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"That's really nice."

Tia couldn't help but said in surprise:

"We need that kind of ore now... Although it's not urgent, that kind of ore can make us more convenient in all aspects."

"Let's go then, I'll take you to the slums."

Ilana is a decisive person, otherwise she would not have left her duties as the high priest of the Kingdom of France alone to pursue the Yuanling Church across the continent to avenge Valencia's father.

She immediately took Valencia and Tia out of the carriage and walked towards the slums.

When passing by the Sun Church Aid Station at the entrance of the slum, Ilana knocked on the table, startling a few nuns who were slacking off.

"Dear, great... Great Priest? Why are you here?"

"Come and catch you lazy girls, go back and punish the goddess!"

Ilana first pretended to scare the three nuns, then snorted and pointed at Valencia:

"This sister from France wants to issue a commission in the slums. Please find a knowledgeable person and come along to help get the matter done."

Chapter 44 Strange Cult

The nun who works at the rescue station at the entrance of the slum all day must know the slum better than the great priest Ilana.

Under the leadership of one of the nuns, Valenza and the others soon met a person called Grandma Paran in a bakery in the center of the slum.

On the way, the nun had already roughly introduced Grandma Paran.

Grandma Param opened a bakery in the slums, selling bread at very cheap prices and even allowing people in real need to pay on credit.

This kind of semi-philanthropic behavior gave Grandma Paran a good reputation in the slums and gained everyone's trust.

So in addition to selling bread, Grandma Paran is also the largest intermediary in this slum, helping clients hire people and issue commissions in the slum.

But unlike those platforms and guilds outside that charge high fees, Grandma Parlan’s agency work does not charge any remuneration, neither from the client nor from the slum residents. It is a completely free agency.

But the more things go like this, the less money Palan lacks... Those who successfully get out of the slums or even start a new business with her help will give her generous rewards and gifts of thanks.

For these thank-you gifts, Grandma Palan basically refused to accept them all.

To put it simply, Grandma Palan specializes in investing in talented and down-and-out people by selling cheap food and giving them opportunities.

After actually seeing Grandma Paran, Valensa knew that the nun's information was correct.

Although Grandma Palan is called "grandma", she does not look old at all. Instead, she looks about 50 or [-] years old at most.

She is not as desolate as other slum dwellers at all. Instead, she wears high-quality clothing and jewelry, looking a bit like a lady, or more like the mamasang in a custom shop.

After learning that Valencia wanted to be commissioned to find a special ore, Grandma Palan smiled:

"Miss Paladin of France, you have really found the right place... What we Americans are best at is finding ore and mining.

I don’t know what kind of ore you want, Miss Paladin?How to deliver the goods once found? "

"The ore I'm looking for is quite special. It would be better if I could bring back a sample. If I don't have a sample, I can just bring back information. As long as I don't want to defraud money, I will pay you. As for the delivery method..."

Valencia glanced at Ilana:

"Just go to the Sun Church Cathedral in Gundia, High Priest Ilana will make arrangements."

"Go to the Cathedral of Gondia to find the High Priest Ilana, right? Okay, I'll note it down."

Grandma Paran wrote a few lines in a notebook and continued to ask:

"So? What kind of ore are you looking for, Miss Paladin?"

"What I want to find is an ore with a special curse power. People who want to make money from me can start from various messages and legends about strange curses..."

Valencia first briefly talked about the harm of radiation to humans, and then said:

"The curse of this type of ore is very special. The commonly used magic scrolls and alchemy potions to dispel curses and protect curses are not easy to use. When entering the cursed area, you must use magic power or Qi to tightly wrap your body and isolate it from the outside world to avoid being harmed. Curse damage.

If you have been harmed by the curse, please go to the local cathedral to receive divine treatment as soon as possible. Do not just find other spellcasters to dispel the curse, as it will most likely be useless. "

"understood."

Grandma Palan wrote down these contents with a brush and a brush:

"Are there any other details you want to add?"

"Gone."

The task of issuing the commission was successfully completed, but Valenza and the others did not leave the slum in a hurry. Instead, they took a closer look around under the guidance of the nun.

After walking around, Valencia found that the situation in this slum was better than she imagined.

Although the people living here are very poor, it is difficult to eat and dress, let alone take a bath, and everyone is unkempt.

But the security here is pretty good. There are no such things as ruffians and gangsters bullying people, and there are no idiots who want to steal the property of Valencia and her group. At most, some people will take the initiative to come to them and introduce themselves, saying What talents do you have, and do you hope to get opportunities and employment?

All in all, it feels much better than the slums that were completely dirty and messy in my impression, and it even has a very inspiring atmosphere.

So after walking out of the slum, Valencia casually praised the slum.

"No, in fact there are still many evils and dangers in the slums, but these evils and dangers are well hidden in the sun."

However, Ilana shook her head at Valencia's admiration, and after sitting back in the carriage, she explained seriously while drinking milk tea:

“It’s true that slums are where most entrepreneurial failures wait for opportunities, but they also hide the real vicious criminals and cultists.

Because the people there are not willing to accept church help easily, it is difficult for the paladins to intervene.The law enforcement teams of the Chamber of Commerce are also rarely willing to go to slums, making them a good place for filth and evil.

Some people who commit crimes will run to hide in the slums... Anyway, many people are unkempt and it is difficult to identify their identities.

Some cults even like to cause trouble in slums and deceive some people who are not determined enough to become cult believers.

Some of these cults have even reached a very large scale, and even the Church of the Sun would find it difficult to take action against them. "

"Hey?"

Valencia couldn't help but be a little surprised:

"Even the Church of the Sun is a cult that they can't do anything about? Is it so powerful? Is it even more powerful than the Yuanling Church at its peak?"

The Yuanling Church at its peak was undoubtedly the strongest among all the cults, as can be seen from the fact that they were able to use two months of glory and six stars when they attacked Valencia's father.

But now... the Yuanling Church should be at its weakest. After the failure of the trouble in the capital of France, it went into hibernation and has now disappeared.

"No, in terms of strength, those cults are far inferior to Yuanling Church, but the methods they use are very special."

Ilana seemed to have remembered something very helpless. She couldn't even drink the milk tea, so she could only sigh and put the tea cup away:

“For example, the Goddess of Trade and the Girl of Fortune are believed by many businessmen. People in these two sects claim that their beliefs are orthodox beliefs, and they say that they will abide by the laws... At least on the surface, they do abide by the laws.

And there are many people who are willing to believe in the goddess of trade or the maiden of wealth, and at the same time still believe in the goddess of the sun... They can make pious and standardized prayers as required, and even get the blessing and protection of the goddess... This makes it difficult for us to attack them. "

Chapter 45 America’s Wonderful Things

Faith is sometimes quite similar to love.

Who says that loving multiple beautiful girls at the same time can’t be true love?

In the same way, it is not unusual for humans to maintain faith in multiple gods at the same time and worship whoever is on their territory.

There were many such pan-believers like Valencia in her previous life, with flexible bottom lines of piety.

Although the Church of the Sun is the largest religion in human civilization and the only true church officially recognized by various countries, it is not extremely exclusive.

If you don’t believe in the Sun Goddess in the land that is favored by the Sun Goddess, at most you will not receive protection or receive help. As long as you don’t go against the Sun Church or blaspheme the Sun Goddess, the Paladins will not take the initiative to cause trouble.

The ones who will be hunted down by the Paladins are the cultists. At most, the heretics will be ignored or occasionally bullied.

It is really difficult for the Church of the Sun to take action against people like the believers of the Goddess of Trade and the believers of the Wealth Girl who abide by the law and can even be considered as pan-believers who have not given up their belief in the Sun Goddess.

but……

"Aunt Ilana, did you just say that followers of the Goddess of Trade and the Girl of Fortune are cultists?"

Valencia expressed doubts:

"Why do you say that? Is it because they only abide by the law on the surface, but secretly they still do a lot of bad things? But the goddess of trade and the girl of wealth... don't sound like evil gods? At most, they are neutral false gods. The kind that protects profiteers?"

"It's just one aspect that they have done a lot of bad things secretly, and we only have suspicions about this and there is no conclusive evidence."

Ilana's eyes became serious:

"What really makes us define the followers of the Goddess of Trade and the believers of the Maid of Wealth as cultists is an oracle from the Sun Goddess's crown... The Goddess's Crown said that there are no two gods, the Goddess of Trade and the Maid of Fortune, in our starry sky. , they are all just made up by the cultists themselves, and they are tools used by the cultists to attract new people and defraud wealth.

Even the gods you believe in are fictitious religions used as tools to defraud money. Can it not be considered a cult? "

"That's true... Even saying they are cultists is an insult to cultists. Cultists really believe in evil gods after all, but they are just a group of liars."

Valencia pouted:

"So? Since we have the oracle from the goddess, why not punish these two gangs of liars who have brought shame to the cult?"

"Because they do abide by the law on the surface, and even follow the example of our Sun Church in helping people for free, and have done a lot of charity activities and received a lot of support."

Ilana spread her hands helplessly:

"We have tried several times to send paladins to attack them, and we have successfully destroyed many of their strongholds and captured many people. Guess what?

Many people actually prayed to the Goddess in their prayers, saying that they hoped to gain freedom of belief... They would not give up their belief in the Goddess, but they also needed the goddess of trade and the girl of wealth to protect their business and gain more wealth. "

"Ah this..."

Valencia was stunned:

"Didn't Her Majesty tell them that the Goddess of Trade and the Girl of Fortune don't actually exist? Didn't they get deceived by a fraud gang?"

"They are just ordinary people. They have not practiced divine arts, and they are not pious enough... Although they can personally feel the miracles, they cannot receive the oracles."

Ilana was even more helpless:

"So Her Majesty the Goddess has no way to tell them the truth, and even if we told them, they were not willing to believe it at all. They also said that we priests were falsely telling Her Majesty the Goddess what she meant, and would even accuse us during prayers. state."

"Ah this..."

Valencia was even more speechless:

"Then how did the goddess deal with it in the end? Aunt Ilana, what do you plan to do?"

"Of course Her Majesty the Goddess ignored the prayers of those idiots and asked us to find a way to deal with those idiots ourselves."

Ilana shrugged and sighed:

"I really want to bury those idiots directly, but those idiots still more or less maintain their faith in the Goddess Crown. In the absence of conclusive evidence to prove that they have done bad things, we can't do anything but bury them. Apart from destroying strongholds and bringing people back for criticism and education, there really isn't much else that can be done.

Therefore, we have not taken action against the believers of the Trade Goddess and the Wealth Girl recently. We are only secretly collecting evidence of their illegal crimes. We plan to have the Commercial Federation Law Enforcement Team come forward to destroy these two cults as fraud gangs when the evidence is sufficient. Lose. "

"It seems like this is the only way..."

Tia nodded, picked up a bunch of silver hair with her fingers, smoothed it, and sighed:

"There are so many strange things in America. Pan-believers and fake cults don't exist in France... France only has loyal believers under the goddess's crown, and those who have completely annihilated humanity and used crazy and cruel methods. of cultists.”

"Because the national environment is different."

Valensa smiled and grabbed a bunch of Tia's silver hair with her hand, put it to her mouth and kissed her gently:

"France is run by aristocrats, and the people are taught honor and loyalty since childhood. America is run by businessmen, and it is relatively free in every sense, so it is a bit more strange."

"Indeed, there are a lot of weird things here."

Ilana, who has been in America for more than three years, nodded gently:

"In fact, the followers of the Goddess of Trade and the followers of the Girl of Fortune are not the most bizarre ones. The most bizarre cult is probably an organization called the Blood God Society."

"Blood God Council?"

Valencia raised her eyebrows:

"The name sounds like a cult, the kind that should be directly punished and purified... What's so weird about them?"

"No, what do they say...well, they are a group of fanatical but somewhat brain-dead fans."

Ilana frowned and thought for a moment, with a bit of a dumbfounded expression on her face:

"Their name is indeed a cult, but what they believe in is really not an evil god, but a blood race, one of the native creatures... They are also the ancient blood race. Before they surrendered to the Sun Goddess, those who called themselves the nobles of the night, used immortality and A vampire who tempts humans to donate their blood by giving them powers.

Strictly speaking, the Blood God Society actually doesn't do anything bad. It's just a group of fanatics who forcibly imitate the life of the vampires... such as sleeping at home during the day, partying at night, and drinking livestock instead of eating all kinds of delicacies. Blood satisfies hunger, and couples even like to bite each other's necks for fun.

Of course, they are not a real vampire, so doing this has no meaning other than making them sick. In the end, they even had to be sent to the Church of the Sun for treatment by their families.