Saint?Just a bad woman

If the great evil god Eris wakes up from his slumber, the situation will definitely not be controlled by Santa Kalina alone.The people of the Church of the God of Order are not of the same mind as the royal family. If a disaster strikes, they may not necessarily lend a helping hand.

There are rumors from the outside world that the Church of the God of Order plans to evacuate the Lorian Empire and find a safe country to settle down.There are many countries to choose from in this world. There is no need for them to stay in a place where war is constantly happening and fear for their lives every day.

When passing by the church door in a carriage, Brenda saw many people who wanted to go in to pray or confess. The church door was closed, and the church knights blocked the ragged people outside, insulting and reprimanding them in vulgar language, and even Beaten.

Brenda wanted to get out of the car to stop her, but Santa Karina held her back.

"Your Majesty, don't go, you can't save everyone."

"If I don't go...those people will continue to hurt them."

"Believe me, they will not be grateful to you. They will only blame you for your incompetence and for making this country full of holes. They don't know how many days and nights you have been unable to sleep for them because of your efforts. This situation was not caused by you. , but as soon as you get out of the car, those people will surround you. Can you withstand the anger and malice of these people?"

St. Carolina's words are heart-wrenching.

Brenda could imagine that scene. Those who write history are all victors. She is just a puppet with an empty title of emperor and is not even qualified to mobilize the army. The nobles and ministers in power will definitely use her as a tool to gather fire. When a country declines, people first blame the emperor for being incompetent.

Words of resentment have a powerful destructive power, and no matter how hard-hearted a person is, they cannot remain indifferent.Brenda was not yet confident that she could be as calm as Santa Karina, and she remained calm despite being attacked with vicious words.

She would definitely cry in front of those people.

It must be very embarrassing to cry in front of so many people, although she doesn't have much face to speak of.

Santa Karina was right. Those people would not necessarily thank her. Instead, they thought she was hypocritical and pretentious. She only cared about these people for her own reputation and did not consider their life or death at all.

"never mind……"

"Your Majesty, it's a good thing that you can change your mind. It's those people who want to believe in the Church of the God of Order. They have abandoned their former beliefs. Being abandoned by the God who loves them is just karma. When they abandoned the Eternal Goddess, they I never imagined this day, and the goddess became disheartened and never appeared in the world again. You don't have to think that this is your fault, it's these stupid people who are wrong."

"..."

The carriage drove quietly through the church, and Brenda did not continue to look out the window.The cries of those people became farther and farther away, and finally they could no longer reach her ears.

There are people in misery everywhere, and the order of this country is on the verge of collapse. The top priority now is to prevent the evil will of the evil god operating on the border from continuing to invade and spread, and other matters have to be postponed.

Brenda felt dizzy and had a tightness in her chest.When the carriage left the city and reached the suburbs, fresh air poured in through the window, and she felt a little better.

She had never thought that governing a country was such a difficult task, much more difficult than reading and learning magic.As long as you work hard at reading and studying, you can see results, but governing a country is difficult, and it is too common for you to put in a lot of energy and fall short.

The cheerful mood before departure suddenly turned depressed, and Brenda stared out the window without saying a word.

St. Kalina had no intention of comforting her. It was not appropriate to say too many words of comfort. If the little emperor was not allowed to see the cruelty of this world, and if she was allowed to suffer a little setback and temper, she would never grow up.

People only grow when they suffer.

After the carriage completely drove out of the border of the capital city of Partington, there was a section of waterway next, and they needed to take a boat.The driver took them to a dock, where a boat was waiting in advance.

This is a small mechanical ship that can be lived in. It is driven by an internal combustion engine and is divided into three floors. It is not small in scale and can accommodate more than a dozen people. Therefore, it is expensive to fake and almost no one has seen it in the entire Lorian.

There are sofas, tables and chairs in the cabin. Although it is not as spacious as a normal room, it is not cramped and the ride is relatively comfortable.

Lorian's current magical technology level is far behind some countries, and it still advocates the cold weapon era, so it is normal to be beaten.This ship is equipped with several crew members, all of whom Santa Karina asked others to help hire using communication magic.

After Brenda sat firmly in the cabin, Santa Karina walked to the driver's cab and told the driver that the boat was ready to sail.

This time the destination is a small town called Kotka on the other side of the strait.This town has no traffic and is surrounded by the sea and mountains. Many townspeople have never left the town since they were born and have no idea what the outside world is like.

Because of this, it retains many architectural features that are hundreds of years old and has become a popular tourist attraction in recent years.

Of course, Santa Karina's purpose of going there was not for tourism. She was tasked with investigating the leakage of the evil god's will, and anything other than the task was just a cloud.

It just so happened that the town was located near the underground palace where the evil god was suppressed. The coming and going of tourists could easily spread the evil god's will to all parts of the world.

A crew member made a pot of tea for the two of them.

Santa Karina announced that they were also tourists. When there was no one around, she whispered to Brenda next to her: "Next, you have to pretend to be a tourist and don't reveal your identity at will. In case you are selected by the evil god , become a tool to promote cults, and this country will be destroyed in your hands."

56.Persuasion

"I understand. You've been nagging me all the way, don't you feel tired? And... you keep teaching me how to do things like this. Although it's very good, it always makes me feel like I'm a worthless waste."

Brenda hid her face in her arms and made a sound of protest.

Santa Karina wanted to say "Yes, you are indeed a waste", but she was worried about hurting the little emperor's self-esteem, so she had to change it to a more euphemistic way of saying it.In the past, many people complained that she spoke too directly, which often made people feel uncomfortable.

Everyone likes to hear nice words. Even if the advice is offensive to the ears and helpful to the actions, they will not accept it so happily.Face is really important to people, not to mention that the other party is still a young king of a country.

"I am just fulfilling the duties of a saint, Your Majesty. 500 years ago, I was also Your Majesty's mentor at that time. You are her descendant. I should teach you with the same standards. Gentle education methods will only make you You are lazy and ignore the cruelty of the outside world. If you don't want to listen, I will not persuade you anymore."

Santa Karina picked up the teacup, lowered the temperature to the right temperature and drank the tea in one gulp.

After saying so much, her mouth was indeed a little dry, and she didn't know if Brenda could fully listen.She must have accepted her own advice about what happened on the street just now.Otherwise, the little emperor would have rushed out of the carriage to save those ignorant people.

Until just now, Brenda was still worried about whether those people had been harmed by the church knights, and felt guilty for leaving indifferently. It was really stupid.In terms of consciousness and means, she is far behind her ancestor, Emperor Ernest VII, and still needs a period of tempering.

Originally, she, a down-and-out saint, had no obligation to do this, but she felt uncomfortable if she didn't. After much struggle, she decided to temporarily consider herself the emperor's mentor, and then leave the country after she regained her strength.

The life and death of Lorian's country has nothing to do with her. It's no big deal to just leave it alone. No one has the right to blame her.She was too responsible back then, so she was plotted by someone she trusted and betrayed to the Demon King's army in exchange for a chance for the country to survive.

After drinking a cup of tea, the feeling of dry mouth and tongue can be relieved a little.

The two did not continue their verbal dispute. Brenda always had a tired look on her face, and Santa Karina quietly used soothing magic on her.

That's why Brenda suddenly felt very sleepy, fell asleep on the sofa, and fell asleep soon after.

"I stay up late every day reading and thinking, and I don't know how to relax myself. It's weird that I can think clearly. Sometimes reading a lot of books doesn't mean you are really capable. You still have to know how to use the knowledge and strategies in the books."

Santa Karina looked at Brenda's sleeping face and murmured to herself. After finishing speaking, she covered her with a quilt, closed the door and went to the deck to watch the wind for the time being.

When the boat was sailing, she smelled an unusual smell. This was the clergy's unique sense of smell for evil things.The will of the great evil god Eris has affected this sea area and is spreading faster and faster. If the contaminated people are not found quickly, purified, and the seal of the underground palace is strengthened, when the evil god breaks free of the seal and comes to the outside world, he and those If monsters unite together, the entire human world will suffer.

This is not just a local crisis in the Lorian Empire, but a worldwide one.

Those who participated in the sealing ceremony of Eris were not only the saints of Lorian, but also the divine envoys from other places. There were hundreds of experts in Wuyangyang. Saint Karina didn’t know who they were, because there were many people. He died in that battle without even leaving his name.

At the gate of the temple in the Grangemouth Mountains, someone specially built a huge stone tablet to commemorate the heroes who died in that war.But that thing was of no use. Now the stone tablet has become dilapidated by the weather and the sun, and almost no one can read the name on it clearly.

Is there really any point in fighting to the death for someone else?

Santa Karina has been thinking about this question a lot lately and has come to the conclusion that no.

She turned on her spiritual vision and found a burst of gray-black smoke rising from the bottom of the sea. Ordinary people do not have magic power and do not know how to judge, so it is easy for evil spirits to affect their sanity.

"Let's open a barrier first."

She knew that the crew members on the ship were all ordinary people and did not have particularly outstanding magical talents. If the barrier was not deployed, the power of the evil god would penetrate deep into the spiritual world of these people, and then there would really be no way to save them.

St. Karina's current ability is not enough to save a dying person, because the evil god will absorb the life force of ordinary people through mind control and build a body for himself.

To do this, He needs to constantly lure ignorant living people to come to His underground palace and offer voluntary sacrifices.

A girl like Brenda who is young, has faith and ambition in her chest, and is full of magic power, is most suitable for being used as food and nourishment by the evil god.The more people like her, the easier it will be for the evil god to regain his power.

He grows by devouring the beliefs and hopes of these mortals, and sows the seeds of disaster and fear in the world.

A pale golden barrier enveloped the ship, and the crew members were all safe and sound. They still didn't know what happened. They were working seriously at their respective posts and their moods were as calm as water.

Before the ship docked, Santa Karina still had some time to set up the spell. When she and Brenda left the ship, these crew members would have no one to protect them. Setting up the spell to protect them in advance would prevent the evil spirits from approaching.

Although it was troublesome to do so, there was nothing wrong with those people. As long as they did not leave the ship, there would be no problems.

She looked like she was in a daze while standing on the deck, but in fact she was silently reciting a spell to drive away evil spirits in her heart, adding a sacred buff to the entire ship.

By the time the ship was ready to dock, her arrangements had just been completed.

Brenda stretched and found herself asleep on the couch, covered with a blanket.

"Ah... I was originally thinking of reading a book."

She didn't even turn a page of the book on the table. The content was of course very obscure magic theory knowledge. Before setting off, Santa Karina reminded her not to bring such troublesome things, because the journey was so tiring and she didn't know how to do it. How much energy do you have to read a book?

Only now did Brenda feel that most of what Santa Karina said still had merit.

Especially those words at the door of the church were so accurate that it made people's scalp numb.There was once a minister who worked hard for these people like her, but in the end he was framed by the enemy and hanged.

No one who had been helped by him stood by his side. Instead, they blamed him for being rich and unkind, why couldn't he give them more benefits.

Humans are such greedy creatures.

Brenda suddenly felt cold all over when she thought of these things.

57. Explore the ancient town

With extremely complicated emotions, Brenda and Santa Karina got off the boat together, took the travel backpacks they had prepared before, and prepared to enter Zimmerman Town to investigate.

The entire town is surrounded by the tall Grangemouth Mountains, and the surrounding terrain is steep. However, the mountains are the natural barriers of this town. They have been easy to defend and difficult to attack for thousands of years, and it is difficult for foreign enemies to climb. Therefore, monsters rarely cross the mountains. Invade the town.

The traffic here is very congested, and there are not many entrances into the town. There are people at the entrance who strictly check the identity of tourists, and they have to interrogate incoming tourists, which is quite strict.

Santa Karina had already made preparations and obtained two fake passports, and the professional certificates were also fake. Even if those people checked, they would not be able to find out the reason, because it was the official agency that issued the fake certificates.

Since there is an investigation, the role play must be authentic and believable, and the fake ones must be made real.

When the townspeople checking their identities asked about their occupations, in order to prevent Brenda from making mistakes due to nervousness, Santa Karina was the first to explain.

"Our lady wants to come to your town this time to find some wine merchants to consult and discuss cooperation matters. Does the Strachey family know? The largest wine merchant in Lorian, settling here will definitely bring a lot of economic benefits."

Then, Santa Karina pretended to tell a lot about wine.

The wine culture in this town has a long history, and there is no citizen who does not like drinking. When they heard that there were tourists who also liked drinking, the townspeople immediately smiled and started chatting with Santa Carolina.

Brenda was stunned for a while, and could only answer along with Santa Karina's words and nod.As long as it is the instruction of the Holy Lady, it will never be wrong.

After talking about drinking, Santa Carolina also gave the other party a bottle of wine, successfully dispelling the other party's wariness.

It's very simple to close the distance between people. Just do what they like, weaken your own purpose first, and let the other person feel that you are thinking about them through progressive conversations, and get things done. The success rate will be greatly improved.

How to negotiate with these people was figured out by Santa Karina.Even if she doesn't like someone, she can still make a calm expression without showing any disgust.

Brenda was completely unable to keep her anger hidden. Once she had any emotion in her heart, she would immediately show it on her face, unable to hide her feelings at all.

She also wanted to learn from Santa Karina how to have a perfect "poker face."

"You...are too powerful, aren't you?"

"Is this great?"

"That person had a very bad attitude at first and was not willing to let us in. I really wanted to tell him if he knew who he was talking to. Several times I almost couldn't help but warn him, for your sake. , I didn’t scold you. It’s a shame you could chat with such a rude guy for so long, I couldn’t do that.”

"Although this is not entirely your problem, the other party also has inappropriate things, but Your Majesty, you really need to learn how to communicate with different people. You can learn a lot from communicating with people from all walks of life. Your social circle cannot only be Those nobles with short-sighted eyes and short-sightedness should have more contact with people from other classes."

"I see... Also, can you be gentler in your preaching tone?"

"Okay, I'll be gentler next time you ask for it on the bed."

Santa Karina put away the fake documents and walked into the town with Brenda.The appearance of Zimmerman is very ordinary, not much different from other towns. Except that the clothes of the townspeople are relatively outdated and still maintain the style of the last century, and the things sold in the shops are all on the market. No, the products are self-produced and sold, but other than that they are pretty much the same.

There are many tourists here because a huge ancient ruins and tombs have been excavated nearby. The natural scenery is also very beautiful and the tourism value is very high.If you are tired of seeing the same scenery in the city, you can get a sense of freshness by visiting a rural town like this.

There are also many interesting entertainment venues in the town, such as casinos and custom shops.Santa Carolina has been to a custom shop here before. The appearance and service quality of the women there are far inferior to those in the city. Occasionally, there are some who are pretty, who stand out among the rural girls and have a unique style of painting.

I'm not in the mood to visit that kind of place this time, and I don't want to think about anything serious before I finish my work.

They first went to the hotel to get a double room, quickly packed their luggage, took their valuables with them, left clothes and books and other less valuable items behind, and then wandered around the town.The town was very lively in the afternoon. The two of them were tired from traveling and traveling, and they both felt hungry at the moment.

After picking through a bunch of restaurants for a long time, Santa Karina chose one that her gut told her was worth choosing.

The restaurant is doing well. The owner is a young girl about the same age as Brenda. There are only three employees in the restaurant, and there should be only four or five people including the kitchen.The store's business is booming, so it shouldn't be a problem to pay a few people.

Santa Karina smelled a faint scent of the evil god on her boss.

She was contaminated by the evil god's will, but the degree of contamination was very shallow. As long as she used her own sacred power to purify, it would only take less than an hour. The premise was that she had a relationship with the other person and had direct physical contact.The efficiency of purification using magic is too low, and it is not as fast as combining with the body.

"Just choose this store."

Before Brenda could comment, Santa Karina stepped into the store.

Now Brenda doesn't dare to act like an emperor at all, and is very cautious, for fear of being attacked by a group of these stupid people.Santa Karina is very satisfied with her current appearance. Private visits in private should be like private visits in private. There is no point in thinking about her identity as emperor all day long.

The other clerks in the store were busy, so the boss came to entertain him personally.

"Two guests, here is the menu."

"Okay, I'll call you when I need to order."

Santa Karina took over the slightly worn but clean menu.The tables, chairs and benches in the store are not dirty or sticky, and the floor is wiped clean. It seems that the boss is a very hygienic person.She flipped through the menu and chose spaghetti with tomato meat sauce.

She liked to eat 500 years ago, and she still likes it now.

Brenda was still struggling. The little emperor was from a noble family and had a very picky taste. Maybe he would look down on such a low-end shop.Santa Karina chose this store because she wanted to help the boss exorcise the will of the evil god from her body, but she couldn't do it until the store closed at night.

If you use that method to purify people in broad daylight, it will definitely get people talking.After purification, use magic to erase the opponent's memory, and cast a spell on the opponent to block the will of the evil god, and then everything will be fine.

This is a rather difficult task.