The brave man opened the coffin and rose

Abes thought of many scenarios.

For example, Sister Agatha is an extremely old-fashioned person. As soon as she enters the door, she will be bombarded with radiant bombs.

For example, I was actually overthinking it. The other person was just an ordinary old lady. Maybe she was sulking with me and fell ill in the past few days.

Or it could be an extreme case, like she really has some conspiracy.

And if there is a conspiracy, Abes has many speculations depending on the camp to which the other party belongs.

Sister Agatha may belong to or be attached to General Paddy, or some other warlord, which is separatism.

It is also possible that she was concerned about the legitimacy of the small kingdom of Łomza and was a royalist.

It is also possible that in such a chaotic world, she doesn't want to care about anything, but she also doesn't want to be controlled by anyone. This is isolationism.

The two most likely and dangerous situations are the church and the gods.

The beliefs of the North are actually extremely complex, or rather, the beliefs of this entire world are very complex.

This is a land of God.

Gods of races, conceptual gods created for the sake of balance in various planes, and even since the creation of the world, there have been continuous cases of ordinary creatures ascending to the throne of god.

The seizure of divine sparks, the distortion or division of concepts, the collective cleansing and extinction of racial blood, these things will cause real changes and incidents in the gods.

And the gods are able to feedback and influence the world in some way.

For example, the team of brave men who defeated the Dragon Slayer a thousand years ago, Abes and his companions, were the lucky ones who were favored by the gods and gained blessings and became extremely powerful.

This situation makes it difficult for the world to form a monotheistic religion, and atheism is even more of a fantasy.

After all, if you are really a qualified materialist, then when faced with the powerful force that actually exists, you will have to start thinking about how to use this force.

A powerful force that cannot be utilized is definitely not productivity, but violence.

A true materialist should always be a practitioner and a pragmatist.

Since gods do exist, before studying the influence of beliefs and gods clearly, Abes can only deal with it according to the common customs and situations of the world.

This is why after taking over Sweet Leaf Town, Abesi had no intention of taking action against religion. Instead, he preserved, protected and respected it, just like dealing with the differences in civilization and culture of different races.

But Abesi also knew that his slogan, that no one can ride on the necks of the people, was absolutely in conflict with religion.

Strong divine power or weak divine power, main god or subordinate god, no matter which one, they should be above the believers.

If they were just a group of harmless puppets, Abes wouldn't mind being stepped on by others.

But the thing is, they really exist.

This is one of the two bad scenarios that Abes guessed, that is, Sister Agatha's conspiracy was due to the instructions of the church.

Perhaps some people think that their slogans are an act of disrespect that seeks to dethrone the gods.

Another worst-case scenario is that Sister Agatha has a certain relationship with the gods in heaven.

Those strange goblins have a crazy and weird attitude towards the existence they are calling out in their slogans. They can gain power just by praying. To some extent, their relationship is similar to that of priests and gods.

When these goblins were active in Sweetleaf Town, Sister Agatha chose to stay indoors, which made it hard for people not to be suspicious.

What I never expected was that the last two problems could be solved in one go.

After knocking on the door and stating his identity, Abes heard the sound of the bolt sliding, and then the door opened.

And Abes also saw the appearance of Sister Agatha. She was indeed an old lady, but the expression on her face was not serious or full of disgust with old-fashioned prejudices, but full of gentleness and kindness.

There was a gleam of genuine concern in her eyes, which was not at all pretentious, but rather the same emotion that a grandmother or a great-grandmother would have during the holidays.

Sister Agatha wore a traditional black nun's uniform. Although time had left traces on her face, her smile was like the spring sunshine, warm and bright.

"I was wondering when you would come. Welcome, child." Her voice was soft and steady, and then she continued, "Come in quickly. You won't tell anyone about Suta's secret with me, right?"

After the old lady in front of him turned sideways, Abes saw the green-skinned figure hiding in the room and nodded in understanding.

Well, it turns out that the orc wife of the elven male Draenei is here.

However, when he heard Sister Agatha's request and the orc hiding in the room waving his hand, Abes did not show much surprise.

After inviting Hiiragi to enter first, Abes quickly followed suit.

After going deeper into the room, Abes was even more surprised by the structure inside.

Now, it was filled with bottles and jars, glassware, copper pipes, and the like, and was by no means the attire of a pious mission house, as the townspeople had called it.

However, after observing for a while, Abes still found traces of the past costumes in this place.

The benches in the preaching hall were no longer lined up in the hall at this moment, but were piled up against the wall at the end of the hall.

A stone statue of a goddess is still there, which is also a little evidence of the past.

But now the head of the stone statue of the goddess is covered by a large piece of linen.

Apart from the head, the goddess statue has her arms crossed in front of her chest and her mouth seems to be smiling.

A closer look at the wooden square table in the room, on which a pile of bottles and jars are placed, reveals that it should have been an altar table for burning incense and candles in the past. Traces of burnt incense ash and solidified wax tears can be seen on the table.

Moreover, in order to create a special light and shadow effect on weekdays, the light in the preaching hall should be kept dim but subtle, and only the areas near the statues and the altar should be the brightest.

But now, in such interiors, none of these tricks are used, but instead the interior is made as bright as possible.

Sister Agatha returned to the bottles and jars, and then spoke in an aria-like voice, "Abes Grande, the great hero who fought against the dragon-breaking disaster a thousand years ago, and the wizard lady, are you here to pray to the goddess?"

Abes looked at the other person, who although old, still had beautiful light blue eyes, and a feeling of peace soothed his mood.

"You knew I would come? Was it some divine revelation or some advanced prophecy spell?"

The other party did not respond, "Many times, fate is not unfair, it's just that people don't dare to make changes."

“Opportunities often emerge from the midst of rapid change.”

"I didn't know you would come. Or rather, I didn't know Abes Grande would come. But when the North was divided and could not be unified, I knew that the rebel army would come."

"And that's when they will come in handy," Sister Agatha pointed to the bottles and jars.

Abes noticed a fresh scar on the back of the old man's right hand, but she pulled up her sleeve to cover it.