join the Church of MissRaven and become a Sequence 9: Reader p atreon.com/KeyofStars for more chapters
"The content of my commission is… to kill me."
Father Utravsky said this, and when Klein was so shocked by his words that he didn't know how to react, he added:
"Kill the me of the past."
Klein: …
Don't take such a big breath when you speak, Father!
While Klein was speechless and puzzled, Father Utravsky began to tell him the story of the past.
Lin Ruo thought for a while when he saw this, and without staying to listen to the story, he strolled to the door of the basement again, and said with a smile:
"Mr. Emlyn, would you mind chatting with me for a while?"
Now that Klein was going to handle serious business, Lin Ruo, who was bored, naturally planned to continue teasing Mr. Moon.
After all, this is so interesting!
"It's you again, who are you? I don't want to chat with you, I don't know you, and you are as hateful as that priest!" Emlyn White's voice came from behind the stone door. This guy, although clever, hadn't experienced the beatings of society and seemed a little naive. He obviously didn't realize that, in this situation, ignoring Lin Ruo was actually the best choice.
If you pay attention to him, you lose.
"Don't say that. Whether it's me or Father Utravsky, if we were really the hateful guys you say, you shouldn't be locked up here now. Instead, you should have become Beyonder ingredients placed on the trading table. After all, a Sanguine equivalent to Sequence 7 can still sell for some money. Perhaps you want to try the feeling of being dissected? Do you need me to describe it? First, they will…"
Lin Ruo said with a smile, his voice still gentle, but the words he spoke were not so gentle. He described the process of dissecting a Sanguine in a slow and unhurried tone. His excellent writing skills made Lin Ruo's description so vivid and lifelike that the sense of reality could be described as overwhelming.
When he finished speaking, there was no sound in the basement.
Several seconds later, Emlyn White's weak and insufficient voice came:
"Ha, do you think I'll be scared by you? I am a noble Sanguine, how could I be scared by your few words…"
Although he was still stubborn, anyone could tell that this child was actually frightened by Lin Ruo's words.
"Well, of course a noble Sanguine wouldn't be scared by a few words from me." Lin Ruo didn't refute, as if he was stroking Emlyn White's fur, his tone was not sarcastic, but it inexplicably made people feel a kind of unspeakable ridicule.
However, before Emlyn White exploded again, Lin Ruo changed the subject and said: "As for who I am, if I have to introduce myself, you can call me Lin Ruo."
"Lin Ruo? I don't know you, no, I don't care who you are, anyway, I have nothing to talk to you about, unless you let that priest release me."
"Really?" Lin Ruo said leisurely, "It's a pity, I originally wanted to chat with you about Master Eileen's latest work, but since you're not interested, forget it."
Eileen is a master-level figure among the Backlund doll makers. Because he decided to visit the Church of the Earth Mother today, Lin Ruo, considering the existence of a certain otaku Sanguine, specially took the time to investigate relevant information in this regard after seeing Salted Fish Fors yesterday afternoon.
After all, to improve your favorability, you still have to cater to your preferences. Teasing is teasing, but it's not fun if you really tease him to the point of exploding.
"Master Eileen's latest work?" Emlyn White was obviously excited all of a sudden, "Did he finally complete "Alice"? What's it like? I had booked it with him before…"
As he spoke, Emlyn White suddenly fell silent, after all, he had already reacted. He, who was locked up here, was not qualified to talk about booking.
After all, let alone that he hadn't paid the deposit, even if he had, it would be useless if he didn't pay the final payment.
Lin Ruo then said in a timely manner: "So, can you chat with me now? Perhaps, I can help you buy that doll first, and give it to you when you come out."
The basement was silent again. After more than ten seconds, Emlyn White's slightly dull voice came out.
"What do you want to talk about?"
"I'm just bored and want to chat with you." Lin Ruo smiled, leaned casually against the wall, and said: "Perhaps you wouldn't mind introducing me to the history or interesting stories of your Sanguine clan."
"Just tell me what you can tell me. I don't want to hear any secrets. Just tell me something that you can find out with a little inquiry, something that will definitely not harm your Sanguine clan. If you know any interesting gossip, I don't mind you sharing it with me."
Lin Ruo didn't expect to get any Sanguine secrets from Emlyn. He simply wanted to hear a story, to understand the Sanguine of this world, and to see how different the history of this world was from the original plot he was familiar with.
Of course, if Emlyn White really shared gossip with him, Lin Ruo would be happy to listen.
He is such a person who loves to listen to stories.
Emlyn White was silent for a while, probably thinking. After a while, his proud voice came from behind the stone door again:
"Okay, since you want to hear it, then I'll tell you about the glory of our Sanguine clan."
While Lin Ruo was tricking Emlyn White into telling him stories, in the hall of the Harvest Church, Father Utravsky had already finished telling Klein about his past and the content of the commission.
To summarize the content, Utravsky was once a pirate who killed people like flies and committed all kinds of evil. Later, one day, he met a missionary of the Earth Mother, was "converted" by him, reformed himself, and became the Utravsky priest of the orderly camp that he is now.
However, because the priest's past and present are too severely separated, it is almost like two people, so it has caused a kind of result similar to personality split, and this is not a simple psychological disease, but with a defect of losing control. If Father Utravsky cannot overcome his past self, he will eventually lose control and become a monster.
Therefore, Father Utravsky's commission is to hope that someone will kill the him of the past.
Normally speaking, this kind of thing would be difficult for anyone other than the extraordinary of Spectator pathway to do, after all, ordinary Beyonders cannot enter the spiritual battlefield.
Fortunately, Father Utravsky has a mystical item called the Nightmare Candle, which is precisely a mystical item of Spectator pathway. Its effect allows the holder to enter the deepest part of the target's mind, the bottom layer of the dream, which is equivalent to materializing the originally illusory battlefield. As long as the holder kills the Utravsky of the past there, he can complete the commission and let Father Utravsky get rid of the troubles of the past.
Of course, the Nightmare Candle is not without its flaws, such as turning into a vegetable if used for more than five minutes, or really dying if you die in the dream, and the Utravsky priest in the dream is not so easy to deal with, after all, he is already a Sequence 6 Dawn Paladin, even if the other him is weakened by the Nightmare Candle, he is not so easy to deal with.
So, after introducing the specific content of the commission, Father Utravsky, as if emphasizing the danger of his past self, looked at Klein and asked seriously: "Are you really sure you want to accept this commission?"
"I think I can give it a try, but I have to do a divination first. Do you mind if I leave for a few minutes?" After weighing the danger of this matter in his mind, Klein decided to go to the gray fog to do a divination first.
Although he felt that there was no big problem, it was always right to be cautious.
"No problem, I'll wait for you here." Father Utravsky said gently.
And a few minutes later, Klein, who had divined on the gray fog and confirmed that the danger of this matter was not great, returned to the church hall.
"I accept this commission."
So a battle of the mind began.
join the Church of MissRaven and become a Sequence 9: Reader p atreon.com/KeyofStars for more chapters