67 The Necromancer and the Priestess 1 (1/2)
Yin Mei returned to the white space, where she was greeted politely by the system. She didn't even need time to recover, immediately asking him to present the skills that she could take.
She looked at them.
This time, new skills had appeared.
Dancing, Singing, Etiquette.
She still couldn't understand the logic of these skills, but after a moment, decided on dancing. It would either be that or singing, but she really thought that dancing would also be beneficial to her martial arts and fighting, which seemed to be important even a seemingly harmless modern day world.
The system next provided her with a choice between three random worlds again.
Western Fantasy: Classic sword and magic world, with fantasy races. An epic story of heroes.
Ancient China: Alternate Ancient China during an era where war is brewing between countries. A story of war and love.
Death Game (Game World Ver.): Trapped inside a game world where death has become real, one must play until the end in order to return to the real world.
Yin Mei wanted to ask just how many different type of death game worlds there were in order for it to be picked twice randomly... although it looked like it was a different type of world from the one last time. She considered the three of them. All of them seemed fairly dangerous, but the one that caught her eye was the western fantasy world! Magic was romance!
She happily chose western fantasy. She didn't regret! Even if it might not have been the best choice, she wanted to use magic, magic! Cultivation techniques are already similar to magic? Bah! It wasn't the same thing okay?
When she next opened her eyes, she was in a spacious stone-walled room, knelling in front of an altar and well carved statue of a beautiful woman. She glanced around, and saw that there were no windows, and the room was dimly lit by a multitude of candles. The altar was filled with beautiful fresh white flowers, while luxurious tapestries hung from the walls.
Yin Mei felt that her hair was long and soft, and looking down, it was wavy and blond. She was a blonde haired foreigner now!?
She quickly dived into the memories and information.
This was, as stated before, a western fantasy world. There were in fact different races like elves, dwarves, dragons, fairies, and etc., but these races were actually rare and almost never seen. Yin Mei felt slightly disappointed.
Anyways, continuing, they were currently on the main continent of the world, where there were three empires and five large kingdoms that split the land between them. They were currently on decent terms with each other - that being said, there were tensions between some of the countries, it just had yet to develop to the point of war.
In addition to that, there was obviously magic, which mainly used the elements and invoked the power of the gods. Of course, there was also religion in the presence of real life gods. The most popular religion was that of the Goddess of Light - whose statue that Yin Mei was kneeling before at this very moment.
The Church of Light was the most famous and worshipped church in the main land, and Yin Mei's identity was also closely related to the church - she was the church's high priestess.
Her identity was a young 16 year old girl called Celestina, who had been raised in the church's orphanage from a young age. It was discovered that she had an especially strong affinity with the light element, perhaps one of the strongest seen in centuries. Because of this, when she was only ten years old, she was established as the church's high priestess. Although it sounded like a prestigious title, she had no real decision making power - though she did have some measure of authority, it could not be compared to the church's true decision maker, the Bishop.
In addition, there was one problem to being the high priestess. She could not leave the church. She physically could not leave the church. Yin Mei felt a thousand grass mud horses run across her heart. The high priestess herself was a intermediary for the seal that sealed the great demon laying underneath the church. Because of that, she was bound to this location, unable to go outside the church grounds.
The desire to curse was welling up in Yin Mei's heart. If she couldn't leave the church, then how in the world was she supposed to complete her mission! She demanded a setting change!!
After calming down, she continued to calmly go through the rest of the information.
The male lead of this time's plot was a member of the church's Knight Templar - knights that guarded the wellbeing of the citizens and protected the interests of the church. He was a man with a strong sense of justice and loyalty toward the church.
As for the female lead... she was the slave of the villain, who had fallen in love with the male lead and thus betrayed the villain, leading to his death.
Yin Mei quickly looked at the villain's identity, all while wondering if he was her demon king this time as well. She wanted to hurry and meet him to confirm, but d*mmit, she remembered she was still stuck inside this damnable church!
The villain this time was a necromancer that did many heinous deeds, becoming this continent's most infamous and wanted criminal. He had massacred hundreds of innocents, experimented on even more, and had dabbled in all sorts of forbidden black magic.
But this necromancer, El, had a shocking other identity. He had actually been part of the same orphanage that Celestina had, and had been tested as possessing a very strong dark affinity - the opposite of Celestina. At a young age, he was thus brought into a secret squad of spies and assassins that the church trained and used. A couple of years ago, he had defected and thus became the well known criminal of today.
Yin Mei read on further, and now understood the reason of Celestina's ending. Celestina had died, killed by the male protagonist, who afterwards sealed the demon that had become unsealed through El's methods using a new method that would no longer require a human intermediary, and instead used a holy weapon that he had been granted by the Goddess of Light.