Oops?
Mattheus remained frozen in place, unwilling to be the one to break the stalemate of silence within the ancestral hall. Of the temple. It was an automatic reaction to being caught doing something he wasn't supposed to—rendering himself mute in an effort to not dig himself a deeper hole.
Granted, this was not exactly his fault. He hadn't expected whatever to happen to have happened and still hadn't the chance to go over the words the System had prompted him to say to save himself from being crushed by the pure power of a god.
Could he have prevented this?
The crux of the issue was that he hadn't expected this to happen at all. How could he have?
Suddenly, an older priest got on his knees and bowed toward Mattheus. The action left the twenty-year-old blank from confusion and most of the others following the old priest's actions just increased Mattheus's bewilderment.
