73 The Ritual Pt.2 (2/2)

”What does that mean?” I ask him.

He looks down towards me with a gruff expression. It was a mixture of disgust and knowing.

”I believe that this is a ritual to block the holy light of the Goddess. Designed to call forth the power of the Profane God,” he sighs.

”Are you sure that is the case? You have only opened the back of one of the women here. There must be at least twenty more,” I say.

He shakes his head and signals to a solider that was watching us from a couple of feet back. The solider quickly walk forward.

It was a woman her face was set in a firm grimace and she saluted Odd. She had light blonde hair that peeks out from underneath her helmet. Her light-colored hazel eyes give me a glance before returning to Odd.

”Guild Master,” she greets him.

She was covered head to toe in armor. It was a deep black color and left enough room around her joints for easier mobility. On her chest was the symbol of a crest and then a fancy U in the center of the crest.

Are they perhaps they were under Theodora's Father?

”I want your order to go and carefully remove the clothing from the backs of these women. Try your best to not disturb their bodies too much. A dagger should be enough to cut through the clothes. Start at the neck if you had to but don't damage the skin of the women,” he tells her sharply.

”Yes,” she assents with a small bow. She turns and heads towards about ten others that are dressed in black armor and have the same crest. She quickly barks the orders and they head off to do their task.

I watch them and they easily follow the orders that had been given to them.

”They are capable, but I don't know if we will be able to weather this storm,” Odd says solemnly.

Looking up at him. I found that even though he said that his face was still rather carefree. Other than the small distress that I could detect in the firm grimace that made up his face.

”We don't know that it is what you believe it to be. We should proceed with caution but at the same time we can't lose hope,” I tell him firmly.

[Favorability with Guild Master (Odd) has increased by 10%!]

[Favorability is now at 25%. Favorable Amusement has also changed to Favorable Dependence. Your positivity is valued greatly in this situation!]

I want to grin, but I keep my expression under control. This was great! If I kept at this pace, I might have another person in my corner before these goblins invade.

The female guard came back over towards us.

”Guild Master! We've completely removed all the clothing on the back of each woman. We'll have the bodies down off the statue to examine in a moment. If you would like the women on the ground are ready,” says explains with another salute.

His eyes, again, look towards me. They basically were saying 'what is a child doing here'. But it seems that she was not brave enough to ask her superior.

I am sure that a lot of people are puzzled by the fact that I am at a crime scene and look like a child. But I did not have time to dwell on the fact.

On top of the other things that I had to do. The test wanted me to now find the [Servant of the Black God]! The last thing I needed was the suspicion to fall onto me.

I had done a lot to get the trust of Theodora and she was the only reason that I was probably not executed by her Father.

”Hollis let's go and check the others,” he says heading towards the now opened backs of the others.

Taking a deep breath, I try to keep control of myself. I found that the longer that I was around all the blood the less it was bugging me. Let's just hope that I can keep it together for the rest of this!