Path of Light.

Chapter 102 103. The True Gift

The Temple of the Luna in Castletown sits atop a hill in the Upper Town.

The duties of the priests in the temple are not only to control the life and death of the silver moon elves (delivery and burial), but also have the right to distribute the sap of the tree of life, and guide the lost silver moon elves back to the moon god Elune embrace.

The influence of the priests of the Temple of the Moon God is even greater than that of the elders of the Council of Elders in Castletown.

After all, all the Silvermoon elves in Castletown would go to the Moon Temple every week to receive a cup of life sap.

Moreover, when the Silver Moon Elves were sick, they would come to the Moon God Temple to receive treatment from the priests.

In fact, the treatment process is extremely simple.

The sick Silvermoon elves will bathe in the fountain of life, and at the same time the priest will pray to the goddess of the moon, and the moon god Elune will send a beam of moonlight. As long as the injuries are not too serious, the elves who enter the fountain of life will be healed.

The Moon God Temple never distributes the sap of life to the half-blood elves in the lower city, and the spring of life in the temple is also forbidden for half-blood elves to enter.

Some half-breed elves died unexpectedly, and the priests of the Moon God Temple would not come forward to bury them.

All these actions gave the Temple of the Moon God a bad reputation in the lower city.

For this reason, the half-blood elf would rather give up the goddess of the moon and become a believer in the goddess of liberty...

This is also the reason why the Statue of Liberty was able to gain a foothold in Castletown, but recently the Statue of Liberty has also encountered unprecedented difficulties...

In the past six months, no matter how devoutly the believers prayed, there was no response from the Statue of Liberty.

So much so that the number of believers in the Temple of Liberty has shrunk by almost two-thirds in just half a year.

Even so, the number of believers of the Statue of Liberty who come to the rally every week is still decreasing.

Roy knew that the priests in the Temple of the Moon God were notoriously bad-tempered, but Roy was a little bit a little bit surprised that the priests of the Temple of the Moon God would vote collectively to block Count Amelia from the gate of the Kingdom of God. surprise.

Count Amelia sat down on a raised root under the bread tree. The moonlight was blocked by the branches and leaves of the bread tree, and she loomed in the shadows.

"Okay, it's getting late, you should go back..."

Earl Amelia issued an order to evict Roy.

Roy didn't hesitate either, and quickly stood up and said, "Thank you for your teaching."

Thinking of myself as a trainee priest, I had communicated with a dead elf for half a night, and I was summoned to come and leave immediately...

Roy couldn't help but sighed.

If Jasper and Abbott knew about this, maybe they would be nailed to the pillar of shame for the rest of their lives.

Now that he was able to leave, after Roy saluted Earl Amelia, he immediately planned to run down the steps...

But when he turned around, he found Earl Amelia sitting on the steps, just blocking his way.

Count Amelia stared at Roy, seeing that he wanted to leave in a hurry, but Count Amelia was not so anxious.

She sat gracefully on the stone steps.

There was a divine gleam floating on Roy's shoulders, almost completely illuminating Earl Amelia...

She had the casualness of a high-ranking person on her body, completely ignoring the sacred gleam on Roy's shoulder, staring at Roy for a while before saying:
"It's the first time I've chatted with a half-elf for so long."

"Oh! By the way, you must remember to keep this matter a secret from me."

After Earl Amelia said this, he seemed to think of something...

She continued: "In addition... If you are free, you can come here to chat with me at any time, and you can tell me about the new things in Castletown."

"Of course, if you want, you can be my messenger. As long as something happens in Castletown, you can send the news to Ellington Castle."

"...I don't see human greed in you. Even in adversity, you can always stay awake and deal with it calmly. This courage is very rare."

Roy didn't expect Earl Amelia to recognize him so much.

Then I heard her bow her head and grope for a while before saying:

"Let me see, this magic crystal is for you!"

While speaking, she stretched out her hand in front of Roy, which was a hexagonal magic crystal stone.

Roy held the crystal in his hand, and didn't know what it was for yet.

Then Earl Amelia took out another crystal stone, which seemed to be of higher quality than the one held in Roy's hand, and the surface pattern was more complicated.

She handed the magic crystal stone to Roy, and said to him:
"Oh, by the way, bring this crystal stone to my little Edith, don't tell her about me for now, every time I see her, it always reminds me of myself when I was young... "

The next moment, Earl Amelia's tone became a little sad. Looking at the dark mountains opposite the castle, he murmured to himself:
"...That is really a long memory!"

Roy stood in front of the steps, put both magic crystals in his pockets, and promised:

"Please rest assured, I will give this magic crystal to Miss Edith."

Earl Amelia nodded, as the figure slowly faded until it disappeared.

Roy then walked down the stairs.

When she returned to the tent, Claire was still sleeping soundly in the next tent, and didn't feel Roy's return at all...

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Roy and Claire stayed at Ellington Castle for three days,
By the noon of the third day, the two had followed the expedition team around the entire Ellington Castle, and Claire even went to the fourth floor of the castle again.

He stood in front of the mural and left Earl Amelia's appearance on the painting book from various angles.

"Roy, are we leaving today?"

Claire closed the album in her hand and asked the sleepy Roy.

"If you didn't sleep well last night, we can actually stay here for another night."

"There are still a lot of things to do in the future. Now that the inspection of the castle here is over, let's go to complete the next task!" Roy responded immediately.

At noon, Alice and the members of the expedition team prepared a lot of food in the arsenal.

But Roy and Claire can only eat some breadfruit and black berries, which were picked in the back garden of the castle.

No way, among the members of the sixteenth group, except for Roy, no one took the elementary martial arts training course.

Therefore, the elf girls don't need to endure hunger and starvation for wild survival training, and they will no longer walk with Roy and Claire on the road ahead.

"Roy, is your Fort Ellington inspection report ready?"

The silver moon elf girl sitting opposite Roy suddenly asked curiously.

"It's almost finished!" After Roy finished speaking, he patted his satchel vigorously.

"Aren't you two going to be with us?"

After finishing speaking, Edith gracefully peeled open a vermilion fruit with her slender fingers, and sucked the bright red flesh into her mouth, causing Claire to secretly swallow a mouthful of saliva.

"Next, we will go back and forth across the Malaga jungle to complete the task assigned by Mr. Harper." Roy responded.

"Understood, although there are no monsters in this jungle, you two should be more careful when you act. If you encounter danger, you should ask for help. Don't try to be tough." Edith explained to the two.

"We'll be more careful," Claire said.

After lunch, Roy and Claire went to dismantle the tent.

Edith and several other Silvermoon Elf girls also came to help, and everyone hurriedly folded up the tent and repacked it into a backpack for Roy to carry on his back.

Before leaving the castle, Roy took an opportunity to call Edith aside alone.

There was a smile in Edith's blue eyes, but she always kept a distance of one meter between them.

"What do you want from me?" Edith asked Roy, assuming the captain's appearance.

Roy took out the exquisite magic crystal from his pocket and handed it to Edith.

"For me?" Edith didn't reach out to pick it up, but asked in surprise.

Roy handed it forward, nodded and said, "Well, someone asked me to give you this magic crystal."

"Someone asked you to give me this magic crystal? Who is that person?" Edith stared at Roy and asked.

Roy threw the magic crystal to Edith, and said casually, "It's not convenient to say now, maybe you will know later."

Edith caught the magic crystal, and glanced suspiciously at Claire who was standing beside her.

Claire took half a step back vigilantly, making it clear that he was not the one who sent it.

Edith turned to look at Roy suspiciously...

Roy didn't know how to explain it, so he waved to Edith, and he and Claire hurried out of Ellington Castle.

"You actually gave Edith a magic crystal, tell me quickly, what is recorded in it?" Claire asked curiously.

Roy spread his hands and explained in a low voice: "Actually, I haven't opened it, I don't know what's inside..."

The two left Ellington Castle and chatted while walking.

When passing through a bush outside the castle, Roy saw the figure of Earl Amelia emerging from the trunk of a big tree.

She was waving to them both...

(End of this chapter)