Chapter 24 The Angel, the Bishop, and the Giant City

"Ah? Which great angel?" Neigher searched the inherited memories, only found a little description of the angel. There seemed to be some angels following the gods of human belief. But why was an angel in his mind? Wasn't this dream world a domain that only he and Tiffany possessed?

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that I will give you a task." The handsome man, who called himself Murphylos, smiled at Neigher in midair. "If you complete the task, I will give you a blessing as a reward"

"Task?" Neigher asked.

"Wait a minute. The other god put something on you for communication... Let me have a look." Murphylos, who was floating in the air, scratched his chin.

"Wait! What did the other god do..." Before Neigher could finish his words, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Several lines of familiar English appeared in front of him.

"Escort Bishop Bhakti to the Giant City in advance!"

"Task reward: A rare blessing from the great angel, Murphylos."

Neigher stared blankly at the familiar task interface and then at the great angel.

"How could it be possible? Wasn't this chatting box exclusive to the time traveler? Why could this angel do this? Does he know that I'm a time traveler? Is it a kind of model that the skeleton head uses to release the task? “Although he didn't know why he could see the same thing as the game interface, it should have something to do with the skeleton head.

The skeleton head must be the god that Murphylos mentioned. Was the dialog box with hidden tasks sent by the great angel?

"Oh? What's in front of you? You seem to care about it very much. Unfortunately, I can't see it." Murphylos said. "That's it. I can't talk to you for too long. Bye."

It seemed that the angel was unwilling to communicate with him for one more minute. He flapped his wings and rose to the sky along the light column again.

Just as Neigher was thinking about whether he should chase the angel, his dream came to an end. He appeared in front of the tied human again. Everything happened too fast.

Looking at the other party's reaction, time should not pass. The person mentioned in the mission should be this man, Bhakti. But where was Giant City? Could it be that human harbor closest to the forest?

"I'm not only good at healing, but also well-educated. Anyway, don't... Eh? Did I persuade you?" Said the old man.

Neigher, who was walking, picked up a sharp stone in front of him and went back to the old man.

He knew there was a risk. But to get the reward of the great angel, especially the reward of a rare level, he had to take the risk. The battle with Tiffany was about to begin. Even if he had won the last round, he couldn't let down his guard.

Since he had the magic power of dragon majesty, he was not afraid of low-level creatures like human beings.

"I don't want to leave you alone. I just want to find a stone." Neigher pretended that nothing had happened and cut the rope off with a stone.

"You scared me. I've always thought that kids don't have bad thoughts." The old man broke free from the rope and sighed, "Ah... I'm finally free."

He rubbed his wrist and reached out his hand to Neigher, half kneeling. "My name is Bhakti Braman. Just call me Bhakti."

After hesitating for a while, Neigher reached out his uninjured hand and gently shook Bhakti's hand.

"Well, let me see the strain on your arm first," Bhakti said with a smile.

"You have a keen observation. You can see the sprain of my arm at a glance." Neigher asked.

"Oh, my child. I can see a lot of things. It's just a basic thing to see other people's pain." Bhakti observed Neigher's injured hand and spat on his hand.

Before Neigher could react, the man grabbed at him with his hand full of saliva.

And before Neigher could react, Bhakti had already touched Neigher's arm.

However, he just touched it and did not follow up.

Neigher stepped back subconsciously.

However, when Neigher was ready to fight, he found that his injured left arm was much more comfortable.

"How's your arm? Is your arm better?" Bhakti asked with a smile.

Neigher moved his joints and nodded slightly.

"Is this magic? There is no incantation or light. There is only saliva, but I'm cured." Neigher said subconsciously.

"Ha-ha, you are not the only one who said that. It's too simple and unadorned." Bhakti said. "It's not magic. It's a divine skill."

"A divine skill?"

"Yes, it's a miracle given by my god. I'm a senior divine officer in this country if you don't see it,"

Neigher remembered that Tiffany once said the difference between miracle and magic. In the western medieval, the officials would officially call the magic skill of occultism "miracle". And they called the magic skill of heretic "magic". That was where the word "magician" came from. (Note 1)

Thinking of this, he shook his head and drove the woman who betrayed him out of his mind.

"Please tell me more." Said Neigher.

"No problem. I like kids who love to learn. Are you going to Giant City?"

Giant City? Neigher understood that it was the city that the great angel mentioned. It didn't seem very far. So he nodded.

"That's great. We can go together. If the wood elves didn't kidnap us again, we should be able to arrive at that city at noon." With a smile, Bhakti touched his head and took a step forward.

...

The two of them talked for a long time, from faith and magic to politics.

Neigher got a lot of common sense about this world.

To Neigher's surprise, Bhakti didn't ask about race. After all, Bhakti was a white man with a high nose and golden hair, while he was an Asian face. Maybe there was also a yellow race in this magic world. Bhakti had never asked why a child wandered in the forest and why he was more mature than his age.

Neigher pretended to be mature so that this guide wouldn't look down upon him because of his age. In this way, he could exchange for greater benefits from Bhakti, such as taking him to the city.

At noon, Neigher felt that the trees were getting sparse. A few minutes later, he walked out of the forest and saw a human city.

And what he saw shocked him.

The human city wall was high with all kinds of flags on it. What surprised him most was that there was an upside-down giant statue embedded in the middle of the city wall!

Note 1: it was from a scholar named Jeffery Kripal.