Nathan quietly sat beside of Maria, looking at him with his big and innocent eyes, as if he is waiting for Maria's attention. Maria noticed the boy haven't left his room after a whole fifteen minutes, he finally put down all the deep thoughts in his mind and switched his attention to Nathan.
"Uhm... Little Nathan, do you need anything from me?" Maria asked and Nathan nodded.
"What is it?" he asked again.
"Well... Uhm..."
Nathan is a bit hesitant and keeps looking at the door as if he is afraid that someone might be eavesdropping on them. Maria realized about his concerns, he waved his hand and put on a sound barrier around the room.
"Don't worry, you can say it out now." said Maria.
"I passed through His Grace room just now and heard some weird things so I peeped in and found out that His Grace was acting a bit unusual..." said Nathan in a careful manner.
"Uncle Dominic? What happened to him?" Maria asked, he is concerned as he heard of Dominic.
"I heard he said something like, he needs to ready for tomorrow and can't let them get what they want. Then I saw him taking out his holy sword from the secret space on his wall and stared at it without saying anything. I walked away before he noticed me." said Nathan, a bit scared.
"Ah... I see. Don't worry, I believe he is just having some special thoughts about that sword, Chris did that quite often. It's quite late now, you should go to sleep, you still need to attend the morning prayer." said Maria as he once again patted Nathan.
Nathan nodded and briefly bowed at Maria before leaving his room.
"Tomorrow? Is there anything to do with the Heavenly Realm? But I thought he said three days later..." Maria murmured.
Then, a tiny phoenix figurine suddenly dropped out from his bag and turned into a gorgeous lady, it's Suzaku.
"My Lord, anything bothering you?" Suzaku asked as she seated at Maria's side and helps him loosen up his hair that had been tied up for a whole day and start brushing it with her fingers.
Maria remains quiet, he doesn't know what to say since he can't even sort out all the puzzles in his head...
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The next morning, Maria is sitting in front of the vanity dresser, tidying up his attire, he hadn't got any sleep last night. He took out a small box from his bag and opened it, there are three rings, one of them is a gold phoenix ring adorned with bright red gemstones. He stared at the rings for a while before closing up the box again. Suzaku walked to Maria's side and helped Maria to tie up his hair neatly.
"My Lord, I don't know what is your plan, but whatever you are trying to do, please be careful." said Suzaku as she gently brushed Maria's hair tip to prevent any tangling and unevenness.
Maria nodded before standing up and leave the room...
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Underground space. Sky and Junior who had been staying up for the whole night are now witnessing the weirdest and most disturbing waking up style they had seen in their life. The people of Fasisafa Clan who slept with their bodies buried, wriggled out of the ground like earthworms.
"Ah... Damn it. I expected something weird, but this is another level." said Sky, without any emotion.
"Mhm..." and obviously, Junior agreed with him.
"Hah... Let's go see the prophet, he should be having tons of things to explain to us." said Sky.
"Yes, I agree about that." said Junior.
After the prophet Pachibanana is done with his morning routine, he is greeted by Sky and Junior.
"Hello, Prophet Pachibanana, I am having some questions for you. But first, I am extremely curious if you slept with your eyes opened or you did not sleep last night, just like us." said Sky through telepathy.
"Haha... So you noticed me. Yes, indeed, I slept with my eyes wide open." said the prophet through telepathy.
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According to the prophet, the giant baby they saw last night is indeed the 'God' they worship that is known as Fasisafa. And those furry creatures are indeed the legendary creature for Fasisafa clan that known as Shakul. However, these Shakul are usually quite docile and would not attack people at all, but for some unknown reasons, they start attacking people in the clan since a week ago, some of the Shakuls are actually people from the clan.
The prophet sensed that the Shakuls are going to attack them last night and thus given that hostile look when he was with Sky and Junior near the altar.
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"Although our God Fasisafa has the power to repel those Shakuls but his movements are quite slow, and part of our people will still get attacked. Seriously, I really thought you are going to kill them last night, fortunately you don't." said the prophet through telepathy.
"Well, we are not that dumb to ignore your hostile leer." said Sky.
"Haha... I'm very grateful that you were able to stop those Shakuls without killing them." said the prophet.
"Tsk... You said they were supposed to be quite docile, have you found out the reason behind their sudden behavior changes?" Sky asked.
"Unfortunately no." said the prophet.
"Well, if you don't mind, we could help you with it, it's our expertise to investigate such a thing like this." said Sky, who obviously had some hidden intentions.
"Oh? It will be nice if you could help. We can provide you anything you need." and obviously, the prophet did not realize about it...
*These conversations are quite plain and emotionless as they are communicating through telepathy, it's not that I'm lazy to write... Haha.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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