61 The Black Gods Servan (2/2)

The chest plate I remove with ease and place it on the ground. Then I unbutton the shirt that I'm wearing underneath. I felt a little hesitant, I should be cautious they could fire an arrow at my chest.

Not that it would kill me, but it would hurt, nonetheless. Yet, this was something that had to be done! I couldn't back out of it now, or I'd never been able to progress this part of the quest.

Let hope those thirty points of trust would come in handy here and prevent me from having to take an arrow to the chest.

Slowly my white skin began to appear in the dim light of the torches. I pull the shirt apart once I've unbuttoned it. I hadn't developed a chest, so I didn't even hesitate to show my childish chest to others.

Maybe, I'll put up more of a fuss later on if someone wants to see my chest.

”Oh, by the Goddess herself,” the woman in front of me utters.

It should just be a bare chest; I don't know why she'd go as far as to say that… unless!

Turning my head downwards, I look at my chest. There was a black mark over where my heart was! You've got to be kidding me?!

It was the black face of a man on my chest, however, through the mark, an 'X' had been etched into the skin. My white skin was a light pinkish scar, the mark had been done quite viciously.

Well, that was unexpected this was proving to be a bit of a task, indeed.

”You're an ex-member of the Black God! Does that mean you've canceled your contract with him? Does he no longer hold dominion over your soul?” She asks me.

Instead of remaining on the ground, she stands up as she pulls the gloves off of her hands. Tossing them to the side she places her hands over the mark on my chest.

'Oh, Goddess of the White, hear your servants pray and turn your eyes to her. Please wash this one in front of you with your holy light!'

With that chant, a blinding light erupts from the two hands that she has over my chest. I felt my eyes water as I hastily close them as the light burns brighter. There was a burning sensation that began at her hands and traveled over my body, but I didn't move it was a bearable pain.

Soon the blinding light vanishes, and I peel my eyes open to see two wings of light starting to vanish from the back of the woman. She still has her hands on my chest, but they're not shinning like lights.

[-100HP]

Looks like I'd taken some damage for that!

”I told you that I didn't serve him,” I say smiling.

Even though, I kind of wanted to punch her. How dare she inflict damage on me when I'd saved her!

”You'd have been eviscerated by the Goddess [Holy Light] if you had,” she tells me.

Well, it seems that the arrow should have been the least of my concerns. She'd planned to fry me with the power of her Goddess. That was a bit unsettling, but I'll choose to overlook it for the time being.

At least the trial hadn't been completely rigged from the start. If it had been then I would have had to probably kill them, before they killed me. Which would have been an easy feat to do since they're all worn out from the waves of goblins!

But that might have lowered my completion rate for these new tasks.

”Well if I haven't been eviscerated then doesn't that mean that I don't serve the Black God? Thus, in that same respective I don't plan to harm you. I simply came to help. I help those in need and nothing more,” I say as I push her hand off my chest.

I start to button up my shirt.

There was a pause of silence, and I felt some butterflies in my stomach. I didn't know if I was playing this right, but I hope that I had won her over.

A soft murmur goes through the rest of the caravan.

I didn't make any moves, I just waited for the verdict from the female knight in front of me. She was obviously the most important person in this caravan of people, or else I wouldn't be issuing a task pertaining to her.

She was the only person that I was concerned about at the moment.

All of a sudden she starts to move. Raising a hand up, she reaches forward and pulls her helmet off of her head. Long brown wavy hair flows out of the helmet, and a rugged-looking woman looks back at me.

Reaching from, the base of her ear down through her lip is a healed scar. Blood and filth were smeared lightly over her warm brown face, and underneath all the filth is a beautiful looking woman.

Her eyes are a vibrant violet and are looking directly at me.

”Your name?” She asks me lightly, those violet eyes boring into mine.

”Hollis,” I state simply.

”I'm sorry to have doubted you, Hollis. Now I've seen through the Holy Light of the Goddess that you are what you say you are. I'm Theodora Umber, daughter of the Governor of the City Nerinphe,” she says giving me a small bow.

[Task Completed: Trust of the Female Knight Gained]

[ Caravan Trust +45]

[Caravan 75/100]

That was lucky, I'd raised it quite a bit. But it seems even with her trust gained there were still some that doubted me. It looks like I'd not escaped the fire just yet. Looks like I had more thorns to pluck.