Path of Light.

Chapter 60 61. The Temple at Dusk
Roy originally thought that he would lift such a 'door', and then he could pray in the main hall.

Normally, he would recite the holy prayers in the study room and pray along the way.

Going to the Statue of Liberty in the main hall this time made Roy look forward to the harvest from this prayer.

But when he walked out of the warehouse with Abbott, Abbott pulled him into the main hall again, and then he saw the other three 'doors'.

Yes, there are four such 'doors', each of which is very heavy.

The two carried the other three 'doors' into the warehouse, and Roy was already sweating profusely.

High Priest Reed walked into the warehouse himself, and even tied the four doors wrapped in linen tightly with ropes.

In the end, Priest Reed took out a broken candlestick from the warehouse and placed it next to the four 'doors', and injected a ray of holy light into the two candles on the candlestick.

A scene that made Roy feel unbelievable appeared. When Priest Reed lit the candle, there was a faint sacred breath in the flame core of the candle.

This corner of the warehouse was shrouded in a faint layer of holy light.

In order to avoid fire, Priest Reed also prepared a metal tray for this candlestick and placed it under the lower candlestick.

When they walked out of the warehouse, they also told Roy and Abbott not to approach this warehouse if they had nothing to do...

Roy felt that those doors might not be too simple. Since Priest Reed didn't want to talk about it, he didn't ask any more questions.

……

Roy has finally recited a sacred prayer very proficiently in the past few days, so Priest Reed promised Roy to pray in front of the goddess statue in the main hall.

Before entering the main hall to pray, Roy first came to the dormitory of the two-story small building in the backyard of the temple, and pushed open the thick wooden door. There were only two single wooden beds in the clean and simple room, one close to the bed. A desk next to the bed and a wardrobe with double doors.

Jasper was lying on the bed on the right. He was wearing a set of loose pajamas without a quilt, and he looked fine.

"Jasper, how are you feeling?"

Roy sat down by Jasper's bed and asked with some concern.

Unexpectedly, Jasper sat up directly from the bed and said energetically:

"It's not bad. Priest Reid's Great Holy Light is much stronger than the 'Secondary Healing' technique. I feel very good now. If not for Priest Reed's advice to me to rest in bed, I'm ready to go out Let's go!"

Roy said to Jasper:
"I just saw that the Seawolf has been scooped up, and they're probably going to move it to the beach on the west side of the pier."

It seems that Jasper has completely walked out of last night's incident, and without any excitement, he said calmly:
"That's a big ship."

Roy thought of the latest news Ms. Gillian brought back in the morning, and said to Jasper:

"By the way, the gray dwarf captain and the elven female magician have not been able to find them all the time, and they probably escaped."

Jasper didn't have any impression of the captain and first mate of the Sea Wolf, and he didn't know how terrifying they were when they fought the elf warriors.

At this time, he comforted the worried Roy:

"There's nothing to do about it, don't worry, they don't dare to sneak into the elf city easily."

Abbot's voice came from outside, and Roy immediately walked to the door and took a look. Seeing Abbot waving to him by the well, Roy said to Jasper:
"Jasper, I'm going to the main hall to pray, I hope today will be different, see you later!"

Abt called Roy, but he actually wanted to ask him to help carry water.

Usually these things are done by him and Jasper, but now he is the only one left, so he thought of Roy.

The water in this well is not only very cool, but also has no salty taste.

The two carried the water from the dug well to the holy water pool in the side hall. The walls of this pool are covered with smooth stone slabs, about one meter square.

Roy and Abt carried the bucket to the side of the holy water pool, only to see that the water inside had bottomed out, and it was just some very ordinary clear water without any sacred aura.

The silver plate still stood on the table in front of the holy water.

The aura emanating from the silver plate was not even as strong as the sacred scepter given to Roy by the Naga killer, only a little bit of the sacred aura.

There was some holy water on the plate.

Abt first scooped up a spoonful of clear water and poured it into a silver plate, and then poured all the clear water in the bucket into the holy water pool.

Immediately afterwards, he went out with Roy, and the two continued to fetch water.

The two of them pumped twelve barrels of well water in a row before filling most of the holy water pool.

Abt picked up the spoon beside the holy water pool, scooped up a spoonful of water, turned his wrist, and poured the clear well water back into the holy water pool.

He sighed softly, and said in a nostalgic tone:
"When I first came to the temple, I just poured well water into the holy water pool and waited overnight for the well water in the holy water pool to become holy water... At that time, many elves in the lower city would go to the temple to pray, When they leave, everyone takes a bottle of holy water with them."

Then there was some uncertainty in his eyes, and he said with a hint of worry:
"Later, we gradually lost the divine brilliance of the goddess, and the function of the holy water pool gradually disappeared. The holy water pool can no longer turn the well water into holy water. Fortunately, we still have the Holy Grail..."

"Actually, the holy grail is just a copper vessel, but the surface is only plated with gold. Apart from having some sacred aura, it really has nothing special about it."

"In the past few months, before each assembly, we will soak the Holy Grail in the holy water pool, and on the day of the assembly, we will have a whole pool of holy water."

"The Great Priest Reed said that it was because the Holy Grail had been enshrined in front of the Holy Water Pool for too long. The Holy Grail contains a lot of power of Holy Light, and this Holy Grail can also release the power of Holy Light to assimilate the clear water in the Holy Water Pool."

Roy opened his mouth wide. He didn't expect the Holy Grail to be used for this in the temple.

"But no one expected that someone would steal this seemingly insignificant holy grail, so that now before every assembly, the priest needs to inject the power of holy light into the holy water pool. Last week, it was Ann Priest Disen poured holy light into the holy water pool, which completely depleted the holy light in his body..." Abt whispered to Roy.

"This week it's the turn of High Priest Reed, so every trace of Holy Light accumulated in his body is very precious..."

"Then how long has it been since you felt the holy brilliance of the goddess?" Roy also asked in a low voice.

"I can't feel a trace of holy brilliance. It's been about six months, but in fact the goddess' holy brilliance decayed about a year ago."

Abt thought about it seriously, and then responded.

Then the two heard the door of the main hall being pushed open, and Abbott immediately pushed Roy's shoulder and said, "It should be High Priest Reed, let's go..."

The two walked quickly to the relief statue of the Statue of Liberty in the main hall, and knelt down in front of the statue with Priest Reed to pray.

Roy could only recite the first half of the first page of the holy prayer book, so he kept chanting in a low voice repeatedly.

But the temple always seemed dark and lifeless...

Praying for the whole afternoon did not yield any results, which also made Roy realize that for now, praying seems to be really useless.

Then Roy learned the magic in the study for a while. After learning the two magics of low-light lighting and power blessing, Roy began to learn the secondary healing. In his opinion, this magic is the home A must-have magic spell for travel, with high practicability.

Throughout the afternoon, except for Jasper who was recuperating on the bed in the temple, Priest Anderson kept himself locked in the room, praying silently alone.

And priest Theodore left the temple early in the morning, saying that he was going to the upper town of Castleton to preach the goddess' teachings to the elves and nobles...

There is not even a gatekeeper in such a large temple, so Abbott can only continue to guard the gate.

In fact, Roy couldn't understand the fact that the temple didn't invite a janitor. Although the normal operation of the temple is a bit difficult to maintain, it doesn't take much for Kohler to hire a janitor. Roy feels that there is no need for priest Reed to save This money.

After waving goodbye to Abbott, Roy walked home along Brown Street...

……

"Come back! Roy, why did you come back so late yesterday?"

Moira poked her head out from the balcony next door, and greeted Roy who had just walked into the yard.

Roy stopped, stood in the yard and raised his head to respond to Moira with a pure face:
"Something happened on the pier yesterday. I was also on the pier at the time. It was almost midnight when the matter was over..."

Apparently, Roy's response brought a faint smile to her face, and she couldn't help pursing her lips before saying:
"I know, Gillian was still telling us in the morning that a slave ship was detained on the pier last night. The captain and a group of crew members rose up to resist and were completely defeated by the garrison at the walnut forest..."

Roy glanced at Moira's big blue eyes and said, "That's about it."

Then he went into the house, changed his clothes, soaked the clothes he was wearing in the basin, and then carried the basin onto the terrace...

Moira was sitting on the fence of her patio, her little legs dangling outside.

"Roy, have you seen those Naga sea people?"

Roy stopped, thought for a while, and replied frankly, "I see."

Moira couldn't help the curiosity in her heart and asked, "Are they pretty?"

"Men are extremely ugly, but very strong, and the female Naga is very good-looking, but has a fish tail and some hard scales on her body, so that's what it is!" Roy shook his hand and went to the water, Take the clothes out of the basin and wring them dry, and hang them on the clothesline.

"Oh, it looks like it should be pretty."

Roy then thought of his poor performance in the martial arts training class, his heart moved slightly, and he asked Moira:

"By the way, Moira, how is your elementary martial arts learning going? Have you learned the first set of coherent movements? Otherwise... let me check it out!"

How could the naive half-breed elf girl think that Roy just wanted to watch Moira's demonstration and study hard...

He readily agreed:

"Okay, I was about to ask you what you have learned!"

(End of this chapter)