Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

Upon hearing this, the blond boy's tense expression quickly melted away.

Although her face flushed and her gaze was lost for a moment before she regained her composure, demonstrating her strong ability to control her facial expressions, her hesitation to speak prevented the atmosphere from returning to a serious state.

The girl bit her lips and said, "Don't tease me."

"No, I really mean it. I just want to thank you for coming to help me this time."

Although Li Ang said this, he felt guilty. He tried to speak and move softly and quietly so as not to attract the attention of the four people behind him.

Ella Fia glanced at the four girls out of the corner of her eye, then quietly approached Leon with her lips slightly parted.

A loud thunder sounded in the northeast sky.

The thunder was as dense and fierce as the beating of drums. After it sounded, there was a brief silence, and then it spread around with endless and chaotic roars until it filled the entire sky.

The blue-green lightning flowed in the clouds, converging into a wide stream of light, like a river of thunder and lightning.

"What is that!" Zoe asked, looking up at the sky.

"It's always like this during the Promise-Keeping Festival," said Alulu.

"That's what's called a thundercloud stream, isn't it?" Dorothy said, also admiring the spectacle. "I've heard of it, but it doesn't pass by Spark Island or my home, so I've never seen one myself."

The conversation between Alafia and Leon was interrupted for a moment by thunder. The blonde girl came back to her senses, as if she felt that the matter at hand was more important. She pulled Leon and quietly opened her mouth to wait.

boom!

There was a louder roar of thunder, this time loud enough to make people feel physically uncomfortable. The girls covered their ears, and Zoe and Dorothy even started to scream.

Alafia said nothing. She raised her hand and swiped it to the side. The dimension split open, and a dark spear with a barbed blade on the front, a pair of sharp claws wrapped in molten chains, and a giant hammer with a demonic face on the golden hammer head emerged from it.

Those were her three ninth-tier Noble Phantasms.

A strong magical fluctuation arose from Douding's body, and the drawn magical power vibrated violently and was input into the treasure. They burst out with strong spiritual light and were about to fly into the sky and directly scatter the lightning cloud.

"Wait, wait, wait, there seem to be members of the Knights of the Guard nearby." Leon said.

Ella Fia paused, then came to her senses.

She took a deep breath and regained her composure.

Glancing at the walnuts Li Ang was holding, the blond haired toddler suddenly lost interest and said to everyone, "Let's continue and resolve the issues on this island."

Everyone set off again. Because they were worried that the river of lightning in the sky would thunder and hit them, Alafia controlled the flight altitude to be very low.

This trip was to bury Alulu's teacher. According to the original plan, she would bring money to the small town near Leishan to buy a coffin, so Alafia now took everyone to find the town.

Even if the calf didn't remember the way, according to the flying speed of the blonde Douding flying sword, he would definitely find the way after flying around.

Not long after flying, the flying blade began to slow down.

A large number of Christian knights gathered together.

They formed a formation and dispersed, obviously guarding something strictly.

The further in a direction you go, the stricter the guarding of the Knights of the Guard becomes.

"I think I need to go and see what they are doing," said Alafia.

The little team leader said that she would quickly go over and take a look before coming back, and Li Ang and the others would just wait for her here.

Filling the flying blades with magical power, the Star Flower Troupe floated in the air, and Ellaphia herself stepped on the flying swords and transformed into a stream of light.

When she exerts her full strength, her speed is so fast that she can turn into a phantom. It is difficult to keep up with her speed unless you are a strong person who is proficient in catching high-speed enemies.

Not long after, the blond came back and said, "The place they are guarding is a small church."

A puzzled look appeared on Ellaphia's face.

"The church looked a bit dilapidated, but there were some people wearing robes there, who seemed to be high-ranking clergymen."

"What does the church look like?" Alulu asked from the side.

"It has a cyan glazed roof, a training ground with wooden stakes next to it, and a small vineyard."

"Is it that the dragon sculpture at the top has half its head missing?"

"Yes."

"That, that's Thunder Mountain Church."

Alulu's voice was full of doubt and confusion.

"Why would a high-ranking clergyman come to the small church where you live amidst the protection of so many religious knights?" Zoe asked.

"I don't know. I really don't know."

Alulu was completely stunned, her confusion so intense that she couldn't make any expression.

The happy moment during the short break by the river was washed away by the doubts that now filled her mind, and she was panicking.

While thinking, Leon said, "Could it be that your teacher is actually a big figure in the Watamu religion?"

"That's possible," said Dorothy. "Isn't that what many novels say? Great people live in secluded places."

Zoe nodded, agreeing with this statement.

"Teacher... I don't know, he never mentioned such a thing..."

Alulu said that her teacher was usually taciturn, but very kind to her, and raised her since she could not remember anything. During these years, the teacher was like her father, and they spent every day together.

But the teacher never mentioned any past, no important person had ever sought him out before, and he had never used any powerful spells.

"How about we not go to the nearby town first and go to the church to see what's going on?" Leon suggested.

Alulu agreed, she was very worried now.

Alafia led everyone to fly towards the church. Due to the close guarding of the religious knights, Leon began to use spiritual motivation to prevent being discovered by them on the way.

When they arrived at the church, they saw a group of high-level clergy leaving. Alafia controlled the flying blades and asked everyone to hide in the woods.

They headed in another direction under the protection of the Christian knights.

"That's the bishop's attire."

Alulu whispered, pointing at the leader among the clergy.

A bishop came to a remote church that once had no official knights and was full of reserve members?

After the bishop and the knight left, Leon used his spiritual power to drive away the remaining guards, and the group entered the church.

As soon as she entered the door, Alulu ran towards the place where she kept her teacher's body.

Just as Li Ang had anticipated, her teacher's body had disappeared.

Sorry, I need a day off.

There is no headache or fever or any accident, just a bit of a writer's block.

The plot outline has always been there, but some details, character creation, character development, and things I want to add to the previous plot involve the direction of the whole book, and I want to sort them out carefully because the next plot is related to the main line.

I kowtow to my dear readers, bang bang bang.

154. The Devil on the Stained Window

Before leaving the church, Allulu placed her teacher Zephilinus on his own bed.

After leading everyone into the room, they did not see the sleeping old man, and the bed was empty.

There were no signs of rummaging around, and even though the church was poor and there were few objects inside, it was impossible to tell that anyone had been there.

But the previous clergy did come from the church.

"Teacher...where did they take the teacher?"

Alulu looked uneasy, with tears in her eyes.

"Let's catch up!" Zoe said immediately indignantly.

Leon looked in the direction from which they came. When they landed, the Knights of the Guardian Church showed no intention of leaving. The whole thing felt unreasonable.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Was there anyone still at Leishan Church when you left?"

“There are two volunteers.”

Alulu said that the church originally had people coming from nearby villages and towns. Some of them were volunteers, while others were self-taught monks who wanted to enter the seminary and come to the church to chant scriptures and study with her teacher, and also help with church affairs.

People like Fangen also came from nearby villages and towns. They wanted to use Zephilinus's official priest status in the sect to obtain reserve status in the Knights of the Guard, and then find opportunities to increase their reputation and be absorbed as official Knights of the Guard.

When the old priest died, Fangen rushed to "hunt down the villains" because they were worried that no one would introduce them into the Knights Templar.

Some people with similar goals as them went elsewhere, and since they lost their presiding pastor, ordinary believers naturally stopped coming after paying their respects.

Only two kind volunteers wanted to stay and look after the old pastor's body, and Alulu solemnly asked them for help before leaving.

On the way in, Li Ang and others did not see any volunteers.

"Got driven away?" asked Dorothy.

If we find those two people, we might be able to find out what happened here.

Leon asked the girls to wait for a moment, and he went out to use his spiritual power to ask the nearby knights of the Guardian Church.

After he left, the half-elf noticed that Andasu hesitated to speak.

"what's wrong?"

White Wolf secretly glanced at Alulu, who was secretly shedding tears, and asked quietly, "Teacher Alulu's body has been lying around for a long time, right? Won't it rot?"

"Well-"

Dorothy's rainbow eyes flicked towards the empty bed, her gaze sweeping over the yellow marks on the white linen.

"Maybe I know guilt?"

The lady from the Ignis airspace had long been accustomed to the surrounding Wattam beliefs. When she first met Alulu while they were having dinner and chatting, Xiao Niu said that she went out to prevent her teacher from being buried in the wild.

In the developed Fire Sky Region, this custom had long been abandoned, but rumors persisted. It was unrealistic to expect Dorothy, who didn't like studying, to remember these things, but when Alulu started talking about it, she remembered.

When the matter was brought up again, Dorothy whispered to Andasu, "The custom of wild burial itself comes from the legend of the Wattam religion, and is related to her four saints.

"Legend has it that a saint died in battle with a demon, but there was no way to bury him, so the goddess said, 'Leave him in the wilderness and let his body blend into the earth.'"

However, the other saints could not bear to see the saint's body being damaged by wild beasts and unable to be preserved intact, so they used the sap of many nearby trees and the cores of their fruits to refine an oil rich in special spiritual properties. They used that oil to smear the saint's entire body, and his body would not rot in the usual way, but would turn into the texture of plants and gradually blend into the natural environment.

Later, believers developed the habit of refining this wood oil.

Although there are legends to explain this custom, wild burial itself is not very decent after all, and modern Watamu believers no longer do so.

Even Alulu, who lived in a remote church, didn't want to do this. She expressed this idea when they first met.

But she also knew that her teacher's body might decay if she left the church to earn money.

"...So she went to get some wood oil and sprinkled it on him. Look, there are a lot of splash marks." Dorothy said to Andasu.

Zoe had sharp ears. She was originally comforting Alulu, and she also listened to the general idea after the topic started.

As they finished talking, Li Ang just came back.

"How is it?" Zoe asked immediately.

“They haven’t seen any volunteers.”

"They are just the ones responsible for guarding. If the volunteers were driven away, perhaps only the person who entered the door first would know about it." Andasu analyzed.

"But there are so many people out there," said Dorothy. "Should we go and ask them all? How long will it take?"

White Wolf suggested, "Gather them together and let the master cast a spell together."

She was referring to the way Leon killed a large group of Shahai Group members in one go in the underground arena.

Leon frowned. The number of religious knights he encountered along the way was enough to be counted in legion units. Now there were more than a hundred guards outside the Leishan Church.

Even if he used his spiritual power, he couldn't cover such a wide area. To attract attention and then cast a spell was a completely uncontrollable imagination, and he had no idea how much of a commotion it would cause.

What they discussed was not a good solution.

Hearing this, Ella Fia also shook her head.

After entering the church, the blond boy followed on his flying sword, but he was relatively silent and didn't say much.

"There's a secret hidden here," Alafia said. "That bishop is at the transcendent level, and his strength is quite impressive."

"Yes." Li Ang said.

I originally thought it was just a small, remote church, but the fact that a bishop of such a high level came here meant that something unusual was happening.

"Then go and get the bishop," said Zoe.