Path of Light.

Chapter 661 662. Reed
High Priest Reed was lying in a pool of blood, his upper body was covered in blood, and there were two deep wounds on his shoulder blades. A trace of holy light was emanating from him. Those holy lights might have been transformed from his body...

As a wisp of holy light drifted out, High Priest Reed's finger disappeared out of thin air...

His forehead, cheeks, and every part of his body were transforming into holy light, and gradually disappeared...

Roy staggered over and knelt on one knee beside High Priest Reed, chanting prayers continuously, and rays of "Holy Light" fell on High Priest Reed.

However, these holy light spells actually accelerated the speed at which his body dissipated, and a large amount of holy light evaporated from his body.

Roy immediately stopped casting magic. He felt extremely confused at this moment.

He had imagined the scene of meeting High Priest Reed, but he never thought it would be like this...

High Priest Reed opened his eyes slightly, his pupils were emitting golden light, the blood flowing from his body was also turning into light gold, countless holy light powers gathered in his body, but were dissipated at a faster speed, and his body also dissipated into the air.

The fingertips of High Priest Reed's hands had completely disappeared, but he held Roy's hand tightly with his hands. His eyes were still as kind as before. He seemed to be enduring great pain, and his lips were trembling slightly when he spoke.

It can be seen that there is a trace of relief in his eyes. He said to Roy with difficulty:

"I didn't expect that I would see you before I died...Roy!"

A layer of light gold appeared on High Priest Reed's face. He spoke to Roy in a gentle tone, without any fear of facing death.

Roy didn't know what was going on, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes. He thought of the time in Castleton City, and indelible fragments flowed before his eyes. Roy couldn't help but choked up and said:

"Teacher, I'm sorry, I'm late!"

High Priest Reed shook his head with difficulty.

"It's not your fault, Roy."

Countless holy lights spread out when he shook his head, and his hair immediately disappeared in the holy light.

The battle was over. The surviving priests sat there in a daze. They were all looking at Archpriest Reed. After all, he had just transformed into the Archangel of Justice Tyrael, holding the Archangel's sword - Holy Feather of Glory in his hand, and killed the Nakma Demon Commander with just two swords. In the eyes of these priests, Archpriest Reed was simply their new hope in the dark land.

However, when they saw that the body of High Priest Reed was constantly turning into holy light and quickly dissipating in the air.

Many priests knew that this situation occurred because the body was overloaded with a large amount of faith power, but High Priest Reed was not a body of holy light.

The bodies of the priests who died in battle were also reduced to ashes in the consecration fire.

The surviving priests sat there, chanting prayers continuously. It was unclear whether they were comforting their dead companions or themselves...

High Priest Reed asked Roy:

"Roy, do you worship the Statue of Liberty?"

Roy shook his head.

Although he possessed the power of holy light, he had never believed in the Statue of Liberty.

"That's good."

High Priest Reed showed a relieved smile on his face. The more he moved, the more holy light his body would emit...

High Priest Reed seemed to have remembered something. He fumbled around and took out the Holy Grail of Wisdom that he always carried with him. He stuffed it directly into Roy's arms, then lay on the ground, looked up at the bloody sky and said to Roy:
"I give this to you. Although it is just a replica, it does contain a little bit of divinity. It can help you replenish some holy light power in the dark land."

"There is no holy light here, but you need to use the power of holy light to protect yourself."

"I'm from the Green Empire, a country where everyone believes in the Statue of Liberty. If you have the opportunity to meet people from the Green Empire in the future, I hope you can be nicer to them..."

"…The world is so big, Roy. While you are still young, take the one you love most and travel around and see the world."

High Priest Reed spoke a lot, but every time he spoke a word, his body became lighter.

His body continued to transform into holy light and dissipated into the air...

Roy sat on the ground and let High Priest Reed lean on his arms, so that he might feel more comfortable.

At this time, only half of the arms and legs of High Priest Reed were left, and most of his head had disappeared, but he was still able to speak. He said to Roy:

"Sometimes I wonder where the Statue of Liberty is sealed. Maybe she is tired of being a god and is hiding somewhere we can't find her. She just wants to take a break."

When he said this, it seemed as if he could hardly open his eyes.

"It was not until I raised the Holy Grail of Wisdom and countless powers of faith were injected into my body that I was able to understand her predicament a little bit..."

High Priest Reed looked at Roy hard.

"But I still don't understand why our Holy Light power was given by her. For this reason, she even deprived us of the ability to absorb the Holy Light power..."

He wanted to raise his arm, but only a little bit of his arm was left. The holy light was like a ribbon made of gold powder, peeling away from his body bit by bit.

"I came to the Dark Land. I traveled to many places along the Expedition Road. I saw countless priests fall on this road. Some of them were believers with strong wills, and some priests wanted to return to the Elf Continent to start a new life."

"No matter what the reason was for them to come here, I think they should have the right to choose. If someone wants to leave, they should be allowed to leave. If they want to go deeper into the dark land, there is no need to deliberately stop them."

“…I often think of the old days.”

"There's no sunlight in this dark place, and I feel like mushrooms are growing on my body."

"When I die, you will burn me, put my ashes in a jar, take my ashes away from the dark land, take me back, and bury me on the stone cliff next to the white manor by the sea. Then, maybe when the weather is clear, I can still see the other side of the endless sea..."

At the last moment, High Priest Reed's body was completely transformed into holy light.

A golden soul slowly floated into the sky and quickly dissipated in the holy light...

High Priest Reed's entire body turned into the power of holy light, leaving nothing behind.

Even if Roy lit a bonfire, there would be nothing to burn.

Roy sat on the ground, silently took out a small jar, and collected the black soil stained with the blood of High Priest Reed into the jar.

Then Roy said to himself into the jar, "Mr. Reed, I'll take you home."

……

Seeing Roy standing up from the ground holding the jar, Great Magician Grams came over, put a hand on Roy's shoulder, and comforted him:
"Don't be too sad, Roy, cheer up."

The Dragon's Throat Expeditionary Camp has now turned into ruins.

The bodies of the dead priests were dragged together and burned together.

As for the corpses of those Nakma demon warriors, they soon turned into wisps of dark air and dissipated into the air.

However, the black magic crystal core inside their heads was almost intact.

……

The magicians came back from afar in the magic wooden house. Two giant steel golems appeared behind the magic wooden house. Each steel golem was dragging an ice coffin that was more than ten meters long. The ice coffin left a deep mark on the black land.

It seems that the hunt for the lich was going very smoothly this time.

These magicians were completely overwhelmed by the sixth-level dark beasts in terms of power...

The faces of the great magicians were filled with joy of victory. The successful capture of the two liches meant that they could return to the Dark Portal Expedition camp immediately.

At night, Roy also received information from the great magician Grahams that the magician team would be evacuating from the Dragon's Throat soon.

In fact, Roy is very unfamiliar with this place, and there is nothing worth staying here. Instead, it is Roy's sad place.

Originally, he entered the Dark Land with the intention of bringing High Priest Reed back to the Elven Continent, but he never expected that the last time they saw each other would be their final farewell...

Roy was in a bad mood. He didn't even walk around the dragon camp or see the place where High Priest Reed once lived.

Leah sat quietly beside Roy, whispering about interesting things that happened in Iris' camp. She hoped that Roy could get rid of his depressed mood as soon as possible.

Alice, on the other hand, had been squatting at the place where High Priest Reed died, as if she was talking to herself. She seemed to have become a little neurotic recently. She seemed very quiet most of the time, and spoke softly and quietly, but sometimes, she would have an inexplicable hostility towards Roy, which made Leah feel a little embarrassed. She also learned some divine arts inexplicably...

The priests of the Statue of Liberty and the magicians of the Magic Guild of the Elf Continent had never had much interaction. Even though the magicians had saved the priests in the Dragon's Throat camp this time, they still kept a distance from each other.

The magicians left the camp in the magic cabin, and no priests saw them off.

Before leaving, Roy remembered what High Priest Reed had told him, so he went to the camp to ask the priests if anyone wanted to leave the Dark Land, they should go to the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp to find him. However, the priests in the Dragon's Throat Expeditionary Camp did not respond at all.

Since no one wanted to leave the dark land, Roy did not hesitate and followed the magicians directly back to the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp.

……

It took the magicians two months to walk from the Dragon's Maw to the Dark Portal.

This time, there were two ice coffins behind the magic wooden house, so they hardly stopped along the way, and sometimes they even traveled day and night.

Roy felt that since the two liches were captured, all the magicians seemed to be more relaxed, and they could even make some harmless jokes when they got together.

Oppaia also found her new partner on the way back, the observer who had been guarding the lookout, and they would do some interesting things during the boring journey.

When Roy arrived at the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp, he was shocked when he saw the observer. Although his eyes were still bright, his dark circles were as big as a panda's. He seemed to have shrunk a lot and lost more than 10 or 20 pounds.

When everyone was greeting each other, the great magician Grams secretly pulled Roy's collar and whispered to him:

"Luckily you don't like Oppaia's type, otherwise you would be like him now. But don't worry too much. Just rest for a few days and drink some magic potions, and you will recover soon..."

Roy forced a smile and did not continue talking about this topic. Instead, he asked the Great Magician Grams:

"How long can you stay here?"

"If everything goes well, it will take at most three months. If we restart the plan to seal the Dark Portal, I don't know how long it will take." Grand Mage Grems responded: "Grand Mage Cedric has proposed that as long as we complete the maintenance work on the Dark Portal and make it function normally, we will return to the Magic Guild of the Elf Continent to take a vacation."

"In fact, the plan is for us to stay and prepare a feasibility report on sealing the Dark Portal."

"But the Moon Temple hopes to maintain the status quo. The plan to seal the Dark Gate needs to be approved by the top leaders. The Moon Temple has always disagreed, so we can only wait patiently."

The great magician Grams told Roy secretly.

If Great Magician Grams hadn't mentioned the priests of the Moon Temple, Roy would have almost forgotten about them.

It has been so long since they have been seen coming to the dark land.

Even in Golfito Canyon, there were less than ten priests of the Temple of the Moon stationed in the Statue of Liberty...

This time when Roy returned in the magic cabin, the guards of the mine guard regiment behaved very calmly. They stood in a row and saluted Roy, watching him stride into the expeditionary camp.

……

With the magicians' journey to explore the dark land coming to an end, Leah had also completely completed her guide work. Originally, she and Alice should have returned to Iris' camp, but Leah finally persuaded Roy, and Roy agreed that the sisters could stay in the mine guard group.

After all, Leah is familiar with the situation in the surrounding demon hunting camps and can help him purchase some dark monster materials from the surrounding demon hunting camps.

Under Roy's arrangement, Leah and Alice stayed in the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp.

As Roy returned to the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp, the Warcraft material business in the Dark Land once again had an opportunity for development. Roy transferred the dark Warcraft materials purchased from the Dark Land to the magic airship outside the Golfito Canyon.

Then, through those magic airships, a large amount of dry food was transported to the Dark Land...

Another thing that Roy didn't expect was that this time he brought nearly four thousand half-elf warriors from the Partington plane. Currently, nearly a thousand of them have the power of holy light in their bodies, and have also learned purification and holy light magic.

A week after Roy returned to the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp, Captain Gabreth and Captain Malthus came to the Dark Gate Camp.

Captain Malthus walked quickly into the tent, came to Roy, and said to him with a serious face:
"A large-scale riot has occurred on Partington Island. The Silver Moon Elves and the Half-Blood Elves are currently holding their own opinions and neither is willing to give in. The reinforcements of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion have arrived at Golfito Canyon. Lord Swinburne hopes that the mine guards will evacuate from the Dark Portal Expeditionary Force camp as soon as possible... or you can step forward to deal with this riot!"

(End of this chapter)