Absolutely not to be burned at the stake

In my memory, Hansen would have deposited the money directly into Buddy Bank in town.

Yes... there are banks in this world, and they are quite large in scale, supposedly capable of remittances and remote storage.

Hansen used Buddy Bank to send his taxes and property to his son in Lionheart.

But Li Wei didn't want to keep the money in the bank. As someone who had just taken over as acting priest and was only a trainee sorcerer, he felt it was better to keep a low profile.

After thinking for a moment, Li Wei put some silver crowns and copper tals into his purse. With a slight concentration, the coins in the wicker basket in his hand suddenly disappeared.

Feeling the coins obediently placed in the desk drawer of his small house, and his faith value decreasing by 0.01, Li Wei smiled with satisfaction.

Sure enough, if you can take things out of your little house, you can naturally put them back in as well.

Now that you don't need to expend mental energy to retrieve items, and each retrieval costs only 0.01 faith, it's quite cost-effective.

After putting away the coins, Li Wei went back to the sanctuary.

Walk to the altar beneath the holy emblem.

Li Wei bent down and looked at the pool of clear water in the altar, which was made of an unknown strange stone.

Then he picked up the small spoon next to him, gently scooped up some, brought it to his mouth, tilted his head back, and drank it down.

A faint cool sensation flowed down my throat.

Li Wei clicked his tongue, feeling that for him, the holy water seemed to have little effect other than slightly clearing his mind.

But the faint aura of divine power within it is undeniable.

The tavern's mead can sell for half a tal, but my holy water sells for 1.5 crowns a quart, not expensive!

Previously, Hansen sold his goods for one crown and one quart because there were few believers coming to the church to pray, and there wasn't enough faith power to nourish and bless the goods, so the quality was naturally average.

Nowadays, thirty to forty people come to pray every day, and last Sunday even saw four to five hundred people. The quality of the holy water this time is at least better than what Hansen bought before.

The cultivation of this divine mage, as it stands, is indeed quite costly.

The materials needed to practice just a few basic spells, or to practice or use them once, would cost several Tal. With the help of coffee, Levi learned a "Basic Healing" spell, which also cost him quite a few Crowns.

This is just a basic divine spell; the money required for the intermediate and advanced spells in the future will probably be even greater.

If you don't try to make more money, it's probably not going to work.

With this income alone, I estimate it will barely be enough for my spiritual practice for the next period of time.

Fortunately...

The quintet tax is the main source of revenue, but... I can only collect the quintet tax for one or two years at most...

Looking at the old hen Nathan brought back, Li Wei nodded in satisfaction.

With such a helper, I don't have to do many things myself, which saves me a lot of trouble.

I thought I would have to do it myself, but Nathan was very skilled and chopped the whole chicken into small pieces in no time.

Li Wei took a ceramic pot, put half of the chicken pieces into it, added water, and then put it on the stove to cook.

The other half is to prepare to stir-fry it and make a spicy chicken dish.

Speaking of which, we have scallions and garlic here, but no chili peppers or ginger.

Moreover, the only seasoning is salt; there's no MSG, chicken bouillon, soy sauce, or anything like that.

Fortunately, Li Wei's house by the sea was well-equipped with all sorts of seasonings, including some dried chili powder and ginger.

There is no stir-frying in this world, and even the pots are flat-bottomed pans.

Li Wei could only sigh and do his best.

As Li Wei waved his hand and sprinkled in the seasonings one by one, a rich and enticing aroma slowly wafted out.

"Ah owe!"

Nathan, who was squatting on the ground tending the fire, sneezed violently from the smell of chili peppers.

"I'm...I'm sorry, sir!"

Nathan's face flushed red as he nervously looked at Levi.

"Bring two plates," Li Wei said.

Nathan quickly wiped his hands, took two plates from the cupboard, and brought them over.

Li Wei took the spicy stir-fried chicken out of the pot, and then seasoned the chicken soup and took it out of the pot. Although the pots and pans were not very handy, they were fragrant and tempting, and he should be able to manage to make about 70-80% of the flavor.

"Nathan, toast some white bread. I'll take two slices, but toast as many as you need," Levi instructed Nathan as he helped bring the chicken soup to the table.

"Yes."

Nathan was carefully toasting bread, while Levi sat at the table, scooped up a bowl of chicken soup, and slowly drank it.

After finishing the mouthful of fragrant chicken soup, Li Wei couldn't help but let out a satisfied sigh.

So fragrant.

Nathan then brought over two slices of freshly baked bread.

With a piece of spicy chicken and a bite of bread, it's not as good as rice, but it's better than nothing.

Actually, there was a bag of rice in Li Wei's little house by the sea.

But... those seasonings, you can understand them since they came from medicinal herbs, but rice...

At least, in the original owner's memory, Shadow Town had never seen or heard of this thing.

Therefore, Li Wei could only make do with bread for the time being.

After eating half a can of chicken soup, a large plate of spicy chicken, and two slices of bread, I finally filled my stomach and satisfied my appetite.

With his fill of food and drink, and now that Nathan was helping the church, Levi finally felt much more at ease.

"Alright, Nathan, try to finish the rest."

Li Wei gave an order, but after glancing at the bright red spicy chicken, he added, "If you can't finish it, put it in the cupboard."

"Yes, sir."

Watching the priest leave, and glancing at the fragrant chicken soup on the table, Nathan swallowed hard, picked up his few slices of toasted black bread, and sat down at the table.

Although the priest meant for him to bake white bread for himself as well.

But Nathan was very dutiful; white bread was only for priests, and he was content with eating black bread.

Then he carefully poured a small half bowl of chicken soup and took a small sip.

As soon as Nathan took a sip of chicken soup, his eyes lit up instantly, and he couldn't help but quickly take another sip.

He had never tasted such delicious chicken soup before...

With this bowl of chicken soup, he ate two slices of black bread, looking at the plate of strange, bright red chicken with an enticing spicy flavor.

Nathan carefully ate a piece, then his face immediately turned bright red...

After drinking two bowls of cold water, Nathan was able to relieve the intense spiciness and finally let out a long sigh of relief.

As expected of the priest, he can actually eat something so potent.

Looking at the remaining half-jar of chicken soup, Nathan swallowed again, but still quickly put the soup into the cupboard.

This chicken soup is so delicious, the adults can have it for their next meal. I can't be too greedy.

Li Wei went back for a nap, then, refreshed, began practicing his "soothing techniques" again.

Cultivating magic is indeed a very difficult thing. Even if Li Wei focused on adding points, it is still quite difficult to build a successful magic model.

On one hand, he had to use divine power to catalyze the potion in his hand, and on the other hand, he had to combine the properties of the potion to absorb and build a model. At least in Li Wei's opinion, this was much more difficult than making a program on a computer.

Fortunately, Li Wei gradually got used to the hardship of this kind of cultivation. He endured the fatigue after each spell failure and continued to cultivate as long as he had enough energy.

After failing five or six more times, the project was gradually getting closer to completing the spell model.

"call..."

Looking at the potion materials in his hand, as the spell model failed for the third time at the final stage and turned to ashes once again, Li Wei breathed a soft sigh of relief.

Regardless, we're not far from success this time.

Looking at the coffee in his hand, which was only a third full, Li Wei didn't hesitate and gulped it down.