Give Them Three Bishops

Chapter 766: Give Them Three Bishops"...Fear?"

Isabel was stunned.

"Mm. Because they were all goblin slaves, and slaves weren't allowed to take other people's things without permission. To their masters, that was a disgrace—it meant they were shaming their masters by 'lacking and being poor.' A slave who took something without permission could even be sentenced to death.

"But slaves likewise had no right to refuse gifts given to them by others. Since Avalon's people were all Free People, slaves had no right to refuse a Free Person's gift.

"So they knelt because they were terrified and begging for mercy... 'Please, don't kill me'—that was probably what they meant."

Aleister vividly recounted the knowledge she had recently learned from Theocracy. She looked rather smug, like someone showing off something new to her girlfriend.

"—Transcendents can actually become slaves?"

Isabel was astonished. "Then afterward..."

Aleister shook her head. "Afterward, the goblin manager in the Construction Team probably opened up their permissions and allowed them to accept gifts. After all, openly executing slaves within Avalon would have been inconvenient—and far too savage and bloody for us.

"...And their bows and blessings afterward were the gratitude those trolls wanted to express. If nothing unexpected happened, those trolls probably really did bless the residents... because they couldn't understand Avalon's culture of 'only praying for blessings verbally.'

"After all, trolls could truly bestow blessings on others through rituals—but blessings were abilities of the Dedication Path. Forcing the Path of Transcendence to imitate them, or maintaining them over a long period, was extremely difficult. At their low level, using them would very likely shorten their lifespans."

"Really..."

Isabel grew serious. "Then I have to order people not to ask the trolls for blessings. They came to build railways for us free of charge, so we can't