After returning to the small courtyard, Troy sat on a stone bench in the garden, lost in thought.

"Master, what's wrong with Sir Swordsman?" Bella asked, puzzled.

He had been sitting there since they returned, as if his soul had left his body.

"I don't know," Luo Wei said, perplexed. "He suddenly became like this halfway back and won't talk to me."

She had just made a joke, was that really enough to give her the cold shoulder?

"I know why," little Roman squeezed between the two and raised his hand. "Troy must be lovesick, he's thinking about the girl he loves."

"Mind your manners, you should call him Uncle Troy, understand?" Luo Wei pinched Roman's cheek and asked amusedly, "And who taught you words like 'lovesick'? You're too young to learn such things."

Roman puffed up his cheeks: "Tom said it. Tom's been lovesick recently, he's fallen for the carriage shop owner's daughter!"

Luo Wei laughed: "No wonder the carriage shop owner chased him out. So he was trying to steal his precious flower."

Roman looked confused: "But the carriage shop owner doesn't grow flowers!"

"It's just a saying," Luo Wei ruffled his soft hair. "Roman, I'll send you to school. Tom can go with you too. Children should read more books."

"Miss, I don't want to go to school." Roman hugged her leg.

Luo Wei said seriously: "Knights need to be well-educated. Don't you want to be my knight?"

"I do! I'll go to school. I want to be the most cultured knight!" Roman said immediately.

Luo Wei smiled mysteriously: "Good boy."

I've been waiting for you to say that. Now my plan to accelerate your growth can begin, my little carrot-top!

After instructing Bella to enroll Roman and Tom at the Siria Academy tomorrow, Luo Wei went upstairs to change clothes and returned to school.

She arrived at school earlier than usual today because she wanted to visit the library.

The original owner had lived in a fishing village all her life, so her knowledge and experience of the world were quite limited. She didn't even know about things like the divine favor they had encountered today.

To avoid such situations in the future, Luo Wei decided to devour all the books in the religion section.

After flipping through the books, she finally understood what a divinely favored one was.

A divinely favored one is a believer who has received the favor of a deity. These believers have a very pure faith in their god and are the promoters of the god in the mortal world, so they are also called the god's blessed ones by people.

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The god bestows a mark on their blessed ones, representing that they are the chosen ones. The god will protect this person in the unseen realm and grant them extraordinary abilities.

Divinely favored ones are rare, with only one born among tens of thousands of people, and most of them are nobles. They are almost non-existent among commoners.

The book believed that nobles are the descendants of gods, so they have purer and stronger souls, which is why they are loved by the gods.

Commoners, on the other hand, are descendants of sinners. Their souls are dark and dim, covered in dust, and they are greedy, ignorant, vulgar, and stupid, so the gods don't like to choose blessed ones from among them.

However, there is one type of god that likes to approach commoners, and that is the dark gods.

According to the book, there are over a thousand gods, big and small, on the Star of Galan, but only a few dozen are frequently mentioned. For example, the Sea God worshipped in the original owner's village, the Love Goddess that Axina believes in, as well as the Sun God, Moon Goddess, Thunder God, Fire God, Harvest God, Wisdom God, etc. These gods are collectively known as the Gods of Light.

The Church is the temple of the Gods of Light, with the Sun God and Moon Goddess as the supreme gods, the rest as major gods, and under the major gods are some minor gods, such as the Soil God and Irrigation God under the Harvest God.

These are all righteous gods, and opposite to them are the dark gods, such as the Wolf God, Undead God, Lich God, Plague God, etc., in the Dark God camp.

The dark god to whom the original owner sacrificed her soul was the Undead God from the dark camp. This is a very evil deity because He turns people's souls into undead, making them lost in the night, never able to ascend to heaven.

But Luo Wei thought that this Undead God might not be so bad.

After all, He fulfilled the original owner's wish.

On the contrary, that Love Goddess, who blessed someone like Axina, probably isn't a good god.

After reading the books, Luo Wei felt incredibly heavy-hearted.

Although she knew there were gods in this world before, she thought they were like those described in "The Song of Aldrich," sitting high in the clouds, not bothering with mortal affairs.

Now it seems that although the gods haven't descended to earth, they are indirectly controlling the power struggles in the mortal world through this divine favor system.

Luo Wei boldly speculated that the reason why righteous gods only choose nobles and not commoners is probably because commoners have no power at all. They can neither build temples for the gods nor gather faith for them.

And the reason why dark gods like to find commoners is probably because all the nobles have been roped in by the righteous gods. They can't pick up watermelons, so they have to make do with sesame seeds.

Luo Wei sadly realized that she was just such a sesame seed.

She was so excellent, yet no god came to favor her. They really had no eye for talent.

Luo Wei closed the book and was about to put it back when she stood up and suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back, as if hundreds of needles were pricking her. The pain was so intense that she almost rolled under the table.

After a good while, she was finally able to straighten up and reach back to touch her back.

No needles, nothing at all.

Oh no, could it be that she was being punished by the gods for badmouthing them in her mind?

Luo Wei's heart skipped a beat. She quickly returned the book to the shelf and hurriedly left the library, returning to her dormitory in the Rose Garden.

She closed the doors and windows tightly, drew the curtains, and then lit the oil lamp on the table.

She propped the small bronze mirror against the wall, with the oil lamp in front to prevent it from sliding down.

After doing all this, Luo Wei gently took off her top, turned her back to the oil lamp, and looked into the mirror.

In the dim bronze mirror, the flickering flame illuminated a mysterious black totem.

Luo Wei's pupils contracted as she looked at the intricate patterns covering her entire back in the mirror, her heart beginning to tighten involuntarily.

Good news, she had also been chosen by a god.

Bad news, it was a dark god that had chosen her.

When had the dark god chosen her?

Certainly not today.

Luo Wei suddenly remembered something from the original owner's memories, what Troy had said when he came to find her.

He said: Offer your soul to the darkness, call out the name of the Undead God, ask for His response, and He will help you through this ordeal.

At first glance, there seemed to be no problem, but thinking carefully, Troy had said this with such certainty. He seemed confident that she could get help from the Undead God. Why?

They were strangers, so why did Troy come to tell her these things?

Wasn't he afraid that she might report him to the temple to reduce her own crime?

Unless, she already had this mark on her at that time, and he had discovered it.

But when exactly did it happen?

A scene flashed in Luo Wei's mind: Vina had several strong men jump up to tear at her clothes, ripping her outer skirt apart.

The original owner was hanging on the city wall, her head lowered. When the back of her clothes was pulled, a large part of her shoulder would easily be exposed.

Luo Wei touched her right shoulder. This mark was large and clear. If someone was standing in a high place, they could see a corner of it.

At that time, was Troy standing on the city wall, or perhaps in a nearby tree, and happened to see this scene?

Luo Wei pondered as she put her top back on and put away the bronze mirror.

If it weren't for the sudden pain in her back today, she wouldn't have discovered that she had such a large totem on her body.

Great, now she had one more reason to be killed by someone.

"Oh, dark god, should I thank you for not putting this on my forehead?" she muttered sarcastically.

Really, just picking on her like a single sesame seed, putting such a large tattoo, afraid she might be able to cut it off with a knife?

Luo Wei was full of resentment, her impression of this Undead God hitting rock bottom.

To be continued