Path of light

Chapter 63 64. Teaching

On Monday morning, before Roy had time to rejoice that he had finally passed Instructor Nora's classroom assessment, and his elementary martial arts training had finally caught up with the current progress..., he heard bad news in the modern elf history class.

Princess Ophelia divided the two hundred students into twenty discussion groups.

Forty historical events were assigned to the students, which meant that each group had to focus on two historical events, and then, as a teacher, introduce an overview of the entire historical events on the stage.

This kind of in-depth study does not mean that the discussion group only needs to explain the entire historical event clearly. It also needs to further dig into the subsequent impact of historical events and so on.

What troubled Roy the most was that the other members of their group turned out to be a group of Silver Moon Elf nobles.

It's not that his team members are bad, on the contrary, the members of his team are all very good. They received a good education before entering the elf academy, and have access to far more knowledge than Roy.

Roy had no common language with these young Silver Moon Elf nobles. After becoming a member of the same group, apart from the initial awkward greeting, there was nothing to talk about.

The discussion group Roy was in was the sixteenth group, and the next four groups were almost all members of mixed-blood elves.

Roy hoped that he could be assigned to any of the next four groups, but this grouping was arranged by Princess Ophelia. It was impossible for him to go to Teacher Ophelia to change groups without a reasonable reason. .

The first topic discussed by the sixteenth group was: the Renaissance era of the Silver Moon Dynasty from 671 to 787.

The second topic is: the naval battle between the Silver Moon Kingdom and the Naga Sea Tribe in the Endless Sea on the Queen Evanni Islands in the summer of 1218.

Roy had not even heard of these two topics of discussion.

I'm afraid I'll have to go to the library to look up some relevant information and books. Just relying on the two-page summary in the textbook will not only fail to satisfy Teacher Ophelia, but even other members of the group will think he's Roy. Just a bastard.

The thought of having to find time to go to the library to look up information gave Roy a headache. He had an almost full schedule this week, and it was really troublesome to find time to go to the library.

Then, Roy thought of the librarian Windsor again, that poor woman who turned into a wraith until she was buried in the cemetery.

On the way back to the temple, Roy was hesitant to go to the library to take a look?

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Arriving from the Elf Academy to the Temple of Liberty in a daze, Roy jumped out of the carriage.

Roy may have become accustomed to riding carriages recently, which made Roy lazier and lazier. Every time he came out of home or from the academy, he couldn't help but glance at the long carriage on the roadside.

Today is the day for the gathering of believers in the Statue of Liberty Temple. Roy got off the carriage and ran all the way to the temple.

Abt was standing at the gate to receive believers coming from all over. When he saw Roy, he quickly waved to him to squeeze in against the wall, and then entered the vestibule of the temple from behind Abt.

Many believers gathered under the Statue of Liberty in the courtyard, and everyone stood by the pool to pray to the statue.

Although there will be no choir at Monday's gathering, there will be many believers coming to pray.

Roy quickly walked behind them to the backyard, changed into the trainee priest's robe, and hurried to the main hall.

During these two gatherings, Roy has been helping in the side hall...

Entering the main hall, you saw High Priest Reed standing under the Statue of Liberty in a divine robe. He was explaining prayers to the believers sitting on the benches in the main hall. Jasper stood beside High Priest Reed. beside.

Many believers have already sat in the main hall, and everyone is quietly listening to High Priest Reed's story...

Roy saw Jasper calmly pointing him towards the side hall, and sure enough he arranged to go to the side hall to help.

Roy immediately walked to the side hall.

Priest Theodore was standing behind the high platform, his hands clasped in front of him, his eyes half closed, and the expression on his face was very solemn.

There was a silver plate placed on the high platform, and half a basin of holy water in it contained a strong smell.

Roy came to the holy pool, and sure enough, the water in the pool also contained a faint sacred aura.

If you can calm down and look carefully at the water surface of the holy pool, you will find that even the water surface is light golden.

Under normal circumstances, the holy light will not dissolve in water. It can make the holy light and water merge into one. I don't know how the three priests in the temple did it.

Roy's task is to scoop a spoonful of holy water for each believer.

At this time, the voices of believers reciting prayers loudly came from the main hall, and priests Roy and Osido also wanted to pray with everyone.

Priest Theodore has been very busy recently. The last time I saw him was the day after Jasper was injured.

What surprised Roy was that Priest Andyson didn't even attend today's meeting...

After the prayer, Roy didn't even have time to bend down to rub his stiff legs when he saw believers lining up to enter the side hall.

Priest Theodore would dip his fingers in the holy water on the silver plate to wash the souls of the believers who came in line, and then Roy would give the holy water in the holy pool to these believers.

After the ceremony, High Priest Reed also looked a little pale.

After all, after every prayer, twelve beams of holy light will fall from the dome of the main hall, and each beam of holy light will consume a lot of the power of the holy light.

As the believers left one after another, Roy and Jasper were still responsible for cleaning the main hall and side halls, while Abbot needed to clean the front courtyard.

After some cleaning, Roy and Jasper also sprinkled some water in the main hall.

The two returned the bucket to the warehouse. As soon as they opened the warehouse door, they discovered that in a dark corner of the warehouse, Priest Anderson was sitting in front of a mirror, seemingly talking to himself.

There was a broken candlestick on the ground, lit by a candle that emitted a faint holy light.

Priest Andyson heard the sound of the warehouse door opening, looked back and stopped talking.

Roy took a casual look at the bronze mirror and felt that something was a little strange, but what exactly it was...he didn't expect it for a moment.

I just saw that there were four door panels that were originally tied up with ropes, but now there were three of them leaning side by side against the wall of the warehouse, with the linen cloth still covering them.

The other one stood in front of Priest Andyson...

Jasper stood at the door of the warehouse and greeted Priest Andyson: "Teacher, is there anything you need us to do?"

"I'll just sit here for a while, and you go do your work!"

After saying that, Priest Andyson casually covered the bronze mirror with linen cloth.

There were still some chairs in the main hall that needed to be moved into the warehouse. When Roy and Jasper saw the haggard-looking Priest Anderson without any instructions, they walked out together.

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Roy and Jasper walked out of the warehouse and went to the main hall to move benches...

When we returned to the warehouse, Father Anderson was no longer there.

The two moved all the unused benches into the warehouse and returned to the courtyard.

Roy saw Priest Theodore hurriedly walking out of the temple, then boarded a carriage that could only be owned by elven nobles, and rushed towards the city.

This carriage looks very luxurious. Even the horse pulling the carriage is all white, with a bunch of white feathers on its hooves.

Roy returned to the side hall and wanted to tidy up the holy pool.

High Priest Reed was standing in front of the holy pool that was about to bottom out, seeming to sigh.

He heard footsteps coming from the door, turned around and saw Roy, and wanted to hide his depressed mood.

"Always doing this is not the answer..."

Roy walked to the front of the holy pool, hung the silver spoon on the shelf, and said.

High Priest Reed held the high platform with silver plates with one hand and responded:

"Waiting, maybe it won't be long before the sacred glory of the Statue of Liberty will shine on the entire Elf Continent again... Before that, Roy, you must be prepared to recite the sacred prayers proficiently, and you can also memorize those magical spells. Divine Marks."

He turned around, stared at Roy, and asked him:

"I heard that you have mastered the Glimmer Illumination Technique and the Blessing of Power?"

"Um."

With undisguised joy in his eyes, High Priest Reed said, "That's great. Your talent is outstanding and you will definitely become a great priest in the future."

Roy hesitated and said, "Teacher, I have a question."

"Go on, I hope your question won't stump me." High Priest Reed joked to Roy.

Roy organized his language a little before asking:

"Why is Jasper's Purification Technique different from yours? Not only are the spellcasting and divine patterns different, but the effect of the Purification Technique is also different. I saw him casting it, which required a certain amount of preparation time, and then the purifying beam fell. , and immediately purified the dead soul."

"As for your purification technique, I hardly see any divine patterns drawn, and the prayer is also very short. If it is released, it will trap the resentful spirit in it like a prison. I think... if it is a spiritual being, Wraith, you must still be able to talk to it for a few words..."

High Priest Reed nodded and explained to Roy:

"That's pretty much it. Roy, you're observing very carefully."

He paused and then said:

"The so-called difference is not that the purification technique is different, but the level gap between me and Jasper. As an eighth-level trainee priest, he is already very good at being able to perform the purification technique."

Speaking of these, the fatigue on his face seems to have been wiped away...

"Before I became a high priest, I had already practiced the purification technique very skillfully."

He hesitated for a moment, and finally withdrew his hand that was originally intended to demonstrate a magical technique.

"This improvement in proficiency not only reflects the speed of spell casting, but also deepens the understanding of divine magic. This understanding is the exquisite control of details after the magic is released. In other words, I can use the holy light to decide Purification... is it to trap an undead in the beam, or to completely purify it?"

Finally he added:

"Of course, this also requires that the strength of the resentful spirit is much weaker than mine. If it is a powerful resentful spirit, I would not dare to take such a risk..."