The Divine Hunter - Chapter 570

Chapter 570 Return to the Temple

April 6, 1265.

The warm morning light fell on the outskirts of the northern city of Airland. A windy and dusty motorcade drove along the main road leading to the temple complex. More than a dozen halls stood among the undulating boulders, reflecting the dim sunlight, making people watch Not clear.

In the living courtyard of the temple, many priestesses in gray dresses are working every morning, watering the farmland, picking vegetables, feeding chickens, and cleaning.

The priestess is very young. Most of them are fifteen or six years old, and there are also eight or nine-year-old children. Some of the lively girls turned their heads to look at the huge convoy—

Meritelli Goddess Temple has an endless stream of believers, but it is rare that there are so many at once.

Even when dealing with the dozens of sturdy monster hunters, the eyes of the priestesses did not contain any secular impurities. Only pure curiosity and kindness made people feel relaxed and warm.

A group of healthy boys in the motorcade blushed. They lived in the suburbs for a long time and rarely enjoyed the attention of so many young and beautiful ladies.

While Vicki and other girls in the convoy, smiled and nodded to the priestesses.

The bald man explained jokingly, “The Temple of Meritelli has never lacked’cute’ priestesses. Every year, girls from all over the northern border come in, and students graduate from the temple school and go to other temples to serve as prophets. Midwives, physicians who treat children and women…”

The children suddenly realized that they looked at the girls with a little more approval, they were all poor people who had left home since they were young.

And Roy looked sighing.

Resso also said this to him when he first came to the Temple of Meritelli.

It is in this beautiful and fertile temple that he has survived the first trial of grass and transformed into a snake sect demon hunter.

In a sense, this is where his dream began.

Nowadays, the tranquility and peace has not been affected by the war, and it has become a dilapidated ruin in the future.

Let us change its destiny and fulfill the promise to the goddess Meritelli.

“Master Reso? Geralt?!”

A slender young female priest with a round face and a few freckles greeted her from the side hall of the temple, and her crystal-run eyes turned to the face of a group of big men wearing thick cloaks who were holding horses at the front of the convoy.

fell on the most eye-catching bald head, but finally turned to Geralt’s face with white hair.

The soft and innocent daisy-like eyes were misted, and an unbearable past came to my heart.

That year, she also kept the vow of tranquility for the goddess.

That year, she was still a pure priestess.

“Good morning, Ms. Ayrora, you have not seen you for many years, you still have the same style.” Geralt bowed to her, trying his best to keep his cheeks calm, but the slightly trembling corners of his eyes still exposed his uneasy mood.

And a pair of vertical pupils are like cats smelling fishy, ​​and they circulate repeatedly between Geralt and Ayrola with great interest.

“Priest, don’t gossip…” Roy looked around at the expectant children around him, breaking the awkward atmosphere, “Can you let us in first? Old mother Nannick should have received the’news’, right? ?”

“Roy, why don’t you have a long memory? How many times have you said that, don’t call me old mother!” A fat woman with gray hair and a large red-brown dress retorted loudly and walked out of the side hall. She looked five At the age of 60, every wrinkle on his face reminds people of a mother who worked hard for the family, kind and affectionate, and his brown eyes are like a lighted sacred candle, shining with warm light. If there is that possibility, I will be furious!”

She hummed coldly, but a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, her steps were surprisingly vigorous, and her long skirt rustled.

“Well, Mother Nannick, my deepest respect, eh—”

“That’s right. Boy, welcome to be a guest!”

Roy breathed.

The wealthy high priest opened his warm embrace, hugged heavily, and let go.

Like a kind elder, with a look of relief, squeezed the strong muscles on his shoulders.

“The results of the trial of grass are good, how long has it been since you have gone from a thin and small bamboo pole to a healthy and strong young man.”

“Thanks to you…” Roy bowed to her heartily, “Thanks to your care and guidance at the beginning.”

Nannick raised his eyebrows and asked, “But why do you make the goddess Meritelli favor it? Deliberately sent me an oracle to entertain your demon hunter’s ‘army’?”

“Ahem…”

“Geralt, I have a cold, or is my throat irritated?” Nannick turned his head and smiled at White Wolf.

White wolf, dark and dark cat pupil, with anticipation and gratitude.

Once he was seriously injured and dying, and was taken in by Nannick for treatment, so he was always grateful.

“Have you lived as a dog? After so many years, I still haven’t grown a little bit. I don’t know what to do with myself, and my body is so stinky! How can those blind women look at you and never forget you? ”

Nannick scolded and disliked him severely, hugged him heavily, and looked lovingly across the faces of the carriage.

“Let’s talk about it, what’s going on? Bring so many ‘Masters’ over here, ready to convert to Meritelli?”

“There are these kids?”

“Nannick, go in and say!”

The sorcerer walked out of the convoy and took Nannick’s arm intimately. A young and glamorous, and an old and kind, just look like a pair of grandparents.

“Do you remember to visit me? Could it be that I have been mingling with the Demon Hunter for several years, so I haven’t had the time to visit the temple in the past few years?”

“more or less.”

…

Ayrora hurriedly took a few witch hunters to the backyard of the temple to set up horses and carriages.

And Nannick led the mighty crowd into the corridor of the side hall.

The children craned their necks and looked curiously.

In the open wooden doors on the corridor, in the quiet room lit with white candles, there are believers who pray to the statue of the goddess, looking at the poor in burlap and linen, and the rich in silk fur.

Pious regardless of class.

There are also people who look like ragged clothes, and their thin cheeks are solidified with far-than-average sadness, which can be called bitterness and hatred.

“Refugees from Sintra and Verdon?” Roy asked.

“When the war just broke out, the temple accepted hundreds of refugees.”

Nannick noticed everyone’s eyes and explained patiently,

“But now that the conflict has subsided, most of the refugees have been naturalized by Vizima… Foltest has taken a lot of land in this war, but most of them have been destroyed by the war. Manpower, no rejection of refugees.” Nannick paused, “Vizima’s emerging churches have also done a lot in recent years to arrange work and accommodation for the poor, which is very considerate.”

“The Church of Virtue?” Roy’s heart moved, and the pretty faces of Princess Ata and Goddess Vivian appeared in front of him.

“It is rumored that this church has a lady in the lake backing up. In Vizima City, the influence of the past two years has surpassed the eternal fire, and it is almost as good as the goddess Meritelli.” Nannick was slightly surprised. Said, “It’s just that the power is limited to the Vizima Lake area, and it has not expanded even a bit.”

…

When passing by one of the rooms, Roy couldn’t help stopping.

The bright candle light illuminates three figures in the room. A young man wearing a scholar’s robe, exuding a thick book air, squinting his eyes because of myopia, is referring to a “Universal Encyclopedia”, reading a paragraph in a clear voice. Literature about “Swifts”.

The boy with short black hair and the girl with two braids are sitting upright on the table and chair where he started, with their ears pricked up, staring at the teacher intently, nodding their heads from time to time, as if they had heard the master’s instructions. Puppy cub.

Wearing a shrine-style gray coat and skirt, his appearance is quite outstanding, his skin is fair and delicate, and his facial features are carved and jade-shaped, dazzling, like two dolls.

and looks cool, obviously a pair of siblings.

See them.

Roy instantly remembered the father who sacrificed himself for his children, Aaron, the head of the Sea Scorpion Acrobatic Troupe.

The tearful wolf face was especially in front of her eyes.

“Yal!”

“Who? Now in class time, I will talk later when I have something to do!” The librarian of the Temple of Meritelli, Yar, looked at the sharp-eyed, heroic, and eye-catching demon hunter. It’s hard to tell who he is.

“Roy, have you forgotten?”

Yal shocked all over, looked up at the Demon Hunter, opened his mouth wide, and almost dropped his jaw!

“Good fellow, what panacea have you taken in the past few years? Have you grown abnormally? How come you are so tall and handsome!”

“Although you are too old, if you are willing to take a little risk, I can help you remodel and survive the trial of the grass. Let you have more muscles, mutate a gray hair, and maybe even more like Eirola? ”

Roy responded with a smile.

Yal’s shoulders trembled, his glasses almost fell to the ground, and he shook his head desperately.

“Haha, I’m not kidding you, these two little guys are Ade and Alie?” Roy squatted in front of the boy and the girl, and couldn’t help reaching out and holding their soft little hands.

The two siblings were startled by strangers, but not a few years ago, they overreacted and groaned, waving their wings like a kestrel, and looking for a wooden bar to hang themselves upside down like a cat hawk.

“Who is your brother?” The two of them asked in unison, their voices were like oriole birds, their black jewel-like eyes looked at the Demon Hunter, “Brother knows us?”

Roy smiled without saying a word, and touched their little heads with relief.

Has been troubled by the curse for several years, and finally got on the right track, shouldn’t let the brothers and sisters remember that sad past.

“Okay, I should leave, Jarl… Give Allie and Adler a good guide and train them to become talents! By the way… Regarding your secret crush, Elora, you have to be careful recently.” Roy suddenly moved into the young The librarian said a few words softly, and the latter suddenly became nervous.

…

After Roy and his acquaintances finished their greetings, Nannick led them to the innermost courtyard of the temple, with more than thirty empty rooms lined up under the exquisite eaves.

Two wooden beds in each room, flattened with pale yellow blankets, desks and chairs that are still strong and durable for a certain age, an oil lamp, and curtains with broken flowers covering the wooden windows.

You can see the busy priestess in the courtyard through the window.

“Well, masters, and children, you will live here from today.” Nan Nix let go of the arms of a good girlfriend, glanced at everyone around him, “I love to live for as long as possible, but there are two requirements. , Abide by the temple rules. What to do at all times is recorded on the calendar.”

“Do you have any influence on other believers, understand?”

“Understood!” The children answered in unison.

“How are the rooms allocated?” Nannick nodded in satisfaction, then glanced at the Demon Hunter, “make your own arrangements.”

“Come on, Vicky, you are the first to choose a room.” The bald man nodded at the little blonde girl with preference.

Vickie shook her head a little embarrassedly, looked around at her companions, but only saw affirmative and agreeable faces.

Along the way, she has taken care of herself as the head of the house.

But she chose one at random.

“Rennie.”

“Ahhhhh! Finally free! I want to live with Vicky, I want to sleep with her, one day and one night! No, three days and three nights!”

Rennie raised the small slippery hand that held the good sister, screamed wildly, shook two croissants, bounced like a rabbit, and rushed into the most central room of the corridor!

“Little clever ghost! Next one, Conrad…”

“Oreo…”

The children who were named happily rushed into their favorite room, and spent more than a month in the open air meal. Their buttocks were almost out of cocoons, and their waists were almost broken when they slept in tents and stalls.

And the demon hunters stood scattered in the corner of the yard.

Looking at this warm scene, a gratified smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. I hope I will have the opportunity to keep watching.

“Carl, Monti, Aka… the last choice!”

“Why!” Akamtom was like an irritated wild cat, jumping three feet high on the spot, shaking with anger, “This is discrimination, patriarchal!”

“What is this? Badge of honor! You are the oldest and the oldest…you should let your younger brothers and sisters.” Cerrit grabbed the pendant between Aka’s neck and added.

The twelve young demon hunters with swords back looked at each other suddenly, turning anger into joy.

“Ahem, it makes sense…As the boss,” Carl said with eleven friends, “Responsibility and obligation to take care of the younger brother and sister! This time, we will be a little bit wronged!”

“Awareness is quite high, it’s up to you to make the greatest sacrifice!”

The cat vulture knocked fiercely in the center of his forehead, wrapped his shoulders and walked directly to the end of the corridor, and then intimately selected a room close to the toilet for the disciple, and snickered with a group of small tails behind him.

“Don’t laugh, now that you have chosen the room, come all the way and go to the yard!” The cat vulture suddenly expressed a serious expression, and his voice made everyone’s heart beat with dignity.

…

“Man…You are very familiar with Vizima’s Virtue Church?” Grimm quietly found Roy who was leaning against the pillars of the eaves, his eyes pierced, “In Vizima Lake, is there really a goddess in the lake?”

Roy did not hide, pulled out the sword of the lake girl, straightened his right arm, the body of the sword seemed to merge with the arm, piercing into the clear sky, the elbows contracted, the sword and the arm formed a 90-degree right angle, keel material The golden morning light reflected, and his unusually calm face. “Ms. Vivian in the lake gave me this sword as a reward for the trial of the Five Virtues.”

“Grim, there is no permanent banquet in the world. If you wish, I will write you a letter… Take it, and go to Vizima to see His Highness, High Priest of the Virtuous Church.”

Roy flicked the smooth blade, returned the sword to its sheath,

“Maybe you have a chance to see the goddess of the lake with your own eyes, not necessarily Ms. Vivienne, or other goddesses in the lake, accept their five virtues trial, and fight for a lake in addition to the Towson Champion Knights. The honorary title of the goddess knight.”

“How, are you interested?”

Grim’s eyes turned,

“Are you driving me away?”

Roy shook his head and smiled.

“You have thought about it. But we have to deal with a little personal affairs… You can also choose to stay in the temple and help us take care of these children.”

…

“It can be seen that these children have a harmonious relationship with each other… as close as family.” Nannick asked Coral curiously, standing under the eaves. “But in my impression, the demon hunters have always believed in the natural selection of things. The way he treated the apprentices was horribly rude! It almost made them jump into the graves and coffins!”

“Old friend, the bad habits of the past have been eliminated long ago, and the demon hunters are also keeping up with the evolution of the times… setting new rules!” Coral smiled slightly, and said with her fingers around a bunch of red hair, “Or else you think How come so many apprentices were born in a few years?”

“Speak out you may not believe it, the grass trial we presided over has not failed once! None of them have personality defects. Although…although…still can’t bear children.”

Nannick fell silent suddenly, and the wrinkles on his face stretched out after a while.

God is fair, giving the demon hunters power and depriving them of fertility.

If they can reproduce normally, they inherit superhuman powers.

Then the whole world will be messy.

“Well, how long do you plan to live this time?” Nannick rubbed his temples.

“We will leave soon.”

“you?”

“Except for the children, all the demon hunters, including me…” Coral blue eyes swept across the courtyard.

Vesemir, Lambert, Pussy, Resso…All the children who have chosen the room are called in the yard.

Straightforwardly speak.

The content of the conversation does not seem very interesting.

The original lively and cheerful atmosphere took a turn for the worse.

Carl a few stings and even blushed to reason with them.

But without exception, was ruthlessly suppressed.

“What’s the situation, do you plan to return to the embrace of the goddess in advance? So entrust the child to me?”

“Not that serious.”

Nannick looked at Coral’s pretty face with concern, “I have to keep it from me, just listen to it? My old man can help you advise you!”

“Glitter, stop laughing, Nannick, you are not as old as…um…”

Coral carefully glanced at Roy in the distance. Seeing that he was not paying attention, he patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

“This is not Tuogu. Have you seen the twelve witcher apprentices? Don’t underestimate them. They will stay in the temple for a long time in the future. They will be responsible for the personal safety of the priestess and you. It can be regarded as fulfilling someone’s promise. Right. Correspondingly, you usually take the time to pass on life experience to them.”

“You mean that the temple is in danger? Who would dare to attack Meritelli at the risk of the world?” Nannick was thoughtful, so this is the reason why the goddess asked the dream to entertain the demon hunters, a group of demon hunters. guard?

“You will naturally know the answer in the future. As for us, we must go to Maribo to collect a debt…” The blue eyes flashed coldly, “Well, a blood debt.”

(End of this chapter)