Tangled By Fate

Chapter 579: MAGIC IN UTAHILL



As they all looked at Darius and Zinnia, it was Darius who opened his mouth first. He shrugged and said, "Look, we don't know what is happening either, all right? When I used the magic stone to light up my room, I realized that we could use magic. That's when we started testing magic stones and no one came to bother us."

"How can that be?" Veronica couldn't understand what was happening. "The holy city is covered with a layer or the blessing of the powerful Head Priest, Saint Ava and the blessed child, that is me. The last time I was here, I've personally checked the layer myself and added a bit of my power to strengthen it. Even if I wasn't here, the Head Priest would keep an eye on it. No magic stone is supposed to work here."

"About the Head Priest," Zinnia and Darius exchanged glances before Zinnia stated, "He is no more."

Veronica fell on her knee. Her head spun. She wasn't expecting to hear this news.

Others felt sorry for her. Zinnia came closer and helped her to stand up. "Let's get inside," she said.

Veronica sat on a chair and covered her head. She couldn't believe a kind, gentle and a fatherly being would be just gone so early.

Since she was a child, she thought of him as a father figure. While Sister Josephine was a scary demon whom everyone feared, the Head Priest was the complete opposite whom everyone loved and respected. He would make the children laugh while telling them stories.

Back when he was still young and didn't promote as the Head Priest yet, he used to give the children piggyback riding and horse riding. Even after becoming the Head Priest, he gave children horse riding on his back being other priests' and nuns' back.

He was the apple of everyone in the temple's eye.

How could he die so easily? He had yet to see Veronica's success. He had blessed her to live a free life. He told her to live the way she wanted. She had yet to show him that she was fulfilling her desire and there was a man by her side who assisted her to fly like a bird. How could she accept that he died before she could show her happiness to him?

Everyone felt bad for Veronica as they watched her drowning in sorrow.

Zinnia tapped her shoulder and said, "I know it's hard for you to take it but you have to get a grip now. We have to complete our mission here as soon as possible."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Veronica stood up and asked, "Where is the bathroom?"

"I'll show you," Zinnia took her further inside.

After they left, Darius mumbled, "That's just sad."

Zinnia came back soon after and asked, "So, what do you want us to do here?"

"We need to go to the Rosemary Temple and find a scroll. Veronica will get the scroll while we guard her. Since we can use magic here, we can simple teleport ourselves to the temple and then to the Magic Tower," Felix said.

"Our teleportation stones aren't powerful enough to take us from one country to another," Zinnia stated. "If we had a magician with us, it would be possible. We have three more stones left. We can only use them to leave this place. So, I suggest we walk to the Rosemary Temple."

"Sounds good," Felix said. Ironin nodded in agreement.

After Veronica and the rest freshened up, they had breakfast and then headed to the temple.

On their way, Veronica suddenly realised that their dry food wouldn't last long. They would have to hunt animals. "Ahh! Are we going to eat cute animals?" she asked.

"We have to eat," Felix lightly replied.

"But... but... bunnies..." Veronica didn't know how to argue.

If it wasn't a reality, she would rather starve than eating cute, small animals. However, if they didn't eat, they wouldn't have the energy to go on. Climbing mountains weren't the easiest thing to do.

They needed to survive.

"Don't worry," Darius assured her. "At least we won't eat a cat."

Veronica frowned. She didn't know if there was anyone on earth who would eat cat. "What's with the cat?" she enquired.

Darius looked at her, pretended to be surprised. "Have you forgotten your own kind?"

"Pfft!" Felix couldn't control his laughter.

Veronica's expression changed.

She recalled that one time, she turned into a cursed cat and she wasn't allowed to tell anyone her real identity. It was an absolute nightmare.

She wasn't even in a mood to joke around and Darius was already teasing her by bringing out her old wound. Her expression turned sour.

Darius didn't stop there. He continued, "Did you lick your pussy after pooping? I heard all cats do it... ow!!!"

Veroncia didn't tolerate anymore and kicked his shin. She didn't restrain her strength at all. It was enough to make him shut up.

Zinnia helplessly shook her head. She was less worried about Veronica since Darius did his best to divert her attention.

As they walked to the bustling city, Zinnia and Darius told them what was happening in the temple right now. Just like everyone else, they also heard about the situation of the fake blessed child.

"Is it really that bad?" Veronica had a hard time believing the story.

Zinnia said, "I disguised myself as a commoner and went to the temple. I wasn't able to go through the second door because I was wearing shabby clothes. I watched the fake blessed child walking past me. She was wearing gold and expensive clothes. She looked at me and the rest of the commoners in disgust and asked the soldiers to throw us away because we were filthy."

Veronica frowned. She thought to herself, 'No wonder the barrier around the holy city weakened. With corruption in the temple and the Head Priest gone, how could the barrier still stay? I need to talk to Saint Ava as soon as possible.'

As she was in deep thought, someone suddenly grabbed her hand and exclaimed, "You are Veronica, aren't you?! I'm sure you are!"