The Temple of the Moon in Castletown sits atop a hill in Uptown.

In addition to controlling the life and death of the Silver Moon Elves (birth and burial), the priests of the Temple also have the right to distribute the sap of the Tree of Life, and guide the lost Silver Moon Elves back to the Moon God Elune.

The Luna Temple priests were even more influential than the elders of the Council of Elders of Castletown.

After all, all the Silver Moon Elves in Castletown go to the Moon Temple every week to receive a cup of Life Tree Sap.

Moreover, if the Silver Moon Elves are usually sick, they will come to the Moon Temple and receive treatment from the priests.

In fact, the treatment process is extremely simple.

Sick Silver Moon Elves would bathe in the Fountain of Life, while priests would pray to the Goddess of the Moon, and the Moon God Elune would rain down a ray of moonlight, and the Elves who entered the Fountain of Life would be healed if they were not too seriously injured.

The Moon Temple never distributes the sap of the Tree of Life to the half-blood elves in the lower city, and the spring of life in the temple is also forbidden to the half-blood elves.

Some half-blood elves died unexpectedly, and the priests of the Moon Temple would not come forward to bury them.

This kind of measures made the Moon Temple have a bad reputation in the lower city.

For this, the half-blood elves prefer to abandon the goddess of the moon and become a believer in the goddess of liberty......

That's why the Statue of Liberty has been able to gain a foothold in Castletown, but the Lady of Liberty has been experiencing unprecedented difficulties lately......

In the past six months, no matter how devout the believers have prayed, they have not received a response from Lady Liberty.

So much so that the congregation of the Statue of Liberty has shrunk by almost two-thirds in just half a year.

Even so, the number of Lady Liberty believers who come to the weekly rally continues to decrease.

Roy knew that the priests in the Luna Temple were notoriously bad-tempered, but Roy was somewhat surprised that the Luna Temple priests would vote en masse to keep Count Amelia out of the gates of the Kingdom of Gods.

Count Amelia sat down at a raised base under the bread tree, the moonlight obscured by the bread tree's foliage, and she loomed in the shadows.

"Alright, it's not too early, you should go back......"

Count Amelia gives Roy an eviction order.

Roy didn't hesitate, and quickly stood up and said, "Thank you for your teachings." ”

Thinking that as a trainee priest, he had communicated with an elven revenant for half a night, and he was summoned to come and go immediately......

Roy couldn't help but sigh.

If Jasper and Abt knew about this, they might be nailed to the pillar of shame for the rest of their lives.

Now able to leave, Roy immediately planned to run down the stairs after saluting Count Amelia......

But when he turned around, he found Count Amelia sitting on the steps, just blocking his way.

Count Amelia stared at Roy, seeing that he looked like he wanted to leave in a hurry, but Count Amelia was not so anxious.

She sat gracefully on the stone steps.

A divine glimmer floated over Roy's shoulder, almost illuminating Count Amelia......

With a kind of superior casualness, she completely ignored the divine glimmer on Roy's shoulder, stared at Roy for a while before saying:

"It's the first time I've talked to a half-elf for so long."

"Oh! By the way, this matter must be remembered to be kept secret for me. ”

After Count Amelia said this, he seemed to think of something......

She continued: "Other...... If you have free time, you can always come here and talk to me about what's happening in Castletown. ”

"Of course, if you wish, you can be my messenger and send the news to Ellington Castle whenever there is an incident in Castletown."

“…… I don't see human greed in you, even in adversity, you can always stay sober and deal with it calmly, this courage is very rare. ”

Roy didn't expect Count Amelia to recognize himself so much.

Then I listened to her bow her head and grope for a while, and then said:

"Let me see, this magic crystal will be given to you!"

As she spoke, she reached out to Roy, a hexagonal magic crystal.

Roy grabbed the crystal in his hand, not knowing what it was for a moment.

Then Count Amelia found another crystal stone, which looked a little higher quality than the one Roy was holding in his hand, and the surface pattern was more complicated.

She handed the magic crystal to Roy and said to him:

"Oh, by the way, little Edith, who brought me this crystal stone, don't tell her about me for the time being, every time I see her, it always reminds me of myself when I was younger......"

The next moment, Count Amelia's tone became a little sad, looking at the dark mountains opposite the castle, and muttered to himself:

“…… That's a long memory! ”

Roy stood at the front of the steps, put the two magic crystals in his pocket, and promised:

"Rest assured, I'll give this magic crystal to Miss Edith."

Count Amelia nodded, and slowly faded as the figure faded until it disappeared.

Roy then walked down the stairs.

When she returned to the tent, Claire was still asleep in the tent next door, not feeling Roy's return in the slightest......

……

Roy and Claire spent three days at Fort Ellington,

By noon on the third day, the two had already gone around the entire Ellington Castle with the expedition, and Claire even went to the fourth floor of the castle again.

Standing in front of the fresco, he left the appearance of Count Amelia in the sketchbook from various angles.

"Roy, are we leaving today?"

Claire closed the album in her hand and asked Roy, who looked sleepy.

"If you hadn't slept well last night, we could have stayed here for another night."

"There's still a lot of work to be done in the future, now that the investigation of the castle here has ended, let's go and complete the next task!" Roy responded immediately.

At noon, Elise and the members of the expedition prepared a lot of food in the arsenal.

However, Roy and Claire were left to eat some breadfruit and black berries, which were picked in the back garden of the castle.

There is no way, among the sixteen group members, except for Roy, no one has learned the elementary martial arts training class.

Therefore, the elf girls do not need to starve for wilderness survival training along the way, and they will no longer walk with Roy and Claire on the road ahead.

"Roy, is your Fort Ellington expedition report ready?"

The Silver Moon Elf girl sitting across from Roy suddenly asked curiously.

"It's almost finished!" After Roy finished speaking, he patted the satchel on his body vigorously.

"Aren't you two going to be with us next?"

After saying that, Edith elegantly peeled off a vermilion fruit with her slender fingers, and sucked the red flesh into her mouth, causing Claire to swallow a mouthful of saliva secretly.

"We're going to go back and forth through the jungle of Malaga to complete the task that Mr. Harper has assigned." Roy responded.

"Got it, although there are no magical beasts in this jungle, you two still have to be more careful when you act, and when you are in danger, you should ask for help, don't be stubborn." Edith explained to the two.

"We'll be careful." Claire said.

After lunch, Roy and Claire go to dismantle the tent.

Edith and a few other Silver Moon Elf girls came to help, and the tent was folded up and retied into a backpack for Roy to carry.

Before leaving the castle, Roy looked for an opportunity to call Edith aside alone.

Edith had a smile in her blue eyes, but she always maintained a distance of one meter between the two.

"What's the matter with me?" Edith posed as a captain and asked Roy.

Roy pulled the delicate magic crystal out of his pocket and handed it to Edith.

"Sent to me?" Edith didn't reach for it, but asked in surprise.

Roy handed it forward, nodded and said, "Well, someone asked me to give you this magic crystal." ”

"Someone asked you to give me this magic crystal? Who is that person? Edith asked, staring at Roy.

Roy tossed the magic crystal to Edith and said casually, "It's not convenient to say it now, maybe you'll find out later." ”

Edith caught the magic crystal and glanced suspiciously at Claire, who was standing next to her.

Claire took a half-step back vigilantly, making it clear that he didn't send it.

Edith turned her head to look at Roy suspiciously......

Roy didn't know how to explain it, so he waved his hand to Edith and quickly walked out of Ellington Castle with Claire.

"You actually gave Edith a magic crystal, tell me quickly, what is recorded in it?" Claire asked curiously.

Roy spread his hand and whispered, "Actually, I haven't opened it either, so I don't know what ...... inside."

The two left Ellington Castle and talked as they went.

When passing by a grove of trees outside the castle, Roy was on the trunk of a large tree and saw the figure of Count Amelia appear.

She was waving to both of them......

(End of chapter)