Raising Paladins

Episode 19. I didn’t know the priest (2)

“Hook-Hook-”

Patter!

Countless drops of sweat fall from Carl’s body.

After doing push-ups and sit-ups for today… … .

He was currently training the basics of swordsmanship.

‘To teach others, I must be strong first.’

Raising new trainees and discovering paladin candidates.

That’s a problem after you’ve become stronger.

Talking about swords and martial arts to others while panting like a colt fed with rain?

There is nothing more insignificant than that.

Only those who can serve as examples are qualified to be teachers.

Carl hates people who only make noise and tell others to do so.

Those guys are the first to die when a war starts.

“There are no shortcuts to physical training.”

Numerous sword techniques and sword blades of holy sword techniques in the head of the sword.

Extensive practical know-how.

No matter how many such things are, they are useless if the body does not support them.

Fortunately, he obtained considerable divine power from Clemens’ pendant and made a small silver heart.

The long-term of the sword that used it, ‘Explosive Swordsmanship’, also needs to be able to hit the opponent’s weak point to maximize its effect.

So don’t let your guard down just because you got the Silver Heart early.

never.

Boooung- Perbung!

Extremely restrained divine power causes a small explosion at the tip of the sword.

What Carl is practicing now is a swordsmanship in which he gathers as much divine power as possible in a very small hit point and then bursts it.

This is useful in one-on-one duels rather than many-on-one fights.

When the body is supported and the silver heart grows a little bigger, you can move on to the next stage, ‘Blast Transition’.

The divine power at the tip of the sword pierces the opponent’s vital points, then transfers to other nearby enemies, causing a series of explosions.

It was useful in many-to-one duels.

To put it simply, it’s the use of one shot to deal with the small undead on the battlefield.

It is a skill that anyone who wants to become a battle priest must master.

‘They will be able to do it someday.’

Of course, I haven’t even started responding to divine power yet.

To be more honest, Daryl might not even know that divine power exists in the world, let alone receive divine power.

After making them believe in it, they react to it, control the received divine power, and bring it to the tip of the sword?

It will surely take countless years.

but.

‘If you have a good mindset, you can save as much time as you like.’

I saw Carl today.

The feelings contained in the map that Daryl shyly handed over.

The Daryls are regretting that they have lived a life in the gutter all their lives.

The desire to live a proper life after atonement is also strong.

So you should be able to do it well enough.

‘The key is how to publicize the existence of divine power… … .’

If it were now 200 years ago, it would have been easy.

At that time, it was natural for priests to treat with divine power, and the people of the empire took the existence of divine power for granted.

But now?

It is a world where all divine power has disappeared.

In this world, only Carl alone feels the divine power.

‘What method should it be?’

The best thing is to slowly infuse the divine power produced from Carl’s silver heart into the saplings in the courtyard.

When the sapling regains its vitality, you will be able to pray to the sun god for permission to use divine power.

Even if I passed on the sword’s divine power right away, I wouldn’t even feel it, so that’s the best way.

‘Then Tirana, Eric, and Clemens will be able to properly serve as priests.’

I retrieved the wooden sword wielded by Carl, who had made a rough plan.

***

“Are you having a good night?”

A knife kneeling in front of a sapling in the courtyard.

He caressed the seedling carefully.

It is a pity that only one green leaf remains on the parched epidermis.

This is not a sacred tree sapling, but a dead tree in the wilderness after a drought.

“Hmm.”

To think that the sapling of the sacred tree that conveys the will of God would become like this.

Carl couldn’t help but feel sorry for him.

But things in the world don’t always turn out badly.

Carl was determined to restore this sapling.

Not only the saplings, but even the sacred trees in the main hall of the Sun Temple.

So, we will recreate the castle from 200 years ago.

“Think of it as a snack.”

sue-

Pure white divine power spreads from the palm of the sword.

The divine power that touched the seedling’s epidermis briefly wrapped around the seedling, then permeated into the root and disappeared.

OK.

Talk!

A sound came from one of the parched branches.

Carl quickly shifted his gaze.

“oh-“

The last leaf with only one left.

On the side of it, there was a very small green antennae-like thing protruding.

It was a preparatory stage before new leaves grow.

“You lack divine power, so you’re happy with just such a small amount.”

Carl smiles brightly at the unexpected good news.

He looked at the little protruding part.

‘From now on, I’ll have to listen to it every day and infuse it with divine power, even just a little bit.’

The dust was gathered and called Mount Tai.

‘Now it’s feeble, but the end will be great.’

Carl turned and headed for the room with a hearty smile.

Since I had to leave the convoy going up in the morning, I was thinking of getting a good night’s sleep.

***

– Be careful!

– Let’s go!

– Knight! You must come back!

The convoy went up, being escorted by the temple family.

It wasn’t smooth from the start.

“No, who are you to escort the ascending by yourself? Are you crazy?”

“You’re going to ruin everything going up!”

“Where are Captain Hanson and Daryl? They say come!”

after… … .

A sigh came out of nowhere at the strong opposition from the merchants.

I roughly expected that there would be a bad reaction, but this is it.

My head was pounding at the thought of persuading them step by step.

‘It’s like being the head of a boy.’

They raise money for the operation of the temple and recruit servants.

I thought that if I did that much, the foundation would be laid.

But what?

He even owed a huge debt to the Devaldoran merchant.

If the debt is not paid off right away, the reconstruction of the Dawning Bridge and everything else will be nothing!

Should he revive the seedlings, train Daryls to find Paladin candidates, and in addition to his own training, it was a sword that he had to pay off his debts.

‘The difficulty of this cadet is quite high. Are you doing this to annoy me on purpose?’

– Well, I’m not sure.

Carl, who had a conversation with the sun god in his heart, raised his head.

“I can escort enough by myself.”

It is a bold declaration and a simple fact.

But the merchants didn’t seem to believe it at all.

“This Bosch, it takes two days to get from here to Tournoble. Do you know how many crazy people appear in the middle? It’s been said that Captain Hanson has done a lot of tidying up lately, so it’s reduced, but there are still countless of them looking to ship Mayrium’s year-end fruit. The scavengers of the bandits sometimes even appear crazy warlocks. But what are you going to do by yourself?”

A middle-aged man who took a step forward in the long line of merchants.

He was a merchant named ‘Brand’ who had the qualification to represent this business.

‘Because it’s so skinny that it looks like it can’t even cut firewood.’

The image of knives that the brand sees is exactly that.

A skinny body that seems difficult to even control myself, let alone escorted upward.

The golden eyes, which look quite intelligent, are worth looking at, but escort is not done with eyes.

You have to have skills anyway.

Fighting skills that can beat all bandits and scavengers!

From that standard, it could be said that Carl was eliminated in the preliminaries.

‘Deval and this guy are really too much!’

I was informed that this convoy would not be joined by Hanson’s gang.

With the word that someone else will come and take care of the escort.

But such a skinny scarecrow came out alone?

No matter how devaldo is the head of the merchant guild and has the mayor on his back, this is too much.

“Let’s go to the guild leader right now and pick him up! How irresponsible is this!”

“Right! Let’s go pick it up!”

“you’re right. How much is all that, an occasional escort! If you sell all of them, it’s a big upswing that will be at least seventy eighty megacrons!”

A procession of over ten large wagons.

If you include the fruit vendors with their backpacks around, there are almost 50 people.

Carefully selected fruits are loaded onto that wagon.

So, in terms of money, it will be approximately tens of megakrons.

‘I’m sure the amount would be enough to buy one or two decent houses.’

The knife that finished the calculation quickly.

Fortunately, the unit of currency in his previous life and now was the same, so there was no great difficulty in adapting in that part.

Cron, the currency of the Cron Empire.

A hundred times the value of the smallest micron is a krone, and a hundred times the value of a krone is a megakron.

You can buy a house with 10 megakrons, and you can buy a house that can be called a mansion with 30 megakrons.

So, at 70-80 megakrons, the value of the fruit to be escorted today was roughly equivalent to two mansions.

‘I can understand being angry.’

It cost a lot of money, so he must have been properly escorted.

However, it was true that it was frustrating from Carl’s point of view.

‘It would be better if I went alone than if the whole Hanson gang went.’

But that’s a fact that only Carl knows.

I have to convince them somehow.

It was then.

Clumsy!

“uh? Ugh!”

“The wheels fall off!”

“Stop! The most expensive fruits are listed there!”

A place where panicked merchants flocked to.

One wheel of the largest wagon in the procession was cracked and breaking.

I don’t know if it’s not loaded.

What if the wheel collapses while loading a lot of expensive fruits?

All the valuable fruits are buried in the soil.

Where is that?

The appearance of good-quality fruits that look good and taste good is their marketability.

But what if you roll on the floor and get soiled and stamped with stones?

It was like trash.

“Ah! help me!”

Then something more serious happened.

One of the workers who was holding the broken wheel got his leg caught between the spokes of the broken wheel.

Fortunately, the floor was mixed with mud, so it didn’t look like he was seriously hurt yet, but it seemed like a really big accident would happen if left as it is.

“Oops! Listen together! You’ll be in the top three!”

One, two, three!

Merchants and workers shouted loudly and squeezed even their strength.

But the wagon loaded with heavy crates of fruit did not budge.

It’s all there is to keep you from digging further down.

“How about moving the wagon forward a bit!?”

“Are you crazy! Then your leg might be cut off!”

“ah… … .”

It’s too heavy to lift, and I’m worried about the workers who are crushed when I drive the horse forward.

It was a real quandary.

But at that moment.

Flash!

“uh?”

Suddenly, the back of the carriage was heard.

Everyone looked at him in amazement.

Then I saw a skinny man holding a carriage.

even with one hand.

“What are you doing? Save someone first.”

Incredible power to the point of being dumbfounded!

It was a sword that amplified power instantly by using divine power.

What an amazing sight!

All the merchants around them opened their mouths wide.