Mage's Secret

This night is destined to be a restless night for the temple.When they strangled the "demon", they discovered that it was nothing more than an evil magical product.As for the demon who was noticed by the priest, whether he took advantage of the chaos and escaped or never came before, everyone in the temple was suspicious, and the blind priestess also fell silent, kneeling in front of the statue for a long time, begging God for an answer .

Only an inconspicuous little priest, not even an official spellcaster, vaguely knew the truth of the matter, but hesitated whether to tell it.

About eight months ago, Lance and several other trainee priests with better qualifications were sent by the bishop of Holtka to the holy city of Dilo for exchange and study.Over the past six months, several other trainee pastors have finished their studies and returned to Holtka one after another. Finally, Lance was about to leave two months ago.

His luck has always been bad, walking on the street with a group of people, if someone throws a basin of water, the one who gets splashed is always him.And this time was no exception. Not only was the horse given to him by the holy city the worst one when he came back, but he also encountered robbers on the road.

God knows why the robbers came to rob the clergy!

As a priest, but due to his special bloodline, his fighting power is really amazingly powerful.In the end, although he got rid of those robbers, his poor old horse was accidentally injured in the battle and failed to survive.

He could only rely on walking for the rest of the journey, day and night for a month, his robe and hair were covered with dust, and his face was full of exhaustion.Finally, last night when he came to the gate of Holtka, he was so excited that he almost shed tears.

Just as he was dragging his tired steps and stumbling towards the city gate, he found Murphy who was leaning on the wall and looked even more tired than him.In his compassionate nature, he asked without thinking.

But what he didn't expect was that Murphy heard his voice and ran forward as if fleeing for his life as if hearing a curse.

This made Lance even more worried - by God of Light, his movements looked extremely weak.

So Lance also chased after him. If this is a patient, no matter what problems the other party has, he cannot let the other party go away like this—whether it is the same for his past status as a doctor or his current status as a pastor. .

It didn't take long for Murphy to fall in front of him, so he quickly ran to Murphy.In fact, even if Murphy didn't fall, he would still be able to catch up to Murphy not long after. After all, Murphy's speed was really slow.

He pinned Murphy to the ground, and unbuttoned his clothes despite Murphy's objection—for a stubborn patient like Murphy, he was much more visible before.After that, he found out about Murphy's injury.

The wound was very long, and although it was simply bandaged, the bandage was already soaked with blood.He must be healed, this is the first thought that appeared in Lance's mind.

He has just become a trainee priest. If you want to compare him, he is like an apprentice who has just studied in the mage's tower.Compared with spells, he is more familiar with medicinal materials, but he doesn't have any medicines that can be used for healing - after he became a trainee priest, the priest who led him asked him to give up them.

"Faith is more effective than herbs," they told him.

Therefore, Lance had to recite the healing spell that he was not sure if it was the right one.But Murphy's wound didn't get any better, and it was obviously a failure.Lance felt a little frustrated. Just when he wanted to change the spell—even though he was not sure that he could pronounce the spell correctly—Murphy, who was under him, suddenly pushed him away, using a completely different spell than before. speed escaped.

Murphy's figure quickly disappeared from sight. Lance stood up full of doubts, and walked slowly towards the city gate. He just spent a lot of mana, and now he feels even more tired.

When he walked to the city gate, he found something unusual—the city gate opened in the opposite direction.

The air in the city seemed to be frozen and heavy, and every household closed their doors and windows. This was not like Holtka's previous nights.Lance shuffled slowly on the quiet street, the question marks in his heart getting bigger and bigger.

The temple was lit all night as usual, and when he entered the temple, a believer greeted him.

When he saw his appearance clearly, the visitor asked in surprise: "Lance? Why do you look like this? Did you meet a demon just now?"

With the help of this believer, Lance walked towards the back of the temple. Hearing the other party's question, he asked suspiciously: "Devil? How can there be a demon?!"

"Oh, you don't know? You should have heard about it when you were in the holy city. About a month ago, Lord Dewitt found traces of demons in a distant city, and tonight, Lord Laila discovered that demons had come to the city."

"Oh, my God, no, I don't know." Lance shook his head and said with some embarrassment, "I actually set off from the holy city two months ago, but for some reason, I ended up walking back. "

"Ah, indeed." The believer nodded knowingly, "After all, it's you, so it's inevitable."

With the help of the believer, Lance returned to the room. After simply scrubbing, he heard the sound of discussion outside the door of the room—the demon was not caught, and what Master Lyra found was just a product of evil magic.

Devil, magic product, these two words repeatedly appeared in Lance's mind alternately, and finally he inevitably thought of Murphy who met outside the city gate.

Could it be that the one I was going to rescue just now was a demon?

A great panic gripped Lance's heart. He lay back on the bed and buried his head in the quilt, and said to himself: No, not necessarily.But what if that was the demon Lyla found?Lance couldn't help thinking, then he would bear a huge sin.But I just wanted to save someone. Even when I found out that I had a talent for casting spells, I chose to be a priest because healing spells were more effective than herbs.Is it a wrong decision to help a wounded person you meet by chance?Is there any stand for saving a person?

In the end, Lance still didn't mention this to anyone, but a small seed of doubt was planted in his heart.

But these have nothing to do with Traphael, no matter how many people in the city suffer from insomnia, he slept well that night.

The next day, he automatically woke up from his peaceful sleep when the first ray of sunlight was cast by the early morning sun.When he changed his clothes and came to the lobby of the hotel, he found that everyone except Murphy and Elvis was already sitting there.

He went to sit among the apprentices, ordered the waiter to bring breakfast, and counted the time in his mind while eating.

When he ate the last piece of bread and began to drink the not-so-tasting black tea, Elvis came down the stairs in a hurry.

The panicked expression disappeared from Elvis's face when he saw everyone at the table clearly. He sat down beside Traphael with his head held high, and dragged the breakfast reserved for him to him. , then said in a mocking tone: "It seems that I am not the one who is late, some people are actually later than me."

"No, you are the last one." Traphael put down his teacup, turned to Elvis and said, "Something happened in the city last night, I asked Murphy to go out this morning to inquire. He has already left the city first, wait After you finish eating, we will meet him outside the city."

"Going out of town?" Elvis almost dropped the fork in his hand on the ground, "But always, haven't we bought supplies yet?!" He hadn't been shopping in the bustling Holtka yet.

"I bought all the supplies last night." Traphael announced the news calmly, swallowing the phrase "together with Murphy" in Elvis's disappointed expression.

The breakfast time ended in Elvis's almost "cruel" venting towards food, and Gene went to fetch the carriage, and Traphael took his apprentices into it.

There were only five people in the carriage, which originally had room for six people, and the space seemed larger, but Elvis was still sitting tightly against Traphael.

But Traphael didn't notice Elvis's little coquettishness. He opened the curtain of the carriage and paid attention to the movement on the street.

At this time, there were no paladins patrolling the streets, and it was as if nothing had happened in the city. The streets were still noisy and bustling, and the residents in the city and the tourists outside the city were still living their own lives. Traphael The imagined apprehensions of panic did not hang over the city.

Until the carriage came to the city gate.

Several paladins in silver armor stood on both sides of the city gate on fine horses, and beside them stood a spellcaster in white robes.

Under the sign of the caster, the paladin stopped the carriage.The caster rode towards them and raised his hand before reaching the side of the carriage. The paladin put down the long sword that was blocking the carriage.

This spellcaster is much smarter than the one last night, Traphael commented in his heart, at least he can tell very quickly that there is no evil in him.If Murphy was in the carriage at this time, he might have been discovered.Thinking of this, Traphael felt a little lucky.

The carriage passed by the caster, and Traphael also saw the caster's appearance clearly from the window.The caster in the white robe sensed the mage's gaze and bowed to greet him with a smile.Traphael also nodded to him, and then lowered the curtain of the carriage.

He did the same, and came out of this heavily guarded city gate smoothly.

Then, as long as Murphy is found, they can continue their journey.Traphael closed his eyes, and the seal of the contract wrapped around his body began to drive his magic power, and soon he felt the trace of the other half of the contract.

He opened his eyes and told the coachman to go north.