Sin City

Chapter 9

“One day in the future, you will understand your Father.” Not knowing why, Helen suddenly said this. As soon as the words came out, her expression changed, as if something was holding her back, Helen herself had no idea why she was saying this.

Richard felt his mother's mood suddenly go bad, so he stuck out his tongue quietly, saying, "I'll go read first", and ran into the back room, there was Helen's room, there, and next to it was a laboratory to prepare medicines, there were not many kinds of items in the room, all of them were basic magic, medical knowledge, history, geography and continental scenery, which is very much related to the identity of the witch student Helen. Richard was happy to read here at night, there was a magic lamp in the room, but the light was not bright, it only needed to be filled with Helen's magic power once to be able to light up for one night, because oil was so expensive, so other than the village chief, blacksmith, and most powerful hunter, Helen was the only one who could light the lights for a long time at night.

In this simple yet warm washroom, Richard secretly spent his childhood.

In the thick contents of the book, he seemed to see another world, a world that was much wider, more complex, taller and more majestic than Rutheran. Little Richard secretly thought that when he grew up to be the best hunter in the village, he would take his mother away from Rutheran Village to see the world behind the mountains.

Helen was sitting alone in the living room, the sound of the pages of the book being turned upside down. Little Richard was reading carefully, he had already mastered basic witchcraft, but had yet to actually learn magic, Helen even forbade him from practicing meditation. On this continent, if you want to be a good witch, you usually have to start meditation at the age of four or five, so that it can gather enough spiritual power at the age of ten to start learning magic and processing magic. But little Richard didn't think there was anything wrong with this, because he didn't understand anything, because he always felt his mother was right about everything.

Helen sat quietly, just because she said one more sentence earlier, her memory seemed to be open, many past events kept popping up one by one, she could not suppress it at all.

Her head started to hurt a little, Helen rubbed her forehead lightly and sighed involuntarily, her gaze fixed on the calendar on the table, she suddenly saw a striking sign. Ten days later, it would be Richard's tenth birthday, that tenth age was the dividing line from boy to teenager, he said, and thirteen or fourteen years could already be considered an adult.

Unconsciously, had ten years already passed?

Helen stared blankly at the magic lamp that was on, the body of the brass lamp mirrored her face, she was not very beautiful, could only be said to be an ordinary beautiful woman, but in this Rutheran Village, she was not very beautiful, she is one of the most beautiful women. Ten years had passed, but age did not make any changes on her face, if it were not for the clothing style that approached the middle-aged woman, hardly anyone would have remembered her age, if meeting a stranger, if she had not, Helen would have been thought to be only in her early twenties.

The face reflected by the light of the brass lamp was actually very foreign to Helen, and too ordinary, because at birth, her face was not like that. A long time ago, he never even thought that he would live a life so simple and difficult, once living it did not feel like ten years had passed, but seeing Richard grow up day by day, he felt very satisfied in his heart.

Helen went into the room and looked at Richard, who was holding the picture book in his arms, and smiled and said, "My Richard is ten years old, I'll prepare a special occasion for you, to celebrate my Richard growing up."

"Horay! Is there a prize?” Richard jumped in delight, which showed that he was still the same as a child.

"Yes, it will be a gift that will follow you for life, but you have to rest well in the meantime, understand? It's very late now, time for bed."

Richard nodded vigorously and ran back to his room, seeing his so excited appearance, he probably won't be able to sleep tonight. Helen shook her head with a smile and nicely into the attic with magic lights.

The attic was a place where things were piled up, but kept clean and tidy, Helen took out a box, revealing a small altar behind her. The altar was made of stone, the base of which used a smooth and accurate brushstroke to decipher the complex magic circle, only that the place where the statue was supposed to be placed was now empty.

Helen carefully cleaned the altar, wiped the dust on the surface clean, then stood up, and her eyes were fixed on the thick book that was placed randomly in the box next to her. This book was extremely thick, roughly nearly a thousand pages long, the size of four ordinary magic books, weighing at least ten kilograms. Its bronze cover sparkled and immaculate, it had clearly been opened many times. Helen was surprised, she had not touched this book for a long time, so obviously Richard who read it, he just did not expect Richard would read this book so often.

Helen walked over, reached out and opened the book, her fingers long and beautiful, some level more beautiful than she looked, the men in the village had also more than once discussed about Helen's two beautiful hands.

The cover was made of real bronze, thick and cold, emitting the weight of years, Helen knew that in bronze, there were hundreds of crystal particles scattered like stars, and when they were excited at the same time, Helen knew that in bronze, there were hundreds of crystal particles scattered like stars, they formed a mini altar, when the user was quite expert and powerful, then it could even listen to the voice of the Moon Goddess Elusia!

On the title page, a long poem praising the Moon Goddess Elucia was written in the beautiful ancient Elf language. To this day, Helen still remembers every syllable of this hymn. Helen flips through the pages in a casual, textured page passing between her fingers like flowing water, her book contains large paragraphs of Elf text as well as vivid illustrations, in contrast to the human scriptures, the teachings of the Moon Goddess only explained a small part of its content, more about the deeds of the Moon Goddess Elusia before becoming a god. Therefore, aside from about the Norland Continent, it also covered many other continents, even the content of other planes, Richard might consider it as a collection of knowledge about geography, so read it with pleasure.

Scripture is also recorded about the unique magic of the seven-month goddess, but only for those who have been approved by the goddess who can see and use it. It used to be that he could use five of those seven magic, other than the great druids in the palace, he was the priest who had the widest knowledge of god magic, it meant the power and approval of the goddess. But now, even at high risk, he could only use one, and yet still rely on the power of the scriptures themselves.

Seven divine magic flowed through his heart like water.

Magic "Destiny of Elucia": Inspiration.

Magic "Great Elucia": Healing.

Magic "Elucia's Wrath": Punishment.

Magic "Blucia Sword": Silvermoon Armament.

Magic "The Will of Elucia": Judgment.

There are also two sacred spells, one of which is the sacred mantra "Heart of Elucia": Forecasting which he fails to master.

As for the seventh divine magic it is only recorded in scripture, but no one has ever been able to use it, namely "Elucia's Confusion": The dark side of the moon.

Helen placed her hand on the scriptures and secretly felt a trace of the holy aura left behind in the scriptures. The fifth moon was hanging in the middle of the sky at the moment, a cold moonlight was shining through the roof onto his body. Traces of sacred power hidden under the moonlight secretly infiltrated into his body and collected them for the event ten days later.

Divine Magic: Enlightenment, was the tenth anniversary gift for little Richard.

On Richard's birthday, when it was still midnight, he was summoned to the top of the attic, and knelt before the altar. The scriptures in front of Richard had turned to a certain page, there were a few lines of prayer that he had never seen before, even in the ancient Elf language, the difficult and less obvious language that Richard had mastered was as good as everyday language. The content of his prayer was still about praise and prayers to the moon goddess, Richard read inwardly, yet suddenly felt a strange feeling, as if his body had become transparent, and yet he had a sudden sense of urgency, and there was something wandering around in the darkness aimlessly, but it seemed like something had suddenly appeared, flew towards him, and entered into his body. Richard felt a stream of ice between his chest and stomach, which suddenly extended and spread to the lower abdomen of his limbs. This feeling is fleeting, although very obvious, but it is very common to have a special feeling during a sacrifice to a god or a magical ritual, many rituals even require intense pain, and many of them require extreme pain, so Richard did not say anything, he continued to gradually empty his mind at the behest of his mother.

"My Richard, soon you will enter the palace of the goddess Elussia and receive enlightenment on destiny. You'll probably have two or three choices, if any, then you can choose..." Speaking up to this, Helen suddenly shook her head and said, "My Richard, choose what you want, watch the voice of the goddess, then follow your inner choices."

Richard nodded, as Helen's gentle prayer rang out in the back, her consciousness gradually blurred, as if she was drawn from the world.

When he woke up again, Richard only realized he was in front of a temple that was very wide and tall. The place he was standing was a huge box with a radius of several thousand meters, while inside it, Richard felt himself to be only as small as an ant. The square on the asphalt with a silver gray stone, shining with a faint mysterious light, Richard looked around, and what he saw turned out to be an endless starry sky, the small stars cupped close as if they could be plucked by hand, the plaza and temple hung alone in the starry sky.

The large space carried a pressure that little Richard could barely bear, the heartbeat quickened, he no longer dared to look around, but continued running towards the temple, he ran for a long time, he was, it crossed the entire square, and climbed a thousand stone steps before standing at the entrance of the temple. If not for the children in the mountains having strong stamina since childhood, Richard would have been exhausted from earlier. As soon as he started running earlier, he did not dare to stop at all, the large square filled the entire field of vision, and the shining light continued to flicker, as if the entire space was not static, but move according to certain rules. Richard even illusioned that if he stopped for a while, then the whole square would be upside down, the ground like a mirror that had no handle, and the whole square would be turned upside down, so that he would fall helplessly and desperately from the square into the bottomless abyss.

When standing in front of the temple door, Richard's heart seemed to be leaping out of his chest so that his breathing was irregular. After calming his breath, he recalled about his mother's advice, and looked inside the temple.