Chapter 190: Chapter 189 – Visiting the Church.

“Ugh… my head…”

“Are you alright?”

“Yes, I just need to rest for a bit…”

Roland was sitting on a chair while holding some cloth to his forehead. There was a clock of ice wrapped around it as he tried alleviating some of the pain. Yesterday he had tried using his new skill and today the aftereffects of its use were still with him.

After the first time in the dungeon, he didn’t register any after-effects but now there was an actual debuff. It would persist for another six hours and the only way to get rid of it would be to either go to a priest or drink a high level potion.

This made it seem that this new skill that could translate spells into runes was tough to use. Even after analyzing one of the simplest spells he was out for almost an entire day. The debuff made him have a migraine and also caused his mana to run wild. If he attempted runecrafting at this very moment he felt that it would be a failure.

“Are you sure? Did you try the healing tincture?”

“Ah, yes it wasn’t strong enough, I think I might need to go to the church, I need to pick something up from there anyway…”

Roland commented while standing up, it was early in the day and the shop would be open. Elodia was with him but she needed to prepare the store. The reason he needed to go to the church was not really to ease the pain or the dizziness, it was to get a class change crystal.

The only real problem was his skills that didn’t quite hit the cap yet. This didn’t mean that he wouldn’t change his class though. The second tier 2 class mostly didn’t take into consideration the other tier 2 class. Mostly titles and special requirements mattered but he would need to see the list before he made a decision.

Then there was his new eye skill that he had no hope of leveling up anytime soon. This did put him in a conundrum as he would probably not be able to max all his skills within the first 25 levels of the new class he chose.

While his leveling would start to slow down when he got closer to level 150, he would be able to attempt a class change. Tier 3 was something that he had set out to do in the shortest amount of time possible but unless he had the skills up he feared that the choice of classes would lessen in quality.

“Is that so? Have a safe journey then.”

Elodia just smiled at him after hearing that he would be making a trip to the church. After giving Roland a smooch on his aching forehead she along with Agni left for the store. The ruby wolf was able to leech some of those experience points along with his master. He too was now able to get a new class but he would need to wait for his master to recover before he chose a new form.

“Urk…”

Almost right after Elodia left the house Roland made a quick jump to the bathroom. He felt like he was back at his first year of college. The first few parties were quite hard on him then and his stomach took some time to get used to all of that alcohol.

“I really need to get something to alleviate these symptoms…”

After relieving himself of his breakfast he felt slightly better but still not at full capacity. Quickly he got his coat along with his light half-plate armor that lacked most of the hard to put-on parts. Without wanting to mope till the debuff had run out he headed towards the city.

The walk there felt longer than usual but he managed to not stick out. After about forty minutes of uneven walking, he managed to arrive at the church. Even now it felt gaudy to him, at first it started out as a small building but now it looked like some kind of cathedral.

He wasn’t sure how they did it but magic was probably involved. While the people in this world lacked the proper modern tools to build high up, there were certain magical ways of producing magnificent-looking structures.

Back at his own workshop, he performed some wall enhancements but it was nothing at this scale. He only dug up square-shaped rooms and reinforced the walls, they weren’t pretty but they did the job.

“Praise the Sun!”

The moment one of the nuns spotted him at the church grounds he was greeted by their trademarked greeting. He only nodded at the nun that was dressed in a red and white habit. It looked strangely similar to the clothes that nuns wore back in his world just with a different color scheme and a large sun symbol on the back.

“Do you wish to hear the word of the holy mother?”

The nun asked while for some reason zoning on him like a hawk. Roland had a bit of trouble hanging out with these religious people. Some of them would always change the subject and try to preach to him. Most of the time they were only trying to receive a donation or peddle their wares so he decided to just cut to the chase.

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“Is there an available priest? I would like to have a debuff removed and also buy a class change crystal.”

“Oh my, a debuff? You have been graced by the lady’s will, elder sister Kassia is receiving today!”

The girl that he was talking with was a low leveled nun below the age of twenty. There was a certain power structure in the church like everywhere in this world. They did give each other certain ranks and it was easy to figure out by the way they referred to each other.

Sister Kassia for instance had leveled up past the 100th level and would not be around the gold rank adventurer level. If a nun achieved a level over 100 and managed to get her second tier 2 class they would be referred to as ‘Elder Sister’ Then if they managed to get into a tier 3 class, they would be given the title of ‘Mother’.

It was similar with their male counterparts which would normally be only called ‘Father’ after attaining a tier 3 class. Though there were exceptions and sometimes some of the more elderly priests would be given this title as more of an honorary one.

“Ah… Sister Kassia…”

Roland cringed a bit after hearing that the woman that he had to share the tent with was the one on duty. Memories of her trying to shove her whole bible down his throat came rushing down his throat. While she was quite the beauty, it was mostly ruined when she opened up her mouth and started preaching the gospel.

This world was different than his other, while Roland had never been big on religion he was not so sure now. There were clearly things at work here that could not be explained with science. Everyone had access to a strange system that gave them superpowers.

Then the people at the church were getting strange blessings from their gods. Apparently, the devout believers would even hear the words of god and meet with them inside of the class change trials. If that was just an illusion created with the devout believer's mind, was up to debate.

While these people were somewhat annoying it was also true that they did good deeds. The orphanages were mostly run by them and they did give the youngsters enough time to prepare for their adult life. They did not force anyone to become a priest, at most they tried to convince them to pick their side.

Thus his opinion of the Solaria church was mostly on the positive end. Just like in any organization there would be bad apples as the priest that Elodia ran into. But he could not hate the whole organization due to a few bad incidents. Nothing was perfect, people still kept some of their desires even after putting on a habit.

“Do you need me to show you the way?”

The girl asked but he just shook his head. He had already been here to get his class change crystal when he used it to change to his current class. Then later he picked up one for Bernir when he had reached a higher level.

There were a few sections to this building, the biggest one was what everyone would see. The inside was spacious with a high ceiling. On the end was a podium where the priests or nuns would perform their sermons. They had a large pipe organ in the back that was used to play some of the tunes.

The stained glass windows in this church were quite stunning. They depicted Solaria in various ways as a beautiful woman with four fiery wings. In most depictions, she was shown with a sword and shield in her hands. While she was considered to be a motherly figure, people also revered her as a battle-hardened god of war.

This was similar for any of the other divine beings that had some sort of battle background to them. It was as if every one of the deities needed their believers to be poised for combat. While the moon and sun churches were the most prevalent, there were some others. Some ran deep in the underground, like the cult that he had encountered all these years before.

He found himself in this large hall, luckily the mass was over and the elder sister nun was accepting visitors. Kassia was not the highest-ranking person in this congregation but she was the second in command. There were no tier 3 priests here yet, if she continued on her path then probably after some years she could attempt the class up.

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