Doctor of Science's Journey into Another World

Afterwards, Bai Hao and the officers moved to the cafeteria here. It was called a cafeteria but it was just a larger bungalow. At this moment, all the churchgoers were standing outside the cafeteria.

In addition to Oren and the middle-aged missionary, there were eight other missionaries, basically young girls about the same age as Oren, but without exception they were a little thin.

The middle-aged missionary respectfully expressed his gratitude to Bai Hao, while the other missionaries were already staring at the meat in the officers' hands with rapid breathing, their eyes filled with unbearable hunger.

Bai Hao didn't say anything else. He immediately asked the officers to pass the meat to the missionaries. Amid cheers, the missionaries began to enjoy the most sumptuous dinner of their lives.

At this time, an old man with a hunched back slowly approached the cafeteria. His thin figure seemed to disappear at any time under the reflection of the setting sun.

When the frail old man approached, Bai Hao saw many wooden boxes floating behind him. The boxes were full of gold coins. The old man waved his hand, and the wooden boxes fell steadily in front of everyone.

The old man looked at Bai Hao immediately, and a strange expression appeared on his wrinkled face. The middle-aged missionary noticed the old priest first and hurried over with two plates of meat.

Audley smiled and said, "You eat it, let the children eat more. Didn't I tell you before that Oren got a big shrimp from somewhere and told me that you all had some to eat. I thought he was lying to me at the time."

"I am Audley, the chief missionary of the Moon Goddess Sect in Garcia. Who is Lord Viscount Campbell?" The old chief looked at Bai Hao and the others and spoke slowly and a little hoarsely.

Bai Hao walked forward slowly and looked at the boxes of gold coins in front of him, and he realized that these should be the interest money that he had asked Viscount Garcia to send to the church.

Audley seemed to have poor eyesight. He slowly stepped forward and tried to look at Bai Hao with wide eyes, exclaiming: "Oh, it's Silver Hair. Are you a light elemental mage? I haven't seen a light mage for many years. Can you show me the light healing technique later? The last time I saw this kind of magic was more than ten years ago..."

Bai Hao looked at the chattering old man and nodded with a smile. Then he pointed at the gold coins on the ground and asked in confusion, "Missionary Audley, what are you doing?"

"Aren't these the ones you entrusted Viscount Garcia to deposit with me? When that guy delivered them to me, I was shocked. I have never seen so many gold coins in my life." Audley said slowly.

Bai Hao suddenly realized that he had forgotten to tell Colin's adjutant to donate the money to the church as a gift, so he quickly said, "These are my gifts to the church."

Gift money is one of the main sources of income for the Moon Goddess sect. Nobles and even some commoners would donate gift money of varying amounts to show their piety after praying in the church.

Although the Church of the Goddess of the Bright Moon does not force people to donate, and even praying in the church is free, this does not prevent gifts from becoming a means for nobles to compete with each other. This is also an important reason why the church in Campbell County is so wealthy.

Audley was actually a little angry when he heard this, and said coldly: "Viscount Campbell, when have you ever come to our church to pray? We didn't perform any purification or healing spells on you, did we? Our church will not accept these gold coins. Our Bright Moon Goddess Church has never accepted charity. Viscount Campbell, you should take all these gold coins!"

Oren felt very uncomfortable listening to this. He had seen with his own eyes Viscount Garcia's guards moving boxes of gold coins from the carriage to the church, and he had also lamented with other missionaries that Viscount Garcia had actually changed his character.

At that time, Viscount Garcia ordered the servants to open the box, pour out all the gold coins and weigh them. Oren looked at the gold coins all over the floor with relish, as if every extra gold coin would give him an extra dish in his daily meal.

Oren seemed to want to try to persuade the old priest, but then he was glared at by Audley's sharp eyes and had to retreat in disappointment.

Bai Hao looked around and pointed at the roof of the church and asked, "Pastor, what's going on with the roof of the church?"

Audley saw what Bai Hao was pointing at and thought for a moment before saying, "Well, this is because Garcia Territory encountered a terrible thunderstorm a few days ago. At that time, I was worried that the thunder would accidentally hurt Garcia's people, so I wanted to use the thunder control technique to lead the thunder into the open space of the church. Unexpectedly, the thunder pierced through the roof of the church... Alas, I am old now. I used to be best at thunder control."

Bai Hao was surprised when he heard this. He did not expect that the white-haired old man in front of him was actually a rare high-level thunder mage. What was even more difficult for him to understand was that the old priest, who was so poor, could still use the thunder control technique. You know, the thunder control technique is a magic that only high-level mages can use.

Most lightning mages will be low-level and mediocre throughout their lives. The direct reason is that the magic source in the heart of low-level lightning mages directly produces lightning magic. Therefore, mages also need lightning-rich calcium carbide to assist in practicing lightning magic.

Calcium carbide is rare and expensive, and the price alone is enough to discourage some minor nobles. Those low-level lightning elemental mages who are not wealthy cannot afford calcium carbide, but they can rely on the lightning element generated by thunderstorms to carry out dangerous exercises.

As for low-level lightning magicians, the roar of nature is not something they can endure at will. If they are not careful, they will be hit by the thunder and die instantly. Therefore, there are very few magicians who use the thunder to practice lightning magic.

This directly leads to the fact that most lightning elemental mages do not know lightning elemental magic at all. They only know some other non-elemental low-level magic, and such mages can only remain at the level of mage at best.

High-level lightning elemental mages are built up with countless gold coins, and lightning elemental magic is also known as the strongest offensive magic, and its single-target attack power is the strongest of all elemental magics.

The lightning control technique that the old priest mentioned can only be used by lightning elemental mages of at least the magician class. If one wants to become of this class, the money required would probably be more than enough even if the entire Garcia County was sold.

Bai Hao suppressed his doubts and said calmly, "Think about it, the damaged roof of the church will affect my mood for prayer, and I won't come to the church to pray when I'm in a bad mood. In this way, you will never get my gift money to repair the church, and I will lose the opportunity to go to the church to pray. This is a lose-lose situation."

Audley shook his head and thought about what Bai Hao said. He felt it was a little strange, but he couldn't find any mistakes in Bai Hao's logic.

Bai Hao persuaded him kindly: "You can use the money to repair the church first, so that I can go in and pray comfortably. In this way, you can repair the church and I can pray. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Audley was persuaded by Bai Hao and said in a daze: "If I don't accept the gold coins, both sides will suffer. If I accept the gold coins, it will be the best of both worlds... It is indeed the truth."

Bai Hao struck while the iron was hot and asked, "Would the teachings of the Moon Goddess allow you to choose to lose both sides instead of having the best of both worlds?"

After hearing this, Audley immediately replied: "The Moonlight Doctrine must choose the best of both worlds, Viscount Campbell, you are right."

Bai Hao smiled and nodded, then turned around to look at the stunned missionaries and said, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and move all your gold coins back!"