The Priest Submachine Gun passed from hand to hand among the priests, bringing joy to every priest who tried it.
For these down-to-earth priests, powerful attacks meant joy, and an exceptionally high rate of fire meant joy.
Joy meant shooting enemies full of holes with a "pew, pew, pew."
The knightly lords drawn over by the gunfire saw the Knight Breastplate riddled with holes, and their mood immediately soured!
In their minds, priests ought to be protected by heavy infantry, saving the critically wounded on the battlefield.
Or even staying safely in the rear, treating the critically wounded sent back from the front.
Wars had been fought this way for hundreds upon hundreds of years.
What do you priests, whose job is to save lives and heal the wounded, need such violent weapons for?
Are you going onto the battlefield to compete with us for military honors?
Yet during the war against the orcs, the priests had already witnessed the orcs' treachery.
Those orcs would not fight by human rules.
Orcs ambushing priests as they treated the critically wounded was a common occurrence.
They were unlike priests in the game, who could happily fight monsters from level one.
Priests in reality had limited means of attack and few worthwhile offensive spells.
Offensive spells such as Holy Fire were not particularly powerful against creatures other than undead and demons.
When priests faced an orc ambush, they had no better way to fight back than to cast a Holy Light Shield on themselves and then smash the orcs' damned heads open with a mace.
Having learned from these bloody lessons, Archbishop Faol had developed the paladin class to address this.
But not every priest could be trained as a paladin.
As for learning shadow spells as a means of attack, that was