Lucas after the event was led to a room within the church by a servant. The servant after delivering Lucas to the room's door said to him
"Sir Lucas, please stay in this room for the time being, this is your temporary resting place sir, you will be given separate resting quarter later on"
After listening to the servant Lucas nodded his head and walked into the room he was given. After he entered the room he saw something on the bed and as he approached the bed he saw a set of clothes with an envelope and a note assigned to him. Reading the note he found out it was from the pope and it stated.
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My child Lucas, here are some clothes for you, I don't know wether it will fit you or not but I have some rough estimate and should be good for now. After you change, I saw how enthusiastic you were about the church's sorrounding so you are free to roam all around the church. I will send a servant to you when your presence is in need and feel free to ask aby questions you have to the people. But I heed you not to go out, as the rituals are still to be completed but you can roam all over the church's domain. And here is a small gift for you, I hope you like it.
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After putting the the note in the table beside his bed, he opened the envelope which contained a beautiful necklace with red jwel as the center piece. As he was admiring the jwel and was about to wear it, Hugin suddenly appeared on the left side of his shoulder and told Lucas.
"What a beautiful artifact indeed,but you should refarin yourself from wearing it right now. You should bathe and then ware it"
Lucas curious asked
"why?"
Hugin calmly just said
"you will know it once you do it, so go and bathe"
Lucas while sighing obliged with Hugin, and after bathing he wore the necklace and right after wearing the necklace he felt a surge of newness within him, it felt as if the necklace was a part of him. And when the sensation ended he saw that the necklace had changed it's form. Now the necklace's jwel had changed into a diamond shape with four corners and was even more clearer than before, now it exuded aura more close to him while four dragon claws were now visible each in the side of the jwel.
The crow now at the stump of the bed said to Lucas.
"The jwel of the necklace is called soul stone it usually resembles it's owner and grant's it's owner with the ability of healing and defence along with increased attack damage"
Lucas while wearing the clothes given by the pope asked the crow in a confused tone
"Then why do I have to bathe before I wear this?"
Crow in a calm tone told Lucas.
"Since soul stones, originally have no aura or magic power of their own they tend to absorb the aura and magic of it's owner, you have to be as clean as possible as, if it absorbs your malice and dirtiness then it will not be able to show it's true potential and will be tainted leading it's user to more violet path"
The boy now full dressed in a worried tone said to Hugin
"I-Isn't that a tad bit dangerous?"
"That is the reason why I forbid you from wearing it"
Said Hugin still as calm as ever, but soon changing the subject by looking at Lucas and saying.
"Anyway, you should bathe more often, you look like a noble's spawn while wearing a formal attire"
Lucas, stepping in front of the mirror looked at him self up and down, and thought to himself that Hugin wasn't lying as with a formal attire of simple pants and a shirt, he truely looked like a noble's child, just like the ones he would sometimes see back in the village when he was no older than five.
Lucas then with Hugin went off to explore the church. They saw various holy painting and murals signifying the history of empire and importance of goddess. While exploring through the curch Lucas found am empty training ground. Lucas, being curious and excited at the same time went inside the training ground , and started to explore the wide variety of weapons available.
Weapons here were decided into three categories, which were wooden, sharpened and unsharpened. Looking at the sorrounding closely there were verious murals depicting how to use the weapons available.
Lucas, now even more curious wanted to give the available weapons a try, and at the same time Hugin also suggested him to give it a try. Lucas then took out a wooden sword from the armoury and started to inspect it. And while looking at the walls tried to remember it.
After few minutes of inspection and memorization, Lucas took a long breath and started to perform the given technique, he tried to initiate every single detail and moves that was given in the mural. And surprisingly he performed the sword technique perfectly, to Lucas it felt as if he was dancing. Hugin was also quite impressed by the talent.
Suddenly a clapping sound came from the entrance of the hall and when Lucas looked looked towards the direction of clapping, he saw a middleage man wearing silver armour and with his sword strapped right beside his waist. The man looking towards Lucas told him.
"Truely impressive young lord, you performed the sword technique perfectly, it is called the' Blake Slaying Sword Style ' as it is said to be a part of swordsmanship that slayed the great demon of darkness 'Blake'"
After seeing the confused state of Lucas he continued while bowing down and showing respect.
"Sorry for late introductions young lord, I am Gallagher, the holy knight instructor, I am the sole person responsible for trainee knight's training"
Lucas now clear of his confusion bowed down and was about to introduce himself but before he could Gallagher cut him off by saying.
"Don't worry young lord, you need not to waste your precious energy for your introduction as I already know of your identity, well that aside you seem interested in fighting, so would you like for me to instrut you on one or two things?"
Lucas in a heartbeat with out delaying any time agreed with the instructor by saying.
"I hope you take good care of me instructor"
While smiling and Gallagher with a amug grin biting down on the toothpick in his mouth told Lucas.
"Have no worries young lord, rest assured you are on great hands"
After giving each other form handshake and looking at each other's eyes they started the session. While Hugin flew up into the air.
During the training, Gallagher was amused by Lucas's learning speed. As Lucas could perform any technique or style as soon as he was taught about it. Lucas would even consider all the criticisms and wouldn't repeat the same mistake again.
Gallagher taught Lucas about hand to hand combat, the various variety and range of weapons, armours and how to counter them while also sparring with Lucas. Lucas on the other hand was even more thrilled to learn new things especially when he has such innate talent for it. And the classes went on until the night fall.
At which point both Lucas and Gallagher were tired out of their mind. And while they both were both lying on the ground tired a servant came while knocking at the door and said.
"Young lord, the pope has requested for your presence in the dinner, please cleanup and get ready. Lucas sweater and breathing heavily nodded in approval and got up from the ground and while looking at the instructor said.
"I hope to see you again Gallagher "
And started to walk away, as Lucas was five to six steps ahead of Gallagher, Gallagher while smiling and breathing heavily replied to the boy.
"Would be my upmost honour sir"
When Lucas heard it, he also smiled and went on his way while Hugin flew down and landed on his left shoulder.
After Lucas was done cleaning himself up and wore clean clothes, he was guided towards the pope's dining chamber where pope was having dinner, sitting at the far end of the table in the largest chair, while two guards stood behind him with a stern look on their face. The pope noticing Luca's smiled cheerfully and said
"Welcome Lucas, I hope your day was good, please eat your meal, after we have some discussion to do"