Chapter 149, ‘Sunny Day’, Fruit Forest

Spring is the season when flowers bloom. At this moment, on the streets controlled by the Church of Saturn, the flowers in the surrounding flower beds are not only numerous in number, but also carefully arranged and maintained.

Kiel walked slowly past the flower beds where flowers were planted by type, breathing gently, savoring the various fragrant and fragrant aromas bit by bit.

"How about it? The street of our church is not bad, right?"

Priest Batal became more confident at this time. When he passed by the streets of other churches before, he really had nothing to say. If you open your mouth to be afraid of being looked down upon, it is better not to say anything and appear grand.

The priest wanted to give a good impression to the 'comer' he had finally waited for, so he did not rush Kiel at this time, but tried to show his elegance, and told Kiel and two of them the names of these flowers with different fragrances, holding hands behind their backs. with the story behind it.

"This is blue-striped eggplant, a plant discovered by the Lady of Spring in the wilderness more than three hundred years ago. Not only does the flower have a pleasant fragrance, it has a special feeling that is different from other flowers, but the flowers it blooms after It also produces small, round eggplants, and eating them can enhance people’s resistance to diseases in a few days.”

Priest Batal sighed: "Our church has been trying to recommend the planting of this plant to residents. Just a few plants can be grown in the yards of farmers' homes, but it is not easy. Many believers still prefer to rely on the resident priests. It’s a magical technique. But those who plant it often neglect to take care of the small eggplants they produce, and are often secretly eaten by the farmers’ cats and dogs.”

He smiled and shook his head: "This is something that no one expected. The lady is very unhappy about this."

Kil curiously looked at the small blue flower with a special fragrance beside him. He didn't expect that there was such a story behind the ordinary, seemingly decorative flowers.

The three of them walked slowly, and the two of them enjoyed the pleasant fragrance of the street. Priest Batal stood by and told them as much as he could about what he knew.

The short street looks extremely beautiful with the support of the aroma and the story behind it.

Kildu learned that several seemingly ordinary flowers actually had special edible and external effects. Not inferior to the various strange mushrooms he collected during these days.

Speaking of his mushrooms, the army cooks had brought him many weird mushrooms with unknown names and effects these days.

Kil found one of each and sent it into the dreamland, giving it to his fellow elf who was playing alone in the dreamland forest. The old goblin seemed to like Kil's gift very much. He would always hold a mushroom that was bigger than it with an excited look and disappear with a pop.

Not long after, Kil saw the reappearance of those mushrooms intermittently throughout Ms. Apolifina's dream forest.

Along with the appearance of the mushrooms, many of the wooden boxes and barrels he had packed in at the edge of the pond were missing. At first, Kil didn't understand what was going on, but later he secretly observed and discovered that the old goblin had taken apart Kil's wooden box, and then planted mushrooms on the fragments of the wooden box.

This made him smile bitterly, and he had no choice but to bring in a lot of wood for the little goblins to use in the dreamland while Cavinland replenished a batch of wooden boxes.

Now, for a short period of time, near the pond in the dream, in the corners of the glowing moss, some special mushrooms were planted and growing healthily.

The old and young fairy takes good care of his favorite mushrooms.

For other mushrooms found by the cooks, Kil and Bloodyost dried them one by one. Kil drew pictures in books and registered them. After drying, they were ground into powder and collected.

Kiel wouldn't dare use them without testing them, but there's always a chance, right?

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No matter how slowly you walk down the street, you will still reach the gate of the Church of Saturn.

At the door of the church, two large trees intertwined with each other form a natural arch.

Of course, this plant-tree arch is just for decoration. The real door is the solid wooden door later inlaid on the tall wall.

The outer wall of the church building is very high, and there is a special place for planting plants at the top of the wall. There is a plant that Kiel has never seen before.

He guessed that it might be a plant used for defense or early warning, to prevent someone from climbing over the wall into the church.

There seemed to be other churches, but Keir didn't pay much attention to them just now.

There seemed to be no one outside the church gate. It was already afternoon, and the warm spring sunshine mixed with the fragrance of the surrounding flowers made everything around the Church of Saturn seem so lazy and sweet.

The two of them, led by Priest Batal, entered the gate. After entering, they discovered that there was a man guarding the inside of the gate.

A middle-aged shepherd priest wearing a flexible short robe led several boys and girls to pray on the inside of the door. The object of prayer is a wooden painting hanging on the wall.

The wooden painting shows a farmer with a vague face carrying a hoe in the fields.

Kilfort was so thoughtful that he immediately guessed that the farmer without a face must be a concrete form of the god of agriculture.

Why a farmer?

Kil didn't know, but he estimated that the church itself must have something to say, but he didn't care about it.

Seeing the three Kiers coming in, the middle-aged priest guarding the door turned around and saw that Priest Batal had brought them in. He nodded to Priest Batal, and then didn't look at the two Kiers again.

But Kil keenly noticed that the middle-aged priest had been looking at him out of the corner of his eye.

Just himself.

Not someone else.

Keir thought in his mind that anyone who was a priest of the Church of the God of Saturn would be able to see the difference in him at a glance.

‘It’s really troublesome. ’

Fortunately, ordinary people and people from other churches couldn't see it, and neither could the boys and girls who were obviously fifteen or sixteen years old.

Okay, okay, it would be really bad if anyone could see the power of the God of Agriculture in him as soon as he met him.

He was somewhat involved with the Saturnalia Church, but he didn't want to get more involved.

Kil thought so, but as the two followed Priest Batal along the quiet path under the shade of the trees and walked deep into the Church of the God of Saturn, Kil felt that he had been deeply involved with the God of Saturn.

This discovery made him twitch the corners of his mouth, a little unhappy.

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The three of them walked through the trail, bypassed the gardens where food crops were planted, and passed by a tall domed stone church. Finally, they came to a large area of ​​simple-looking row residential buildings.

As soon as he and Bloodfangster saw this building, they knew that this was where the church's priests lived.

"You two, please do this here. I will be back soon. Please wait for me for a while, please."

Priest Batal bent down and apologized, and arranged for the two of them to sit in a resting and talking area with stone chairs and wooden stools at the main entrance of the residential area.

This place faces a relatively open fruit tree garden. It is obviously spring, and there are many fruits on these familiar and unknown fruit trees.

Kil and Bloodyaster sat on chairs, quietly speculating whether the fruits on the fruit trees could be eaten by humans.

"It's okay."

A crisp voice sounded behind the two of them.

Kil turned his head and saw a girl about his age standing aside in a robe, looking at the two of them curiously.

Kiel, to be exact.

With just one glance, Kil knew that this girl, like other official priests of the Church of Saturn, immediately discovered the power of Saturn in his body.

"Really, are they delicious? These fruits."

The girl looked curious, but she was not curious about Kil's identity, but she was curious about why Kil, who was not a priest of the Church of the God of Agriculture, had more divine power in his body than a normal shepherd. God's power.

It is even more strange that Qi Keer does not have any decorations or objects related to the Church of Saturn.

But strangely enough, Kil's ability to come here is obviously related to a certain priest in the church.

"I like pears, they are crunchy. What kind of fruit do you like? If you want to eat them, you can get them yourself. Eating them is good for your health."

When the girl said this, Bloody Fangster immediately pointed at his face and asked, "What about me? Can I have one?"

The girl covered her mouth and smiled: "You can eat as much as you want, but you can't take it away. And please put the finished fruit cores in the stone basin on top of the low pillar next to it. There will be trainee shepherds who will take those fruit tree seeds to practice the magic of growth. of."

She muttered: "It's obviously very easy compared to the seeds outside, but those little fools can't always do such simple magic."

Kil sat motionless. Of course he didn't care to eat a few fruits from other people's churches. He felt that this girl was on par with Priest Batal, who was in his twenties. She was so powerful at such a young age, so her status was obviously not ordinary. Just in time to chat with her.

After receiving permission from the girl wearing formal priest robes, Bloody Fangster immediately rubbed his hands and eagerly got up from the chair, his eyes wandering over the fruits of different fruit trees.

His injuries were barely healed, but he was still a little weak. Perhaps the fruits planted by the Church of Saturn at the door of his house could provide him with some help.

Worth trying.

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Kiel stretched out his hand and motioned for the girl to sit next to him and chat with him. The girl was not afraid of strangers, so she sat down naturally and looked at Kiel curiously: "You are not a member of the church, are you? Although your body is shiny and warm, but you are not afraid of strangers." The Church Power Knights I’ve come into contact with are different.”

She turned her head and looked at Kil: "Your divine power is very similar to ours. Isn't it as dangerous as the Power Knight's?"

Kil blinked: "What is the Power Knight you are talking about?"

The girl waved her hand and did not explain Kil's question. She sniffed him with her nose like a puppy, and then frowned: "It's really strange. You obviously have divine power, but why do you make me feel in danger? It's like Is he like the tax collector I once saw who harmed many farmers?"

Kil frowned. He didn't know what to say, so he had to interrupt and said: "I haven't introduced you yet, I am Joe Kil. I come from Kendall County in the Northwest Province, and I am a knight apprentice who is training. .”

"I don't have a name. Everyone calls me by my Christian name." The girl blinked: "Qingtian, my name is Qingtian."

The girl still looked at Keir, hesitated for a while and then said: "Have you ever done something bad? Otherwise, you wouldn't give me a dangerous feeling."

Kil touched his nose and said bad things. He seemed to have done some bad things, big and small, but the one that really reminded him of him immediately was the ruthless killing in Pine Needle Town not long ago.

Closing his eyes, he smelled the rich fruity aroma here, as well as the faint aroma of the girl. His mind could still clearly remember everyone he killed that night, following the orders of the Baron and Knight Crow. people.

The guys and thugs from the Chamber of Commerce, the emaciated and panic-looking young farmers in Dead Leaf Village, the mercenaries who were killed and the desperate faces who were still killed after surrendering.

Gudong.

He swallowed. Kil suddenly felt that the collar of his clothes was a little tight, as if a pair of invisible hands were tightly holding his neck, trying to pull him into the place where the dead souls were.

"Oh, mushrooms! Why are mushrooms sprouting from your neck?"

The crisp sound woke up Kil, who was confused.

Looking down at the other party's clear and curious eyes, Kil was also surprised. For some reason, a circle of mushrooms grew out from under the skin on his neck.

And these mushrooms looked quite familiar, as if they had seen him in his dream when the shadow bird god pulled him into sleep.

Reluctantly maintaining his composure, Keel pulled out a very forced smile: "It's okay, this, this is a special ability of mine. Look."

He pressed it with his fingers, and sure enough, the little mushroom fell off the skin with just one click, just like a rootless mushroom with no foundation.

What’s interesting is that as soon as the mushroom left Kil’s neck, it turned into ashes and blended into Kil’s fingertips in just one breath.

Kil was embarrassed for a while, but the girl was quite excited: "Are you a human waiter of the mushroom god? Or something else? Some priests said that mushrooms are not plants. Although they are also covered by the priesthood of the great god of agriculture, they will be different from other gods. There is a conflict between the gods’ priesthoods!”

"No, no, no, I'm nothing, I'm just me, Keel, young human, from Kendall County."

Kil waved his hands in a panic, and his butt felt like it was on fire. He jumped up from the stone chair in a hurry. He muttered that he wanted to eat some fruit, and hurriedly walked towards Xue Ya who was eating the fruit. Next to Ste.

At this time, Bloody Fangster was eating several melon-like fruits with their skins in big mouthfuls. Only the seeds in the middle of the fruits were taken out one by one, poured into his hands, and then carefully placed randomly in the orchard. In the stone basin on top of the stone pillar.

"Kiel, come and try this. The skin is also crispy. I didn't expect it to be so sweet. Although I have never tasted honey, I guess this is what honey tastes like?"

Keir shook his head, picked a pink apple-like fruit from the fruit tree next to him, rubbed it on his body casually, wiped off the wax on the surface of the peel, and put it in his mouth.

Click, take a bite, juice starts to flow in Kil's mouth, and the sweet taste fills his mouth, it's so delicious.

Kil's eyes widened, and he couldn't care less about the embarrassment. He chewed the delicious pulp and swallowed it, and then ate it in big mouthfuls.

The girl who was a priest of Saturn did not chase after him. Instead, she sat on a stone chair nearby, raised her feet, supported her head on her hands, and looked at Kil with her slender eyebrows furrowed.

"Strange mushrooms, panicked look, and the smell of blood. He is indeed a bad guy!"

-

"Sorry, sorry, you two. I kept you waiting for so long."

At this moment, Priest Batal walked quickly from the depths of the courtyard of the residential area next to the orchard.

He changed into clothes. Although they were still old clothes, at least they didn't look as worn as the previous clothes. The outfit he is wearing now seems to be more solemn compared to the one he wore before. The sleeves are wide and flowing, and there is a robe hood decorated with tassels on the back of the neck. It seems that if the hood is brought up, the front of the hood will look more solemn. The wheat-like tassels on the lower part can cover most of the face.

At first glance, this outfit looks like it would be formally worn during a festival or ceremony.

After Priest Batal walked in, he noticed the young priest who was hidden by the back of the stone chair. He was stunned for a moment, then leaned down and saluted. Although he showed respect, he did not ignore etiquette.

After all, Priest Batal is not a priest from the Diocese of Montauca. He is a priest from the southern province, and the local Saturn Priest has nothing to do with him.

"Hello, Your Excellency Qingtian, good-bye, Your Excellency Qingtian."

After a perfunctory and simple salute, Priest Batal finally showed a smile on his originally expressionless face, and walked quickly towards the two of Kiel: "How are they? Are these fruits okay? I heard that they are all priests of this parish. Rare tree species collected from various places when I was young. It is not easy for the priests here to raise these fruit trees."

"Yeah, by the way, who is that? He just came out and said this and that."

The mushrooms on Kil's neck had long since disappeared. If he hadn't actually removed one with his fingers, he wouldn't have believed that there would be mushrooms growing on his body just now.

Obviously he still likes to be clean, right?

Just kidding, Kil actually vaguely understood what was going on. He was just a little nervous and frightened. He was obviously fine, but when he was thinking about it just now, his neck felt tight again, as if he was being held by someone's hands, and he was growing out to protect him. mushrooms.

Very strange.

I don’t know if it has something to do with that girl.

"She is the adopted daughter of the Grand Priest here. She has had an affinity for the divine power of the church since she was a child, so I heard that she has a very high status here. She is very popular with other priests and believers. But it has nothing to do with me. I am just here to stay. Here. Okay, I've got everything sorted here, let's find an old priest to inform each other, and I'll go with you to your military camp. I'll definitely be able to convince your knight teacher and the nobles in charge."

Priest Batal seemed confident in persuading the two men. It seemed that after seeing the arrival of Kil, he changed his previous hesitation and disbelief. At this moment, his trust in the God of Agriculture was 100%. If God gave him news that a hundred suns would fly in the sky the next day, Priest Batal would probably believe it.

Kil shrugged his shoulders. Although the girl who was sizing him up from a distance was pretty and young, Kil intuitively felt that she was a trouble, so he didn't want to mess with her.

After waving goodbye to the girl named Sunny, Kil pulled Bloody Fangster and left here behind Priest Batal.

The girl also waved goodbye to Keir.

Then, she raised her head and closed her eyes as if listening to something.

"Will we meet again? Really? Don't, he feels so dangerous. Oh, it's not recently, when was that? You can't tell? Huh, that's the same as not saying anything. Ignore you. ”

The girl frowned and opened her eyes. Dots of light scattered and fell around her, as if something was hiding again.

A girl named Qingtian walked into the fruit forest and used the small metal shovel next to the stone pillar to scoop up the fruit tree seeds that Kil and Bloodyaster had left behind after eating the fruit. She came to a nearby open space and buried the seeds one by one. .

Then she covered it with soil, patted the dirt on her palms, and turned the small shovel in a circle.

She hummed softly while spinning in circles.

"A little more air, a little more moist water."

"We quietly poked out the buds in the warm and soft soil."

"Tweet-tweet-"

"The soil above our heads has been pushed away, and everyone meets each other again!"

"Tweet-tweet-"

"Drink more water, let the wind blow, and preferably some gentle sunshine."

"La la la la la la la."

"Year after year, the earth is revolving around the sun, but we have no feet and cannot move."

"But if the branches and leaves are stretched toward the sun, they are also revolving around the sun, right?"

"Mother Earth holds us all in her arms and flies in the endless void."

"It doesn't matter if you don't have any feet, la la la."

"Because Mother Earth will hold everyone in her arms and fly in the endless void."

"It doesn't matter, la la la -"

The girl jumped and turned, gradually walking away.

And the tree seeds she just buried have already sprouted buds in the songs.

Grow up quietly.