Holding Theia in her arms, Hilda quickly made a plan. Currently, the situation is a bit weird. There were fewer priests than they should have been. Are they sure that the prison could hold the mystic user in or there’s sothing else happening?
She wouldn’t know
But judging from how strict the church is, there must be sothing happening. Whatever it is, she has to take advantage of this.
Her master, Reeva must have so plan and he wants to see the high priest for it. She believed in Reeva to get them out of this situation but She didn’t know what kind of plan he had.
After causing this much commotion, she’d have to leave this place, the other priest would like to hear if the prison broke already or worse they had sothing to notify them when the prison broke. Waiting around for Reeva would be suicidal.
So the best cause of action is to disappear into the night forest, where even if they had a burner it would be hard to locate them. Hilda knows that when the priest uses their divination the highest form would let the people see the exact thing that happened.
The priest will likely ask to see where she went but they’ll only see the forest when they look where she currently is. Hopefully, they ran out of her hair before they could find her.
With a plan in mind, she starts running. Leon also follows her closely since he has no idea where to go. Running along the dimly lit road where the only source of light ca from inside the village house.
Finally, they arrive at the village border and jump across it. Going into the forest in the dead of the night.
"How much do we have to run? My legs are giving out"
Leon said, panting from all the running they did, the snow was getting thicker and thicker so moving his leg beca harder.
"As much as we can run. The church will likely divine our location The further we are the better it is. We will get caught and burned for what Theia did, this ti even the prince’s protection won’t help."
"Thc"
It is as she said that they would get burned for what they did but The rich girl also said that they were going to die in the capital either way. It is a rock and a hard place situation. However, Leon does have sothing up his sleeve.
Literally, he pulls back his sleeve to reveal a bracelet. It is tal shining in the dark and shaped like vines intertwining on top of each other.
"Miss Hilda I have to tell you this"
Hilda looked back and saw the guy waving around the bracelet
"What’s is it?"
"This is an amulet I have with , it’s made by our tribe shaman, and used to track our people. I just activated it so there should be people coming over to help us"
"So that battle this morning is for this?"
"Percisly, Being in there makes the connection weak so I have to update my position. Help should be coming soon"
"In what days?"
"...." Leon couldn’t help but sigh "I don’t know, this is only a sender bracelet, not a receiver. That one is given out to people in my tribe that could help others."
"So we don’t know how long they’ll arrive? Do you think they could help you escape from the church?"
"Erm..." Leon looks away "Maybe..."
"Great, now you pull unrelated people into our ss."
"My people are great! If my luck is good then we could get a 4th tier shaman to aid us!"
"You got fourth circle, mystic user?"
This cos as a surprise to her since she has studied many mystic organizations and having a 4th mystic circle user is considered a pretty decent mystic organization.
Her knowledge however stops at the capital since he only needs to handle another mystic in the capital when she serves under Reeva’s father.
"Yes, we even got higher, how do think the northern people survived getting colonized by you people!? We are the best at using mystic power."
Hilda dismisses soone the exaggerated claim but she still sees so truth to it. The northern part of Eyre really didn’t get rged into the empire, and that land was not small.
"It still doesn’t change the fact that we have to run, conserve our energy, and keep up. I don’t want to get caught before that help of yours arrives"
"..."
With that, they escaped through the night.
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Reeva is still sitting on the bench with nothing to do, he can’t even go to sleep since he has to relay what happened to so other priest to write down. Plutus says sothing along the lines of it’s a new procedure to keep records.
He guesses that Plutus wants to change the church. This is likely his first move to change it in a major way without completely unrotting the system. In the book, there is nothing like a written log for a heretic like him.
Hearing sothing from the side, Reeva looked there and saw that a priest was running this way.
That doesn’t look like a transcriber.
Without any pen and paper, the priest is only a normal one.
"Bring the heretic! we have an ergency!"
??
Reeva is confused about what’s going on, he half expects them to beat him up when no one is looking. However, he follows them anyway.
There he arrived at the mobile prison and he could see why they called him.
"Heretic is this your plan!? A distraction to let your friend escape!?"
Since it cos to this no one would believe him either way
"I didn’t do it, Just use divination"
"Already on it"
The other priest said and without hesitation burned himself with a bundle of hair from one of the heretics. His eyes burn bright as the truth ca to him.
".... He said the truth, he has no part in this... They’re in the forest...."
The voice got weaker and weaker as he spoke but he tried to replay every information he got from asking god.
"My sister is missing!"
Before he could finish, Onia also ca running to the first group of priests she saw.
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