Path of Light.

Chapter 654 655. Letter from Bishop O'Casey

In a tent in a corner of the Dark Portal Expeditionary Camp, Alice squatted behind a curtain with her hands on her knees, carefully staring at the figure walking out of the Dark Portal. Her eyes revealed a complex emotion of hatred, fear, desire, or perhaps there were other complex emotions intertwined in them, so much so that she didn't feel anything when her nails pierced her thigh skin.

She pursed her lips, closed her eyes, and placed a fair hand on her slightly raised chest.

That delicate and well-behaved face showed a struggle...

Just then, Leah came back from outside and saw Alice's forehead was covered with sweat. She immediately came over with concern, touched her forehead with her hand, and said with concern:

"Alice, what's wrong with you? I'll go get Roy over here."

Seeing that Leah was about to turn around and walk out, Alice quickly reached out and grabbed Leah's arm, and shouted urgently: "No! Leah, I just feel a little uncomfortable. It has nothing to do with the power of holy light. Let me lie here quietly for a while, and I will recover soon."

After saying this, she leaned back on the fur mattress in the tent, closed her eyes, and slowed down her breathing...

Even if Alice didn't say it, Leah could feel that she was enduring some kind of pain at the moment, but she refused to let herself ask Roy for help. Leah took a bottle from her waist and gave Alice some water.

Leah squatted beside Alice and saw her hair wet with sweat sticking to her forehead. She reached out and lifted her messy hair and said to her softly:

"Alice, I feel like something is wrong with you lately,"

Alice reached out and held Leah's arm, patted the back of her hand with her other hand, and said breathlessly:
"Maybe it's because my body suddenly got better. I was a little overworked when I was walking around. Maybe I'll be fine after a rest."

Although Alice said this, Leah was still a little worried. She put her head on Alice's chest, listening to the strong beating of her heart, and then a smile appeared on her face.

"Then you should have a good rest. I found that the clear water in the pool in the center of the camp is very special. The guards here all said that drinking more water from the pool is very good for your body. I'll go get some back later."

After Leah finished speaking, she took out another water bottle from the tent.

Seeing Roy walk to the pool and stop to chat with the guards, Leah walked over with a cheerful step.

Alice was lying in the tent, and a voice kept appearing in her mind, muttering to her:

"Alice, let me control your body. As long as I go through the door in your heart, I will soon make you extremely powerful."

"Alice, what are you still hesitating about? Don't you want to try another more comfortable life with Leah?"

'The garden is full of flowers and fruit trees. You sit on the swing under the apple tree and read a book, with the sound of birds and piano echoing in your ears...'

'Alice, open the door in your heart and just let me in, and you will have this kind of life soon.'

'But you haven't told me what I have to lose!'

'You will become one with me, I am you and you are me...'

'Let me think about it again!'

Alice closed her eyes, and two voices echoed in her heart.

When she opened her eyes again, her eyes had regained clarity, but her face was covered in sweat and as pale as paper...

……

Roy's short vacation at the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp soon came to an end.

Only in the expeditionary camp was he the captain of the guard regiment. Once he entered the magic wooden house, he became a priest accompanying the regiment again.

Back in the magic cabin, Roy continued to learn the Green Empire language. Although there were still big problems in communication, Roy always learned the Green Empire words in a targeted manner. So after more than three months, he completely translated the letter written by Bishop O'Casey:
"As I walked into the Dark Land, I kept thinking seriously whether the Statue of Liberty was imprisoned by other gods, and whether it was meaningful for us to launch an expedition to the Dark Land."

'After a long exploration in the dark land, I found one thing, the only one who can imprison her is herself.'

'She appeared in Roland Continent, and was even able to shine her holy light across the Endless Sea and onto the land of the Elf Continent. We pursued her faith, and she brought her holy light upon us, but she never taught us how to obtain the divine power independently.'

'Until I discovered that she also had great influence in the Dark Land.'

'She is the Statue of Liberty, but she is also the Goddess of the Night!'

'She was originally the sum of all things, good and evil, light and dark.'

'She created the Statue of Liberty in Roland Continent, and hundreds of millions of believers are following her footsteps, marching forward on the road of light.'

'At the same time, she also established four dark legions in the deepest part of the Dark Land, the Nakma Legion, the Nibru Legion, the Faceless Legion, and the Demon Legion. I know they are trying to find some space cracks on the plane, enter various planes from the Abyss, and then try to enter our main plane.'

"The Temple Legion that believes in light is destined to have a great war with the Dark Legion. It may be in the Dark Land, or in Roland Continent and Elf Continent. No matter where, the battlefield will be devastated and all things will be extinct..."

Although Roy knew the meaning of every word in the following text, when they were put together, many sentences immediately became very incoherent.

Roy deleted many words before he pieced together a paragraph.

'I know that when the Statue of Liberty falls asleep, the Goddess of Night will awaken from the Abyss, and the Darkest Hour will soon come.'

"I found that Liberty was no more, her flesh was... and her bones were scattered throughout the land of darkness."

'Before she died, she imprisoned the goddess of night in a well deep in the dark land.'

"I found a piece of the goddess's finger bone from the Nakma Demon Lord in Dark Mountain. I know that there is a trace of the goddess's divine consciousness hidden in the divine bone. I am willing to offer my body to revive the goddess's divine consciousness, but my body has been torn into pieces during the battle with the Nakma Demon Lord. I cannot carry this trace of the goddess's divine consciousness. I need a body with stronger divinity to carry this divine consciousness..."

The text on the parchment stopped here.

Roy thought about the first time he touched the pillow-sized jade. There happened to be an extremely weak divine thought that wanted to occupy his body. It transformed into an angel, but was ruthlessly rejected by him.

Then that ray of divine consciousness was expelled from Roy's body.

When Roy saw the contents of the parchment, he realized that he seemed to have rejected the divine consciousness that the Statue of Liberty had separated from him...

He immediately became a little nervous and checked his whole body carefully. He didn't find any trace of the goddess's consciousness, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a knock on the door of the staircase grocery room. Roy opened his eyes, rubbed his stiff face with both hands, opened the wooden door of the grocery room, and saw Leah holding a cup of warm lemon tea with two biscuits on the tea tray.

"You haven't eaten yet, I brought breakfast down for you, eat quickly."

Leah handed the plate to Roy, then squatted at the door of the grocery room, holding her delicate little face in her hands and looking at Roy with a smile.

Roy took the plate and thanked Leah: "Thanks, Leah."

Then he silently picked up the teacup and took a big sip, then said:
"How is Alice's condition? If it's convenient, I would like to go and treat Alice again this afternoon."

Roy knew what Leah needed.

Leah never concealed it from Roy. She was even very straightforward, getting close to Roy and trying to please him, just so that Alice could get better soon...

Normally, if Roy said this, Leah would definitely give him a sweet smile.

But this time, Leah smiled and shook her head, and said to Roy, "Alice said that we can wait for two more days before treatment. She is in good condition and wants to try to absorb the power of holy light herself."

Roy had long discovered that Alice was secretly learning divine arts, and she was making rapid progress.

Once, Roy saw with his own eyes that Alice gathered a ball of holy light in front of her chest with both hands, and then raised them gently, and a column of holy light fell down.

Roy didn't even hear her chanting the prayer, but the holy light full of healing power was real...

Alice learns divine arts even faster than Leah learns dark magic.

Precisely because of the previous example of Leah, no one cared too much about Alice's ability to learn divine arts.

I just think that Leah and Alice are born to learn dark magic and divine magic...

Roy would transfer the power of holy light to Alice every two days, and then he would go out with the great magician Grahams to hunt dark beasts so that the power of holy light in his body could recover as soon as possible.

Roy discovered that although Alice was introverted and gentle, she would occasionally do something unexpected.

Sometimes she would lean against the windowsill and stare at him non-stop, her eyes filled with complicated emotions. Roy even felt that Alice hated him a little bit...

Most of the time, Alice is a stay-at-home girl, hiding in her room all day and rarely showing up.

Roy discovered that the number of times he infused Alice with the power of holy light was gradually decreasing.

……

The magic wooden house left the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp and first arrived at Isnes. After resting in the Isnes Expeditionary Camp for a day, everyone went to the third expeditionary camp - Brinia.

Along the way, the magicians were trying to find out the news about the lich, but unfortunately they didn't get any information along the way.

Fortunately, the magic cabin was on an expedition route, so the journey was safe and sound, and it was difficult to encounter a dark monster along the way.

It can be seen that the Temple Expeditionary Force has completely wiped out the dark monsters along this expedition route...

And this expedition road is real, straight and hard on the black sand sea.

Steel Gollum pulled the magic wooden house along the road, and his legs did not sink into the black sand. He only left a row of clear large footprints on the expedition road.

After more than half a month of marching day and night, the magicians finally arrived at the Brinia Expeditionary Force camp.

This expeditionary camp was built on a sand dune. The area around the camp was desolate. However, in this desolate sand, Roy found that he could see some bone fragments of dark creatures every few meters, and they were also everywhere in the surrounding black sand sea.

Great Magician Grahams and Roy sat side by side on the observation deck, watching everything in front of them.

"I bet this must have been a big battlefield before, otherwise there wouldn't be so many corpses of dark beasts here!" said the great magician Grams confidently.

Roy pointed to the sand pile ahead and said, "The Briniya Expeditionary Force camp is ahead."

"Let's go check the situation in the camp first."

After saying that, Great Magician Grams slid down from the observation deck and returned directly to the rest area on the second floor. Roy also slid down behind Great Magician Grams...

The two put on magic cloaks, walked out of the magic wooden house directly, and headed towards the Brinia Expeditionary Force camp.

Before entering the expeditionary camp, Roy discovered that this camp was much larger than the Isnes expeditionary camp, and there were many priests living here. Most of the tents in the camp showed signs of habitation.

After entering the camp, many priests along the way were watching them.

On both sides of the main road in the camp are stalls set up by vendors, and more than half of the stall owners are priests.

Roy stopped in front of a street stall and pointed at the dark beast materials and asked:

"How do you sell these things?"

The stall owner looked up at Roy and said in a muffled voice:
"Trade with soul crystals. Just point to me which one you want to buy and I'll tell you the price!"

Roy squatted in front of the stall and picked and chose. He asked the price of almost every dark beast material, but he didn't pay for it...

Under the angry gaze of the stall owner, Roy clapped his hands and stood up, then left the stall with the great magician Grahams.

Roy discovered that although the priests of the Statue of Liberty did not have much holy light power, their mental state was very good. Some priests were even actively organizing small teams. They were all spontaneously heading deep into the darkness, and some priests had already prepared their luggage for the long journey.

The scene of these priests seeing him off was also very lively...

Roy mixed in the crowd and watched for a long time. He even whispered something to a priest next to him.

"Ahem, do you know a high priest named Reed?" Roy asked the priest next to him.

The priest shook his head and stared at Roy with a scrutinizing look.

Roy quickly waved his hand to show that he understood, then ran to another priest and asked, "Do you know a high priest named Reed?"

He asked more than a dozen priests in a row, and the answers he got were almost exactly the same: none of them knew about High Priest Reed.

Roy felt a little discouraged, but the great magician Grams who was following behind him encouraged him:

"Roy, normally when we do magic experiments, we do the same magic experiment for several months in a row. We fail dozens of times almost every day. Even though we fail for several months in a row, we still continue to make some new attempts."

(End of this chapter)