Chapter 53 the barons hospitality 3 (1/2)
Mars ignored Elsa that was looking at him with sad eyes and asked Victoria that was laying off to the side
”how do I look?”
Victoria raised her head and looked at Mars before she stood up and walked around him a few times and sat down and tilted her head to the side while her horns flashed
”...normal?”
”I guess it's better than bad...”
”tch... you have such nice muscles so why cover them up...”
Mars ignored the side comment from Elsa and asked her
”just to be sure does it normally cost money to visit the temple?”
Elsa tilted her head slightly
”no, it's free”
”I see... in that case I will be right back”
Mars picked up his sword while his eyes turned cold
”wait! Mars your eyes are dead!”
Mars ignored Elsa and walked towards the gate to the mansion, on his way he passed some servants and ganders that all froze when they looked him in the eyes, one older gardener even fell and landed on his butt
”don't just look at him, stop him he's is about to murder the priest!”
”y-yes!”
some of the stronger servants grabbed Mars and tried to stop him, unfortunately it had no effect as Mars kept walking only now he was dragging a group of people after him that desperately tired to stop him, which made Elsa panic slightly
”just try to hold him I will get the baron!”
Mars ignored Elsa that ran into the mansion and walked through the gate out into the street where he quickly gathered the attention of the crowd while the servants got more and more desperate
”hold him!”
”damn what is this guy made off!?”
”get more people!”
Mars kept walking and when he was about to reach the temple Reimund and his wife Irene showed up and tried to get in contact with him
”Mars!”
”Mars please listen!”
Mars ignored them and finally when he was about 15 meters form the temple where the priest was sitting outside with his head buried in a book he finally spoke in a low chilly voice
”...annoying”
one of the servants noticed something was starting to get hot and looked up before he screamed
”everyone let go and run!”
a small sun had appeared and was hovering over Mars's head that made him look like a avatar of fire as he was bathed in the light of the yellow and orange flames, which made the crowd that had been following after Mars back up quickly this also finely drew the attention of the priest that finely looked up from his book
”what's all the fuzz abo--- HIIIIII!!!”
the priest screamed like a pig and tried to run away when he looked Mars in the eyes but a wall of fire appeared and blocked his path
”...don't run”
Mars waved his hand and the ball of fire above his head formed a fire cage that trapped the priest and himself inside, it also blocked off the crowds view
”now... what to do with you”
”please don't kill me!”
the priest bowed down on the ground and begged Mars, he obviously knew that scamming Mars out of 200 cel was wrong and would probably faint if he knew Mars had no idea what 200 cel was worth and he did this for the heck of it
”wait....”
the priest stopped begging for his life as he seemed to have realized something and stood up with a smug look on his face
”you can't kill me, if you lay a finger on me the 13 will curse you!”
Mars paused and was about the retort that he had just had a friendly talk with one of the 13 just earlier today and instead asked the priest
”why is that?”
”why? well obviously because i'm a acolyte of the temple and is protected by the 13 above for serving them!”
”oh...”
”that's right, so if you want to beg for forgiveness now is the time! before I decide to---”
Mars tuned out the arrogant priest and pulled out his necklace from under his shirt and asked the priest
”then what rank do I have in the temple, when I have one of theses?”
the priest choked and while his face turned white as a sheet
”t-that's... necklace of the apostle”
”hmm? yeah it's nice right, I got it form Info earlier today”
”Info... you mean Information, one of the 13!?”
”yeah I call her Info”
”her!? I see...”
the priest stood up again and pointed at Mars
”that's a fake, no way some kid barbarian got a necklace of the apostle from one of the most powerful archangels, hand it over!”
Mars gave a slight smile while his eyes turned even colder
”sure... here you go”
Mars took off the necklace and handed it to the priest
”good, now admit your sins and beg for for...give...ness? h...e....l....p”
Mars watched the priest being turned into pure black stone and gave a sigh
”well then...that just happened”