‘It seems like the crack that appeared when I removed the magic core for Lancers has widened further.’
Rabes rubbed his chest to relieve the pain.
‘It wasn’t that there was no solution. All I have to do right now is retrieve the pieces of my magical core remaining in Elaine’s body and seal the crack.’
‘But if that happens, Elaine will have nothing to protect herself.’
The ‘Recurro’ spell itself was possible because Elaine had Rabes’ magic core in her body.
Even if the magical core is recovered all at once, Elaine will experience so much pain that she might lose her life.
‘Originally, I was going to quickly grant Elaine’s last wish and retrieve the magic core that way, but it was a bit difficult to do so at the moment.’
Elaine didn’t seem to have any signs of making a wish, so he had to protect her until all her wishes were made.
“Are you really okay? Or how about staying outside the temple?”
[Don’t make a big deal out of this, I’m fine, I just got a little nauseous.]
It was his first time experiencing something like that in his life, but he pretended to be fine in front of Elaine, who seemed more surprised than him.
‘It’s okay, it’s not going to happen too often while you’re with her.’
He sincerely hoped so. He didn’t want to even imagine a situation where he couldn’t protect Elaine due to weakened magical power.
* * *
After seeing Rabes nauseated after using magic, Elaine’s heart became anxious.
‘I must quickly find the great wizard’s urn!’
Although Rabes said several times that he was okay, Elaine had a strong feeling that the longer she stayed here, the more harmful it would be to Rabes.
For the first time, she began to hate the divine power, which she had always thought was a good thing in her past life.
‘They said that not many people even within the temple know the location of the urn. So it’s very difficult for me to find it or get into it.’
No matter how many times she thought about it, it was like that.
It is a sacred object so tightly protected by divine power that even the immensely powerful Rabes cannot find it, so there is no way Elaine can find it.
‘I’ve thought about bribing or cajoling a priest who can get into It, but after looking into it, I found out that even the priest who could enter that room was top secret.’
‘My head hurts. If we don’t find that, we can’t save Emily, and it’s going to be difficult for Rabes. Is there anything we can do?’
Elaine walked around the room rubbing her head and thought for a while.
Even though it was the greatest holy relic, there was no way to see the Lancers’ urn, so much so that it seemed as if it had been hidden too tightly.
Elaine, who had been thinking hundreds of times about how to enter the reliquary, suddenly stopped.
‘Wait. Let’s change our minds.’
Elaine completely reversed the proposition itself.
‘If I can’t go into the place where the holy relic is, I can just make them take it out.’
Some people would say it was more absurd, but Elaine thought it was more likely.
If you were going to do something, you had to be bold, and if you wanted to be bold, it was better to target the most powerful person in the temple, rather than anyone else.
“Okay. Let’s try it.”
Elaine decided to attack John through the priest most favorable to her, Daniel.
* * *
The next day, when the catechism class was over, Elaine deliberately moved slowly, waited for the other saints to leave, and then quietly approached Daniel.
“Priest. I have a question.”
“Ah, you are Saint Elaine. What were you curious about?”
Because Elaine has always been studious and serious, Daniel responded favorably.
“Where can I see the great Wizard’s urn, the most sacred relic of our Pavelo Temple?”
“The great Wizard’s urn?”
In front of the puzzled Daniel, Elaine did her best to act like an ‘innocent saint’.
“Yes. I think that saints should strengthen their faith by seeing the most sacred relics of the temple they attend.”
“Hahaha. You are truly faithful. However, the location of the relics is kept a top secret even within our temple. We never know what kind of evil group might be targeting it.”
As expected, Daniel did not know the location of the holy relic.
Elaine, who had suddenly become part of the ‘evil group’, felt a little bad, but she kept an innocent face until the end.
“So no one can see the holy relic? It is said that some temples grant blessings of holy relics to saints who meet certain conditions.”
“As of now, I know that only major priests including the High Priest can enter the relic storage room.”
“That’s too bad. Because if we could have the blessing of the holy relics in our temple, we can encourage the faith of saints. perhaps…The donations may be even higher!”
“Hahaha, Are you worried about the donations for the temple?”
Daniel seemed to think Elaine’s words were half-joking, but it was the most important part of what she said.
‘The High Priest would do anything to get more donations!’
Having spent ten years in the temple in her previous life, Elaine knew exactly what kind of person John was.
Although he appears to be infinitely holy and benevolent on the outside, the only things that drive him are money and power.
All of his charity work was nothing more than a play for money and power.
‘So, I should have mentioned this offering while cajoling Daniel.’
“If a temple is to conduct large-scale charity work, donations are the most important factor. In the end, you have to have money to help people in need.”
Daniel nodded, remembering how the budget for the ‘common children’s scripture class’ he was in charge of was being cut.
When Elaine saw that he accepted the story without much doubt, she thought it was time to ask.
“Could you please make a suggestion to the High Priest?”
“Hmm, I think that’s a good idea. Let me talk to the High Priest.”
“Really? Then, please tell him to give a chance to those who excel in academics as well!”
“It seems that Saint Elaine really wanted to receive the blessing of the holy relic.”
“It will be an honor for the family.”
Hoping to be seen as a faithful young saint who cared about her family and temple until the end, Elaine smiled the most innocent smile she could muster.
‘Now we have to wait for Priest Daniel to speak to the High Priest. Oh, and I’ll have to do some research about the great wizard.’
After talking with Daniel, Elaine headed straight to the temple library.
Elaine enjoyed reading at the library when she had nothing else to do, so no one thought it was strange even if Elaine read a different book than usual.
Elaine went into the ‘magic’ bookshelf, which had nothing to do with theological studies, and pulled out several books.
[The Great Wizard of the Empire]
[Dragon Tale of the Calais Empire]
[power and magic]
‘It’s strange when I think about it. The temple rejects magical power, so how could the remains of a wizard be enshrined in the temple?’
A problem that she had previously overlooked without much thought seemed very strange now.
Elaine found the section on Lancers Aquinal in the book [The Great Wizard of the Empire] and began to read it quickly.
{Lancer Aquinal (Unknown – 822 of the New Empire)}
Among the legendary great wizards, he wielded the most powerful magic and appeared in history books during the late 790s of the New Empire.
It is said that in the areas where he appeared, droughts and floods stopped, dry wells filled up, crimes disappeared, and all crops produced good harvests.
Around the time he was making his mark in the empire, he was persuaded by the previous Emperor, Rafel Defon Aspen to become the imperial wizard, and it is said that no work he undertook ever failed.
‘Wow, he was a great man.’
Just looking at the brief summary, he was truly a person who could be called a ‘great’ wizard. In particular, he was different from other great wizards because he took care of the lives of ordinary people.
‘This person was Rabes’s contractor.…’
‘I had a strange feeling. He seemed so far away, but when he said he was a contractor before me, it felt so close.’
Coincidentally, there was a section about Rabes’ in his biography.
[Another thing that is special about him is that he was the one who sealed the evil dragon Rabes. According to the testimony of a wizard who worked as his assistant, he was a contractor for Rabes. The credibility of the testimony is low.]
Elaine’s eyes widened at the brief description of the contract relationship between Lancers and Rabes, but she could not find any further details about it.
She could only speculate that Lancers may not have been able to gain complete trust or loyalty from even his closest assistant.
‘If he had known about the contractual relationship with Rabes, he must have been a very close assistant to him. Clearly, Lancers didn’t have a strong relationship with the people around him.’
However, his assistant’s revelation seemed less than convincing, given that the great wizard had gone from being a dragon contractor to an imperial wizard.
Actually, even if Elaine thought about it, it was a bit strange.
‘Becoming an imperial wizard means that he wanted wealth and power, but why did he become an imperial wizard even though he was a dragon contractor?’
If Rabes had the same personality back then, he would have encouraged Lancers to become emperor, and if Lancers wanted real wealth and power, he would have naturally chosen to become emperor.
* * *
