Chapter 61
Let’s go back a few minutes.
After Father Tantan made up his mind to retrieve the pendant and the Son of God, he asked some believers to stay in the Church of the Mother Earth, and he personally led a group of people to leave the church.
He planned to seek help from the guards of Guangyao City before organizing his followers to search for the pendant and the Son of God. To put it bluntly, he planned to seek help from the Isyana family.
Unlike Snow City where only the fittest survive, Guangyao City is well-organized under the governance of the Isyana family. Here, not to mention priests, even thieves who have been wronged will try to seek help from the Isyana family.
However, less than 200 meters away from Isyana Castle, a male elf suddenly fell from the sky and appeared in the sight of Father Tantan and the followers of the Earth Mother Cult, blocking their way.
Father Tantan couldn't help but recognize the other person's signature short light blue hair:
"It's you!"
"You kidnapped the Holy Son!"
"You stole the 'Gao Jie Guidance'!"
"How dare you, a blasphemer like you, appear before me!"
After Father Tantan finished speaking excitedly, he began to chant a spell, and the believers around him quickly followed suit.
Ksu Hailun stared at everyone expressionlessly for a while, then opened his mouth.
As his lips opened and closed, an indescribable song flowed out from between his lips and teeth, instantly sweeping through everyone's mind.
It was like a girl from the depths of the sea was singing. Although I couldn't hear anything clearly through the deep water, it sounded strangely beautiful.
There is a misalignment between hearing and brain cognition. What the ears hear is the surge of sea water, as if the whole person has fallen into the deep sea. Cold liquid pours into the eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ears, aggressively invading the body and trying to squeeze all the internal organs out of the body.
But what the brain perceives is a beautiful girl singing, and both her voice and melody are intoxicating.
The great Old Ones may not understand the physical structure of humans and elves, but they know exactly what kind of faces, voices, images and melodies they like.
"Song of the Abyss" is a mental spell. Those who are affected by it will be bewitched by the song they hear in their hallucinations and lose their ability to judge the real situation around them.
In fact, there was no singing at all. Csu Hyrum would not sing to a group of people who looked like corpses to him.
The believers stopped chanting the mantras, and everyone's body began to sway from side to side, as if swaying to a silent melody.
Father Tantan's chanting also stopped, but he did not move his body. Instead, he raised his hands to cover his head and screamed: "Ahhhhhhhhh——"
It was like a newborn lamb being forced to the edge of a cliff by a pack of hungry wolves, or like a person walking in the lightless darkness and seeing a person who should have been dead standing at the end of the road with a sharp knife in his hand.
The fear that penetrated deep into his bones wrapped around his body like tentacles, tightening his neck. Father Tantan struggled painfully on the verge of suffocation.
Ksu Hyrum narrowed his eyes and said, "As a follower of Shab, having too much inspiration is not a good thing."
The spell "Song of the Abyss" does not cause direct harm to the person who is affected by it. However, if the person who is affected by it has a high level of inspiration and notices the inharmoniousness in the song, he or she will recognize something very terrifying.
Father Tantan raised his hands to cover his head and stumbled back: "No... don't come over..."
"Tell me, what is a noble soul?" Ksu Hailun asked in a cold tone while approaching him with an expressionless face.
"Don't come over! Don't!" Father Tantan continued to retreat in horror.
Ksu Hyrum continued to approach, showing the pendant in his hand: "Who gave you this?"
Father Tantan retreated among the still-swaying believers.
Kesu Hyrum continued to approach without any concern.
The two of them moved back and forth among a group of dancing believers.
After a while, Father Tantan seemed to have regained some of his sanity. He stopped repeating the words "Don't come over here" and shouted out a complete sentence:
"Give it back to me! Give me back the 'Noble Guidance'! Oh, and the Holy Son, take me to see the Holy Son! If you want to know what the Noble Soul is, take me to see the Holy Son!"
"You should have said it earlier." Ksu Hailun put away the pendant, carried the priest on his back, and took off!
…
The above is what happened before Ksu Hyrum brought Father Tantan to Miel's residence.
Father Tantan was obviously not treated like a princess, and was carried on Ksu Hyrum's shoulders all the way. Not only was he very scared, but his abdomen also hurt so much that he curled up on the ground.
But even though it hurt so much, he covered his head instead of his abdomen.
At first Miel thought he was trying to prevent his veil from being blown away by the wind, but after staring at him for a while, she realized that he had a headache.
"What happened to him?" Miel asked Ksu Hyrum.
"I don't know." Ksu Hyrum responded.
Fortunately, his response is finally no longer "you know"!
Ksu Hailun didn't give Miel a chance to ask further questions. He continued expressionlessly, "He looks dying. If you want to know something, just use the memory to read it."
Miel wasn't surprised by his words—this was indeed the advice Csu Hyrum would give, efficient and ruthless.
Using "Memory Read" will kill the target whose memory is read, but Miel has no sympathy for a priest who has repeatedly summoned the Black Young by sacrificing Amira, so he can accept this suggestion.
The only question is - will the priest's death lead to the birth of the Black Young?
If so, would it be better to find a place where no one is around to read it?
Before Miel could make a decision, perhaps hearing the noise, Amira and Rocas came out of the room one after another and walked to his side.
Amira blinks in confusion at the priest lying on the ground. “Miel, what happened? Who is this?”
“He is…” Miel was about to introduce him to Amira when he saw the man on the ground suddenly stand up.
“Samantha!” Father Tantan called out excitedly, his eyes fixed squarely on Amira. “Samantha! The goddess who saved us! I finally see you again!”
If it had been half a day earlier, Amira would have been confused to hear this, but half a day ago, she just recalled that 20 years ago, the person she rescued gave her a name called "Samantha", which means "the flower left by the gods in the world".
So, her first reaction was: "Ah, you are from 20 years ago..."
"Yes, 20 years ago, I was still a child. Having experienced famine, I am now committed to ensuring that no one suffers from hunger," said Father Tantan.
“That’s good,” Amira smiles. “I’m glad I could help you.”
Miel: “…”
Wake up! He's the one who wanted to sacrifice you, and caused Rocas to travel through time and space multiple times to save you!
Rocas, what did you talk about in the room? Didn't you talk about this?
Miel turned to look at Rocas, questioning him with his eyes.
Rocas first bowed to Miel and then gave him a look that said "believe me".
To be precise, it was a look that said, "Please trust me, Miss Amira will handle it, I trust her."
Miel didn't think it was credible for someone who fell in love with Amira at first sight to say that he believed in her... But for his sake, he chose to wait and see.
Amira chanted a spell, and golden light shone in her hands, falling on Father Tantarn, who quickly lowered his hands from his head—the pain was gone!
Apparently, this light was the "holy healing" that Amira had mentioned.
Miel didn't notice anything special, but Loen and Helen's expressions both changed.
[Such a rich breath of life force.] Lorne said in Miel's heart, [This is not a power that ordinary people are allowed to use.]
Miel said "Oh" in his heart and had no idea.
He was no longer surprised by such things.
So far, among the people who have been around him for a long time, is there a single ordinary person?
After Amira healed Father Tantal, she reached out to Ksu Hyrum. "Mr. Hyrum, that pendant belongs to this priest, right? Could you please return it to him?"
Miel was about to ask Hyrum to do so when Hyrum threw the pendant to Amira without hesitation.
Miel shut up.
Obviously, Hyrum knew better than he did that the pendant had no value in their hands.
Amira took Tantarn’s hand and placed the pendant in his palm. She said apologetically, “My friend was simply curious about the pendant. Please forgive him for my sake.”
"This..." Tantan was extremely reluctant.
Amira ignored it and continued, “Also, I’m curious, why does it glow when it’s near me?”
"What?" Tantan's face was covered by a black veil, and his expression could not be seen, but there was obvious surprise in his tone.
"By the way, it also glows when it gets close to Rocas. Why? We are of different races, professions, and genders." Amira held Rocas's hand and pulled him to her side.
Father Tantan was stunned and didn't react for a long time.
“Father?” Amira blinks, bewildered. “Are you all right?”
Father Tantal still did not respond, but Father Dindel got up and came out.
Dingdel was wearing a black uniform and his hair had been obviously combed and was no longer messy.
The moment he appeared, the already blindingly red pendant seemed to become even redder.
Tantan: "..."
Tantarn: "No, that's impossible."
Tantarn: "Impossible! Impossible! Impossible!"
After being unresponsive for a while, Tantan suddenly became emotional!
He brought the pendant close to each person present, watching the pendant's light weaken and strengthen as the position changed.
After some trouble, he confirmed that there were four people present who could make the pendant glow. He was silent for a moment in confusion, then he chuckled.
"Only by finding the right soul can we create the right God?"
He muttered to himself.
"Then it must be you!"
He looks up at Amira and, speaking with a tone never before spoken, asks her earnestly, “Samantha, my goddess, if I were to offer you my life as the price of my wish to create a god for the world, a god who would free it from pain and hunger, would you accept?”
Miel couldn't believe that he just said what he wanted to do - sacrificing a "noble soul" was not for summoning the Black Goat Kid, but for creating a God?
Is he a literal creator god?
Create a god out of thin air that never existed?
What made Miel even more unbelievable was Amira's answer:
"I do."
Amira uttered the words almost without hesitation.
But then she added: "The premise is that you can really create such a god, but how can you prove it to me?"
"Tell me, Father, who told you how to create God, and who gave you this pendant called 'Noble Guidance'?"
"If your method is really feasible, then - I am willing."
Amira spoke firmly, her azure eyes showing no sign of wavering.
Miel looked at her profile and finally understood why all the hints that Rocas had given her during the journey through time and space ended in failure.
Because Rocas only told her that "the church is in danger" but did not tell her that "Glorious City will be destroyed."
"Danger" cannot stop Amira from going to church because she is not afraid of danger, she is not even afraid of death.
She is really willing to sacrifice her life to save the world.
Miel lowered his eyes.
What exactly is a noble soul?
Whether it is Father Tyndall or Amira, there is indeed a certain "nobility" in them.
Rocas also fought and risked his own life to save the lives of others.
What about yourself?
Miel didn't think he was qualified to be compared with these three people, nor did he think he had done anything worthy of praise.
He came here only to fulfill the agreement with Rocas, and the reason for fulfilling this agreement was to give himself the motivation to live, nothing more.
At least, that's what he thought.
"The person who gave me the pendant..." Father Tantan looked at the pendant in his hand through the black veil, obviously hesitating.
But in the end, under Amira's sincere gaze, he made a decision and gave an answer.
"That was a human girl holding a folding fan. I couldn't see her face because she was always hiding it with the fan, but for some reason, I felt that there must be an extremely beautiful face underneath the fan."
"She calls herself Ina every time she speaks."
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Author's words: Ina: Why did I disappear in such an exciting scene? Of course, it was to avoid being beaten by my brother! [Dog head holding a rose]
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