Lead Singer

Chapter 25 Sabrina, the Lead Singer, is One of the Three Lead Singers of the Holy Temple Choir.

Although the choir is nominally composed of Goddess believers, the three lead singers are all Elves with some singing talent.

Sabrina is the most popular of the three lead singers. Her voice has a unique ethereal quality that can turn the 'Hymn of Praise' into heavenly music.

Sabrina is not a believer of the Goddess of Freedom. Every Wednesday, she comes to the Temple to sing and receives a reward of two hundred Kele.

Of course, apart from Sabrina, only the three Clerics in the Temple know about this...

"Sabrina, hurry up, it's about to start!"

Sabrina walked into the Temple's courtyard, glanced at the statue of the Goddess of Freedom in the courtyard, and heard the call of a choir member.

"Coming!"

Sabrina quickly responded.

She didn't look at Roy at the entrance of the Temple again.

On the steps of the Temple's main hall, an Elven lady was waving at Sabrina, and whispered to her, "Have you heard? The Holy Grail in the Temple was stolen. I wonder which bastard did it..."

Ms. Amanda looked a little indignant. She is also a Half-Elf with Wood Elf blood, with delicate features and unique green eyes. The only flaw is her slightly collapsed nose.

She runs a flower shop on Brown Street, selling not only bouquets of flowers, but also potted ones. Of course, if anyone's yard is missing a shrub hedge or a fruit tree, they can go to Ms. Amanda's flower shop.

She is a devout believer of the Goddess of Freedom. Her greatest wish in this life is to save enough money and then take a Great Sea Ship to the other side of the Great Sea to see the Grimm Empire described by High Cleric Reed. She heard that the Goddess of Freedom Temple there is much larger than the Moon God Temple in the center of Castleton.

Sabrina nodded and responded softly, "I heard."

She felt that discussing this topic in the Temple was a bit impolite, so she carefully looked to the left and right.

In fact, she knew that there were only five Clerics in this Temple, and they were very busy every time there was a gathering, so naturally they wouldn't be idle enough to come and listen to their chat.

"It is said that it was made of gold and can be sold for a lot of money." Ms. Amanda pursed her lips and said with regret.

"Without the Holy Grail, Cleric Theodore chose a Silver Basin to hold the Holy Water. It feels like the Holy Water in the Silver Basin doesn't have the same sacred aura as before."

Ms. Amanda was still talking non-stop as she stepped into the main hall of the Temple.

"That thief is really shameless,"

"The Goddess will punish him."

The choir members were already waiting in front of the stage on the right side of the main hall. Everyone was wearing white silk robes and holding a Hymns in their hands.

Sabrina took the lead to go up and greeted the other two lead singers. The three of them decided on the order of the lead singing and began to greet everyone to stand in their designated positions.

The main hall was already full of Goddess believers, and even the second floor of the Temple was full of believers.

This time, High Cleric Reed and the believers were praying to the Goddess together.

Cleric Anderson and Novice Cleric Abbott stood on both sides.

Cleric Anderson's face was almost bloodless, and his eye sockets were deep, looking like a vampire count in a haunted house. It could be seen that his condition was very bad.

As the singing began, all the believers stood up.

The singing echoed in the hall.

High Cleric Reed began to recite the prayer.

At the end of each paragraph of the prayer, a beam of Holy Light would shoot down from the Temple's dome. When twelve beams of light shot down from the dome, the Temple's hall was illuminated by the Holy Light.

However, this time the beam only lasted for a while before disappearing.

In the song praising the Goddess, everyone completed the prayer ceremony.

Only the singing still echoed in the main hall of the Holy Temple.

The hall was very quiet, and the believers folded their hands in front of their chests.

The choir members began to leave in a line.

Sabrina comes to be the lead singer of the choir every week.

When the prayer ceremony is over, she will also receive a portion of Holy Water with everyone else.

At first, she didn't think this cup of Holy Water would be of any use, but everyone else went to get it, and it would seem very different if she didn't, so she would always take her share with her.

Once, Sabrina placed the Holy Water she brought back on the dining table, and Moira, who had a stomachache, mistakenly drank it. Moira's symptoms quickly eased.

Sabrina then realized that the Holy Water actually had a slight healing effect.

From then on, Sabrina would come to collect a cup of Holy Water to take home after every gathering.

To her, this cup of Holy Water was like the Tree of Life sap that the Moon God Temple distributed to the Silver Moon Elves.

However, this time was a bit different.

When she and her companions walked into the Holy Water Pool in the side hall, besides Cleric Theodore, who was cleansing the souls of the believers, Sabrina actually saw Roy wearing a Novice Cleric's robe. He was using a silver spoon to scoop Holy Water from the pool and distribute it to the believers waiting in line.

Seeing Sabrina staring at him, he even gave her an awkward smile.

Roy raised the silver spoon in his hand, distributing the Holy Water to the believers without pausing.

Sabrina's eyes widened, her mind blanking, unable to understand how Roy could be wearing a Novice Cleric's robe and distributing Holy Water so convincingly.

When it was Sabrina's turn to receive the Holy Water, she whispered to Roy, "What are you doing here?"

Roy tugged at the Novice Cleric robe on his chest and replied with a smile, "I'm a Cleric here!"

Sabrina was a little disbelieving and asked, "How come I've never seen you before?"

Roy shrugged helplessly and said, "I only officially became a Novice Cleric here last Saturday."

There were people waiting in line behind her, so Sabrina didn't want to chat too much. She took the Holy Water and left the side hall.

However, Ms. Amanda, who was behind her, heard their conversation. After leaving the Temple, she said to Sabrina:

"I saw him helping out in the Temple the day before yesterday."

Sabrina lowered her head, didn't respond to Ms. Amanda's words, and hurried out of the Temple's front yard.

Thinking of what she said at the Temple gate at noon, her fair cheeks turned slightly red...

By the time everything was finished at the Temple, it was already late, and Roy didn't get a chance to study.

While he and Abbott were wiping chairs, he also asked Abbott about the Divine Magic glyphs for 'Minor Healing'.

The Divine Magic that Abbott and Jasper learned were more Cleric-oriented. They still didn't know 'Strength Blessing', but they were very proficient in 'Minor Healing'.

Abbott also secretly told Roy that he and Jasper occasionally used 'Minor Healing' to earn extra money, secretly running out to treat Elves in the Lower District.

Abbott suggested that if Roy could, he should practice this Divine Magic first, as it was much more practical than that Strength Blessing...

On the other side, Jasper also suggested that Roy learn 'Purification'. Every time those Great Sea Ships at Castleton Harbour docked, the captains would ask Clerics to perform 'Purification' on the ships.

"Why do they invite people to perform 'Purification' on the ships?" Roy asked curiously.

"Of course, it's because there are unclean ghosts on the ship," Abbott interjected.

Jasper explained, "Some crew members die on the ship. Although their bodies are thrown into the Great Sea, their souls still linger on the ship. These ships easily become ghost ships."

Then he added, "But you have to be careful with this kind of thing. Once, I went to perform 'Purification' on a Five-Masted Sailing Ship, and there were Siren whispers on that ship, scaring me so much that I slipped down the ladder as soon as I climbed onto the deck. It was a sea ship cursed by Sirens. Later, I heard people at the dock say that there were many Naga slaves locked in the water prison at the bottom of the ship. That ship was a slave ship from the Etia Alliance Kingdom."

Abbott also said, "I heard that many slave ships from the Grimm Empire also come to dock here."

Usually, no one would tell Roy these things.

"Don't the Elf Rangers at the dock care about this kind of thing?"

"Of course, they care about what they can see, but what can they do about what they can't see..."

The two Novice Clerics showed very disdainful expressions towards those Elf Rangers, obviously expressing some doubts about their abilities.

When Roy returned home, he ran to the terrace to collect the clothes drying on the rope.

Ms. Belinda was rarely at home. She was doing artistic creation in her studio on the second floor, which was filled with various stone materials and semi-finished statues.

Roy greeted her and prepared to walk down the terrace.

Sabrina, carrying a basin of clothes to dry, appeared on the adjacent terrace.

She was wearing a cool camisole dress, and her fair skin was as smooth as ivory in the twilight. Roy's eyes couldn't help but fall on those round and straight long legs.

He knew this would anger Sabrina, but his disobedient eyes just couldn't look away...

Seeing Sabrina turn to look over here, Roy quickly pretended to be about to go downstairs.

"Sorry, I misunderstood you during the day!"

He didn't expect to hear such a sentence.

"I didn't even hear clearly what you said, how about... you repeat it so I can recall?"

Roy didn't expect Sabrina to apologize, and he was a little incoherent, not knowing what to say.

"Boring..."

Sabrina turned and left, leaving him with only a large back view.

Moira, with her elbows propped on the terrace railing, sent over a clear, oriole-like voice: "Roy, did you send it to the guard team?"

"Sent it this morning."

Roy leaned to the edge of the terrace and responded.

The two often chatted like this across the distance, and Roy even prepared a chair for it.

"Roy..."

"Yes?"

Moira asked, "Did that Mermaid Princess really turn into a pile of bubbles and disappear?"

"Probably, I actually heard it from somewhere else."

Roy pressed his forehead speechlessly, thinking that he couldn't tell her that it was just a fairy tale...

Moira said with longing, "I heard Sabrina say that the Gana Sea Clan can move forward like snakes when they leave the Great Sea for a short time, and only the royal family can transform into legs. This story is really good, I want to hear other stories too."

"..."

It must be said that on a night with a gentle sea breeze, listening to the sound of the waves from afar, telling fairy tales to a dreamy Wood Elf girl...

It was also one of Roy's few pleasures.