“Where are we going?” Michal asked.

“We need you to get the Cleric Class. Well, not just any regular class,” I replied as both me and Michal were moving up through the streets of the city.

“I mean, I could have at least gotten some rest before we moved you know,” he said.

“I already gave you a Stamina Reinforcement Potion, stop whinging, anyway, it should be here,” I said as we stopped in front of a cemetery.

“What are we doing here?” asked Michal, “Especially with a Zombie Apocalypse on us, you want us to go to the Oakland Cemetery?”

“Yes, what we want is inside, we need to get to one of the Neal Monuments,” I said.

“Well, if you want to get to them, we should move this way,” Michal said.

Michal pointed, and I nodded following after him.

“Why did you decide to go at night though, isn’t it dangerous?” he asked.

“Yeah it is, at least we’ll only have to deal with Undead at night,” I said.

“Isn’t that what we actually want to avoid dealing with?” he asked.

“Of course, but humans are far worse. You’ll see that soon when people start getting their hands on abilities and powers, human nature is going to reveal it’s ugly side. So it would be best to get this done and over with soon,” I said.

“You’re very strange,” Michal Said but I had to stop him from talking.

I spoke as low as I could, “There are two undead wandering around the Monument, wait here,” I said.

He nodded to me and held his own, he was still holding the rifle he had from the church on him, and I wish he’ll never use it. Since it’ll probably save his life for a moment, only for the sound of the gunshot to attract every other monster in the vicinity, I need to do this fast.

I approached the two undead as quietly as I could, and once I was close enough to land a blow one of them turned. Only to have the edge of a sword cut right through his neck.

I immediately followed with a stab into the second undead’s temple using a secondary knife I had on me.

Both weapons are only infused with mana crystal dust. They won’t last for long.

I turned to Michal and nodded for him to approach.

He slowly made his way through the bushes and graves and arrived at the monument. It was that of a woman and a daughter where a large cross was standing between them.

“Touch it, and say, start Trial,” I said.

“You didn’t explain anything though, what’s going to happen?” he asked.

“Don’t worry about it, just do it. Also, make sure you don’t kill anything,” I said smiling.

Michal didn’t understand the meaning behind my words, but he’ll soon figure it out when he is in trial.

Michal Touched the monument and immediately disappeared from sight.

“Good luck,” I said and waited in front of the monument. Waiting for any unfortunate undead to come towards us.

Time trickled by and sooner than ten minutes, Michal Came out, he was out of breath and was about to strangle me. Before he sighed and said, “You’re a fucking asshole you know,” he said.

“How was it?” I asked.

“You could have at least explained things to me. Damn, I was there for a week,” He said.

“That’s normal, things work differently in the trial, so did you kill anyone?” I asked.

“No, it was pretty damn hard too. But why did you ask me to not kill anyone?” Michal asked.

“Because they were all innocent souls, so, did you get your class?” I asked.

“Yes, Saint Class,” he said. “It says that it’s a legendary class, what does that mean?” he asked.

“Let’s go back and I’ll explain on the way,” I said.

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The two of us walked back making sure that we weren’t being followed or had any undead readying up for an ambush.

“So, what did you see inside,” I asked.

“Euh, you should know by now, after all, you told me to not kill anyone, shouldn’t you know the details?” he asked.

“I do, but I just want to make sure of a few things,” I said.

“Okay, so I arrived at an empty space when I received a quest. I was tasked of saving a village ‘Where a witch lived’. I didn’t understand what was going on. But after the first day of arriving to the village, I could see how dreadful and poor state it was. The people there asked me to save them from the evil Witch that was killing people and causing a lot of illnesses and diseases to spread …

At first, I was confused, but once I saw a church inside the village I seem to have understood the reason why I was brought there. I managed to convince the people in the village that I’m a Man of God, and they asked me to take matters in hand in hunting the witch. Michal stopped for a moment, some ugly sights were probably flickering in his memory from the sights he saw in the village.

“The former priest was acting as a force against the witch, but he was a greedy bastard who did whatever he wanted in the village, and when things didn’t go his way, he claimed that the person was a witch or a disciple of her. The village then gathered around and burnt that person,” he said.

“But at the same time, he was unlucky enough to have tried to assault a girl from the village who ended up being the actual ‘witch’. She killed him and his spot as the church’s priest was vacant. No one wanted to take it in fear of the witch’s retaliation, but I grabbed it and began doing sermons.

I tried my best to help the people of the village to better their lives and at the same time come to understand the ‘Witch Hunt’.”

I realized after a while that the whole town was actually suffering a pandemic and no matter how much I asked them to go back into their home and go into quarantine, they were too strong-headed to understand the severity of their situation.

More people ended up falling sick. And the village once again gathered around claiming that the witch once again started acting and we needed to burn her along with the people who fell sick as they were considered followers of the witch’s teachings…which was pretty fucking stupid.

Someone had pointed out that a certain girl who was the person that the late priest has been found with had actually tried to give him something to drink and he fell ill afterward.

With this information, people acted. They had captured the girl and managed to hit her on the head with a blunt weapon causing her to fall unconscious. They claimed she was a witch and wanted to burn her at the stake.

I intervened and dismayed them as much as I could by doing such a vile act. But it was difficult. The best I could do was delay her execution. Since I couldn’t ask the girl what she was doing, I decided to take matters in my hand and check up on her lodging and belongings. Once I arrived to her hut, I found many herbs and concoctions all over the place. Then it all came to make sense. There never was a witch in the village. The whole town was plagued with a disease and the girl was trying to make medicine for the people.

I did my best to try and confront the people and convince them that she is a healer, but the fuckers wanted to burn me along with her as I was also a witch follower that had fallen from the ‘grace of god’.

It was pretty damn annoying, then something strange happened…”

“The cross and the book,” I said grinning.

“How did you know?” he asked.

“I asked you to take them with you for this very reason,” I said.

“Yes, so the book and the cross you asked me to take with me began shining bright, the golden glow from them immediately caused everyone to hesitate, a few even began worshipping, so I had to stop them. I also received a skill,” he said.

“Minor heal,” I said.

“Man, how do you know that?” he asked.

“Keep going,” I said as the two of us continued moving outside the cemetery.

“So, I tried using Minor Heal on one of the sick people, but it didn’t work at all, and the people began hesitating and thinking that I’m a quack or a fake priest, they even said that the golden light was probably a spell of the witch. So I thought carefully and decided to use Minor Heal on the girl they claimed to be a witch.

Once I did, she woke up and began explaining the situation even better. She realized that the town had been tainted with a strange sickness and found a cure, the priest realized that and wanted to kill her since if the village was cured he’ll lose a lot of his power. But she used poison to kill him instead. So after that, I helped the girl make more of the cure and soon began giving it to sick people. Although it was fucking annoying since everyone thought she was going to poison them. But the very sick people had no choice but to drink her concoction, and soon they were revitalized. With that, the witch had become the savior of the village and everyone had been cured…” he said.

“Well, that’s pretty nice isn’t it,” I said as the two of us arrived at the main street.

“Why did you tell me to not kill anyone though?” he asked.

“The Saint class requires a person to have the ability to save a person without sacrificing another. You could have easily ignored the blight of the people and have them burn the witch since the Main Quest asks you to only to “Save” the village. If you kill the witch, or had a hand in her death the quest will be complete. If you also had agreed to burn the people who had been considered ‘witch followers’ for only being sick. You would have also been considered to have had a hand in murder. You however managed to save everyone in the village with that tiny brain of yours, I’m actually impressed,” I said.

To be honest, I’m not the least bit impressed, because he had actually done exactly what he did in his past life. This quest, anyone else who had taken it couldn’t figure out what was going on. It wasn’t that hard to find out the truth about the witch but at the same time when thrown in another world in a different setting and a lot of stressful shit going on all over a person, they would not be able to keep a calm and collected mind as Michal can. After all, this person, as long as he is present, no one dies.

He is as smart as he is an asshole, and that’s a damn genius.

“You now have a class and a skill, also the reason your Minor Heal didn’t treat their sickness wasn’t that it was a low-tier healing skill as most would think. But Minor Heal only cures wounds, if you had Dispel Disease, you could have cured the whole town without the witch’s help,” I said.

“Oh, that’s another skill then, how can I get it?” he asked.

“When the First Integration is over, you’ll be able to upgrade yourself and your skill set. For now, let’s go back,” I said.