Path of Light.

Chapter 11
Roy is used to eating dinner alone.

The dinner of the elves is very simple, usually just a plate of fruit or a fish, and Roy only ate an apple tonight.

Ms. Gillian's neighbor's elf is very naughty. She throws a small conch picked up from the beach as pebbles into Ms. Gillian's yard, and then sneaks into her own yard without looking back.

This brat didn't dare to provoke Roy, because Roy had beaten him twice.

His grandma is an elf woman who is not easy to mess with. The last time he found Ms. Belinda, Roy was punished by Ms. Belinda to brush the floor for a month.

Pointy little ears poked out against the wall, peeking at Moira who was squatting in the yard picking up conch.

Moira turned her head to look, and he ran back into the house like a frightened rabbit without looking back.

"Hey, Katie Werner, let me catch you again, and I'll kick your butt." Roy shouted through the window.

Katie Werner was born almost in the same year as Roy, but Roy's childhood was much shorter than Katie Werner's.

Now, Roy looks like a young man, but Katie Werner is still only seven or eight years old.

"Roy, I'm not afraid of you..."

Katie Werner screamed at Roy across the yard.

Moira stood in the yard, arranging her hair disheveled by the sea breeze, and without saying a word, put the conch she picked up into the wooden barrel by the wall.

It's as if life is back to how it was before.

……

Ms. Belinda rarely gets home before dinner.

No matter where she goes, she is so energetic...

Standing by the porch, seeing Roy sitting on the sofa in the living room eating an apple, Ms. Belinda took off her crystal sandals, trotted to Roy, hugged Roy with both hands, and kissed him on the forehead a mouthful.

She is a silver moon elf who is only three hundred years old, a young man among elves.

After having Roy, I gradually began to adapt to the role of mother.

"Roy, how have you been these two days? I heard that there was a murder on Brown Street, and the security in the downtown area is really worrying..."

Roy closed his eyes and rested his forehead on Ms. Belinda's lower abdomen. Only in this way could he relieve a little embarrassment.

Roy still enjoyed this maternal love.

"Everything is fine, but when those crew members killed people, I happened to be beside them. I was serving as their guide at the time. I didn't expect that they would conflict with Jefferson..."

Roy described the incident to Ms. Belinda, and Ms. Belinda turned pale with fright, and her lake-blue eyes were full of worry.

"You will be going to the Elven Academy next week. Otherwise, we will rent a house in the upper city, and you can move there directly, so that you can be closer to the academy." Ms. Belinda said.

She felt that living in the upper city, at least security issues could be guaranteed.

The reason why Ms. Belinda moved here in the first place was that apart from the less stressful life here, another reason was that there were many half-blood elves living here, and they were the only ones who would not discriminate against Roy's half-elf status. .

If he lived in the uptown area, I don't know how many stares Roy would suffer. Maybe he would be introverted and withdrawn like the youngest daughter Moira of Ms. Jillian next door.

Roy thought of the work of the apprentice priest in the Temple of Liberty, shook his head resolutely, and said to Ms. Belinda:
"It's good living here, I can take care of myself."

He didn't want to get too entangled in this topic, so he quickly changed the topic:

"How's the work at the art gallery going?"

When the work was mentioned, Ms. Belinda's attention was immediately diverted. She leaned on the sofa a little tiredly, hammered her sore shoulders and said:

"Recently, the art museum is rushing to participate in the opening exhibition of the Art Festival in Buenos City, and there are still two sculptures in a rough state, and it will take another two weeks to be busy..."

"If you want to be busy, I can go to the Elf Academy to report on Monday." Roy said.

Looking at the young man in front of him, he seemed to have grown up suddenly.

Ms. Belinda rubbed Roy's hair fiercely, and said with relief: "My Roy has grown up, not only has his own thoughts, but also has become more independent."

……

While Ms. Belinda was taking a shower downstairs, Roy came to the terrace.

Every day after dinner, Roy would come up whenever he had time, which had become a habit.

Moira would also appear on the opposite terrace, and it was unknown when Roy gained Moira's trust.

This introverted and autistic elf girl is willing to chat with Roy for a while after dinner.

Moira told Roy what happened on the pier today:
The five-masted schooner hurried away at high tide in the afternoon.

Roy knew that it was probably because he was worried about the trouble that the elf patrols would have with the crew, that the captain left the port in such a hurry.

Being able to sneak out for a drink just after the ship stopped, and living in a hotel with luxury, these crew members couldn't be ordinary crew members no matter what.

It is estimated that this ship is not fully loaded with daily supplies, let alone the goods and trade of Castletown port.

However, this group of crew members killed a half-breed elf and were able to leave calmly, obviously taking advantage of the loopholes in the laws of the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom. It has to be said that the laws made by the elves are such 'tolerant'.

During the investigation and evidence collection period, criminal suspects will not be detained, and the other crew members are protected by diplomatic immunity so that they can hide in the ship.

Now that this group of guys has left the dock by boat, it may be even more difficult to catch them.

Moira leaned her back against the balcony railing, put her hands on the railing, and said in a very low voice:
"I heard he was just drunk..."

"I'm used to petty theft. In fact, he doesn't have to live such a poor life."

"My mother said that he was not like this before. He was a dark moon elf nobleman who was exiled to Castleton. In the first few years, he waited with great expectations. He hoped that the north would forgive his crimes. Perhaps the waiting time was too long. Gradually, he gave up, and later he became addicted to alcohol, as long as he was drunk, he became another person."

Roy was speechless.

Hearing what Moira said, I felt that this Jefferson was Moira's father, but this father was a bit incompetent.

Then he thought that Ms. Belinda raised her by herself, which made Roy a little confused. Are all men in the elf world like this?
Moira would often tell him this.

Occasionally, on moonless nights, I would secretly ask him to run on the beach by the sea to spread out. Her beautiful feet left a series of shallow footprints on the sand, which were then submerged by the rising tide and dissipated.

Only at night did Moira get a little more daring.

Sabrina always felt that Roy was cheating Moira, so she never gave him any good looks.

Roy suddenly regretted it a little. If he could take the initiative to stand up, he might have been able to prevent that completely unnecessary conflict...

At night, Roy had some bizarre dreams.

I didn't sleep well all night, and when I woke up in the morning, I had big dark circles under my eyes.

Before Ms. Belinda left, she left him a breakfast.

……

Walking into the Temple of Liberty, probably because the theft on the side of the temple is not over yet, the whole temple looks very deserted.

If it is normal, there should be a rally this morning.

Looks like it was temporarily canceled.

The trainee priest Jasper was holding a net, standing by the pool in front of the Statue of Liberty in the courtyard in front of the temple, and was fishing for the leaves inside.

The yard has been cleaned very well.

Seeing Roy walking in from the door, Jasper greeted with a smile: "Good morning, Roy..."

"Good morning, Jasper! Need help?"

Roy said as he strode forward, talking as he walked.

"No...no need! There is only such a little work. Anyway, there is nothing to do today. You can go to prayer class after a little activity."

After Jasper finished speaking, he smiled and winked at Roy, stopping Roy's kind gesture. It seemed that he really liked the job.

Seeing that he really didn't need help, Roy came to his lounge and changed into the robes of the trainee priest in the room.

Priest Anderson was on duty in front of the main hall today, and Roy took the initiative to say hello.

Priest Anderson pointed to the second floor of the small townhouse behind the clock tower, and told Roy, "Priest Reed will give prayer lessons in that room today, Roy, you can go directly to him."

Roy walked up to the second floor, and when he stood in the corridor, he heard Priest Reed's voice from the room.

Now that a ball of holy light can be lit in the palm of his hand, Roy is still looking forward to learning magic.

Standing at the door and knocked on the door.

'Boom dong dong'

"Come in……"

Priest Reed's voice came out again.

Roy opened the door and walked into the room.

Priest Reid was standing in front of a desk, and apprentice priest Abbott was sitting directly opposite him. He was holding a thick book in his hand, almost buried his head in the pages, and was honestly reciting the holy prayer.

Seeing Roy walking in from the outside, Abbott emerged from behind the book and winked at Roy.

Priest Reed pointed to the empty seat next to Abbott, motioning for Roy to sit down.

Roy just became a trainee priest yesterday, and he was able to come here to study today, which made Priest Reed feel very relieved...

"Roy, you came at a good time. Today I just want to teach the two of them some prayers. You can also listen to them. Of course, you are a beginner. These prayers are still too profound for you. You can learn a few first. Simple." Priest Reed said to Roy.

After finishing speaking, he took a sip of black tea before saying to Roy:
"Mages need meditation to gather mana, and we priests need devout prayers to obtain the power of the Holy Light, so prayer is an indispensable part of our daily life for priests."

"Your mental strength is still very weak, and you can't learn divine arts yet. You only need to strengthen your mental strength training. Reciting this holy prayer should help you the most."

Roy took a copper book, very thick, with a portrait of the Statue of Liberty on the cover, and the title of the book was: 'Holy Prayer'.

It seems that this should be an introductory book for apprentice priests... Roy thought to himself.

In fact, Priest Reid has no idea. Even he is the same recently. No matter how much he prays, he cannot establish contact with the goddess, nor can he obtain her revelation and oracle. Even the performance of divine magic has been greatly affected.

"Gathering these holy lights... can you strengthen your spiritual power?" Roy asked.

"That's true. It's just that everyone chooses to recite different prayers. You don't have to stick to any one prayer. You can try to recite a few simple sentences first. As long as you can gather the Holy Light, it's good. It also shows that This prayer suits you very well." Priest Reed explained to Roy.

Seeing that Roy was listening seriously, he said again:
"When you recite prayers, they will turn into tiny clusters of light and store them in your body. Generally speaking, they will be hidden everywhere in your body. When you cast divine spells, these holy blobs will be consumed. The power of light."

"And when the holy light in your body is exhausted, these divine spells will no longer be able to be performed."

"In the future, I will focus on how to apply divine arts. But what you need to do now is to condense and accumulate these holy lights. Only when your body becomes a container for the holy light can you display a more powerful divine power." technique."

"You have too little holy light in your hand. When you condense so much light in your palm, you can barely learn a simple magic spell 'twilight lighting'." Priest Reed stretched out his hand, palm A group of egg-sized flames appeared inside.

"The main function of this magic is to dispel darkness. Of course, it also has a little healing power, but it's too weak to be ignored."

Roy glanced at Priest Reed and asked seriously:

"Priest Reed, is reciting the 'Holy Prayer' meant to introduce the faint light into the body?"

"That's right..."

So for a whole morning, Roy sat in this room holding a 'Holy Prayer', reading it so dryly that he couldn't condense a trace of the power of the Holy Light.

These prayers are all in Elven language, which is not difficult for Roy.

The only thing that made him feel irritated was that he couldn't feel the power of the holy light at all in these prayers.

On the contrary, when the faint light in the palm of his right hand lit up, those faint light balls floating around his hand were involved in the light ball one after another.

What I have to say is that the room in the Temple of Liberty is filled with a lot of power of the Holy Light.

Usually when he was at home, he wouldn't be able to condense these light clusters so easily.

At noon, the flame in Roy's palm, which was only the size of a firefly, became slightly larger than a chickpea.

Moreover, the ball of light in Roy's palm was like a germ, even a little bit of the tip was exposed.

"well done……"

Priest Reed saw that the flame in Roy's palm had grown bigger, and praised him.

When get out of class was over, Priest Reed stopped Roy.

"Roy, are you going to the Elf Academy next week?"

"Yes, Priest Reed."

"You can call me teacher in class,"

"Okay, teacher!"

Priest Reed hesitated for a moment, but said:

"If you have enough spare time, I would like to ask you to help me investigate something. I think you have probably heard that the holy grail in front of the holy water pool in the temple was lost a few days ago, and it has been missing for the past few days. If you can find it, you can tell me privately if you find any clues in the Elf Academy."

"I will investigate seriously... Teacher."

Roy readily agreed.

　gone tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)