Arrest
"Great ocean god!"
May the spirit of the waters of this land gather in my place.
An ice wall appeared.
For Soraya, a water-attribute inscription mage, drawing inscription totems after completing a prayer is a matter of a moment.
The purpose of praying to the deity to whom the inscription is drawn beforehand is to increase the chances of success in drawing the inscription.
Once the inscription totem is successfully drawn, it will appear on the caster's body. The caster can then transfer the inscription totem from their body to the target to form an inscription array.
However, praying to a powerful evil god can easily lead to hearing the evil god's ramblings and thus being corrupted by the evil god.
A vast array of water spirits gathered around Solaya, and blue inscribed totems moved from Solaya's arm toward her, finally forming a circular magic circle in front of the approaching steam railcar.
The moment the magic circle was formed, a bone-chilling cold surged up the place. The water spirit went from formless to tangible. The steam railcar was surrounded by ice, and its speed was reduced by layers of ice walls in front of it.
not good.
Sorea mentally calculated the impact force of the car as it approached her. Under such force, unless she used her protective divine power, she would definitely be injured.
However, Soraya knew very well that she could not back down. Although she would be injured, with her demigod body she could stop the derailed and out-of-control train in front of the normal train behind her.
Sorea summoned most of the inscribed totems back to her palms, attempting to stop the car with her bare hands.
"A pile of megaliths!"
An earthen-yellow inscribed magic circle unfolded in the air.
Lilith's inscription array took effect before the orbiter hit Soraya.
The car came to a stop after hitting the boulder where the earth spirits had gathered.
"Finally made it! You scared me to death!" Lilith wiped the cold sweat from her forehead as she walked breathlessly toward Sorea and finally sat down beside her.
The railcar they were originally riding sped past here without incident.
"I thought you were a water element or a metal element, I never imagined you were an earth element!" Sorea looked Lilith up and down in surprise.
After all, as a pirate, he made his living by boat and spent most of his time on the sea, so he didn't have much to do with earth element.
"Guess why my father favored Lillian? It's because he thought I was absolutely not cut out to be a pirate."
Lilith had been in a hurry and failed to draw the inscription totem several times in a row, causing her power to drain rapidly. In order to ensure her own safety, she casually replied to Soria and then closed her eyes to meditate.
Sorea looked at Lilith, who so readily believed in her former enemy, and shook her head helplessly. She grabbed Lilith's arm and leaped to the side, leaving this place of trouble.
"May the goddess protect you!"
"By my God!"
The passengers and staff on the out-of-control steam railcar finally came to their senses and were extremely grateful for their survival, thanking their gods.
“Pah! We two worked so hard to save them, and they thank God instead.”
Lilith's initial tirade stopped when it reached Soraya, who was standing next to her, as she realized that the person next to her was a certain god's most devout follower.
At that moment, Sorea and Lilith jumped onto a nearby tree to observe the reason why the steam railcar had gone out of control.
This car was supposed to separate from the two of them at the fork in the road earlier, but it crashed into them for no apparent reason, even hitting the carriage where Sorea and her companion were. This is quite intriguing.
"There was a fluctuation of inscription power before the car went out of control," Sorea said seriously, recalling what had just happened.
The Knights of the Knights, sensing this, also came to the same conclusion and moved in more people to seal off the area.
In this era, the gods cannot directly interfere with the outside world or the development of the Singri continent. Under the supervision of Talmawen, they cannot release their own people out of the divine kingdom. They can only rely on their own churches to send divine oracle to their high priests.
The gods once had a strong power to control their land-based divine kingdoms, and the emperors of various countries were all believers in the gods.
However, ever since Talmawen became a god in human form, the minds of the rulers of these empires have begun to waver.
Under Dagmore's intervention, agreements were signed with the rulers of several countries, and the Knights' Order was established.
From then on, gods could only interfere with humans under their authority. The Knights' Hall was used to supervise all those who could use inscribed totems, expel non-humans, and resolve issues related to evil gods.
"Do you still feel the danger?" Lilith asked Soleria.
“Yes, and I have a feeling that someone doesn’t want us to leave Ram City.” Sorea said, looking at the knife she had returned to Lilith.
Lilith followed Soleria's gaze to the knife, and recalling the way the dwarf had looked at her knife earlier, she seemed to understand something:
"Could this knife really have been forged by the god of blacksmithing?!"
Sorea said calmly, "I don't know if He forged it, but His power is definitely on it."
Seeing Lilith's wide eyes in surprise, Solaya added, "Guess why I insisted on drawing your knife."
Lilith touched her knife, wishing she could kiss it. She never imagined that the legend that her family had been telling for thousands of years was actually true.
"Let's go down and meet those members of the Knights!"
Solaya closed her eyes and sensed the power fluctuations in the distance as she spoke.
Seeing that the knights of the Knights Guild had begun searching the surroundings, Sorea, who originally did not want to deal with them, realized that she might not be able to leave Ram City for a while, so she decided to go to the Knights Guild headquarters in Ram City.
As for how to get there, Sorea looked at Lilith beside her. Lilith was terrified by her gaze and couldn't help but touch the hairs standing on end on her body.
"This has nothing to do with us, let us go!" Lilith slammed her hands on the table and roared.
Even now, Lilith, who has been brought to the Knights' headquarters in Ram City, still can't understand why she was imprisoned after saving someone.
All I remember is that as soon as I and Sorea appeared, we were surrounded by knights, who then separated us and imprisoned us.
Sorea, however, knew very well why the two of them were arrested on the same day.
Because she herself had previously stayed in the Emerald Sea and had now run away from home, while Lilith had once been a member of the pirates, the two of them, possessing the power of inscription masters but without identification, were naturally suspects.
"In conclusion, the two of us saved someone." Soraya smiled as she looked at the man in knight's armor in front of her. Her intuition told her that the man in front of her was someone who had just entered the demigod level.
“But neither of you has identification,” the man said emotionlessly.
"That's why the two of us followed you here, hoping to get a certificate for our act of saving a carload of people."
The man opposite him, Gavin Vincent, the Knight Commander of the Knights Guild's Ram City branch, said with a sneer, "Madam, please get this straight. I'm asking you why you're here. Do you know that this is the Knights Guild's detention center, not a place where we're trying to help you?"
"It will be soon." Sorea said nonchalantly, still smiling gently.
Gavin found himself unable to get anything out of Sorea and Lilith, and prepared to leave.
Just as his right foot stepped out of the interrogation room, Sorea stopped him:
"In the north of the city, there's a steel shop that manufactures weapons; there's a surprise inside."
“What do you know!” Gavin immediately turned around, his hawk-like cold eyes sweeping over Sorea.
Sorea just smiled at him and didn't say another word.
Unable to do anything else, Gavin locked Sorea and Lilith in a room and then personally led the team to the north of the city.
"This is the first time I've ever been caught. Even your brother couldn't catch me. If you hadn't said you wanted to cooperate with them, I wouldn't have been locked up." Lilith started complaining as soon as she saw Soleria.
Lilith was initially very respectful to Solaya, but as time went on and she chatted with Solaya frequently, her true nature resurfaced, and she stopped using honorifics when addressing Solaya.
Sorea didn't expect her to change. In fact, she preferred the flamboyant Lilith she was now to the lifeless, suicidal Lilith. So she was happy to approve of Lilith's change.
“Neither of us has identification. If we don’t solve this problem now, we’ll run into trouble again next time. Let’s just resolve it once and for all,” Sorea explained.
"They'll give us the truth?" Lilith was skeptical.
Sorea glanced at her. "You'll find out soon enough."
Gavin quickly returned, and without having time to interrogate Soleria and Lilith separately, he spoke directly to them with a serious expression:
"dwarf."
Gavin's voice was no longer as calm as it had been at the beginning.
The problem of man-made track vehicle loss of control is easy to solve, but the issue of divine beings and their families is not so easily resolved.
The Knights' code of conduct is that the interests of humanity are paramount.
But this is Ram City, the Iron Kingdom, where most of the people worship the God of Forging, and his dwarf kin hold an extremely prestigious position.
Indeed, with the help of the followers of the God of Forging, Gavin failed to capture the dwarf Rowan.
To avoid mistakes caused by religious issues, each Knights' Guild team consists of six people. Apart from the followers of the Ocean God, the rest must renounce their faith and fight for the glory of the human race.
In Gavin's party, there was a knight who had once worshipped the god of blacksmithing. The dwarf Rowan ran toward the direction of that former follower of the god of blacksmithing. The knight hesitated and chose to follow the code of the knightly order, but he missed the best opportunity to capture the dwarf.
Gavin understood that punishing his team members wasn't the most important thing right now; capturing the dwarves and taking them to the Knights' headquarters was the top priority. He wanted to know if Soraya knew more inside information that could help them capture the dwarves.
Coincidentally, the Knights' headquarters was right next to the Singri Inscription Academy, and Soraya's goal was to go with the Knights who were escorting the dwarves to the headquarters.
After all, Soraya's spirit kept reminding her that she was in danger, and it was better to solve the problem at its root than to live in constant fear.
Sure enough, when Gavin went to capture Rowan, Solalia's spirituality told her that the danger around her was beginning to decrease.
“Now that you know about the dwarves,” Soria said with a smile, resting her chin on her hand and tilting her head to look at Gavin, “let’s make a small deal.”
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