Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4: Red Eyes
Benjamin glanced at Lucien, then walked to the burned witch’s house with his unique, elegant rhythm. He spoke slowly and quietly: “Evil witches always like playing with the mind and the perception of kind – hearted people, especially at the night of the silver moon. However, this witch didn’t know the real enormity force, her spells are only able to affect one or two people.”
After hearing Benjamin’s explanation, Lucien fully understood why only he could hear the cry, while other people in the village were still asleep. Even though they woke up and listened carefully, they couldn’t hear anything.
Benjamin didn’t leave a chance for Lucien to talk. He stretched out his hand, showed his white gloves and continued: “I and these four guards of the church were blessed by the G.o.d, so we are able to hear this voice of evil.”
Hearing his word, all four guards immediately signed a cross on their chest, chanted together
“Only Truth is Eternal.”
It seemed that they became slightly excited after that. Other civilians in this poor village, who were observing from a distance, also prayed quietly “Only truth is eternal.” Then they also whispered “This is the power of the G.o.d, he is absolutely an honored priest.”
In the vaguely praise, Benjamin’s face became more serious and solemn. He extended his arm and uttered a short, strange word:
“Paso.”
All the room was covered by a slightly white light after Benjamin’s word. It looked like a reflection of the silver moon in the sky. Enveloped in the white light, on the wall connected Lucien home and the witch’s home, a b.l.o.o.d.y red entrance appeared. Under the effect of the Divine – type spell and the mysterious incantation, Lucien and the surrounding civilian shocked. Their mood fluctuated, but the civilian felt revelled and fear, while Lucien felt fear and desired.
Benjamin pulled his hands back, then gave an order to the nearest guard: “Gary, that is the secret entrance. There aren’t any magic traps around here, so you go to open it.”
Gary hit his chest, caused a noisy sound of impact from his armor: “ Yes, Sir Benjamin.”
When Gary and another guard went to the wall, Lucien eavesdropped a quiet swearing from Benjamin: “Those megalomaniacs at Court of Judification only used “Detect Magic Traps”; they didn’t even use “Detect Secret Doors”! They neglected it just because this witch is a mere apprentice?”
With the guide of the Divine – type spell, Gary showed his powerful muscles by isolating this wall in a few hits. Another guard pulled out his sword, hit the wall multiple times. Then a cover was. .h.i.t and broken , revealed a black corner of the entrance.
The entrance wasn’t large. It was big enough for one person. A wind blew through, brought a stench from inside. Benjamin knitted his eyebrows, used his right hand to cover his nose and mouth, while Lucien felt like nausea, and he stepped back two steps.
Gary ran inside the entrance a bit, observed carefully, then ran back and reported: “Sir Benjamin, this secret pa.s.sage leads to the sewer. “
Benjamin knitted his eyebrows closer, stared at Gary. It seemed that he was very unpleasant with this information: “Are you sure?”
“Yes, sir! This diagonally pa.s.sage leads to the lowest level of the sewer!” Gary replied with utter certainty.
Benjamin didn’t say anything. As an elegant and n.o.ble priest, as a member of a long standing, high glorious Lafadi family, he couldn’t imagine that he would walk inside a dirty, stinking sewer. He also stored structure of some Divine – type spells inside his soul, but there were no “Purification”. If he wanted to cast “Purification”, he had to rely on incantation, spell and hand gesture. h.e.l.l knows how many times he would have to use “Purification” if he went through this pa.s.sage!
“Anyway, she just is a magic apprentice, the Emblem of Truth might be enough to deal with it.” Benjamin didn’t really care. Then he looked at Lucien, loosened his right hand and talked. His voice was soft but solemn: “ You stayed near the witch, your body had been contaminated with the evil force. Only atonement can purify you. However, your devotion to our G.o.d impressed me, so I will lend you my holy emblem. Once you purify the remaining evil force of that witch, you will be able to regain our G.o.d’s blessing. Go, Lucien, work for our G.o.d, his eye will be watching you.”
Lucien’s mood relaxed a bit after he went to the church and led Benjamin and Gary’s group to this room successfully. Now, there were four church guards and one priest in here; purification a wraith might be not a difficult task. Even if it was a really difficult task, it wouldn’t need the help from a normal person like himself, who just recovered from a serious illness. Therefore, after hearing Benjamin’s word, there was a voice echoing inside his head: “He even forces me to purify the Wraith? Me? I am just an ordinary person!”
Saw the surprise and the resistance in Lucien’s face, Benjamin’s soft voice resounded gently: “Are you not willing to do it?”
Although there wasn’t any malice inside his word, Lucien immediately shuddered. He knew that if his answer was “no”, he would be very highly likely to become a dead body in here. According to Benjamin’s word, If he accepted Benjamin’s order, Benjamin would lend him his holy emblem. Moreover, some guards would also go down. They only had to deal with an incomplete Wraith, which was created by a magic apprentice, whom Benjamin didn’t pay so much attention to, so the risk should not be so high.
Either Benjamin was really hating the dirtiness of the sewer, or he had a different intention; if he screwed this so – called simple action, it would not bring anything good to him.
Lucien suppressed his hateful intention of his heart, then replied with a stiff smile: “ I am willing to serve our G.o.d.”
Benjamin didn’t care about Lucien’s stiffness.He used his right hand to take down the holy emblem from his neck, then gave it to Lucien: “This is the Emblem of Truth. Later I will cast a “Bless” to you, so you can concentrate more easily. Then you rub your finger on the holy emblem, use your spiritual power to connect with it, and with incantation, you can activate G.o.d’s power hidden inside the Emblem.”
After suppressing his emotion, Lucien was very curious with that holy emblem which can cast divine – type magic. The holy Emblem had a golden background, was engraved with a white cross which could s.h.i.+ne a faint aura. Around the cross, in the golden background, there were a lot of chaotic lines, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles and various other shapes. These shapes entangled with each others in a strange way, made the cross become very mythical and dignified. When he held the emblem in his hand, he immediately felt a soft and gentle power come from that. This power quickly spread out his whole body, made him feel like the warmth of the sun, even he was faced with the cold wind of the night.
“There are two level 0 Divine – type spells inside the Emblem – “Light” and “Cure Minor Wounds”, each spell can be used three times per day; and three level 1 Divine – type spells: “Holy Light s.h.i.+eld”, “Sword of Glory” and “Holy Light Strike”. These spells only be used once per day, now, listen to their incantations.”
Lucien knew that there is no way of turning back. He had to go down to the sewer, so these divine – type spells were very important to him. He tried to learn by heart everything Benjamin taught. The incantation of all these spells were one – syllable words, however, their p.r.o.nunciations were extremely difficult. Lucien had to spend a lot of effort to p.r.o.nounce them barely correctly.
Benjamin nodded slightly, stretched his right hand out.
This time, there were not any incantation, however, a white light enveloped Lucien’s body. It made Lucien feel that his body is full of power, stronger than ever. His senses also were more sensitive, now he could hear the sound from further.
“”Sir” priest lets Lucien go down, and even lend him his holy emblem?”
“Didn’t listening? It’s the mercy of “sir” priest, he let Lucien go down to wash away his sin.”
“Praise the G.o.d! Praise the priest!”