Mubay County, Bagpipe Town.
Those children from the Glass Island Church School were being organized by the school to come here for their annual trip.
After all, there was hardly anywhere to have fun on Glass Island—it was a place where every inch of land was worth a fortune. The most scenic spot was probably the island in the lake where the Silver and Tin Palace stood.
But the children still needed to see the natural scenery beyond the island, so they would know that not every place in Avalon had factories belching smoke and rumbling away, or trains constantly roaring along the tracks.
This would also help with their future employment.
The priestly resources on Glass Island were already saturated. Never mind newly graduated priests and assistant priests—even bishops were everywhere. There were nine churches on Glass Island, and each had more than one bishop of the Fourth Level or higher standing guard.
But in many places outside the island, even a fairly large city might have only one bishop. Most small towns did not even have a bishop, and had only one priest.
The church had no choice but to coax and deceive people into joining. After all, the Nine Pillar Gods Church had quite a lot of work to do.
People had to be sent out for the birth ceremonies, weddings, and funerals of the entire town. That alone was enough to keep them unbearably busy... Funerals were especially troublesome. When a body was buried, a true priest of the Extraordinary level had to be present to prevent the deceased from turning into an undead.
They also had to lead the believers in prayer every day, maintain the statues of the Nine Pillar Gods once a week, listen to confessions and provide psychological treatment, care for orphans,