I was lying in bed the events ast me blurred as I consciously attempted to slow down my own mind, my psi was draining quickly, at least to my fucked up perception of time. By slowing down my brain I also felt my pulse and breath becoming less and less frequent.

  My blood was slowing down significantly, I could feel cold seeping into my limbs as the situation progressed. With all of my bodily fluids slowed down to a crawl I attempted to force mana and ki in a controlled manner throughout my body.

  Well, the results were mixed. I gained another 5 stat points for the new training method and I could feel my body becoming more attuned to mana and ki. But when I woke up I could see several people with various rods and magnifying glasses poking my body and generally looking at me.

  ”Uh, scuze me, but I got lost in my experiment with psi and my body. Could you bring the doc that was talking with me I think 2 days ago? I fucked up my perception of time so it might be more than 2 days. I know he proposed me a job working here, the first time I saw him he had uninterested face expression if that helps.” I said, trying to smile slightly in an embarrassed manner.

  One of the people that was standing next to me said “Subject displays ability to communicate and possibly intelligence” I now noticed that my crystal cross was nowhere near me, by attempting to get up I noticed my limbs were chained to the bed.

  “Come on guys this isn’t funny, you said I’m a subject right? Then please kind sir or miss or whatever you identify as explain what the fuck is happening?! I was just experimenting with my own body. I didn't endanger anyone and the second I wake up I’m not a person anymore but a SUBJECT are you guys daft?

  I am a free person and I fucking demand my release or if it isn’t possible then explanation why am treated as test subject!” I basically screamed my last two sentences. My shitty luck was incredible not only I fucked up my body by a dumb idea then I get chained up for no reason.

  The same person looked at me with disgust and said “We know what you are, a demon, end this drama and leave this plane vile creature! No one would curse a priest other than a demon!” He started muttering something so I did too.

  “Oh lord your majesty is boundless and the heaven's gate is open for all!

  Grant the believer of thy faith strength to defend your priest!

  Oh lord grant me strength to vanquish these corrupted humans,

  Your light shines on all,

  Your mercy endless even for the scariest of the murders,

  Your glory and knowledge a testament to our folly of striving to better our mortal cloth before rising to rejoin you at the high golden throne in the high heavens,

  Oh Lord grant me your might and resilience to vanquish these imposters!

  Let me clean their souls, and forgive their sins as we forgive them!

  And don’t tempt us with temptation but bless us from the primal sin!”

  A pillar of light descended instantly melting the chains and blinding the fools that were too deep in their arrogance to see the truth. I could feel my flesh melting slowly as the power grew and grew. I had to do something before I melt into a puddle so I rose my hand high into the sky and mixed the divine power with my mana psi and whatever else would respond to cover all of the surrounding area. I wanted to cleanse people of disease, of curses, and hate.

  I almost fell unconscious as the power that responded to my wish vaporised the flesh of my hand, the gigantic wave of pure divine energy with some scraps of my other resources that were maintaining the direction of it spread over the area of over 5 kilometres.

  I’m not actually sure if it was 5 or 10 but It felt like 5. With every creature struck with the growing ring I could feel the sins and sickness converging into my body. Nothing is lost or gained. To heal the sick and cursed you have to bear their weight yourself.

  Well the assailants weren’t hostile anymore, hell they healed me fully before my knees hit the ground as my failing consciousness was struggling under the divine mandate set by God. Welp I guess I’ll be cursed and very sick for a while, or very prone to getting sick and cursed. I’m not sure which priests almost instantly cleansed the sickness and curses.

  “Sorry for doubting you Priest, but we had to make sure. After all, the expedition claimed that the strange artefact that you possessed was made by you. Before all of this situation we were supposed to greet and help the person who devised 2 intermediate training techniques for both magic and the body.

  But after seeing you asleep we went back to the temples simply posting one acolyte to sit next to you so he could notify us once you awoke. By the half of the day he noticed the artefact lying next to you on the bed and you can pretty much connect the dots from there.”

  The asshole from before said looking actually sorry. I didn’t understand the context but he was descriptive enough to let me know that training techniques were graded probably from low/basic to intermediate to high/whatever. And most importantly the people of this world could detect the energies inside the items which made me think how on earth so many curses came from.

  “Thanks for not actually being hostile at my weakest, since you guys could so easily detect bad energy it makes me wonder why so many curses were in the vicinity. As you probably saw the miracle I did created an expanding ring that was quite far. Its purpose was to cleanse sickness and curses along with hate. I’m not sure about the hate part but after hitting major population centres which were about more than one thousand souls the surge of curses came.

  They felt weak but there were a lot of them. I hope it isn’t common here, I can understand sickness but not curses. Also I’m hungry and I don’t have anywhere to stay for the night. I’m not even sure where my cut from the wyrm is.” I said my words slightly slurred due to the exhaustion from my body getting semi destroyed only to be remade once again.

  I opened my status and dumped half of my points into Wisdom and the other into Strength. I didn't feel the instant relief but it helped a lot. I could basically feel mana converging into my body mixing with my other types of energy and then forming my muscles cell by cell. And my status now looked like this

  Well, at least thanks to all of my dumb ideas I’m getting harder and harder to kill which is definetly an upgrade. I’m not exactly sure why my faith changed but I guess the base component was far better for pulling the necessary power. It’s also nice to see my status expand but I kinda hope I’ll be able to shorten it, so as to not get overwhelmed by the sheer data. I focused and I made it contain only the necessary things.

  Now we’re talking! It’s so small and compact, my eyes don’t bleed from looking at it anymore. It even added useful lines to allow for better readability.

  “The curse problem is indeed concerning, I don’t have more power than any other mortal man but I’ll make sure it will be investigated as for having somewhere to sleep, we would be honoured to have you at our temple as a guest. The money from the expedition has been deposited at the clinic to be withdrawn right after you leave. Normally it would’ve been done by depositing it in your bank account but it looks like you don’t have it or the local banks can’t access it.

  We could swing by the temple of Commerce and temple of Knowledge to get this sorted out. I heard you are from beyond the cursed desert, so I’ll explain in case the process is foreign to you. By registering yourself at the temple of commerce you will be able to store your money or other valuables in any bank in the world provided it follows the God of Commerce.

  By going to a church of knowledge and registering there you will be able to get a knowledge bank account which is solely dedicated for storing and trading knowledge. Both temples go hand in hand for these purposes.”

  He literally dumped on me shell after shell of revelations. I knew Gods existed at least according to the system, but also probably everyone could get access to any knowledge in the world provided they probably had enough other knowledge or had enough money or whatever else.

  So by trading money for knowledge you could theoretically gain more of it which would gain you more money which in turn would give you more knowledge. I’m not sure if this is a flaw or design choice as this forces people to study to earn and then study harder becoming more and more skilled, possibly increasing their mental stats too making them good spellcasters.