Chapter 515 - Terribly Unreliable (1/2)

As an angel, Nia’s character was probably trustworthy.

However, having Roland run to the Temple of Light to find creatures of darkness was too ridiculous.

It was almost unfeasible.

The Holy Realm itself didn’t allow outsiders to enter, let alone go in to look for any creatures of darkness.

The good thing was that Schuck was a Saint Samurai, which allowed him to make a breakthrough in this quest.

Roland immediately pinged him in the guild chat.

Roland: “I have an angel on my side, saying that you have a dark creature hiding in the Holy Realm.”

Schuck: “Huh? How is that possible!” Roland: “I was more surprised than you, but it was an angel who said that, so I thought it was more likely. After all, angels are DemiG.o.d beings.”

Schuck: “I know, I’ll talk to the pope about it, just wait a moment.”

The place where the Saint Samurai lived was not too far away from the pope’s audience hall.

Although it was communication via mind-typing, it still took time. Nia saw that Roland didn’t say anything for a while, so she took two steps forward again and asked, “Have you thought of any solutions? The dark creatures a.s.sociated with Parn are really in here, I can feel it.”

“I’m contacting my friend in the Temple of Light to see what’s going on.”

Nia, however, didn’t feel it was very reliable. “Can your friend influence the decisions of the higher-ups in the Temple of Light? If you say anything out of the blue, you might alert the enemy.”

“Is a Saint Samurai good enough?”

Nia’s body trembled, and the two tightly rounded globes of flesh on her chest shook twice under her clothes. She said embarra.s.sedly, “That’s good enough.”

The status of the Saint Samurai in the Temple of Light was clear even to the angels.

“Actually, we have such a special profession in the Church of Life as well.” Nia sized up Roland, nodded her head with great satisfaction, and said, “It’s called Lifeline Spiritualist, are you interested… Wait, how come there’s an additional smell of someone else on you?”

Nia looked a little unhappy. She leaned in toward Roland and sniffed gently.

A faint, indescribable floral fragrance came over him.

Roland subconsciously took a step back.

At this time, Nia also raised her head and said unhappily, “How can you be like this? It’s obvious that our G.o.ddess gave you her providence first, but you accepted the G.o.ddess of Magic’s providence as well.”

Nia’s expression was somewhat grudging as if she was looking at sc.u.m.

As soon as Roland heard this, he was not too happy. “You think I wanted it. The G.o.ddess of Life also left a mark on my body without my consent, and neither one of them said a word.” Although, his attributes did increase after being blessed by the G.o.ddesses, especially in health and magic power. But Roland always felt strange from the inside.

It was as if two strange older sisters drew a circle or an X on his body with a marker, and then smiled and said, “From now on, you’re mine.”

That was about how it felt. If it was just a G.o.ddess granting him providence, he wouldn’t have thought of it that way.

It could also be seen as a reward.

But both of them did so, and now that Nia said something along the lines of proclaiming sovereignty, it made Roland a little upset.

Although there was something about having such thoughts that felt like not admitting the benefit he’d received, as a modern male with a more independent personality, it was quite reasonable. Roland frowned immediately.

And Nia, as an angel, a DemiG.o.d, and a DemiG.o.d of Life, was very sensitive to subtle changes in people’s emotions. When Roland frowned, she felt it at once.

“Are you angry? Why?”

Nia felt puzzled. She was, after all, an angel on high, and although she was very old in the usual sense of the word, she had not yet reached adulthood physiologically, and more importantly, because she was so high up and spent most of her time in the divine realm, she came into contact with angels like herself or const.i.tuents of the divine realm.

These people were almost always good and upright and would speak up when they were unhappy.

And they loved her.

She had no true life experience at all.

So she couldn’t understand… Why would Roland be angry over a few words? She hadn’t said anything wrong. Since he’d accepted the G.o.ddess of Life’s providence, why did he go mingle with the G.o.ddess of Magic?

Looking at Nia’s slightly worried and aggrieved expression, Roland was dumbfounded at first and then laughed inwardly. What’s the point of being angry with an innocent angel?

“It’s not that I’m angry, but I just can’t understand it.” Roland laughed and said, “Back to what we were talking about, I can ask my Saint Samurai friend to investigate the dark creature on my behalf, but on your side, can you provide any help or support?”

Nia clasped her hands to her chest, thought deeply for a moment, and said, “This is the Holy Realm we’re talking about, and although our G.o.ddess is not on bad terms with the G.o.ddess of Light, it’s quite offensive to go in there rashly in any case. However, I will find a way to provide some help, so the rest is up to you.”

After saying that, Nia very naturally patted Roland’s shoulder.

A nice scent surrounded him.

Roland sighed slightly. “Then I’ll just have to take it one step at a time.”

“Be diligent, our G.o.ddess is very fond of you.” Nia smiled like a hundred flowers blooming, then she shook her wings and flew into the night sky so fast that the afterimage of a white line was left behind.

Seeing her leave, Roland teleported back to the underground library. Nia flew into the sky, rising until she was above the clouds, then she stopped. Then she hovered high in the air, opened her senses, and found the nearest source of faith in the G.o.ddess of Life-a temple. As she flew over the temple, she gently rubbed her delicate face with both hands again, and slowly, the slightly sluggish and naive temperament she had changed drastically. She went from a naive girl to a cold beauty. After that, she spread her white wings and landed inside the temple. The barrier of the divine power of life was spread out, and all the priests in the temple scrambled to the prayer hall, knelt reverently, and pressed their heads on the ground in excitement.

“Some darkness has appeared in the Holy Realm, and it is closely related to us, the Church of Life. However, the Church of Light is our allied religion, and we are not at liberty to offend their dignity, but you may secretly send a team in disguise to the Holy Realm to meet a Mage named Roland, who has the providence of our G.o.ddess, and follow all his instructions.”

“Your Holiness’s command is the direction we move in, the nourishment for our souls to ascend.” The Archbishop’s words were thick with excitement.

Nia, who was expressionless, flapped her wings lightly and flew up into the sky. The archbishop of the temple waited for a moment before standing up. He looked up in a daze, looking more and more devout, and finally turned around and said to the dozens of priests in front of him, “I’m sure you all heard the order from Her Holiness the angel, start forming an execution team immediately. First, find the one with providence named Roland, and then follow his orders! This time it’s an order from Her Holiness the angel, so it’s an honorable mission, and I’m not a.s.signing any men. You choose amongst yourselves.”

All of a sudden, the eyes of all the priests were on fire.

Being able to work for the angel, if done well and smoothly, might leave an impression on her.

When they died and ascended into the divine realm, they might be able to meet her again and talk with her.

This was the kind of thing that any slightly devout cleric of life would want to partic.i.p.ate in.

On Roland’s side, he had teleported back to a rather remote place in the capital, so as not to hurt bystanders with the spatial flux, and then teleported back to the underground library.

Andonara and the others were still in there, and when Roland returned, they were even helping Stephanie exercise.

Now two days had pa.s.sed, and Stephanie’s leg was regenerating and had already regenerated up to the ankle, so she would probably be able to regenerate her foot in three or four days.

She was able to recover so quickly, partly because of the Warrior’s high const.i.tution and good recovery ability, and partly because of Roland’s healing spell, which was decent.

It was almost as effective as the healing spells cast by a cleric of life at the same level.

After casting the healing spell on Stephanie again, Roland continued to read the accounts of other Mages in the library. Stephanie looked at Roland, who remained motionless for three hours in front of the bookshelf, and she couldn’t help but ask in a low voice, “Anna, your Roland, is there something wrong with him?”

Andonara gave her a puzzled glance.

“The three of us are all great beauties, and even if Beatrice isn’t quite as good, she’s still a beauty. But the three of us and him, a man, in a library where sounds within can barely carry outside, and he has no interest at all, just reading those stupid books. Without the slightest thought of that-is he still a young man?”

Beatrice, who was on the side, looked a little gloomy… What do you mean even if I’m not quite as good, I’m not bad at all, okay? What should be big is big and what should be small is small.