Path of Light.

Chapter 180 181. Jasper's Funeral
Castletown in October.

In the early morning, there was a drizzle in the sky, and the north wind from the frozen sea made the climate here gradually turn cold.

It rarely rains in this season. When Roy arrived at the Temple of Liberty in the morning, the sky was already overcast. When the carriage carrying Jasper's coffin pulled out of the temple, the drizzle continued to fall.

The carriage left Brown Street and drove directly towards the Western Suburb Cemetery in Castletown.

Priest Reed sat across from Roy calmly, looking straight out of the car window.

Recently, there have been accidents in the temple.

Priest Andison forcibly performed the divine descent ceremony because the holy light no longer illuminated the elven land. In the end, his body could not support the huge power of the holy light required for the divine descent ceremony, and died in the main hall of the Statue of Liberty.

In order to monopolize the Holy Grail of Wisdom, Priest Theodore planned a theft case. In fact, the death of Priest Andison was somewhat related to the theft of the Holy Grail of Wisdom. Priest Theodore finally successfully sent himself to Parram prison.

Now the trainee priest Jasper is also lying in the wooden coffin, and the trainee priest Abbot has become a wanted fugitive...

The Temple of Liberty is at the Golfito headquarters in the Elf Continent, and has already begun preparations for the second batch of expeditionary forces. Priests from the entire Elf Continent are gathering in Golfito.

Castletown is a seaport city, and the Temple of Liberty here will persist until the end before it can be dismantled. It is estimated that it will be when the third batch of expeditionary forces enters the Dark Land.

But now only Priest Reed and Roy are left in the temple.

Such an accident is undoubtedly the biggest failure for Priest Reed!

"I've been thinking about it recently, is it because I've neglected the management of the temple that so many things happened one after another."

Priest Reed rubbed his temples with two fingers, and said in a low tone.

He looked away from the window and continued to Roy:
"Thinking about it now, it should be like this. If I had known their thoughts earlier and stopped some of their wrong decisions in time, maybe things wouldn't have gotten so bad."

After finishing speaking, Priest Reed sighed.

"I always feel that as a priest, our hearts are bathed in the holy light. As long as we pray sincerely every day, spread the teachings of the temple, and let every corner of the world see the holy light, that is our faith..."

"But now it seems...it's just my life and I'm ignoring the people around me."

He looked into Roy's eyes and asked him seriously:
"Roy, in your life, how much do apprentice priests account for?"

"A third, or a little less." Roy thought for a moment and replied.

"Every day, I spend one-third of my energy on the Elf Academy, then one-third of my energy on the temple, and finally leave one-third of my energy on others. Sometimes I run to Watching the sunset on the Black Pearl, and sometimes going back home to do some housework or battle practice.”

Roy added again.

Priest Reed nodded, with some understanding in his eyes, and then asked:

"So...you decided to give up joining the expeditionary force?"

"Ah."

Roy replied honestly.

But he suddenly remembered the entrustment that Jasper said a few days ago...

It's really troublesome.

At that time, Jasper said that if he couldn't go to the Dark Land, he wanted Roy to go to the Dark Land for him.

Roy felt that he was only a fifth-level trainee priest, and it was not certain whether he would be able to come back alive after going to the dark place...

The carriage entered the Western Suburb Cemetery, where the gravediggers had already dug the grave at the designated location, and there was a metal nameplate belonging to Jasper hanging on the cypress tree in front of the grave.

No other elves attended Jasper's funeral.

Priest Reed, the coachman, Roy and the gravedigger of the cemetery braved the rain and barely carried the wooden coffin into the grave.

Afterwards, Priest Reed stood in front of the cypress tree and recited the eulogy in the rain.

In the last prayer, Roy and High Priest Reed looked at Jasper's soul, floating towards the sky in a beam of pure holy light...

Afterwards, Roy backfilled the grave with the excavated soil, and re-covered the grave with the excavated turf, and the funeral was considered over.

After the funeral, Priest Reed turned around and walked back to the carriage.

Roy stood in the drizzle, alone in front of Jasper's grave for a while.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out the golden key from his magic pocket, squatted under the cypress tree, and buried the golden key under the tree with a shovel.

Unexpectedly, a treasure of gray dwarf pirates ruined Abt and Jasper.

……

Roy turned back to the carriage, and the carriage drove away from the Western Suburb Cemetery.

In the carriage, Roy took off his wet trainee priest's robe and changed back to his usual school clothes. The carriage drove him to the gate of the Elven Academy. Roy ran into the academy in the rain with a textbook in his arms.

He could not catch up with the first martial arts training class, but he could still catch up with the second geography class.

It is very troublesome to ask for leave from Elf Academy. Even if there is a legitimate reason, the usual grades will be affected.

The college was full of stories about the Nautilus being in distress off the sea, and this time Claire became the hero of the young Silvermoon elves again.

Claire won Heyer's bet with a newly composed song "Bernese", and when the nightmare struck at night, she successfully woke up the elves on the whole ship to save everyone from being slaughtered by water ghosts.

...It's like every protagonist has a foil, and Roy is Claire's foil.

The bell for the end of get out of class rang, and Roy walked out of the No. [-] teaching building holding a geography book.

Claire stood at the door of the teaching building surrounded by many silver moon elves who wanted to get to know him. When he saw Roy coming out of the teaching building, he waved to Roy quickly and said:
"Roy, this way! I thought you wouldn't be here today!"

Everyone saw Claire walking out of the crowd, putting an arm on Roy's shoulder, talking kindly...

Many Silvermoon elves thought: Roy is really a lucky guy to be able to become friends with Claire.

Seeing Roy's sob face, Claire asked in a low voice:
"You don't look in a good mood?"

There were too many elf students gathered at the entrance of the teaching building, and Roy refused to say a word.

The two walked out of the overcrowded teaching building, and Claire said to Roy:
"Instructor Nora asked about you during class!"

Roy said: "It seems that I need to explain to her."

The two walked towards the training ground. The corridor was very quiet, and Claire asked, "What happened?"

Roy stopped and said to Claire:
"Jasper was murdered. The murderer has not been found yet. I went to his funeral this morning..."

Claire took a breath and looked at Roy without speaking for a while.

After a while, he said to Roy:

"...Sorry, I shouldn't have brought this up."

The two continued to walk along the Yong Road. Roy had already seen the lawn of the training ground, so he smiled wryly and said:
"It's okay, anyway, I will meet Instructor Nora later, I have to say it again, it's a practice in advance."

Claire didn't want to continue talking on this topic, so she said to Roy:
"We will go to the inscription workshop of the Magic Union later..."

Hearing Claire talk about the inscription workshop, Roy was slightly taken aback, and asked Claire:

"...You mean the inscription workshop on the first floor of the Magic Union, which is the shop of Heyer's family?"

"Yes, you know that store?"

Roy nodded and admitted: "I went to that store to see some magic pattern structures, and the cheapest one in it is not something I can afford now."

Speaking of this, Claire said with a little smugness: "If I had known... I should have added more chips to the bet, but we are still too easy to start! But having said that, usually a magic pattern construction should be able to use It's been a long time, so the correct choice of the first magic pattern structure is very important."

The two came to the training ground. Instructor Nora was counting the weapons used for training next to the weapon rack, almost all of which were wooden swords and round wooden shields.

Weapons such as hammers and clubs are also available, but they are only a few items.

Instructor Nora looked up at Roy, handed him a bundle of wooden swords in his arms, and asked him to hang them on the wooden stand one by one.

"Oh? You want to explain to me why you were absent this morning?"

Instructor Nora raised the corner of her mouth and asked Roy.

Roy hugged the bundle of wooden swords, and Claire and the two put the wooden swords on the wooden stand, and said after finishing:

"Instructor Nora, I went to attend a friend's funeral this morning, so I couldn't catch up with your class."

"Understood!" Instructor Nora nodded, expressing her understanding.

Then she stopped again, looked at Claire and Roy, and asked them both:
"I heard that you met a water ghost in the open sea?"

The students on the training ground are almost gone.

Claire said with a smile: "To be precise, I met a nightmare vine near a sea reef, and it was just in time for its flowering period, so this nightmare vine released the sleeping cloud on us, and then controlled some water ghosts Assault on the Nautilus."

Instructor Nora stopped again, turned around and stared at Claire, and asked:
"So how did you get rid of the nightmare? Someone brought a lucid pendant?"

Claire pointed to Roy and said, "Roy woke me up, probably with the power of the Holy Light."

"Good job."

After Instructor Nora finished speaking, he patted Roy on the shoulder vigorously.

She wasn't too surprised by such an answer, obviously she had heard other people talk about it...

……

Saying goodbye to Instructor Nora and leaving, Roy and Claire walked out of the Elven Academy.

The Magic Union is next door to the Elf Academy, and the two of them can just walk along the street, it's not too far away.

"You don't have to explain so much." Roy whispered to Claire.

Claire asked with a puzzled look: "Roy, why do you always keep me from telling them the truth?"

"In the Elven Academy, the new hero can be Wagner Claire, Steve or Adams, but not a half-elf——Roy, otherwise these things are fame and prestige to you, but Once it gets to me, it will become troublesome, I think I have enough troubles now... Do you know what kind of mood it is to participate in the court trial for four consecutive weeks?"

Roy feels that the two need to be more low-key recently...

Claire didn't care about that.

"All right!"

In the lobby on the first floor of the Magic Union, Roy and Claire walked into the inscription workshop with a small facade but a large space inside...

Claire was about to take out Yoram Heyer's IOU and hand it over to the elf waitress standing in front of the counter in charge of reception, when Heyer came out of the workshop with a straight face.

(End of this chapter)