Quick Wear: Random Cheats

Chapter 113: The Burned Earl Witch (25)

Although transportation is inconvenient nowadays, witches can fly after all, so Ding Shui specifically requested that the Elemental Church must hold a conference at the end of each year.

A core group of all witches and non-witches.

Everyone must participate.

Now it is the second year, the second meeting.

At the meeting, Ding Shui did not speak politely to any of the witches present. Instead, he spoke directly about the bad behavior he had collected about some of them.

It will be made public in the form of holographic projection.

The first one is the butler Hansen.

Now he is the financial cardinal archbishop of the Elemental Church, in charge of all the finances of the Church. In the past two years, he has promoted his wife, son and daughter one after another. The whole family has united and colluded with each other, and has embezzled a total of about 3.6 million silver coins.

His annual salary is not low. Ding Shui set a salary of 100,000 silver coins for him, so there is no possibility that his salary is too low and he has to be greedy. Nowadays, the daily expenses of an ordinary family of three are only about three to five silver coins per month.

Fifty silver coins are enough for a year's expenses.

"Hansen, this Pope has always been kind to you. When you tried every possible means to get your entire family into the Elemental Church, I turned a blind eye and didn't criticize you too much. If you work diligently and truly contribute, then I will be even less likely to say anything to you.

But what are you doing as a family? You're all working together to undermine the Vatican!"

This year, Ding Shui specially refined a good and evil formation and placed it at the entrance of the Ancestral Witch Temple. It can automatically detect memory and distinguish the degree of good and evil done by the person in the past year. Doing good deeds and working hard will get points, while committing crimes and doing evil will naturally result in negative points.

It's between ten and negative ten, with little fluctuation.

Basically there is no big problem.

Even if they do evil, most of them are probably unintentional or minor evils, and the impact is not that great.

When Hansen passed, it was over minus 800 points.

Ding Shui couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to. After a further in-depth investigation, the truth came to light immediately. It was also clear what bad things he had done in the past year.

"Your Holiness, I will never dare to do that again."

"I'm just afraid of being poor. I didn't dare spend any of the money I embezzled. I haven't even spent all of this year's salary. I just want to save more money for my children and grandchildren!"

"Please forgive me. I'm willing to return all the money, even more as interest!"

Hansen originally thought that the amount of silver coins that passed through his hands this year was more than 70 million, and it would not be noticeable if he was a little greedy every time. Moreover, he was proficient in the new accounting method given to him by Professor Ding Shui. Others did not understand it at all, and Ding Shui probably did not have the time and energy to calculate it himself.

However, Ding Shui didn't calculate at all, but directly used the formation to test their memories and calculate good and evil.

But he also knew at this point that he couldn't refute it.

Therefore, he quickly admitted his mistake, hoping to be treated leniently, or at least to keep his current position.

"The money must be returned, but you must also be punished. All your positions will be completely stripped away and you will be demoted to the position of Original Sin Alchemist. From now on, you will be solely responsible for refining minerals.

You don't need to refine gold, silver, copper and iron for the time being.

You go and refine those rare minerals.

Currently, your sin value is 830. You can save one point of sin for every ten tons of rare metals you refine. When your sin value drops below ten one day, the word "original sin" on your head will be removed, and you will become an ordinary alchemist wizard.

Enjoy normal allowances and normal wages."

Ding Shui really couldn't just kill him directly, and it would be a bit of a waste if he did, so he simply decided to recycle the waste and let him be responsible for extracting rare metals from some mineral waste for further recycling.

With current technology, it is relatively easy to extract high-purity gold, silver, copper, and iron directly from gold, silver, copper, and iron ores, and the efficiency is far higher than using witchcraft. However, it is difficult to extract rare elements or elements with extremely low content.

It is still very difficult, or even impossible.

Even in modern society, some elements require a lot of money and energy to extract.

Hansen himself is also proficient in gold-attributed abilities.

Let him be responsible for this aspect of the work, which is suitable for his profession.

After saying this, Ding Shui didn't give Hansen any chance to refute. He raised his hand and a restriction was cast into his soul: "If you can't reduce your sin value to below ten within ten years, then the restriction I just cast into your soul will instantly destroy your soul.

I hope you take care of yourself and don’t make mistakes.”

Since they are given rights and high salaries but still refuse to work hard, we might as well ban forced labor.

It also saves you from not working and just running away.

Hansen's expression was of course very interesting at this time, and his anger was almost beyond words, but in the end he pinched his thigh hard and held back, not daring to say anything. In his heart he only felt deep regret, regretting that he should not have had any luck at all.

It's too late to regret now.

After dealing with Hansen, the other wizards and witches whose sin points far exceeded ten were naturally publicly executed. A few, whose crimes were truly unforgivable, were either executed outright or had their organs crippled. Most of the others were forced to work for their crimes, receiving restrictions and performing tasks to offset their sin points. For example, someone with wood-attributed powers could perform healing spells on 100 people to offset one sin point.

Those with earth-attributed abilities needed to transform ten acres of uncultivated land into fertile fields to offset one sin point. The same was true for most others. Based on their abilities, they were assigned different tasks to offset their sin points.

Apart from that, there are the mistakes made by these people.

Add new precepts and promulgate them.

Ding Shui didn't set particularly strict rules at the beginning because she felt that if she set them too rigidly from the start, many people would be dissatisfied, find it difficult to accept, and be unable to understand. So she chose to set the rules a little loosely at the beginning, and then gradually increase the rules according to the situation.

At least everyone can understand why this is happening.

For example, if a school sets a rule when it is first established that students are not allowed to throw poop at teachers, most people would probably not be able to understand it.

But if there was no such rule at the beginning, and a student really did throw poop at the teacher, and then this rule was made, then those who are in the know will undoubtedly feel that they can understand the new rule when they see it.

This is the path Ding Shui is taking now.

Tell everyone clearly that the new rules set by the Holy See were done out of necessity. Some people are so shameless that they have to add rules to patch things up.

So it's not that she is too strict.

But some people are just too unreasonable.

After the punishment was over, Ding Shui would of course not hesitate to reward those witches with higher kindness values. After all, this world cannot have only punishment without reward.

Or a promotion, or a pay raise.

Or help them transform all their internal organs into superpowers.

Ding Shui also promised that in the future, anyone with a Kindness Point of over 3,000 could be rewarded with a witch spot, allowing them to transform their relatives, friends, or descendants into witches of any attribute. For those who already practiced kindness and worked hard, Ding Shui truly believed in granting their descendants a witch spot.

After that, of course, the meeting was adjourned.

After the meeting, many witches did not rush back, but discussed what happened at the meeting on the spot.

"I can't believe Hansen embezzled so many silver coins in just one year. I heard that he embezzled the Earl's silver coins when he was a butler, but the Earl didn't pursue the matter because the amount was not large.

I didn’t expect that a dog can never change its bad habits.”

"Now, not only has he lost his position as Cardinal and his annual salary of 100,000 silver coins, but his son and daughter-in-law, who he had worked so hard to get into the Vatican, have also been fired.

He knew full well that the Pope could manipulate souls.

We are all able to access the memories of others.

Not to mention His Holiness the Pope!"

"Yeah, I don't know why he's so stupid. Is it greed? I really don't understand."

"I just heard someone say in private, how can the Pope just look through our memories at will? It's obvious that he feels guilty. If he doesn't feel guilty, what would he be afraid of?"

"What I can't believe is Meili. She killed so many people just to become the queen for her prince husband. Now, her supernatural powers have been crippled. I guess she'll be abandoned soon. She might even be killed."

"She deserves it. She killed so many innocent people. Even if she's sentenced to be burned at the stake, I think she deserves it."

"Well, now, because of Merry, we have a new rule. Vatican personnel are not allowed to participate in the struggle for the royal succession in any form. Once discovered, witchcraft will be immediately abolished, expelled from the Vatican, and never employed again."

"A lot of new rules have been added this time."

“Maybe there will be more and more in the future.”

"After gaining ability and power, not many people can still stick to their original intentions. I try not to get involved in other things now. I treat patients whenever I have time and avoid interacting with the nobles.

Otherwise, I really don’t know whether I will fall into depravity.”

"No wonder your kindness value is over 500."

"I think this goodwill value might have a significant effect. Let me tell you a little secret. I heard it from someone else, but I'm not sure if it's true or not. It's said that the Pope might choose his successor based on goodwill value in the future.

So there shouldn’t be any harm in saving more.”

"You know what? It's possible. Although the standard for goodwill isn't clear yet, it should be related to how many good deeds you do and how much work you put in. Her Majesty the Pope always likes people who are sincere and dedicated to doing practical things."

“It’s hard to speculate. If His Holiness the Pope can handle the six archangels, he might even be able to achieve immortality.

Why would we need to look for an heir? "

"That's true. We really can't talk nonsense."

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