Castletown in October.

In the early morning, the sky is drizzling, and the north wind from the frozen sea is gradually cooling the climate here.

It rarely rains this season, and by the time Roy arrived at the Liberty Temple in the morning, the sky was already overcast, and by the time the carriage carrying Jasper's coffin drove out of the temple, the drizzle continued to fall.

The carriage left Brown Street and headed straight for the Western Suburbs Cemetery in Castletown.

Grand Priest Reed sat across from Roy with a calm face, his eyes leveled out the window.

Recently, there have been a series of accidents in the temple.

Because the Holy Light no longer shines on the Elven Continent, Priest Addison forcibly performed the Divine Descent Ritual, and finally his body could not support the huge Holy Light power required for the Descent Ceremony, and he died in the main hall of the Liberty Temple.

In order to monopolize the Holy Grail of Wisdom, Priest Theodore planned a theft, in fact, the death of Priest Addison was somewhat related to the theft of the Holy Grail of Wisdom, and Priest Theodore finally succeeded in sending himself to Parram Prison.

Now Trainee Priest Jasper is also lying in a wooden coffin, and Trainee Priest Abt is a wanted fugitive......

The Temple of Liberty is at the headquarters of Golfito in the Elven Continent, and has begun to prepare for the second batch of expeditionary forces, and the priests of the entire Elven Continent are gathering in Golfito.

As a seaport city, the Lady of Liberty on this side of Castletown will hold out until the end, and it is estimated that the third expeditionary force will enter the Dark Lands.

But now only Archpriest Reed and Roy were left in the temple.

Such a change is undoubtedly the biggest failure for Grand Priest Reed!

"I've been wondering if it's because I've been negligent in managing the temple that has caused so many things to happen one after another."

Grand Priest Reed rubbed his temples with two fingers and said in a low tone.

He withdrew his gaze from the window and continued to Roy:

"Now that I think about it, it should be like this, if I had learned about their thoughts earlier and stopped some of their bad decisions in time, maybe things wouldn't have gotten so bad."

After saying that, Grand Priest Reed sighed.

"I always feel that as a priest, our hearts are bathed in holy light, as long as we pray sincerely every day, spread the teachings of the temple, and let the holy light be seen in every corner of the world, it is the ...... of our faith."

"But now it seems...... It's just my life, and I neglect the people around me. ”

He looked Roy in the eye and asked him seriously:

"Roy, what percentage of the midshipman is in your life?"

"A third, or a little less." Roy thought for a moment and replied.

"Every day, I spend one-third of my energy on the Elven Academy, then one-third on the temple side, and finally a third on the rest. Sometimes I'll go to the Black Pearl to watch the sunset, and sometimes I'll go home and do some housework or battle practice or something like that. ”

Roy added.

Grand Priest Reed nodded, with some understanding in his eyes, before asking:

"So...... You're going to decide to give up joining the Expeditionary Force? ”

"Hmm."

Roy replied honestly.

But he suddenly remembered the entrustment that Jasper said a few days ago......

It's a bit of a hassle.

At that time, Jasper said that if he couldn't go to the Dark Land, he wanted Roy to go to the Dark Land for him.

Roy felt that he was only a fifth-level trainee priest, and he had gone to the dark land, and it was not certain whether he would be able to come back alive......

The carriage entered the cemetery in the western suburbs, where the gravediggers had dug the grave at the designated location, and a metal nameplate belonging to Jasper was hung on the cypress tree in front of the tomb.

No other elves attended Jasper's funeral.

Grand Priest Reed, the coachman, Roy, and the gravediggers of the cemetery braved the rain to carry the wooden coffin into the tomb.

Afterwards, Grand Priest Reed stood in front of the cypress tree and braved the rain to recite the eulogy.

In the final prayer, Roy and Grand Priest Reed watched Jasper's soul float into the sky in a beam of pure light......

Later, Roy backfilled the excavated earth into the tomb and re-covered the excavated turf on the tomb before the funeral was over.

After the funeral, Grand Priest Reed turned around and walked back to the carriage.

Roy stood alone in front of Jasper's grave for a moment in the drizzle.

He hesitated for a moment, took the golden key from his magic fanny pack, crouched under the cypress tree, and buried it under the tree with a shovel.

Unexpectedly, a treasure of the gray dwarf pirate buried Abt and Jasper.

……

Roy turned back to the carriage, which drove away from the Western Suburbs Cemetery.

In the carriage, Roy took off his wet midshipman robe and changed back into his usual clothes for school, and the carriage carried him to the gate of the Elven Academy, where Roy ran into the academy in the rain with a textbook in his arms.

The first martial arts class couldn't catch up, but he could still catch up with the second geography class.

It's troublesome to take a leave of absence from the Elf Academy, and even if there is a valid reason, your grades will be affected.

There is talk of the Nautilus's distress off the coast all over the academy, and this time Claire is once again the hero of the young Silver Moon Elves.

Claire wins Hayer's bet with a new song, 'Bernice', and when the nightmare strikes, she successfully wakes up the whole ship of elves and saves everyone from the slaughter of water ghosts.

…… It's like every protagonist will have a foil by his side, and Roy is Claire's foil.

When the bell rang for the end of class, Roy walked out of Building No. 3 with his geography book in his hand.

Claire stood at the door of the teaching building, surrounded by many silver moon elves who wanted to get to know him, he saw Roy coming out of the teaching building, and hurriedly waved to Roy, and said:

"Roy, this way! I thought you wouldn't be here today! ”

Claire was seen coming out of the crowd with an arm on Roy's shoulder, talking kindly......

Many Silver Moon Elves believe that Roy is a lucky guy to be friends with Claire.

Seeing Roy's embarrassed face, Claire lowered her voice and asked:

"You don't seem to be in a good mood?"

There were so many elven students gathered at the entrance of the school building that Roy refused to say a word.

The two walked out of the crowded school building, and Claire said to Roy:

"Instructor Nora asked about you during class!"

Roy said, "Looks like I need to go and explain it to her." ”

The two walked towards the training ground, which was quiet before Claire asked, "What happened?" ”

Roy stopped and said to Claire:

"Jasper was killed, the murderer hasn't been found yet, I went to his funeral this morning......"

Claire took a breath and looked at Roy for a long time without speaking.

After a while, he said to Roy:

“…… Sorry, I shouldn't have brought this up. ”

The two continued to walk along the road, and Roy had already seen the lawn of the training ground, so he smiled bitterly and said:

"It's okay, anyway, when I meet Instructor Nora, I have to say it again, so I should practice in advance."

Claire didn't want to go on on this topic, so she said to Roy:

"Wait a minute, we're going to the Magic Guild's Inscription Workshop......"

Hearing Claire talk about the Inscription Workshop, Roy was slightly stunned and asked Claire:

“…… Are you saying that the inscription workshop on the first floor of the Magic Guild is the shop of the Hayer family? ”

"yes, you know that store?"

Roy nodded in acknowledgement, "I went to that shop and saw some of the Demonic Pattern Formations, and none of the cheapest ones in them could afford right now. ”

Speaking of this, Claire said with a slight meaning: "I knew earlier...... I should have added some more chips to the offer, but we were still too light! But then again, usually a magic pattern build should last a long time, so the right choice of the first magic pattern build is very important. ”

The two of them arrived at the training ground, where Instructor Nora was counting the weapons used for training next to the weapon rack, almost all of them were wooden swords and round wooden shields.

Weapons such as hammers and sticks are also available, but they are only a few of them.

Instructor Nora glanced up at Roy and handed him a bundle of wooden swords in his arms, asking him to hang them one by one on a wooden rack.

"Oh? Would you like to explain to me the reason for your unexcused absence this morning? ”

Instructor Nora asked, curling the corners of her mouth at Roy.

Roy hugged the bundle of wooden swords, and Claire placed the wooden swords on the wooden frame, and only when they were done did they say:

"Instructor Nora, I went to a friend's funeral in the morning, so I didn't make it to your class."

"Got it!" Instructor Nora nodded in understanding.

Then she stopped and looked at Claire and Roy, and asked them both:

"I heard you've met water ghosts in the open sea?"

The students on the training ground are almost gone.

Claire grinned, "To be exact, we met a nightmare vine near a sea reef and was just in time for its flowering, so this nightmare vine released a sleeping cloud on us, and then manipulated some water spirits to attack the Nautilus. ”

Instructor Nora paused again, turned to Claire, and asked:

"So how did you guys come up with the nightmare? Someone brought a sober pendant? ”

Claire pointed at Roy and said, "It was Roy who woke me up, probably with the power of the Light." ”

"Well done."

Instructor Nora finished and patted Roy on the shoulder.

She wasn't too surprised by the answer, apparently having heard someone else talk about it......

……

Leaving Nora Instructor's side, Roy and Claire walked out of the Elven Academy.

The Magic Guild was next door to the Elven Academy, and the two of them just walked along the street, not too far.

"You don't have to explain so much." Roy whispered to Claire.

Claire asked with a puzzled expression, "Roy, why don't you always let me tell them the truth of the matter?" ”

"In the Elven Academy, the hero of the new class can be Wagner. Claire, it can be Steve or Adams, but it can't be a half-elf, Roy, otherwise these things will be fame and prestige for you, but once it comes to me, it will be trouble, and I think I've had enough trouble now...... Do you know what it's like to be in a court hearing for four weeks in a row? ”

Roy felt that the two needed to be more low-key recently......

Claire didn't care.

"Okay!"

In the hall on the first floor of the Magic Union, Roy and Claire walked into the inscription workshop with a small façade but a large space inside......

Claire is preparing to bring Yoram. Hayer took out the IOU and handed it to the elf waitress who was standing at the counter in charge of reception, and saw Hayer greet him from the workshop with a straight face.

(End of chapter)