69 The Necromancer and the Priestess 3 (1/2)

Several days later, Yin Mei was able to meet the male lead of the plot for the first time. She hadn't really known what to expect, except she only thought that she would probably find him obnoxious - she really had those types of MCs that preached about justice and righteousness, after all.

Kai was a man whose looks, though handsome, were not as outstanding as El's or that of the guard captain that some of the priestesses favored. He had dark brown hair and light brown eyes, with a very heroic, and almost older brother like appearance.

As for Kai, in meeting the high priestess in person, he was naturally filled with the sense of awe that any devoted member of the church would have. He had seen Celestina from afar on multiple occasions, and every time he did so, he felt that they were in different worlds, despite both working for the sake of the church.

He had never expected to be selected for a member of Celestina's personal guard. Although he had some thoughts of rejecting them due to personal reasons, in the end, he knew that becoming the guard of the high priestess was an extremely important and prestigious duty, too much to give up. As a result, he accepted, despite the fact that he would now have to search for the criminal necromancer in his free time, instead of being able to pursue him as freely as he had while working.

When Kai first came into close contact with Yin Mei, the other priestesses kept a close eye on their interactions, to decide whether their ship was about to fall, or perhaps even if this new ship was worthy enough for their considerations. Kai felt that the high priestess was truly different from ordinary people like themselves, her holy aura and appearance making one almost believe her to be more angel than human.

On the other hand, Yin Mei's bad opinion of Kai didn't decrease - yep, after all, he was the type of male lead that she hated. She disliked this type of righteous person the most, especially since she felt that this type of person would go down the wrong path quite easily. Although if it was a side character, she might not say the same about them, since it was the protagonist... Yes, she was fairly biased.

Now that she had bound both the male and female leads to her side, she needed to make sure nothing bad happened. The problem was that the plot somehow had a way of trying to correct itself - at least, that was what she had discovered and experienced in the last world. In the former worlds, she tried to recall, but couldn't quite remember if this was also the case then.

Either way, she needed to stay cautious. With the beloved son and daughter of heaven aura that the two of them had, she had no doubts that they might stumble across some golden finger or another, or some good clue that would lead them to El's identity. With the two of them so close to herself as well, though this would make it easier to keep an eye on them, it would also make it easier for them to notice anything about herself.

Thinking about it like this, Yin Mei felt her head already hurting. She didn't think of herself as a very good schemer, but she had to work hard to balance this delicate situation and manipulate all the parties involved so that things went as she planned.

There was also the matter of releasing the seal.

If the great demon underneath the church was released, it would wreak havoc on the mainland. Yin Mei didn't really care about how many people would die, she was simply concerned with her own survival and that of El's survival in this case. Even with Celestina's ability, going up against an elder demon like that was still pushing it... wait, no, the demon would have been weakened by the skill, so if it was just escaping it was possible.

But Yin Mei had to plan for the future. She couldn't just let the demon destroy the entire main continent, the result being that she would no longer have a place to live.

She didn't know what the next quest would be beyond the unsealing, but she thought that about the quests so far. They had all been for the benefit of the villain. In the case of El, his main desire had been to free Celestina of her duties to the church and the chains that bound her to this location.

In other words, it shouldn't be a problem to reseal the demon using the method that the male lead had employed. But this would require that El not die at the hands of Kai before Kai resealed the demon. In the original story, El had been killed just as he unsealed the demon - of course, Yin Mei couldn't let that happen now that she was here.

Kai felt slightly uncomfortable as Yin Mei studied him, wondering what in the world was going on through the high priestess's head as her slow, unblinking eyes seemed to contain both the all the profundities of the world and the innocence of the world, creating a sort of contrast that still worked together in harmony with each other.

She finally nodded, to herself, and whispered to the little bird beside her in a voice that for some reason not even Kai could pick up with his keen senses. The interesting thing that Yin Mei had found out was that if one got creative, there was a wide variety of ways that they could use their magic. When one thought of light magic, they would normally thing of things like buffs, purification, healing, and etc., right?

That was the case for the residents of this world at least. But, as displayed by the charm and mind control magics, if one was creative enough, they could branch out in areas that one may not think possible at first. Another example were illusion and invisibility magic, which could also be used by both light and dark affinity users (water affinity users could also use it, though the process was slightly more complicated).

Yin Mei wasn't quite sure how this process worked - she just knew that the definition of the light element in this case was actually perhaps a little different from the dictionary definition of it.

But after some messing around, Yin Mei figured out a few different interesting magics that could be used by light system mages. Anyways, what was the point of all this? It was that Yin Mei was not crazy because she was talking to this bird. This bird was a summoned light familiar that she could use in replacement of Rosella to send messages to El.