"Mr. Bell, these bright fur and feathers are not as good as leather protective gear made of earth-eating pig skin, but why are they so much more expensive than better earth-eating pig skin?"

In Edu's eyes, the practicality of these furs is not good at all, but businessmen always prefer furs.

It is difficult for Bell to explain this clearly in simple words.

He and Edu walked away from the stall and continued walking in the market.

Edu has no desire to buy for the time being. His main goal today is to go to the Bard Guild and receive the simplest professional training.

The old bard brother before was a complete dilettante. He didn't have much to teach Edu, and there were still many things waiting for Edu to learn from the Bard Guild.

They moved forward, and when they reached the edge of the market, Bell smelled a bad smell, a bit like a freshly opened herring can.

But a more accurate term is the rotting smell of newly dead bodies.

"Dead bodies are still being sold in the market?!"

Stimulated by this smell, Bell looked extremely surprised.

This smell of corpse is emitted after the body has deteriorated without any treatment.

There were a lot of monster corpses in the market, but after being processed, these monster corpses did not emit such an extremely bad smell.

"Huh?"

Edu's perception was not as sensitive as Bell's, but after walking outside for two minutes, he also smelled the smell of corpses.

Unlike Bell's surprise, Edu understood what was going on.

Taking three steps and two steps at a time, Edu quickly walked to a stall where few people stopped.

There are three half-disabled adventurers here, leaning crookedly on the wall of the house. Next to them, there is a row of corpses covered with white cloth.

"What's going on? This is not a place where corpses should be buried."

"They are begging, waiting for kind-hearted people to help them raise the money to bury their teammates."

According to Edu's description, the current situation is that some adventure groups are attacked by large groups of monsters in the wild, or encounter other unexpected situations.

After a large number of members of the adventure group died in battle, and the remaining members did not have enough money to bury the dead, the remaining members would come to the market to raise money.

Usually when this happens, the stores in the market will give away some copper coins. After begging for a while, they can have enough to bury their lost teammates.

But it is a pity that the three poor beggars in front of them lost too many teammates.

Bell glanced around and saw that there were twenty-six corpses under the white cloth. This was not an easy task.

Edu stepped forward and inquired a little, and found out that this was an adventure group from out of town. After an accident, only three of them were left alive.

"My condolences."

Leaving behind two copper coins, Edu took Bell and left here.

He explained to Bell that after death, a human being must be buried by a church priest.

In the research of the mages, it was discovered that on the day when the evil moon rises every year, any corpse has a probability of becoming an activated remains walking on the earth.

But human corpses are different from the corpses of animals and monsters. The probability of animal and monster corpses becoming activated remains is less than 10%.

And when the evil moon rises, the probability of human corpses turning into animated remains is almost 100%.

Only corpses buried by church pastors can fall peacefully into the sea of ​​sinking and never wake up again.

In this world, everyone's birth requires the blessing of the church, and everyone's death must be handled by the church.

The church is actually the most profitable organization in the world.

After all, all churches charge for burial of corpses.

In fact, senior professionals from other professions can also use various methods to bury the corpse and let it fall peacefully into the sea of ​​sinking.

However, the cost for them to bury the body is too high. By analogy, the cost of burying the body for the priest profession is simply a bargain.

But even so, the cost of burying a person cannot be underestimated.

This amount of money is not much. The burial expenses after a person's death is one silver coin. This is an amount of money that ordinary people can afford with gritted teeth.

If it really doesn't work, like the people I met today, they can raise the money through begging.

"No one wants to see their dead relatives and friends come back to life in pain, especially after their bodies move, and they have to use swords against them."

When Edu said this, Bell was puzzled by a question.

Since the corpse will come alive under the illumination of the evil moon, why not just burn the corpse?

Without a corpse, the reanimated remains cannot be molded into ashes and get back up again.

"You can't burn the body, it's a taboo!"

Regarding the idea proposed by Bell, Edu said it was very incredible and felt that Bell did not have any common sense in life.

In this world, it is necessary to bury the corpse. Everyone knows that after the corpse is burned, the soul that cannot rest in peace may become an even more difficult thing to deal with.

This is a lesson that mankind has learned with blood and tears. The church’s pastoral professional system also developed under this background.

"Are there any corpses that, due to various reasons, were not able to be buried in the church?"

"This happens every year. There are always a few activated remains that wake up under the evil moon."

The church’s burial service cannot perfectly cover everyone, and occasionally there will be bodies that cannot be buried.

But when these corpses become activated remains, any professional can take action against them. An insufficient number of activated remains often makes little noise.

"Now, we have not been threatened by living remains for many years, and the church has built a complete burial system to serve the deceased."

Listening to what Edu said, Bell said that the influence of this different world funeral home was much greater than he realized.

The church, which is closely related to human death, has the core right to speak in any city, and their sphere of influence also covers the entire human world.

Bell asked Edu to describe the priest's ability system. After listening to a few words, his head became enlarged.

First, Edu doesn’t know enough about priests to clearly know what this thing is.

Second, everyone knows that the priest's ability is related to the sea of ​​sinking after death, and no one except the priest knows what it is.

"Ugh... The priest's ability system is bound to the Sunken Sea. It sounds completely unrelated to the ability system I know."

Bell really wanted to say that ghosts know where the Sunken Sea is. But if you think about it carefully, it seems that ghosts really know this place.

Shaking his head, Bell stopped thinking about this completely unseen thing and turned to look at the wide square in front of him.

Walking out of the market street is Edu's destination today:
Chapter completed!