Chapter 76, Chapter 12: The Magical Maid
No one could answer, and one of the elders had a worried look on his face.
"I think I should go check on the Holy Maiden, just in case something happened!"
The others didn't refuse either. After watching him leave, they continued to watch the elemental battles in the temple, occasionally discussing them.
"Your Holiness? When did you leave?"
Liuguang completely ignored Ella and hurried into the room.
With a bang, the door slammed shut, leaving the worried Ella outside.
"Where is the Holy Maiden?"
Ella was taken aback for a moment, then quickly bowed respectfully.
"Elder, the Holy Maiden is in her room."
The elder glanced at the tightly closed door, listened carefully, and, hearing no unusual sounds from inside, breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"The Holy Maiden's condition is not quite right. It's probably due to the sleepless memorization of doctrines and holy rules these past few months. As the Holy Maiden's maid, you need to pay close attention and take good care of her. We can't let anything happen to the Holy Maiden, understand?"
Ella didn't quite understand what was going on, but she still respectfully agreed.
The elder glanced at the door again, shook his head, sighed, and left the Holy Maiden's Palace.
Inside the room, Liuguang was rapidly flipping through the tall stack of books on the table.
She searched very quickly and found what she was looking for in no time.
Within the thick volume of the teachings of the Light, there was a passage that she knew all too well.
"Clergy should renounce selfish desires and not indulge in romantic love."
This sentence was etched into her very being, and she had always carefully adhered to it.
But now, she saw a line of very small words after that sentence.
"But those who have received divine permission and blessing are not included."
The heavy tomes slammed onto the table, spilling ink that stained her white sleeves.
Liu Guang slumped weakly into the chair, trembling all over.
"No...this is impossible..."
Her fingertips gripped the chair armrest so tightly that her nails broke off and blood seeped out, but she seemed oblivious to the pain.
However, the phrase "[but those who have received divine permission and blessing are excluded]" is still clearly visible on the ink-stained text.
Even the ink smudges were deliberately avoided.
"It's a lie..."
Liuguang suddenly buried her face in her palms, a soft sob escaping her throat, like a wounded cub.
She suddenly remembered the saintess examination ceremony sixteen years ago.
The person she held dearest in her heart stood atop the high platform, dressed in a pristine white robe, gazing at her tenderly.
"Today's test is for you to recite Chapter 7, Section 12 of the Doctrine of Light."
She was born into an imperial noble family and her name was Ryuko Sera.
At the age of ten, he was found to have an extremely high affinity for the element of light, and was sent to the Temple of Light by the king.
That year, she met the priest, whose skin was as radiant as moonlight, for the first time.
She was too young at that time to understand what liking or love meant; she simply subconsciously etched his image deep into her heart.
At the age of thirteen, during the assessment ceremony, she was extremely nervous, her legs were trembling, and she didn't dare to look the priest in the eye. She just recited the assessment content in a very serious manner.
"Clergy should renounce selfish desires and not indulge in romantic love."
The priest above smiled gently and asked with tenderness and patience.
"What about the second half of the sentence?"
"The...second half of the sentence?"
The thirteen-year-old was puzzled and racked her brains but couldn't remember the second half of the sentence.
The elders who were supervising the exam laughed good-naturedly.
"You must memorize it completely next time!"
Afterwards, she successfully passed the test and became the current Holy Maiden of the temple.
She is also the only saintess at present.
She couldn't remember when she had developed those feelings for the priest.
By the time she realized it, that pure and innocent adult had already taken root in her heart, and she couldn't uproot him, nor was she willing to.
She dared not look at the doctrines of the Light Church and the sacred rules of the temple again, for fear that her thoughts would be exposed under those doctrines and sacred rules.
So much so that...
All these years, she had never discovered the second half of the sentence.
Those details that had long been forgotten are now all vividly resurfacing in my mind.
Thinking back to the reactions of the priests and elders at the assessment ceremony, Liuguang belatedly realized the truth.
It turns out everyone already knew.
Only she, like a fool, adhered to the first half of the sentence as an ironclad rule, steadfastly protecting him, carefully staying by his side, not daring to reveal even the slightest thought, for fear that if these thoughts were discovered, she would lose her position as a saintess and be unable to continue to stay by his side.
"vomit……"
Her stomach suddenly spasmed, and she bent over and dry heaved, but only a few strands of silver thread mixed with fragments of holy light came out.
Those unfamiliar faces that she had once "purified" flashed before my eyes like a fleeting glimpse.
The merchant's daughter's horrified face as she fell off the cliff, the princess's exposed throat bone beneath her festering skin, the female knight's indelible scar...
The priestess was so holy that even she had to carefully hide her thoughts. How could they dare to look at her with such disgusting eyes and covet her god!
"I did nothing wrong..."
Her desperate eyes were gradually replaced by stubbornness, both mad and burning.
"Gods should sit cleanly on their altars... how can they be defiled by mortals..."
“The fault wasn’t mine… it was that bitch Violet! It was her… how dare she lay a finger on the gods…”
"Those who lay hands on the gods... deserve to die... deserve to die..."
The holy emblem hanging around her neck suddenly became scalding hot, and she ripped off the silver chain.
The tiny holy emblem clattered to the ground, and something inside snapped with a "crack".
Wisps of black energy emerged from the ground, climbing up her ankles and writhing up her body, but Liu Guang showed no resistance whatsoever, allowing the holy light elements on her body to mix with the black energy.
At the temple, Yu Wanwan and Xu Qingzhou stopped fighting at the same time and looked in the same direction.
Looking at the faint black mist over there, Yu Wanwan raised an eyebrow, crossed her arms, and whistled.
"Oh dear! Karma's coming!"
Xu Qingzhou glanced at her with a cold look, gritting his teeth.
No matter how much you gloat, it doesn't change the fact that you're my wife now!
Anyway, she already knew who he was, and he was too lazy to pretend to be a priest and say those awkward lines anymore.
"..."
Yu Wanwan could no longer laugh, but Xu Qingzhou slowly broke into a smile.
"Besides, it's not even certain whose retribution it will be!"
Yes, the smile won't disappear, it will just shift.
Yu Wanwan: "..."
Oh shit!
She refused to believe she couldn't handle this damn mark!
"You just wait!"
Yu Wanwan stormed off, not even sparing a glance as she passed the group of elders and knights who were watching the spectacle.
The elders looked bewildered, craning their necks to peer into the temple.
The once clean and elegant courtyard is now covered with plants, all of which are vines and greenery that Yu Wanwan has encouraged to grow, making it look like a dense forest.
The young priest in white robes stood in the center of the greenery, his eyes lowered and lips pursed, a smug smile on his face.
The elders shrank back and didn't go inside.
"See! The high priest has definitely won!"
"Nonsense! Didn't you see that the High Priestess is already surrounded by plants? Lady Violet clearly won!"
"Then why do you think Lady Vera is so angry? By the God of Light, this is the first time I've ever seen Lady Vera so angry. Even when she was a maid, she was never this angry!"
Watching the elders argue like children, their faces contorted with anger and ready to fight, the knights exchanged glances and quietly slipped away, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.
In the days that followed, Yu Wanwan never went to see Xu Qingzhou again.
Without fail, he goes to give lectures to wood-type mages every day.
What she taught was not outside the power system of this world, but it was completely different from the methods that these wood-type mages had always learned and were familiar with.
In their minds, the wood element possesses healing abilities, but these healing abilities are not as strong as those of the light element, and can only provide occasional emergency relief.
Aside from that, there's cultivating plants, and the best path to advancement is to become a pharmacist like Elder Fina.
In the past, the flowers and plants they cultivated were simply flowers and plants in their eyes, either for ornamental purposes, for making medicine, or just useless weeds.
But now...
“Plants are no different from those spirit beasts that can cultivate and form contracts with humans.”
"They can cry, laugh, hold grudges, and even play pranks..."
In the corner, a sunflower suddenly turned its head and sprayed a face full of sunflower seeds at the apprentice who was secretly yawning.
The apprentice who was hit in the face with a melon seed was so shocked that he forgot to dodge.
A hint of a smile flashed across Yu Wanwan's eyes, but she turned her face away, pretending not to see it.
"It's just that their voices cannot be heard by others, but you, who are born with the wood element, are their best listeners."
She gathered emerald green elemental power at her fingertips, and the entire lawn suddenly undulated like waves, as if in response to her words.
"Listen attentively, understand their language, feel their emotions, and then..."
Suddenly, a vine sprouted from the ground, entangled a distracted apprentice, and lifted him into the air.
"Aaaaaaah!"
"Become their most loyal partner."
Yu Wanwan and the apprentice screamed at the same time.
The entire place was silent, except for the apprentice who was hanging there, who weakly raised his hand and pleaded with a bitter face.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Your Highness, could you please let it down first... I... I'm afraid of heights, sob sob sob..."
Yu Wanwan shook her head with a smile.
"You've remembered everything I just said, right? Now, go and discuss it with it yourself."
The apprentice choked, closing his eyes and not daring to look down.
"What...what should I do..."
"Attach your wood element to it, and then listen carefully to what it has to say."
The apprentice swallowed hard, then trembled as he uttered an obscure incantation, tentatively unleashing a spell.
The magic had barely begun when Yu Wanwan interrupted it.
"I'm talking about the wood element, not magic."
The apprentice hesitated for a moment, but obediently abandoned the magic and began to try to release the wood element.
Those things were hidden within him since birth.
Unfortunately, he tried for a long time without using magic, but he still couldn't find a way to release these elements.
Much later, the apprentice dejectedly withdrew his hand, then used both hands and feet to hug the vines, his voice trembling with tears.
"Your Excellency! I cannot..."
Yu Wanwan remained silent for a few seconds, then glanced at the other mages below, her eyes filled with doubt.
"None of you...can release elements?"
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