HBWnovel Chapter 86 Deal
Chapter 86 Deal
"Aether Celestial."
I couldn't help but smile as I reached out my hand. The boy looked at my slender pale fingers and then grabbed onto them with his own hand.
This was the youngest an apostle has ever been since you normally awaken to aether through a class up, yet it doesn't seem like he's old enough to have one.
But, if he has had one, then not only does that mean he's talented, but he's hard-working and willing to follow through with essentially anything.
"Welcome, fellow Apostle."
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(Cyrus POV)
I smiled as the man spoke those ever-so-sweet words that continuously hung in my ears. I just couldn't get rid of them until we shook hands, and the corpse-like feeling of his flesh turned me off.
"Huh... what are-"
"Please do not worry about it. My body has long been destroyed, but my soul continues to live on through the Light God."
I wasn't very interested in joining some kind of religion or cult, but if they could provide me with something, then I wouldn't mind sticking around.
I just didn't want to be helping out around a temple when I could be doing something better... like uhhhhh... uhhhh... Something. I don't know, there has got to be something better.
"What does it mean to be an apostle?"
"Well, clearly, you have very little faith, which makes sense seeing how you were barely aware of your own skills and status. And being an apostle essentially means you become a general of the light god's army. Our religion spreads wide across the continent, and we are even branching out to some other continents, but as of now, we have one-hundred-fifty temples."
I don't want something controlling my life.
"There is no refusing, boy. You either join and worship our god, or we will be forced to kill you."
"You aren't making any sense at all...." I chuckled, spinning a few words together that would set this conversation in my flow.
"And what makes you say that?"
"You see... there are these dreams that I've been having where time reverses back to the period where Ser was fighting the Demon Lord of Avarice. I can explain to you just exactly how the end of that event unfolded, detail by detail... and who betrayed us."
The man's eyes shifted once again as if he wasn't looking at me like I was a child but a full-grown adult who had some actual value.
Clearly, he was going to let me join, but for what reason? Sure, I was an apostle, but immediately making me a general, especially when I was a child, especially without even testing me... it was suspicious.
Did I hold some other kind of value? Something that this man couldn't help but wait to get his hands on?
"Okay, you may be some kind of fortune teller or a seer. But how can I make sure you're telling the truth?"
"Well, do you have some kind of leader?"
"We do, but I refuse to let you meet her. In addition, she is currently out on another mission against the disgusting dark temple."
"Then I won't be telling you anything. Let me join, or let me talk to your leader. Either of those will do in order for you to hear what I can explain, what I can tell, and what I can give."
The air in the room was getting tense, but I refused to back down as I was just getting the upper hand.
"You have a lot of confidence for somebody so weak."
"You won't be killing me now that you know I have valuable information. And I doubt you'll be getting some kind of information out of a dead body since that is a skill exclusive to the dark temple...." I smiled, and upon hearing the man click his tongue, I knew I had won.