PoV: Aurea
Gahhhhhh!
This is so tireso!
I wanna go hoooooo...
Those tis at the beastkin camp... so carefree... life was so simple back then.
I’m in a fantasy world with magic! Why am I back again doing office work with spreadsheets and finances???
"Aurea?"
In the two weeks since my arrival here, I didn’t have one single day of rest. I simply can’t anymooooore...
"Aurea???"
Gladly Lovelace is helping , and Yaci is taking care of the guard problem, but the more I dig into these numbers, the more corruption I find...
HUH?
My lips...? Huh?
Is Lovelace kissing ?
"Hey, we are in work ti."
"I’m sorry, but that was the only way I found to bring you back."
"You could’ve simply called ..."
"I DID call you. Twice."
"Huh?"
"Exactly. But you had dozed off to the point of not hearing anymore."
"I’m sorry... All of this is simply tiring so much..."
"I know. And, well, the news I bring ans more work. Though it’s at least a change of pace."
"More work? Did you find another embezzlent case?"
"No, nothing like that. Do you rember the thing we saw over the Barren Wilds, which was sucking the mana of the place?"
"The thing... oh! That dark elental or sothing? I had completely forgotten about it! What about it?"
"It’s moving. It already crossed the northern border near Amapytu."
"WHAT?"
Soone knocks on the office door before entering. It’s one of the maids, Maria.
"Your Highness. The High Priestess of the Saint is here and wishes to talk to you."
"High... Priestess?"
I can’t deal with all this... this is too muuuuuch!!!
:::
The High Priestess had been waiting for us in the living room. When Lovelace and I enter the room, she imdiately prostrates herself. The four people accompanying her do the sa.
"Th-there’s no need for that. Please, raise your head and sit normally."
I sit on a sofa, followed by Lovelace. It’s only after I do so that the woman rises and then sits on the sofa in front of us. The other won rise to their feet and stand behind the High Priestess.
She is a bit older than but still young. She’s probably not even thirty, with a dainty fra and long brown wavy hair. To be appointed as High Priestess at that age, she must be very talented, even if the religion is still a new one.
But what stands out the most to are her eyes. Not the fact that they have a pretty light green hue, but the shine in it. A shine I know very well from my old life. This is a religious fundantalist.
In my old world, it could be argued that most bad things that have ever happened are to be blad on people with that exact sa gleam in their eyes.
People who take their own interpretation of whatever religion way too seriously and have the drive and charisma to lead the masses.
People like that give chills, no matter the world I am in.
And the worst thing... for her, I am an object of religious adoration. I’m the daughter of the Saint, after all.
"I’m sorry for interrupting your sacred duties, Your Arch Holiness. Permit to introduce myself. I am Ledda Swanhildi, the newly appointed High Priestess of Saint Lily."
Having a group of won prostrating to was embarrassing already, but being called ’arch holiness’ is in a league of its own. I’m anything BUT holy. And being called that by a High Priestess, no less.
"Please, Lady Swanhildi, no need for such formality. Although my mother beca a goddess, I’m a re mortal myself. To what do I owe the honor of the visit of such an esteed representative of my mother’s clergy?"
I already knew that my mother had been preparing so won to be actual priests, in the sense of not only performing rituals but also receiving clerical powers. And at so point so sort of structure and hierarchy would have to arise.
But I didn’t expect to be involved in it myself.
"She notified of a crisis approaching the north of the kingdom. She said that you would be able to give more information about it and that I would be able to help you solve it."
Well, this can’t be a coincidence. But why...
Before I can even reach the question in my mind, Lovelace has already asked it.
"Are you able to cast high-level light spells already?"
"Well... I’m ashad to admit that I haven’t had the ti to properly test it. But if Saint Lily, in her Holy Wisdom, said to that I will be able to, then I trust her."
Ohhhh... Light magic.
Yeah, that would be helpful against that thing.
Now that I think about it, it’s been ages since I last tinkered with the so-called Cosmic Elents. The war had been taking all of my attention and efforts, so I focused on the easy-to-wield and to weaponize spatial and gravitational magic.
If I simply had more free ti in this wretched position of Duchess. It’s more tireso than the war, to be honest.
Such a pain...
"Then I do think that you will be helpful indeed. You see, the crisis approaching..."
Lovelace is interrupted by a knock on the door. Soon after, Maria enters again.
"Your Highness, Lady Ingela is here to visit."
Ooohhh... aren’t we forming quite the all-star team now?
Without thinking, I get to my feet, with a smile opened from ear to ear, as Ingela enters the room.
"Ingela! Such a nice sight for tired eyes!"
"Aurea!! Lovelace, too! Erm... am I interrupting sothing?"
"Well, we are in the middle of a eting, but I think that your arrival is a very fortuitous one. There’s a crisis brewing. Do you want so of that beer?"
"Hoh, a crisis? I was getting a bit bored already in my parents’ house. You never fail to bring interesting things to the table, Aurea."
Ingela sits on an armchair unceremoniously, which earns her so raised eyebrows from the priestesses present. Well, she’s my girlfriend’s girlfriend, so you’ll have to endure it.
Ti for introductions again, I guess.
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