Path of Light.

Chapter 25 25. The Leading Singer
Sabrina is one of the three cantors of the Temple Choir.

Although the choir is nominally composed of goddess believers, the three lead singers are elves with some singing skills.

Sabrina is the most popular of the three lead singers, her voice has a unique ethereal quality, and she can sing the 'poetry of praise' into a heavenly voice.

Sabrina is not a believer in the Statue of Liberty, she will come to the temple to sing every Wednesday, and then get a reward of two baile.

Of course, apart from Sabrina, only the three priests in the temple knew about this matter...

"Sabrina, hurry up, it's about to start!"

Sabrina walked into the courtyard of the temple, glanced at the Statue of Liberty in the courtyard, and heard the shouts of the choir companions.

"coming!"

Sabrina responded quickly.

She didn't look at Roy at the gate of the temple again.

On the steps of the main hall of the temple, an elf lady was waving to Sabrina, and leaned over to her and whispered:
"Have you heard? The holy grail in the temple was stolen, and I don't know which bastard did it..."

Mrs. Amanda seemed a little aggrieved. She was also a half-breed elf with wood elf blood. She had exquisite facial features, and her eyes were a unique green color. The only drawback was a slightly flat nose.

She runs a flower shop on Brown Street. Besides selling bunches of flowers, there are also those in pots. Of course, if anyone lacks a shrub wall or a fruit tree in the yard, it will be fine. Go to the flower shop and find Mrs. Amanda.

She is a devout believer in the Statue of Liberty, and her biggest wish in this life is to save enough money, and then take a boat to the other side of the sea, and experience the Grimm Empire described by the Great Priest Reed. The Luna Temple in the center of Castletown is much bigger.

Sabrina nodded and responded in a low voice:
"heard."

She felt that it was somewhat impolite to talk about this topic in the temple, so she looked around carefully.

In fact, she knew that there were only five priests in this temple, and they would be very busy every time they gathered, so naturally she would not be so idle as to listen to the two of them chatting.

"It is said that it is made of gold and can be sold for a lot of money." Mrs. Amanda pursed her lips and said regretfully.

"Without the Holy Grail, Priest Theodore chose a silver basin to hold the holy water. I feel that the holy water in the silver basin does not have the holy aura it used to have."

When she stepped into the main hall of the temple, Mrs. Amanda was still chattering.

"That thief is really shameless,"

"The goddess will punish him."

The members of the choir were already waiting in front of the stage on the right side of the main hall, all wearing white silk robes, and each holding a book of hymns in their hands.

Sabrina stepped up first, and greeted the other two lead singers, but the three decided on the order of the lead singers, and began to greet everyone to stand in the predetermined positions.

The main hall is already full of believers of the goddess, and even the second floor of the temple is full of believers.

This time it was Priest Reed who prayed to the goddess together with the believers.

Priest Andison and trainee priest Abbott stood on both sides.

Priest Andison's face was almost bloodless, and his eye sockets were sunken. He looked like a vampire count in a mansion. It could be seen that he was in a bad state.

As the singing sounded, all believers stood up.

The singing echoed in the hall.

Priest Reed began to recite prayers.

At the end of each paragraph of prayer, a beam of holy light will be shot from the dome of the temple. When twelve beams of light are shot down from the dome, the hall of the temple will be illuminated by the holy light.

But this time the light beam only lasted for a while before disappearing.

In the singing of praise to the goddess, everyone completed the prayer ceremony.

Only the singing still echoes in the main hall of the temple.

The hall was very quiet, and the believers clasped their hands together in front of their chests.

The members of the choir began to line up to leave.

Sabrina comes every week to lead the choir.

When the prayer ceremony is over, she will also receive a piece of holy water with everyone.

At first, she didn't think this cup of holy water was useful, but everyone went to get it, and it would be weird if she didn't want it, so she would take away her share every time.

Once, Sabrina put the holy water she brought back on the dining table, and Moira, who had a stomach ache, drank it by accident, and Moira's symptoms quickly eased.

It was only then that Sabrina learned that the holy water actually had a slight healing effect.

Since then, Sabrina has come to take home a glass of holy water at every rally.

To her, this cup of holy water is like the sap of life given to the Silver Moon Elves by the Moon God Temple.

Only this time things are a little different.

When she and her companions walked into the front of the holy water pool in the side hall, apart from Priest Theodore who was washing the souls of the believers, Sabrina was actually Roy, who was wearing the robe of a trainee priest, and at this moment he was holding Silver spoons scoop out holy water from the pool and distribute it to the believers who are waiting in line to receive the holy water.

Seeing Sabrina staring at him, he even smiled awkwardly at Sabrina.

Roy raised the silver spoon in his hand, distributing holy water to the believers without stopping.

Sabrina's eyes widened, her brain was a little out of order, she couldn't figure out how Roy could wear the robe of a trainee priest and still distribute holy water decently.

When it was Sabrina's turn to receive the holy water, she whispered to Roy:
"Why are you here?"

Roy pulled the novice priest's robe on his chest with his hand, and responded with a smile:
"I am the priest here!"

Sabrina didn't believe it, and asked:
"How come I haven't seen you before?"

Roy shrugged helplessly and said:
"I only officially became a trainee priest here last Saturday."

There were people waiting in line at the back, and Sabrina couldn't talk too much, so she left the side hall after receiving the holy water.

Mrs. Amanda, who was following her, heard the conversation between the two, and after walking out of the temple, she said to Sabrina:

"The day before yesterday, I saw him helping in the temple."

Sabrina lowered her head and hurried out of the vestibule of the temple without responding to Mrs. Amanda's words.

Thinking of what he said at the entrance of the temple at noon, his fair cheeks turned slightly red...

……

It was already very late after all the things in the temple were done, and Roy didn't get a chance to learn.

When he was cleaning the chairs with Abbott, he also asked Abbott about the "Secondary Healing Technique" divine pattern drawing method.

Abbott and Jasper's magic arts are priest-oriented. They still don't know the "blessing of power", but they are very proficient at "secondary healing".

Abbott also secretly told Roy that he and Jasper would occasionally use 'lesser healing' to make extra money, that is, go out in private to treat the elves in the lower city.

Abt suggested to Roy, if possible, practice this magic first, it is much more practical than the power blessing...

On the other side, Jasper also suggested to Roy to learn about 'purification'. Every time those large ships in Castletown port called, the captains would ask priests to 'purify' the ship.

"Why did they invite people to 'purify' the ship?" Roy asked curiously.

"Of course there are unclean ghosts on board." Abbott interjected.

Jasper explained: "Some crew members died on the ship. Although the bodies were thrown into the sea, the souls still lingered on the ship. This kind of ship can easily become a ghost ship."

Then he said: "However, you should be careful about this kind of thing. Once I went to 'purify' a five-masted sailing ship, and there were even ravings from a siren on that ship. I slid down the ladder again. It was a sea ship cursed by a sea monster. Later, I heard from people on the pier that many Naga slaves were imprisoned in the water prison at the bottom of the ship. slave ship."

Abbott also said: "I heard that there are also many slave ships from the Green Empire that will come to dock here."

Normally, no one would talk to Roy about this.

"Does the elf patrol at the dock not care about this kind of thing?"

"Of course you can take care of what you can see, but what can you do with what you can't see..."

For those elf patrols, the two trainee priests showed very disdainful expressions, obviously expressing some doubts about their abilities.

……

When he got home, Roy ran to the terrace to collect the clothes hanging on the line.

On rare occasions, Ms. Belinda is at home, working on her art in her second-floor studio, a room filled with stone and half-finished statues.

Roy greeted her and prepared to walk down the terrace.

Sabrina appeared on the next-door patio with a tub of laundry ready to dry.

She was wearing a cool suspender dress, and her fair skin was as smooth as ivory in the dusk. Roy couldn't help but look at those two long, round and straight legs.

He also knew that this would anger Sabrina, but he couldn't move those unsatisfactory eyes away no matter what...

Seeing Sabrina turn around and look this way, Roy quickly pretended to go downstairs.

"Sorry, I misunderstood you during the day!"

I didn't expect such a sentence to come from the other side.

"I didn't even hear what you said, why don't you repeat it for me to recall?"

Roy didn't expect Sabrina to apologize, he was a little incoherent, and didn't know what to say.

"boring……"

Sabrina turned and left, leaving him with a big back.

On the contrary, Moira leaned her elbows on the fence of the terrace, and a voice as clear as a yellow warbler came:
"Roy, did you go to the guard?"

"Sent it this morning."

Roy leaned over to the edge of the terrace and responded.

The two often chatted in this space, and Roy even prepared a chair for it.

"Roy..."

"Ok?"

Moira asked, "Did the mermaid princess really turn into a pile of foam and disappear?"

"Probably, I actually heard it from the side."

Roy held his forehead speechlessly, thinking that he couldn't tell her that it was actually a fairy tale...

Moira said full of longing:
"I heard from Sabrina that the Jana Sea Clan can swim like snakes after leaving the sea for a short time. Only the royal family can transform into legs. This story is really good, and I want to hear other things."

"..."

I have to say that on a night with gentle sea breeze, listening to the sound of waves from a distance, I told a fairy tale to an elf girl full of dreams.

And one of Roy's few joys.

(End of this chapter)