Path of light

Chapter 180 181. Jasper’s Funeral

Castletown in October.

In the early morning, there was drizzle in the sky, and the north wind coming from the frozen sea made the climate here gradually turn colder.

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

The carriage left Brown Street and headed directly towards the western suburbs cemetery of Castletown.

High Priest Reed sat opposite Roy with a calm face, looking straight out of the car window.

There have been incidents in the temple recently.

Because the Holy Light no longer shines on the Elf Continent, Priest Andyson forced a divine descent ceremony. In the end, his body could not support the huge power of holy light required for the divine descent ceremony, and he died in the main hall of the Temple of Liberty.

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

Now the trainee priest Jasper has also been lying in the wooden coffin, and the trainee priest Abt has become a wanted criminal on the run...

The Temple of Liberty has begun preparations for the second expedition at the Golfito headquarters in the Elf Continent. Priests from the entire Elf Continent are gathering at Golfito.

Castletown is a seaport city, and the Temple of Liberty here will persist until the end before it can be dismantled. It is estimated that it will be when the third expeditionary force enters the dark place.

But now only High Priest Reed and Roy are left in the temple.

Such an incident is undoubtedly the biggest failure for High Priest Reed!

"I've been thinking recently, whether it's because of my neglect of management of the temple that so many things happened one after another."

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

He looked away from the window and continued to say to Roy:

"Thinking about it now, this should be it. If I had understood their thoughts earlier and stopped some of their wrong decisions in time, maybe things wouldn't have become so bad."

After saying that, High Priest Reed sighed.

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

"But now it seems...this is just my life and I'm neglecting the people around me."

He looked into Roy's eyes and asked him seriously:

"Roy, how important is the role of trainee priests in your life?"

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

"Every day, I spend one-third of my energy on the Elf Academy, then another one-third of my energy on the temple, and finally one-third of my energy is left for other things. Sometimes I run to Watch the sunset on the Black Pearl, and sometimes go home and do some housework or battle practice."

Roy added.

High Priest Reed nodded, with some understanding in his eyes, and then asked:

"So... you decided to give up joining the expeditionary force?"

"Um."

Roy answered honestly.

However, he suddenly remembered the instructions that Jasper said a few days ago...

It's really a bit troublesome.

At that time, Jasper said that if he could not go to the dark place, he wanted Roy to go to the dark place for him.

Roy felt that he was only a fifth-level trainee priest. After going to the dark place, there was no guarantee whether he would be able to come back alive...

The carriage entered the western suburbs cemetery. The gravediggers at the cemetery had already dug a grave at the designated location. There was also a metal nameplate belonging to Jasper hanging on the cypress tree in front of the grave.

No other elves attended Jasper's funeral.

High Priest Reed, the coachman, Roy and the cemetery gravedigger braved the rain and reluctantly carried the wooden coffin into the grave.

Afterwards, High Priest Reed stood in front of the cypress tree and read a eulogy in the rain.

In the last prayer, Roy and High Priest Reed watched Jasper's soul float to the sky in a beam of pure holy light...

Afterwards, Roy backfilled the grave with the excavated soil, and covered the grave with the excavated turf, and the funeral was finally over.

After the funeral, High 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 out the golden key from the magic belt bag, squatted under the cypress tree, and buried the golden key under the tree with a shovel.

Unexpectedly, a piece of gray dwarf pirate treasure would kill both Abt and Jasper.

…

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

In the carriage, Roy took off his wet trainee priest's robe and changed back into his normal clothes for school. The carriage took him to the gate of the Elf Academy. Roy held a textbook and ran into the academy in the rain.

He couldn't catch up with the first period of martial arts training class, but he could still catch up with the second period of geography class.

Asking for leave from Elf Academy is very troublesome. Even if there is a legitimate reason, your grades will be affected.

Everyone in the academy was talking about the Nautilus being in distress off the coast, and this time Claire became a hero among the young Silver Moon elves.

Claire won Heyer's bet with the newly composed "Bernice", and when the nightmare struck at night, she successfully woke up the elves on the entire ship, saving everyone from the slaughter of the water ghost.

…It’s like every protagonist has a foil beside him, and Roy is Claire’s foil.

The bell rang for the end of get out of class, and Roy walked out of the No. 3 teaching building holding a geography book.

Claire stood at the door of the teaching building, surrounded by many Silver Moon elves who wanted to get to know him. When he saw Roy coming out of the teaching building, he waved to Roy quickly and said:

"Roy, this way! I thought you wouldn't come today!"

Everyone saw Claire walking out of the crowd, putting an arm on Roy's shoulder, and talking cordially...

Many Silver Moon elves think: Roy is really a lucky guy to be friends with Claire.

Seeing Roy's expression of sadness, Claire lowered her voice and asked:

"You look like you're not in a good mood?"

There were too many elf students gathered at the entrance of the teaching building, and Roy refused to say a word.

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

"Instructor Nora asked about you during class!"

Roy said: "It seems I need to explain to her."

The two walked towards the training ground. The corridor was very quiet, so Claire asked: "What happened?"

Roy stopped and said to Claire:

"Jasper was killed. The murderer has not been found yet. I went to his funeral this morning..."

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

After a while, he said to Roy:

"...I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought this up."

The two continued walking along the corridor. 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 later, I'll say it again, just think of practicing in advance."

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

"We have to go to the Magic Guild's inscription workshop later..."

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

"...You mean the inscription workshop on the first floor of the Magic Guild is the Heyer family's shop?"

"Yes, do you know that store?"

Roy nodded and admitted: "I went to that store to see some magic pattern structures. The cheapest one in there is not something I can afford now."

Speaking of this, Claire said slightly proudly: "If I had known... I should have added some more chips to the bet, but we started too lightly! But having said that, usually a magic pattern structure should be able to use It takes a long time, so the correct choice of the first magic pattern construct is very important.”

The two came to the training ground. Instructor Nora was counting the weapons for training next to the weapons rack. Almost all of them were wooden swords and log shields.

There are also weapons such as hammers and wooden clubs, but they are just a few superficial items.

Instructor Nora raised his head and glanced at Roy, handed him a bundle of wooden swords in his arms, and asked him to hang them one by one on the wooden frame.

"Oh? Do you want to explain to me the reason for your unexcused absence this morning?"

Instructor Nora raised the corners of her lips and asked Roy.

Roy hugged the bundle of wooden swords, and he and Claire placed the wooden swords on the wooden stand. After finishing, he said:

"Instructor Nora, I went to attend a friend's funeral this morning, so I couldn't catch up with your class."

"Got it!" Instructor Nora nodded, indicating that he understood.

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

"I heard that you met a water ghost in the outer sea?"

Almost all the students on the training ground have left.

Claire said with a smile: "To be precise, I met a nightmare vine near a sea reef, and it was in its flowering period, so this nightmare vine released the sleeping cloud on us, and then controlled some water ghosts. Attack the Nautilus.”

Instructor Nora stopped again, turned around, stared at Claire, and asked:

"So how did you get rid of the nightmare? Did someone wear a sobriety pendant?"

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

"Well done."

After instructor Nora finished speaking, he patted Roy on the shoulder hard.

She was not too surprised by the answer. She had obviously heard other people talk about it...

…

After saying goodbye to instructor Nora, Roy and Claire walked out of the Elf Academy.

The Magic Guild is right next door to the Elf Academy. The two of them just need to walk along the street and it's not that far away.

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

Claire asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Roy, why don't you always let me tell them the truth of the matter?"

"In the Elf Academy, the new hero can be Wagner Claire, Steve or Adams, but it cannot be the half-elf Roy. Otherwise, these things are just fame and prestige for you, but Once it happens to me, it will become a problem, and I think I have enough troubles now... Do you know what it feels like to attend the trial in the court for four consecutive weeks?"

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

Claire was indifferent to this.

"All right!"

In the lobby on the first floor of the Magic Guild, Roy and Claire walked into the inscription workshop, which had a small facade but a large space inside...

Claire was about to take out Yoram Heyer's IOU and hand it over to the elf waitress standing in front of the counter, when she saw Heyer coming out of the workshop with a stern face.