The High Priest's words made the Voidwalker laugh out loud in contempt. The Lich Walker, who was hidden in the shadows, cackled maniacally.
When the laughter died down, the Lich Walker raised his vibrant green staff and hissed menacingly. "Today, it looks like I'll be acquiring one of the rarest souls on the market. What does your soul look like, O' Reverend High Priest? Hee hee hee!"
The green aura of the undead suddenly surged out of the Lich Walker's body.
The other Voidwalkers did nothing to stop him; they only sniggered in approval. Letting this High Priest go was something that never crossed their minds, even though they believed they had yet to figure out his motives. Why would they waste more time questioning a living man, when they could interrogate his soul after his death?
The Cleric Walker, an apostle that had long since abandoned the Church, walked forward. "Sir First Walker, a word please."
The mad monk here refers to Jigong, a famous Chan (more widely known as Zen) Master in Mahayana Buddhist tradition and Chinese folk religion. He supposedly possessed supernatural powers which he used to fight injustice, but he’s most well-known for being an eccentric monk who breaks Buddhist monastic codes, such as eating meat and drinking alcohol. I suppose the parallel here is that the Cleric and the Paladin breaks their own religious codes by lewding young girls even though they are… upstanding???? Okay, the only remote connection I see to me is that the Cleric and the Paladin haven’t actually gotten Jeffery Epstein-y with girls and had so far shown to be as perverted as your typical otaku, which is “maybe okay”?
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Anyway, fun fact: in Theravada Buddhism, the oldest extant school of Buddhism, it’s not forbidden to consume meat; Theravadan monks are expected to accept all kinds of food from people. Though affluent families could afford to prepare separate food for monks and themselves, food is much more scarce to other people in the past. Most people could only offer whatever meals they were having, which may include poultry and fish. However, adherence to vegetarianism *is* a more important monastic code in most Mahayana Buddhism. A lot of Chinese Mahayana monks have their own monastery where they can farm their own vegetables, making it easier to enforce vegetarianism. On another note, some Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhist schools allowed monks to be married too, like in Japan. Most others, including the Buddha himself, demand monks and nuns to be celibate.
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So, there you go! Charm some woke baes with the knowledge I’ve given y’all!