Path of Light
Chapter 78

Holy Light Affinity

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Seeing Roy standing in front of the Bronze Mirror in a daze, Jasper, who was tidying up the clutter on the floor, asked in confusion, "Roy, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly remembered something. By the way, the first mate on this ship is an elven mage, and this should be her room. Unfortunately, all the valuables in the room have been taken away, leaving only these clothes."

Roy casually touched the bookshelf and said something casually.

Jasper leaned over for a look, then smiled and said to Roy:

"Actually, this room is not bad. The oil paintings in the Ship Building's corridor, the collections on the walls of the captain's cabin... Oh right, even the bed in the captain's bedroom has been moved. I went in and saw that there was only an empty cabinet left in the entire captain's bedroom."

"Yes! The captain's bedroom is even more outrageous; the traces left after it was emptied are still there..." Abbott said.

Jasper used the tattered sheets on the floor to wrap up all the useless clutter in the room and dragged it to the deck outside the Ship Building. Jasper's voice could be heard from the deck:

"They wouldn't have given us this ship if we hadn't emptied it out!"

Abbott chimed in, "Exactly! It's free anyway, and such a big ship is definitely worth tidying up."

Jasper gripped the gunwale with both hands, gazing out at the distant sea, and said:

"We can imagine it as a very unique Sea View Room ..."

The two of them worked together seamlessly, singing in unison.

Roy took the opportunity to walk into the Ship Building's corridor. The corridor at the entrance was still stained with blood, and the bloodstains had seeped into the wooden planks of the walls, turning into blackish-purple spots.

Going up the stairs to the second floor, we first entered the empty captain's cabin. Just as Jasper had said, apart from the tables and cabinets that couldn't be moved, even the curtains had been torn down and taken away. The only thing left in the room was the Steering Wheel on the control panel that hadn't been removed.

This Steering Wheel is clearly used frequently; the eight brass handles around it are polished to a shine, and even the engravings on them have been worn away.

Roy reached out and turned the Steering Wheel several times with force, feeling the Steering Wheel and the worm gear below spinning very fast.

The soft leather sofas in the rest area behind the captain's cockpit had all been moved out, and the bookshelves against the wall had been pushed open, revealing a hidden door.

Roy walked inside out of curiosity, and found that it was the captain's bedroom that Jasper had complained about. Sure enough, apart from a cabinet fixed to the floor, the whole room was empty.

There were still traces left on the ground after the items were moved, and only some hooks remained on the surrounding walls, indicating that the elves had also taken away the collectibles on the walls.

Returning to the first floor from the second floor, large shadows remain on the walls of the stairwell corridor where oil paintings once hung.

In contrast, there are more things left on the first floor.

The kitchen utensils in the Ship Building's cabin are mostly preserved. There are two stoves in the kitchen, and two large soup pots are hanging on the wall next to them. There are also four ovens arranged in a row with the stoves. Due to their eating habits, the elves do not need such large soup pots and ovens.

The knife rack on the workbench was empty; not a single knife remained.

Roy came out of the kitchen and pushed open the wooden door to the back storage room. The storage room was surprisingly cool, but there was a smell of rotting plants in the air.

However, many of the fruits and vegetables that were originally stored here had completely withered and yellowed leaves, and some mold grew on the stems. Many fruits and vegetables had begun to rot and were piled up in Wooden Box on the shelves.

While the windows in the Ship Building corridor were not yet installed, Roy moved all the rotten vegetables and fruits out of the storage room and dumped them into the sea through the windows.

Jasper and Abbott worked for quite a while and finally managed to reinstall the windows around the Ship Building.

Abbott suggested taking a break, so Jasper ran to the bow of the ship, sat on the edge of the ram, and stared blankly at the distant sea.

The ram at the bow is a bronze giant with outstretched arms, ready to take flight.

On the back of the bronze giant, there is also a large whaling Fish Spear.

Abbott sat on the bench by the Ship Building's entrance, watching Roy emerge from the storeroom, and whispered mysteriously to him, "Roy, do you know what Jasper is doing?"

Roy shook his head and said, "Isn't he resting?"

Abbott chuckled and said, "He's waiting for Miss Tiffany..."

He glanced at Jasper, then leaned closer to Roy and whispered something to Roy:

"Recently, he has been frequently meeting with Tiffany on the ship, and he also plans to convert the Ship Building rooms of the Black Pearl into hotel-like rooms. For this purpose, he has even ordered a large bathtub to be placed in the first mate's room..."

"..."

Roy knew that the elves would go to any lengths in pursuit of romantic love.

However, when Roy thought of Miss Tiffany's tricolor tail fin, he felt that Jasper was truly courageous.

Abbott tidied up the clutter in the first mate's room.

Unlike Roy, he didn't carelessly throw the trash out of the ship.

Instead, they would wrap up the useless odds and ends in an old bed sheet and place it beside the ship's side, intending to take it with them when they disembarked.

Roy and Abbott sat on the deck for a while, Abbott shared some information they had gathered on the Black Pearl over the past two days.

Roy looked down at the dark corridor below the deck and said to Abbott:

"Abbott, how about we go check out the cabins below deck?"

Abbott was easygoing and lacked assertiveness, so he readily agreed to Roy's suggestion, "Let's go then! We don't have anything else to do right now..."

Roy walked up the stairs from the Ship Building's entrance to the cabin on the lower deck.

Entering the dark ship's corridor, besides some bloodstains at the stairwell, further in, the corridor was littered with debris. The cabin doors on both sides of the corridor were open, and the cabins inside had been ransacked...

Bed sheets and blankets were carelessly thrown on the floor, along with some personal clothing, and some silver coins and copper coins could also be seen on the ground.

Roy casually picked up a few silver and copper coins. The round silver coins were of average quality, only slightly larger than a thumbnail. The obverse of the silver coin depicted a Royal Eagle Lion with outstretched wings, and the north side showed a towering snow-capped mountain. The obverse of the copper coin depicted a warhorse standing upright, and the reverse depicted the head of a knight wearing a helmet.

Abbott caught up from behind and, seeing the coins in Roy's hand, casually remarked, "These should be coins from the Grimm Empire. Roy, you haven't been to the Grimm Empire yet, have you?"

"No, but I've heard of it," Roy replied, stuffing the silver and copper coins into his pocket.

The two walked one after the other towards the back of the ship.

The cabins at the back are much more luxurious than those at the front. In addition to the beds, there is a square table by the window, and it is a single room, which should be the room where senior crew members live. There are only six such rooms on this floor.

The rest of the cabins are ordinary four-person rooms, with two bunk beds in each room. There are a total of twenty-six such ordinary rooms.

Almost all the rooms had been ransacked, and the missing items were left on the floor, which was covered with all sorts of clutter.

Following his memory, Roy found the room where the Naga assassin had led him away from the Sea Wolf. He glanced at the large hole in the corner of the wall, which led directly to a cabin on the second Bottom Cabin. All the valuables in the room had been taken away.

"Have you ever thought about visiting the Grimm Empire?" Abbott asked, following behind Roy and looking around the cabin.

Roy manipulated a ball of holy light to float around the cabin, worried that some ghosts might suddenly appear. Although they posed no real threat, they would certainly be terrifying.

"Of course I've thought about it..." Roy said.

After saying this, Roy saw a wandering ghost in the cabin.

Moreover, it was a ghost that had faded into a faint shadow. Roy manipulated the faint light to approach the ghost.

The spirit, sensing the threat posed by the ball of light, immediately retreated to the corner of the wall.

This is a lost soul devoid of any intelligence; its reactions are entirely driven by instinct.

Roy immediately controlled the ball of light to chase after them, took a Wooden Hammer Wooden Hammer from his waist, held it tightly in his hand, and infused it with the Holy Light Power.

Roy took a step forward, caught up with the ghost, and swung his Wooden Hammer at it...

The body of the deceased, whose color was so pale it was almost completely transparent, shattered instantly.

Then the holy light on the Wooden Hammer ignited the body of the dead. As the dead burned to ashes, the Soul Fire turned into specks of ash and scattered on the floor, and the original soul floated into the air.

"It seems that not all lost souls require Purification Art to resolve."

Roy, holding the mallet, excitedly spoke to Abbott.

Roy was surprised to find several specks of ash on the floor.

Several particles of ash were then attracted by the two invisible tentacles extending from the Holy Light Seed, and slowly merged into the two tentacles.

Roy felt his tentacles growing...

Although the feeling was very faint, and no change could be seen in the invisible tentacles with the naked eye, the clear and unmistakable feeling told Roy that the two invisible tentacles on the Seed of Light were growing.

Abbott also saw the ghost through the faint light beside Roy.

He just hadn't expected Roy to infuse the Wooden Hammer with holy light, instantly crushing the undead to death...

Roy then manipulated the ball of light to fly around the room once more, confirming that there was only one ghost in the room before leaving the room and entering another cabin.

The souls in these six rooms were almost all those Soul Fire had weakened to the point of almost extinguishing themselves.

Once Roy finds them using his Glimmer Illumination Spell, he will smash them to pieces with a single hammer blow, freeing their last remaining souls.

After smashing five undead spirits in succession, confirming that there were no more undead spirits in the rooms, Roy finally came out of the room.

Abbott followed Roy and imitated Roy's method, taking out the dagger from his waist and then infusing it with his Holy Light Power.

No matter how he tried, the Holy Light Power simply couldn't remain on the dagger...

All the Holy Light Power channeled into the dagger rapidly dissipated from its blade, impossible to preserve no matter what...

He tried several times but failed to infuse the dagger with holy light, so he asked Roy for advice:

"Roy, tell me quickly... how did you manage to infuse the Wooden Hammer with holy light? Why can't I do it?"

I can't write anything tonight, no extra chapters.

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