"Ugh! My head! Why is everything spinning around me? Where I am? Who I am? The little girl asked out loud, and one of the church's men went to their captain to report the situation.
The captain who was walking ahead of the carriage immediately went to the carriage, to check the child.
"Hello, my name is Levin." The captain introduced him to grab the child's attention.
The little girl looked at Levin and was puzzled by the situation.
"Do you remember anything at all? Who you are? Where are you from? What has happened to you?" Levin asked the little girl. Hoping that he would get more information out and maybe what the evil priest had done.
The girl looked even more puzzled but answered to Levin.
"I. I don't remember much. Just flames carriage. Death all around me. The knife and whip." The girl started to panic while she was talking about those memories.
Levis saw that and immediately went and hugged the girl and started to pat her head to calm her down.
"Hush, hush child. Everything is alright now. You are safe now. You don't have to experience that anymore at all. And you don't have to see any of those people now." The girl slowly started to fall asleep again, while Levin was hugging her and calming her down. When finally, the girl fell asleep. Levin carefully placed her down and went down from the carriage.
"You when the girl wakes up again report me and give her food. Don't talk about her past or anything related to it to her. As that monster probably killed her parents and tortured that girl, and when she talked about it, she started to panic." Levis said one of his teammates while he started to walk in front of the carriage again.
Levis took a magic tool out of his pocket that lets him report immediately to the headquarters. He didn't still report as he wanted to talk to the girl first. But now it was time to report. As it seemed that the monster had done so many evil things.
"Levis to the headquarters. We tracked down Griswold and terminated him. But there was a little girl with him. It seems that Griswold used the girl as his tool. The girl has been tortured. There is a scar on her face, and her back is also full of scars. So we saved her and when I talked to her. She started to panic when she tried to remember. I checked her status also. She is level 0 with no name or anything at all. So what we are going to do with her?" Levis started to wait for the news anxiously from the headquarters as he pitied the little girl and didn't want to kill her or abandoned her.
"This is bishop Arnulf. First great job for terminating Griswold. Now the last evil priest of Rodona is dead, and the world is a little better place now. Second, we talked about the little girl, and it is so sad that she had to experience those horrible things. So thank you, my child, for saving her that Rodona won't have another victim anymore. In the end, we decided to treat her. And when the doors of Aradeum school opens, we are providing her a place from there if she passes the tests."
Levis was really happy when he heard the news, as Aradeum was a school only to the most gifted children. There were many tests they had to pass first, but if they passed, then every church would fight about the children. As there was an agreement with the churches. They couldn't accept any pupils by themselves. They only could accept when they have passed the school. So they had built many schools for the children who wanted to become a priest or priestess or to go to school. And when they graduated, then there would be a massive recruitment process for all of the churches, as they all would fight about the children. As if they couldn't get any, then they had to wait for the next year again to recruit. And Aradeum was the elite school along with elites. And if his church was ready to provide her help to get to the school, it was enough already.
Now the rest was about the girl and what she wanted. As his church could take care of her. As she still wasn't school-aged but when she would be. She had to either leave the church or go to school. As she would stay pass that, then his church would break the promise.
But Levin liked the girl already and was ready to request when they got back to the headquarters if he could take care of the girl and raise her.
And when she would be ready, he would help her to pass the tests and personally take her to there.