Chapter 345: CONVINCING (IRRITATING) THE HIGH PRIEST (2/2)

Luo Yan smiled inwardly. ”Okay. I'll just sniffle a little.”

Shen Ji Yun seemed to be still dissatisfied with that but at the end, he still let go of Luo Yan's face and turned to the High Priest.

”As you can already see, my companion is a moon elf. We came here at the request of the Gatekeeper of his village,” he started, repeating what Luo Yan had already said. ”If your church is as compassionate and emphatic as you people love to portray yourselves as, then there's no reason why you should refuse to help. Or perhaps, your own agenda trumps over that 'selfless' heart?”

The High Priest's lips turned into a straight line. One could see that he was not happy with the way Shen Ji Yun was speaking to him. ”I suggest you stop with the sarcasm. Because this won't help your cause at all, boy.”

Okay. It seemed like Shen Ji Yun was really getting on the last nerve of this NPC – Luo Yan thought. The High Priest even forego the honorifics and just went straight to calling him 'boy'.

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Shen Ji Yun also noticed that but he didn't care. He just wanted this to be over and done with. And irritating the High Priest might bring them the fastest result. After all, only under intense emotions could someone reveal a flaw. The same goes for NPCs. If he said the right key words that would go against the beliefs and characters programmed to them, then they would definitely be affected emotionally. And thus, giving him the information he wanted.

”If you want me to treat you with respect, then you should act according to your status. You're the High Priest of this Tower. The one that should embody all its teaching. And yet here you are, hiding someone who might have indirectly killed a moon elf,” he said with a cold expression on his face. ”You might as well have killed Finnea for all we know.”

The air around them suddenly turned a few degrees lower. The High Priest's long gray hair and beard started to float because of the Mana coming from his body. Even his eyes started to glow.

[Mashter, Eclipse has a feeling that this High Priest is going to attack Captain.]

Luo Yan agreed with what Eclipse said. So, before that could happen, he immediately spoke in a sobbing voice, ”Please, High Priest. We're not here to condemn him. Or any of the people here for that matter. We just wanted to know the truth about what happened to Finnea five years ago. I—” he stopped, gazed down, and then hiccupped. He even pretended to tremble to give the illusion of weakness. ”P-please…”

[Mashter, Mashter, his hair and beard are no longer floating. He doesn't even look angry anymore. And he's looking at you gently. Eclipse thinks that your stellar acting is working!] – the little fox described while sitting on the side like some small reporter.

The side report was helpful since Luo Yan was still in the middle of acting and couldn't lift his head.

Then he heard the High Priest sigh. And it was followed by him saying, ”Follow me.”