God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

The next morning, Keith woke up and took a nice, hot water bath before he headed over to the church to ask for an official workplace for his team.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He walked into the church and compared to the one in Baroma Kingdom, this one looked way less impressive. It was smaller, but he liked this smaller church building more than the larger one.

Stay updated with empire

Instead of the confessional, he walked past a door that was specifically meant for the staff and walked along the corridors until he reached the room where the person who was in charge of the church resided.

He looked at the small wooded board with the name, Priest Pascal. Three knocks were made on the door and Keith heard a voice come out.

"Come in, child. Whoever you are."

Keith pushed the door open and looked at the young priest. He was fully clad in white robes, having below average looks but his smile was a warm one. Being in his presence felt like getting in a magical hot spring as Keith's body relaxed along with his mind.

But while this did feel good, Keith couldn't help but frown, "Your awakened ability?" he asked as he took out a few papers and looked at the priest who nodded, the smile still plastered on his face.

"Yes, but I can't really stop it so I apologise if it makes you uncomfortable."

"Nah, it feels good. As long as it isn't used against me, I'm fine." Keith responded as he placed the papers on the table and took out his pipe before lighting it up. While Priest Pascal read the papers, he took one nice drag and felt the relaxed feeling reduce.

Pascal silently read everything and then looked up at Keith looking slightly uneasy, "So, you're an inquisitor huh? I didn't think that Auberg district would need a team of inquisitors so I'd like to know the reason for your choice."

Usually, Inquisitors set up their offices in extremely populated places or the ones where there's a lot of crime. Auberg district on the other hand, wasn't too populated and while there was crime, it had just started to bloom and was also being suppressed.

Which meant that people outside shouldn't have known about the state of Auberg district this soon.

Keith looked at the priest with a straight face and answered, "It's confidential, but..." he said as he shot a system seed at Pascal before accessing his thoughts and memories.

With the help of his system server, he asked it to compile data that connected Auberg district to Pascal.

Long walls of text began to pop up in front of Keith, which meant that Pascal had a long history here and since Keith couldn't read everything right now, he decided to put the matter on hold.

"It's confidential, but I guess I can tell you one thing. I'm here to erase the gangs."

Pascal froze for a second before nodding, "I wish you good luck. As for an office... feel free to use the one that our detectives are using. I'm sure they'll help you with your goals too."

"Great, now it's time to talk about payments." Keith said and saw Pascal smile.

"Yeah, don't worry about money. 20 Zen for you, 10 Zen for Lady Clara, 10 Zen for Nathan and 3 Zen for both Laura and Caleb. A total of 46 Zen, did I get that right?"

Keith nodded as that was exactly the salaries that Maria's grandfather had fixed for his team, and that was what was written in one of the papers. It was a large amount of money, but Keith knew one drawback from this.

It was the lack of commissions. Detectives would get extra money in the form of commission from the clients on top of their weekly salary, but Inquisitors didn't get any of this.

Even then, this was a stable income source and Keith preferred this way more than those inconsistent clients when it came to money matters.

He talked to the priest for two more minutes before he walked out of the room and strolled out of the church, only to see his Inquisitor team standing along with his ex-coworkers.

"What are you guys doing here?" he asked as he walked over to them and Edward grinned as he responded, "Well, Laura here saw you head into the church, and since we were all inside the church, to collect out weekly salaries, we were able to gather before you came out.

Anyways, what's the verdict? I'm guessing that you want to set up your base in Auberg, so what kind of place did the priest offer you? A luxurious office that's like.. huge? or did he just give you a villa and-"

"He told me to share the office with you guys.. though, I reckon that it's going to be crowded." Keith cut him off and sighed, "Though, I'm thinking of renting a place separately with my own money but I do have plans of working together with you guys."

Brandon nodded, "Yeah, it's better to get a new office but usually the priests take care of all the necessities. An inquisitor team being pushed to share an office with the detective department is something I've never heard about."

"Captain Keith, why don't we just buy a house instead? The three of us are looking for one, so why not buy a house with two to three bedrooms and use one of the rooms as an office? This way, we'll be able to split the rent and also save up some money." Caleb voiced out his thoughts and his two friends nodded in response.

"We'll talk about that later. But for now, we have a few important things to do." Keith said as he took out his revolver, "I'm making it mandatory for the members in my team to have a revolver. I know a guy, and since all of you have gathered, I feel like now's the right time to just go and get you guys some weapons."

Laura frowned as she looked at Keith, "Captain, did you forget? We donated most of our money to the mysterious person who needed our help."

"Oh, of course now. I'm buying the weapons for you guys."