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Chloe and Charlotte looked very alike, like looking in a mirror.
Charlotte shook her head and opened her mouth.
“Anyway, tell me what happened today. I thought I was going to die of curiosity.”
“Oh, actually, I was really lucky today. Even when leaving the Imperial Palace… … .”
Chloe and Charlotte sat in their respective beds and talked.
Chloe was beckoning and beckoning as she recounted the adventures of the day.
Charlotte was listening to Chloe’s story with interest.
“What? Did the driver suddenly say that I had to get permission from my superiors?”
“okay! Obviously, if there were only soldiers, I would have been able to get in.”
“So what did you do?”
“Then the priest suddenly appeared.”
“Priest? The priest who was with you earlier?”
Charlotte remembered the priest she had met briefly in the underground waterway.
They only said goodbye for a short time and disappeared, but the impression was deep because of their great presence.
“right! The priest also came to investigate the underground waterway. Anyway, I asked the priest to check only the runes, and if that’s the case, then he asked me to go with him.”
Charlotte tilted her head.
“I heard that the Pars Church priests are not flexible, it’s amazing.”
“right? I honestly didn’t expect much either. Besides, can I tell you something even more surprising?”
“What?”
Chloe suddenly lowered her voice.
“That priest, you seem to have studied not only divine magic but also dark magic.”
“really?”
“Really! It’s clear that all kinds of people like magic like us! Otherwise, how would that old-fashioned priest know about blood magic powder?”
“What? Did you know that powder?”
“yes. They told me not to touch the powder because it was dangerous. But later, without realizing it, I stepped on it. Haha, just as it came out in the book, my thoughts really came out.”
Chloe laughed softly.
But instead of smiling face to face, Charlotte got angry.
“You should have been careful if there were such things around!”
“I didn’t step on it because I wanted to step on it on purpose.”
“still!”
“Don’t worry too much. Anyway, that priest has purified it.”
Charlotte asked questioningly.
“At best, they looked like our age, but you purified your thoughts?”
“Oh, come to think of it, even the knights couldn’t move on to that priest, but is he really a great priest?”
“Did I ask your name?”
“Hey, I forgot.”
“I am. I knew it.”
Charlotte shook her head.
Then he thought about it and opened his mouth.
“He is a young priest with such skill and reputation… … . Also in Velium. Then there’s only one, isn’t it?”
“Oh, maybe that?”
“okay. That Ethan Priest, the Saint Candidate.”
Chloe and Charlotte nodded.
Originally, Ethan’s fame had grown, but there was another reason that became a hot topic in recent years.
It was because of acquired stigma.
Chloe sighed in disappointment.
“what a waste. I wanted to ask how you got the stigmata. Besides, he seemed to have considerable knowledge of magic. It would have been a good conversation with us.”
“but. Priests who even studied dark magic are not common.”
“yes. Next time we get a chance, we should definitely talk about magic. I’m going to ask you if it’s true that the divine power of holy magic comes from faith. If it were that priest, I think he would give me the right answer.”
At Chloe’s promise, Charlotte applauded.
“Ah, that’s what I was wondering too! Even if you ask the priests, they say it’s normal, and they look at us with contempt.”
“right. That’s why wizards complain that they can’t. How are we?”
“Anyway, the priests are decomposing.”
After that, the twins’ conversation continued, and the night grew deeper and deeper.
* * *
“Come on, let’s all get some rest!”
Bellium’s Underground Waterway.
The investigators who were diligently examining the traces of magic there barely raised their heads.
They escaped the underground waterway and took in the fresh air after a long time.
“Hey, I hate going inside even more when I’m outside.”
“Having to get used to that awful smell again.”
The investigators were fed up.
In fact, most of the wizards were desk bites.
Because of this, it was painful for them to investigate in the foul-smelling underground waterway.
“Then, shall we eat somewhere far away?”
Everyone agreed with someone’s suggestion.
“good! I want to eat in a clean place even a little.”
“but. If you smell that when you eat something, it feels like you are chewing filth.”
The investigators climbed the stairs and settled in a corner of the ruins.
And after filling my stomach with simple snacks, I looked around.
“Did you say there was an explosion here? There really is no battlefield.”
“They say the restoration work is a long way off. They say there was a huge fire at that time.”
“I think the soldiers also went to eat. I can’t see it.”
“uh? Is there anyone over there?”
While chatting, the investigators found a man in the ruins.
In the ruins where everything was dark, the white priest’s robe stood out.
The young priest was cleaning up the rubble of the building himself from the scene of the accident.
Even though there was black ashes on his face or on his uniform, he didn’t seem to care at all.
“Why is the priest doing such a thing?”
“Yeah, I will. It looks like they are helping with the restoration work.”
“wait. Isn’t that priest a candidate for the saint?”
At those words, the investigators looked at the priest carefully.
I was sure of the impression.
“yes. you’re right. I think it’s the priest.”
“Even when there was an explosion, they said that they took the lead and ran to the scene to evacuate people. He’s still young, but he’s amazing.”
“So there are rumors going around. I mean, Goddess Pars was so impressed by that priest that she gave me the stigmata, though belatedly.”
After coming to Velium, rumors of Ethan have been constantly coming into the ears of the investigative team.
One of them was that Ethan searched through the ashes swept away by the fire to find the remains and bless them.
I was skeptical at first, but seeing it in person, I couldn’t help but believe it.
“The priest doesn’t mind doing such a bad thing. It’s embarrassing to make a fuss with just the smell.”
“Yeah, I will.”
The investigators looked at Ethan, who was busy with the restoration work.
That priest seemed to want to recover the remains buried in the ashes as soon as possible.
I could tell just by looking at those passionate eyes.
That was then.
Ethan, who was searching through the ruins, suddenly smiled brightly.
The investigators were confused.
“Oh, it looks like we found the remains.”
“You mean you have to have that level of altruism to become a saint candidate? That’s great.”
But it was a complete delusion.
* * *
‘done! I finally found it!’
Ethan sighed inwardly.
In his hands was what he had barely found in the ashes and building rubble.
It was a parchment with an auxiliary magic circle.
The edges of the parchment were swept away by the fire and soot remained.
Plus, there were some gruesome bloodstains.
It was something that the average person would be ashamed of.
But Ethan was more than happy.
‘I thought you were here!’
Ethan had a different plan for scouring this area.
It was to investigate the ‘blood lineage’ that came out of Martin’s mouth.
‘In a previous life, there were no people called that way. So it must have happened after I died.’
He caught and tortured a man named Martin who touched his rare masterpiece, but to no avail.
His loyalty was greater than expected.
When torture was useless, Ethan sought other means.
It was just using the jet-black eyes.
‘If it is related to magical power, you will be able to look into the memories of the past in some way.’
Ethan remembered what Martin had said.
-Even though I was treated like half of it, I also inherited the blood of my kin!
So, if you find Martin’s blood, you could use your jet-black eyes to find out what your bloodline is.
Finding Martin’s blood was simple.
‘Those who lack magical knowledge often use auxiliary magic circles. So he must have put a magic circle using his own blood in the designated direction.’
The magic circle that uses the human body as an explosive was as difficult to use as its cruelty.
So Martin would have used a secondary magic circle to prevent the magic from failing.
As a result, Ethan’s guess was correct.
After a lot of hard work, the magic circle drawn in blood on Ethan’s hand has arrived!
On the other hand, the appearance of Ethan scouring the explosion site made people feel absurd.
People began to regard Ethan as a faithful priest who did not hesitate to do bad things.
That was then.
“Ethan, did you find something?”
Nyx, who was nearby, asked Ethan.
Oddly enough, he was a quick-witted guy.
Ethan hid the parchment and replied calmly.
“no. There is nothing.”
“Is that so. Then how about taking a break?”
At that, Ethan looked at Knicks up and down.
It seemed difficult because his stamina had run out due to the hectic schedule.
“Didn’t you just want to rest?”
“Hahaha, that’s right. In fact, I was a little tired.”
Nyx made an unfathomably weak sound and sat down as if he had fallen to the floor.
In fact, Nyx, a saint candidate, didn’t have to come to the field for restoration work.
However.
– For the time being, I will withdraw from the treatment of nobles. There is work to be done at the scene of an accident.
He was impressed by Ethan who volunteered for the field recovery work, and followed him.
‘Other priests try their best to tie a rope to the nobles, but Ethan is the opposite. You don’t take lightly even the deaths of people who were ignored as poor. It certainly deserves a role model for priests.’
Nick was deeply impressed.
After arriving at the scene, Ethan literally did not stop for a moment to find the remains.
The Knicks knew well why Ethan was able to move around non-stop.
It was also because of his sense of duty as a priest.
“I heard that you are learning kwon-gak recently. It is worthy of imitation to train not only the spirit of service, but also the physical strength to serve. I’ll have to train my stamina in the future too!”
Nick clenched his fists.
I was stimulated by seeing my peers learning martial arts.
Ethan clicked his tongue inside him.
‘Don’t do it, ma’am.’
Ethan couldn’t even search as much as he could because the Nyx was chasing him next to Hado.
It’s so cumbersome even now that I don’t have enough stamina, but I didn’t want to imagine how troublesome it would be if I increased my stamina.
This did not mean that Ethan was recklessly searching through the ashes.
‘Dogs have a better sense of smell than humans.’
If the head was not enough, the body would suffer.
So Ethan rolled his head and coaxed Fenrir.
He took the jerky from his snack bag and threw it at Fenrir.
“Good job, you bastard.”
bruise!
Fenrir opened his axe’s eyes as he was bitten by the flying jerky, noticing that the word mutt felt bad.
Ethan smiled at Fenrir like that.
‘I have such a faithful motherf*cker, do I need to suffer?’
Fenrir was clearly a divine beast, but to Ethan, he was just a dog.
Fenrir found the parchment that Ethan wanted and ate the jerky.
Ethan smirked at the sight.
‘Why are you so sarcastic when you say you’ll pass on snacks at best?’
In fact, before searching the site, Ethan asked Fenrir this way.
– Hey, you bastard. When you go to the site, find an object with a magical reaction. Okay?
bruise!
But Fenrir pretended not to hear it and shook his head.
He was still in a state of pity for the strange reason that he had given himself a vain honor as an honorable divine beast.
‘This shit is real.’
In the end, Ethan had no choice but to use his trump card.
With his own money, he bought the most expensive and tastiest dog jerky in Velium.
Fenrir’s taste had become unnecessarily high-quality, perhaps because he ate snacks exclusively for the imperial family.
Because of this, even dog jerky was expensive enough to bring tears to my eyes.
Recalling the past, Ethan took a deep breath and calmed his mind.
No matter what happened, the results were good.
‘After all, I got this parchment.’
Ethan scoured the enchanted parchment.
Then he waited for his jet-black eyes to respond.
That was then.
The magic circle drawn in Martin’s blood reacted to the jet-black eyes.
It was a familiar feeling.
‘consanguinity? I’ll check it with my own two eyes.’
Thinking so, Ethan himself fell into the memories of the past.