The atmosphere got pretty heavy after I drove the god power out of my core, I know that would be risky and the priest might know, but I'm not going to risk letting an unknown god power take root in my core. Even though this is too small an amount to influence my mind and it serves a good purpose for me, I refuse to carry that kind of energy inside my body, I even prefer to take my risk against another divine power of a god. demon than let the power of a good god stay within my core.
From the face of the priest in front of me and it's obvious that I've offended him now, I just don't know if it was enough for him to attack me. The priests behind me who had undone their preparations to attack me have remade them now, Priest Cain just needs to give an order and I'll be bombarded by the priests behind me, I hope they don't use lethal spells.
It only took a few minutes for the priest Cain to regain his composure, he still looked quite annoyed, but a cold smile was on his face and not a frown of hate, anger and disgust. I don't think I will be attacked by angry priests today; I also hope not to be accused of a heretic or branded as a possible worshiper of evil gods.
"With the end of this test, we have completed all the necessary procedures for the pursuit to continue and focus on the right arias. I apologize for any inconvenience and discomfort you may have experienced during the exam."
Their words are all good and even kind, but when they're dripping with coldness and hostility it feels like he's threatening me. I think I got a new enemy today.
"I advise that you still remain in isolation, in danger of you being the target of a terrible curse. It's in the future, Ulric Fenris, I advise you to be more careful your actions in the future, your actions during this episode put you in danger, but this time and luckily you managed to escape the consequences of your mistake, in the future you may not have so much luck. Have a good day and a good rest."
Now I got confused, was he warning me about what I did to the demonic killer or what I just did? He should train more how to make threats, he might sound smart now, but in the end, he just told me he doesn't have the courage to make a move against me without good reason so he can use the power of the goddess Melici's temple to protect himself.
With the grumpy priest's warning over he rose from a blunt lie and began marching out of the secure room, he neither stopped to talk to the others nor to communicate with his colleagues. But as I settled into the comfortable sofa to rest after my interrogation I was interrupted, the first interruption was Wulfgar who leaps at me after me affectionately, but then Balder enters the safe room carrying a black crystal that barely fits in his hand.
My attention was focused on the crystal because it had divine power, but it was quite different from the beast of divine power that the priest had used before, not that the divine power in that crystal was something bad that originated from an evil god, but it was like him. was a black hole spinning in the center of the crystal, the mana that the crystal also had seemed to be stabilizing the divine power and containing it.
"All of you come here in line quickly, we don't have much time before we act the easier it will be to clean you up."
I was suspicious of the function of this crystal, but now I'm sure it must be able to pull out the divine power that the magical and divine tool the priest left behind. This is a shame, had I known this before I would not have cast the divine power in the priest's face.
Raziel was the first to reach the black crystal and by touching it I could see a point of golden light that I couldn't see before traveling from its core to the crystal, the vortex of divine power inside the crystal devoured the golden god power. This vortex must be the divine power of a neutral or chaotic god, it must have the property of absorbing weak divine powers, because in Alex's turn the vortex had much more difficulty absorbing the divine power that was taking root within her.
When my turn came, I raised my hands in front of Balder.
"I already cast out the divine power when it tried to create roots in my core, there's nothing for the crystal to suck."
A look of surprise crossed Balder's face.
"Do you expel divine power from your body alone?"
"Yes, it's fine."
"Like? You shouldn't be strong enough to do this alone, in the first place you shouldn't even be able to realize the divine power that has been left behind, how exactly did you cast out the divine power?"
"I realized the divine power because I was already expecting something like this to happen so I stayed very focused on any abnormalities in my core, and while the power to do that I can tell you it wasn't easy, I had to use a lot of aura and a lot of energy. elemental, I made a prison with my three elements and aura in order to push the divine power out of my core, which I believe I was able to do that because the divine power hadn't even begun to take root in my core, the moment it stopped inside my core I've already expelled it out."
"Impressive, the priests must have noticed what you did. What did they say to you?"
"Unfortunately, you're right, they realized, but didn't say anything about it directly. Priest Cain was very annoyed, but he didn't bring it up directly, he threatened me indirectly with a speech that made him look like he was worried about me, it was basically me taking care of my future actions. I must beware of the dangers I expose myself to and how I must not provoke others."
"Doing this is just like him, an idiot who is afraid others will see him for who he really is."
"You really know him before, I felt he wouldn't fix a problem with me directly without having the support of the temple he is a part of. It took away all the intimidating power his threats had over me."
"Be careful Ulric, you can be right about him not attacking you directly, but he can attack you indirectly and complicate things for you, for example he's probably blacklisted your name in the temple and it's very likely that your name appears on the blacklist of other temples."
"Black list? Shouldn't it be full of criminals? How would he be able to put my name on her?"
"The blacklist is not a list of targets, but undesirable or dangerous people. Dangerous people are susceptible people or people who have been under the influence of malevolent powers before, undesirable people are people who are problematic to deal with or who have a position against the gods."
"Your act of driving divine power in the priests' faces will allow Cain to put your name on that list, for him to write that you have a clear stand against cooperating with the gods, but more observation is needed to determine if he can make an attack against the church or he just won't help the church. You will likely be placed in that last ranking because director Grimalkin is in it."
"Um, so this will make my life difficult in what way?"
"The temples will not attack you, but you will be watched by religious people, the temples will not give you shelter easily, the services that the temples provide will be more expensive for you and finally you will always be the first suspect when a crime happens near you, but of course the latter can only happen when the person or persons in charge of the investigation is a blacklisted temple devotee."
"So, I basically became the provider of a plague."
"Yes, it's the first time I've used that word being used in this contest, but it serves very well."
"So, it's just annoying to be blacklisted? No and not a real danger of being in it?"
"Yes, but you can easily get switched to a list with the worst people, so you better behave yourself and don't disobey your master's orders again. If she weren't so focused on tracking down the demonic shadow by now, she would have arranged some punishments for you, Ulric, so you'd better get ready for your next class."
So, I hope that my next class doesn't take until after the next phase of the mortal test, that should give the master enough time to get distracted by other things and lessen my punishment.
"That won't work, Ulric."
"What won't work?"
"Her face is revealing more than you think, postponing your meeting with your master won't change the intensity of your punishment, she has great patience and that's what makes her a great hunter. It doesn't matter even if she had to wait years to get revenge or punish someone, she will wait and hold her grudge and anger until such time as she can act, so it won't change anything that she will have to wait until the end of the next one takes the test to punish you,"
"As you all got lucky and the stone of chaos can suck the divine power out of your cup, we won't have to try a more dangerous approach. So, try to rest tomorrow will be your last day here, after that you can go back to your normal daily lives, have a good rest."