Chapter 115: Sacred Chapter
"...On the sixth day of the Son's rebirth, the believers witnessed the Holy Light of the Archangel's descent in the early morning..."
According to the content on the paper, the Angel representing Wisdom once revealed miracles in the human world.
He wrote the true meaning of the Lord with his own hands and sealed his power in three pieces of parchment.
When the believers of the Church collect all the "Sacred Chapters" and piously arrange the "Descent" ritual, they can obtain the help of that Angel.
William looked incredulous.
He looked at the items needed for the descent ritual again.
"Ignite the sacred flame with branches of an olive tree; simply prepare ten crucifixes of 100-year quality, ten bottles of 100-year quality holy water, ten pieces of..."
The more William read, the more shocked he became.
Good lord, starting at a hundred years for everything!
Looking at the relaxed tone on the parchment, it seemed as if these things were easily obtained, like getting water from a toilet tap.
Was the Church that rich in the past?!
Even William could currently only make 20-year quality holy water.
Although he might be able to hand-craft 100-year holy water in the future, that would take a lot of time.
At the same time, the Sacred Chapter also mentioned the specific arrangement process of the ritual.
But this part of the content was not written on this parchment; it is estimated that it will only be known after finding all the "Sacred Chapters."
William narrowed his eyes.
If the content above was not fake, wouldn't this be a ritual to summon an Angel?
And this parchment was one of the "Sacred Chapters."
He indeed felt an ancient aura, and it contained extremely pure Holy Power.
Even 20-year quality holy water was far inferior.
"If this is really written by an Angel, isn't it... a Sacred Relic?" William suddenly realized this.
Since the end of the "Battle of the Holy Land" a thousand years ago, the Church has been searching for clues to "Sacred Relics" all over the world.
The origins of some Sacred Relics can even be traced back to the beginning of the Church's founding.
As long as a Sacred Relic can be retrieved, one will not only be commended by the Vatican but could even be directly awarded the position of "Archbishop."
For any member of the clergy, this is the fastest way to get promoted.
Of course, this did not include William.
The value of a Sacred Relic far exceeded that of an Archbishop, not to mention that this might be written by an Angel.
However, William also secretly warned himself to keep this Sacred Relic safe.
At the same time, he also decided to look for other "Sacred Chapters."
"When I can make 100-year quality holy water, I can just close the door and release the... cough cough, request the Angel to appear! Destroy all demons and evil spirits."
Father William had already begun to fantasize about directing an Angel to do manual labor.
Putting away the "Sacred Chapter," some text appeared before his eyes.
Since the last time, the progress of various events was as follows:
[Atonement Persuasion]
[Current Progress: Tier 2 (120/1000)]
[Holy Water Eye Cleansing]
[Current Progress: Tier 2 (32/1000)]
[Pious Baptism]
[Current Progress: Tier 2 (562/1000)]
[Holy Doctrine Study]
[Current Progress: Tier 2 (89/1000)]
[Saint Aquinas Body Code]
[Current Progress: Tier 2 (5/1000)]
[Acquired Ability: Sacred Bone. When applying Holy Oil, the Holy Power contained within will change your flesh and blood.]
Although many monsters ran away as soon as they saw William in the Plague Zone, the progress of [Atonement Persuasion] still increased a lot.
Now that the monsters were highly vigilant, William planned to slow down and come back to Saint Frian in a few months.
During this period, he planned to take some other commissions first.
And the [Original Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius] finally advanced to the second tier.
Regarding the new ability [Sacred Bone], William had already figured out its effect.
Simply put, under the influence of Holy Oil, his flesh and bones were transforming in the direction of a holy artifact.
Although the speed of change was very slow—it might take a dozen bottles of animal Holy Oil to transform an inch—one day in the future, perhaps even a drop of William's blood would have the effect of suppressing evil.
A few more days passed.
William bid farewell to Sadie and prepared to return to the West District Church.
He had reached a cooperation with the Allard family.
Because the latter benefited greatly this time, in addition to the method of refining Holy Oil, William also received a generous sum of money.
He planned to use this money to open a small holy artifact shop, locating it at the Exorcism Academy near the West District Church.
The students there had a great demand for holy artifacts, so there were many other shops in the surrounding area.
These shops were all opened by clergy members.
William learned from Huang Ren (Yellow Kernel) that due to the increasingly frequent evil descent events, the Church had passed certain regulations internally, agreeing that personnel capable of manufacturing holy artifacts could sell them publicly to believers.
First, this could significantly increase the number of existing holy artifacts and fill the consumption gap in evil events.
Second, this could allow believers to possess life-saving means in a short time, so that holy artifacts were no longer limited to "people with status."
However, the types of holy artifacts sold in most shops were very single.
For example, some shops only sold crucifixes or amulets.
After all, making holy artifacts requires consuming Holy Power and carving unique biblical prayers into them.
This is another task that consumes mental effort.
For a clergy member to master a certain implement in their lifetime is already a very difficult thing.
And because the production process of Holy Water is simple, it became the first choice for many people entering this industry.
This also led to extremely fierce competition in this line of business.
Either get more customers with low prices, or win everyone's favor with high quality.
Most people could only choose the former.
After all, high-quality holy artifacts never lacked buyers anywhere.
West District, St. Dei Church.
This was a parish with the only nearby "Dei Exorcism Academy."
There were many shops on the main street of the church, selling various holy artifacts.
Every evening, many people gathered here.
Evil spirit commissions, daily schoolwork, academy training...
These all required the consumption of holy artifacts.
Therefore, this street was also jokingly called the "Second Exorcism Academy."
This evening, Bent Gavin came to the street alone. He was a newly enrolled first-year student at the academy.
He had always been a child "favored" by the Lord.
At the age of fifteen, Bent could already feel Holy Power when reciting the Bible.
This made his father very excited, thinking that his son would definitely become a high-level member of the Church in the future.
Bent thought so himself, so he was very happy after receiving the admission notice from the academy.
This represented a fundamental difference between him and ordinary believers.
But when he truly entered the academy, he realized how naive he had been before.
Those guys ranked at the top could cultivate Holy Power as early as ten years old.
Bent thought these were the gifted ones.
But when he learned that there were Parish-level Exorcism Academies above them, and that the "Priest Corps" in the Vatican were all monsters...
Bent finally understood that he was just an "ordinary person."
But he didn't give up; he still persisted in his studies and constantly improved his Holy Power.
However, he had encountered difficulties recently.
The academy had been teaching knowledge about "Holy Oil" these days.
But this item was expensive, not to mention its effects varied.
Often, spending a lot of money only yielded a bottle of Holy Oil with a vintage of a few months.
And those "geniuses" in the academy, because of the Church's funding, could easily obtain Holy Oil of higher vintage.
This made Bent extremely envious inside.
"Tomorrow's class is about the absorption efficiency of 'Holy Oil'."
Bent thought to himself.
"That guy Silas will definitely be able to get high-vintage Holy Oil and become the focus of everyone again."
His tone was resentful; obviously, that Silas was one of the "geniuses" he mentioned.
"How could it be possible to buy high-vintage Holy Oil in a place like this? If I buy something with a recent date, I definitely can't compare to Silas."
Just as he was thinking, Bent suddenly saw a shop named "House of Repose."
"It seems to be newly opened. Let's go in and take a look."
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