Chapter 86: Blue Roses Worries

"What?! Lakyus is being held captive by the Church of Destiny!?" In a room at an inn in E-Rantel, Gagaran suddenly stood up after hearing the news from the recovered Climb. Fury blazed in her eyes. She snatched her heavy war hammer from beside her and stomped towards the door with urgent strides.

"Gagaran, what are you doing?" Evileye immediately stood and blocked Gagaran, halting her actions.

Gagaran clenched her fist with one hand and roared, "Do you still need to ask? Of course, we're going to rescue Lakyus!"

"Fool! With your strength, you probably won't even make it past the door when you get there," Evileye retorted mercilessly, her tone sharp and piercing, trying to bring her friend to her senses.

At this moment, Climb, realizing the gravity of the situation, immediately joined Evileye. He said anxiously, "Miss Gagaran, please calm down. It's impossible to force our way in. It could even endanger Miss Lakyus."

"Oh! So, what do you think we should do?" As if to vent her anger, Gagaran slammed the hammer in her hand hard onto the ground and sat down again in exasperation. Her face showed profound frustration.

Truthfully, how could she not understand the logic of Evileye's and Climb's words? However, when she thought about what kind of punishment Lakyus would receive, she couldn't calm down for a single moment.

Perhaps due to Gagaran's influence, Climb's mood also became very poor, with an expression of regret on his face. "This is all my fault. If only I hadn't tried to get something for nothing…"

"Hey, what's that look on your face?" Gagaran glanced at the boy and said in a feigned angry tone, but there was an underlying note of understanding. "Don't take all the responsibility upon yourself. We all had a hand in agreeing to your meeting with that person. Are you blaming us?"

"Not at all!" Climb hastily denied, stammering.

"Then don't say such things again," Gagaran made a final statement with a stern face, then crossed her arms, placed her fingers on her chin and thought hard, "Now we just need to figure out how to rescue Lakyus from that place and escape from this city as quickly as possible."

Seeing that she seemed to have calmed down, Evileye breathed a sigh of relief and sat back in her chair. "In that case, let's discuss a rescue plan. First, we need to find out Lakyus's current situation. We might need to go in and investigate."

Hmm~

Inside the quiet room, accompanied by a faint groan, the woman lying on the bed slowly opened her eyes.

Lakyus covered her head and tried to sit up. All she felt was her body being weaker than before and a persistent headache, exactly like the feeling of someone who never drinks alcohol waking up from being drunk. A tangible confusion and weakness crept over her.

Slowly, she sorted through her memories. After Climb left, only she and His Excellency remained in the hall, and then…

"All my power was taken by that teacher?" A faint impression in her memory told Lakyus that she had fallen into a coma due to being unable to withstand the pain of losing her power.

"I suppose I got off lightly by not being burned at the stake," a bitter smile appeared on Lakyus's lips. In the Slane Theocracy, there were regulations regarding punishment for blasphemers. Now she had only lost her power, which was much better than death.

However, she still felt very reluctant to accept this. She had trained for countless years and experienced so many battles to achieve such accomplishments, but now she was back at square one. A sense of despair began to grip her.

After a few minutes, Lakyus calmed down and lifted the blanket covering her body. It was only then that she noticed she was wearing a set of fine silk pajamas, which glimmered faintly in the dim room.

Is this a magic item? Although she had lost her power, her knowledge hadn't vanished, and she immediately assessed the quality of the pajamas. Then, a strange expression appeared on her face. She didn't know if it was from the pajama magic item itself or from her body, but she could smell a graceful, fragrant rose scent.

Besides being weak, her body also felt refreshed after a bath. As for the adventurer clothes she had worn earlier, the magic armor [Pure Snow] that only virgins could wear, and the magic sword Kilineiram, they were all placed on a rack beside the bed.

After the 'torture,' she had lost consciousness, so it was impossible for her to have done all this herself, and someone else must have done it for her.

Could it be? An absurd idea flashed through Lakyus's mind, but she quickly dismissed it, finding it too insane to consider.

Lakyus got out of bed with difficulty, took off her pajama magic item, and put her adventurer clothes back on. When [Pure Snow] went on without issue, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then laughed at herself, "Isn't that normal?"

As she reached out to grasp the magic sword Kilineiram, Lakyus's first sensation was that the sword was so heavy! It had been utterly impossible before, but now the weight in her hand was so real, it crushed the last glimmer of hope in Lakyus's heart.

And it wasn't just her magic sword, the armor on her body also made her feel breathless. Her strength truly was gone.

After a moment of getting used to the situation, Lakyus exited the room carrying her magic sword. Outside the door was a long corridor, lit only by dim magical light, and there were no signs of human activity at all.

This was clearly not an inn in E-Rantel, so she was still in the Church of Destiny's residence. Lakyus realized this immediately. For on the walls on both sides of the corridor, there were exquisitely beautiful murals hung at regular intervals, and the frame of each mural was made of gold or platinum, and inlaid with diamonds and pearls.

After walking down the corridor, Lakyus arrived at the stairs leading downstairs. It turned out the room she had been in earlier was on the second floor of the building.

"You're awake," a faint voice came from below. Lakyus turned towards the voice and saw a handsome young man sitting on a sofa in the lobby.

At this moment, he was holding a cup of tea or coffee in his left hand, and a thick book of unknown contents in his right hand. He was reading the book while sipping the beverage under the candlelight.

If Lakyus hadn't been certain she heard the voice, she wouldn't have been sure that the man had noticed her presence.

Descending the stairs step by step, when she reached the man, Lakyus bowed to him and said, "Your Excellency, thank you for your clemency."

Kael's eyes slowly shifted to Lakyus because of these words, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Memory Control magic was still very useful to a certain extent. As long as it was activated in time, the person involved wouldn't know what they had experienced previously.

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