As the pri minister expected, there was a group that arrived in our kingdom.
They weren't an aggressive group per say since they were a group of priests and nuns, but that didn't an that they weren't here for a reason.
For our kingdom, it could even be considered a negative reason.
It could even be said that they were here for ill intentions.
After all, there was a very specific reason that they were here.
They were traveling as a group of priests and nuns, but the way that they traveled was completely different from normal priests and nuns. These people were traveling in luxurious carriages that were completely different from the humble carriages that most priests and nuns traveled in.
It was clear that these people cared more about certain things...
As for the religion that they ca from, it was one of the large religions of the Holy Empire, but it wasn't the sa one as the priest from my town. This was a different religion, but one that had a very strict requirent on followers.
The followers had to be human.
That was because the god that they worshiped was the God of Humans, Zeno.
Since they were the religion that worshiped the God of Humans, they naturally had a high position in the human dominated Holy Empire.
But their greed really was a bit too much.
When the priests ca out, I even saw the different pieces of jewelry that adorned them. It seed like they didn't want to leave a single part of their body unadorned by this jewelry with how much they were wearing.
They seed like walking jewelry stands more than anything.
It was clear what their priorities were compared to other things.
At the sa ti...the nuns were walking a bit too close to the priests.
They were almost touching each other with how close they were.
It seed like the relationship between the nuns and the priests weren't normal either.
These people really didn't seem like priests and nuns at all.
Even the priests of our capital that ca out to welco this group from the Holy Empire couldn't help knitting their brows when they saw them. Other than the ones from the sa religion that worshiped the God of Humans that was.
This group...they didn't have the sa amount of jewelry, but there wasn't a lack of jewelry on them either.
After the priests and nuns ca forward, the first thing that the head of this group did was say, "Where is your king? Have him co forward and present the gift."
Both the pri minister and I couldn't help knitting our brows when we heard this.
We had no idea what to expect when greeting this group from the Holy Empire, but this certainly wasn't what we had been expecting. After all, no one would think that soone from the Holy Empire would open with this.
Still, it wasn't as if we were planning on offending them, so I went forward with the pri minister.
When they saw us coming over, they slightly knitted their brows since they saw that we didn't bring anything else with us. They even looked like they were slightly annoyed with the way that we welcod them.
That made us knit our brows as well, but we forced ourselves to show them a smile as we greeted them.
"Welco to our kingdom. If there's anything that we can help you with, please don't hesitate to ask." I said with a smile on my face.
When the priest leading this group heard this, he looked at with a trace of disdain in his eyes before reaching his hand out as if he was waiting for sothing.
Both the pri minister and I looked down at this open hand that was using its fingers to gesture to us.
There was no mistaking what the intentions of this priest were, but we didn't do anything. We hadn't prepared anything and it wasn't as if we wanted to give anything to this priest. Just based on the way that this priest and his group arrived, it didn't seem like they were anything good. If possible, we wanted to have as little interaction with them as possible... Seeing that we didn't do anything, the priest fully knitted his brows this ti and revealed a displeased look. He just looked down at his hand as if he was waiting for sothing again, but then he looked up at us and said with a cough, "I wonder if there are any donations that these gentlen want to make to our great Zeno."
The pri minister and I once again knitted our brows hearing this.
We didn't hide it this ti as we looked right at the priest.
It really seed like there was no end to his greed, but it wasn't as if we could just offend him.
So after a mont of silence, I looked up at the priest and said, "Unfortunately, we weren't able to prepare anything since we didn't know that you would be arriving today. Perhaps another day, we can arrange a donation to your great church."
The priest once again revealed a displeased look, but he didn't lose his temper.
He just slowly took back his hand and said, "I see..."
It seed like he was stalling as if he was waiting for us to change our mind.
The sa could be said about the other priests that were with them.
However, we just remained firm in our determination not to give them anything.
In the end, the priest said with a sigh, "Then we'll have to see about next ti."
Though he said it in a regretful manner, it was clear by the look in his eyes that he wouldn't let this matter go.
As expected, they really didn't co with good intentions.
After he finished saying this, the priest revealed a more serious look before saying, "Well,
then let's get to the main topic. I'm here today on so business in the will of god."
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