathedral, in the Church Town instead of Yharnam, which was the main population center.

The Church Town is expanding, and people say that the Healing Church will build a new Yharnam on a higher mountain with the Church Town as its center.

But people don't have any rejection ideas.

After all, the old Yharnam was so bad with the beast disease, gray blood disease, and the incompetent Golden Cup Church. Building a new Yharnam should be a good thing no matter how you look at it, right?
And in the newly built Healing Church Cathedral, many people are gathering here.

These people are all related to the Healing Church.

These people were wearing the uniforms of clergy members of the Healing Church, except that their uniforms were all white, which was different from the clergy members who usually appeared in public.

And there are hunters.

Hunters who are covered in the thick smell of wild beasts' blood but are unaware of it, and are even content with it.

There are two types of hunters. One is the regular hunter employed by the Healing Church, and the other is the church hunter formed by Ludwig and directly under the Healing Church.

Ludwig enjoys a heroic reputation and renown among Yharnam.

His reputation and fame even allowed him to do something that many people would never dare to think of - attracting the locals of Yharnam to become hunters.

The origin of the beast disease in the Yharnam region is so ancient that it is impossible to verify, but the people of Yharnam are well aware that those patients who have been deformed to the point of being inhuman may have actually been no different from them a day ago.

They are all locals of Yharnam.

So when the Healing Church's [Blood Healing] technology became famous and countless outsiders came here hoping to cure terminal illnesses, they became hunters.

They can enjoy priority access to the [Blood Therapy] technology, but at the same time, outsiders must also do the work that the locals are unwilling to do—

Hunt down those lycanthropes who were normal Yharnam not long ago.

When locals kill locals, not to mention emotional issues, there will be awkwardness and resistance even if it is purely psychological.

But Ludwig was able to rely on his reputation and prestige to attract local people to join the church hunters.

Those people considered it an honor to 'fight alongside Ludwig' and considered their identity as church hunters to be heroic.

And there is another kind of people in the cathedral. They wear bachelor's robes and look quiet and thoughtful. They are scholars of Byronvis.

Most people actually know that much of the Healing Church's philosophy and knowledge originated from that great institution.

Lawrence, the founder and Archbishop of the Healing Church, is also an outstanding student taught by Master William.

It was only for some reasons unknown to the public that Lawrence left Byronvis and established the current Healing Church.

But now it seems that they haven't completely stopped contacting each other after parting ways.

The layout of the cathedral is very ordinary, with a pulpit for preaching and many benches facing the pulpit for believers to use.

But now the people sitting on the benches are not believers, but hunters.

The obviously extraordinary clergymen on the pulpit were not expounding the church's ideas or leading people to pray to the sacred blood.

Instead, they stood in twos and threes with the scholars from Byron Weiss, whispering to each other.

Rather than being a so-called "church clergyman", he is more like a researcher who can chat with scholars.

Archbishop Lawrence also had a conversation with a scholar who looked very gloomy.

It seems that he is the leader of these scholars.

Maria, who had just pushed the door open, frowned and looked around. She subconsciously didn't like this atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)