Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

As they continued onward, when they reached the edge of the market, Bell smelled an unpleasant odor, somewhat like a freshly opened can of herring.

But a more accurate description is the smell of freshly dead corpses rotting.

"They sell dead bodies at the market?!"

Startled by the smell, Bell appeared extremely surprised.

This corpse smell comes from the decomposition of an untreated body.

There were many monster corpses in the market, but after being processed, these monster corpses did not emit such an extremely unpleasant smell.

"Ok?"

Edu's senses weren't as sharp as Bell's, but after walking for another two minutes, he too could smell the stench of a corpse.

Unlike Bale's surprise, Edu understood the situation perfectly well.

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

There were three half-crippled adventurers leaning precariously against the wall of the house, and beside them lay a row of corpses covered with white sheets.

"What's going on? This isn't a place to leave a body."

"They are begging, hoping that kind people will help them raise money to bury their teammate."

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

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

In such situations, the shops in the market would usually give out some coins, enough for them to bury their fallen teammates after they had begged around.

Unfortunately, these three poor beggars in front of them have lost far too many teammates.

Bell glanced around and saw a total of twenty-six corpses under the white sheet. This was no small matter.

Edu went up and asked a few questions, discovering that they were an adventure group from out of town, and after an accident, only the three of them were left alive.

"Condolences."

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

He explained to Bell that humans must be buried by church priests after death.

The monks' research has revealed that on the day the evil moon rises each year, any corpse has a chance to become a living, walking remains on the earth.

However, human corpses are different from animal and monster corpses. The probability of animal and monster corpses becoming living remains is less than 10%.

And human corpses, in

When the evil moon is high in the sky, the probability of turning into an animated remains is almost 100%.

Only a body buried by a church pastor can peacefully sink into the sea of ​​damnation and never awaken again.

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

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

After all, all churches charge a fee for burying corpses.

In fact, highly skilled professionals in other professions can also use various methods to bury corpses, allowing them to peacefully fall into the sea of ​​oblivion.

However, the cost of burying corpses for them is simply too high. By comparison, the cost of burying corpses for priests is practically dirt cheap.

Even so, the cost of burying a person is not to be underestimated.

This amount of money is not much. The funeral expenses for a person after death are one silver coin, which is an amount that ordinary people can afford if they grit their teeth.

If all else fails, like the people we met today, they can raise the money by begging.

"No one wants to see their dead relatives or friends come back to life in agony, especially if their corpses start moving and they have to fight them."

As Edu said this, Bale was puzzled by something.

Since the corpses would come to life under the influence of the evil moon, why not just burn them?

Without a body, you can't exactly resurrect remains by using ashes to sculpt them and bring them back to life.

"The body must not be burned; it's taboo!"

Edu found Bell's idea incredible, feeling that Bell lacked any common sense.

In this world, burying corpses is necessary. Everyone knows that after a corpse is cremated, the restless soul has a chance to become an even more troublesome, living corpse.

This is a lesson that humanity has learned through blood and tears, and the church's pastoral profession developed under this background.

"Are there any bodies that, for various reasons, were not able to be buried at a church?"

“This happens every year; there are always a few living remains that awaken under the evil moon.”

Church burial services cannot perfectly cover everyone, and occasionally there will be bodies that are not buried.

However, once these corpses become animated remains, any professional can take action against them, and a small number of animated remains often fail to cause any significant disturbance.

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

As Edu recounted his story, Bell remarked that this otherworldly funeral home wielded far greater influence than he had realized.

The church, which has a strong connection with human death, holds a central voice in any city, and its sphere of influence covers the entire human world.

Bell asked Edu to describe the priest's ability system, and after listening to a few sentences, he felt overwhelmed.

First, Edu didn't know enough about priests and couldn't clearly understand what it was.

Secondly, everyone knows that the priest's abilities are related to the Sea of ​​Depravity after death, but no one outside the priest understands what this is.

"Ugh... The priest's ability system is tied to the Sea of ​​Sinking, which sounds completely unrelated to the ability systems I know."

Bell really wanted to say, "Who knows what the Sea of ​​Depravity is?" But then he thought about it, and realized that even ghosts seemed to know.

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

Leaving the market street, Edu's destination for the day would begin.

Professional Guild Square

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Chapter 61 Professional Guild Plaza

Unlike the relatively narrow market, the professional guild square covers a huge area. Standing at the entrance of the square and looking out, people at the far end of the square are almost invisible, shrinking into a small dot.

However, the exceptionally spacious professional guild square did not appear empty; on the contrary, it was bustling with a large number of people, comparable to a marketplace.

As soon as you step out of the market and into the square, you are greeted by two large six-story buildings with a large number of people coming and going. These are two extremely popular professional guilds.

Judging from the interior decorations of these two professional guilds' lobbies, they are certainly not short of money.

To Bell's surprise, these two guilds were not guilds for the mainstream professions among adventurers, but rather guilds for life-related professions.

According to Edu, there is an agricultural guild and a weavers' guild here.

The Weavers' Guild is a professional guild composed of tailors. They are exceptionally united, managed by the guild, and maintain market order.

Of course, the Weavers' Guild's prosperity wasn't solely due to mending and patching. Their main business was crafting various extraordinary armor pieces, including leather goods made from monster hides, magic robes favored by mages, and various cloth armor and light armor inlaid with iron.

Pure metal armor has a very narrow range of applications. Apart from burly warriors, very few people would choose full metal armor.

Moreover, the Weavers' Guild serves not only professionals; everyone needs to wear clothes, and everyone is a customer of the Weavers' Guild.

Highly skilled tailors, through a series of fortuitous events, may be promoted to the extraordinary profession of 'weavers,' a group that is rather mysterious.

Edu had only heard of their existence; they were said to be masters of magic and possessed skills far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

"The Weavers' Guild is very conservative; it's difficult to get information about them unless you become a tailor. However, the gender ratio of life skills professionals here is quite extreme; 70% of them are women."

"With so many girls, no wonder there's such a big, burly guy hanging around here. He's probably waiting to find a girlfriend."

Bell's gaze swept over the group of men and women at the entrance of the Weavers' Guild, and she noticed that quite a few of them were in pairs, which made Bell pout.

(`へ*)ノ

Across from the Weavers' Guild, the Agriculture Guild was even more imposing than these tailors.

As its name suggests, the agricultural guild specializes in farming and animal husbandry.

However, in this world, the influence of the Agricultural Guild is in no way inferior to that of the major combat professions, and the status of the Agricultural Guild even surpasses that of other professions except for the Church and the Mage.

Don't think that doing agriculture in this world is a miserable life of toiling in the fields.

In the lobby of the agricultural guild, instead of a plaque bearing the guild's name, a large line of text reads:

Magical technology is the primary productive force.

The Agricultural Guild possesses multiple professional lineages, each with a complete advancement path, from the most basic farmers and herdsmen to higher-level magical growers and beast tamers.

Moreover, many farmers hold other jobs, and these side jobs are quite successful.

Members of the Agricultural Guild rarely participate in combat; they have longer training periods and better nutritional intake than most combat professionals.

Pure debate

While they might not be as strong as the adventurers and soldiers who had switched to combat, their decent average level meant these farmers were not to be trifled with.