"Like your father you say… You know your father wouldn't probably be a hunter if he was given such an opportunity at his young age, right, kid?!" Asked Jack. "You're just a stubborn little brat for thinking you can even accomplish anything by pure strength! Eventually your mana will run low, you can't endlessly fight either.
One day you'll realize that life is a fragile thing, you can't just waste it away by being a reckless idiot! I… I learned that the hard way!"
Jack confronted me angrily as he drank the last bit of beer on his cup. He was clearly drunk by now but he was giving me a sermon as if he knew more about life than me. As someone that actually has died before I know very well how life can be, even if I lived longer than you. However, I understand you and your ignorant point of view, and I get it, my father wouldn't be a Hunter either.
I just used him as a realistic excuse because explaining them my true motives would only put me in more trouble than I want to.
"I don't care about what you think about me or my goals," I said. "I came here exclusively to make a deal with you, you can think anything you want as long as you don't bother me."
"Eh?! You damn disrespectful brat! I'm gonna smack some sense into you-"
Jack was about to stand up and attempt to hit me in the head, I was already readying my hand with Qi to hit him first, but he was thankfully stopped by Seth.
"Jack! You're already drunk, settle down for now and shut up." He said, as he looked back at me. "Very well then, Blank. We are not here to force you to do anything you don't want to but… You said a deal? What deal? What do you have in mind?"
Seth seemed to be the intelligent type, he immediately analyzed the situation and decided to act accordingly, accepting my decision quickly and without bothering me anymore all while being interested in what I had in mind. It is very obvious that he's a rare breed among humans. As most of them are blatantly stupid, but perhaps this changes with Nobles or stronger people, maybe.
This world is vast after all, there are many people.
Ellergest heard my words and realized by looking into my eyes that he cannot convince me otherwise, there was no intimidation factor from figures of higher authority that would force me to just accept so I can end up giving a good impression to them. In fact, I was very different from a child of my age desperate for the approval of the adults, I only cared about myself and my family.
He couldn't use something as simple as his authority to make me his pupil-slave to go on pilgrimages, perhaps it worked with the idiot of Jack because he's just an idiot, but with me it won't work, not at all.
"So what is what you want to make?" He wondered. "Making a deal with such a young child would truly be troublesome… But maybe things can just be kept between the four of us, right?"
"Ugh… Whatever." Sighed Jack.
"Well, the deal is simple, if you want my help I can give it to you, but you're not poor people at all, so you're going to pay me. Let's call it a commission." I said. "I heard Jack cannot heal too much a day, well, I can heal probably up to thirty times a day, I believe, so I can help you heal people that is going to pay you, and you give me a part of that fee.
I am sure that you're better healers than me, but can you heal as many times? More times means more profits, I can also treat other things you probably can't."
"Interesting… So that was your proposal? Indeed, we wanted to recruit you and make you into a priest due to your amazing talents, Blank.
You have several cases of people reporting that you healed their ugly scars, you even helped someone regain hair, another person said he regained a lot of stamina like never before, and that it was a permanent effect, and others had even said you cured their lung cancer." Said Seth. "Is your magic this potent, child?
You're really a Saint then, a Saint Blessed by the Holy Spirits… It is really a shame you didn't wanted to join us. In the future you could even become a Holy Saint of the Church and become part of the Ultimate Council where all the Saints across the lands gather, becoming an incredible figure of prestige and influence across the entire world… So much wasted potential… It breaks my heart."
"Enough, Seth…" Sighed Ellergest. "But yes, I guess we can do that, actually we often commission mercenaries and magicians to do jobs for us or to help us subjugate demons that are infesting private properties. There was this one time we paid a band of mercenaries to help us eradicate a group of Goblins that settled down inside an abandoned manor from a Noble.
It was a hard to do job, but we managed to accomplish it, other jobs also include things such as exorcism where we need a strong mage to Enjoy reading on NovelHub - your free online novel platform."
"I see, so it is possible then?" I wondered. "Also, have you not heard about the demons in the forest? Why are you, from all people, that can wield holy magic from all things, not dealt with them yet?"
"We received orders from the church to not do anything for the moment." Said Seth. "It is not something as simple as walking there and getting it done, the Hunters are serfs and they are not even citizens, nobody cares if they die, but I am a Noble and Priest, and so is Lord Ellergest while Jack is an Apprentice Priest with citizenship…"