130. Between the temples
The half-blood elves in the street market automatically moved out of the way, and everyone watched in silence as Roy left.
It's like Lady Liberty has quietly left the Elven Continent, and the half-blood elves have just gradually left the Liberty Temple, and no one is trying to stand up and stay, or do something else, as if they didn't belong here in the first place.
Even for a time, the priests of the Statue of Liberty helped countless Downtown residents.
Even at several meetings last month, Roy was handing out holy water to the faithful with a silver spoon.
But all you can do now is to stand in the crowd and silently watch Roy, and leave the lower city under the pressure of the three Moon Temple priests......
No one will resist it, and no one will keep it.
Roy walked down the street, his palms clenching a cloud of holy light, which spread outward through the gaps in his fingers.
The light easily fell into the eyes of the half-blood elves on both sides of the street, but it was difficult to shoot into their already numb hearts.
Without explanation, Roy turned and walked down the market.
Even as a carriage passed along the way, Roy didn't stand on the side of the road and shout to stop, and now he suddenly realized that the Holy Grail theft had finally pointed to the Temple of the Moon.
I really didn't expect this anyway!
If it weren't for this, the priests of the Moon Temple would not have been able to find them anyway, and they disdained to come into contact with any half-blood elves, including half-elves.
Standing on the streets of the lower town, you can see the roof of the Statue of Liberty, but you have to walk a long way to get started.
That's how Roy came back step by step.
Along the way, there was no more obstruction from the priests of the Moon Temple.
Abt, who was on duty at the gate, saw Roy walking into the gate dejectedly, and immediately poked his head out and asked:
"Roy, how are you listless? Could it be that things are not going well at the Inquisition? ”
Roy didn't stop, and replied weakly:
"It's all right, Abt, where's Archpriest Reed?"
Abt immediately said, "I am praying in the temple of the Lord." ”
Roy waved behind him and walked past the statue of Liberty by the pool towards the steps of the main hall.
Ascending the steps to the door of the Temple of Liberty, Roy looked up at the statue at the entrance of the temple, and His Majesty Mitchell, who held the scepter and the sacred prayer, was looking at Roy with great solemnity, which made Roy feel a little more energetic.
He pushed open the door of the temple and walked down the middle passage.
Archpriest Reed was kneeling in front of the relief statue of Lady Liberty, silently praying to the goddess, knowing that there would be no response, but this was what Archpriest Reed had to do every morning and evening.
Roy didn't kneel down and pray with Grand Priest Reed, because he found that the power of the Holy Light was not actually given by Lady Liberty, but the magical divine seed in his body that he had obtained from his side, and accumulated bit by bit.
In the last two days, he has once again faced a breakthrough.
Abt and Jasper both told him about their promotion experience, the two half-blood elves basically took about half a year to be promoted to the first level, and in just two months, he was already about to become a fifth-level trainee priest, this kind of promotion speed even when the Goddess of Liberty's holy light sprinkled the elven continent, the two of them did not feel this way.
All Roy prayed occasionally, but he never prayed to Lady Liberty.
Grand Priest Reed silently recited all the prayers in his mind, and when he opened his eyes, he realized that Roy had been waiting for him for no idea how long.
He got up from the ground, then slowly turned around, and seeing that Roy's face was full of confusion, he walked up to Roy, stretched out his hand and pressed it on his head, and asked gently:
"What's the matter, Roy, what kind of troubles are you encountering?"
Roy sat on the bench in the front row......
The setting sun shines on the dome of the temple, causing the multicolored glass sheets of the high windows to reflect the beautiful patterns of light in the main hall.
Roy raised his head a little depressed and said to Archpriest Reed:
"Teacher, there are some things I don't know whether to say or not, I originally wanted to hide them and investigate them secretly until the evidence is sufficient, but now many things are getting worse and worse......"
Priest Reed sat down beside Roy, put his arm around his shoulder, and comforted:
"What kind of trouble is encountered, maybe I can help you come up with an idea, rest assured, I'm definitely the kind of listener who doesn't like to talk too much."
Roy bit his lip and struggled in his heart for a moment before he raised his head and said to Grand Priest Reed:
"Teacher, remember what you said to me when I first entered the Statue of Liberty?"
“……”
In fact, Grand Priest Reed really forgot what he had said.
Roy went on to say:
"You said to me, 'Roy, if you have enough free time, I would like to ask you to help me investigate something, I think you have probably heard that the Holy Grail in front of the holy pool in the temple was lost a few days ago, and it has not been recovered in the last few days, you can tell me privately if you find any clues in the Elven Academy.' ”
Archpriest Reed nodded in acknowledgment that he had said those words at the time, when the Grail had just been stolen and all three priests were looking for the Grail.
Roy said with some shame:
"Teacher, I actually knew some news at the time, because I happened to pass by the gate of the temple that morning, and I saw a half-blood elf sneaking over the courtyard wall and planting himself into the rose bush outside the courtyard."
"Actually, I wanted to ask privately if he took the Holy Grail."
"Later I found out that this half-blood elf is called Peleus, and it is a subordinate of the Dark Moon Elf Jefferson......"
Roy details the cause and effect of the incident, including the death of Jefferson, the death of Peleus's sister, and so on.
This matter is still a bit twisted to say, and later it was said that the half-blood elf classmates saw the figure of the priest of the Moon Temple at the scene of Peleus's death......
Grand Priest Reed's expression became more and more solemn.
Roy then went on to talk about what happened today:
"That's the way it is, until today when I asked the crew in the Inquisition if they had killed Peleus, they didn't admit to killing Peleus, but rather a priest of the Moon Temple in the Arbitration Council, who was secretly staring at me...... Later, as I passed through the lower town, three priests of the Moon Temple suddenly appeared and tried to take me back. ”
Priest Reed lowered his gaze and asked Roy, "So what is the conclusion you have reached?" ”
"I think the loss of the Holy Grail is the last sign that many of the signs point to the Thorndike priests of the Moon Temple." Roy said.
"Now that I know, I'm going to write to the high priest and tell him what is happening here." Grand Priest Reed sighed lightly before he said, "I think the Moon Temple may have been hoping to cause us some trouble in the past, but it is definitely not ...... now"
Grand Priest Reed's eyes brightened, and he took Roy's shoulders and whispered:
"The Temple of Liberty is now evacuating the Elven Continent on a large scale, and no one wants to cause trouble at such a time, and it is estimated that the last thing to cause trouble is the Moon Temple, so at this time, we will reflect the situation here to the Golfito headquarters, and there will be a response soon."
Later, seeing that Roy's mood was still not improving, Grand Priest Reed reassured him again:
"Roy, don't worry about security, Felix. Bishop Mitchell had received a personal promise from the Elven King to allow the priests of our Liberty Temple to spread the Light on the Elven Continent, and no race was more willing to keep his promise than the Silver Moon Elves, and the name of heretics would never be on our heads. ”
Then he paused for a moment before he said gently:
“…… In fact, you should have told us earlier when you encountered so many things. ”
"Got it, teacher!"
Listening to the words of Grand Priest Reed, Roy's heart was much more relaxed, he stood up suddenly, and walked outside the main hall without saying anything......
Seeing that his eyes were bright and he looked like he was in high spirits, Grand Priest Reed asked:
"Roy, where are you going?"
At this time, Roy had already quickly pushed open the door of the main hall, turned back to the Grand Priest Reed, and said:
"Teacher, I'm going to go to the dock guards!"
……
The guards of Castletown Harbour were once the easiest of all the elven guards.
Although there were occasional fights and brawls on the harbor docks, as soon as the elven patrols appeared, all the problems were quickly resolved......
And the foreign ships on the docks rarely cause trouble.
Of course, once you get into trouble, it will be a big event.
The elven patrol watched Roy walk in from the outside with the curtain lifted, and said helplessly:
"Why are you here again? Can't be quiet for a few days? ”
"I'm going to report the Priest Thorndike of the Temple of the Moon God, and he and the other priests grabbed the trainee priest of the Temple of Liberty for no reason." Roy said to the elven patrol.
The Elven Patrol rolled his eyes at Roy and asked him, "Who did the Thorndike Priest catch?" ”
Roy patted his chest indignantly and said loudly, "I! He accused me in the street of being a heretic, and as a trainee priest at the Statue of Liberty, I don't accept such accusations! He is intending to provoke a conflict between the Temple of the Moon and the Temple of Liberty, and I protest and condemn his actions! ”
The elven patrol stared at Roy like a monster, and said a little speechlessly:
"Hey, Roy, you also know that I am not a council of elders here, how can I have the power to manage the affairs of those priests of the Moon Temple."
Roy's expression was a little exaggerated, he slapped the front desk and said unceremoniously:
"But this is already an incident of inter-religious conflict, don't you see that they tried to arrest me, and the priests of the Temple of the Moon wanted to take me directly back to the Temple of the Moon on the premise that I had not committed any wrong, and I was still present at the trial in the morning as a witness."
The elven patrol stared at Roy's mouth, tempting to cover him with his hand and silence him.
"Well, I see! I'll report this to my boss. ”
The Elven Patrol replied helplessly.
(End of chapter)