Chapter 95: Eighty-fourth - : The Postman
The captain and healer had spoken about a daughter, whom Malin only met the day after returning to the city. Malin and the girls had looked everywhere but found no one, only learning today that the little one had gone to the nearby Church of the God of Misery to pray because her foster father and aunts and uncles were out working.
The God of Misery sounds somewhat like the concept in Buddhism, speaking of universal suffering and cultivating the next life.
Of course, this was what Malin thought when he first saw the name; the actual situation is that the God of Misery is quite hardcore—a deity who represents the poor and is a subordinate to the God of Justice.
At this point, Malin had already understood the deity’s philosophy, which indeed matched reality—the Church of the God of Misery admonished people that Fate divides life into ranks not as an excuse for the lower class to remain ignorant and foolish, but rather they should be devout, endure hardships, and be wise. These three concepts represent this deity. If the God of Justice is the one amongst this group of deities responsible for dealing death without concern and striking down those who object, then the God of Misery saves the world in another way—after all, the common people, lacking knowledge as a weapon and reason as a shield, are precisely the targets that evil pagans love to deceive.
The rural schools founded by the God of Misery significantly changed the chaotic state of the grassroots. Malin was not sure about other places, but in Carterburg and the surrounding villages and towns, finding a kid who could perform arithmetic might indeed be difficult, whereas finding a poor fellow who couldn’t even write his own name and believed every rumor was an even greater challenge.
In addition to this, the Church of the God of Misery runs the largest orphanage system on the entire Western Continent. Unlike other churches that select talented orphans, the Church of the God of Misery teaches without discrimination; as long as one is an orphan and not a different kind, even if you are a Spirit, as long as you understand human speech, the orphanage would take you in.
Therefore, the Church of the God of Misery’s human-shaped Spirit Martial Monks and Paladins are unique on the Western Continent. At least one Flower Spirit Clan and two Tree Spirit Clan chiefs emerged from the Church of the God of Misery’s orphanages, and the existence of Bear Goblin Saint Warriors and Kobold Paladins is also fairly common.
However, Tina truly was beyond Malin’s expectations.
She was a Kobold girl. When Malin saw the girl, it was clear that she’d been crying, but with the company of the Church of the God of Misery members, she still accepted the Longsword and compensation totaling 640 gold that Malin had brought back—one Magician’s head out of two had died at the hands of the girls, and the other was likely killed by that Elven Archer, so Malin split the six hundred gold into five parts, leaving the Warrior and Healer with two hundred forty, and shared the one thousand gold commission as well, giving the two four hundred in total.